![]() ![]() Wanshi Botanical Garden 万石植物馆 features endless landscaped trails, more than 20 nurseries, and over 4000 botanical species the Overseas Chinese Garden 厦门华侨亚热带引种园 has an experimental nursery of subtropical plants. Rare white dolphins can be seen in the bay a cable car to Sunlight Rock 日光岩 on Gulangyu gives a 360° view of the harbor. Sites dedicated to public enjoyment of nature and scientific research include more than 30 parks and numerous white-sand swimming beaches and bird-watching sites. The city bird is the egret, and its flower is bougainvillea. It is currently China’s third most environmentally clean city. Xiamen has won numerous national and international awards for its clean air, environmental sustainability, marine pollution management, investment in environmental protection, public landscaping, and prohibition of pollution-creating projects. ![]() Since 1980, Xiamen has enjoyed a 20% annual GNP growth rate, and in 2008 tied with Shenzhen for 2nd highest per capita GDP in China. Xiamen’s huge International Conference & Exhibition Hall Center 厦门国际会议展览 中心 is located in Siming the city annually hosts the China International Fair for Investment and Trade in early September to attract foreign direct investment. Xiamen focuses on international relations in 7 key industries: advanced technology, transport, commerce and trade, banking and insurance, tourism, real estate, and information and communications, including joint-venture, cooperative, and foreign-owned enterprises. In 1980, Xiamen was designated one of 4 Special Economic Zones (SEZ) 经济特区 where special rules and administrative autonomy encouraged foreign investment and experimentation with innovative strategies for economic development. ![]() Xiamen (known historically as Amoy) was one of 5 original “treaty ports” opened in 1842 to international settlement by 14 European countries after China’s defeat in the first Opium War. )Ī HISTORY OF TRADE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Fujian Province is the ancestral home of more overseas Chinese than any other province in China. Greater Xiamen has an area of 585 square miles and a population of 1.3 million, which is 60% urban and 99% Han ethnicity. Its administration 厦门市思明区人民政府 and Office of Foreign Affairs 厦门市思明区外事侨务办公室 are separate from that of the larger Xiamen Municipal Government 厦门市人民政府, which has a Sister Cities relationship with Baltimore, Maryland. Located on Xiamen Island 厦门岛 on the mountainous coast of Fujian Province 福建省, situated across the Taiwan Strait from Taiwan 台湾 and connected to the mainland by a 3-mile causeway, Siming District, including Gulangyu Island 鼓浪屿, comprises an area of approximately 8 square miles. It is easily accessible by direct flight from any point in China. The ultramodern Xiamen International airport is the fourth largest air traffic hub in China. Siming District 思明区 (730,000 population) comprises the residential, cultural, and educational heart of Xiamen, along with being a center for tourism and commercial enterprises. ![]() Both cities also feature creative, energetic, and financial support for education, the visual and performing arts, botanical and marine research, tourism, investment and commercial exchange, and many other areas of shared interests. Xiamen 厦门市 is an excellent match for Sarasota in terms of geography, semi-tropical climate, and environmental cleanliness. ![]()
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