南通位于江苏省中部、长江入海口北岸,在地理位置上具有濒江临海、三面环水的准半岛特征,其经济腹地广阔,素有“扬子第一窗口”之称。全市总面积8001平方公里,总人口780万;其中市区面积232平方公里,人口58万。改革开放以来,南通的经济和各项社会事业迅速发展。80年代初南通即以市区人均产值超 Nantong is located in central Jiangsu Province, the north bank of the mouth of the Yangtze River estuary, in the geographical location of the sea near the sea, surrounded by water quasi-peninsula features a vast hinterland, known as “Yangtze first window ” said. The city’s total area of ​​8001 square kilometers, the total population of 7.8 million; of which urban area of ​​232 square kilometers, population 580,000. Since the reform and opening up, Nantong’s economy and various social undertakings have developed rapidly. Nantong in the early 1980s that the urban per capita output value over