Population of Shantou

At the end of 2012, Shantou had a total population of 5,328,800, of which 5,254,300 were in Shantou city; 68,300 were born in that year, with a birth rate of 12.82 per thousand and a natural population growth rate of 7.46 per thousand.

Till December 2013, the total population of the city was 5,356,492,000, of which 5,254,300 were in Shantou city; the number of births in that year was 68,300, with a birth rate of 12.82 per thousand and a natural population growth rate of 7.46 per thousand. (Note: The above population figures are from the official website of Shantou Municipal Government, which is the same as the data of Shantou Bureau of Statistics; the data of the article on the official website of Shantou Propaganda Department on July 29, 2013 is "total population 5,448,100 people")

The Sixth National Population Census (the "Sixth Population Census") was published in 2011, and it was the first time that the population of Shantou City was surveyed. In the main data of the Sixth National Population Census (the "Sixth Census") released in 2011, Shantou's population density was the third highest in Guangdong province, reaching 2,611 people per square kilometer. Among the city's seven districts (counties), Jinping District has the highest population density of 7,457 people per square kilometer, and the lowest is Nan'ao County, with a population density of 558 people per square kilometer, with the former 13 times higher than the latter. The data of "Sixth Census" are as follows: Sixth National Population Census (Sixth Census) Shantou Population Main Data Table Area Population Number Weight (%) Population Density (persons per square kilometer) City 5391028 100 2611 Longhu District 536102 9.94 5176 Jinping District 810606 15.04 7457 Chenghai District 798896 14.82 2314 Haojiang District 267597 4.96 1984 Chaoyang District 1626641 30.17 2437 Chaonan District 1290922 23.95 2164 Nan'ao County 60264 1.12 558 NOTE: The source of this table is from the Shantou Metropolis Daily report on May 20, 2011, Link to the Reference Materials Shantou Government Institutions Setting List of Agencies Addresses of Agencies Addresses of Agencies Municipal Development and Reform Bureau Building 6, Municipal Party Committee Compound, No. 8, Haibin Road Municipal Economy and Information Technology Bureau Building 47, Jintaozhuang East District, Changping Road Municipal Education Bureau Fengzezhuang Education Bureau Building Municipal Science and Technology Bureau Shantou Science and Technology Museum, No. 12, Haibin Road Religious Affairs Bureau No. 31, Binhang Road Jinyuan Yuan, Building 8, 402, Municipal Public Security Bureau, No. 88, Huanghe Road Municipal Supervision Bureau, No. 8, Haibin Road, Shantou Municipal Party Committee Building 4F, Civil Affairs Bureau, No.78, Changping Road, Shantou, China Municipal Bureau of Justice, No.16, Huashan Road, Shantou, China Municipal Bureau of Finance, Finance Bureau Building, Block 11, Changping Road, Shantou, China Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, No.13, Jinxin Road, Shantou, China Municipal Bureau of Land and Resources, No.101, Changping Road, Shantou, China Municipal Bureau of Environmental Protection, No. 5, Fengzezhuang East, Longhu District, China Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, No. 213, Zhongshan East Road, Shantou, China Municipal Bureau of Transportation, No. 5, Xingxing Road, Shantou, China Water Bureau No.189 Zhongshan Road, Shantou City, Guangdong Province Municipal Bureau of Agriculture

(Agricultural Industry Committee, Forestry Bureau) Shantou City Longhu District Municipal Bureau of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (Port Bureau) Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Mansion, Building 47, Jintaozhuang East District Municipal Culture, Radio, Television and Press and Publication Bureau

(Copyright Bureau) Municipal Bureau of Health, No.9 Dahua Road, Shantou City, Shantou City, Shantou City, Shantou City, Shantou City, Shantou City, Shantou City, Guangdong Province Municipal Bureau of Population and Family Planning Bureau, No.28 Yuejin Road, Shantou City, China Shantou Municipal Government Building, 8th Floor, Municipal Audit Bureau, Block 3, Jintaizhuang Jade Garden, Changping Road, Shantou Municipal Bureau of Foreign Affairs

