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中国青岛

国家沿海重要中心城市和滨海度假旅游城市、国际性港口城市、国家历史文化名城。中国首批沿海开放城市，国家计划单列城市和副省级城市。
2008北京第29届奥运会、第13届残奥会帆船比赛举办城市，中国帆船之都，亚洲最佳航海城。
“一带一路”新亚欧大陆桥经济走廊主要节点城市和海上合作战略支点。
全国文明城市，中国优秀旅游城市，国家卫生城市，国家森林城市，国家园林城市，国家环境保护模范城市，中国十佳宜居城市，2014世界园艺博览会、2015世界休闲体育大会举办城市。
中国品牌之都，中国节庆名城，中国最宜居城市，中国最安全城市，中国最具幸福感城市。
中国最具经济活力城市，中国十大创新型城市，中国领军智慧城市，中国最佳商业城市，企业家最满意城市，中国投资环境金牌城市，外籍人才眼中最具吸引力的中国十大城市。

城市概况

地理位置
青岛地处太平洋西岸、黄海之滨、山东半岛南端（北纬35°35'－37°09'，东经119°30'－121°00'），东与韩国、日本隔海相望。

行政区划
青岛现辖市南、市北、李沧、崂山、黄岛、城阳6个区和即墨、胶州、平度、莱西4个县级市。

总面积
青岛辖区陆地面积11282平方公里，海域面积12240平方公里。其中，市区面积3293平方公里。

总人口
2016年末，青岛市常住总人口920.4万人，全市城镇人口为658.36万人。

自然环境
青岛是海滨丘陵城市，岸线曲折，岬湾相间。东有崂山，西有大小珠山和铁镢山，北有大泽山，中部为胶莱平原。有大沽河、北胶莱河以及沿海诸河三大水系，胶州湾、鳌山湾、灵山湾三大湾群，817公里海岸线、49个海湾和120个海岛。青岛大陆岸线占山东省岸线的1/4。

气候
青岛属半湿润温带季风气候。气候温和湿润，雨量较为充沛，冬无严寒，夏无酷暑，春末夏初多海雾，气候宜人。“春迟、夏凉、秋爽、冬长”是青岛沿海地区显著的季节变化特点。2016年平均降水量548.5毫米，年平均气温13.8℃。

市树市花
青岛的市树为雪松，市花为耐冬和月季。

旅游观光
青岛依山傍海，风景秀丽。红瓦绿树、碧海蓝天的城市风貌，蜿蜒曲折的海岸线，风格迥异的“万国建筑”，“海上名山第一”的崂山国家名胜区，享誉中外的青岛啤酒，浓缩近现代历史的文化名人故居和五彩缤纷的休闲度假项目，使青岛成为海内外知名风景区和旅游度假、休闲观光、商务会展目的地。2016年，共接待国内外游客8081万人次，其中入境游客141万人次，实现旅游总收入1349亿元。
西部历史文化特色保护区
青岛的异域建筑种类繁多，被称作“万国建筑博览会”。八大关建筑群荣膺“中国最美城区”称号。掩映于山海秀丽风光之中的众多文化遗产，承载着青岛的百年沧桑和东西方文化交融的丰富内涵。多元的城市文化积淀，保存完好的百年老街、欧陆别墅区，以及充满诗情、海韵和浪漫色彩的多处海湾、沙滩、海水浴场，形成了青岛西部独特的城市风貌。
东部现代化都市新区
东部新城区是青岛的政治、经济、文化中心。青岛市行政中心、新城区的标志性雕塑——五月的风、奥林匹克帆船中心，都坐落在该区。横贯东西的旅游观光滨海步行道和东海路、香港路和澳门路，串起了汇泉广场、音乐广场、五四广场、中国水准零点、极地海洋世界、海滨雕塑园、青岛大剧院等一系列新景点，构筑成海滨都市的现代景观。

崂山国家风景名胜区

崂山风景区由9个风景游览区、5个风景恢复区及外缘陆海景点三部分组成。主峰巨峰海拔1133米，是中国18000公里大陆海岸线上最高的山峰，素以“海上名山第一”和“千年道教名山”而著称，是国务院公布的国家重点风景名胜区，也是全国文明风景名胜区、全国文明风景旅游区示范点和国家5A级旅游景区。

青岛啤酒博物馆
位于青岛市登州路58号，展馆面积6000多平方米，分百年历史和文化、啤酒生产流水线、多功能娱乐区三个参观区域，是国内唯一的啤酒博物馆，国家级重点文物保护单位、国家4A级旅游景区、全国首家工业旅游示范点，已成为工业旅游的一颗璀璨的明珠。

青岛邮轮母港
青岛邮轮母港现有3个邮轮泊位，可全天候自由停靠超大型邮轮。客运中心建筑面积5.9万平方米，2015年5月投入使用，联检大厅设计通关能力每小时3000-4000人次，规划年游客吞吐量达150万人次。2016年5月，国家旅游局正式批准在青岛设立“中国邮轮旅游发展实验区”。已累计接待进出港航次125个，邮轮旅客数量约12万人次，邮轮旅游成为青岛旅游的重要增长极。

市南区

位于青岛市区南部，是青岛市的中心城区，青岛市人民政府所在地，面积30.01平方公里。围绕率先全面建成更高水平的小康社会，经济转型升级走在前列，文化繁荣和文明建设走在前列，城区治理和环境建设走在前列，民生保障和社会建设走在前列的“一个率先、四个走在前列”总体目标，大力发展时尚经济、繁荣时尚文化、倡导时尚生活、打造时尚湾城，建设时尚幸福的现代化国际城区。

市北区

位于青岛市区中部，面积65.4平方公里，拥有黄台路、馆陶路等众多历史文化街区和青岛山一战遗址公园、啤酒博物馆等文化遗产20多处，是全国和谐社区建设示范城区、社区治理和服务创新实验区。围绕打造湾区现代服务中心、先进智慧产业中心等“五大中心”，重点规划建设国家级橡胶材料与装备科技创新中心、云计算大数据产业园、大健康产业园等“六大创新载体”，建设历史文化记忆、产城融合和创新资源集聚“三大示范片区”，全力打造投资过千亿的一流国际邮轮港，努力建设宜居幸福创新型国际城市核心区。

李沧区

位于青岛市区北部，面积98平方公里。围绕打造宜业宜居宜身宜心的创新型花园式中心城区目标，强化人才支撑、科技支撑，激发改革动力、开放动力、创新动力。确立以网络信息、新金融、设计研发、影视文化为主导，以生物医药、新能源、新材料、高端装备制造等为支撑的“4+N”产业体系。成功打造青岛国际院士港，面向全球招纳院士，开展科学研究和产业成果转化，构筑起顶尖人才和高端产业集聚“高地”。全球最大的云服务提供商——亚马逊AWS的首个联合创新中心，全球最大中文搜索引擎公司——百度在山东的首个创新中心，欧美同学会在全国的首个海外院士工作站、国家铁路网一级枢纽站铁路青岛北站、青岛世博园等项目落户该区。

崂山区

位于青岛市区东南部，面积395平方公里，海岸线长103公里，拥有１个国家5Ａ级旅游景区、3个4A级景区。推进金家岭金融区、青岛中央创新区、崂山风景旅游度假区和崂山湾国际生态健康城建设。打造崂山“未来产业”培育计划，着力振兴实体经济，推动智慧产业、智能制造、生物医药、新能源新材料、虚拟现实等战略性新兴产业。推进崂山湾国际生态健康城建设，发展健康科技创新、国际高端医疗、养生休闲度假为重点的健康产业。坚持“崂山全域皆景区”理念，深入推进“上山下海”战略，推动旅游与文化创意、通用航空、高端商贸、都市农业的融合发展，建设宜居宜业的现代化山海品质新城。

黄岛区（西海岸新区）

位于胶州湾西海岸，2012年，国务院批复撤销原黄岛区和胶南市，设立新的青岛市黄岛区。2014年国务院批复设立青岛西海岸新区，包括黄岛区全部行政区域。面积2127平方公里，海岸线282公里，总人口180万。集聚了青岛经济技术开发区、前湾保税港区、西海岸出口加工区、新技术产业开发试验区、中德生态园、凤凰岛旅游度假区等6个国家级园区，以及胶南经济开发区、青岛临港经济开发区、琅琊台旅游度假区、灵山湾旅游度假区等4个省级园区。

城阳区

位于青岛市区北部，面积378平方公里。青岛流亭国际机场位于该区。该区产业模式加速向总部聚集、创意孵化型转变，高新技术产业产值占规模以上工业总产值比重、孵化器的数量和增幅均居青岛市第一，轨道交通被纳入青岛重点打造的千亿级产业链，加快建设高速列车全球科技创新中心，全国近七成高速列车从该区驶出。

即墨市

位于青岛市区北部，秦代置县，隋朝建城，建城史1400余年，面积1780平方公里。包括1个省级经济开发区、1个省级高新技术产业开发区和1个省级旅游度假区。在中国社科院发布的《中国县域经济发展报告（2016）》中，基本竞争力居全省第1位、全国第9位，是江北唯一进入全国前10强的城市。在福布斯发布的2016《中国大陆最佳县级城市30强》中，居全省第1位、全国第14位。

胶州市

位于青岛市西部。唐宋时期是长江以北唯一的对外通商口岸、全国五大商埠之一，“海上丝绸之路”的重要节点，素有“金胶州”之美誉。陆地面积1324平方公里。正在建设的胶东国际机场位于该区。统筹推进国家级胶州经济技术开发区、国家级临空经济示范区、欧亚经贸合作产业园、国家级示范物流园四大“国字号”平台和大沽河省级生态旅游度假区建设，全力构建“三体系一环境”，着力打造经济发展创新体系、社会信用体系、现代化社会治理体系、高绩效“亲清”营商环境，加快向宜居幸福的现代化空港新区迈进。

平度市

位于青岛市西北部，面积3176平方公里，是山东省面积最大的县级市。2015年3月获批国家中小城市综合改革试点市。石墨、黄金、滑石等矿藏丰富，是全国唯一的粮油肉果总产都跨入百强的市，连续11年获得“全国粮食生产先进县”称号，有马家沟芹菜、大泽山葡萄等18件国家地理标志保护产品，被命名为首批国家现代农业示范区。机械配件、电子家电、食品加工、特色化工四大产业集群规模突破千亿。围绕建设青岛北部崛起的现代化区域中心城市目标，加快打造青岛北部先进制造业基地、山东半岛陆港物流集散地、山水田园休闲旅游胜地、国家现代农业示范区。

莱西市

位于青岛市北部、胶东半岛中部，面积1568平方公里。境内有总库容量4.02亿立方的胶东第一大水库——产芝水库（莱西湖）和总面积25平方公里的胶东最大内陆湿地——姜山湿地。是全国科技进步先进市、食品工业强市、首批国家级农业产业化示范基地、全国生态特色旅游市、首批十大休闲（度假）旅游目的地。培育了牛奶、鸡肉、猪肉、蔬菜、果品、花生加工六大产业链条。形成食品加工、纺织服装、橡胶化工、机械制造四大主导产业和新能源、新材料、生物医药、节能环保、信息技术五大新兴产业，着力打造半岛交通走廊、青岛先进制造业基地、国际休闲旅游目的地和国家现代农业示范区。

历史沿革

青岛历史悠久，文化灿烂，是中国道教的发祥地之一。

早在五六千年以前的新石器时代，这里是东夷人繁衍生息的主要地区之一，遗留了丰富多彩的大汶口文化、龙山文化和岳石文化。
商周时期，这里是中国海盐的发祥地，位列中国“四大古盐区”和“五大古港”。
春秋战国时期，这里建立了山东地区第二大市镇——即墨，即墨故城（今平度市境内）是中国现存最早的古代城池遗址。越王勾践在琅琊（今黄岛区境内）筑台会盟，成为一代霸主。
秦始皇统一中国后，五巡天下，三登琅琊。据记载，中国最早的一次涉洋远航——徐福东渡朝鲜、日本，就是从琅琊起航的。
汉武帝少年时代在不其（今城阳区境内）做过胶东王，是中国有记载的到青岛地域巡游次数最多的皇帝。
唐宋时期，这里作为衔接南北航运的“中转站”，成为中国北方沿海最重要的交通枢纽和贸易口岸。宋时专门在板桥镇（今胶州市境内）设“市舶司”管理对外贸易。
元朝，为方便海运漕粮，开凿了中国唯一的海运河——纵贯山东半岛的胶莱运河。
明清时期，这里是中国北方重要的海防要塞，时称胶澳。

1891年6月14日，清政府在胶澳设防，青岛由此建置。
1897年11月14日，德国以“巨野教案”为借口侵占青岛，青岛沦为殖民地。
1914年，第一次世界大战爆发，日本取代德国占领青岛。
1919年，以收回青岛主权为导火索，爆发了“五四运动”，这是中国近、现代历史的分水岭。
1922年12月10日，中国北洋政府收回青岛，辟为商埠。
1929年7月，国民党政府设青岛特别市，1930年改称青岛市。
1938年1月，日本再次侵占青岛。
1945年9月，国民党政府接管青岛，仍为特别市。
1949年6月2日，青岛成为华北地区最后一座解放的城市，改属山东省辖市。
1981年青岛被列为中国经济中心城市。
1984年青岛被列为中国沿海开放城市。
1986年青岛被列为计划单列城市。
1994年青岛被列为全国副省级城市。
2011年青岛被定位为山东半岛蓝色经济区核心区的龙头城市。
2014年青岛被确定为“一带一路”新亚欧大陆桥经济走廊主要节点城市和海上合作战略支点。
2015年，青岛被评为国家森林城市。
2016年，青岛市获批创建“中国制造2025试点示范城市”。

