The total contracted investment of 94 key foreign investment projects in Shandong was US$11.44 billion, and the contracted foreign investment amount was US$4.4 billion. This newspaper reported that in mid-spring, everything was launched, which is the season of sowing hope. On Mar

94 key foreign investment projects in Shandong signed contracts

total investment amount was US$11.44 billion, and the contract foreign investment amount was US$4.4 billion

This newspaper Jinan In mid-spring, everything is in full swing, which is the season of sowing hope. On March 18, Shandong held a concentrated signing ceremony for key foreign investment projects. The total investment of the 94 foreign-invested projects signed was US$11.44 billion, and the contracted foreign investment was US$4.4 billion, covering high-end equipment manufacturing, new generation information technology, new energy and new materials, medical care and health, modern agriculture, modern service industry and other fields. Their common characteristics are high technical content, strong driving capabilities, and good development prospects.

Zhaozhuang Mayor Zhang Hongwei introduced that the four project investors signed in Zaozhuang this time are from South Korea, Singapore and other places, with a total investment of US$382 million, including 2 manufacturing projects, 1 modern commercial logistics industry project, and 1 new generation information technology project. "These projects are highly in line with the development direction of Shandong's top ten industries."

Last year, Zaozhuang launched 117 new foreign-invested projects, a year-on-year increase of 98.3%; the actual use of foreign capital exceeded US$300 million, a year-on-year increase of 110.6%, ranking fourth in the province. In the first two months of this year, Zaozhuang actually used foreign capital of US$53.89 million, ranking second in the province.

strives to build a new highland for opening up to the outside world, and Zaozhuang's "report card" is representative in the province. Last year, Shandong fully played the leading role of the Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration in ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, and innovatively held a dialogue between Shandong-Japan and Shandong Industrial Cooperation Exchange Conference, a series of special events for "Shandong and the Fortune 500 Connection" and other special events. The total foreign trade import and export volume increased by 7.5%, reaching 2.2 trillion yuan. 3,060 new foreign-invested enterprises were established in the province, an increase of 21%. In the first two months of this year, 316 new foreign-invested enterprises were established, an increase of 31%.

With the full implementation of the Foreign Investment Law and the continuous deepening of reforms such as "one window acceptance, one-time application", "one industry, one certificate", and other reforms, Shandong's business environment continues to improve, and more and more investors are optimistic about Shandong, choose Shandong, and start a business in Shandong. Last year, 2.21 million new market entities were registered in the province, including nearly 800,000 enterprises.

Huaxin Lihua is a well-known enterprise in the field of wire and cable. It has invested and started in Yantai since 2007. In 2018, Yantai Huaxin's registered capital increased to US$335 million, becoming one of the top 100 foreign-invested enterprises in Shandong's total investment. This time, the company increased its capital by US$650 million to start the construction of an intelligent deep processing project for new stainless steel materials, and its products will be widely used in aerospace, automobiles and other fields.

"Our new project encountered many difficulties in the process of promoting it. With the strong support and help of relevant departments of Shandong Province and Yantai City, all problems have been resolved one by one. At present, all construction procedures have been completed." Through the video, Jiao Youlun, chairman of Taiwan Huaxin Lihua Co., Ltd., strongly promoted to the majority of foreign investors, "Shandong is a place with a very good investment environment."

Jiao Youlun said that Shandong is a major economic province, and it is very attractive in terms of climate, resources, infrastructure and investment environment. In recent years, he has participated in major events such as the first Confucian Business Conference, the Cross-Strait New and Old Kinetic Energy Conversion Summit Forum, Shandong-Taiwan Economic and Trade Negotiation Conference, and his cooperation with Shandong has become increasingly greater.

seizes the opportunity of reshaping and adjusting the global industrial layout, Shandong implements the industrial ecology optimization and improvement plan for "one industry, one policy", vigorously cultivates a group of modern advantageous industrial clusters of hundreds of billions, 300 billions, 500 billions, and trillions of dollars, and accelerates the formation of a good industrial ecology. In this regard, key foreign investment projects play an important driving role.

High-end equipment manufacturing industry is one of the "Top Ten" modern advantageous industrial clusters that Shandong is focusing on making it stronger and better. German Kelexun is the first European and fourth largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in the world. Since 2016, the company has invested more than 200 million yuan in Shandong for five consecutive years, of which 500 million yuan was invested in product research and development and technological transformation in 2020. This time they signed a contract with Gaomi City for a large-scale combine harvester project with an investment of more than US$50 million.

