Shangluo

    Shangluo is in the interior of Qinling Mountains and in the southeast part of the province, which is the connecting point of 3 provinces, namely Shaanxi, He’nan and Hubei. The city covers an area of 19,300 km2 with a population of 2.43 million. The GDP, fiscal revenue and total investment in fixed assets of Shangluo in 2013 were RMB 51.088 billion, 3.97 billion and 49.616 billion, up by 12.6%, 17.7% and 26.7% respectively. 

    Adhering to the development path of building Shangluo a beautiful, happy city in a scientific way by developing a circular economy and enriching its citizens, Shangluo is working hard to develop itself into a regional central city and the core area of Qinling National Central Park and further, improve the vitality of circular economy and ecological economy.

    In 2013, the city attracted investment capital RMB 30.989 billion. Among the investment projects, 2 projects were invested by National Top 500 enterprises, 10 were hi-tech industrial projects, 23 were major investment projects with investment capital over 500 million yuan each. Now, some investment projects are under construction, such as Luonan Energetic Material R&D Area invested by 204 Research Institute, production capability enlarging project of medical enterprises like Bikang, Panlong, Xiangju and Ouke, circular development project of deep processing of stone coal and vanadium, Xian’e Lake Eco-recreation project and Chinese medicine series products development project.

    Being only 100 km away from Xi’an, now, Shangluo has merged into the one-hour reached economic circle, since all its counties were connected with highway. With a forest coverage rate of 62.3%, that’s why Shangluo owns 4 national forest parks. Shangluo is rich in natural resources, which is known as “the capital of walnut”, “the hometown of chestnut” and “the natural base of medicine”. Besides, the potential value of mineral resources is over RMB 340 billion. 

    As to the improvement of the investment environment, Shangluo has set up the municipal joint conference mechanism for investment promotion,  and has built the enterprise complaint service center. Up to now, the city has conducted activities such as “Evaluation of the Chief by Investors and Merchants”, which added new driving force to the work of investment project construction and optimizing investment environment.