城市定位

2017年，青岛市第十二次党代会确立了加快建设宜居幸福创新型国际城市的战略定位，明确了“政治生态更好、发展质量更优、宜居环境更美、民生福祉更多、创新活力更足、国际化水平更高”的主要目标，提出了“在全面建成更高水平更高质量小康社会中走在前列，加快向率先基本实现现代化迈进”“在全面深化改革中走在前列，激发体制机制活力”“在全面依法治国中走在前列，加快城市治理体系和治理能力现代化”“在全面从严治党中走在前列，为各项事业发展提供坚强政治保证”的工作部署。

“十三五”期间，青岛将着力打造国家东部沿海重要的创新中心、国家重要的区域服务中心、国际先进的海洋发展中心和具有国际竞争力的先进制造业基地，到2020年基本建成具有国际影响力的区域性经济中心城市。

青岛将充分发挥中国蓝谷、青岛西海岸新区和财富管理金融综合改革试验区等国家战略平台的示范带动作用，在创新发展中当好排头兵。

目前，“一谷两区”正在快速崛起，西海岸新区成为国家级新区，高新区纳入国家自主创新示范区，蓝谷列入国家“十三五”规划。

中国蓝谷

位于崂山北麓、黄海之滨、即墨鳌山湾畔，规划海陆总面积443平方公里。是以海洋为特色的高科技研发和高技术产业聚集区，致力于提高海洋认识水平和海洋资源开发能力，打造国际海洋创新高地，以支撑我国海洋强国战略。《国家十三五发展规划纲要》明确提出“建设青岛蓝谷等海洋经济发展示范区”，成为全国第五个科技兴海产业示范基地，定位为“山东省蓝谷区域创新中心”。引进海洋科学与技术国家实验室、国家深海基地、国家海洋设备质检中心等“国字号”科研机构17家，山东大学青岛校区、北京航空航天大学、天津大学青岛海洋工程研究院等重点高校和科研院所20个，累计全职或柔性引进各类人才达到3900余人。在落户的项目中，海洋国家实验室跻身世界海洋科技研究中心前列，“蛟龙”号载人潜水器下潜深度创世界纪录，“海燕”水下滑翔机打破国外技术封锁和垄断，海洋温差能发电技术全球领先，海水养殖技术引领全球。在引进的人才中，有两院院士63人、国家千人计划专家32人，泰山学者及泰山学者海外特聘专家37人，具有博士及以上学历人才占总人才数的三分之一。

青岛西海岸新区

青岛西海岸新区是国务院批复设立的第九个国家级新区，将以先进制造业、高端服务业为支撑，提升航运物流、船舶海工、家电电子、汽车工业、机械装备、石油化工等六大支柱产业，培育新一代信息技术、海洋生物、节能环保、新材料、旅游度假、通用航空、科技服务、文化创意、蓝色金融、生命健康等十大新兴产业，打造影视产业、港口贸易、游艇邮轮、军民结合、特色农业、绿色食品加工等六大特色产业。全国重要的铁矿石、原油、橡胶、棉花等战略物资中转基地，中国北方最大石油液化天然气接收基地。

青岛高新技术产业开发区

1992年11月经国务院批准设立。统筹胶州湾北部主园区开发建设，协调指导青岛高科园、青岛新技术产业开发试验区、青岛科技街、市南软件园、蓝色硅谷核心区、海洋科技创新及成果孵化带和青岛（胶南）新技术产业开发试验区建设，形成“一区多园”发展格局，2016年，获批建设山东半岛国家自主创新示范区，青岛高新区正式进入国家自创区行列。其中，高新区胶州湾北部主园区坚持“蓝色、高端、新兴”的产业导向，全力打造软件信息产业、医疗医药产业、智能制造与新材料产业、互联网产业、金融业和高端服务业等六大主导产业体系。荣获全市首个国家生态文明先行示范区、国家智慧城市试点、国家级工业生态示范园区等多个国家级荣誉称号，获批6个国家级产业示范基地，“新兴产业组织创新示范工程”被科技部列入“创业中国”行动计划。

财富管理金融综合改革试验区

青岛是国务院同意设立的国家级财富管理金融综合改革试验区，承担着先行先试、探索中国特色财富管理发展道路的目标使命。将着力打造财富管理机构聚集中心、市场功能中心、产品与服务创新中心、教育科研中心和高端商务活动中心，积极构建具有中国特色财富管理体系，加快建成面向国际的财富管理中心城市。取得国家有关部门赋予的扩大金融业对外开放、跨境投融资、新型金融机构设立等60项先行先试政策，全国首家外资财富管理公司、首支以“人民币”字样注册的国际投贷基金等具有示范意义的专业财富管理机构聚集发展，13家银行机构总部在青岛设立私人银行。每年6月中旬在青岛举办国际性财富管理盛会——中国财富论坛，“财富青岛”品牌影响力不断提升。2016年青岛入选全球金融中心榜单，排名第46位。

红岛经济区

2012年5月成立，包括青岛高新区胶州湾北部主园区及河套、红岛两个街道办事处，在先期启动建设的青岛高新区胶州湾北部主园区基础上，将统筹带动周边160多平方公里区域协调发展。全面落实市十二次党代会“建设品质活力城区”的要求，加快提升城市综合功能，全面推进市级重点公共服务项目建设，青岛中学、市民健身中心主体封顶，市民健康中心、残疾人康复中心、科技馆、眼科医院、济青高铁、青连铁路、红岛枢纽站等7个项目开工建设，全力打造美丽青岛示范区、创新创业先导区，努力在山东半岛国家自主创新示范区和全市“三中心一基地”建设中走在前列。

城市经济发展基本情况

2016年，青岛实现生产总值（GDP）10011.29亿元，增长7.9%。其中，海洋生产总值比重占GDP比重为25.1%。第一、第二、第三产业增加值分别为371.01、4160.67、5479.61亿元，三次产业比例为3.7:41.6:54.7。规模以上工业总产值18280亿元，增长7.1%。一般公共预算收入1100亿元，增长10.3%。固定资产投资7454.7亿元，增长13.7%。社会消费品零售额4104.9亿元，增长10.5%。县级市全部进入全国百强县（市）行列。

2017年，青岛将主动适应经济发展新常态，坚持稳中求进工作总基调，贯彻落实新发展理念，以推进供给侧结构性改革为主线，以建设“三中心一基地”为主攻方向，全面做好稳增长、促改革、调结构、惠民生、防风险各项工作，不断提高发展质量和效益，实现经济平稳健康发展和社会和谐稳定。主要预期目标是：全市生产总值增长8%左右，一般公共预算收入增长8.5%左右，固定资产投资增长12%左右，社会消费品零售总额增长10.5%左右，国际贸易总额增长5%左右，居民人均可支配收入增长8%左右，城镇登记失业率控制在4%以内，居民消费价格涨幅控制在3%左右，完成年度节能减排降碳任务。

品牌之都

青岛享有“中国品牌之都”的美誉。海尔、海信、青岛啤酒、双星、中车四方等一批蜚声中外的企业总部位于青岛。青岛啤酒集团，始建于1903年，是中国历史最悠久的啤酒生产企业之一，出口量占全国啤酒出口总量的50%以上。海尔集团，连续15年蝉联中国最有价值品牌榜首，被国务院确定为全国首批双创示范基地。青岛拥有中国质量管理奖5个，中国驰名商标135件。

对外开放

青岛是中国首批14个沿海开放城市之一，被美国《财富》杂志评为中国最佳新兴商务城市。日本、韩国、泰国在青岛设立总领馆。青岛与69个国外城市结为友好城市或友好合作关系城市，与38个国家/地区的63个城市（省、州）/商务机构缔结国际经济合作伙伴关系。2100多家外国地方政府和海外企业在青岛常设办事机构，130家境外世界500强企业，累计投资255个项目。巴基斯坦海尔—鲁巴经济区是中国首个境外经贸合作区。青岛是首批中美地方经贸合作试点城市、首批中英地方投资贸易合作重点城市。境外旅客在青岛首批33家退税商店购物后，可享受离境退还增值税政策，退税币种为人民币。

青岛是太平洋西岸重要的国际贸易口岸和海上运输枢纽。青岛港始建于1892年，与世界上180多个国家和地区的700多个港口有贸易往来。2016年完成货物吞吐量突破5亿吨，完成集装箱吞吐量1805万标箱。

2016年，青岛市国际贸易总额达到1005亿美元，到账外资70亿美元，境外投资额52亿美元。拥有6个国家级经济园区、4个海关特殊监管区。在新加坡、韩国釜山、日本东京、德国慕尼黑、美国旧金山、以色列特拉维夫设有青岛工商中心。

融入国家“一带一路”战略

在国家“一带一路”规划中，青岛被确定为新亚欧大陆桥经济走廊主要节点城市和海上合作战略支点，打造面向韩日、辐射东南亚、路连中亚欧的“一带一路”综合枢纽城市。
积极融入国家“一带一路”战略，在沿线26个国家开展“丝路对话”系列活动，启动建设17个境外国际产能合作园区，对沿线国家投资额、出口额、旅游人次占全市比重分别达到27.7%、53.1%和50.7%。

2017年青岛将继续扩大与“一带一路”沿线国家和地区的交流与合作，提升“引进来”和“走出去”的质量效益。创新利用外资方式，鼓励外资以参股、并购等方式参与企业兼并重组。制定实施青岛与世界500强和全球行业领军企业合作行动计划。扩大金融、教育、养老、医疗、文化等服务领域开放。加快中德生态园、欧亚经贸合作产业园和中韩、中日创新产业园建设。推动境外经贸合作园区建设。发挥中美、中英地方经贸合作重点城市双向开放作用，深化与国际友好城市、友好合作关系城市的全方位交流与合作，加快东亚海洋合作平台建设，提升国际经济合作水平。

青岛是两岸交流的重点城市之一。2006年青岛成为台胞落地签注城市，2008年成为首批两岸海空直航城市，2013年成为赴台自由行试点城市，每周有20个航班往返于青岛和台湾。青岛与台湾的服务业合作日渐成熟，台湾贸易中心、国泰世华银行等企业陆续在青岛设立分支机构。目前，青岛常住的台胞约有3400余人，在青台资企业1100余家。

青岛经济技术开发区

位于胶州湾西岸，1984年10月经国务院批准设立，是首批14个沿海国家级开发区之一。汇集了山东科技大学、中国石油大学等9所高等学府，建有家电电子、船舶和海洋工程、软件和信息服务3个国家级新型工业化产业示范基地以及国家级船舶出口基地，是中国北方最大的家电生产基地和微型车生产基地，是山东省服务外包示范基地、全国科技进步考核先进区、中国最具投资潜力十强开发区，综合经济实力和投资环境评价指数连续9年位居国家级开发区前五强。

胶州经济技术开发区

位于胶东国际机场、多式联运海关监管中心、青岛前湾港“陆、海、空”15分钟交通经济圈内。着力培育壮大高端装备制造、互联网+现代服务业、航空航天和汽车制造三条千亿级产业链，区内有清华大学物流研究院、清华—北卡“双创”基地、西安交大青岛研究院、中国机械科学研究总院青岛分院、沈阳航空航天大学青岛研究院。截至目前，共引进项目99个，总投资1160亿元。

青岛前湾保税港区

位于胶州湾西岸，2008年9月7日经国务院批复设立，规划总面积65.73平方公里，码头泊位21个，具有“保税、免税、免证”和“境内关外”等特殊政策，是集聚梯次开放的保税区、出口加工区、保税物流园区、综合保税区等多种开放模式的海关特殊监管区域。港区超前对接践行国家区域协调发展和“一带一路”国家战略，已在国内外建立20余个经济合作区，为落实国家发展战略探索新经验。成功获批汽车整车进口口岸及国家电子商务示范基地，首创了美元挂牌、保税交易的大宗商品交易模式，建成世界第三大天然橡胶交易中心；拥有棉花、轮胎、乳胶三个国家级重点实验室和橡胶、塑料两个区域性重点实验室，建成青岛前湾保税港区酒类和食品检测实验室，并实现了中韩两国AEO互认。

青岛董家口循环经济区

位于青岛市西南端，规划面积284平方公里，分为港区、产业区和新港城三大板块。2013年11月国家发改委正式批复《青岛董家口区域循环经济发展总体规划》。将围绕打造国家级循环经济示范区、建设第四代物流交易港和现代化蓝色新港城总目标，建设国家大宗干散货集散中心、国家重要的能源储运中心、区域性物流中心、国际大宗商品交易中心，以及国家级精品钢铁基地、新材料基地、冷链物流基地、高端装备制造基地。

国家软件与信息服务业示范基地（青岛）

实施“东园、西谷、北城”软件产业发展布局。以青岛软件科技城作为软件产业发展的主体区和拓展区，国家（青岛）通信产业园、青岛信息谷作为重要支撑区，市南软件园、青岛国际动漫游戏产业园、青岛国际创新园、海尔信息产业园、海信集团研发中心等作为基础园区，重点发展基础软件、嵌入式软件、工业软件和行业解决方案，加快发展信息服务业和高端服务外包产业，着力培育物联网、云计算、大数据、移动互联网、电子商务等新兴信息技术服务业。IBM软件技术联合创新中心、北斗（青岛）导航位置服务数据中心、清华-青岛大数据工程研究中心、青岛-慧与软件全球大数据应用研究及产业示范基地、亚马逊AWS联合创新中心等一批高端产业项目已经落户，歌尔、浪潮、百度、华为、中兴等企业开展战略合作，中国联通、移动和电信三大电信运营商云计算数据中心均有布局，园区已入驻企业500多家，对全市软件与信息服务业发展发挥引领和带动作用。

