Beautiful Taizhou
Taizhou is located in the middle coastal area of Zhejiang Province and named after the city's Tiantai Mountains. It is one of 27 major cities in the Yangtze River Delta and an important location on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Taizhou has a total land area of 10,050 square kilometers, a sea area of 80,000 square kilometers and a permanent population of 6.62 million. It has three districts (Jiaojiang, Huangyan and Luqiao), three county-level cities (Linhai, Wenling and Yuhuan), three counties (Tiantai, Xianju and Sanmen), and Taizhou Bay New Area.
Taizhou is renowned for being "a famous mountain on the sea." It's an ecologically blessed place with exceptional natural landscape, including mountains, sea and rivers. Surrounded by mountains, Taizhou has the Tiantai Mountains and the Shenxian Habitat as national 5A tourist attractions. Renowned as the "Gate to the East China Sea," it has Taizhou Bay, Sanmen Bay and Yueqing Bay and boasts a coastline of 651 kilometers, which accounts for 28 percent of the provincial coastline. A total of 691 islands lie in its waters, accounting for 21 percent of Zhejiang's total islands. All of these have offered unparalleled conditions for the development of Taizhou's bay area economy. The urban river network covers an area of over 46 square kilometers, giving people an impression of a riverside town.
Taizhou is a sacred place of Hehe Culture. With a long and rich history, Taizhou has distinctive cultural features: Traditional culture has been passed down for thousands of years, Hehe philosophy has embellished the past and present, mountains and seas have shaped the character of the Taizhou people, and the Dachen Island Reclamation has forged a spirit of hard struggle, progress and selfless dedication. The city is also famous for being the birthplace of the Tiantai Buddhism and the South Sect of Daoism. It has also witnessed the integration and common prosperity of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism. Han Shan and Shi De, known as the Two Immortals of Hehe, once lived in seclusion in the Guoqing Temple in the Tiantai Mountains, which became an important place closely related to Hehe Culture. The Dachen Island Reclamation Spirit is the city spirit of Taizhou. In Zhejiang, where the Red Boat Spirit of the Chinese Communists originated, the Dachen Island Reclamation Spirit is also of great and immortal significance.
Taizhou is also a well-known manufacturing city. The city benefits from a developed private sector and a solid manufacturing base. By July 2022, it had made the following achievements:
● Having a total of 65 listed companies at home and abroad, and ranking fourth among China's prefecture-level cities in terms of the total number of domestic listed companies;
● Having 21 ten-billion-level industrial clusters and 68 national-level industrial bases, and being committed to building an array of internationally influential and domestically competitive modern industrial clusters across such fields as automobile manufacturing, medical health, intelligent sewing equipment, high-end molds, pumps and electric machines, aerospace, and smart home technology;
● Having 73,000 manufacturing enterprises, 4,692 enterprises above designated size, and 307 "hidden champion" products in the domestic and overseas markets.
Taizhou's importance as an advanced manufacturing base within the Yangtze River Delta region is thus clear to see.
Blessed with majestic mountains, magnificent sea and limpid rivers, Taizhou is a place where people live in harmony. Since 2007, it has been granted as one of China's happiest cities for six times and was also awarded as a national model city in 2017.
美丽台州
台州地处浙江省“南北中心点、海陆交界处”，因境内天台山而得名，是长三角区域27个中心区城市之一，是21世纪海上丝绸之路的重要节点城市。台州陆域面积10050平方千米，海域面积8万平方千米，常住人口662万，下辖椒江、黄岩、路桥三个区，临海、温岭、玉环三个县级市，天台、仙居、三门三个县以及台州湾新区。
台州是“山海水城”。从自然风貌看，台州兼得山海之利，是山、海、水的生态福地。台州群山怀抱，拥有天台山、神仙居等国家5A级景区；依海而兴，享有“东海之门”的美誉，拥有台州湾、三门湾、乐清湾3个海湾，大陆海岸线长达651千米，占全省28%，拥有海岛691个，占全省21%，发展湾区经济资源条件得天独厚；城在水中，素有“江南水乡”韵味，市区河网水域面积超过46平方千米。
台州是“和合圣地”。从文化内涵看，台州历史悠久、底蕴深厚，拥有“文化传万年、和合润古今、山海铸风骨、垦荒立精神、情义溢全城”的鲜明文化标识。佛教天台宗、道教南宗享有盛誉，儒释道三教合一、共生共荣；“和合二仙”寒山、拾得隐居天台山，国清寺更是和合文化的重要渊源地；大陈岛垦荒精神是台州的城市精神，在浙江有着“红船精神永存、垦荒精神不老”的政治意义。
台州是“制造之都”。从产业特征看，台州民营经济发达，制造业基础扎实。截至2022年7月，全市有65家境内外上市公司，境内上市企业数居全国地级市第4位；已形成百亿级产业集群21个，国家级产业基地68个；重点培育汽车、医药健康、智能缝制设备、高端模具、泵与电机、航空航天、智能家居等一批国际有影响力、国内有竞合张力的现代产业集群，打造“456+X”现代产业集群体系；有制造业企业7.3万家、规上企业4692家，国内外市场占有率第一的“隐形冠军”产品达307个，是长三角重要的先进制造业基地。
台州以“山的硬气、海的大气、水的灵气”诠释着“人的和气”。自2007年起，台州市六度荣膺“中国最具幸福感城市”，并于2017年获得“全国文明城市”称号。
