Shenyang: Blooming Economy
Shenyang is both one of Chinese megalopolises and the important industrial bases, and the center of economy, culture, science and Technology, trade, finance and transportation. The natural resources are abundant and the technical base is abundant too. There are more than 210 companies, such as Airplane Making Company, Dongbei Pharmacy Factory, Shenyang Transformer Factory, Shenyang Cable Factory and some other ones. The industrial finished products are sold to more than 50 countries and areas in the world.
"The Equipment Department of China"
Shenyang has an abundant basis of industry, agriculture, Finance, trade, foreign trade and so on. With its economic system reform furthered, Shenyang is No.1 in the increase amount of fixed assets investment, local fiscal income and so on among the 15 sub-provincial cities of China, and in terms of the increase amount of other economic index Shenyang also comes out top. The economic and social development of Shenyang has entered a drive.
Shenyang is the heavy industry base of China. It has 57,000 enterprises,among which there are 1150 are of large scale. Shenyang has a series of key and big enterprises of China, such as, Shenyang Machine Tool Co., Ltd,Shenyang Siasun Robot & Automation Co .,Ltd, Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) Shenyang jinbei Automotive Co., Ltd and So on.
Shenyang is often called as "the equipment department of China". Its equipment manufacture has a big scale, an abundant basis and powerful assembly abilities. Since the foundation of PRC, with many "Made in Shenyang "filling in the blanks of China , Shenyang has set up a perfect equipment manufacture system. By now, of the 24 varieties and 219 kinds of set equipment China produces , the equipment made in Shenyang takes up1/3 .Of the 77 kinds of equipment ,there are 44kinds are leading in the aspects of technology level and market share. Especially , in terms of machine tool, set equipment of high voltage electricity feeding and transformation, heavy mine metallurgy equipment, Colored metal smelt equipment, assistant equipment of big motors, set equipment of petrifaction engineering, big set equipment of cement production, big set equipment of sewage disposal, big equipment for highway construction and so on, Shenyang is well-known in China.
Shenyang's "FIRST" in the Development History of China Industry
The first multi-functional milling machine
The first jet plane
The first 200,000 KVA transformer
The first underwater robot
The first NP-1 photo-electron spectrometer
The first field ionization microscope-atom probe
The first 5.000W CO2 laser processor
The sub-sonic Wind hole device with the quickest flow speed in China
The first self-researched full-body CT scanner
The first set of device producing annually PVC resin production of tens of thousands of tons
The first set of 500,000V Sulfur Hexa fluoride close component cppliance
The first self-researched SS-8540 open high-class digital control system
The biggest T1500 standing turbo molecular pump in China
The biggest light automobile bridge assembly line in China
The first set of 5m laser silk pole dynamic meter
The first 500,000 high-voltage separation switch
The biggest pump experimentation base of China
The first auto-lift tower crance with arm for architecture application
The first anti-AIDS medicine Kedu self-researched and approved to sell in the domestic market
The first car with self-intellectual property right Zhonghua Branded Car
Shenyang has been confirmed by the National Science and Technology Department of China as "an experimental city of using hi-tech to reconstruct the traditional equipment manufacture and boosting to construct the advanced equipment manufacture base". Multinational companies from more and more countries and regions take Shenyang as the top choice for the industrial shift. The advantage of technology and talents of Shenyang can beneficial for the development of the equipment manufacture industry.
Shenyang is not only the big industrial city but also the big agricultural city. The rural region is vast, with 720,000ha. plow-land, more than 100,000ha. nature water surface,200,000ha. woodland, 18,000ha. Fruit tree land, 82,000 ha. Grassland,12.9% forest coverage, 73.5% mechanization level of farming, 2,830,000T gross output foodstuff, and meat, egg, milk reaching 470,000 T, 300,000T and 130,000T respectively.
Shenyang has established the 10 main industries of Seed, Vegetable, Fruit, Meat, Poultry Egg, Milk, Aquatic Product, Flower, Special Foodstuff and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and focusing on these main industries, Shenyang has set up a series of produce production bases with high intensive operation levels. There are 1.5million leading produce processing enterprises with the sales incomes up to more than RMB 5 million YUAN and also there are a series of projects whose incomes are more than 100 million YUAN in Shenyang, which forcefully pull the strategic adjustment on the rural and agricultural structure of Shenyang. The produce processing industrial parks or zones with unique features have attracted more than 2,000 enterprises at home and abroad.
