General situation of South Australia
2016/01/16
First, comprehensive introduction
South Australia (South Australia,), located south-central of the Australian continent, is the only state bordering all the states and northern territories of the continent, covering an area of nine hundred and eighty two thousand nine hundred and ninety nine square kilometers. It accounts for 12.7% of Australia's total area.
As of March 2015, South Australia had a population of one million six hundred and ninety five thousand nine hundred and ninety nine, accounting for 7.15 percent of Australia's population, mainly in the capital Adelaide (1.29 million), a large regional center and inland cities. The main language is English, with more than 200 different ethnic groups.
South Australia is a Mediterranean climate with hot and dry summers and cool and humid winters.
history
In 1802, British explorer Matthew Flynde (Matthew Flinders) painted a complete southern Australian coastline on his Inquirer. At the beginning of the 19th century, some European seafarers began to settle in South Australia. 1834. The British Parliament passed the South Australian Colonial Act and decided to establish South Australia. In early 1836, the first group of European immigrants and officials landed on kangaroo island in nine boats and settled in Kingscott on December 28, 1836. The first state governor, John Hindmarsh (John Hindmarsh), held a ceremony in (Glenelg), Gleneurg, to declare South Australia a British colony. This is a colony dominated by free immigration rather than prisoners.
politics
South Australia became an autonomous British colony in 1856. In 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia was founded and South Australia became one of them.
Like the federal government, the state government implements the legislation, system of separation of judicial and administrative powers. The governor is the highest nominal head of state, the Queen's representative in the state, nominated by the state government and appointed by the Queen. The current governor of the state, Li Wenxiao, is the 35th member of the (Hieu Van Le) Department, since Sept. 1, 2014. The South Australian Parliament is elected by citizens of South Australia and consists of the House of Lords (Legislative Council) and the House of Commons (House of Assembly). A total of 22 seats in the House of Lords, regardless of the electoral districts, will be allocated to each party for an eight-year term. The Labour Party now holds 8 seats in the House of Lords, 8 seats in the Liberal Party, 6 seats in the Green Party, and 6 other small parties in the family. (The President), the current speaker of the House of Lords, is a Labour Party member of Hon Russell Wortley,. A total of 47 seats in the House of Commons are directly elected by voters for a four-year term. The Labour Party now holds 24 seats in the House of Commons, 21 seats in the Liberal Party and 2 seats in independent parliamentarians. The current Speaker of the House of Commons, (Speaker of the House), is a Labour Party member of the Michael Atkinson,.
State government, led by Governor (Premier), is responsible for state-wide specific matters. Wei Jie (Jay Weatherill), the current governor of the Labour Party, took office on October 21, 2011. State government is responsible for making laws on schools, hospitals, roads and railways, electricity, water, mining and agriculture. The governor appointed a cabinet of 13 ministers.
City, County Council is Australia's most grass-roots government, composed of 5 to 15 city councillors. City councillors are elected by universal suffrage at the county level, mayors elected by city councillors and directly elected by citizens in a small number of cities and counties. The city council has executive director (Chief Executive), department manager and staff. City Council functions are responsible for urban sanitation, parking billing, building approval and community services. South Australia has 68 local councils, and local councillors are part-time. State government and local government are elected every four years.
[经] economy
South Australia's gross domestic product (2014-15) was A $95.2 billion, with imports and exports of A $seven billion nine hundred and fifty nine million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine and A $12 billion as of December 2014. South Australia's labor costs are 9 percent lower than the national average, with Adelaide having the lowest housing, commercial and industrial property prices among the mainland's capital cities.
Located at the heart of Australia's road, rail and air logistics networks, South Australia has a time and cost advantage in air and sea transport to major Asian markets.
South Australia is rich in resources and energy, with considerable reserves of copper, gold, iron ore, uranium, rare earths and minerals. High-tech fields such as agriculture, winemaking, animal husbandry, biotechnology, electronic information and marine development have unique advantages.
education
As of March 2015, nearly 20,000 Chinese (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) students are studying in South Australia, ranking first in the number of international students.
South Australia has the following major universities:
1. The University of Adelaide, (Adelaide University), is the third university in Australian history and has been one of Australia's eight leading universities since its inception in 1874. By 2008, the school had produced 5 Nobel Prizes and 108 Rhode Prize winners. The university is one of Australia's most research-intensive universities with strengths in biomedical science, natural sciences, engineering, information technology, food and wine, and social sciences.
