Dujiangyan
In the 21st century Dujiangyan has become an international tourist destination attracting visitors from home and abroad.

Traditionally reputed as the Fountain of the Land of Abundance, Dujiangyan in Chengdu city boasts thousands of years of water culture and Taoist culture that are profound, sophisticated and celebrated domestically and internationally.

With an average annual temperature of 15.2 degrees C, the climate is mild year-round. The quality of water and air throughout the year stays at State A-grade. Forest coverage of the city is 60.6 percent and afforestation coverage in the city is 44.7 percent.

Dujiangyan is the hub of many famous scenery spots including Jiuzhai Valley, Huanglong Resort, Mount Siguniang, Dujiangyan Irrigation System, Mount Qingcheng, Mount Leshan and Mount E’mei, with 20 minutes’ drive of 39 km away from Chengdu and 40 minutes’ drive away from the Shuangliu International Airport.

Jilin
Jilin province, which is located in the Northeast China with 49 ethnic groups, owns a population of 27.3 million. It neighbors Liaoning province in the south, Inner Mongolian autonomous region in the west, Heilongjiang province in the north and Federation of Russia in the east.

With the provincial government’s effort, Jilin has developed well and fast both in economy and society.

The per capita GDP in 2007 in Jilin is 19,168 yuan, which is an increase of 15.8% year-on-year.

In 2007, the fixed-assets investment of Jilin province realized the highspeed growth, ranking the third in the country. The building industry is in the stable development.

During the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10), the infrastructural investment in the province is about 73.4 billion yuan, an increase of 61.4 percent than that in the previous year, accounting for 18.8 percent of the total social fixed-assets investment.

Chengdu
Chengdu is ratified by the State Council as the center of science and technology, commerce and trade, finance, and the hub of transportation and telecommunication in Southwest China.

It is selected by the State Council as pilot reform zone for coordinated development between urban and rural areas.

Chengdu has a total area of 12,400 sq km with a population of 11.123 million, of which are around 2 million migrants.

In 2007, the city’s GDP reached 332.4 billion yuan and per capita GDP reached $4,000. Sales volume of consumer goods amounted to 135.7 billion yuan and the fixed asset investment reached 238.5 billion yuan.

Chengdu was also awarded as one of China’s most economically dynamic cities, China’s Best Tourism City, and Investment Environment Model City in the Chinese mainland.

Nearly 130 of Fortune 500 companies have set up factories or branch offices in Chengdu.

Shanxi
Shanxi, also known as “Jin”, is situated in North China, midstream of the Yellow River.

Shanxi has made a breakthrough in absorbing foreign investment. In 2007, actual foreign investment reached $2.26 billion, accounting for 5.5 percent of the provincial total investment of fixed assets in 2007. The province traded with 166 countries and regions, the volume of imports and exports reached $10 billion.

The province’s road mileage open to traffic has reached 120,000 km, including 1,893 km of motorways. The total length of railway in operation has reached 3,071 km.

There are more than 40 air routes connecting the outside world in Taiyuan, which has a first class airport. Changzhi, Yuncheng, and Datong airports have all been in service.

Mail service is extended to countries and regions world wide and international direct calls are accessible to more than 260 countries and regions. Fixed and movable communication networks cover all the cities and counties of the province.

Henan
The name of Henan province comes from its location. As most of its land lies on the south of the Yellow River, the province is called “Henan” which means “on the south of the river” in Chinese.

Since reform and opening up, Henan has focused on sound and fast development in economy and society, and has become the largest province in terms of population, agriculture, food processing and human resource. It is also a large province in economy, industry, resources, transportation and culture in China.

The total value of GDP topped 1.5 trillion yuan in 2007, increasing by over 14.4 percent against last year, ranking the fifth in China and the first in the middle and western regions of China.

Henan will use its advantages of market, labor force and resources into full play. By improving the investment environment and providing excellent services to investors, the province cordially expects to cooperate with friends from all over the world.

Yunnan
Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan province, is a major city in Southwest China with a long history.