(Municipal Bureau of Hong Kong and Macao Affairs) Municipal Bureau of Statistics, 11th Floor, Finance Building, 11th Block, Changping Road, Shantou Municipal Government Building, No.28, Yuejin Road, Shantou Municipal Pricing Bureau, 6th-7th Floors, Finance Building, No.6-7th Floors, Changping Road, Middle Section, Municipal Bureau of Ocean and Fisheries, East Gate of Guoxin Mansion, No.13, HaiBin Road, Shantou Municipal Tourism Bureau, 4th Floor, Municipal Government Building, No. 28, Yuejin Road Municipal Legal Affairs Bureau, 12th Floor, Municipal Government Building, No. 28, Yuejin Road Municipal Urban and Rural Planning Bureau, 4th Floor, Investment Building, No. 32, Huangshan Road Municipal Urban Comprehensive Management Bureau, 9th Floor, No. 213, Zhongshan Road, Shantou Municipality Municipal Food and Drug Administration, 1st Floor, Jinhua Mansion, No. 4, Rongjiang Road Note: This table is compiled from the Shantou Municipal Information Disclosure Platform Network and is recorded in accordance with the official ordering with the addition of license plates or subsidiary units in parentheses. or affiliated units. Shantou in the Republic of China period of many people and little arable land, natural sciences are relatively backward, only after liberation to develop, in the 1950s, the trial success of the country's first black-and-white photo paper (A.D. Laboratory), etc., the reform and opening up to rapid development. By 2003, it was twice awarded as "National Advanced City in Science and Education" and was listed as "National Pilot Region of Technological Innovation Project", and in the same year, it made 450 scientific and technological achievements, of which 303 reached the domestic advanced level; there were 87 high-tech enterprises, of which 14 were at the national level. There are 87 high-tech enterprises, including 14 national ones.

In 2012, Shantou obtained 72 scientific and technological achievements, of which 71 reached or exceeded the domestic advanced level. There were 128 state-level high-tech enterprises. The number of patent applications was 10,388, down 18%, and the number of authorizations was 6,583, up 50.6%. Won 6 provincial science and technology progress awards, down 57.1%. Private science and technology enterprises 771, including 268 provincial private science and technology enterprises, an increase of 30.1%. There are 3 industry public **** science and technology innovation platforms: light industrial equipment innovation platform, toy technology innovation platform, power transmission and distribution technology innovation platform. There are 17 independent scientific research institutions: Provincial Ceramics Research Institute, City Environmental Protection Research Institute, City Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, City Machinery Research Institute, City Forestry Research Institute, City Institute of Testing and Technology Research, City Photoelectricity Research Institute, City Institute of Medical Sciences, City Bayshore Vegetable Original Species Research Institute, City Fruit Tree Research Center, City Bayshore Livestock Original Species Research Institute, City Institute of Agricultural Research, Institute of Ultrasonic Instrumentation, City Institute of Science and Technology Institute of Intelligence, Chao Yang District Institute of Agricultural Science, Chenghai District Institute of Agricultural Science, Nan'ao County Institute of Agricultural Science. Shantou has a long history of culture, and there is an excavation site of Xiangshan culture in Nan'ao, which is more than 8,000 years old. Shantou is a famous overseas Chinese hometown, a special economic zone and a seaside city, known as the seaside Zulu, with a profound cultural accumulation. Especially after the reform and opening up, Shantou's culture and education have flourished, laying a solid foundation for Shantou to move from building a large cultural city to a strong cultural city.