青岛海峡两岸农业合作试验区

1999年3月经国家商务部（原外经贸部）、国家农业部和国务院台办批准成立，规划总面积3176平方公里，涵盖整个平度市。该市位居中国粮油肉果综合生产百强市前列，是中国葡萄之乡、花生之乡、大姜之乡、肉牛之乡。

中德生态园

位于青岛西海岸新区，中德两国政府间战略性合作项目。2010年7月，中国商务部和德国经济与技术部签署《关于共同支持建立中德生态园的谅解备忘录》，确定合作建立中德生态园，2011年12月奠基。园区规划面积11.6平方公里，纳入国务院批复的《山东半岛蓝色经济区规划》，围绕“田园环境、绿色发展、美好生活”的发展愿景，秉持“生态、智慧改善生活，开放、融合提升品质”的发展理念，致力于生态、绿色、可持续发展，着力建设生态型、智能型、开放型的中德两国利益共同体。

青岛的友好城市

国别	城市	结好时间
日本	下关	1979.10.03
美国	长滩	1985.04.12
墨西哥	阿卡普尔科	1985.08.21
乌克兰	敖德萨	1993.04.29
韩国	大邱广域市	1993.12.04
以色列	耐斯茨奥纳	1997.12.02
荷兰	维尔森	1998.12.09
英国	南安普敦	1998.12.27
国别	城市	结好时间
智利	蒙特港	1999.08.17
乌拉圭	蒙德维的亚	2004.04.15
立陶宛	克莱佩达	2004.05.30
西班牙	毕尔巴鄂	2004.08.21
法国	南特	2005.06.04
美国	迈阿密	2005. 08.30
法国	布雷斯特	2006.05.08
毛里求斯	大港-萨瓦纳大区	2007.05.25
俄罗斯	圣彼得堡市	2007.07.16
泰国	清迈府	2008.04.01
新西兰	北岸市	2008.08.09

青岛的友好合作关系城市

国别	城市	结好时间
瑞典	哥德堡	1994
德国	曼海姆	1995.03
韩国	仁川广域市	1995.09.27
美国	旧金山	1997.04.11
摩尔多瓦	基希讷乌	1997.05.08
苏丹	苏丹港	1998.05
美国	橙郡	1998.07.06
摩洛哥	丹吉尔	1999.03
克罗地亚	里耶卡	1999.07.11
韩国	平泽	1999.08.11
日本	鸣门	1999.08.23
国别	城市	结好时间
越南	岘港	2000.06.09
塞布路斯	尼科西亚	2001.02.05
澳大利亚	阿德雷德	2001.03.29
美国	奥克兰	2001.05.06
美国	洛杉矶郡	2001.05.07
加拿大	埃德蒙顿	2001.05.18
丹麦	斯卡恩	2001.10.30
日本	福冈	2003.02.06
日本	神户	2003.02.10
韩国	釜山广域市	2003.03.23
韩国	群山	2003.09.21
澳大利亚	凯恩斯	2003.09.23
菲律宾	怡郎	2003.10.15
国别	城市	结好时间
奥地利	布劳瑙	2004.07.19
美国	圣路易斯	2004.09.29
德国	莱茵内卡三角洲地区	2004.10.19
意大利	威内托	2005.03.04
日本	北九州	2005.05.14
美国	休斯敦	2006.05.15
俄罗斯	彼尔姆	2006.11.10
加拿大	列治文市	2008.04.22
美国	达拉斯市	2008.04.22
德国	杜塞尔多夫大区	2008.11.05
韩国	蔚山广域市	2009.08.03
德国	雷根斯堡市	2009.11.04
葡萄牙	里斯本	2010.06.17

城乡建设

坚持区域协调发展，深化“三带一轴、三湾三城、组团式”的城市空间布局，构建覆盖全域、面向未来的城市群主体形态。打造胶州湾东岸、西岸、北岸中心城区，东岸城区有序疏解非中心城区功能，推进老城区复兴发展，建设时尚魅力城区；西岸城区突出转型升级，建设精美实力城区；北岸城区加快提升城市综合功能，建设品质活力城区。加速北部崛起，推动平度、莱西成为全域统筹发展的战略支点。打造10个各具特色的现代化次中心城市，加快产城融合，促进人口集聚。打造35个特色镇（街道），发展特色产业，改善便民服务。打造300个特色城乡社区（村），带动激发全域发展活力。

推进新型城镇化建设。实施《青岛市新型城镇化规划（2014-2020年）》，加快小城市培育试点和省示范镇建设步伐，推进特色小镇建设，高水平实施国家新型城镇化综合试点工作。改造农村危房6000户，加强传统村落保护，建设美丽宜居乡村。

铁路

胶济铁路是横贯山东，连接青岛、济南的运输大动脉，是中国第一条正式通车运行的铁路客运专线，全长362.5公里。青荣城际铁路即墨至荣成段2014年10月28日开通。济青高铁、青连铁路征迁建设加快推进。2016年开工建设地铁4号线、8号线，加快地铁2号线、1号线和蓝谷、西海岸城际快线建设，地铁3号线2016年12月18日全线开通。

青岛地铁远景年线网由18条线路（含两条支线）、400余个车站组成，投资4000多亿元，全长838公里，简称“18448”工程。2017年有1、2、4、8、11、13号线等6条线在建，地铁2号线东段年底开通试运营。

航空

胶东国际机场已获国家批准，目前正在建设推进中。2017年推进新机场、红岛站、青岛西站等综合枢纽规划建设。新机场高铁站、地铁站主体封顶，新机场综合交通中心基本建成，加快建设新机场综合交通枢纽。青岛流亭国际机场达到4E标准，截至2016年底共有航线146条定期航线，通航国内70个城市和国际（地区）16个城市，日均航班约460余架次。2016年，航空旅客吞吐量2050.5万人次，航空货邮吞吐量23.07万吨。

公路

青岛主城区与区市间、区市与区市间实现高速公路直达，全市所有乡镇实现半小时上高速，一小时城市经济圈全面形成。到2017年底，市区公交站点500米覆盖率达95%，公路通车里程1.6148万公里，高速公路通车里程818.4公里。2018年，市区公交站点500米覆盖率将达100%，建成国内领先的国家公交都市示范城市。

文化科技

打造世界级影视文化高地，构建文化创意产业、公共文化服务、文化精品生产、文化遗产保护体系，构筑文化人才自由港，全力打造文化强市。舞剧《红高粱》荣获“文华大奖”。创排大型舞剧《法显》，重点扶持大型音乐情景剧《誓言》，牵头创作大型雕塑《红色沂蒙》，举办市民“五王”大赛、青岛音乐节、微演艺“六进”等文化活动，规划设计市博物馆改扩建工程，改造建成全省首家地市级少儿图书馆。制定《青岛市影视产业发展基金管理办法》，设立5年50个亿的东方影都影视产业发展专项资金，电影产业迅猛崛起，全面启动“电影之都”申创工作，打造东方“奥斯卡”、国际化影视交易中心、影视艺术创新和技术创新平台的三大目标正在实现中。组建“东亚文化城市联盟”。

加强公共文化设施建设，全市86个街道和43个镇建有综合文化站，在全市社区、行政村建有综合文化活动中心。加强文化产业载体建设，建成国家级园区（基地）6个，省级园区（基地）19个，市级园区（基地）9个。加强文化遗产保护与利用，有八大关、小鱼山2条国家历史文化名街，18处国家级文物保护单位、72处省级文物保护单位、75处市级文物保护单位。

青岛获批国家智慧城市技术和标准试点示范城市，是全国唯一的国家创新型城市和技术创新工程“双试点”城市。获批全国第二批地下管廊、海绵城市唯一的双试点城市，获中央补助资金总额21亿元。深海基地、深海钻探基地、海洋设备质检中心等5家国字号创新平台落户青岛。海洋国家实验室和国家高速列车技术创新中心成为具有全球影响力的重要创新平台。其中，国家驻青科研机构19家，省属科研机构6家。高新技术企业964家，国家工程技术研究中心10家、国家认定企业技术中心35家、国家级重点实验室7家、国家级孵化器14家。引进两院院士28人、外聘院士33人。建有博士后工作站32家、流动站51家，专家工作站281个。

青岛积极打造“创新之城、创业之都、创客之岛”。2016年全市发明专利授权5894件，技术合同交易额104亿元。2017年，青岛将继续大力实施创新驱动发展战略，加快建设国家东部沿海重要的创新中心。推进海洋科技、高速列车、石墨烯等十大科技创新中心建设，加快中船重工青岛海洋装备研究院、阿斯图中俄科技园等创新平台建设。
中国水准原点位于青岛市观象山山顶处，是我国高程系统的起算点，于1954年10月建立。

持续推进“帆船之都”城市品牌建设，打造亚洲帆船运动领军城市。青岛是2008年第29届奥运会和第13届残奥会帆船赛举办城市，相继引进沃尔沃环球帆船赛、克利伯环球帆船赛、国际极限帆船系列赛、世界杯帆船赛等国际帆船赛事。创办“市长杯”青岛国际帆船拉力赛、国际城市俱乐部公开赛、青岛国际帆船赛、青岛国际OP帆船营暨帆船赛、“远东杯”21世纪海上丝绸之路帆船拉力赛等自主品牌赛事。创办青岛国际帆船周·青岛国际海洋节。开展“欢迎来航海”和“帆船运动进校园”全民帆船普及活动。以帆船运动为载体，广泛开展国际交流与合作，开启21世纪海上丝绸之路“中国·青岛”号帆船航行暨北冰洋（东北航线）创纪录活动，促进与21世纪海上丝绸之路沿线国家、地区间海上休闲体育运动互联互通，开发21世纪海上丝绸之路休闲体育发展带。世界帆船联合会授予青岛“世界帆船运动发展突出贡献奖”。世界帆船联合会、亚洲帆船联合会授予青岛“十年御风城市奖”。中国帆船帆板运动协会授予青岛“突出贡献奖”“中国青少年帆船运动推广普及示范城市”。

青岛奥林匹克帆船中心

位于青岛东部浮山湾畔，是举办国际帆船赛事、普及推广帆船、帆板运动的海上运动中心和青少年帆船运动训练基地，是城市标志性景观和旅游观光景点，是“国家级滨海旅游休闲示范区”“国家4A级景区”“山东省体育产业示范基地”。

教育

2016年，全市新建改扩建幼儿园60所、中小学55所，改造农村义务教育薄弱学校100所，新建中小学标准化食堂200所。全市共有幼儿园2094所，普通中小学1045所，各类中职学校55所，高校25所。在校生近160.57万人，教职工近14.09万余人。学前教育入园率98.5%，义务教育入学率99%。有9所外籍人员子女学校。城乡九年义务教育、中职教育、特殊教育实现免费，并建立起从幼儿园、中小学到高等教育全面覆盖的资助体系。引进清华大学、北京大学、复旦大学、山东大学等29所知名高校，山东大学青岛校区于9月正式投入使用。2017年，将新建、改扩建幼儿园100所，新建、改扩建中小学75所，改造100所农村义务教育薄弱学校，建设中小学标准化食堂80所。

就业

实施就业优先战略，全面推进“大众创业”工程。建成城乡一体就业创业政策，实现同城同域同待遇。2016年，新增城乡就业68万人，扶持3.5万人创业，完成各类职业培训7万余人。2017年，将实现城镇新增就业30万人，政策性扶持创业1.5万人，城镇登记失业率控制在4%以内。

生态文明

青岛曾获联合国和国家人居环境范例奖、中国人居环境奖，是“中欧低碳生态城市合作项目”试点城市。坚持生态兴市、绿色惠民，加大资源节约和环境保护力度，推行绿色发展模式和生活方式，打造美丽青岛、宜居城市、幸福家园。

加强节能减排和环境保护，推广清洁生产和超洁净排放先进技术。2016年，实施既有居住建筑节能改造252.4万平方米，完成可再生能源建筑应用234.57万平方米，新开工绿色建筑854万平方米，建筑废弃物资源化利用1500万吨。推广海水淡化。规划建设“海绵城市”。加快新能源汽车推广应用。淘汰黄标车，实施燃煤锅炉废气污染治理项目137个。推广新建建筑非煤化供热。发展循环经济，打造国家循环经济示范城市。

2016年市区空气中主要污染物PM2.5浓度同比改善11.8%，市区空气优良天数299天。省控重点河流主要污染物化学需氧量、氨氮两项污染物平均浓度分别为26.5mg/l、0.42mg/l，同比分别改善20.4%、72.9%，改善幅度均居山东省第一。加强胶州湾保护和治理，创建胶州湾国家级海洋公园。

提高绿化覆盖率和容积率，获批国家森林城市。2016年，林木绿化率、建成区绿化覆盖率分别达到40.02%和44.2%。大沽河综合治理工程全面竣工，展现出洪畅、堤固、水清、岸绿、景美的母亲河新形象，改善了流域生态环境。

市民生活

坚持保基本保公共保普惠保均等，努力使城乡居民劳有应得、学有优教、病有良医、老有颐养、住有宜居、贫有力助。2016年，城镇居民人均可支配收入43598元、农村居民人均可支配收入17969元，分别增长8.0%、7.4%；城镇登记失业率3.17%。

