Social Undertakings
Science & Technology
Education
Culture and Sports
Mass Media
Medical Service & Public Health
Environmental Protection
Transport, Post & Telecom
Urban Civilization
Social Security
 































































































































































                 


       


 ¡òScience and Technology
 
Taizhou has continuously strengthened its capability in scientific innovation through implementation of scientific-progress projects, achieving eminent performance in science and being appraised as the advanced city of China for scientific advancement. The year 2004 saw a financial investment value of RMB 219 million by Taizhou in science and technology, 19.1% higher than that of the previous
year. Taizhou was shaped, primarily, by its hi-tech industries which include auto fittings, medicine, environment protection, and so on, and was successful in holding the National Fair of Scientific-Technological Achievements, Patented Technology and New Products 2004. By the end of 2004, there had come into being 20 new hi-tech enterprises at the national level, 135 new hi-tech enterprises of provincial enterprises, 30 provincial Institutes of Scientific Research on hi-tech enterprises, and 111 municipal Institutes of Scientific Research on hi-tech enterprises. The new hi-tech industrial park has taken shape, and has introduced a series of Institutes of Scientific Research at the national level. Taizhou has a buoyant market in the technology trade. In 2004, 854 copies of technology trade contracts were recognized and registered in Taizhou, with a technology turnover of RMB 230 million.
 
 ¡òEducation
 
By the end of 2004, there were 838 kindergartens, 794 primary schools, 221 junior high schools and 130 senior high schools (including normal and vocational senior high schools) in Taizhou. With 15-year compulsory education becoming universal, both the primary school attendance rate and graduation rate reached 100%; junior high school attendance rate reached 99.07% and graduation rate reached 99.86%, and the continuation rate of junior-high-school students into senior high school is 91.6%, above the
average level of Zhejiang. Higher education in Taizhou became further developed. There are 4 universities including Taizhou University, Taizhou Radio & TV University, Taizhou Polytechnic and Taizhou Scientific Polytechnic, with a current student enrollment of 15,371 students including 4943 graduates, 10,428 junior college students and 14,973 adult education students. The Community University of Taizhou has been set up and the project of Taizhou Higher Education Park has started. The Taizhou branch of Zhejiang University Graduate School and Taizhou Research Academy of Zhejiang University have officially settled in Taizhou. The cooperation agreement was signed between Taizhou and Tsinghua University to found a postdoctoral scientific development base and a postgraduate exercitation base. Striking performance was achieved in running schools by private organizations in Taizhou. The total investment devoted to private means in running the? schools reached RMB 1.133 billion, 1,592 educational institutions with 216,200 current students participating, included 101 educational institutes offering academic qualifications, 3 vocational schools run by people and 33 vocational-technical schools. Its educational quality was being improved continuously. There are 43 key high schools at the provincial level including 10 provincially Grade-I high schools such as Taizhou High School, Linhai Huipu High School, Tiantai Yuying High School and Jiaojiang Sanmei High School which are the characteristic senior high schools. There are 16 provincial key vocational schools, including 11 provincially Grade-I vocational schools.
 
Taizhou University©¤ Chodang University, South Korea

Taizhou University©¤ Formosa University£¬Argentina

Taizhou University©¤ North Eastern University £¬Argentina

Taizhou University©¤ Lincoln University£¬New Zealand

Taizhou University©¤ Monterrey De La£¬Mexico

Taizhou Radio& TV University©¤ Ohlone Community College£¬California, US

Taizhou Polytechnic©¤ Kangan Batman TAFE£¬Australia

Jiaojiang No.1 Middle School©¤ Wilson Secondary School, US

Huangyan Middle School©¤ Blakehurst High School£¬Australia

Wenling Taiping Primary School©¤ Tsuruga Primary School, Japan

Luqiao Middle School©¤ Hornby High School, New Zealand
 
 ¡ò Culture & Sports
 
Cultural undertakings have been developing rapidly in Taizhou over the years. In 2004, there were 1 art gallery, 9 cultural centers, 8 public libraries, 5 museums and 6276 cultural institutions run by local people with over 100,000 employees in Taizhou. Meanwhile, 10 public archives were created which contain 0.4246 million rolls of files, 73,300 books of treasured materials and 67,800 rolls of varied files for readers.
Culture Construction in rural area developed well. There had been 33 towns which were given the title of ¡°Pearl of East Sea for Culture¡±. Taizhou creatively developed the construction of 500 basic level culture centers, and had planned to set up 1500 basic culture centers in 3 years. Currently 660 culture centers have been put into operation. Harmonious development has been made in mass bodybuilding movements and sports. Taizhou is the only National Tennis Training Base in China. The 6 counties( cities, districts) Tiantai, Yuhuan, Wenling, Linhai, Jiaojiang and Huangyan were praised as ¡°National Sports Advanced Counties¡±,? The 11 towns? such as Datian were praised as ¡°National Sports Advanced Towns¡±, Tiantai was praised as ¡°Land of China Weichi¡± and ¡°Land of China Track and Field Events¡±, and Huangyan as ¡°Land of Chinese Martial Arts¡±.
 
