rich in resources

source: Updated: 2016-10-31

 

Mineral Resources

99 kinds of minerals have been found in Ganzhou, and 64 of them have been explored. Among them, the reserves of black tungsten rank number one in China and the reserves of rare earth rank number two. Thus Ganzhou has been called The Tungsten World and The Nation of Rare Earth. Besides, there are rich resources of lead and zinc, fluorite, limestone, kaolin and salt with high grade and great value. Therefore the advantage on developing mineral resources'processing and new material industry is quite obvious. Now Ganzhou is focusing on developing the four-advantageous-industry-group of tungsten, rare earth, fluorine salt chemical industry and navel oranges and is hoped to be built into an influential nonferrous metals industrial area, a world famous processing basis of tungsten and rare earth, an important production basis of cobalt, tin and fluorine salt industry and new dry process cement.

Agricultural and Forest Resources

Ganzhou is one of the 18 key forest areas in the south of China. Its percentage of forest cover is 74.4%. Ganzhou has been called Ecological Worlds and Green Treasure Storage with large-contain of negative ion, fresh air and clean water. Ganzhou is a unique production basis of navel oranges and mandarins. A 167,300 hectares fruit garden has been built, including navel oranges 100,000 hectares. It may become a major naval orange producing area in the world in the future. There are also oranges, pomelos, pears, salted duck, grey goose, volvariella volvaceas (straw mushrooms), lotus, bamboos, partridges and daphneodora thumbs in Ganzhou. It has a good resource condition for developing agricultural and forest products' deep processing, especially special food and bamboo and wooden ware products.

Tourism Resources

Ganzhou is an excellent tourism city in China. It has a nation-level historic cultural city, 9 nation-level or provincial-level scenery sites, 7 cultural relic's protection units with 25 spots, 7 forest parks. In the center area of Ganzhou city, there are many integrated buildings of Song Dynasty, which are called Song Dynasty History Museum. The ancient post which stands in Meiguan of Dayu is called Silk-road on Waterway. San Bai Mountain in Anyuan is the sources of water drunk by Hong Kong people. Ruijin is well-known Red Capital. Currently, Ganzhou's brand-travel programs which are famous home and abroad are Southern Wall of Song, Hakka Homestead, Dongjiang River Sources and Red Capital.

Human Resources

There are about 4,700,000 labor in Ganzhou, almost 54% of total population in Ganzhou, including 2,000,000 skillful labor working outside. There are 37 professional technology schools and 10 universities and polytechnic schools. In-terms-of-Order training is adopted. Over 200,000 students or industrial workers who have a special skill are trained to work in companies. The government issues a series of policies serving for enterprises'employees.