By the end of 2012, Shantou had 6 professional performing arts venues of all kinds, including 6 theaters and 7 performing arts groups, with 1,244 performances and 1,409,300 audiences. There are 8 cultural centers and mass art museums, 8 public **** libraries with a total collection of 1,279,000 books, 5 museums, 10 archives with 36,053 volumes (pieces) of all kinds of archives open, 4 radio stations and 4 TV stations. The annual circulation of local newspapers is 54.6 million copies, and the circulation of post office magazines (with national uniform number) is 2,333,200 copies. The main cultural facilities in Shantou are: Shantou Museum, Shantou Library, Lin Baixin International Convention and Exhibition Center, City Eastern Expeditionary Army Exhibition Hall; Chenghai Folk Art Exhibition Hall, Longhu District Hanyuan Exhibition Hall, mobile branches of Guangdong Mobile Library Project in Nan'ao, Chenghai, Chaoyang, and Farmer's Bookstore. Since the opening of the port in 1860, Shantou really began the history of the introduction of Western medicine, British, American, Japanese, French and other churches in Shantou have medical institutions, Chinese medicine is mainly for private decentralized operations. After the liberation, Shantou took over and reformed the medical and health care business, which led to the unprecedented development of the business. Shantou attaches great importance to health care, basically forming a more complete disciplines of the three-tier health care prevention and treatment network, health care development level remains at the forefront of prefecture-level cities in the province.

In 2013, Shantou city **** there are 1,260 health institutions (including individual), of which 38 hospitals, 33 health centers, community health service centers 39 stations, 52 family planning technical service institutions; 14,667 beds, of which 12,027 hospitals, 1,480 health centers, community health service centers (stations) 502. There are 24,440 health workers, including 8,516 licensed physicians and assistant physicians and 6,881 registered nurses. Shantou has a long history of folk sports activities. Traditional sports activities include martial arts, dragon boat, lion dance, English song, tug-of-war, ascent, swing and chess. After the opening of Shantou, basketball, soccer, volleyball, track and field and other sports were introduced one after another. In 1922, the Shantou Sports Association was established and the first sports meeting was held in 1924. After the liberation, it went through a period of solid development, destruction recovery and revival, but mass sports have been flourishing.

Shantou is known as the "Cradle of World Champions" in Chinese sports. In 2013, Shantou sportsmen and women*** won 116 medals in major sports competitions at home and abroad, including 25 gold medals and 14 silver medals in international and national competitions. There were 52 ranked athletes that year. There are Shantou training bases of China Diving Team, Shantou Table Tennis Training Base, and provincial training bases for windsurfing, boating and shooting. It has successfully organized more than 20 national sports competitions such as "International Amateur Boxing Invitation Tournament" and "National Windsurfing Championship". From 1978 to 2008, Shantou's GDP increased 32.1 times, and the general budget income of local finance increased 43.6 times. The private economy is developing rapidly, accounting for more than two-thirds of the city's total economy. The coordinated development of the three industries has adjusted the structure of the three industries from 24.1:38.0:37.8 in 1978 to 5.4:54.3:40.3 in 2008, realizing the transformation from an agricultural economy to a modern industry and service industry, and from a closed and backward "corner of the province and the country" to an open and prosperous, dynamic and modern sea, Prosperous, vibrant modern seaside city change, economic and social development has realized a historic leap.

Preliminary accounting, in 2014 the city's gross domestic product 171.6 billion yuan, an increase of 9.0% over the previous year. Among them, the primary industry added value of 9.341 billion yuan, an increase of 3.9%; the secondary industry added value of 89.758 billion yuan, an increase of 9.7%; the tertiary industry added value of 72.501 billion yuan, an increase of 8.6%. The structure of the three industries was adjusted from 5.6:52.2:42.2 in the previous year to 5.4:52.3:42.3, with the proportion of primary industry declining and the proportion of secondary and tertiary industries slightly increasing. In the modern industry, the value added of modern service industry is 27.403 billion yuan, an increase of 6.9%. In the tertiary industry, wholesale and retail trade increased by 10.1%, accommodation and catering industry increased by 8.6%, financial industry increased by 8.0%, real estate industry increased by 3.5%. The value added of the private economy was 121.388 billion yuan, an increase of 10.0%. The city's per capita GDP 31,192 yuan, an increase of 8.2 percent. The city completed the public **** budget revenue of 12.397 billion yuan, an increase of 10.6% over the previous year; public **** budget expenditures of 20.816 billion yuan, an increase of 11.2%. Annual consumer price level rose 2.3%. Annual urban employment of 6.1 million people, down 1.0 percent; the city's urban registered unemployment of 35.6 million people, urban registered unemployment rate of 2.36 percent.