医疗

居民人均期望寿命达到80.92岁。全市实有医疗床位数50621张，全市卫生人员总数87761人，卫生技术人员69211人，全市每千人口卫生技术人员7.52人，每千人口执业医师（含助理）3.01人，每千人口注册护士3.29人。启动建设区域诊疗“一卡通”，实行自助就诊、缴费。全面实施城乡统筹的基本医疗保险制度，城乡居民统一享受基本医疗保险、大病医疗保险、补充医疗保险多层次医疗保障，形成了覆盖市民的公平、普惠医保新格局。

养老

及时、科学、综合应对人口老龄化，建立以居家养老为基础、社区养老为依托、机构养老为补充的养老服务体系，推进医养结合型养老机构发展，倡导开展临终关怀。实施老年人优惠、免费乘坐公共交通工具，政府为老年人购买意外伤害保险，80周岁及以上高龄老人发放体检补贴，百岁老人发放长寿补贴等优待政策。在全国率先实施长期护理保险制度，推动医养结合护理模式发展，保障失能失智老人的医疗护理需求。截至2016年底，全市建有养老机构232家，各类养老服务设施床位总数6.2万张，千名老人拥有养老床位37张。

应对人口老龄化，建立以居家养老为基础、社区养老为依托、机构养老为支撑的养老服务体系，推进医养结合型养老机构发展。青岛被国家确定为首批国家级医养结合试点城市，在全国率先实现医、养、康、护有效衔接，167所基层医疗卫生机构开展居家巡诊服务，62家养老机构与医疗机构签订了合作协议。

住房

2016年，城市棚户区改造开工7.6万套（户），农村危房改造6000户，城镇棚户区和农村危房改造任务全面完成。2017年，将完成住房保障6000套（户），启动棚户区改造4.8万套（户），实现回迁2.6万户。

扶贫

全市圆满完成2016年度脱贫攻坚各项任务。农村脱贫首战告捷，2014年建档立卡农村贫困人口28535户、63887人全部脱贫，51个省定贫困村和79个市定经济薄弱村脱贫摘帽；城镇扶贫率先启动；对口支援和扶贫协作工作有序推进。2017年,全市上下将按照市第十二次党代会提出的“贫有力助”目标，着力巩固提升农村建档立卡贫困人口稳定脱贫成效，着力推进贫困（薄弱）村全部脱贫摘帽；全面展开城镇扶贫工作；围绕“提升安顺、突破陇南、用力菏泽、整体推进”的工作思路，落细落小落实落地各项精准扶贫措施，推动对口支援和扶贫协作各项工作走在前列。

青岛会展

青岛是“中国十佳品牌会展城市”之一，拥有优越的会展环境和众多会展资源。现有专业会展中心3座，高星级会议酒店120多家。通过实施高端会展业发展战略，打造出了青岛国际啤酒节、中国国际渔业博览会、青岛·中国财富论坛、中国国际消费电子博览会、帆船周·海洋节、时装周、中国国际航海博览会等一批知名会展活动。2016年，共举办有影响的会展活动320余项，展览面积298万平方米。2017年，青岛将实施会展业“国际化+”行动计划，以国际标准制订政策、提升服务、优化布局、打造品牌，主推100项重点会展活动，加快建设辐射东北亚的国际会展中心城市。

青岛国际会展中心

濒临石老人旅游度假区，是一座集展览、会议、商务、餐饮、娱乐等多功能于一体的现代智能化展馆，室内、室外展览面积分别为6万平方米、5万平方米。每年承办100多场展会活动。

青岛新南国际博览中心（青岛国际博览中心）

位于青岛市东部滨海大道即墨温泉镇路段，总展览面积逾20万平方米（室内14万平方米），是我国北方最大的专业展馆之一。承办过中国国际农业机械博览会、中国国际渔业博览会、全国制药机械博览会、中国国际畜牧业博览会等大型国际展会。

2017年主要会展活动

名称	时间
第十届中国商业信息化行业大会	3.23-24
第三届中国青岛·东北亚版权创意精品展示交易会	4.14-16
第53届（2017年春季）全国制药机械博览会暨中国国际制药机械博览会	4.19-21
第十六届青岛国际汽车工业展览会	5.10-15 9.6-11
第十五届中国国际航海博览会	5.18-21
第十五届中国畜牧业博览会	5.18-20
第十四届中国青岛国际家具展	5.25-28
中国（青岛）国际时装周	5月
亚洲媒体峰会	6.6-8
第三届中国青岛财富论坛暨青岛财富管理博览会	6.17-18
青岛国际标准化论坛	6.27-29
第十二届青岛国际水大会	6.27-30
第十九届山东国际纺织博览会	6.29-7.1
亚欧数字互联互通高级别论坛	6月
第三届国际教育信息化会议	7月
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01 Overview of Qingdao

China Qingdao

Laixi City Pingdu City Jimo City Jiaozhou City City Proper

Uroban Area of Qingdao Municipality

Geographic Location Qingdao, on the west shore of the Pacific and the coast of the Yellow Sea, lies in the south of Shandong Peninsula (at 35°35’N - 37°09’N and 119°30’E - 121°00’E) . It faces the Republic of Korea and Japan across the sea in the east.

Administrative Division Qingdao currently has six districts including Shinan, Shibei, Licang, Laoshan, Huangdao and Chengyang, and four county-level cities of Jimo, Jiaozhou, Pingdu and Laixi.

Total Area Qingdao has a total land area of 11,282 square kilometers, and a maritime area of 12,240 square kilometers, including 3,293 kilometers of urban area.

Total Population By the end of 2016, Qingdao has a total permanent resident population of 9 million and 204 thousand, including an urban population of 6 million and 583.6 thousand.

Rainfall （mm）

Average Temperature （℃）

Sunshine Hours （h）

Evaporation （mm）

January 9.3 -1.5 174.1 45

February 12.5 0.8 176.4 61

March 19.9 5.7 212.9 118

April 29.6 12.3 235.1 173

May 54.0 18.0 250.4 210

Jun 74.2 22.1 216.4 197

July 156.0 25.4 189.5 172

August 173.8 25.4 209.5 163

September 66.4 21.4 211.4 152

October 34.6 15.4 210.2 125

November 23.6 7.6 177.4 78

December 10.3 1.0 171.2 50

Annual 664.4 12.8 2434.7 1544

Natural Environment A coastal and hilly city, Qingdao has twisted coastline dotted with capes and bays. Jiaolai Plain lies in the middle of the city, with Laoshan standing on its east, Dazhushan, Xiaozhushan and Tiejueshan on its west, and Dazeshan on its north. There are three water systems including Dagu River, North Jiaolai River and coastal rivers. The city is embraced by three bay clusters including Jiaozhou Bay, Aoshan Bay and Lingshan Bay, with the coastline measuring 817 kilometers long, which covers one-fourth of the total coastline of Shandong Province. Qingdao has 49 bays and 120 islands.

Climate Qingdao has a semi-humid temperate monsoon climate, which is moderate and humid with relatively abundant rainfalls. The city is endowed with neither very hot summer nor cold winter, and is rich in ocean mists during late spring and early summer. The weather here is very pleasant. The seasonal variation of the coastal area of Qingdao features late spring, cool summer, clear autumn and long winter.The average annual rainfall is 664.4mm; with an average annual temperature of 12.8 , the average temperature in summer is 24.3 and 0.1 in winter.

City Tree & City Flower Qingdao’s city tree is cedar, and its city flowers are camellia japonica and China rose.

Tourism & Sightseeing Surrounded by sea and mountains, Qingdao is noted for its beautiful sceneries. The urban landscape dotted with red roofs and green trees against the blue sea and sky, the winding coastline, the diverse architectures predominant in a European continental style, Laoshan renowned as China’s No. 1 seaside mountain, Tsingtao Beer enjoying enormous popularity throughout the world, as well as the former residences of famous historical and contemporary personages, and the modern facilities for vacation, convention and exhibition have made Qingdao a unique city. It has the most beautiful seaside and is an ideal destination for vacation, recreation, sightseeing, business activities, conferences and exhibitions. In 2016, it received a total of 80 million and 81 thousand domestic and foreign tourists, of which 1 million and 41 thousand were from overseas, realizing a gross tourism income of 134.9 billion yuan.

West History and Culture Conservation Area Qingdao boasts architectures with different exotic styles and has been called a “world expo on architectures”. The Badaguan architectural cluster was cited as the “most beautiful urban district in China”. The numerous cultural properties nestling in charming natural scenery are a testimony to Qingdao’s centuryold evolution and the integration of western and oriental cultures. The diverse historical and cultural heritage sites, the well-preserved century-old streets and European villas, and the romantic bays and beaches form a unique European continental taste of west Qingdao.

New East Urban Modern Zone The new town in the east is Qingdao’s political, economic and cultural center. The landmark architectures-May Wind and the Olympic Sailing Center- of administrative center of Qingdao and the new town are all in this area. The east-west seaside sightseeing path, Donghai Road, Hong Kong Road and Macao Road, which run through a series of scenic spots such as the Huiquan Square, the May 4th Square, China sea level datum, Polar Ocean World, the Seaside Sculpture Park, and Qingdao Grand Theater, constitute a fascinating seaside landscape.

Laoshan National Park Laoshan National Park comprises three parts: nine scenic spots, five scenic restoration spots, and extended land and sea views. The main peak Jufeng Peak is 1,133 meters above the sea level. Being the highest peak along China’s 18,000km-long continental coastline, Jufeng Peak is famed as China’s No. 1 seaside mountain and a famous Taoist mountain. It was designated by the State Council as a National Park of China. At the same time, it is also a national civilized scenic resort, a national demonstration place for civilized scenic tourism, and a 5A national tourist attraction.

Qingdao Beer Museum Located at No. 58 Dengzhou Road, Qingdao Beer Museum covers an area of more than 6,000 square meters, and composes of 3 tourist areas including century-old beer history and culture, beer production line, multi-function entertainment area. As the only beer museum in China, Qingdao Beer Museum has been awarded a key national preservation unit of cultural relics, a 4A national tourist attraction, and the first national industry tourism model, and has become a pearl of industry tourism.

Qingdao Cruise Home-port Presently, Qingdao cruise home-port owns 3 berths, and can facilitate the docking of ultra-large cruise ship around the clock. With a floorage of 59 thousand square meters, the Passenger Transport Center was put into service in May 2015. The designed Customs clearance capacity of the Joint Inspection Hall is 3,000-4,000 person-times per hour and the planned annual tourist throughput is 1.5 million person-times. The National Tourism Administration formally approved the establishment of “China Cruise Tourism Development Pilot Zone” at Qingdao in May 2016. The port has in total received 125 ships with a passenger number of about 120,000 person-times. The cruise tourism is becoming an important growth pole for the tourism of Qingdao.

Shinan District Shinan District, covering an area of 30.01 square kilometers and located in the south of urban Qingdao, is the central urban area of the city and where the People’s Government of Qingdao locates. Centering on the general objective of taking the lead in comprehensively building up a higher level well-off society, and being at the forefront of economic restructuring & up-gradation, culture prosperity & construction, urban area governance and environment construction, people’s livelihood guarantee and society construction, Shinan District strives to develop its fashion economy to boom a fashion culture, to advocate fashion lifestyle and to build a baytown of fashion and a modernized town of fashion and happiness.

Shibei District Shibei District locates in the center of the urban area and covers an area of 65.4 square kilometer. It has various historical and cultural blocks like Huangtai Road and Guantao Road and over 20 culture relics including Qingdao Hill WWI battery ruins and Qingdao Beer Museum. It is also a national harmonious community model district and a trial plot for community governance and service innovation. Centering on the “Five Centers” of bay area modern service center, advanced intelligence industry center, etc., Shibei District put emphasis, in its planning work, on the construction of “Six Innovation Carriers” including national rubber material and equipment technology innovation center, cloud computing & big data industry park, and health industry park. Meanwhile, it builds “Three Model Areas” that focus on history and culture memory, city-industry integration and innovation resource gathering. The district strives to build a first class international cruise port whose investment is over one hundred billion yuan to turn itself into a core zone of a livable and innovative international city.

Licang District Licang District in the northern urban area covers an area of 98 square kilometers. Centered on the objective to build itself into an innovative and garden downtown district that fits for work, living, health and mood, Licang District stimulates the impetus of reform, openness and innovation by reinforcing its support to talents, science and technology. It establishes the “4+N” industry system led by network information, new finance, design R&D, screen culture, and supported by bio-medicine, new energy, new materials and high end equipment manufacturing. It has successfully established a highland of top talents and high-end industries by building Qingdao International Academician Park and recruiting academicians from all over the world to conduct science research and industry achievement transformation. Licang District is also where projects including the first joint innovation center of Amazon AWS, which is the largest cloud service provider in the world, the first innovation center of Baidu, which is the largest Chinese search engine, in Shandong, the first overseas academician workstation of Western Returned Scholars Association in China, Qingdao North Railway Station, a level one junction station in the national railway network and the International Horticultural Exposition Park are located.

