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5.2 Dongguan City
5.2.1 The Mayor of the City, Mr. Zheng Jintao, introduced the
city as the following:
5.2.2
Longguan City has a total population of about 1.23
million people as at
at the end of 1986. The total area is
3460 sq.km of
of which 1.2m mu. is agricultural land. Dongguan is classified as a 'city' by the State Council
in September 1985. Having good natural resources and
favourable weather, the economic development of the city
and its 32 townships has been performing very well after
the implementation of open economy policy. Improvement
of the road network has been identified as a major task
to promote modernisation. At present, there are 60
bridges, 1480 ku of roads of which 800 km are concrete
and 200 km are asphalt. The completion of 2 bridges,
Warjiang Bridge and Zhongtang Eridge, has shortened
considerably the time distance with Guangzhou as ferry
crossing is no longer required.
As regards electricity consumption, the annual rate is
2.2m KWh of which 0.7 : KWh are supplied by the State,
0.7m KWh by the Humor Power Plant ( 虎門 ) and the remaining by the Shajiao Plant "A" where the City has
invested 0.5m RMB Yuan.
5.2.3 The City has placed much emphasis on education and
training of personnel
in
various fields in order to
prepare for further development of the city. Though
there is no university in Dongguan, the City has made
arrangements with universities in Guangzhou to set up
aistant learning centres in the city. By such
arrangements, the City provides venues and equipments
while the universities provide teaching staff who give
lectures in the City regularly. Besides, self study