The main difficulties and problems in the city's economic and social development are: lack of momentum and momentum for sustained and rapid economic growth, the traditional industry transformation and upgrading pressure, modern industry has not yet formed a new growth point; education, health care, housing, social security and other public **** cause of the development of a relative lag in the livelihood of the people's livelihood is not in place to improve the people's livelihood is a long way to go; the order of traffic, the city, the cityscape, ecological environment, the social environment is not fundamentally improved, the social environment is not yet the best. Has not fundamentally improved, the level of social management needs to be improved. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, Shantou agriculture is known for its meticulous cultivation in the world, there is "planting such as embroidery" reputation, food production to 2000 in the country to take the lead in the realization of "tons of grain city" ten consecutive titles. According to incomplete statistics, only in the 1950s and 1960s, more than 2,000 Chaoshan farmers were sent to various provinces and regions to support agricultural production. Entering the new era, traditional agriculture is accelerating the transformation and upgrading to modern agriculture. 2009, the city's total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery for the first time crossed the 10 billion mark, reaching 10.471 billion yuan, and the total income of the rural economy was 27.65 billion yuan. In 2012, the main products, production and growth data of Shantou agriculture are shown on the right of the chart in this catalog.

In 2013, the city of Shantou completed the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery of 15.815 billion yuan, an increase of 3.9%. Among them, the output value of agriculture was 7.87 billion yuan, an increase of 4%; the output value of forestry was 41 million yuan, an increase of 10.4%; the output value of animal husbandry was 2.995 billion yuan, an increase of 5.4%; the output value of fishery was 4.617 billion yuan, an increase of 3.6%; and the output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery services was 292 million yuan, a decrease of 8.3%. In that year, the city's township and village enterprises realized a business income of 252.806 billion yuan, an increase of 12.7%; total profit of 14.801 billion yuan, an increase of 55.4%; and compensation received by workers of 16.326 billion yuan, an increase of 7.9%. After the reform and opening up, Shantou's industrial dominance has been increasing. By 2008, Shantou had 13 Chinese Well-known Trademarks and 188 Provincial Famous Trademarks, which ranked the second among prefecture-level cities in the province; the average annual growth rate of patents was 25%, which was 6.5 percentage points higher than that of Guangdong Province, and the number of patents applied for and authorized ranked the fourth among prefecture-level cities in Guangdong. In 2012, Shantou completed the annual industrial added value of 66.784 billion yuan, the approximate data and the output of major products of industrial enterprises above the scale of this catalog chart right.

In 2013, Shantou realized industrial added value of 75.193 billion yuan, an increase of 12.6%, accounting for 48% of GDP, and the contribution rate of industry to economic growth reached 62.1%; the total output value of industry above large-scale was 250.417 billion yuan, an increase of 14.3%, accounting for 75.2% of the total output value of all industry. Shantou's financial industry started early and prospered since the opening of Shantou, and has been developing steadily since the founding of New China, especially after the reform and opening up.

By the end of the third quarter of 2011, the balance of deposits and loans in local and foreign currencies of financial institutions in Shantou was 192.819 billion yuan and 70.974 billion yuan, respectively, with direct financing of more than 14 billion yuan; the insurance industry has continued to develop rapidly and become one of the five pilot prefecture-level cities in China to carry out the branch of the Insurance Supervisory Bureau, with a cumulative premium income of 3.903 billion yuan as of the end of the three-quarter period. Shantou has gradually played the role of financial "leader" in the eastern part of Guangdong, and some of the financial institutions set up in Shantou have become the management organizations of the eastern part of Guangdong.