Laoshan District Situated on the southeast of urban Qingdao, Laoshan District has an area of 395 square kilometers, and a coastline of 103 kilometers. It possesses one 5A national tourist attraction and three 4A tourist attractions. The district promotes the construction of Jinjialing Financial Cluster, Qingdao Central Innovation Zone, Laoshan National Park and Laoshan Bay International Eco-health Town. It has made the “future industry” incubation program that puts efforts in the revitalization of real economy and promotes strategic emerging industries of intelligence industry, smart manufacturing, biomedicine, new energy, new material and VR, etc. It is promoting the construction of Laoshan Bay International Eco-health Town to develop health-related industries with a focus on health technology innovation, high-end international medical treatment, and health care recreation. Adhering to the philosophy that the whole of Laoshan is scenic, the district further advances the full involvement of mountain and sea strategy to promote the integration of tourism and culture creativity, general aviation, high-end business and urban agriculture to build Laoshan into a modern new town featuring with mountain and sea that fits for both work and living.

Huangdao District The State Council approved in 2012 to annul the previous Huangdao District and Jiaonan sub-city and establish the new Huangdao District on the west coast of Jiaozhou Bay. Qingdao Western Coast New Zone, approved by the State Council in 2014, covers all the administrative regions of Huangdao District. It has a land area of 2,127 square kilometers, a coastline of 282 kilometers and a population of 1.8 million. The New Zone possesses six state level industry parks in its scope, namely Qingdao Economic & Technical Development Zone, Qingdao Qianwan Bonded Port, Qingdao Western Coast Export Processing Zone, Experimental Industrial Development Zone for New Technologies, Qingdao Sino-German Ecopark and Phoenix Island Tourist Resort. Furthermore, it has four provincial industry parks including Jiaonan Economic Development Zone, Qingdao Port Economy Development Zone, Langyatai Tourist Resort and Lingshan Bay Tourist Resort.

Chengyang District Chengyang District in the northern urban area covers an area of 378 square kilometer. It is where Liuting International Airport is located. The industry mode of Chengyang is shifting rapidly to the type of headquarters cluster and innovation incubationoriented. Chengyang takes the first place among all the districts of Qingdao regarding the share of the production value that hitech industry takes in the gross output of the industries above a designated scale, as well as the number and growth rate of incubators. With its rail transit industry taken as a focused industry chain of Qingdao worthy of hundreds of billions, Chengyang will accelerate its construction of the global techinnovation center for high speed trains. 70% of the high speed trains in China are produced by the rail transit corporations in Chengyang.

Jimo City Jimo City locates in the north of Qingdao, with an area of 1,780 square kilometers. It was first established as a county in Qin Dynasty and turned into a city in Sui Dynasty, creating a history of more than 1,400 years. Jimo city has one provincial-level economic development zone, one provincial-level hitech industrial development zone and one provincial tourism and resort zone. According to the Report on China ’ s County Economy (2016) issued by Chinese Academy of Social Studies, the basic competitiveness of Jimo ranks No. 1 in Shandong and No. 9 in China. It is the only city in the area north of Yangtze River ranking among the top 10 cities with the best basic competitiveness in China. Meanwhile, in the Top 30 County - level Cities of Mainland China issued by Forbes , Jimo takes the first place in Shandong and the fourteenth place in China.

Jiaozhou City Situated on the west of Qingdao, it was one of the five major trading ports in China, the only one north of the Yangtze River during the Tang and Song dynasties and a crucial joint of Maritime Silk Road, winning her the reputation of “Golden Jiaozhou”. With a total area of 1,324 square kilometers, Jiaozhou is where Jiaodong International Airport, which is under construction, is located. Jiaozhou will promote the construction of four nation level platforms, namely national development zone, national airport economy demonstration zone, Euro-Asia trade cooperation industrial park and national model logistic park, together with that of Dagu River provincial tourist resort as a whole. It will spare no effort in the construction of three systems and one environment, namely, the innovation system of economic development, social credit system, modern social governance system and the high performance sincere and incorruptible business environment for the city to quickly turn into a habitable place of happiness.

Pingdu City Pingdu City, the largest county-level city in Shandong Province, has a total area of 3,176 square kilometers on the northwest of Qingdao. It was approved to be a pilot city for the national integrated reform of small and medium-sized city in March 2015. Laixi has rich graphite, gold and talcum reserves, and is the only city in the country with the outputs of grain, edible oil, meat and fruit ranking among the top 100 cities. It has won the honor of “National Advanced County in Crop Production” for 11 consecutive years. With 18 products of geographical indication, including Majiagou celery and Dazeshan grape, Pingdu has been designated as one of the first national modern agriculture model zones. The scale of its four industrial clusters of machinery parts, household electric and electronic appliances, food processing and specialty chemicals are worthy of over hundreds of billions. Centering on the target to build Pingdu into a rising modernized key regional town, Pingdu will speed up the construction of itself as a base of advanced manufacturing of north Qingdao, an inland port of logistics distribution in Shandong Peninsula, a recreational countryside resort and a national modern agriculture model zone.

Laixi City Laixi locates on the north of Qingdao and in the middle of Jiaodong Peninsula. With a total area of 1,568 square kilometers, it has Chanzhi reservoir (Laixi Lake), the largest reservoir in east Shandong with a storage capacity of 402 million cubic meters, and Jiangshan Wetland, the largest inland wetland of Jiaodong Peninsula with a total area of 25 square kilometers. Laixi City is a national top city in terms of technological progress and food industry, a first state-level agricultural industrialization model area, a national tourist city of ecological features and one of the first top ten tourist destinations for leisure (holiday) activities. It has established six industrial chains of milk, chicken, pork, vegetables, fruits and peanut processing, as well as four leading industries of food processing, textile and apparel, rubber chemicals and machine manufacturing, and five emerging industries of new energy, new material, bio-medicine, energy conservation & environment protection and information technology, with a focus to build itself into a transportation corridor of Jiaodong Peninsula, the base of advanced manufacturing for Qingdao, an international recreational tourism destination and a national modern agriculture model zone.

02 Historical Evolution

After unifying China, the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty (221~206 BC) made five inspection tours in his country and personally climbed onto Langya Terrace three times. According to historical records, Xu Fu set sail from Qingdao to Korea and Japan when he made the earliest overseas voyage in China. According to historical records, Xu Fu set sail from Qingdao to Korea and Japan when he made the earliest overseas voyage in China. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (206 BC~220 AD) once stayed in Buqi (located in today’s Chengyang District) as the King of Jiaodong when he was young. He was the emperor who made the most frequent inspections to Qingdao in historical records. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, as a transfer station linking the south and north shipping, Qingdao became the most important transport hub and trading port in north coastal region in China. In the Song Dynasty, Shibosi Department was specially established to manage foreign trade in Banqiao Town (located in today’s Jiaozhou City).

With a long history and splendid culture, Qingdao is a cradle of Chinese Taoism. Qingdao is one of the main places where the Dongyi People lived and procreated in the Neolithic Age over 5,000~6,000 years ago, leaving rich and colorful Dawenkou Culture, Longshan Culture and Yueshi Culture. In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Qingdao became the birthplace of Chinese sea salt, ranking among China’s “Four Ancient Salt Zones” and “Five Ancient Harbors”. During Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, Jimo, the second biggest town in Shandong Province, was established here. The ancient city of Jimo (located in today’s Pingdu City) is the earliest of its kind so far extant in China. King Goujian of the Yue State established capital in Langya (located in today’s Huangdao District) and later became the overlord of the State.

In the Yuan Dynasty, China’s only sea canal, Jiaolai Canal, which ran across Shandong Peninsula, was dug for the purpose of convenient sea transportation. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Qingdao was an important fortress for coastal defense in northern China and called Jiao’ao by the people then. On June 14, 1891, the Qing government established garrison in Jiao’ao, which represented the beginning of Qingdao as an administrative division in China. On November 14, 1897, German troops occupied Qingdao under the pretext of the “Juye Religious Incident” and turned Qingdao into a colony.

After World War I broke out in 1914, Japan replaced Germany to occupy Qingdao. In 1919, the famous “May Fourth Movement” was triggered by the calls for the recovery of Qingdao, which was the watershed of China’s contemporary and modern history. On December 10, 1922, Chinese Beiyang government took back Qingdao and transformed it into a commercial port. The Kuomintang government designated Qingdao as a special city in July 1929 and renamed it Qingdao City in 1930. In January 1938, Japan reoccupied Qingdao. In September 1945, Kuomintang government took over Qingdao and designated it as a special city again. On June 2, 1949, Qingdao was liberated as the last city in North China and designated under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province. In 1981, Qingdao was designated an economic center city of China. In 1984, Qingdao was designated a coastal open city of China. In 1986, Qingdao was listed as a city specifically designated in the state plan. In 1994, Qingdao became a sub-provincial city. In 2011, Qingdao became the leading city in the core zone of the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong Peninsula. In 2014 Qingdao was determined to be a key node city of the economic corridor of neo-Eurasia continental bridge for the strategic plan of “the Belt and Road” and a pivot city of maritime cooperation strategy. In 2015, Qingdao was rated a National Forest City. In 2016, Qingdao was approved to be a pilot city of Made in China 2025 strategy.

03 Orientation City

The 12th Party Congress of Qingdao held in 2017 established the strategic orientation of the city to speed up its construction into a livable innovative international city, and defined the main objectives of better political environment, higher development quality, more beautiful livable environment, more welfare for people’s livelihood, higher innovation vitality and higher degree of globalization. It also put forward the work arrangement to “go in advance in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way to pace up in taking the lead in the realization of basic modernization”, to “go in advance in comprehensively deepening reform to stimulate system and mechanism vitality”, to “go in advance in comprehensive ruling-by-law to accelerate the modernization of city governance system and ability” and to “go in advance in comprehensively strengthen Party discipline to provide firm political guarantee for the development of all common causes”.

During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, Qingdao will put effort into establishing itself as a major innovation center for the east coastal regions of China, an important regional service center in the country, an advanced maritime development center in the world, and a base of advanced manufacturing industry of international competitiveness and will turn itself into a regional economic center with international influences by 2020. Qingdao will give full play to the demonstrative and leading roles of state strategic platforms like the Blue Silicon Valley, Western Coast New Zone of Qingdao and State Pilot Region for Comprehensive Fortune Management and Financial Reforms to act as a pacesetter in the process of innovative development. Presently, “One Valley and Two Zones” are emerging rapidly with the Western Coast New Zone becoming a state level new developed area, Qingdao Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone included in national self-innovation zones and the Blue Silicon Valley listed in the state level 13th Five-Year Plan.

The Blue Silicon Valley of China Located on the north foot of Laoshan, and the at the shore of the Yellow Sea and Aoshan Bay, the Blue Silicon Valley has a total planned land and sea area of 443 square kilometers. As an ocean-featured hi-tech R&D and industry cluster, it is dedicated to elevate the understanding level of ocean and the development capability of marine resources to build a marine innovation highland of international influences and support the national strategy to become a powerful country in marinerelated affairs. The 13th Five - Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of China clearly states “the construction of marine economy development model zones including Qingdao Blue Silicon Valley”. The Valley, classified as “Shandong Blue Silicon Valley Regional Innovation Center”, will be built into the fifth demonstration base of the marine industries promoted by technologies across the country. It has introduced 17 stateowned research institutions like National Marine Science and Technology Laboratory, State Deep Sea Base, National Center for Marine Equipment Quality Supervision and Inspection as well as 20 major universities and research institutions such as

Qingdao Campus of Shandong University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Qingdao Institute for Ocean Engineering of Tianjin University. An accumulated more than 3,900 talents have been introduced to work full-time or on a flexible employment policy basis. For projects that have been successfully introduced, Qingdao National Marine Laboratory ranks in the forefront among the marine technology research centers in the world, while Jiaolong submersible sets a world record for its diving depth. Haiyan underwater glider breaks the blockade on technique by foreign countries and monopoly. Meanwhile, the Valley is a global leader in oceanic thermal electricity conversion technology and mariculture technology. For the talents introduced, it has 63 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, 32 experts from the Recruitment Program of Global Experts, 37 Taishan Scholar or Taishan Scholar Distinguished Oversea Expert. Talents with doctoral degree or above account for one third of the total number.

Qingdao Western Coast New Zone The Western Coast New Zone of Qingdao is the ninth statelevel new area approved by the State Council. Based on the support from advanced manufacturing industry and high-end service, it will promote the six pillar industries, namely shipping logistics, marine engineering, home appliances and electronics, automobile industry, machinery equipment and petrochemical industry, cultivate the ten emerging industries including new generation of information technology, marine bio-industry, energy conservation and environmental protection, new materials, tourism, general aviation, technology service, cultural creativity, blue finance, as well as health industry, and build up the six featured industries of film and television industry, port trade, yacht & cruise liner, civil-military integration, agriculture with distinctive features and green food processing. The new zone is also a crucial strategic supply transit base for iron ore crude oil, rubber, cotton, etc., and the largest acceptance base for petroleum and liquefied natural gas in north China.

