Ruian is located in the middle section of Chinese gold coastline and between Shanghai Economic Zone and Xia- Zhang-Quan Golden De1ta. With pleasant climate and abundant products, it has long been known as a land of fish and rice in the regions south of the Yangtze River.Since ancient times, the town has been prosperous, its commerce and trade have been flourishing and it has been a gathering of talents. And Guo Moruo once praised "Ruian has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents as jade and passed the excellent cultural tradition generation after generation ". Since reformation and opening, Ruian people have given full play to their intelligence and wisdom and taken the lead in trying joint-stock system management and developing market economy, and have been well-known at home and abroad for peculiar Wenzhou Mode. It has been placed on the list of National First-lot Economic Open Counties (Cities) and Comprehensive Reform Trial Counties (Cities) by the State Council in l998 and has ever successively been awarded the honourable titles of one of National One Hundred Powerful Counties (Cities) and Chinese Star Counties (Cities).

After great efforts made by l. 18 million people of the whole city, good foundations for modernization construction have been laid in Ruian. In l999 the gross domestic product of the whole city amounted to RMB l3.96 billion yuan, the total financial revenue amounted to RMB 0.7 billion yuan and the foreign trade export delivery value amounted to RMB 3.1billion yuan. Such five main pillar industries as mechanical and electronic industry, automobile and motorcycle parts industry knitting and shoe-making industry, fine chemical industry and plastic products industry, etc. and ten main block economic industrial set-ups have taken shape in the whole city. Ruian has carried out the strategy of "Revitalizing City by Science and Education, Establishing City by Quality " and has her eyes on raising scale, level and grade of enterprises, and"Science and Technology with Joint-stock System" has made a lot of enterprises grow wings and fly away. Depending on the industrial base, various specialized markets are becoming brisker day by day. The annual business volume of Ruian Commercial Town amounted to RMB 5.5 billion yuan with its business extending all over the country. The national chain markets which take Ruian Commercial Town as the parent market have gradually taken shape and the specialized markets have been changed into transnational or trans-regional business operations.

Nowadays, the basic facilities of Ruian are being improved and perfected day by day and the investment environment has been improved obviously. Ruian has transport facilities and is very close to Wenzhou Airport, Tenthousand-ton Harbour Wharf and Jin-Wen Railway. The Ruian Section of Coastal Super Highway, the Ruian Section of Wen-Fu Railway will be completed and put into application during the Tenth Five-Year Plan. The post and telecommunications industry of Ruian is overdeveloping and Ruian has sufficient water suPply and power supply. Large-scale Shanxi Water-control Project on the upper reaches of the Feiyunjiang River is under construction, rich petroleum resources l00 sea miles away from the mouth of the Feiyunjiang River are under exploration and development. Now Ruian people are setting off an upsurge of investment in the province-level Economic Development Zone with an area of 7.8 square meters and will build a new urban area with comprehensive development in industry, science and technology and trade, etc. The governments at all levels of Ruian are seeking talent with eagemess and carrying out promise service, the enterprises in Ruian have flexible systems and always lay stress on bringing in funds, technology and talent, and the people of Ruian are very hospitable, simple, honest and unspoiled.

Today Ruian has been pushed to the front edge of reformation and opening by the flood tide of the times and incessant changes are taking place on the land of Ruian with an area of 1360 square meters. The people of Ruian are carrying forward the spirit of "Being United,Realistic,Combatant and Contending for First Place"and advancing bravely toward the ambitious goal of constructing modernized new Ruian.