常州别称“龙城”，总面积4372平方公里，下辖1市5区，常住人口536.6万人，是近代民族工商业的重要发祥地和乡镇企业发起地之一，也是一座充满现代气息的先进制造业基地。常州位列中国大城强城指数前十强、中国地级市基本现代化指数第12位、全国先进制造业城市第16位。2022年，全市实现地区生产总值9550亿元、增长3.5%；一般公共预算收入631.8亿元、同口径增长1.6%；规上工业增加值、工业开票销售增速分别增长9%和16%以上，工业规模总量突破2万亿元；全年确认到账外资28.3亿美元、增长9.8%，实现进出口总额3228.5亿元、增长7.5%；主要经济指标增速高于省均、领跑苏南，老工业基地调整改造、战略性新兴产业集群发展和质量强市三项工作入选国务院督查激励。2023年上半年，全市GDP总量4525.4亿元，增长7%；实现一般公共预算收入383.5亿元、增长25.8%；工业继续保持强劲上升势头，上半年规上工业增加值增长9.4%，工业开票销售增长10.9%，各项指标增幅均列苏南第一，展现出良好的经济韧性和发展活力。
Changzhou, also known as Dragon City, covers a total area of 4,372 km2 with 5.366 million permanent residents living in one city and five districts under its administrative jurisdiction. As an important cradle of modern national industry and commerce and township enterprises, as well as an advanced modern manufacturing base, Changzhou is ranked among the top 10 of China's Major Power City Index, the 12th in China Basic Modernization Index for Prefecture-level Cities, and the 16th in China Advanced Manufacturing Cities. In 2022, Changzhou’s GDP reached RMB 955 billion, with an increase of 3.5%; its general public budget revenue reached RMB 63.18 billion, with an increase of 1.6% on the same caliber. Besides, its industrial added value above the designated size and industrial invoiced sales increased by 9% and over 16% respectively. The total amount of the industrial scale exceeded RMB 2 trillion. The confirmed incoming foreign capital reached USD 2.83 billion for the whole year in 2022, with an increase of 9.8%. The total amount of imports and exports reached RMB 322.85 billion, with an increase of 7.5%. The major economic indicators’ growth rate of Changzhou outpaces the average level of Jiangsu Province and takes the lead in southern Jiangsu cities. Its three projects, namely, old industrial base adjustment and transformation, strategic emerging industry cluster development, and quality strong city have been selected for the State Council inspection incentives. In the first half year of 2023, Changzhou’s GDP totaled RMB 452.54 billion, with an increase of 7%, accompanied by the general public budget revenue of RMB 38.35 billion, with an increase of 25.8%. Besides, its industry continues to maintain a strong upward momentum, which can be best represented by its increase in industrial added value above the designated size by 9.4% and the industrial invoiced sales of 10.9% in the first half of the year. Thus, the increase of all the indicators in Changzhou ranked first in southern Jiangsu cities, demonstrating sound economic resilience and development vitality.
人杰地灵之城。常州建城史超2500年，儒风蔚然、人文荟萃，曾出过19名状元、2960名进士。春秋时期著名政治家季札、《昭明文选》编纂者萧统、《永乐大典》主编陈济等都出自常州，清代时常州学派、阳湖文派、常州词派、常州画派、孟河医派名闻天下。近现代涌现出瞿秋白、张太雷、恽代英“常州三杰”，李公朴、史良等爱国人士和华罗庚、刘海粟等名家巨匠，以及72名两院院士。
Changzhou is a city featuring outstanding people and inspiring scenes. With a construction history of more than 2,500 years, Changzhou has a strong Confucian culture and has cultivated numerous famous people. Nineteen Champions and 2,960 Nominees who have passed the highest-level Imperial Exams in ancient Chinese history were born in Changzhou. So did Ji Zha, the famous statesman in the Spring and Autumn Period, Xiao Tong, the compiler of Wen Xuan, and Chen Ji, the editor-in-chief of The Yongle Canon. Besides, the well-known schools including the Changzhou School, the School of Yanghu Lake, the Changzhou School of Commentary on Ci Poetry, the Changzhou School of Commentary on Painting, and the Menghe School of Medicine during the Qing Dynasty also originated from Changzhou. Moreover, the great minds born in Changzhou include the “Three Outstanding Representatives of Changzhou” in modern times, Qu Qiubai, Zhang Tailei, and Yun Daiying, patriots such as Li Gongpu and Shi Liang, as well as great masters like Hua Luogeng, Liu Haisu and other 72 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.
交通枢纽之城。路网四通八达，沪宁城铁、京沪高铁和沪宁、宁杭、扬溧、沿江、锡宜、西绕城高速等覆盖全境，轨道交通一号线、二号线建成投运，高架道路闭合成环，城市立体交通体系日益健全。水网连江通海，京杭大运河贯穿东西，长江常州港为国家一类口岸，常州综合港务区加快建设。常州国际机场实现一类口岸开放，直航20多个国内大中城市，并开通香港、中国台湾、韩国、老挝等国际和地区航线，旅客吞吐量超400万人次，“一点居中、两带联动、十字交叉、米字交汇、左右逢源”的区位优势凸显。
Changzhou is a city featuring comprehensive transportation access. It has a well-connected road network and its three-dimensional transportation system is becoming sounder, as the Shanghai-Nanjing City Railway, Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing High-speed Railway, Nanjing-Hangzhou High-speed Railway, Yangzhou-Liyang High-speed Railway, Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu High-speed Railway, Wuxi-Yixing High-speed Railway and West Bypass Highway covering the whole territory, Metro Line 1 and Line 2 already put into operation and elevated roads being closed into a ring. Its water network connects the river and the sea, with the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal running through the east and west, Changzhou Port on the Yangtze River being the First-class national port, and the construction of Changzhou Comprehensive Port Area being accelerated. Changzhou International Airport has realized the opening of first-class ports, direct flights to more than 20 domestic large and medium-sized cities, and opened international and regional routes to Hongkong, Taiwan, South Korea, Laos, and so on, with a passenger throughput of more than 4 million. Its location advantage of “one point in the middle, two belts linkage, cross-crossing, meter-word intersection, both ways go well” is prominent.
