"Crabs coming!" With this yell, the Gucheng Lake crab-catching in Gaochun was 
officially started on September 21, marking the opening ceremony of the 19th 
China Gaochun Gucheng Lake Crab Festival, according to the Publicity Department 
of Nanjing Gaochun District Committee. 

Gaochun, located at the southern end of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, is a 
national-level ecological zone, China's first international slow city, and the 
headquarters of the International Slow City in China. It has an ecological 
golden ratio of "30% mountains, 20% waters and 50% fields". The great natural 
ecology of Gaochun provides a prerequisite for local people to get rich. 

Gaochun people started crab farming in the early 1990s. The crab industry has 
become a characteristic industry with high incomes and an important part of 
Gaochun economic development. In recent years, Gaochun has actively promoted 
the large-scale, ecological, scientific development of crab farming and 
technology-driven crab farming. It promoted agricultural efficiency and 
farmers' income. 

In recent years, Gaochun has promoted the reform of "delegate power, streamline 
administration and optimize government services" and carefully built the 
service network of "one seal for approval, one team for law enforcement, one 
network for service, one platform for credit", and strive to achieve the 
comprehensive optimization of approval environment, service environment and 
developing environment.

Gaochun gives full play to the location advantages of adjoining South Jiangsu 
and South Anhui, and takes the development zone and the International Slow City 
as carriers to gather high-end intelligent manufacturing, biomedicine and 
medical equipment, energy conservation and environmental protection, culture 
and health, and ecological agriculture "3+2" leading industry. At the same 
time, Gaochun further promoted the establishment of national all-area tourism 
zone and national-level tourist resorts, effectively integrated Gaochun's 
landscape ecological and cultural resources, comprehensively improved the 
construction level of the civil service and public service system, vigorously 
developed "Tourism +" and "+ Tourism" industry, and promoted the high quality 
development of cultural tourism industry. The future of Gaochun is worthy of 
being looked forward to.

Source: The Publicity Department of Nanjing Gaochun District Committee

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