Speech by the Governor
Jilin Province is located at the central part of Northeast China, and in the center of Northeast Asia that consists of Japan, Russia, DPRK, ROK, Mongolia and Northeast China. Jilin has the solid industrial foundation that has made great contribution to the economical development of China, therefore it is" the eldest son of our republic". The central plain of Jilin Province is the famous golden corn strip of the world. In the east there are abundant woodland and wild resources; the western ecological grasslands are renowned at home and abroad for teeming with sheep grass, with abundant reserves of oil, coal, oil shale and mineral water. Jilin province has the Changbai Mountain, one of" China's Ten Famous Mountains", the Jilin rime of" China's Four Wonders", Ji'an Koryo historical site of world cultural heritage and the First Film theme park of China-Changchun Film Century Town. Jilin Province has the advanced scientific education system, and the population of scientists, engineers and college students at school for every ten thousand people is on top of our country. Keeping the future in view, Jilin Province shall firmly seize the historical opportunity of vitalizing the old industry base of Northeast China, keeping the scientific development view as the guideline, taking the construction of a compatible society as the goal, fully elevate the industrial competitiveness, deeply implement the open-up driving strategy, create the favorable investment and business environment, soundly put forward the healthy and rapid development of provincial economical construction and social course.
"A bosom afar brings a distant land nearer", 27 million Jilin people are modest and hardworking, Jilin mother earth of 200,000 square kilometers is beautiful and fertile. The open-up and energetic Jilin sincerely welcomes the persons with breadth of vision at home and abroad to visit Jilin for seeking the commercial opportunities and joint development.
Governor of People's Government of
Jilin Province
Wang Ming
Geographic Location
Jilin Province (N 40°52′ - 46°18′, E121°38′-131°19′) is located in the middle part of Northeast China, about 750 kilometers from east to west and 600 kilometers from north to south, with a total area of 187,400 square kilometers which is about two percent of the total area of the country and in the 14th place of the country. To the north of Jilin is Heilongjiang Province, the south is Liaoning Province, the west is Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, the east borders Russia, and the southeast is North Korea, which is separated by a river. By the end of 2005, the administrative area of Jilin Province is as follows: Changchun is the capital of the province, and there are eight Prefecture-level cities, one autonomous prefectures, twenty county-level cities, eighteen counties and three minority autonomous counties in total.
Climate
Jilin Province is in the mid latitude to the east of Eurasia, whose temperate zone is the continental monsoon climate; the four seasons identified clearly, with the heat and rain coming in the same season. In spring, it is dry and windy; in summer, the temperature is high and there is a lot of rain; in autumn, it is cool; and in winter, it is long and cold. The four seasons change evidently. The average temperature of the province is under -11℃ in winter, and above 23℃ in general in summer. The annual range of the temperature in the province is 35-42℃ and the diurnal range is generally 10-14℃ . The frost-free period of the whole year is 100-160 days. The average sunlight duration is 2,259-3,016 hours. The annual average precipitation is 400-600 mm.
Population and Nationalities
By the end of 2005, the total population of Jilin Province was 26.6937 million, among which the population of agriculture was 14.6305 million and the population of non-agriculture was 12.0632 million. Jilin Province is an interracial province locating at the border area with 48 minority ethnic groups apart from Han, and the population of the minority ethnic groups is 2.4534 million. There are four national autonomous regions: Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Qianguo Mongolian Autonomous County, Changbai Korean Autonomous County, and Yitong Manchu race Autonomous County.
Infrastructure and Transportation
Airdrome
The civil aviation career of Jilin province is gradually developing. Now it has formed a aviation network that makes Changchun airdrome as its core, radiating circumjacent nations and areas, and has more than 40 international and domestic airlines, including the international airlines such as the flight course to Hong Kong, Seoul of Korea, Tokyo and Sendai of Japan. Longjia International Airdrome can take in and send out 2.5 million person-times every year. Preparation work to construct Changbai Airport is going along well and rebuilding Yanji Airdrome are steadily promoting. In 2005, the Civil Aviation transport completed 1,233.6 thousand persons and 2,129 million kilometers.
Port
Jilin province is one of the nine land way-border provinces of China. There are 30 ports and passages in total, 6 national first-class ports (Changchun International Voyage Port, Yanji International Voyage Port, Tumen Road Port, Hunchun Railway Port, China-Russia Hunchun Road Port and Quan River Port), 6 national second-class ports, 4 second-class former local border ports, 1 public-business passage, 2 inner railway ports, and 11 temporary goods passed ports. The ports and passages can transport 9 million tons or 0.08 million standard trunks of goods, and transport 7 million persons.
Road
In 2005, the total road mileage of Jilin Province reached 50,308 kilometers, with a road density of 26.8 kilometers per one hundred square kilometers . Except Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture, the Prefecture-level cities of Jilin Province can connect Changchun with arterial road and it is secondary road from city (prefecture) connect county. The freeway mileage was 542.5 kilometers; grading road mileage was 48,487.2 kilometers, county-countryside mileage reached 37,092 kilometers. The quantity of goods road -transport was 274.41 million tons, and the passenger road- transport was 228.7 million persons.
