Liaocheng Foreign Experts and Cooperation Conference

Liaocheng, the pretty Water City in Northern China, is a famous tourism city in the country with a long history and rich culture. It is situated in the western part of Shandong and connects the coastal part with developed economy and the inner land with abundant resources. It covers an area of 8715 square kilometers with a population of 5.9 million.

Located in Shandong province, Liaocheng city is hosting an event that will bring together key local Chinese businesses and International foreign experts. As an emerging ecologically friendly industrial city that is rapidly emerging as a first choice location in China for key industries.

Therefore, the Liaocheng municipal government along with Liaocheng Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, National Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Shandong Provincial Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security (Shandong Provincial Bureau of Foreign Affairs) announced this important International Event, which offered mutual benefits to all participating parties.

The purpose of this conference was to:

1.   Promote cooperation between local and international companies

2.   Discuss specific local business issues benefiting from foreign expertise

3.   Identify specific projects that can be contracted with foreign experts

4.   Launch a platform from which best practices and creative problem solving methods can be shared

Foster an open policy of cooperation for future opportunities.

The city is known as the "The water city to the north of the Yangtze river" and the “The ancient capital along Grand Canal”. Liaocheng is a National Famous Historical and Cultural City, a National Excellent City for Tourists, a National Clean City and also one of the Top Ten National Leisure Cities. With a population of over 0.2 billion living within a radius of 300 kilometers, Liaocheng serves as an important logistic center and an ideal base to exploit the large market in north China. It is also a hub of the Beijing-Kowloon Railway, the Handan-Jinan Railway, the Jinan-Liaocheng-Handan Freeway and the Qingdao-Yinchuan Freeway, Dezhou-Shangqiu highway, Jinan-Liaocheng highway are under building. It is 100 kilometers from airport, 400 kilometers from seaport. Liaocheng houses more than 10 economic development zones and industrial parks with local characteristics, We are working on the plan to revitalize the top ten industries, covering nonferrous metals, automobile and spare parts, equipment manufacturing, steel, logistics, chemistry, light industry, Textile, pharmacy, papermaking, pharmacy, electronics and information. We are also planning on building Liaocheng into a manufacturing base for 12 industries including new energy automobile, coal chemical products, salt Chemicals, silicon Chemicals, nonferrous metals and hot spring tourism. These industries are keys to the future economic development of Liaocheng. Now Liaocheng has set up economic, technological and cultural cooperative relations with more than 50 countries and regions.

Major Industries for Development:

Fundamental Industries and Infrastructure Projects: encouraging investment to be put in Liaocheng’s three fundamental industrial projects, namely, the second phase of Liaocheng Power Plant, China (Shandong) Light and Power Co., Ltd., Liaocheng coal mine development and Handan-Jinan Railway double tracks construction; encouraging the investment in the engineering of water supply, gas supply, sewage and rubbish treatment; encouraging development of modern and ecological residential areas, villas and real estate featuring advanced supporting facilities, complete functions and complete auxiliary conditions; encouraging real estate development in new and old urban areas.

Industrial Projects:

Based on such key electromechanical enterprises as Shifeng Group, Zhongtong Bus Co., Ltd., Guanxian Shuangli Bearing Co., Ltd. and electric cable enterprises, encouraging the development of new- and high-tech products, mainly the new type of technology-intensive products including mini car, high-grade bus, liquid crystal display (LCD) and digital products, rapier loom, rare-earth permanent magnet material, rice and wheat harvester, fibre-optical wiredrawing, fibre-optical preformrod and fibre-optical gyroscope; encouraging the development of Machinery spare parts; taking the advantage as the country’s largest electrolytic aluminium production base with an annual output of 360 thousand tons, encouraging investment in in-depth processing of electrolytic aluminium to improve the products’ grade and added value; In accordance with the characteristics of metallurgy and building material industries, encouraging product development projects by utilizing the existing resources of powdered coal and density fibreboard; encouraging the participation in industrial enterprises’ technological innovation, and improving their technological level and promoting the production capacity by way of M&A, purchasing shares and equity transfer; encouraging the development of technologically advanced industries, and the investment in electronics and information industry, optical cable, electromechanical industry, biological pharmaceutical, new material, high-proficient energy conserving and environmental protection, fine chemical, light industry and Textile industry

Encouraging the establishment of R&D centers and large-scale, modern and comprehensive production bases.

Agricultural Comprehensive Development Projects: encouraging the introduction of fine varieties, cultivation technology and agricultural produce processing technology to improve Liaocheng’s agricultural development level; encouraging the investment in storage, fresh-keeping and comprehensive processing of fruits and agricultural and forest products; encouraging the investment in high-level, water-saving and ecological agriculture; encouraging the investment in grain industralization projects; encouraging the investment in poultry and livestock raising, aquaculture and product comprehensive processing; encouraging the development of animal husbandry and comprehensive processing of meat and milk; encouraging the investment in construction of social service system in rural areas; combined with the production expansion projects of Gaotang Quanlin Paper Co., Ltd. and Yinhe Paper Co., Ltd., encouraging the investment in the construction of Chinese white poplar planting base, cultivation of fast-growing forest, establishment of comprehensive agricultural tourism park and development of forest tourism; encouraging the investment in forest industralization and timber in-depth processing projects, so as to develop Liaocheng into a national density fibreboard and furniture production base; vigorously developing high-grade Vegetables, fine Vegetables, green fruits andVegetables, export-oriented plant species and plant species for processing, so as to develop Liaocheng into a large green vegetable production, processing and export base well-know in the province even in the country; establishing large-scale agricultural produce and concentrated fruit juice production base based on the existing forest, fruit and agricultural resources. 

Commerce and Tourism Projects: based on Xiangjiang Guangcai market which is under construction in Liaocheng, encouraging the investment from factors and wholesale dealers to develop such modern commodity wholesale and retail businesses as shopping centers, super markets and chain stores; encouraging the investment in the development of tourist resources, including Dongchang Lake, Great Canal, Jingyanggang (a hill famous for the famous ancient fiction named Outlaws of the Marsh), Jinpingmei (a famous ancient fiction telling the Adventurous History of Hsi Men and his Six Wives) Park, tourist route based on the famous ancient fiction named Outlaws of the Marsh, large-scale lake amusement facilities and catering facilities; and, encouraging the investment in the construction of Liaocheng People’s Square and related underground super market, and cultural and amusement facilities.

Foreign-Related Service Institution

Liaocheng Municipal Bureau of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation

Foreign Investment Promotion Section

Tel.: 86-635-2119296

Foreign Investment Administration Section

Tel.: 86-635-2119206