Convenient Transportation

Jinan City is the capital of Shandong province which is a major economic province located in east coast of China. It is also a provincial politics, economy, culture, science and technology, education and financial centre, an important regional center city, and is one of China’s 15 vice-provincial cities. Having jurisdiction over six districts, three counties and a county-level city, Jinan is an important transportation hub and logistics center. Adjacent to Beijing and Tianjin to the north, neighboring to Shanghai and Ningbo to the south, and connecting Shandong peninsula and central China from east to west, Jinan city is an important junction on Circum-Bohai Sea Economic Zone and the economic development axis along Beijing-Shanghai line. Jinan international airport, with the annual passenger capacity of 10 million, connects more than 30 important cities on the Mainland as well as many international cities such as Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Osaka, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Frankfurt, etc. On September 2nd, 2009, it achieved direct flights to Taiwan. Jinan railway and highway, connects two metropolitan areas, i.e. Shanghai-Nanjing, Beijing-Tianjin, from south to north, reaches the port cities of Qingdao and Yantai to the east. As the hub for 4000 km Expressway in Shandong province, Jinan city links up many national highways such as Beijing-Shanghai, Beijing-Fuzhou, Qingdao-Yinchuan, and so on. It is the intersection of Beijing-Shanghai and Jinan-Qingdao railways, also one of the five stations of Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway.

Improvement of Urban Functions

Being committed to “building a service-oriented government and create an internationalized environment”, Jinan established administrative examination and approval service center that realizes one-stop services of investment project, which constantly simplifies examination and approval procedures and improves working efficiency; set up a complaint center for environment of economic development, timely resolving customers complaints; and founded overseas Chinese-related advisory group, protecting the lawful rights and interests of Chinese and overseas Chinese. Jinan ranked eighth in the 20 cities that are most suitable for setting up factories in China mainland published by the United States Forbes. National Bureau of Statistics listed Jinan city as one of the nation’s most competitive cities. The city is appraised as one of the best national social security by Ministry of Public Security.

Rapid Increase of Economic Strength

Jinan is an important manufacturing base having complete industry categories. Transportation equipment, machinery manufacturing, software development and solar energy products occupies an important position in the same industries in the country. In recent years, the city actively promotes high-end leading industries, newly developed industries in large scale and traditional industries branding, implements high-end, high quality and high efficiency development strategy, fosters and develops Jinan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., SINOTRUCK, JIER MACHINE-TOOL GROUP CO., LTD., QINGQI, INSPUR, LINUO, and many other large enterprise groups. Jinan city possesses good conditions of undertaking international industry, especially the transfer of manufacturing industry. Jinan flourishes in services. Meanwhile, ten key service industries like financial services, information services, real estate, cultural and creative activities, tourism, exhibition, modern logistics, intermedary services, business trade, accommodation and catering have a good momentum of development. As one of the 9 major financial cities, Jinan totally owns 133 financial institutions.

Rich Human Resources

With nearly 3,000 years of history, Jinan is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. It is one of the first batch of famous historical and cultural cities and excellent tourism cities announced by the State. Jinan gave birth to many famous figures in Chinese history. It is also known as “spring city” with beautiful scenery and numerous springs. 72 famous springs gush in the city. Baotu Spring, Thousand Buddha Mountain and Daming Lake are famous all over the world for their scenery. Due to abundant human resources, numerous colleges and universities, and intensive scientific research institutions, Jinan has obvious advantages of technological innovation. Now there are 66 universities with 500,000 students in schools, more than 200 research institutions with over 700,000 talents of all kinds. There are more than 500 college graduates in ten thousand persons in Jinan. Jinan was honored with the titles of “national science and technology progress advanced city”, “the first batch of national model cities for intellectual property”, etc. Jinan City was awarded as one of the first batch of national innovation pilot cities by national Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Science and Technology.

IT industry total aggregate ranks sixth in the country. The city has China International ICT Innovation Cluster (CIIIC), national software export innovation base, national service outsourcing base and national animation industry base. It is the innovation pilot city of “China software famous city”.

Active Foreign Investment

In recent years, more and more foreign customers come to Jinan City for investment. Jinan adheres to the business philosophy, strengthens industrial investment and institution-building, improves the scale and quality of utilizing foreign capital and optimizes foreign investment structure. Currently more than 1000 foreign enterprises invest in Jinan. Many world’s top 500 enterprises, such as Wal-Mart, Siemens, Volvo, Matsushita Electric and many others settled in Jinan.