Railway
Changchun is the center of the railway in Jilin Province, with the main line of Changda, Changha, Changtu, Changbai radiating all directions. At present, there are one special grade station (Changchun Station), 7 first-class stations, 19 second class stations and 54 third-class stations. There are 23 main branch lines and 4 linking lines in Jilin Province; the length of the main railway line in Jilin Province is 4,062.7 kilometers; the business mileage of the railway is 3,474.6 kilometers. The quantity of passenger carried by railway transport of Jilin is 46.18 million, and the goods transport is 70.384 million tons.
Finance and Insurance
It is obvious that the role finance plays in supporting and guaranteeing the economy of Jilin is strengthened. In 2005, the deposit balance of RMB and foreign currency was 437.45 billion yuan in financial institution, and the deposit of RMB increased by 57.99 billion yuan. The loan balance of foreign currency was 340.13 billion yuan in the financial institution of Jilin Province. Insurance premium income of the insurance in Jilin Province was 7.572 billion yuan. And the income of property insurance premium was 1.537 billion yuan. The insurance indemnities and payments added up to 1.388 billion yuan.
Main Insurance Institutions
Telecommunication
Post-telecom communications enterprise is developing at a high speed in Jilin Province. In 2005, the total quantity of post and telecommunication service reached 26.16 billion yuan, of which the total quantity of postal service was 1.33 billion yuan, the total quantity of telecommunication was 24.83 billion yuan, the total number of table telephone subscribers reached to 7.686 million, the rate of the telephone subscribers popularization rate was 29 per one hundred persons; the total number of mobile phone subscribers reached 9.157 million, and the rate of using mobile phone was 34 per one hundred persons; the total number of internet subscribers reached 2.237 million.
Foreign Exchanges and
Foreign-related Exposition Jilin province has set up 45 pairs of close friendly cities with other 20 countries, 45 cities. In 2005,34 international exhibition activities were hold in Jilin, which earned more than 0.72 billion Yuan direct income, brought along correlated industry with an income of 6.5 billion Yuan and made a revenue of over 0.6 billion yuan. There were Northeast Asia Exposition, Cars Exposition, Photics Convention, Serac Tourist Day and so on. From September 2-6th of 2005, the first Northeast Asia Exposition was held in Changchun. The Exposition gave three parts of special activities that were commodity trading, investment discussing and professional international conference and business day. 1,900 international-standard exhibit positions were set up. It will be hold yearly in the future.
Higher Education and
Scientific Research The education industry of Jilin Province is comparatively developed. There are 65 colleges and universities such as Jilin University, Northeast Normal University. And there were 92,938 graduates from general higher schools of Jilin in 2005, including 7,471 postgraduates and 53,600 undergraduates.
Jilin Province has the superiority in science and technology, having the strength of science research and exploitation in the technique field of photics, application chemistry, solid physics, electricity information technology, biology technology, advanced manufacture technology, modern agriculture, modern Chinese traditional medicine, and ecology and environmental protection. There are 698 thousand all kinds of professional technicians in Jilin Province, the number of scientists engineers and under-education college students in 10 thousand persons ranking the 6th in China. There are 36 academicians. And Jilin has 14 national key scientific institutions such as Changchun Optical Fine Mechanics and Physics Institute, Application Chemistry Institution and Biological Products Institution, 8 national key laboratories, and 10 national technology centers of enterprise. The science and technology institutions of Jilin Province have achieved the first synthetic rubber, the first microscope, the first optical glass, the first ruby laser, the first red-flag car, the first railway train and subway electric train, the first high resolution nuclear magnetic spectrometer of China and the first breeding soybean of cytoplasm-nuclear male sterile line from inter specific cross of the world.
Tourism
In 2005, Jilin Province took in 28.88 million tourists in and out of the country, earning 22.92 billion Yuan.
Natural and Human Landscape
The Changbai Mountain in the east is a mystery to the world with sky pond in the mountains and rarenesses in the woods. The sky pond of the Changbai Mountain is the biggest crater lake of China, and the waterfall of the Changbai Mountain is the headwaters of Songhua River, Tumen River and Yalu River. The Grand Canyon of the Changbai Mountain is very great and barren. The Jilin rime is praised as one of the four natural wonders. Songhua Lake is the country's key scenery spot. The Sanjiaolong Bay of Huinan is the typical vent of the ancient volcano. Jingyue Pond of Changchun is the national forest park , which is the biggest of the man-made forest in Asia. Xianghai natural reserve of Tongyu is awarded" A" natural reserve recorded into the world famous wetland directory. Ji'an Gaogouli is famous to the world for being a world cultural heritage, its General Grave is so grand that it is called "east pyramid", and the Haotaiwang Stele is the treasure of national stele art. The ancient city of Huanglong mansion lying in Nong'an county was the important town of military affairs of Liao and Jin dynasty and the center of the politics and economy, and the" Liao Tower" in the county is known to the world.
Tour Products
Ginseng, marten and velvet. Jilin is the biggest producing area of genseng with 85 percent of ginseng output of China, 70 percent of the world. Sable is the national first class protected animal, whose fur is the best of all. Jilin Province is the home of sported dear with the annual average production of velvet over 1/3 of the nation.
Doing Business in Jilin Province of China:II.Economy
Doing Business in Jilin Province of China:III.Investment
Doing Business in Jilin Province of China:IV.Development Zones