2. The University of South Australia (University of South Australia), founded in 1991, was formed by the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology and the South Australian Institute of higher Education. It is the largest university in South Australia, attracting the largest number of students from South Australia, and its overseas cooperation program ranks fourth in Australia. At present, there are more than 35000 officially registered students and more than 2000 teaching staff.
Founded in 1966, Flinders University (The Flinders University) is named after British navigator Matthew Flinders and ranks among the top eight research universities in Australia. It is a modern university full of dynamism and enterprising spirit. The school is known for its world-class scientific research and student satisfaction, and faculty members have won awards, including the 2004 and 2006 "Prime Minister of University Teaching Awards". The full-time employment rate of graduates is higher than the national average.
South Australia also includes Carnegie Mellon University Hinds, Torrance University Australia and University College London Energy Resources. South Australia Vocational School (TAFE SA) is responsible for vocational education and adult continuing education for young people.
In 2007, Adelaide University and Shandong University jointly opened Confucius Institute.
Culture and art
South Australia has a reputation as a "festive state" and boasts a variety of arts, cultural festivals and major sporting events. Including Adelaide Art Festival (Adelaide Festival of Arts), Adelaide Art Festival (OzAsia), Adelaide Festival (Adelaide Fringe Festival), WOM Adelaide International Music Carnival (Womadelaide), Fashion Festival (Fashion Festival), Adelaide (Adelaide Cup Day) and so on.
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Adelaide International Airport (ADL) is a regional, domestic and international aviation hub with state-of-the-art facilities, state-of-the-art design and cutting-edge technology, the latest and most efficient airport in Australia. Major Asian airlines have flights to Adelaide. Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines have direct flights to Adelaide every day and Cathay Pacific has five weekly flights. In addition to international flights, Qantas, Virgin Australia and JetStar have daily flights from other Australian capital cities to and from Adelaide.
Adelaide Port (Port Adelaide) is about 11 kilometers northwest of the city center. Adelaide International Container Terminal plays an important role in the economic development of South Australia.
Relations with China's friendly provinces (states, cities)
In 1986, South Australia established sister-state relations with Shandong Province, South Australia's capital Adelaide and other cities established seven sister-city relations with related cities in China. In addition, South Australia government also set up three representative offices in Shandong, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Chinese-funded institutions
South Australia is one of the investment destinations of Chinese enterprises. At present, there are 38 investment enterprises in South Australia, mainly in power grid, mineral exploration and development, real estate development, agricultural food, international trade and pharmaceutical R & D cooperation and so on.
Leadership situation
Forty countries have established consular representation offices in Adelaide, including 2 consulates-general (Greece and China), 1 consulate (Italy) and 37 honorary consulates.
Symbols and badges of South Australia
South Australia Flower-Desert Pea Flower (sturt's desert pea)
A symbolic animal of South Australia-the hairy-nosed koala (hair-nosed wombat)
The symbol of South Australia-Opal (or Opel opal)
The Ocean symbol of South Australia-Yeh Hailong (leafy sea dragon)
South Australia Banne
South Australia badge
South Australia official Colo
South Australia shield
The capital city of Adelaide
Adelaide, is the capital, business and cultural center of South Australia. It is also the largest city in South Australia and the fifth largest city in Australia. Population, 1.29 million. Located in Adelaide Plain north of the Phil (Fleurieu) Peninsula, 96 km east of St. Vincent Bay, it is a sprawling port city with a total area of 870 square kilometers and an average elevation of 50 meters. The Torrance River crosses Adelaide from east to west, dividing it into two parts: the south and the north, mostly commercial, government, and cultural recreation areas; and the north, (North Adelaide), is a quiet residential area.
Adelaide was founded in 1836. Colonel William Wright, the chief designer of Adelaide, was very visionary, designing the city as a chessboard, with spacious streets and public squares between the buildings, and large parks surrounded by green spaces around the city. It laid a good foundation for the future development of Adelaide.
Today, Adelaide is a business center in South Australia with a strong manufacturing, technological and R & D base. Adelaide ranks among the top cities in the world for its high-quality lifestyle. In 2015, EIU ranked "the most livable city" among the world's 140 cities, with Adelaide ranked fifth; The Top 10 tourist cities in 2014 are ranked ninth in Lonely Planet. Adelaide enjoys a reputation as a "festival capital," a year-round variety of festivals and sports events, attracting tourists from all over the world.