Closely focused on the construction of modern Kunming, the city has been putting efforts to make the city prosper and its people rich.

Kunming has been vigorously promoting the construction of a strong, vigorous, cultural, ecological and harmonious city by carrying out some feasible measures.

In recent years, with the implementation of the nation’s development strategy of western regions, Kunming is taking the historic opportunity to construct the China- ASEAN free trade zone and the Pan-Pearl River Delta economic zone, which is expected to speed up its development and enhance the city’s comprehensive strength.

In 2007, the city’s GDP reached 139.4 billion yuan, an increase of 12.5 percent year-on-year, of which the primary industry created an added value of 9.4 billion yuan with an increase of 5.6 percent over the previous year.

Caohejing
Shanghai Caohejing Hi-tech Park (CHJ) is a State-level economic and technological development zone, a high-tech industrial development zone, as well as a national export processing zone. Currently, it covers an area of 14.28 sq km.

Today, CHJ is home to more than 1,200 domestic and overseas hi-tech companies, including over 500 foreign invested enterprises.

Over 40 corporations on the Fortune Global 500 list have set up 70 hi-tech enterprises in the Park.

In 2007, the combined sales revenue of CHJ enterprises totaled 140.5 billion yuan, with their industrial output value of 101.4 billion yuan, GDP of 41.7 billion yuan (including the added value of 13.8 billion yuan from the tertiary industry), and imports and exports reaching $15 billion.

Caohejing Hi-tech Park currently tops the list of all development zones in China in terms of its economic returns per unit area.

Hunan
Hunan is a propitious place giving birth to outstanding people and with beautiful mountains and clear water. It is an inland frontier and coastal hinder land full of vitality, charm and potential.

It is now at the stage of rapid economic development and it is encountering the unprecedented development opportunity and showing the limitless beautiful development prospect.

Since the 10th Five-Year Plan (2001-05), the annual growth rate of its GDP and total budgetary revenue has increased by 11.1 percent and 19.5 percent respectively, reaching 914.5 billion yuan and 111.9 billion yuan respectively in 2007.

In particular, the province is successful in devoting to creating an open, transparent, anticipatable investment environment, and the process of businesses stepping into Hunan is expedited, which have dramatically boosted the development of open economy in Hunan.

Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang literally means Black Dragon River. It has a common boundary with Inner Mongolia autonomous region and Jilin province. Its northern border is on the southeast of the Russian Federation.

Heilongjiang is a land of varied topography. Much of the province is dominated by mountain ranges.

The majority of its population is Han Chinese, while other ethnic minorities include the Manchus, Koreans, Mongols, Hui, Daur, Xibe, Oroqin, Hezhen and Russians.

Heilongjiang province not only has rich soil resources with a large quantity of cultivated land which takes the first place in China, but also has rich, good quality water resources for agriculture, industry and human consumption.

Heilongjiang’s agriculture plays an important role in China. The level of agricultural mechanization is high, and industry has developed rapidly.

It has become an important base of agriculture and industry for products such as commodity grain, wood, coal,

Shaanxi
Shaanxi province, also known as Qin, lies in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, eastern part of Northwest China.

Shaanxi is a cradle of Chinese civilization and culture and the important scientific research and production base for industries of aviation, aerospace, mechanism, electronics, energy and chemical engineering.

The growth of GDP in the province keeps at double- digit for several years. Both the infrastructure and the ecological environment of the province have been improved.

With abundant natural and mineral resources and outstanding local specialty, Shaanxi has a big economic and labor market with big potential, especially with its high quality but low cost labor force and facilitated with related industries.

The unique advantages of Shaanxi enable it to accept industry transfer in such enterprises as high-tech, equipment manufacturing, energy and chemical, fruit, stock breeding, and tourism industry and will guarantee the success of investment.

Gansu
As one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, Gansu province is located in the hinterland of northwestern China with a long history and a rich cultural heritage.

Gansu is rich in tourism resources, including Fuxi, which was known as Chinese human ancestor, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and the bronze sculpture of Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow of in Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), all which makes the province a tourism emblem of China.

