The Brief Introduction of Boshan District

Boshan District is located in the middle of Shan Dong Province, which is the important part of Shan Dong Peninsula and one of the open coastal cities that approved by the State Council. It covers an area of 682 square kilometers governing 11 towns, 2 sub district offices and a provincial economic and technological development zone with the total population

of 470 thousand. It is the national key scenic spot. It is well known as ¡°The Renowned City of Pump Industry, China ¡±, ¡°The Homeland of Colored Glaze¡±, ¡°Famous City of Lu Dishes¡±and the production basis of new material. In a word, it is a lifeful modern city with long history and abundant culture. In recent years, the local economy and general fact social take on a good state in term of the aim of building new industrial city, cultural and tourist city and ecological city. In 2006, the total GDP amounts to 17.76 billion Yuan and the investment in fixed assets 5.83 billion Yuan, local fiscal revenue 0.513 billion Yuan.

Strong and solid industrial foundation and prominent industrial development advantage in Boshan: The industry in Boshan is prosperous for its coal, ceramic and colored glaze. Here is the important commercial manufacture base in Shan Dong Province. With the development in these years its industry is pillared with machinofacture, spinning and clothing, titanium chemical engineering, ceramic and color glaze and new material. The main mechanical and electrical products are clean water pump, diving pump, vacuum pump, electric motor speed reducer, which are called shortly ¡°three-pump and two-motor¡±. Other products such as inner-painted products and carving products also enjoy popularity at home and aboard. The resound bands are ¡°Boshan ¡± pump, ¡°Jin Jing¡± float glass, ¡°Hui Xiang ¡± electro motion running machine. The total local economic aggregate is very large with about 2000 enterprises, among which there are 320 large-scale corporations, with hundred thousands of industrialists. There are 2 central undertakings, 3 provincial undertakings, 10 municipal undertakings here. In 2005, the industrial sale income, profit and tax were 22.8 billion Yuan, 1.15 billion Yuan and 2.24 billion Yuan increasing separately 14.23%, 24.79% and 26.03%.

The opening tendency of Boshan is strong and its export-oriented economy is developing rapidly. Owing to following the economic internationalization strategy, expanding the opening policy, improving the investment environment, strengthening foreign trade and investment, there are 5 World 500 Top enterprises have established companies in Boshan District, such as ASAHI, SIEMENZ, MITSUI, SOJITZ, NASH at present. It takes the outstanding export advantage and formed 5 series main export products, such as mechanical electrical pumps, textile clothing, ceramic and colored glaze, glassware, agricultural byproducts. In 2006, value of export amounted to 262 million dollars increasing 25.6%.

The tourist resource is reach and service industry has a rapid progress. There are 8 sceneries and 200 scenic spots that cover an area of 71 square kilometers with 43% of forest coverage rate. It is called ¡°scenic painted corridor in the middle of Shandong¡± and ¡°back yard garden of Zibo¡±. ¡°AAAA¡± Yuanshan National Forest Park, ¡°AAA¡± Lushan National Forest Park and the oldest Great Wall of Qi Dynasty are also in the beautiful district. Besides, famous as a historical town, it has a lot of sceneries of humanities and historical sights, such as Yan Wenjiang Shrine with wooden building of Tang Dynasty and Yin Park with southern garden features. In recent years, according to the thoughts of ¡°flourishing tourism, large market and great industry¡± and insisting on ¡°government lead, society set up and pluralistic input¡±, which have promoted the fast development of tourist industry. In 2005, 3.65 million visitors were received and synthetic tourism income was 450 million Yuan increased by 21% and 39% respectively. The service industry develops fast, such as Fumen Plaza, Zibo Texin Shop and Yiyuan Pavilion; also, Treasure Edifice, Ceramic & Colored Glaze Trade City, Tianlong Plaza and Shengshi Plaza are under construction. The service industry of Boshan has already stepped into a new stage.

The infrastructure is perfect and the city function gets much better. It enjoys convenient communication facilities, with only 260 kilometers to Tsingtao Port eastwards and 90 kilometers to Jinan International Airport westwards. Boshan District is the important traffic hinge in the middle of Shandong Province, there are many roads pass through it, such as 205 National Way, Bo-Lai Expressway, Bin-Bo Expressway, 803 Provincial Highway, Zhonglin Highway, Bo-Yi Road, Xin-Tai Railway, Zhang-Bo Road, etc. In recent years, with constant strengthening of infrastructure construction and environmental comprehensive realignment, such as road, water, gas, heat and electricity, it invested at 2050 million yuan for construction of Bin-Bo Expressway, Bo-Yi highway, Zhang-Bo highway and Zhonglin Road, reconstruction and newly built of 85 kilometers highway, upgrading 26 roads, infrastructure construction of sewage treatment plant and establishment of Century Square, Wenjiang Square, etc. The urban area has been expanded to 35 square kilometers, living area and public green land for each person has reached to 24 square meters and 10.8 square meters respectively. Good air quality keeps to more than 310 days for 5 years in succession. Perfect infrastructure, beautiful natural environment and convenient traffic network make Boshan fit for habitation and investment.