Adelaide is an important intersection of east-west and north-south traffic in Australia. Adelaide Airport (ADL), a regional, domestic and international aviation hub only 7 kilometers from the centre of the city, opened in October 2005. The airport is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities to incorporate the latest design and cutting-edge technology, and can be rated as the latest in Australia. The most efficient airport can dock 27 planes at the same time, allowing 3000 passengers per hour. Adelaide, known as 20-minute City, is a 20-minute drive to all parts of the city. The roads in the city are wide and rarely congested.
III. Major attractions in South Australia
Adelaide Central Market (Adelaide Central Market)
Founded in 1870, it is the largest food market in the Southern Hemisphere and the heart of Adelaide's food supply. Large and small stalls sell food from all over South Australia: fresh seafood, meat, vegetables, fruit, cheese, dried fruit, as well as a variety of desserts and coffee. Immigrants from all over the world have also brought home food, forming a colorful multi-cultural and multi-ethnic areas. The Chinese ethnic elements of the adjacent Chinatown are most prominent, not only Chinese restaurants, grocery stores and Chinese goods supermarkets, but also arches and stone lions at both ends of the street are full of strong Chinese characteristics.
Victoria Square (Victoria Square)
Located in the center of the city, is the political and economic core of South Australia. Built with modern fountains and leisure facilities looking around the square, the modern South Australian government building, the ancient St. Francis Xavier Cathedral (St. Francis Xavier' Buildings of different ages, such as s Cathedral) and the Supreme Court, are intertwined with each other, showing a different style of South Australia.
South Australian Museum (the South Australian Museum)
Located on North Street, Adelaide, is a museum of natural and cultural history with 6 million exhibits. Containing, inter alia, the objects and materials of life and customs of the ancient and modern animals and plants of South Australia and of the peoples of the Pacific Islands, the richest of which are exhibits on anthropology, natural history and geology, Is the world's largest collection of Aboriginal Australian museums, and early Pacific cultural ethnography.
Blue Road Shopping Street (Rundle Street)
It is Australia's earliest walking shopping street and the leading leisure and sightseeing shopping street in downtown Adelaide. The 500-meter-long street is lined with shops, including three large department stores. More than 600 retail stores, including 15 large-scale shopping malls, are dazzling with a wide variety of goods. All kinds of art sculptures such as the four Bronze Pig can be seen everywhere, and various street artists often perform here, attracting a large number of tourists.
Art Gallery of South Australia, (Art Gallery of South Australia)
Adelaide North Street, founded in 1881, is Australia's second largest art museum, also has the largest collection of national art, with 35,000 art collections. In addition to a large collection of Australian art, there are also European paintings, sculptures, clothing and Southeast Asian pottery and so on.
South Australian Maritime Museum (South Australian Maritime Museum)
Located in the port of Adelaide, a large number of navigational instruments, models, paintings, photographs, ancient ships and some of the early immigrants are on display. State-of-the-art audio-visual equipment allows visitors to fully experience the life of seafarers at sea.
Adelaide Botanical Garden (Adelaide Botanical Garden)
Located in the northeast corner of the city, covering an area of 51 hectares. It was built in 1855 and has been influenced by the famous Royal Botanical Garden and Versailles Palace in France. Garden also has greenhouse, lotus pond, bamboo forest and so on, spring comes, more than 800 kinds of flowers compete to open each other, strives to dazzle. The "Museum of Economic Botany" is the only existing museum in the world, showing plant specimens, most of which were made more than a hundred years ago, and are still intact and very realistic.
Kangaroo island (Kangaroo Island)
Located 110 kilometers southwest of Adelaide, Australia's third-largest island is a tourist resort spread over low jungle, national parks and rich wildlife. It is also one of the best preserved natural miracles in the world. It was named the first island of Asia and the Pacific in 2008 by National Geographic magazine of the United States. You can watch rare Australian sea lions, whales, penguins, kangaroos, koalas, echolmostly and swim with dolphins, enjoy the clock cave rocks, arches and other natural ghost and axe craftsmanship.
The German town of (Hahndorf)
Australia's oldest surviving German immigrant settlement was a German pastoral town founded by Prussia immigrants in the 1830s. Adelaide 28 kilometers southeast, intact preservation of German folk customs, the main tree-lined streets are a collection of historical buildings, specialty restaurants, arts and crafts boutiques and so on. It is a classic experience of Australian national culture.
Cooper Petty, (Coober Pedy).
South Australia's oldest and largest opal mining city, 800 km north of Adelaide, is home to the largest number of opal shops and varieties in the world. Because the local climate is hot, whether local dwellings, churches, or opal mining plants are mostly built underground, this remarkable feature has made Cuppere famous all over the world, but also attracted many tourists from all over the world.