用英语介绍湛江市

用英语介绍湛江市：Zhanjiang has a long history, profound cultural heritage and rich traditional cultural resources. Leizhou City, Suixi County and Xuwen County in Zhanjiang, as well as some areas of Zhanjiang City, Lianjiang City and Wuchuan City, have formed a unique regional culture with Fujian Leizhou dialect as the common language (i.e. "Leizhou culture"). 

Leizhou culture is an indispensable and unique cultural area in the cultural territory of Guangdong. It is one of the ancient and long-lasting civilizations in Lingnan. It is listed as "the four major cultures of Lingnan" together with Guangfu culture, Chaoshan culture and Hakka culture. 

Leizhou is a national famous historical and cultural city, enjoying the reputation of "hometown of Chinese folk culture and art" and "hometown of Chinese calligraphy"; Suixi County was named "the hometown of lion awakening in China"; Wuchuan is known as the "hometown of Cantonese Opera" by people all over the world.

翻译：

湛江历史悠久，文化底蕴深厚，传统文化资源十分丰富。湛江雷州市、遂溪县和徐闻县以及湛江市区和廉江市、吴川市的部分地区，形成独特的以闽语雷州话为通用语言的区域文化（即“雷州文化”）。

雷州文化是广东文化版图中不可或缺并具有独特魅力的重要文化区域，是岭南地区古老、持续时间长的文明之一，与广府文化、潮汕文化、客家文化并列为“岭南四大文化”。雷州市是国家级历史文化名城，享有“中国民间文化艺术之乡”“中国书法之乡”美誉；遂溪县被命名为“中国醒狮之乡”；吴川市被世人们誉为“粤剧之乡”等。

Zhanjiang City

Zhanjiang locates in the southern most part of China’s mainland, with a total land area of 12471 square kilometers and a population of more than 7 million. It is the nearest foreign trade seaport to Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania from China’s Mainland and enjoys important strategic status.

1. General Survey of Economic Development
Its comprehensive economic strength is continuously enhancing and its foreign trade force is increasing strongly. In 2003, the total import and export value reached 1.94 billion, 62.1% over 2002, among which the total export value was 900 million, increased by 65.1%. The contractual attraction of foreign capital was USD 257 million, up by 30.8%. And the actual utilization of foreign investment was USD 180 million, up by 63.3%.

2. Unique Advantages and Development Characteristics
(1) Owing special regional advantage. It locates in the crossing of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan and becomes the transportation center of Southwest China, South China and Hainan. It is an important pivot to the import and export economy of Southwest China, and is also the important routeway from China’s mainland to Hainan. It is the nearest foreign trade seaport to Africa, East Asia, Europe, Southeast Asia and Oceania from China’s Mainland and enjoys important strategic status.

(2) Owing rich resource. There are lots of seaports, and the port area can afford the construction of deep-water wharf with the coastline of 97 kilometers. Zhanjiang has been developed as one of the 4 major sugar bases, the biggest eucalypts, sisals and red woods production base. The area’s output and output value of the out-sale oriented vegetables ranks the first in the top five areas of southern area’s vegetables to northern area. There are 520 kinds of fish, 547 kinds of testacean and 28 kinds of shrimps. The output of Zhanjiang’s aquatic products has been ranking first for many years in the province.

(3) Owing characteristic industry. With its advantages of adjoining to sea and port, Zhangjiang is step-by-step constructing eight pivotal industries: petrochemical industry, exploration of offshore oil gas, electricity, paper making, processing of agricultural and aquatic products, feeds, textile and costume, electric appliances and machineries. It also has four major industrial base including Nangfang petrochemical base, agricultural seafood processing export base, high-quality paper making base and small home appliances manufacturing base.