产业发达之城。工业门类齐全、产业链完整，在国家工业41个大类有37个，207个中类有191个，666个小类有600个，制造业增加值占地区生产总值比重达43.1%，智能制造装备产业入选首批国家战略性新兴产业集群，新型碳材料产业入围全国先进制造业集群，中国工业大奖、制造业单项冠军数量均列全国地级市第一，上市企业94家、高新技术企业3680家，每万名劳动者中高技能人才数连续九年全省第一。新能源产业强势增长、领跑赛道，形成“发储送用研”生态闭环，产业集聚度全国第四、投资热度蝉联全国第一，整车、动力电池产销量均占全省一半，全年新能源整车产销34万辆、新能源产业产值5109亿元。2023年上半年，1256家新能源规上企业开票销售3825.4亿元、同比增长28.1%，新能源汽车整车累计产量27.2万辆、约占全省三分之二。
Changzhou is a city featuring developed industries. It has comprehensive industrial categories and industrial chains, with 37 out of 41 major categories in the national industry, 191 out of 207 medium categories, and 600 out of 666 subclass categories. Its added value of the manufacturing industry accounts for 43.1% of GDP. Its intelligent manufacturing equipment industry has been selected as one of the first batch of national strategic emerging industry clusters, and its new carbon materials industry has been selected as one of the national advanced manufacturing clusters. Its number of China Industrial Award and manufacturing individual champions rank first in the country’s prefecture-level cities, with 94 listed enterprises and 3,680 high-tech enterprises, and the number of highly skilled talents per 10,000 workers ranking first in the province for nine consecutive years. Its new energy industry grows strongly and leads the track, forming an ecological closed loop of “development, storage, distribution, application, and research”, and its industrial agglomeration ranks fourth in the country, investment appeal maintains the first place in the country. Its production and sales of finished automobiles and power batteries account for half of the province, the annual production and sales of new energy vehicles reach 340,000, and the output value of the new energy industry arrives at RMB 510.9 billion. In the first half of 2023, 1,256 new energy enterprises above designated size earned RMB 382.54 billion on the invoiced sales, which soared by 28.1%, and the cumulative production of new energy vehicles totaled 272,000, accounting for about two-thirds of the province.
美丽宜居之城。高质量推进高铁新城建设、老城厢改造，高起点、大手笔谋划建设“两湖”创新区，打造生态之城、秀美之城、科技之城、创新之城、青年之城、未来之城。持续放大“一江一河四湖五山”自然资源禀赋优势，高水平打造文化广场、青果巷、环球港等文旅新地标，环球恐龙城跻身全国十大热门景区，创成“国家森林城市”“全国绿化模范城市”，摘得中国人居环境综合奖。
Changzhou is a city featuring beautiful and livable environment. It is advancing the high-quality construction of a new high-speed railway city and the renovation of the old city's historical cultural scenery area, and investing in the construction of the “Two Lakes” Innovation Zone, so as to create a city of ecology, a city of beauty, city of science and technology, city of innovation, city of youth and city of future. It is continuing to make use of the natural resource advantages of the “Yangtze River, Grand Canal, four lakes and five mountains”, and create new landmarks for cultural tourism such as Culture Square, Qingguo Lane, and Global Harbor. Its Changzhou Universal Dinosaur City has been listed among the top ten popular scenic spots nationwide. Changzhou has now become the “National Forest City” and “National Greening Model City”, and has been awarded the China Habitat Environment Example Prize.
民生幸福之城。城乡居民收入同步增长，收入比为1.81:1，低于全省的2.11:1、全国的2.45:1。打造“常有善育、常有优学、常有健康、常有颐养、常有安居、常有众扶”六张民生名片，医疗卫生体制改革、住房保障、公交优先、公园免费开放、“文化100”惠民等多项民生福祉工程形成常州模式，入选全国首批、全省唯一“国家产教融合试点城市”，入选2022中国最具幸福感城市，成为平安中国建设示范市，全省唯一连续三次获得“长安杯”。
Changzhou is a city of happiness. Its income ratio of urban and rural residents increases simultaneously at 1.81:1, which is lower than the provincial ratio of 2.11:1, and the national ratio of 2.45:1. It has created six livelihood name cards, namely, good child raising, good education, good healthcare, good care, good housing, and good support. Many projects on people’s livelihoods and well-being, such as reforming the medical and healthcare system, housing protection, public transportation, free access to parks, and “Culture 100”, etc. have jointly formed the Changzhou model. Thus, it has been selected as one of the first batch of the “National Pilot Cities for Integration of Industry and Education” in the country and the only one in Jiangsu province, one of the 2022 China’s Happiest Cities, and has become a model city for the construction of Peaceful China and the only city in Jiangsu province to win the “Chang’an Cup” for three consecutive times.