It also has some world-famous cultural relics and historic sites of different eras. The ancient Silk Road, the famous land passage of exchange between China and the West, traverses the whole length of the province.

Gansu possesses abundant mineral deposits, agricultural products resources, tourism resources and workforce resources.

It serves as an important passage of the Eurasian Continental Bridge and the important region of implementing western regions development strategy in China.

Chongqing
Chongqing is the youngest municipality in China with its unique integrated transportation.

Chongqing is not only the economic center in the upper reach of the Yangtze River but also the industry center in East Asia as well as the best choice for headquarters of multinational enterprises in the East Asian countries.

With preferential policies for industrial parks and industrial bases, it attracts the establishment of many connecting industrial shift development bases, a national experimental zone, and the first inland bonded port, as well as Chongqing North New Zone, Export Processing Zone, Xiyong Microelectronics Industrial Park,

Chongqing Chemical Industry Park and Chayuan Industry Park. Chongqing radiates the vast market in the western regions. With its economic growth, Chongqing has a unique regional advantages and favorable conditions in cooperating with enterprises from the eastern coastal industries and making better use of foreign investment

Anhui
The name of Anhui province has two syllables in Chinese. An means peace, indicating harmony. Hui is composed of waters, mountains and humanities, representing goodliness. Anhui, a combination of harmony, peace, landscape and culture, is known for its long history, splendid culture, and grander landscape.

Three mountains of Huangshan, Jiuhua and Tianzhu together with three major water systems of the Yangtze River, Huaihe River and Xin’anjiang River formed a most beautifully diversified landscaping, giving birth to the profound Huaihe culture, Tongcheng culture and Hui culture, in addition to multiple schools of arts like Huangmei Opera, Hui Opera and Flower and Drum Dance.

Looking back through history, Anhui has seen galaxy of prominent figures. There were leading talents in different fields at different times. Hui Merchants who were ever so influential for hundreds of years in the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-911), created tremendous business miracles.

Jiangxi
Jiangxi is a unique province in central region directly neighboring the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and Fujian province.

The mountainous terrain and large forest coverage of Jiangxi has made it historically one of the more wild places of central China.

Efficient highways across the province have been constructed, which are the major arteries of the southeast coastal areas into the central region.

A transportation network of waterways, highways and airways has come into being.

Beijing-Kowloon Railway and Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway wind through the whole province; airports are scattered in Nanchang, Jiujiang, Jinggangshan, Ganzhou and Jingdezhen, Nanchang International Container Handling Dock and Jiujiang International Waterway Transportation Center have been set up.

It has unique geographic advantages in undertaking industrial transfer from southeast coastal areas and efficient utilization of foreign investment.

Guizhou
Situated in the southwestern part of China Guizhou province covers an area of 176,000 sq km with a population of 39.55 million.

Guizhou has beautiful mountains and rivers, pleasant climate and abundant natural resources.

As about developing modern logistics, Guizhou has an advantage of transportation and location.

The distance between the province and the Pan Pearl River Delta (PPRD) is the shortest among the southwest provinces and the advantage of Guizhou in developing logistics in the PPRD is more and more obvious.

The rich population of minorities in Guizhou creats many ethnic festivals throughout the lunar calendar.

During the first lunar month (usually February), the early festival in Kaili (east of Guiyang) celebrates local culture with acts of bullfighting, horse racing, pipe playing, and comedy works.

Xinjiang
Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is located in the Northwest part of China, which covers an area of 1.66 million sq m with population of 20.95 million in 47 ethnic groups.

As an important gateway to northwest China, Xinjiang is bordering with eight countries in the West. With geographical advantages in opening to the West, Xinjiang becomes a significant pivot of economic growth of western China.

XPCC
Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps (XPCC) is a special social organization with its economic and social development program separately listed in the State plan.

It performs historical mission of station to open up wasteland and garrison the frontier and enjoys rights of dealing with its own administrative and judicial affairs according to laws and regulations.

Through the efforts it will help promote the economic development, social progress, and unity of different ethnic minorities of Xinjiang.

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