Liaoning is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization with a long history and profound cultural heritage. The Hongshan culture found in Chaoyang boasts a history of more than 6,000 years. Liaoning is named after the Liaohe River Basin, which means “everlasting tranquility”. The province has 14 provincial-level cities and the Shenyang-Fushun reform and innovation demonstration zone, 100 counties and urban areas, with a land area of 148,000 square kilometers and a topographic overview of “60 percent of mountains and 10 percent of water and 30 percent of fields”. The climate belongs to the temperate continental monsoon climate, with four distinct seasons, concentrated rainfall and abundant sunshine. The province has a resident population of 41.97 million, with an urbanization rate of 73.51%. As an important industrial base of the country, Liaoning has remarkable development advantages, distinctive industrial characteristics and strong economic support capacity and is an crucial growth pole of the national economy, which plays a pivotal role in the overall development of the country.

  Unique Location Advantages. Located in the south of China's northeastern region, adjacent to the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea in the south, Liaoning shares the mainland coastline of 2,292.4 kilometers. The province is the only both coastal and border provinces in the northeast region, but also the gateway to open up to the outside world for Northeast China and the eastern part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The province is situated in the center of Northeast Asia, adjacent to North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Russia and Mongolia, and geographically close to Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Bohai Economic Rim. It serves as an important window for opening up to the north in the construction of “the Belt and Road Initiative “and the only coastal province in Northeast China and a major channel to the sea. In addition, it is an important land and sea gateway and frontier zone in China to dock with Northeast Asia and communicating with Eurasian Land Bridge, holding an important position in the Bohai Economic Rim.

  Perfect transportation facilities. The operating mileage of railroads in the province is 6,756 kilometers, ranking the 6th in China. Among them, there are 2,214 kilometers of high-speed railways, ranking 10th in the country, and the China-European Trains (Liaoning) Shenyang-Belaya Moskva Great Passage has been opened. The province runs highway mileage of 132,000 kilometers and is the first in the country to to establish highway networks between the land counties and counties. 96% of the townships (streets) in the province are connected to national and provincial highways, and 100% of the natural villages (groups) in a position are connected to hardened roads. Liaoning has the most smooth and perfect air port network in Northeast China, with 8 civil aviation airports in Shenyang, Dalian, Anshan, etc., opening 562 international and domestic routes; it has 6 ports such as Dalian, Yingkou, Dandong, Jinzhou, Panjin and Huludao, and 260 production berths above 10,000 tons in capacity, opens 195 international and domestic container liner routes, and connects to ports in more than 160 countries and regions in the world.

  Strong industrial foundation. As the cradle of China’s modern industry, Liaoning Province has a complete industrial system classification. In the national economic industry classification, Liaoning boasts 40 broad categories out of 41 (no other mining industry), 197 out of 207 middle categories, and more than 500 out of 666 sub-categories, making it one of the most complete provinces in the country in terms of industrial industries. The existing crude oil processing capacity has reached 145 million tons per year, ranking 2nd in China, ethylene production capacity of 4.5 million tons per year ranks 3rd in the country; Both PX production capacity of 6.9 million tons per year and PTA production capacity of 18.4 million tons per year rank 2nd in China; and crude steel production of 73.44 million tons ranks 4th across the country.

  Outstanding strength of scientific research. The province has 61 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, 114 colleges and universities such as Dalian University of Technology and Northeastern University, and 6 scientific research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences including Shenyang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and Research Institute of Metals. The province houses 12,900 high-tech enterprises, the total number of 33,500 science and technology-based SMEs and 5,338 eagles, gazelles and unicorns cultivated. It produces eight state-level high-tech zones, ranking 6th in China. There are 48 national enterprise technology centers and 9 national engineering research centers, ranking the 4th in China. There are 69 provincial-level incubators and 16 university science and technology parks.

  Profound cultural heritage. Liaoning has six world cultural heritages including the Great Wall at Jiumen Gate, Wunvshan Mountain City, Shenyang Imperial Palace and Zhaoling, Fuling, Yongling, etc. The culture of Three Yan States, the culture of Liao and Jin Dynasties and the culture before Qing Dynasty witnesses the national integration and influences the course of history. Liaoning is abundance in tourism resources, with 1,854 travel agencies, 582 national A-class tourist attractions, including 7 5A-class tourist attractions; 39 tourist resorts above the provincial level, and 15 tourist and leisure neighborhoods above the provincial level, including 4 at the national level. Dalian’s seaside scenery, Benxi’s Maple Leaf and Karst Cave, Panjin’s “Red Beach”, Anshan’s Jade Buddha, Jinzhou’s Bijia Mountain, Fuxin’s Begonia Mountain and other wonders, attracting a large number of tourists from home and abroad every year to come for sightseeing tours.

  Broad cooperation platforms. Liaoning is an open coastal province. At present, the United States, Russia, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea have established consulates in Shenyang, with 230 countries and regions around the world to make the economic and trade friendly exchanges. Liaoning has 97 economic development zones above the provincial level, one state-level border economic cooperation zone, three pilot free trade zones (PFTZs) in Shenyang, Dalian, and Yingkou, six state-level comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zones, 13 open ports, and five comprehensive bonded zones. All kinds of open platform vehicles have good policy, abundant resource and outstanding industrial advantages.

  Liaoning comprehensive revitalization has ushered its times, gained its momentum and its rise can be expected. With the love of mountains and the sea, Liaoning is known as a vast and peaceful land, and the open province is looking forward your visit!