Known as Chencang in ancient times, Baoji is an important node city of "One Belt and One Road" and a Sub-central city of guanzhong Plain urban agglomeration. It is also a national comprehensive transportation hub and a bearing city of national production and service logistics hub. With a total area of 18,100 square kilometers and a total population of 3.78 million, the city has jurisdiction over 4 districts, 8 counties and 1 state-level high-tech industry development zone. In 2020, the city's regional GDP reached 227.695 billion yuan; Its fiscal revenue was 22.822 billion yuan; The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents reached 36,209 yuan and 14,189 yuan respectively. It has won more than 20 national honors such as national Innovative City, National Ecological Garden City, China Living Environment Award and National Civilized City.
Baoji is a famous historical and cultural city with a history of 8,000 years and a history of 3,000 years. It is known as the hometown of Emperor Yan and the birthplace of Zhou-Qin culture, and it enjoys the reputation of "hometown of Bronze ware" and "Hometown of folk arts and crafts". The site of Beishouling, which dates back more than 7,150 years, was discovered here, where Emperor Yan "taught people to farm" 5,000 years ago, and where the Western Zhou Dynasty built its capital 3,100 years ago. The rites of Zhou, The Book of Changes and the Book of Songs, which have influenced the Chinese nation for more than 3,000 years, were born.
Baoji is an important node of the Silk Road, located in the third transportation cross of the new Eurasian Land Bridge, and the geometric center of the provincial capitals of Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan and Ningxia. Longhai, Baocheng-Baobao railway and Baozhong-Baobao Railway meet here, and Xibao, Baolan-Baoding, Lianhuo-Huo and Yinzhou-Kunming high-speed pass through here. The only comprehensive bonded zone in the northwest of China ---- Baoji comprehensive bonded zone is closed, and China and Europe express trains connect countries along the belt and Road, enabling local "customs clearance" for export goods and commodities.
Baoji is a tourist city with 2 national 5A level scenic spots and 14 national 4A level scenic spots. Famen Temple, Taibai Mountain, Guanshan Grassland and Zhangzai Temple have become renowned cultural tourism destinations at home and abroad. Baoji is an excellent tourist city in China and the most internationally influential tourist city.
Baoji is rich in products and resources, with the largest apple area in the country, 1/4 of the output of kiwi fruit, leading the scale of dairy goats in the country, and regional characteristic industries such as Chinese bee, forest musk deer, Chinese medicinal materials and Chinese pepper enjoying a national reputation. "Good cat smoke", "Xifeng wine", "Baoji beer", "old cow flour" and other products are well-known in the country.
Baoji is an ecological barrier in the western part of Guanzhong, located at the north-south boundary of China. The Main peak of Qinling Mountains, Taibai Mountain, with an altitude of 3771.2 meters, is located here. Weihe River, the largest tributary of the Yellow River, runs through the whole territory, and Jialing River, an important tributary of the Yangtze River, originates here. In 2020, the number of days with good air quality was 282, ranking first among fenhe and Weihe plains and Guanzhong cities.
Baoji is a strong city in equipment manufacturing industry and an old industrial base for national layout and construction in the period of "the first Five-year Plan" and "the third Line". It covers 35 categories, 224 industries and employs nearly 300,000 people. In 2020, the total output value of industry above the prescribed level was 343.416 billion yuan, and the manufacturing industry accounted for 88.4% of the total output value of industry above the prescribed level. It has formed pillar industrial clusters such as automobile and parts, titanium and titanium alloy, characteristic food and superior equipment manufacturing, as well as five emerging industries such as aerospace, new energy, electronic information, bio-medicine and intelligent manufacturing. CNC machine tools, oil drilling, high-speed rail equipment, titanium processing and other nearly 100 products with industry competitiveness and market discourse power.
Baoji is known as "the cradle and flagship of China's titanium industry". There are more than 590 titanium enterprises of all kinds in The city, 92 of which are above the designated level, forming the whole industrial chain of titanium and titanium alloy research and development, production, sales and service. The industrial scale ranks first in China and second in the world. From the "two bombs and one satellite" to the "Chang 'e moon landing" project, from the C919 large aircraft to the 10,000-meter deep submarine manned capsule, from the titanium screws in the iPhone to the titanium capillary implanted in the human body, "Baoji Titanium" has been found. In 2019, Baoji titanium and titanium alloy industry was identified as the national "advanced structural materials Industrial cluster" development project. In 2020, the city's titanium and titanium alloy industry achieved an output value of 51 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 6.38%.
Next, baoji will create "the world titanium, titanium valley of China" and the construction of the international first-class titanium target of industrial clusters, promote the treasure of the total investment is 80 billion yuan titanium, titanium metal composite materials and new material industrial park, is a key project of baoji titanium valley in the world construction, set up 10 billion yuan industry development fund, form baoji titanium titanium valley college, trading center, We will build northwest Advanced Structural Materials Research Institute together with Northwest Non-ferrous Metal Research Institute and Baoti Group, and strive to build an industrial cluster of advanced structural materials with level of 100 billion during the 14th Five-year Plan period.
China Titanium Annual Conference, as the most authoritative, largest and most influential industry event in the domestic titanium industry, is a high-quality platform for interpreting national policies, gathering industry consensus and leading industrial transformation and upgrading. Baoji will take this opportunity to talk with experts, scholars and industry elites about titanium and titanium alloy industry research and development, promotion and application, boost the innovation and development of advanced structural materials industry in Baoji, and contribute more baoji "titanium" element to national strategic industry and Chinese manufacturing. At the same time, sincerely hope that through the Chinese titanium conference, let more people pay attention to baoji, into the valley of China titanium, to help decide questions, baoji titanium industry development, the technical exchanges, science and technology research, product development, industry collaboration in areas such as depth of cooperation, realize the complementary advantages, sharing, mutual benefit and win-win results, jointly promote the development of titanium and titanium alloy industry.