Qingdao Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone Qingdao Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone was approved by the State Council in November 1992. It plans the development and construction of the Jiaozhou Bay north main park of the hi-tech zone as a whole, and establishes a developing structure of “One Zone with Multiple Parks” by coordinating and guiding the construction of Qingdao Hitech Industrial Park, Qingdao Development and Pilot Zone for New Technology Industries, Qingdao Science and Technology Street, Qingdao Software Park, the core area of Blue Silicon Valley, Maritime Technology Innovation and Achievement Incubation Belt and Qingdao (Jiaonan) Development and Pilot Zone for New Technology Industries. Approved to construct National Self-innovation Pilot Zone of Shandong Peninsula in 2016, Qingdao Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone has

formally ranked itself among the national self-innovation zones. The Jiaozhou Bay north main park of the Hi-tech Zone sticks to the industry orientation of “marine, high-end and emerging industries” to establish a six leading industry system of software information industry, medical treatment & medication industry, smart manufacturing & new material industry, internet industry, financial industry and high-end service industry. The Hi-tech Zone has been awarded several state level honors including the first national eco-conservation demonstration zone of Qingdao, a national pilot city for smart city, and national industry ecological demonstration zone. It has been approved to construct six national industry demonstration bases and its “emerging industry organization innovation demonstration project” has been listed in “Venture China” action plan by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Pilot Region for Comprehensive Fortune Management and Financial Reforms Qingdao is a state pilot region for comprehensive fortune management and financial reforms approved by the State Council. It shoulders the mission to foretaste and explore the development road of fortune management with distinctive Chinese features. With a focus to build itself into a center of fortune management agencies, an innovation center of product & service, an education & research center and a center of high-end commerce activities, Qingdao will actively establish a fortune management system with Chinese features and turn itself into a center of fortune management for the whole world. It has obtained 60 foretaste policies vested by related state departments, such as the openness expansion of the banking industry, cross-border investment and financing, and the establishment of new-type financial institution. Demonstrative professional wealth management institutions, e.g. the first foreign wealth management company in China, the first international investment fund registered with the characters of Ren Min Bi, which literally means China yuan, are clustering and developing, while the headquarters of 13 bank institutions have set up their private bank in Qingdao. China Wealth

Forum, the grand international wealth management gathering held every mid-June in the city, constantly improves the brand influence of “Wealth Qingdao”. Qingdao ranks itself in the global finance center list with the 46th place in 2016. Hongdao Economic Zone Established in May 2012, the area of administration for Hongdao Economic Zone covers Jiaozhou Bay North Main Park of the Hi-tech Zone, Hetao Sub-district and Hongdao Subdistrict. On the basis of Jiaozhou Bay North Main Park of the Hi-tech Zone, whose construction started earlier, Hongdao Economic Zone co-ordinates a balanced development of the region and the area of more than 160 square kilometers around it. Fully implementing the requirements to “build a town of quality and vitality” raised by the 12th Party Congress of Qingdao, Hongdao is promoting the construction of the key city-level public service projects, with the main structure of Qingdao Middle School and Citizen Fitness Center completed and 7 other projects including Citizen Health Center, Disabled Rehabilitation Center, Science Museum, Ophthalmic Hospital, Jiqing High Speed Railway, Qinglian High Speed Railway and Hongdao Junction Station, under construction. It strives to build itself into a Beautiful Qingdao demonstration area and a pilot zone for innovation and business start-up so as to become a forerunner in the construction of the National Self-innovation Pilot Zone of Shandong Peninsula and the “Three Centers & One Base” project of the city.

04Economic Development

In 2016, Qingdao’s GDP totaled 1,001 billion 129 million yuan, up 7.9% over the previous year; gross ocean production takes up a share of 25.1% in GDP. The values added of the primary, secondary and tertiary industry are 37 billion 101 million, 416 billion 67 million and 547 billion 961 million yuan respectively while the ratio of three industries is 3.7: 41.6: 54.7. The total output value of industrial enterprises above designated size reached 1,828 billion yuan, up 7.1%, general public budgetary revenue reached 110 billion yuan, up 10.3%. For fixedasset investment, it was 745.47 billion yuan, up 13.7%. Social consumable total retail sales grew by 10.5% to 410.49 billion yuan. All the county-level cities have ranked among China’s top one hundred counties.

In 2017, Qingdao will take the initiative to adapt to the New Normal of economic development, insist on the general keynote of making progress while maintaining stability, and implement the new development concept, which centers on the promotion of supplyside structural reform with the priority laid in the construction of “Three Centers & One Base”, to realize stable growth, reform promotion, structure adjustment, benefited people’s livelihood and risk control so as to keep improving the quality and efficiency of the development and realize the smooth and healthy economy development and social harmony and stability. The main targets are to realize a GDP increase of 8%, a growth of about 8.5% for public budgetary revenue, about 12% for fixed asset investment, about

10.5% for social consumable total retail sales, about 5% for total foreign trade volume and 8% for resident per capita disposable income. Besides, it is to be controlled within 4% for the urban registered unemployment rate, 3% for the rise in CPI, with the completion of the energy conservation and emission reduction objective for the year.

A City of Renowned Brands Qingdao enjoys the reputation as the capital of Chinese brands. The headquarters of a group of enterprises and brands renowned both at home and abroad, such as Haier, Hisense, Tsingtao Beer,

Doublestar and CRRC Sifang, are located here. Tsingtao Brewery Co., Ltd., founded in 1903, is one of the earliest breweries in China, with its export amount accounting for over 50% of China’s total export of beer. Haier Group has ranked 1st for fifteen consecutive years among Chinese top brands and has been determined by the State Council to be one of the first model bases for mass entrepreneurship and innovation of the country. Qingdao has five enterprises which have won the national award for quality control, and has 135 nationallyfamous trademarks.

05 Open to the World

Qingdao is one of China’s first 14 coastal open cities, and was rated as one of the Best Emerging Business Cities in China by Fortune magazine. The three countries of Japan, Korea and Thailand have set up their Consulate General in Qingdao. The city has established sister-city relations or friendly and cooperative relations with 69 cities in foreign countries, and international economic partnership relations with 63 cities (provinces or cantons) of 38 countries. More than 2,100 foreign local governments and overseas companies have set up permanent offices in Qingdao. A total of 130 of Fortune Global 500 enterprises had invested in an accumulated of 255 projects in Qingdao. Haier-Ruba Economic Zone in Pakistan is the first oversea economy and trade cooperation zone of China. Qingdao is one of the first pilot cities of China in Sino-US economy and trade cooperation regimes, as well as one of the first key cities for the Sino-UK regional investment and trade cooperation program. Foreign tourists shopping at the first 33 VAT refund stores of Qingdao may enjoy the VAT refund policy upon their departure. The currency is in RMB.

The city is an important international trade port and a marine transportation hub on the western shores of the Pacific Ocean. Established in 1892, Qingdao Port has established trade relationship with over 700 ports in more than 180 countries and regions. In 2016, the port handled over 500 million tons of cargoes and 18.05 million standard containers. In 2016, the total value of import and export trade of Qingdao reached 100.5 billion US dollars. Foreign capital credited into account totaled 7 billion US dollars and overseas investment reached 5.2 billion US dollars. Qingdao possesses six state-level economic parks as well as four special areas supervised by Customs. Besides, it has established Center for Business & Commerce in Singapore, Pusan, Korea, Tokyo, Japan, Munich, Germany, San Francisco, USA, and Tel Aviv, Israel respectively.

Blending in the National “Belt and Road” Initiative In the state strategic plan of “Belt and Road”, Qingdao was determined to be a key node city of the economic corridor of neo-Eurasia continental bridge and a pivot city for maritime cooperation strategy. It will build itself into a comprehensive hub city of “Belt and Road” orienting towards Korea and Japan, radiating to Southeast Asia and connecting China with Europe. Actively blending in the National “Belt and Road” Initiative, Qingdao holds a series of “Silk Road Dialogue” activities in 26 countries along the Belt and Road and starts the construction of 17 international industrial cooperation parks at abroad with the amount of investment, value of export and tourist person-time to the countries along the Belt and Road taking up a share of 27.7%, 53.1% and 50.7% respectively compared to that of the whole city. In 2017, Qingdao will further expand its communication and cooperation with the countries and regions along “Belt and Road” to improve the quality and efficiency of “bring in” and “go out” policy. Ways and means for the effective utilization of foreign capitals will be innovated by encouraging foreign

capitals to participate in the merger and reorganization of enterprises by participation or merger, etc. An action plan for Qingdao to collaborate with the Fortune Global 500 enterprises and global industry leading corporations will be established and implemented. The openness of the service sectors including finance, education, care for the aged, medical services and culture will be further expanded. The construction of SinoGerman Ecopark, Euro-Asia Economic and Trading Cooperation Industrial Park and Sino-Korea and Sino-Japan Innovation Industrial Park will be accelerated, while that of the oversea economy and trade cooperation zone will be promoted. As a key city for the Sino-US and the Sino-UK regional investment and trade cooperation programs, Qingdao will give play to its two-way openness, further its compressive communication and collaboration with its sister-relationship cities and friendly cooperative cities and pace up its construction of the east-Asia marine cooperation platform to elevate its level of international economic cooperation.

Qingdao Economic & Technical Development Zone Qingdao Economic & Technical Development Zone, located on the west coast of Jiaozhou Bay and approved to be established by the State Council in October 1984, is one of the first 14 national development zones in coastal regions. It assembles eight institutions of higher education, including Shandong University of Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum and other nine universities. It has established 3 state level new industrialization demonstration bases and ship exportation bases. It is also the largest home appliance and minicar production base in northern China. As the service outsourcing model base of Shandong, a top region of national technology advancement appraisal and a top ten development zone with the most investment potentials, it has ranked among the top 5 in national development zones for nine consecutive years with regards to the comprehensive economic strength and investment environment evaluation index.

Jiaozhou Economic-Technological Development Zone Jiaozhou Economic-Technological Development Zone is where Jiaodong International Airport, multimodal transport customs supervision center and the “land, shipping and air transport” 15-min transportation and economic circle of Qingdao Qianwan Port are located. Its focus is to foster and expand three industry chains worthy of hundreds of billions, namely high-end equipment manufacturing, Internet Plus modern service industry, aviation and automobile manufacturing. In the development zone, there are Logistics R&D Institute of Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University-Beika Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Base, Qingdao R&D Institute of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Qingdao Branch of China Academy of Machinery Science & Technology, and Qingdao R&D Institute of Shenyang Aerospace University. So far, it has introduced 99 projects with a total investment of 11.6 billion yuan.

Qingdao Qianwan Bonded Port With a planned area of 65.73 square kilometers and 21 berths, Qingdao Qianwan Bonded Port was approved by the State Council in September 2008 to be established. It is a special area enjoying special policies of bonding, duty exemption, quota and license exemption and supervised by Customs that features multiple modes of opening, including bonded area, export processing zone, bonded logistics park and comprehensive bonded zone, etc. Qingdao Bonded Area looked ahead to implement the state strategy of balanced development of all regions and the “Belt and Road” and has established over 20 economic cooperation zone both at home and abroad to obtain new experience for the realization of the development strategy of the country. It has been approved to be a finished automobile import port and a demonstration base for e-commerce of the country. Being the first to create the trading mode of listing in USD and bonded trading, Qianwan Bonded Port built the third largest natural rubber trading center in the world. It has 3 statelevel key laboratories of cotton, tyre and latex, and 2 regional key laboratories of rubber and plastics. Besides, it has built up Qingdao Qianwan Bonded Port Alcoholic Beverage and Foods Test Lab and has realized the mutual recognition of AEO between China and Korea.

Qingdao Dongjiakou Circular Economy Zone With a planned area of 284 square kilometers and situated at the southwest end of Qingdao, Qingdao Dongjiakou Circular Economy Zone composes of the three sections of the port district, the industry area and the new port town. In November 2013, National Development and Reform Commission formally approved the General Plan for Qingdao Dongjiakou Regional Circular Economy Zone . Centered on the general objective to build a state-level circular economy pilot zone, a fourthgeneration logistics trade port and a new modern blue port town, this place will be constructed into a national bulk cargo distribution hub, an important national energy storage and transportation center, a regional logistic center, an international staple commodity trade center and a national base for fine steels, new materials, cold chain logistics and high-end equipment manufacturing.

National Software and Information Service Industry Model Base (Qingdao) The layout of the software industry development is implemented on the basis of “East Park, West Valley and North Town”. Qingdao Software Town will play as the core area for the software industry development, while State (Qingdao) Communication Industry Park and Qingdao Information Valley

will act as the main supporting areas. In the meantime, Shinan Software Park, Qingdao International Animation Game Industry Park, Qingdao International Innovation Park, Haier Information Industry Park, and Hisense Software Industry Park will act as the base parks. The focus of the development will be laid in infrastructure software, embedded software, industrial software, and industry solutions. The information service industry and high-end service outsourcing industry will be accelerated, while emerging information and technology service industries like Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, mobile internet and e-commerce will be cultivated in priority. A number of high-end industry projects have been introduced, such as IBM Software Technology Innovation Center, Beidou(Qingdao) Navigation Satellite System Position Service Data Center, Tsinghua-Qingdao Big Data Engineering Research Center, Qingdao-Huiyu Software Global Big Data Application Research & Industry Demonstration Base, and Amazon AWS Joint Innovation Center. Corporations like GoerTek, Inspur, Baidu, Huawei, ZTE, carry out their strategic cooperation while all top three telecom operators of China Unicom, China Mobile and China Telecom have established their cloud computing data center here. With over 500 companies settled in the base, it exerts a leading and driving influence over the development of the software and information service industry of the city.

