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29 Aug 2011
Xining ( Qinghai ) City Information

Major Economic Indicators (2010)

Land Area (km2) 7,665
Population (million) 2.21
GDP (RMB billion) 62.83
GDP Composition
Primary Industry 3.89%
Secondary Industry
(Industry & Contruction)		 51.05%
Tertiary Industry (Service) 45.05%
GDP Per Capita (RMB) 28,428
Unemployment Rate 4.14%
Fixed Asset Investment (RMB billion) 40.3
Utilized FDI (USD million) N.A.
Total Import & Export (USD million) 666.87
Export (USD million) 396.32
Import (USD million) 270.55
Sales of Consumer Goods (RMB billion) 23.18
Source Source: Xining Economic and Social Development Report 2010

Major Development Zones  

 
Introduction
 
Xining, the capital city of Qinghai province, is also its political, economic and cultural center. It lies to the east of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and the upper reaches of the Huangshui River.

Xining has a typical mainland plateau climate with an average annual temperature of 7.7℃ and an annual rainfall of 425 mm. It experiences mild summers and winters.

Xining is the transportation hub of Qinghai province. It has two important railways, namely, the Lanzhou-Xining and the Xining-Lhasa which connect Qinghai, Gansu and Tibet. High roads like the Qinghai-Xinjiang and the Qinghai-Sichuan extend from Xining. 16 flights from Xining Caojiabao Airport reach Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and so on.

Xining is rich in mineral resources. Its reserves of potassium, magnesium, lithium, iodine, natural sulfur, silica and asbestos rank the first in China.

Xining is also the education center of the province. As of the end of 2009, the city had 9 colleges and universities with a total of 43,782 students, an increase of 3.8% over the year before.
 
Economic Features
 
In 2010, Xining's GDP grew 18.2% from a year earlier to RMB 62.83 billion, accounting for 62% of the province's total.

Xining has formed industrial chains based on machinery, textiles, chemicals, building materials, metallurgy and leather and food processing.

Its foreign trade value increased 50.23% year-on-year to US$666.87 million in 2010, including an export value of US$396.32 million and an import value of US$270.55 million. Ferrosilicon, machine tools, bearings and cotton yarn are major exports of Xining. Japan, South Korea and the U.S. are the most important trading partners of the city.

Tourism is also an important pillar in Xining. In 2010, it hosted 8.89 million tourists, realizing a tourist income of RMB 4.66 billion, up 16.45% year on year.
 
Cultural Highlights
 
In ancient times, Xining was not only an important hinge link between the central plains and the western part of China, but also the most common passing channel of an important stop along the famous Silk Road. Even now, it is still has the only road leading into by which to enter the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Among the 56 ethnic groups in China, about 37 ethnic groups live here, including the Han, Hui, Tu and Tibetans, etc. The local traditions and customs are influenced by them, in especially by particular the Tibetans group.
 
Tourist Attraction
 
Xining is widely considered to be an excellent summer resort combining the brilliance beauty of nature with and rich and unique culture. Both the Ta'er Monastery, one of six famous monasteries in the Gelugpa Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, and the Dongguan Mosque, one of the most famous mosques in the northwest region of China, are really worth going particularly worth visiting.

The Xining region is also replete with natural scenic attractions such as Riyue (Sun and Moon) Mountain, Bird Island and, Qinghai Lake, etc. and so on. In Xining, restaurants serve foods with a "plateau flavor", such as Feng'er Liji (a round lamb tenderloin), Danbai Chongcao Ji (a medicinale cuisine made of chicken, Chinese caterpillar fungus and eggs), and Jinyu Facai (pork wrapped in flabelliform nostoc and shaped as a goldfish) among others.
 
Major Development Zones
 
By the end of 2010, Xining had one state-level development zone.

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