At the end of 2013, the balance of local and foreign currency deposits of financial institutions (including foreign capital) in Shantou amounted to RMB 253.016 billion, an increase of RMB 24.453 billion, or 10.7%, compared with that of the beginning of the year; among them, the balance of personal deposits amounted to RMB 176.178 billion, an increase of RMB 16.639 billion, or 10.4%, compared with that of the beginning of the year. The balance of local and foreign currency loans of financial institutions (including foreign capital) amounted to 97.193 billion yuan, an increase of 15.998 billion yuan from the beginning of the year, an increase of 19.7%. Shantou has always attached importance to the operation of fixed asset investment. After 2009, the scale of investment plan of key projects in Shantou has increased year by year, with 14.11 billion yuan and 17.67 billion yuan in 2009 and 2010 respectively, and reached 32.3 billion yuan in 2011. "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the planning and construction of 12 major categories of major projects 72 items, with a total investment of about 689.7 billion yuan. 2012 first half of the year, it is the completion of fixed asset investment amounted to 26.033 billion yuan, an increase of 42.1%, the growth rate of the province of Guangdong in the second place.

In 2012, Shantou completed fixed asset investment amounted to 61.192 billion yuan, an increase of 39.7% over the previous year. Among them, urban investment amounted to 51.920 billion yuan and rural investment amounted to 9.272 billion yuan, with an increase of 43.4% and 21.8% respectively. From the type of investment economy, the state-owned economy investment of 12.039 billion yuan, an increase of 42.6%; private economy investment of 45.513 billion yuan, an increase of 45.6%. From the three industries, the primary industry investment of 421 million yuan, an increase of 10.2%; secondary industry investment of 32.571 billion yuan, an increase of 39.2%. Of which 32.316 billion yuan of industrial investment, an increase of 40.8%; tertiary industry investment of 28.200 billion yuan, an increase of 40.7%. Of which 8.335 billion yuan of investment in real estate development, an increase of 13.4%; 3.614 billion yuan of investment in transportation, an increase of 70.2%; 22.593 billion yuan of investment in modern services, an increase of 28.4%. Annual unit investment in construction projects (excluding real estate) 1,871, an increase of 25.5%. The sales area of commercial properties was 1,899,400 square meters, an increase of 19.4%, of which the sales area of residential properties was 1,697,600 square meters, an increase of 22.3%. Shantou is in the core Chaoshan region, is the core carrier of Chaoshan culture, Chaosology its culture. Shantou has a long tradition of culture and deep cultural deposits, and was known as "Seaside Zulu" in Song Dynasty. Teochew opera, Teochew music, Teochew food and Tea and other traditional cultures are rich in local characteristics, and are famous both at home and abroad. Shantou folk customs are the legacy of Chinese folk culture, the crystallization of the fusion of Han culture with Baiyue folk culture and foreign culture.