 ¡ò Mass-Media
 
There are 6 main mass-media agencies at the municipal level in Taizhou, Taizhou Daily, Taizhou Evening News, Taizhou Commercial Daily, Taizhou Radio, Taizhou TV Station and China Taizhou Web. It has 9 radio stations of its own with a daily average broadcasting time of 126.38 hours, and 10 channels of TV programs of its own with a playing time of 998 hours per week. There are 108.67 families enjoying cable television, and the comprehensive population coverage of radio and television was 98.1£¥ and
98.8% respectively.? Taizhou was the first prefecture-level city to formally put wired digital TV into operation on December 16, 2004. News Hotlines of Municipal Mass Media?? (Region Code: 0086-576)
Taizhou Daily 8516061?? 8516084
Taizhou Evening News 8516110
Taizhou Commercial Daily 8060000
Taizhou City Government Gazette ???? 8510230
Taizhou Overseas Chinese News 8201878 8209092
News Channel of TV Station, Taizhou Broadcasting Corporation 8200143
News Channel of Radio Station, Taizhou Broadcasting Corporation 8209273
China Taizhou Web www.taizhou.com.cn
 
 ¡ò Medical Service & Public Health
 
By 2004 there were 1,223 medical institutions and 12,285 patient beds in Taizhou. With constant improvement of the community medical service network, 583 community medical service stations had been set up. The rate of adding toilets reached 68.7% in rural areas and the rate of running water added in rural areas reached 87.5%.

In 2004, the population birthrate of Taizhou reached 11.9¡ë and its population grew by 6.51¡ë. The average life expectancy of residents in rural and urban areas reached 75.9. Linhai was called the ¡°National Hygienic City¡±, Wenling and Taizhou was praised as the ¡°Hygienic City of Zhejiang¡±, Huangyan and Xianju were praised as ¡°Advanced Counties on Donating Blood Free¡±. Taizhou Hospital was praised as the ¡°National Advanced Unit of Hygienic circle¡±. Sixty-one other institutions were given the title of ¡°Advanced Hygienic of Provincial Level¡±. Main Hospital in Taizhou

Names Addresses Tel.(0576)
Taizhou Hospital 150 Ximen St., Linhai 5112241-3133
Taizhou Central Hospital 1 Donghai Avenue, Taizhou Economic Development Zone 8526088? 8526222
Taizhou Municipal Hospital 381 Zhongshan Rd.,Jiaojiang 8858241 8858140
No.1 People¡¯s Hospital of Taizhou 218 Hengjie Rd., Huangyan 4016757 4016556
Taizhou Hospital Luqiao Branch 1 Xialiqiao Rd., W. Luqiao 2555999 2518680
Taizhou TCM Hospital 278 Zhongshan Rd., W., Jiaojiang 8223701
Huangyan TCM Hospital 146 Qingnian Rd., W., Huangyan 4223121 4214199
Luqiao TCM Hospital 101Dongluqiao Avenue, Luqiao 2427013
 
 ¡ò Environmental Protection
 
By the end of 2003, there had been 28 environmental institutions and 10 monitoring centers in Taizhou. The system for assessment of environmental impact and the ¡°3-simultaneousness¡± system (simultaneous design, construction and operation) were strictly exercised on its new construction projects, with implementation rate of 100%. In 2003 Taizhou built up a lot of environmental infrastructure works, achieving industrial effluent discharge up-to-
standard rate of 87.89%. In edible water it had completed 33 protective zones, with water up-to-standard rate above 85%. Its urban noise up-to-standard area totaled 120.4 square kilometers and its coverage 73.77%. Its urban soot control area reached 476 square kilometers and its coverage 100%, and its air quality topped the Grade-II standard of the State.
 
The movement to build up an ecological city was started up entirely. Taizhou set up 11 ecological demonstration villages and 11 ecological towns. By the end of 2003 Taizhou had totally built up 120 agro-ecological demonstration zones. Taizhou still won the title of ¡°Advanced City of China in Forestry Development¡± from the State Bureau of Forestry.
 
 ¡ò Transport, Post & Telecom
 
The transportation, post and telecom areas grew continuously and very fast. In 2004, Taizhou gained added value of RMB 7.593 billion in transportation, storage and post, 14.5% beyond that of last year. In 2004, the number of passengers using civil aviation amounted to 196,700 person-times and its harbor cargo handling capacity amounted to 27.2158
million tons. The gross road mileage of vehicles amounted to 4,125 km. Including 128 km. Expressway.

In 2004, the gross business volume of its postal and telecom service totaled RMB 8.368 billion, a 41.8% increase over the previous year. The new landline users totaled 291,900 subscribers and the year-end urban-rural landline users amounted to 1.9832 million subscribers. The mobile telephone subscribers in Taizhou amounted to 2.8306 million, 25.8% higher than that of the previous year. The number of Internet subscribers reached 0.3903 million. Shuilong Village of Yuhuan and Fanglin Village of Luqiao were praised as ¡°Rural Informatization Demonstrating Villages¡±.
 
 ¡ò Urban Civilization
 
In 2002 Taizhou passed the acceptance check for civilized city of provincial level. It won the title of Civilized City of Zhejiang from the provincial CPC Committee and the provincial Government. Linhai, Wenling and Yuhuan were successively conferred the title of Civilized City of provincial level.
 
By the end of 2003 in Taizhou there had been 7 advanced units of the country for spiritual civilization, 93 provincial civilized units, 236 of municipal level, 12 civilized villages and towns of provincial level, 47 of municipal level and 48 civilized communities.
 
 ¡ò Social Security
 
By the end of 2004, Taizhou had 663,700 persons covering the basic endowment insurance. Its annual paid old-age pension entitlements amounted to RMB 779 million, the number of its employees covered unemployment insurance was 346,400 and its annual paid unemployment compensation RMB 25.96 million. The social security of farmers who had lost land was given a full play and 49,300 land-lost farmers were covered by rural endowment insurance at the end of the
year. The investment in social welfare was increased. There were a total of 158 social welfare institutions with 8,014 beds and 5,167 persons adopted. The lowest urban-rural living assurance covered totally 60,900 persons, and its lowest annual investment in living assurance amounted to RMB 49.47 million.