Key Industries

According to the ideas of using the energy comprehensively, accelerating technological innovation, extending industrial chain and cultivating industrial clusters, in the next few years, the city will focus on promoting the development of steel production and deep processing, new materials, automobiles and parts, equipment manufacturing, new energy, energy-saving and environmental protection, electronics information, biology and medicine, special agricultural products deep processing, modern logistics and e-commerce, culture and tourism and other fields.

Key Parks

Laiwu High-tech Industrial Development Zone

Laiwu High-tech Industrial Development Zone was founded in 1992 with a total planned area of 100 square kilometers. More than 180 kilometers of road has been built in this region, with perfect road network and convenient transportation. It has established the leading all-digital transmission power station in the world, waterworks with advanced equipment, sewage treatment plant with full functions. Customs in Jinan has offices in this region, which can realize “port pass-through”. Laiwu has set up Laiwu Vocational and Technical College, Laiwu Technician College and other vocational education colleges and universities, which can cultivate 60,000 high qualified labors every year to meet the needs of different types of enterprises.

The development basis of the industry in High-tech Zone is strong. Initially it forms the five pillar industries of mechanical processing, electronic information, new materials, food and beverage, textiles and garments. There are 112 industrial enterprises above the designated size, 27 high-tech enterprises above the provincial level, in which five enterprises are above the state level. Its high-tech development indicator ranks the second in the 145 provincial-level development zones of Shandong province.

In the next few years, the High-tech Zone will focus on creating the six-largest leading industries that will exceed ten billion, that’s new energy, automobile manufacturing and parts, precision equipment, food and beverage, electronic information, biotechnology and new materials.

Xueye Tourist Area

The current planning area of Xueye Tourist Area is 236 square kilometers. US EDAW puts forward the conceptual plan, and engages the China Planning Institute to work out the overall plan. Not only there is the ancient Qi Great Wall with over 2,500 years’ history, but also the famous Kowloon Grand Canyon, as well as the beautiful and romantic Xueye Lake. Forest coverage rate reaches 70%, dotted by 46 bays with different sizes. The excellent and good rate of air quality reaches 100%, so it wins the good reputation of “Natural Oxygen Bar” and is also called the “Green Paradise” by the international environmental experts. The tourist area is the permanent venue for China International Aviation Sports Festival, and has established the Aviation Technology Sports Park with the total area of 1800 mu.

Xueye Tourist Area has introduced a number of projects, such as Evergrande Real Estate, Shandong Expressway Xueye International Resort, Hong Kong Haifeng Haiyi Mountain Villa, Shandong Xueye Modern Agricultural Technology Demonstration Park, Yacht Club and others. It initially forms a comprehensive tourist area integrated by leisure, culture tourism, and exhibition services in a whole.

Xueye Tourist Area aims to build Shandong lakeside eco-leisure resort center, mountain-water sports and meeting recuperation base, targeting to create the well-known eco-leisure and business travel resort in China, and develop a state-level holiday area.

Welcome all types of projects, such as cultural tourism industry, software development, and ecological health to invest in Xueye Tourist Area.

Laiwu Economic Development Zone (Stainless Steel Eco-industrial Park for Taishan Steel)

The total planning area of this region is 60 square kilometers, it is the accumulation area of stainless steel deep processing industry which is planned and constructed specially. The railway from central and southern part of Shanxi to Rizhao Port and the Beijing-Shanghai Highway go across the region. The region has built six vertical and five horizontal road network. Electricity, water, heating, gas, sewage and other pipe network has covered the whole region, fully meeting the industrial and civil needs.

Currently, it has initially formed the industry pattern leaded by the steel and stainless steel deep processing, modern equipment manufacturing, energy saving and environmental protection, electronic information and new materials.

Relying on the production capacity of 600,000 tons stainless steel in Taishan Steel Group, the region has planned and constructed the Stainless Steel Eco-industrial Park for Taishan Steel with an area of 20 square kilometers. It strives to build the stainless steel industrial park with the largest scale, highest level, and the most complete industrial chain in the north region of Yangtze River.

Welcome all types of projects, such as steel and stainless steel deep processing, modern equipment manufacturing, energy saving and environmental protection, new materials, modern service industry to settle in the Economic Development Zone.

Laicheng Industrial Area

The planning area of Laicheng Industrial Area is 150 square kilometers, which is the new city in northern part that we make our efforts to build. This region forms “One-ring, Two-axe, Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal” road and traffic network, rich in electricity, heat, gas, water resources. It has established the Public Square, Administrative Center, Linma River Park, and plans to build a large number of public service facilities, like Five-star Hotel, Qilu Cultural Industry Park, Financial Street, High-tech Research and Development Center.