Chaosiu Opera is one of the 10 major Chinese opera genres, originating from one of the Southern Operas of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, formed in the Ming Dynasty, with more than 1,000 traditional repertoires unearthed and collated after the liberation of the People's Republic of China. It is popular in eastern Guangdong, southern Fujian and Southeast Asian countries. The simple and elegant music of Chaozhou is a local music system formed by the long-term penetration and fusion of ancient music of the Central Plains and folk tunes of Chaoshan, and the forms of performance include stringed poetry, fine music, temple music, flute sets of ancient music, gongs and drums, etc. There are more than 1,000 stringed poetry songs of Chaozhou, which have gained a great reputation both at home and abroad. The Chaozhou big gongs and drums have won the gold medal at the World Youth Festival. Yingge Dance is a kind of folk dance art passed down in Chaoshan area of east Guangdong Province, belonging to Han Dynasty Square Emotion Dance, which is a folk dance composed of 107 men in legendary costumes, and is regarded as "the root of China's folk dance". Chaoyang is the most popular district of English song and dance, and in November 1996, Chaoyang was awarded the title of "Hometown of Chinese Folk Art (English Song Art)" by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, and in 2005, Chaoyang Opera "Six Countries Seal the Sage" was awarded the Seventh Chinese Folk Literature and Art Mountain Flower Prize, and the Chaoyang Opera "Master of Dongwu County" was awarded six first prizes at the Ninth Provincial Art Festival. The performance of Shantou Chaoshan Big Drum and Gong Art Troupe at the CCTV Lantern Festival in 2006 demonstrated the unique charm of Chaoshan culture to the national and world audience. The "Nan'ao Ⅰ" Ming Dynasty Shipwreck Site was selected as one of the Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries of China in 2010. There are many folk customs in Chaoshan, such as eating "seven kinds of soup" on the seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar, eating "winter festival pills" on the winter solstice, etc.; there are marriage customs such as inviting the mother of Qing Niang to do the "four sentences", etc.; there are "eating Ding wine", "eating wine", "eating wine", "eating wine", "eating wine", "eating wine", etc. There are birth customs such as "eating ding wine" and "going out to the garden"; seasonal folk customs such as paying homage in the eight festivals of the year; amusement folk customs such as "moving tu play" and "lantern race"; and so on. There are also the folk customs of entertainment such as "moving tu opera" and "race lanterns", and the folk customs of socializing such as giving gifts in pairs for good deeds and giving gifts in odd numbers for apologies. Shantou is also rich in Chaozhou Opera, Chaozhou Music, Chaozhou Cuisine and Tea, and is the "Hometown of Chaozhou Cuisine in China". The local dialect of Shantou is Teochew. The Teochew dialect is widely spoken in the Chaoshan area where Shantou, Chaozhou and Jieyang are located, and it can be divided into two types of accents, namely, Shantou in the Hanjiang area and Chaoyang in the Lianjiang area. Hanjiang Shantou, the representative dialect of Shantou, is mainly popular in Chenghai, Jinping and Longhu districts, while Lianjiang Chaoyang is mainly popular in Chaoyang, Chaonan and Houjiang districts.

The Teochew dialect belongs to a branch of the Southern Min dialect, which is quite different from modern Chinese. Chaozhou dialect, also known as Chaoshan dialect or "Teochew language", is a simple and elegant language with rich vocabulary, unique phonetics and ancient semantics, and retains a lot of ancient phonetics, grammar and vocabulary, which has become the strongest link between the Teochew people at home and abroad. According to the famous Swedish sinologist Gao Benhan, "Teochew dialect is the most ancient and special Chinese dialect nowadays." Shantou has a long history of education and was known as Seaside Zulu in Song Dynasty. Before and after the opening of the port, foreign churches were introduced and founded some schools. In the late Qing Dynasty, the counties responded to the current political situation by abolishing the county school and the academy and transferred to the new school and the school affairs office (later changed to the persuasive institute); during the period of the Republic of China, the primary and secondary schools were gradually set up with reference to the western school system, and there were schools of higher education after the War. In the early years of liberation to 1954, the completion of the school public work; 1956, developed a twelve-year (1956-1967) long-term development plan for the cause of education. After the reform and opening up, the overseas Chinese carried forward the tradition of educating the talented and emphasizing on education, and donated money to schools, so that Shantou education was further strengthened.

Shantou is based on the construction of a big city of education, and the legislation guarantees that the allocation of funds for education has increased year by year: 1.66 billion yuan in 2007, 24.81% higher than 2006; 2.01 billion yuan in 2008, 20.7% higher than 2007; 2.45 billion yuan in 2009, 22.16% higher than 2007; and 3.03 billion yuan in 2010, 23.62% higher than 2009; and 3.03 billion yuan in 2010, 23.62% higher than 2009; and 3.03 billion yuan in 2010, 23.62% higher than 2009. 23.62% in 2009; and $4.01 billion in 2011, up 32.4% from 2010.

