Jinan City became sister cities and 18 foreign cities
作者：王彬
Of Sino-US economic cooperation and investment conference held today was informed that the city has been established with more than 170 countries and regions, foreign exchanges and cooperation between sister cities and 18 cities in 17 countries, form a comprehensive, wide-ranging, multi-level opening to the outside world situation. In recent years, foreign investment, foreign trade, foreign economic and service outsourcing has emerged as a fast economic growth.
26 years of actual credited into $ 6.5 billion of foreign capital. In January 1985, the Qilu Hotel and the Grand trading company jointly invested $ 2 million to set up a joint venture in the car rental business --- Qilu Hong tourist car service company, and create a precedent for the city use of foreign capital. As of 2011, the city has accumulatively approved 3638 foreign-invested enterprises, contracted foreign investment of $ 10.7 billion, $ 6.5 billion the actual Daozhang foreign. "Eleventh Five-Year" period, the cumulative approved foreign investment projects in the city 511 paid-up capital of $ 3.76 billion, 3.9 times the "Tenth Five-Year period, the average annual growth of 23.6%. Utilization of foreign investment significantly enhanced role in boosting the city. 2010, foreign-funded enterprises GDP of 129.5 billion yuan, accounting for 33.1 percent of the city GDP; imports and exports of $ 2.296 billion, accounting for 30.88 percent of the city total import and export; taxes of 9.179 billion yuan, accounting for 17.4 of the city tax revenue %.
The average annual import and export volume increased by 20%. From 2001 to 2010, total imports and exports of $ 43.533 billion, the average growth rate of 20 percent in 2010, is 5 times that of 2001. Dependence on export-oriented economy was 13%. "Eleventh Five-Year" period, the city realized a total import and export volume of $ 31.7 billion, 2.6 times that of the Tenth Five-Year "period. The city export market to the world 177 countries (regions) than an increase of more than 30 "15" end. The city imports and exports in 2011 exceeded $ 10 billion to $ 10.4 billion, an increase of 40.4 percent, export growth is higher than the national average rate of increase of the province.
Expatriate labor in the "Eleventh Five-Year" period 43 900 people.
"Eleventh Five-Year" period, the city is the cumulative signed project contracting, labor service cooperation contract amount of $ 12.6 billion, a turnover of $ 5.2 billion, 43,900 expatriate labor, a total establishment of 112 foreign enterprises, foreign investment of $ 376 million, respectively, the Year 20 times, 6.5 times and 2.4 times, 2.2 times and 6.2 times. 2011, foreign economic indicators in order of precedence of the province further forward, the expatriate labor, a solid turnover of foreign contracted projects to maintain the province first, second ranking, the contract amount of foreign contracted projects from the prior year second in the province rose to the province first order of precedence; overseas investment last year sixth in the province jumped to the second order of precedence, the best result in history.