南通地处长江三角洲北翼,与大上海隔江相望。作为中国经济最发达区域的重要一员,南通曾经有过一百年前“中国近代第一城”和改革开放初首批沿海开放城市的辉煌。进入新世纪新阶段,在长三角城市中,南通有些方面虽然跨入了领跑者的行列,但总体上还是追赶者,惟有跨越赶超,方能在长三角快速崛起。面对长三角百舸争流的发展态势, Nantong is located in the north wing of the Yangtze River Delta, across the river from Shanghai. As an important member of China’s most economically developed region, Nantong once had a hundred years ago “the first city in modern China” and the first batch of coastal open cities in the reform and opening up. Into the new stage of the new century, in the cities of the Yangtze River Delta, although some aspects of Nantong into the ranks of the leader, but overall chaser, but only to catch up with catch-up in order to quickly rise in the Yangtze River Delta. In the face of the trend of development in the Yangtze River Delta,