In 2013, there were 307 secondary schools of various types in the city, with 574,800 students enrolled, of which 297,700 were enrolled at the senior high school level; 189 ordinary junior high schools, with 277,100 junior high school students; and 485,100 ordinary elementary school students. The rate of advancement to junior high school (in terms of advancement to local senior high school places) was 86.57%, and the rate of advancement to senior high school was 87.57%. There were 30,300 students enrolled in adult higher education. During the year, 0.86 million people took the self-study examination for higher and middle schools, and 15,600 subjects were examined. There are 82 private schools of various kinds in the city. Shantou's landmarks include the Rising Sculpture, Xinghu Park, Chaoshan Xinghe Pavilion, Bay Bridge, Rising Sculpture (Shantou City Statue of a Three-Body Man), Convention and Exhibition Center, Dachao Sculpture, Tropic of Cancer Marking Tower, Jinfeng Altar, Art Center, Conch Sculpture, Shantou Diving Pavilion, and Customs Clock Tower, etc. (Note: This reference link is a picture, and it should be opened page by page.) A number of these attractions are briefly described as follows: The "Rising" Sculpture This building, also known as the "Rising" sculpture, is located in the center of the Government Square in Longhu District, the birthplace of Shantou Special Economic Zone. It is the landmark sculpture of Shantou Special Economic Zone. It covers an area of 352 square meters and is oriented from north to south. The sculpture stands on a black granite platform with eight steps, and consists of three silver square pillars with heights of 8 meters, 11 meters and 14 meters each, connecting three stars. The main silver column around the diameter of about 3 meters for the semi-circular ball fruit-shaped copper ball, constituting the overall sculpture. The sculpture was built in December 1990, designed by the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Zhong Baoju. The sculpture body is composed of stone, copper, stainless steel three parts of the material, the design concept is to take advantage of the human experience of the Stone Age, the Copper Age, the Iron Age of the historical process, the development of high-tech era, but also a metaphor for the Shantou Special Economic Zone development of the cause of the rising. 1994, the General Administration of Postal Services of China issued the first set of "China's Special Administrative Regions," commemorative stamps, will be "rising" and "pioneers of the" stamps, the first set of "China's Special Administrative Regions. The first set of commemorative stamps of the "China Special Administrative Region" issued by the Postal Bureau of China in 1994 featured "Rise", "Pioneer Cow", "Hai Zhu Woman", "White Egret" and "Luhuitou" as the five sculptures of Shantou Special Economic Zone. "Five groups of sculptures are printed in the stamps as the symbols of the five special economic zones of Shantou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Xiamen and Hainan. The starting ceremony of Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay (Shantou Station) was held on the pedestal of this sculpture group. Customs Clock Tower The Customs Clock Tower, located at No.2 Wai Ma Road, Shantou, started construction in 1919 and was completed in 1921, built by the British, is one of the earliest buildings in Shantou since the opening of the port. The predecessor of Shantou Customs, Chao Customs, had been working in this building before the liberation, and after the liberation until 1988, the Customs Clock Tower had also been the office of Shantou Customs Headquarter Organization. The original Customs Clock Tower is a two-story reinforced concrete structure with a floor area of 1556.2 square meters, rectangular structure, corridors around the periphery, elaborate interior decorations, inlaid in the roof of the main entrance of the clock for the marble face, black Roman numerals, the Customs Clock Tower is also named after. In December 2006, Shantou Customs, following the principle of "appearance restoration", formally launched the restoration project of the clock tower and completed it successfully in June 2008. The restored Customs Clock Tower has an indoor area of more than 1,500 square meters, which serves as the Shantou Customs History Exhibition Hall. The clock tower witnessed the history of Shantou's opening for a hundred years.