Shangqiu is a large golden hub for she is not only the cross of two railways (New Asia-European Continental Bridge--Longhai Railway and the key north-south line--Jingjiu Railway), but also the cross of two highways (the state highway 103 from Beijing to Zhuhai and 310 from Tianshui to Lianyungang).Geography and ClimateShangqiu is located at the point of intersection of 34?? 20' N and 115?? 40' E and in the east of Henan Province. She lies on the plain of Yellow River and Huaihe River. Away from Shangqiu, to the east, by 150 km is Xu Zhou, a famous city of Jiangsu province; to the north by 25 km is Shandong province; to the south by 50 km is Anhui province. She is an important goods distribution spot at the junction of 4 provinces, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui. Her climate is similar to Xuzhou.Area and PopulationThe total area is 10,704 sq. km. (65 sq. km urban) and population is 7.85 million (800, 000 urban). Natural ResourcesShangqiu has high quality premium coal mine with reserve of 10 billion tons. Yongxia Coal Field is one of the six high quality anthracite bases in China. Shangqiu is abundant in wheat, corn, cotton, sesame, peanut and grape etc and enjoys the reputation of "the town of paulownia" with the abundance of paulownia timber of high quality.Technology and EducationThere are 80 varieties of schools (7 colleges or schools, 30 research institutions), more than 40 are all kinds of professional learned societies, association and research institute. Shangqiu professional school has fixed as National one hundred Key Professional schools. Shangqiu is one of national one hundred counties/cities that own strong scientific and technical strength.ServicesAt present, there're more than 20 large hotels and restaurants (10 open to foreigner) which offer visitors both home and abroad with comfortable living environment. Shangqiu is one of the ten cleanest city of China and has 86 medical establishments and has won the glory as advanced city for precedes in maintenance of good environment

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Transportation and Telecommunication
Shangqiu is at the cross of two important railways and the Cross of two important highways. So she is a potential golden hub that needs to be developed. The airport under construction both for military and civil aviation can be used for taking off and landing of all kinds of cargo planes and passenger planes.
Shangqiu is also the directing center of post and telecommunications in the eastern Henan. The installed program controlled telephones and mobile phones can be dialed directly to anywhere in the world. With length of 16, 000 km, the Asia Europe Communication cable Engineering of light fiber communications cable from Shanghai to Frankfort will encounter the Jingjiu light cable in schedule here. This will form the future information hub.

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