Jining is a famous cultural city and an important transportation hub
Jining was the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, and an important origin of the Confucian culture and the Chinese civilization. Jining was home to five great sages, namely Confucius, Mencius, Yanzi, Zengzi and Zisizi. Qufu and Zoucheng are two national historical and cultural famous cities, and the temple and cemetery of Confucius and the Kong family mansion and the Grand Canal are world cultural heritages.
Jining is one of the central cities of the Huaihai Economic Zone and is located at the golden section point between Beijing and Shanghai. Through the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, it take only 2 hours to Beijing and 3 hours to Shanghai from Qufu Station; the Grand Canal runs through the city, providing a shipping capacity of 100 million tons; Jining Airport also has flights directly to and from major cities across the country.
Jining has abundant resources
Jining has coal reserves of more than 25 billion tons, and an annual output of 80 million tons of raw coal, over half of the output of Shandong; rare earth reserves ranking the second across the country; an installed power capacity of 12 million kilowatts, and an annual power generating capacity of more than 55 billion kWh. Nansi Lake is the largest freshwater lake in northern China. Jining is a national base of grain, cotton and oil, and a special agricultural product base. Jinxiang garlic, Yutai rice, and fishing and lake products of Weishan Lake are all well-known geographical brands.
Jining is a regional thriving city
Jining has built many national industrial bases for such sectors as coal chemical industry, engineering machinery, biomedicine and new materials. Yankuang Group ranks the 318th among the Fortune Global 500, while Sun Paper, Hixih Rubber Industry Group and Ruyi Technology Group are listed among the Fortune China Top 500 Enterprises. Jining has one national high-tech zone and 14 provincial economic development zones, which show huge investment capacity and high investment carrying capacity.
