Dachong,also known as LongDu,is located in the southwest of Zhongshan City.It has the Qijiang River in the east and the Xijiang River in the west.It is 8 kilometers from Shiqi,Zhongshan's urban area,has an area of 40.5 aquare kilometers and administers 6 neiborhood committees and 2 village committees.The town has a permanent population of more than 28,000,a non-local population of more than 50,000 and over 30,000 peple sojourning overseas.It is also a health town and an educational town of Guangdong Province and a key industrial satellite town of the Pearl River Delta.
At present ,the town has nearly 1000 plants and enterprises employing nearly 40,000 people and mainly producting rosewood furniture,textile and clothes,ceramic clean ware,handicrafts,silk stockings,toys,gloves and machines.
Dachong is particularly famous to the world for its rosewood furniture and jeans.It is a famous rosewood furniture town in Zhongshan City and the largest rosewood furniture production base in China Its products are sold well in the whole country and exported to urope,America,Southeast Asia and othe countries and rigions.In December 2001,Dachong hosted "the First China Rosewood Furniture Development Seminar and Dachong Fine Rosewood Furniture Exhibition".In 2003,the Minisrey of Culture approved Dachong as "the Home of Chinese Rosewood Carving Art" .
Jeans production is Dachong's another special industry.The town is specialized in producing jeans casual wear and knitting clothes.It has marked industrial sclae in such aspects as clothes productiong weaving,white wash,rinsing dyeing and cotton yarn processing.The products are sold well in the whole country and exported to Europe,America,Southeast Asia and other courtries and regions.
