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New Opportunities of China-Laos Economic and Trade Cooperation in New Era
The report mainly presents the fruitful results achieved in bilateral economic and trade cooperation, the key cooperation construction projects between the two countries, and the vast opportunities for bilateral cooperation in the future.
December08,2023
今年上半年四川实现旅游收入3070亿元同比增长28.6%
July22,2015
上半年四川服务业增加值占GDP比重达38%创八年来新高
July22,2015
安徽口岸运营逆境中实现高位增长 7市将建内陆铁路无水港
July22,2015
上半年合肥文化产业投资超220亿元
July27,2015
上半年安徽工业机器人产量同比增三成
July17,2015
1-6月四川完成工业投资3672亿元同比增长1.7%
July22,2015
上半年安徽招商引资增长近一成
July22,2015
Denmark Economic Facts & Figures 2019
Denmark is located at the exit of the Baltic Sea to the North Sea in northern Europe. It is a land transportation hub for Western Europe and Northern Europe, and is known as the Bridge in Northwest Europe.
April08,2021
Prospects of China-UAE Trade and Economic Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative in 2019
The report comprehensively shows achievements of China-UAE economic and trade cooperation, thoroughly analyzes the cooperation opportunities between the two countries under the BRI, the UAE Vision 2021, the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030, and the UAE Centennial 2071, and objectively interprets the investment environment of the two countries.
November26,2019
Hebei Business Environment & Assessment Report (2016)
Situated in east China's coastal area, with a coastal line of 487 km, and embracing the two metropolises of Beijing and Tianjin, Hebei province enjoys an ideal geographic location and possesses competitive edge in the economic activities in the Bohai-Rim and area Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei economic zone, which are designated as a priority for economic development in China. <br></br> Over the past two decades since China adopted the reform and opening-up policy, Hebei has made great achievements in its modernization drive. Hebei has become one of the fastest growing areas in China and there is room to develop and expand. <br></br> Hebei is one of the major production bases of cereals, cotton and edible oil in China and serves as an important base of aquatic and livestock products in north China. Hebei is also among the major provinces with rich mineral resources. <br></br> Hebei realized 2,980.61 billion yuan of GDP in 2015, up 6.8% year on year, and its industrial added value reached 1,438.80 billion yuan, up 4.7% year on year. Fixed-asset investment grew 10.4% year on year in 2015 to 2,944.83 billion yuan, and its Consumer Price Index (CPI) growth stood at 0.9%.
October13,2016
Global Fashion Industry Index - Fashion Week Vitality Index
Global Fashion Industry Index - Fashion Week Vitality Index, as the pilot version of “Global Fashion Industry Index”, has adhered to the keynote thought of “fashion consumption, industrial upgrade”, built a closed-loop ecologic system featuring “consumption leading with fashion, industry driving with consumption and fashion promotion with industry”, formed the integrated “fashion + industry + consumption” development path with Oriental cultural characteristics, neither unilaterally emphasized “shows” nor purely valued “business”, but attached more importance to the promoting effect of fashion on the harmonious development between industry and consumption, the revolutionary influence of e-commerce and other internet + technological revolutions on the fashion industry as well as the deep adjustment of global fashion layout resulting from consumption upgrade in great powers.
June26,2018
Shanxi Business Environment & Assessment Report (2016)
Shanxi Province covers an area of 156,700 square kilometers, accounting for 1.6% of China’s total area. The province stretches 682 kilometers from north to south and 385 kilometers from east to west. <br></br> The province belongs to the loess plateau, with the layout boundary of a parallelogram slanting from north-east to south-west. Mountainous region and hills make up 80.1% of the whole province while the figure for plains and valleys is 19.9%. <br></br> By the end of 2015, there were 36.64 million permanent residents in the province, among which 0.3% were ethnic minorities, including Hui, Man, Mongol, Yi, Miao and Tujia, etc, according to a sample survey on the population of the province in 2015. <br></br> Shanxi’s economy saw over 10% annual growth in the past three decades but its growth has slowed down as the province determined to upgrade economic structure and accelerate reforms. <br></br> Shanxi boasts rich reserves of coal. Reserves of coal, coal bed methane, bauxite, refractory clay, laterite and potassic rock rank first in China. Reserves of golden red stone, pearl rock, gallium, vermiculite, grey rock for glasses take up the second place. The proved reserves of coal amount to 260 billion tons, or one-third of the whole country's total. Hence Shanxi has been known as "the Ocean of Coal." With the features of full types and good quality, coal is extensively distributed in Datong, Ningwu, Western mountain, Huoxi, Hedong and Qinshui coalfields. <br></br> Shanxi’s gross domestic product (GDP) stood at 1.28 trillion yuan in 2015, and the growth rate slowed to 3.1%. The province’s growth ranked the 24th among the 31 provinces and autonomous regions on the Chinese mainland in 2015.