Laicheng Industrial Area focuses on developing the six leading industries, which are automobile parts, advanced manufacturing, new materials, new energy, electronic information and modern service industry. Now, there are more than 140 enterprises which are above the designed size, including 56 automobile parts enterprises, 32 advanced manufacturing enterprises, 17 new materials enterprises, 20 new energy enterprises, 10 electronic information enterprises and 8 modern service enterprises.

The area focuses on the development of machinery, electronics and other advanced manufacturing, trade logistics, agricultural and sideline products processing industry, and greatly promotes the development of new energy, new materials and other emerging industries. It strives to build a new city, with emerging industry clustering, flourishing trade and tourism, rich cultural heritage and beautiful ecological environment.

Welcome all types of projects, such as automobile parts, new energy, new materials, electronic information, advanced manufacturing and modern service industry to invest and develop in Laicheng Industrial Area.

Gangcheng Economic Development Zone

The planning area of Gangcheng Economic Development Zone is 54.5 square kilometers, which is divided into the northern and southern areas. Relying on the production capacity of 15 million tons steel in Laiwu Iron and Steel Group, the northern area has planned and constructed the Iron and Steel Deep Processing Industrial Park with a starting area of 20 square kilometers. The “Seven Connections and One Level”, greening and lighting are fully realized in this zone. Its planning layout is the “Four Parks and Three Zones” (“Four Parks” refer to Qilu Steel Logistics Park, Food Industrial Park, High-tech Industrial Park, Small and Medium Pioneering Park, “Three Zones” refer to Steel Deep Processing Zone, Comprehensive Industrial Zone and Commercial Core Zone).

The southern area is planned for Gangcheng High-tech Industrial Park with the construction area of 4 square kilometers. It is divided into “Six Zones and One Park” seven functional zones, including Electronic Information Industry Zone, New Equipment Manufacturing Zone, New Energy Industrial Zone, Residential Zone and High-tech Incubation Park.

Gangcheng Economic Development Zone has developed more than 400 various types of enterprises. It has formed four pillar industries, including iron and steel deep processing, electronic information, new equipment manufacturing, new energy saving and environmental protection. The annual output of flexible copper clad laminate is 12 million square meters, and the annual output of electronic PI film is 100 tons.

Gangcheng Economic Development Zone will strive to build an eco-environmental protection economic development zone with supporting foundation functions, distinctive industrial characteristic and powerful cluster competition. It aims to establish a national well-known steel production and deep processing base, modern steel logistics base, new equipment manufacturing base and new materials production base so as to create the largest electronic substrate production base in Asia.

Welcome all types of projects, such as iron and steel deep processing, modern logistics project and electronic information, new equipment manufacturing and new energy to invest and develop in Gangcheng Economic Development Zone.

Laiwu Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone

The total planning area of Laiwu Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone is 180 square kilometers, as one of the four provincial “Agricultural High-Tech Development Zones” of Shandong Province. It is the “Key Service Park of Shandong Province”, “Scientific and Technological Achievements Transformation Base of Shandong Agricultural University”. The planning area in the core part of Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone is 35 square kilometers, and the area of “Seven Connections and One Level” reaches 15 square kilometers.

The Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone is an important base for planting, storage, processing and export of ginger and garlic in Laiwu. It has built 30,000 mu ginger and garlic standardized planting base, 100,000 mu demonstration base, 8 square kilometers processing base and 137 storage and processing enterprises above the designed size have settled there with the annual storage and processing capacity of 740,000 tons. There are two national leading enterprises, three provincial leading enterprises and eight municipal leading enterprises. Eleven enterprises have gained independent import and export rights and passed the GAP certification. Four enterprises have gotten the “Green Card”. It is the largest ginger export base in China.

The Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone will target to build the domestic first-class base for agricultural and sideline products production, processing, trade base and research center. The zone focuses on planning and building the standardized planting base based on ginger and garlic. It will primarily introduce deep processing project of the agricultural and sideline products with large scale, high technology and high extroversion. A trading platform will be planned to build which integrates e-commerce, information dissemination, logistics distribution in a whole in order to form the agricultural and sideline products circulation system of buying and selling in the whole world.

Welcome all types of projects, such as agricultural and sideline production processing, agricultural production logistics, e-commerce and others to settle in the Agricultural High-tech Development Zone.