Searching for Chinese Companies in Qinghai.

The most complete Chinese companies directory of Qinghai in English.

Population: 5,543,000
In 2010, Qinghai’s GDP totaled 135.043 billion yuan.
Qinghai province is briefly named Qing, with Xining as its provincial seat.
Qinghai is an important livestock-breeding center in China. Its livestock includes sheep, yaks and horses. Qinghai produces large quantities of meat, sheep wool, leather and sausage casings for other parts of the country. Qinghai is also an important producer of medicinal materials such as caterpillar fungus, antlers, musk and rhubarb. The province grows spring wheat, highland barley, broad beans, potatoes and rapeseed.
Qinghai is rich in resources such as hydropower, lead zinc, minerals, saline and petroleum and gas. The natural resources have had a great influence in shaping the province’s industry structure, as the pillar industries depend largely on these resources to development. The four pillar industries in the province include the petroleum and natural gas industries, hydropower generating industry, nonferrous metal industry and saline chemical industry. Qinghai heavy industry includes iron and steel production, located near its capital city of Xining. Oil and natural gas from the Chaidamu Basin have also been an important contributor to the economy.
Qinghai Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment rapidly development. Major export items included aluminum and rolled aluminum, silicon, yarn, woolen fiber and carpets. Major export markets included Japan, Hong Kong and the U S. Major import products were aluminum oxide, semi conductors, parts for auto data processing equipment, motor vehicles and chassis. Major sources of imports were Australia, India and Bosnia. Foreign investments in Qinghai were mainly channeled into the manufacturing industries.

Qinghai's economy is amongst the smallest in all of China. Its nominal GDP for 2009 was just 108.1 billion RMB (US$15.8 billion) and contributes to about 0.3% of the entire country's economy. Per capita GDP was 19,407 RMB (US$2,841).

Its heavy industry includes iron and steel production, located near its capital city of Xining. Oil and natural gas from the Chaidamu Basin have also been an important contributor to the economy.

[edit] Economic and Technological Development ZonesXining Economic & Technological Development Zone
Xining Economic & Technological Development Zone (ZETDZ) was approved as state-level development zone in July 2000. It has a planned area of 4.4 square kilometers. XETDZ lies in the east of Xining, the capital city of Qinghai Province, 5 kilometers away from downtown. Located in the east of the province, Xining stands at the upper reaches of the Huangshui River-one of the Yellow River's branches. The city is surrounded by the mountains with an average elevation of 2261 meters and the highest at 4393 meters. Xining Economic and Technological Development Zone (XETDZ) is the first of its kind at the national level on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is established to fulfill the nation's strategy of developing the west.

XETDZ enjoys a convenient transportation system, connected by the Xining-Lanzhou expressway and run through by two main roads, the broadest roads of the city. It is 4 kilometers away from the railway station, 15 kilometers from Xi'ning Airport, a grade 4D airport with 14 airlines to other cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu and Xi'an. Xi'ning is Qinghai province's passage to the outside world, a transportation center with more than ten highways, over one hundred roads and two railways, Lanzhou-Qinghai and Qinghai-Tibet Railways in and out of the city.

It focuses on the development of following industries: chemicals based on salt lake resources, nonferrous metals, and petroleum and natural gas processing; special medicine, foods and bio-chemicals using local plateau animals and plants; new products involving ecological and environmental protection, high technology, new materials as well as information technology; and services such as logistics, banking, real estate, tourism, hotel, catering, agency and international trade.

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