October19,2016
Shandong Business Environment & Assessment Report (2016)
Situated at the lower reaches of the Yellow River and on China's eastern coastline, Shandong Province's territory consists of the Shandong Peninsular and adjacent inlands. Protruding into the conjunction area of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, the peninsula faces the Liaodong Peninsular of Liaoning Province over the sea. Its inland adjoins the provinces of Hebei, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu. The province stretches 420 km from south to north and 700 km from east to west, covering an area of 156,700 square kilometers. <br></br> Shandong is rich in marine resources. Its offshore area makes up 37% of the total surface area of the Bohai and Yellow seas, with a shoal area accounting for 15% of the nation's total. <br></br> A total of 128 varieties of minerals, or 78% of that found in China, have been discovered in the province, of which 33 have their surveyed deposits listed among the top tens of the nation. <br></br> One of China's major agricultural production bases, Shandong is known as "a warehouse of grains, cotton, and oil, and the land of fruits and aquatic products." <br></br> The province is one of China's important energy bases, with the Shengli Oilfield being the second largest of its kind in the country, and Zhongyuan, another oilfield, having a major part on its territory. The crude oil produced in Shandong makes up one-third of the nation's total. <br></br> With beautiful natural landscapes and numerous historical and cultural relics, Shandong has rich tourist resources. It offers a string of tourist attractions, such as Mount Taishan and the Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius, two World Heritage sites. <br></br> Shandong realized 6,300.23 billion yuan of GDP in 2015, up 8% year on year, and its industrial added value reached 2,948.59 billion yuan, up 7.4% year on year. Fixed-asset investment grew 13.9% year on year in 2015 to 4738.15 billion yuan, and its Consumer Price Index (CPI) growth stood at 1.2% year on year.
October21,2016
Qinghai Business Environment & Assessment Report (2016)
Qinghai Province lies in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau with an area of 722,300 square kilometers. Situated 89°35′-103°04′ east longitude and 31°9′-39°19′ north latitude, it got its name from a lake called Qinghai Lake, which is the biggest inland saltwater lake in China. <br></br> Flanked by two big mountain ranges – Qilian in the north, Tanggula in the south, 4/5 of this highland averages 3,000 meters above sea level. In its middle, stands another big mountain spur – the Kunlun. About 95% of the province’s land is pastureland. Two major Chinese waters, the Yangtze and the Yellow Rivers all originate here: one from the southwest slop of the main peak of Tanggula; one from northern slope of Bayanhar. This feature has earned the province a name as the source of the rivers. <br></br> Qinghai is the divide between farming area and pastoral area and contains three kinds of climate patterns, namely continental monsoon climate, inland arid climate and Qinghai-Tibet plateau climate. The average temperature for a year is from –5.6° C to 8.6° C. <br></br> Qinghai Province has two prefecture-level cities, six autonomous prefectures, three county-level cities, 27 counties and seven autonomous counties. Xining is the capital city of the province. <br></br> Qinghai had a total resident population of 5.88 million by the end of 2015, of which urban population was 2.96 million while rural population was 2.92 million, representing 50.3 % and 49.7% of the total, respectively. The minority population was 2.8 million at the end of 2015, accounting for 47.71% of the total.
October11,2016
Tianjin Business Environment & Assessment Report (2016)
Tianjin is located along the west coast of the Bohai Gulf. <br></br> According to preliminary statistics of Tianjin, Tianjin realized some 1.65 trillion yuan of GDP in 2015, up 9.3% on year. Of that, the primary industry accounted for 21.051 billion yuan, up 2.5%, the secondary industry, 772.36 billion yuan, up 9.2%, and tertiary industry, 860.41 billion yuan, up 9.6%. The sector composition continued to optimize to 1.3:46.7:52.0. <br></br> The value of imports and exports of Tianjin totaled 114.35 billion US dollars in 2015, down 14.6% from 2014. Specifically, the export value decreased 2.7% to 51.18 billion US dollars, while the import value declined 22.3% on year to 63.16 billion US dollars.
November08,2016
Liaoning Business Environment & Assessment Report (2016)
Northeast China's Liaoning province borders the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea in the south and the Korean Peninsula in the east, and faces Japan to the southeast. The province takes an area of 148,000 square kilometers and accounts for 1.5% of China's land mass. <br></br> The province is located in the southern part of middle latitude and eastern coast of Eurasia. It has a temperate continental monsoon climate that rain and hot weather come at the same time with abundant sunlight and significant annual variation in temperature. <br></br> There are 14 prefecture-level cities, 17 county-level cities, 27 counties (including eight ethnic minority autonomous counties) and 56 municipal districts administrated by the government of Liaoning.