, chairman of Keleho Agricultural Machinery (Shandong) Co., Ltd., said that the new product adopts the world's most advanced tangential axial flow technology and will be sold to Europe, South America, Southeast Asia and other countries. “Gaomi has become an important part of Kelexun’s global production network.Introducing advanced German technology will enhance China's agricultural machinery technology level and the competitiveness of Shandong's equipment manufacturing industry cluster. ”

In order to improve the industrial chain and supply chain system, and to make medical devices, electronic information, new materials and other characteristic industrial clusters bigger, stronger and better, this year Weihai formulated and implemented a three-year action plan to optimize and improve investment, focusing on foreign investment, targeting foreign investment, manufacturing, key technologies and core components to carry out targeted investment promotion. Weihai Mayor Yan Jianbo said: "After the project signing, our project team will follow up the whole process, strive to start construction as soon as possible, put into production and achieve results as soon as possible, optimize the city's industrial chain and supply chain through investment promotion and project construction, and accelerate the service to build a new development pattern. "

Relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Commerce said that this year, Shandong will promote investment promotion and talent recruitment with greater efforts in accordance with the requirements of one batch of production, one batch of construction, one batch of construction, one batch of reserves, and one batch of planning, and carefully organize economic and trade activities such as the second multinational company leader Qingdao Summit and the Deepening of Shandong-Hong Kong-Macao-Taiwan Cooperation Promotion Conference, and make good use of various online and offline methods to ensure that project docking is continuous and investment promotion is continuous, and promote high-level opening up with high-quality projects.

(Zhao Hongjie Zhao Feng)

"Lean Egg" to welcome the Spring Equinox

There is a proverb in China that "Spring Equinox is here, eggs are pretty".

March 20 is the vernal equinox in the 24 solar terms. Runze Kindergarten of Wenhua Road Primary School in Shizhong District, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province carried out the "Lean Egg" vernal equinox Activities. The teacher told children the folk stories of "Lean Egg" and played the "Lean Egg" game together, and enjoyed the education of children to increase their knowledge and welcome the arrival of the Spring Equinox.

(Ji Zhe Photo)

Last year, Shandong's actual use of investment in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan increased by 22.4% year-on-year

This newspaper Jinan News reporter learned from a press conference held by the Provincial Government Information Office that in 2020, Shandong insisted on deepening economic and trade cooperation with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and actually used investment in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan exceeded US$13.68 billion, a year-on-year increase of 22.4%, accounting for 77.5% of the province, of which Hong Kong investment was 13.52 billion US dollars, Taiwan investment was 120 million US dollars, and Macau investment was 45.74 million US dollars; import and export trade with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan was 87.19 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39%, accounting for 4% of the province. "It can be said that Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are the fundamentals of the province's use of foreign investment. "Zhang Qingwei, full-time deputy director of the Shandong Multinational Corporation Research Center, said.

From the perspective of industrial structure, the proportion of manufacturing investment in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan reached 13.8%, an increase of 2.1 percentage points over 2019, and the increase reached 44.7%, 22.3 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of investment in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The manufacturing industries such as equipment manufacturing, new generation information technology, new energy and new materials, and transportation equipment are becoming new growth points for investment in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The investment in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan accounted for 77% of the modern service industry, an increase of 0.6 percentage points over the previous year, with an investment of US$10.53 billion. From the perspective of investment regional distribution, the investment in Shandong covers 16 cities, and the four cities of Qingdao, Jinan, Yantai and Weihai actually used US$9.3 billion in foreign capital, accounting for 68% of the province. At the same time, Liaocheng, Zaozhuang, Dongying, Linyi, Jining and other cities have doubled their actual use of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan investment, up 284.5%, 120.6%, 115.6%, 109.3%, and 105% year-on-year respectively. Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan investment in central and western Shandong is constantly accelerating, with huge potential.

financial field has always been the focus of Shandong-Hong Kong cooperation. Hong Kong is the first choice for Shandong companies to go abroad to go public, and it is also the most important platform for Shandong companies to raise overseas financing. In 2020, 4 companies in Shandong were successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with a total financing of 7.866 billion yuan. As of now, Shandong has accumulated 55 listed companies in Hong Kong, accounting for 47.4% of the total number of overseas listed companies in the province, and a total financing of 107.96 billion yuan in Hong Kong, accounting for 86% of the province's overseas financing amount.

(Zhang Wenting )

Shandong has fully launched vaccination for people aged 18-59.