In the past two years, Shenyang has successfully held investment activities of forest product, livestock products, flowers, vegetables, foodstuffs, wines, ceramics and etc. There have been more than 300 nation-level enterprises attending theses activities, with 68 projects signed and the contracted investment up to RMB 460 million YUAN.
Shenyang is also very active in the foreign exchange and cooperation on agriculture and it has established friendly trade relationships with more 40 countries and regions.
Regional Financial Center
The finance industry of Shenyang plays a key role in Northeast China and the financial market is flourishing day by day. There are over 1,900 financial organizations and networks in Shenyang, among which, there are 17 banks, 9 insurance organizations, 4 securities companies or branches, 77 securities business departments, 3 financial companies,1 trust and investment company and 3 foreign-invested financial organizations. In May 2004, the first foreign-invested bank-South Korean Hana Bank came into Shenyang. By now, the financial organization density and total capital of Shenyang come first in northeast China and the Sixth among the 15 sub-provincial cities. Shenyang has almost set up the financial center of Northeast China.
Trade Radiating Northeast Asia
Shenyang is the biggest goods distribution center in Northeast China. There are farm produces, commodities and production materials, 3 categories and 60 kinds of goods in Shenyang. The technology, talents and labor market has become the nation-level factor market. In terms of the wholesales of computers, books, philately, cooking wares, daily groceries, fishing tools, flowers, Shenyang has come first in Northeast China and even in China. At present, Shenyang has more than 500 markets, among which, there are 10 markets with annual sales up to more than 100 million YUAN and 220 million YUAN annual tax turned in by them.
Shenyang's goods circulation industry develops rapidly. The average annual increase of the total retails of social consumables of Shenyang is 18.2%, ranking No. 4 among the 15 sub-provincial cities. At present, Shenyang has 167,000 business networks, among which there are more than 70 business buildings with over 10,000 construction area and 15 retail markets with annual sales more than 100 million YUAN. The new commerce of Shenyang develops quickly and the number of chain shops is up to more than 2,000, among which there are 18 big supermarkets with an area of more than 5,000. Also, the exhibition industry in Shenyang develops very fast and on average, it has 60 exhibitions every year, with the business amount of 20 billion YUAN.
Opening Marching on a New Step
Shenyang insists on taking opening as the first strategy of economic development. It has successfully held "China International Equipment Manufacture Industry Expo", "Korean Week" and so on and creatively puts forward the activity of "Project year",which forcefully drive the economy of Shenyang toward rapid development. By now,33 Top 500 enterprises from 78 countries and regions have invested in Shenyang and Shenyang has trading partners from more than 100 countries and regions. Shenyang has 25,000 foreign-invested enterprises. Shenyang is actively creating a city in the north of China with the most excellent investment circumstances and is attaching importance to the construction of the city infrastructure and the reconstruction on the environment .The atmosphere of Nothing Commerce, loving Commerce, securing Commerce and Enriching Commerce is forming and Shengyang is becoming the "hot spot" for foreign and domestic investment.
In the recent year,the civilian economy of shenyang has developed rapidly. The industrial scope and investment field are enlarging . Comparing that in the last year,the civilian economy in 2003 increased 16.6%,taking up 54% of Shenyang GDP. The total economy value of the civilian economy has taken up half of that of Shenyang. By now, there have been 230,000 individual-owned and private-owned enterprises in Shenyang,among which there are 150 enterprises with the production value over 50 million YUAN,90 enterprises with the production value over 100 million YUAN and 3 enterprises with the production value over 1 billion YUAN. Yuanda, Heguang, Shenyang Spring, Jiyin and so on have been Top 500 civilian enterprises of China.
The municipality-level brand products of the civilian enterprises in shenyang's target is to set up a new industrial city. It will forcefully adjust the industrial structure, quicken to cultivate a backbone industry cluster, forcefully develop the five industries of automobile and parts, equipment manufacture, electronic information,chemical ant pharmacy, produce processing and, according to the demands of industry informationization and ecologicalization, speed to reconstruct the traditional industry with hi-tech, and advanced application technology,so as to find a new industrialization way of hi-tech ,good economic benefits, low resources consumption, small environment pollution and human resources brought into full play.