Qingdao Experiment Zone for Cross-strait Agricultural Cooperation Qingdao Experiment Zone for Cross-strait Agricultural Cooperation was established in March 1999 with the approval of the Ministry of Commerce (the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation), the Ministry of Agriculture and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. Its total planned area is 3,176 square kilometers, covering the whole Pingdu City. Pingdu City, where the zone is located, ranks among China’s top 100 cities with comprehensive production of grain, oil, meat and fruit; it is the “Hometown of Grape”, “Hometown of Peanut”, “Hometown of Ginger” and “Hometown of Beef Cattle” in China. Qingdao Sino-German Ecopark Located in Qingdao Western Coast New Zone, Qingdao SinoGerman Ecopark is a strategic cooperation project between the governments of China and Germany. In July 2010, China’s Ministry of Commerce and Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology signed the Memorandum of Understanding for the Erection of the Sino - German Ecopark . In December 2011, the foundation stone laying ceremony of Sino-German Ecopark was held. The Ecopark has a planned area of 11.6 square kilometers and has been included in the Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone Plan approved by the State Council. Centered on the development vision of “pastoral environment, green development and good life” and upholding the development philosophy of “improving life via eco-orientation and wisdom, elevating quality through openness and integration”, the Ecopark is dedicated to eco-oriented, green and sustainable development with a focus on the construction of an eco-oriented, intelligent, and open Sino-Germany benefit community.

Country City

Time of Establishment Japan Shimonoseki 1979.10.03 USA Long Beach 1985.04.12 Mexico Acapulco 1985.08.21 Ukraine Odessa 1993.04.29 R.O.K. Daegu 1993.12.04 Israel Ness Ziona 1997.12.02 Holland Velsen 1998.12.09 U.K. Southampton 1998.12.27 Chile Montt 1999.08.17 Uruguay Montevideo 2004.04.15 Lithuania Klaipeda 2004.05.30 Spain Bilbao 2004.08.21 France Nantes 2005.06.04 USA Miami 2005.08.30 France Brest 2006.05.08 Russia Petersburg 2007.07.16 Thailand Chiang Mai Province 2008.04.01 Brazil Vila Velha 2011.04.19 New Zealand Oakland 2012.04 Australia Adelaide 2014.04.22 Mauritius Grand Port District 2015.05.11 India Hyderabad 2015.05.15 Peru Callao 2016.08.08 Germany Mannheim 2016.08.26

Sister-relationship Cities of Qingdao

Country City Time of Establishment Sweden Gothenburg 1994 R.O.K. Incheon 1995.09.27 USA San Francisco 1997.04.11 Moldova Chisinau 1997.05.08 Sudan Port Sudan 1998.05 USA Orangecounty 1998.07.06 Morocco Tangier 1999.03 Croatia Rijeka 1999.07.11 R.O.K. Pyeongtaek 1999.08.11 Japan Naruto 1999.08.23 Viet Nam Da Nang 2000.06.09 Cyprus Nicosia 2001.02.05 USA Oakland 2001.05.06 USA Los Angeles County 2001.05.07 Canada Edmonton 2001.05.18 Denmark Frederikshavn 2001.10.30 Japan Fukuoka 2003.02.06 Japan Kobe 2003.02.10 R.O.K. Busan 2003.03.23 R.O.K. Gunsan 2003.09.21 Australia Cairns 2003.09.23 Philippines Iloilo 2003.10.15

Country City Time of Establishment Austria Braunau 2004.07.19 USA St. Louis 2004.09.29 Germany Rhein-Neckar 2004.10.19 Italy Veneto 2005.03.04 Japan Kitakyushu 2005.05.14 USA Houston 2006.05.15 Russia Perm 2006.11.10 Canada Richmond 2008.04.22 USA Dallas 2008.04.28 Germany Duesseldorf 2008.11.05 R.O.K. Ulsan 2009.08.03 Germany Regensburg 2009.11.03 Portugal Lisbon 2010.06.17 Israel Ramat Gan 2012.05.09 Spain Barcelona 2012.05.28 Japan Kyoto 2012.08.26 Thailand Pattaya 2013.01.22 R.O.K. Daejeon 2013.06.27 Canada Markham 2013.11.05 France Vosges 2014.11.07 New Zealand Dunedin 2015.03.11 Indonesia Manado 2015.10.30 Finland Salo 2017.03.29

Friendly Co-operative Cities of Qingdao

Country City(Province, Canton) / Trade Organization

Time of Establishment R.O.K. Busan 2012.08.02 Japan Kyoto 2012.08.26 Japan Kawasaki 2013.05.22 Holland Hague 2013.05.22 France Dijon 2013.06.26 Poland Polish Investment and Trade Agency 2013.07.16 Australia South Australia 2013.09.06 New Zealand Oakland 2013.09.10 New Zealand Dunedin 2013.09.12 USA San Francisco 2013.10.16 R.O.K. Daejeon 2014.02.25 Mauritius Board of Investment 2014.03.27 Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) 2014.03.28 Morocco Investment Development Agency 2014.04.01 France Vosges 2014.05.07 USA Chicago 2014.09.19 USA Georgia 2014.09.22 U.K. Southampton 2014.10.02 Denmark Copenhagen 2014.10.05 Germany Hamburg 2014.10.07 Germany Cassel 2014.10.08 Germany Mannheim 2014.10.09

Country City(Province, Canton) / Trade Organization

Time of Establishment Canada British Colombia 2014.11.07 Canada Edmonton 2015.04.03 Pakistan Punjab 2015.04.24 Cambodia Sihanoukville Province 2015.04.27 France Brest 2015.05.11 Seychelles Seychelles Chamber Of Commerce and Industry 2015.05.12 France Pays de la Loire 2015.06.10 Kyrghyzstan Bishkek 2015.09.18 Kazakhstan Almaty City 2015.09.21 Viet Nam Ho Chi Minh City 2015.10.27 Indonesia Morowali 2015.10.29 Malaysia State of Kedah 2015.11.02 Japan Sapporo 2015.11.16 Cambodia Phnom Penh 2015.12.25 Cambodia Siem Reap 2015.12.26 Zimbabwe Ministry of Macro-economy Planning and Investment Promotion 2016.01.06 Zambia Eastern Province 2016.01.09 Zambia Zambia Development Agency 2016.01.11 Algeria Ministry of Commerce and Trade 2016.01.12 Hungary Sino-Hugary Committee of National Chamber of Commerce & Industry 2016.03.29 Romanian Chamber Of Commerce and Industry 2016.03.31 Romanian Prahova 2016.03.31

International Economic Partnership Cities (Provinces, Cantons)

Country City(Province, Canton) / Trade Organization

Time of Establishment U.K. Liverpool 2016.04.05 Mexico China-Latin American Chamber of Commerce 2016.05.20 Mexico Cancun 2016.05.21 Brazil Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo 2016.05.24 Burma The Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry 2016.09.15 Macao Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute 2016.09.26

Macao

Permanent Secretariat of the (Macao) Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries

2016.09.26

Malaysia Pulau Pinang 2016.10.18

India Mumbai Development Association 2016.10.27 Mexico Mexico Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Business Technology 2016.11.30 Argentina Argentina Investment & Trade Promotion Agency 2016.12.06

Argentina Buenos Aires 2016.12.06 Nepal Sino-Napel Chamber Of Commerce and Industry 2016.12.15 Germany Brandenburg Economic Development Board 2017.03.20 Russia The Shanghai Cooperation Organization China Business Council Secretariat 2017.03.20 Russia Russia Branch of Sino-Russia Electromechanical Chamber of Commerce 2017.03.20 Russia Moscow Chamber Of Commerce and Industry 2017.03.23 Georgia Sino-Georgia Chamber Of Commerce and Industry 2017.03.27

06 Construction Urban & Rural

Adhering to the concept of balanced development of all regions, Qingdao deepens the spacial layout of “three belt, one axis, three bays, three towns and mutually-supported groups” to build an urban agglomeration that covers the whole region for the future. The urban area on the east coast, west coast and north coast of Jiaozhou Bay will be constructed with the east one as a town of fashion and charm to orderly relieve the non-urban area functions and boost the revival and development of the old downtown, the west one focusing on transformation and upgrading as a town of elegancy and strength, and the north one as a town of quality and vigor to further improve the comprehensive functions of the city. Qingdao will accelerate the rise of its north part to promote Pingdu and Laixin into the strategic pivot in balancing the development of all regions. It will build 10 modern second tier county-level cities with distinctive features to speed up the integration of industry and city and facilitate the concentration of population. It will also build 35 characteristic towns (sub-districts) that develop characteristic industries and improve handy service for the public, and 300 characteristic communities (villages) to stimulate the vitality for the development of all regions. Qingdao is advancing the construction of new urbanization. By implementing Qingdao New Urbanization Planning (2014 - 2020) ,

the city paces up the pilot projects of small town construction and provincial model town and promotes the construction of characteristic towns to carry out the integrated pilot work of the new urbanization of the country. 6,000 households living in the dilapidated houses of the rural area have been renovated. The protection over traditional villages and folk houses will be strengthened for the construction of beautiful and habitable villages.

Railway Jiaozhou-Jinan Railway is a transport artery across Shandong Province, which connects Qingdao and Jinan; it is China’s first passenger railway line to be put into normal operation and opened to traffic with a total length of 362.5km. The section between Jimo and Rongcheng of Qingdao-Rongcheng Intercity Railway was opened to operation on October 28th, 2014. The land expropriation and relocation of Jiqing high speed railway and Qinglian High Speed Railway have been put into fast

implementation. Metro Line 4 and 8 were put into construction in 2016 while that of Metro Line 2, Metro Line 1, Blue Silicon Valley Inter-city Express and West Coast Inter-city Express has been accelerated. In the meantime, Metro Line 3 was put into full operation on December 18th, 2016. The long-term system of Qingdao metro, shortened as “18448” Project, composes of 18 lines, including 2 feeder lines, and over 40 stations. It has an investment of more than 400 billion yuan and a total length of 838 kilometers. Six metro lines of Line 1, 2, 4, 8, 11 and 13 are under construction in 2017 while the east part of Line 2 will be put into trial operation at the end of the year.

Aviation The construction of Jiaodong International Airport has been approved by state authorities and is under construction. In 2017, the city will carry forward the planning and construction of comprehensive junction stations like the new airport, Hongdao Station and Qingdao West Station. The construction of the comprehensive transportation junction of the new airport will

be accelerated with the main structure of the high speed railway station and subway station for the new airport completed and the comprehensive transportation center of the new airport largely finished. Qingdao Liuting International Airport reaches 4E standard. By the end of 2016, it opened 146 regular airlines to 70 domestic cities and 16 international (regional) cities with a daily flight intensity of about 460 sorties. In 2016, it handled 20 million and 50.5 thousand person-times, and 230,700 tons of cargo and mail.

Road transportation Qingdao has fully established the “one-hour economic circle” as direct highway connection has been realized between the main urban area, the districts and county-level cities with all towns within a half-hour reach of expressways. By the end of 2017, the coverage of bus stops within a radius of 500 meters for the downtown of Qingdao will reach 95%, with the highway traffic mileage of the city reaching 16 thousand 148 kilometers, and that of its expressways reaching 818.4 kilometers. By 2018, Qingdao will be built into a leading public transportation model city in the country with the coverage of bus stops within a radius of 500 meters for the downtown of Qingdao reaching 100%.

07 Culture, Science & Technology

With an aim to become a free port of culture talents, Qingdao is to build itself into a world-class screen culture highland and a city of powerful culture influence with a system of culture creative industry, public culture service, culture quality goods production and culture inheritage protection. The ballet Red Sorghum won Wenhua Award. Culture activities, such as the creation and rehearsal of the full length ballet Monk Faxian , focused support of the music sitcom Oath , the leading of the creation of the sculpture Red Yimeng , Citizens’ Five Kings of Art Talents Contest, Qingdao Music Festival and Charity Performance, and so on were held. The renovation and expansion of the Municipal Museum were planned and designed while the municipal junior library, the first in the province, is completed. Regulation on Screen Culture Industry Development Fund of Qingdao , formulated to put up Oriental Cinema Screen Culture Development Special Fund of 5 billion that lasts for five years, brings about the sharp rise of the movie industry. The application for the title of “Movie Capital” has been launched to create an oriental Oscar. The three objectives of international movie trade center, film & TV art innovation and technology innovation platform are on

the way of realization. Qingdao is establishing “Alliance of East Asia Culture Cities”. The city strengthens its construction of public culture facilities. There are 86 sub-districts and 43 towns equipped with comprehensive culture station, while the communities and villages of the whole city have established their own culture activity center. It reinforces the construction of culture industry carriers too. 6 state-level culture blocks (base), 19 province-level culture blocks (base) and 9 municipal-level culture blocks (base) have come into being. Qingdao enhances its protection and exploitation of cultural relics. It possesses two national historic and cultural streets, namely Badaguan and Xiaoyu Mount, 18 state protected historic sites, 72 province protected historic sites and 75 municipal level protected historic sites. Approved as a pilot and model city for the technology and standards of national smart city, Qingdao is the only city across the country to be designated as a pilot city for both National Technological Innovation Project and National Innovationoriented City. It is also the only city to be approved as a pilot city for the second national utility tunnel cities and Sponge City, winning a total amount of subsidy of 2.1 billion yuan from the central government. Five state-owned innovation platforms like State Deep Sea Base, Deep Sea Drilling Base, National Center for Marine Equipment Quality Supervision and

Inspection have settled in Qingdao. National Marine Laboratory and National High Speed Train Technology Innovation Center have become import innovation platforms of global influence. Qingdao possesses 19 national research organizations and 6 provincial research institutions. It also possesses 964 new hitech enterprises, 10 national engineering research centers, 35 enterprise technology centers recognized by national authorities, 7 national key laboratories and 14 state incubators. It has introduced a total of 28 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering living in Qingdao, and 33 appointments. Moreover, Qingdao is equipped with 32 postdoctoral workstations, 51 mobile research stations and 281 expert workstations.

