The economy is developed, the people are quite rich and the house prices are high. Generally speaking, Nantong's urban living standard and quality are still quite good, and its income is higher than ours. It seems that per capita GDP and per capita income are good, there are many urban complexes, and shopping and public security are convenient.

Nantong has great potential for future development, especially in 1355, Nantong is likely to become the fourth prefecture-level city with GDP entering the trillion-dollar club after Nanjing, Suzhou and Wuxi.

At the same time, Nantong will become a regional central city, leading cities in northern Jiangsu to break the bottleneck of development and narrow the economic gap with southern Jiangsu, and become a new growth point of Jiangsu economy. But the reality is not optimistic, and this road of development has a long way to go.

After the Sutong Bridge was opened to traffic, the time was shortened to 1 hour, which attracted investment from southern Jiangsu. Nantong also put forward the slogan of integrating into Shanghai's one-hour metropolitan area, leading the Soviet Union. Indeed, these two years have witnessed rapid development, with the presence of large enterprises and the investment of large capital. Sutong Science and Technology Industrial Park, Xitong Science and Technology Industrial Park, Hutong Park and Zhongchuang Park under planning. But in fact, it was the government's policy of actively integrating into southern Jiangsu at that time.

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In fact, as early as the reform and opening up period, Nantong was one of the first ten coastal open cities and one of the first development zones approved by the state. However, due to the natural barrier of the Yangtze River and other reasons, Nantong has always been called impassability. China educated Nantong, and Nantong never lacked talents, as mentioned in the previous answer.

But the idea of the older generation is Nantong, a small city, or traveling to big cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing and Beijing. Nantong's higher education is not developed. There is only one Nantong University, the same level in Jiangsu. It is good at architecture and medicine. From the perspective of development, universities can go outside, but it is also a good choice to come back to work and start a business.