Xuwen county, Zhanjiang, Guangdong province is located at the southernmost tip of the Chinese mainland and faces Hainan province across the sea. Xuwen and Hainan are on the north and south banks of the Qiongzhou Strait, an important strategic transportation channel for the country.

With Zhanjiang's goal of accelerating the construction of a provincial sub-center city and build an important development hub of the modern coastal economic belt, Xuwen has taken actions to contribute to these efforts.

Transportation development

Xuwen possesses China's largest car ferry port and Asia's largest railway ferry terminal. Nearly 15 million passengers and more than 3 million vehicles pass through each year. In 2018, the port throughput was 153 million tons, accounting for 50.6 percent of the city's total, with container throughput of 9,116 TEUs.

The new Xuwen Port Passenger-cargo Ro-Ro Terminal is expected to open at the end of December this year will greatly reduce the transportation time and costs between Zhanjiang and Hainan.

The Xuwen Port Passenger-cargo Ro-Ro Terminal is under construction. [Photo/gdzjdaily.com.cn]

Agriculture development

Xuwen has set up national modern agricultural industrial parks and provincial agricultural product processing parks, as well as a national production base of important agricultural and marine products to promote the transformation of the traditional agriculture industry. The county has now built 12 large-scale standardized production bases for pineapples, bananas, vegetables, sweet corn, sugar cane, ginger, silkworm, woody fruit, prawns, pearls, and black goats.

Tourism development

The county focuses on exploring complementary cooperation modes with Hainan tourism resources to build comprehensive and integrated regional tourism in Zhanjiang and Hainan. The county also boosts rural tourism, vigorously developing homestays, farmhouses, and township specialty inns to promote integrated development between tourism and agriculture, fisheries, sports, and culture.

Green development

The county attaches great importance to clean energy projects, such as wind power generation and photovoltaic power generation. To date, Xuwen has 23 new energy projects with a total installed capacity of about 2,148,500 kilowatts and a total investment of about 32.4 billion yuan ($4.58 billion). Among them, there are seven photovoltaic projects with a total installed capacity of 370,000 kilowatts and 16 wind power projects with a total installed capacity of 2,085,500 kilowatts.

The wind power projects of Xuwen. [Photo/gdzjdaily.com.cn]