Qingdao is actively building itself into “a city of innovation, a capital of entrepreneurship and an island of makers”. In 2016, the city was granted with 5,894 invention patents with a trade volume of technical contracts of 10.4 billion yuan. In 2017, Qingdao will keep vigorously implementing the innovationdriven development strategy to pace up the construction of the city as a major center of innovation for the east coast regions of China. Ten hi-tech innovation centers focused on marine technology, high speed train and graphene, etc., will be advanced while the construction of innovation platforms such as Maritime Engineering Equipment Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, ASRTU Sino-Russia Science and Technology Park, will be accelerated. The leveling origin of China, located on the top of Astronomical Observatory Hill (Guanxiang Hill), is the starting point of the elevation of China and was set up in October, 1954.

Qingdao will keep promoting the brand building of the Capital of Sailing to turn it into a leading city of sailing in Asia. Qingdao hosted the sailing events of the 29th Olympic Games and the 13th Paralympic Games in 2008. Afterwards, it hosted international sailing races such as Volvo Ocean Race, Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, Extreme Sailing Series and Sailing World Cup. The city established self-owned events like “Mayor’s Cup” Qingdao International Rally Sailing, CCOR, Qingdao International Sailing Race, Qingdao International OP Sailing Camp & Race, “Fareast Cup” International Regatta, as well as Qingdao International Sailing Week Qingdao International Marine Festival. Activities to introduce sailing to the public, such as “Welcome to Sailing” and “Sailing into Campus”, were held. Qingdao, through sailing, extensively carries out international exchange and cooperation. It started the 21st century Maritime Silk Road “China Qingdao” sailing & Arctic Ocean (northeast route) record-making activity to promote the communication of the maritime recreational sports for the countries along the 21st century Maritime Silk Road and explore the development belt of the recreational sports along the 21st century Maritime Silk Road. World Sailing gave an outstanding contribution award to

the city of Qingdao, and awarded the “Outstanding City of the Decade” to Qingdao together with ASAF. Chinese Yachting Association gave Qingdao an “Outstanding Contribution Award” and “Model City of China Adolescent Sailing Promotion”.

Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center Located by Fushan Bay in the east of the city, Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center is a marine sports center for the hosting of international sailing regattas, the promotion of sailing and sailboard activities, a training base for juvenile sailing as well as a landmark, a tourist site of Qingdao, a national coastal tourism demonstration zone, a 4A national tourist attraction and Shandong sports industry model base.

08 Ecology & Conservation

Qingdao was awarded the Habitat Scroll of Honour Award by UN and national government, and China Habitat Environment Prize. It is also a pilot city for the Sino-EU Low-carbon Ecology City Cooperation Project. Adhering to the principal of boosting the city via ecology and benefitting the people with green industries, the city reinforces resource conservation and environment protection by promoting green development mode and lifestyle to build Qingdao into a beautiful, habitable and harmonious home for its people. It strengthens the work in energy saving and emission reduction as well as environment protection, promotes advanced technologies of cleaner production and ultra clean emission. In 2016, the energy saving renovation of existing residential buildings was implemented to a total of 2 million 52.4 thousand square meters while the application of renewable energy sources is completed on 2 million 34.57 thousand square meters of buildings. 8.54 million square meters of green

buildings have been newly put into construction. There has been a reutilization of construction wastes of 15 million tons. Seawater desalinization is promoted and the planning and construction to turn Qingdao into a “Sponge City” is under way. The promotion and application of new energy automobiles in Qingdao are strengthened. The city is also obsoleting “yellow

label automobiles” and has performed 137 projects of coalfired boiler exhaust emission pollution abatement, while at the same time generalizing non-coal-fired heating in new buildings. It strives to develop circular economy to build the city into a national a pilot city in circular economy. In 2016, Qingdao reduced its particulate matter (PM2.5) of the downtown area by about 11.8% and the number of days with good air quality level reaches 299. The mean concentration of the chemical oxygen demand and ammonia concentration for key pollutants in key monitored rivers are 26.5mg/l and 0.42mg/l, reduced by about 15.5% and 11.2% respectively, ranking the first in Shandong. Qingdao strengthens its protection and treatment of Jiaozhou Bay to establish Jiaozhou Bay National Ocean Park.

It increases the green coverage ratio and the plot ratio and was rated a National Forest City. In 2016, the city reached a completed afforestation coverage rate of 40.02% a forest coverage rate of 44.2%. The comprehensive treatment of Dagu River has been completed and the River has now been endowed with a new image of mother river that is clear with smooth flow, substantial embankment, green banks and beautiful scenery. The ecological environment of the region along the river is greatly improved.

09 Life Residents’

Qingdao gives first priority to fundamental welfare, public service, general preference and equality to realize the goal of reseaonable income, good education, good medical service, joyful care for the aged, pleasant living conditions and powerful help for the poor for the fruits of development further benefit the masses in a fairer manner. In 2016, the per capita disposable income of urban residents and the per capita net income of rural people increased by 8.0% and 7.4% to 43,598 yuan and 17,969 yuan respectively. The registered urban unemployment rate is 3.17%.

Education In 2016, there were 60 kindergartens and 55 primary schools and middle schools got newly built, reconstructed or expanded, while 100 underdeveloped rural compulsory schools were renovated, 200 standardized cafeterias in primary and high schools were built. There are in total 2,094 kindergartens, 1,045 primary and ordinary high schools, 55 secondary vocational schools and 25 universities and colleges, with approximately 1 million 60.57 thousand students and 140.9 thousand faculty

members. The enrollments rates for preschool education and compulsory education are 98.5% and 99% respectively. There are 9 schools for the children of foreign personnel. Nineyear compulsory education, secondary vocational education and special education have been generally provided for free in urban and rural areas of Qingdao. A subsidize system that covers kindergarten, elementary school, high school and higher education has been established. 29 renowned universities including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University and Shandong University have been introduced. Qingdao Campus of Shandong University was put into use in September. In 2017, there will be 100 kindergartens and 75 elementary and secondary schools got newly built, reconstructed or expanded, while 100 underdeveloped rural compulsory schools will be renovated 80 standardized cafeterias in primary and high schools will be built.

Employment Qingdao has implemented the strategy of employment-theprior and comprehensively promoted the “mass business startup” project. It has completed the urban-suburban integrated employment and venture policy to realize the city/region wide equal treatment. By 2016, Qingdao has a newly added employment of 680 thousand persons in rural and urban areas,

supported 35 thousand entrepreneurs to begin business, and completed a vocational training of 70 thousand persons. In 2017, there will be a newly add employment of 300 thousand persons in rural and urban areas; 15 thousand entrepreneurs will be supported on a policy basis to start their business and the registered urban unemployment rate will be controlled within 4%.

Medical Services The average life expectancy is as high as 80.92 years. The medical beds of the medical institutions of the whole city totals 50,621 while the total number of medical staff reaches 87,761. The number of health technicians is as high as 69,211; the number of certified (assistant) doctors and registered nurse per thousand populations are 3.01 and 3.29 3respectively. The regional all-purpose card for illness diagnosis and treatment project is put into establishment to realize selfservice registration and payment. The basic medical insurance system that balances the development in rural and urban areas is put into full operation. Urban and rural residents both enjoy the

multi-layer health care insurance system that composes of basic medical insurance, major illness insurance and supplementary medical insurance. A new structure of general preference health insurance that fairly covers all citizens is formed.

Care for the Aged Timely, scientifically and comprehensively dealing with the aged tendency of population, an old-age support system, based on support from households, communities and organizations, has been established to promote the development of nursing institutions for the aged that integrates medical treatment and nursing services and advocate hospice care. Preferential policies which allow seniors to take buses with discount or for free have been implemented. The government is also buying accident insurance for senior citizens, providing physical examination subsidy to senior citizens 80 years old or above and longevity allowance to centenarians. Qingdao takes the lead in establishing long term care insurance system, promoting the development of the care mode that integrates medical treatment and nursing services, protecting the need of medical care for disabled or dementia seniors. By the end of 2016, there are altogether 232 nursing institutions for the aged with 620 thousand nursing service facility beds, and the number of beds per thousand aged people reaches 37. To deal with the aged tendency of population, an old-age support system, based on support from households, communities and organizations, has been established to promote the development of nursing institutions for the aged that integrates medical treatment and nursing services. Qingdao has been

determined to be one of the first pilot cities at the state level for the mode that integrates medical treatment and nursing services. It takes the lead in realizing the effective connection of medical treatment, medical care, recovery and nursing. 167 primary health care institutions have launched home visit service while another 62 nursing institutions have signed cooperation agreement with medical institutions. Housing In 2016, the area of urban shanty towns that starts renovation is 760 thousand households. 6,000 households living in the dilapidated houses of the rural area have been renovated. The objective of urban and rural dilapidated housing rehabilitation is fully completed. In 2017, another 6,000 low-cost housings will be built. 48,000 households of shanty area will start renovation and 26,000 households will move back.

Poverty Relief Qingdao completes all tasks of poverty relief for the year of 2016, winning the first battle against rural poverty. All the impoverished households of 28,535, and 63,887 people registered in 2014 have been lifted out of poverty and backwardness. 51 province-rated poor villages and 79 municipal-rated economically backward villages cast off the title as well. With the poverty relief work in the city and its towns first started, pairing assistance and poverty relief proceed in an orderly fashion. In 2017, the whole city, according to the objective of “powerful help for the poor” raised by the 12th Party Congress of Qingdao, will put forth effort in the consolidation and improvement of the poverty relief achievement of the registered rural impoverished people, the promotion of all backward villages to cast off the backwardness title, and the full launch of town-level poverty relief work. Centered to the working ideas of “improving Anshun, breakthrough Longnan, putting strength in Heze and advancing as a whole”, Qingdao will implement targeted poverty alleviation in details to be a pioneer in pairing assistance and poverty relief.

10 Conventions & Exhibitions

Qingdao, a top ten brand exhibition city of China, has an excellent environment and abundant resources for conventions and exhibitions. It possesses 3 professional convention centers and over 120 high star-rating hotels. By implementing the developing strategy of high-end conventions and exhibitions, it hosts a number of wellknown exhibitions such as Qingdao International Beer Festival, China International Fishery Expo, Qingdao·China Wealth Forum, China International Consumer Electronics Show, Qingdao International Sailing Week·Qingdao International Marine Festival, Fashion Week, and International Marine Fair, etc. In 2016, the city hosted over 320 conventions and exhibitions of influence with an exhibition area of 2.98 million square meters. In 2017, it will implement the “internationalization plus” action plan that formulates policies, improves service level, optimize the overall arrangement and building brands by international standards, to market 100 key conventions and exhibitions to

accelerate the construction of the city into an international center city of convention that radiates to the northeast Asia.

Qingdao International Convention Center Situated next to Shilaoren Tourist Resort, Qingdao International Convention Center is a modern and intelligent convention center with multi-functions of exhibition, conference, business activities, catering and recreation. It has an indoor exhibition area of 60 thousand square meters and an outdoor exhibition area of 50 thousand square meters. Over 100 conventions and exhibitions are held here every year.

Qingdao Xinnan International Expo Center (Qingdao International Expo Center) Located on Jimo Wenquan section of the coastal road on the east of Qingdao, Qingdao International Expo Center has a total exhibition area of over 200 thousand square meters including an indoor are of 140 thousand square meters. It is one of the largest professional exhibition centers in north China. It hosted largescale international conventions and exhibitions including World Summit on Agricultural Machinery, China International Fishery Expo, China Pharmaceutical Machinery Expo, China Animal Husbandry Expo, etc.

Title Date

The 10th China Commerce Informationalization Convention 3.23-24

The 3rd Qingdao China · Northeast Asia Copyright & Creation Product Exhibition 4.14-16 The 53rd (Spring, 2017) China Pharmaceutical Machinery Expo 4.19-21

The 16th Qingdao International Auto Industry Exhibition

5.10-15 9.6-11

The 15th China Animal Husbandry Expo 5.18-20

The 15th China International Marine Fair 5.18-21

The 14th Qingdao International Furniture Fair 5.25-28

China (Qingdao) Int'l Fashion Week May

Asia Media Summit 6.6-8

The 3rd Qingdao • China Wealth Forum 6.17-18

Qingdao ISO Forum 6.27-29

The 12th Qingdao International Water Congress 6.27-30

The 19th Shandong International Textile Expo 6.29-7.1

Euro-Asia Digital Connectivity High-level Forum June

The 3rd International Congress on ICT in Education July

China (Qingdao) International Software Convergence & Innovation Expo 7.21-23

Title Date

The 20th China • Qingdao Phoenix Island (Golden Beach) Culture and Tourism Festival

July to September

The 20th Qingdao International Machine Tools Exhibition 8.2-6

The 27th Qingdao International Beer Festival August

The 9th Qingdao International Sailing Week • Qingdao International Marine Festival August The 2nd China (Qingdao) International Ocean Science & Technology Exhibition 9.12-14

The 4th Global Congress of Knowledge Economy 9.19-21

Shandong (Jimo) Automobile Carnival 9.22-28

East Asia Marine Cooperation Platform Huangdao Forum September

World Internet Conference September

The 16th China International Consumer Electronics Show September

Aoshan Euro-Asia Science & Technology Forum & the 4th Qingdao International Technology Transfer Conference September

The 15th China International Meat Expo 10.18-20

Qingdao Global Meeting Industry Day & Meeting Award Fair 10.25-27

World Big Data Summit October

Oceanology China 1-3, November

The 22nd China International Fishery Expo 11.1-3

The 12th EU-China (Qingdao) Business and Technology Cooperation Fair November