October11,2016
Jiangxi Business Environment & Assessment Report (2016)
Jiangxi Province, called Gan for short, lies on the southern bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It borders Zhejiang and Fujian provinces to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei and Anhui to the north. Jiangxi dominates the Yangtze River on the north, and connects Wuhan in the upper stream, and Nanjing and Shanghai downstream. It is close to the coastal opening cities in the southeast. Two trunk railways -- Beijing-Kowloon and Zhejiang-Jiangxi lines -- run through the whole province, which provided with convenient transportation and superior location. <br></br> By the end of 2015, Jiangxi’s population reached 45.65 million. There are 38 ethnic groups in the province, with Han people accounting for more than 99% of the total population. <br></br> Jiangxi is famous for its Blue and White Porcelain. The Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) is a key period for the development of the firing techniques of the Blue and White Porcelain in China. Its unique characteristics were based on the techniques of former dynasties. The Blue and White Porcelain had become major porcelain product of China by the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasties (1368-1911). <br></br> Entering the 21st century, Jiangxi has insisted on applying scientific outlook on development, emphasizing on innovations, entrepreneurship, and development in a harmonious way. Taking ecological protection as its first priority, the province aims for a balanced and fast economic development. Jiang’s gross domestic production (GDP) rose 9.1% to 1.67 trillion yuan in 2015. Jiangxi province’s economic structure has been improving in the recent years. In 2015, added value of the primary industry totaled 177.30 billion yuan, rising 3.9% from the previous year; added value of the secondary industry grew 9.4% to 848.73 billion yuan; added value of the tertiary industry increased 10.0% to 646.35 billion yuan. <br></br> Implementing a strategy for new pattern of industrialization, Jiangxi has nurtured and developed industries with its own characteristics, such as optoelectronic industry, high-precision copper-rod, high-grade and special steel products, special car and ship, precision machinery, bio-medication, particular chemical industry, green food, holiday-making tourism, and new-pattern service. <br></br> Thanks to its advantageous position and rich resources, Jiangxi has attracted investors from 70 countries and regions to invest in the province. The investment involved not only traditional industries, such as light industry, textile, mechanical, chemical industry, but also high-tech industries, such as photovoltaic industry, LED (light-emitting diode) materials, copper refining, automotive and spare parts, IT, as well as trade and services.
October11,2016
Henan Business Environment & Assessment Report (2016)
Henan Province is located in eastern central China, on the plain between the Yellow and Huaihe rivers. As most part of the province lies to the south of the Yellow River, which runs for over 700 kilometers through its territory, it was given the name Henan (River South). Because Henan was called Yuzhou and considered as the center of China more than 2,000 years ago, the province is called Yu for short, and also referred to as Zhongzhou (Central Prefecture) and Zhongyuan (Central Plain). Neighboring Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hubei, Anhui and Shandong provinces, Henan covers an area of 167,000 square kilometers. <br></br> There are 17 prefecture-level cities in Henan, which are Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Pingdingshan, Anyang, Hebi, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo, Puyang, Xuchang, Luohe, Sanmenxia, Xinyang, Zhoukou, Shangqiu, Nanyang and Zhumadian, and 21 county-level cities and 87 counties <br></br> Henan is one of the most populous provinces in China. By the end of 2015, the total population of Henan province had reached 107.22 million. <br></br> As one of the major birthplaces of the Chinese civilization, Henan has several epoch-making archeological discoveries, including the Peiligang Culture Site dating back to 7,000 years ago, Yanshao Culture Site of some 6,000 years ago, and Dahe Culture Site of more than 5,000 years ago. In ancient China, more than 20 dynasties established their capitals in Henan. <br></br> Henan has kept steady economic growth in recent years and it has been the fifth largest economy among local economies of China. From 2001 to 2013, the province’s average annual growth reached 11.7%. Its gross domestic product (GDP) stood at 3.7 trillion yuan in 2015, rising 8.3% from the previous year. <br></br> Henan is the largest agricultural production province in China and an important producer of agricultural sideline products. It leads the nation in total grain output and in the yields of wheat, sesame, jute, and bluish dogbane. It ranks the second in China in production volumes of cotton, oil plants, and tobacco. Forests and fruit trees are abundant, and traditional medicines have a venerated history in Henan. <br></br> Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE) is one of the four futures exchanges in China and it is the first pilot futures market approved by the State Council. <br></br> At present, commodities listed on ZCE include wheat (strong gluten wheat and common wheat), early long grain Non-glutinous rice, japonica rice, cotton, rapeseed, rapeseed Oil, rapeseed meal, white sugar, steam coal, methanol, pure terephthalic acid (PTA) and flat glass, form a comprehensive range of products covering several crucial areas of the national economy include agriculture, energy, chemical industry and construction materials.
September23,2016
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