. 2.378 million people have been vaccinated, the total amount of vaccination in the country is the third in the country. This newspaper Jinan Shandong Provincial Government Information Office recently held a press conference to introduce the progress of Shandong's new coronavirus vaccination work.As of March 17, Shandong has invested 2,188 vaccination units and 207 temporary vaccination sites, with a total of 4.089 million doses of vaccination and 2.378 million vaccinated personnel, ranking third in the country in the total number of vaccinations, among which the vaccination rate of imported cold chain practitioners reached 100%, and the vaccination rate of medical and health personnel reached 91.1%. At present, the overall vaccination work for key groups in the province is progressing smoothly, and the incidence of abnormal reactions is within the expected range.

The new coronavirus vaccine currently used in Shandong is an inactivated vaccine produced by two manufacturers, and the entire process is two doses. According to the instructions, the number of days between vaccination of the two manufacturers vaccinated vaccination varies slightly, but the results of clinical trials and expert recommendations believe that the immunization effect is better at 3-4 weeks. Regarding the issue of vaccine replacement, vaccines from the same manufacturer should be used for two doses of vaccination. Starting from now on, Shandong will gradually open online appointment and vaccination record query functions for mobile application terminals such as Jinmiaobao APP, Health Shandong Service Number, and Health Code, and implement multi-platform precise appointments. At the

press conference, Ma Lixin, deputy secretary of the Party Group of the Provincial Health Commission and secretary of the Party Committee of the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that Shandong has formulated an implementation plan for vaccination costs and established a provincial unified procurement, unified settlement and unified allocation mechanism. A vaccination work leading group will be established step by step, local management responsibilities will be implemented, and the vaccination work responsibility grid will be scientifically divided to the smallest unit, and the survey and statistics of the recipients will be carried out in advance, and vaccination will be organized scientifically and in an orderly manner. Vaccination medical treatment and protection expert groups have been established in every county (city, district), and comprehensive hospitals at level 2 or above are organized to divide the responsibility areas to ensure that each vaccination site has personnel on duty at level 2 or above, and each temporary vaccination site has ambulances on site, equipped with necessary first aid equipment and medicines.

Next step, Shandong will add vaccination sites. On the basis of making full use of the existing vaccination clinics (stations) and vaccination stations set up by factories, mines, enterprises, and schools, all medical institutions at all levels and types in the province that meet the vaccination conditions will be included in the mobilization scope. The health and health departments in the jurisdiction will arrange them uniformly. According to the needs of vaccination services, existing facilities and coverage areas, the vaccination unit information will be reasonably planned and added, and the vaccination unit information will be announced to the public to facilitate residents to receive vaccination services nearby. For remote and scattered rural areas, a "mobile vaccination team" will be formed to go to the people to provide vaccination services. At the

press conference, this round of COVID-19 vaccines will be free of charge. Vaccination subjects who meet the national requirements can receive free COVID-19 vaccines within the national agreed price range regardless of whether they participate in basic medical insurance. The recipients will not bear any costs. The cost of vaccination and vaccination is borne by the medical insurance fund, and the finance department will provide subsidies to the medical insurance fund based on the actual cost of vaccination and vaccination.

Regarding the quality supervision of the circulation of new coronavirus vaccines, Shi Guosheng, deputy director of the Provincial Drug Administration, introduced that the Shandong regulatory department has dispatched 21,000 inspectors and inspected 7,236 disease control agencies and vaccination units, achieving full coverage inspections. Shandong will continue to carry out vaccine quality law enforcement inspections. The drug regulatory department will promptly grasp the vaccination plan and vaccination units in its jurisdiction, carry out targeted inspections on vaccine storage, transportation and other links, and strive to ensure that quality supervision will follow wherever vaccine storage and transportation go.

(Yu Xinyue)

2035 major coastal ports in Shandong strive to build world-class ports

This newspaper Jinan The General Office of Shandong Provincial Government recently issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of World-Class Marine Ports", which put forward specific opinions from five aspects: scientifically setting the development path of first-class ports, deepening the construction of smart green and safe ports, focusing on improving the development level of ports, accelerating the construction of a new pattern of land-sea linkage opening, deepening reform, and continuously enhancing the vitality of endogenous development.

The "Opinions" proposes to formulate medium- and long-term plans for the development of coastal ports in the province, improve the wisdom, greenness and safety of the ports, promote the transformation to hub ports, trade ports, and financial ports, and strive to build a modern port group with complete functions, efficient services, outstanding characteristics, and comprehensive leading.At the same time, we will study and formulate a world-class marine port index system. In 2021, the province's coastal port cargo throughput and container throughput will reach 1.75 billion tons and 33.5 million TEUs respectively, and in 2025, it will reach 2 billion tons and 40 million TEUs respectively, basically reaching the world-class level; in 2035, the province's coastal port development level will jump significantly, and major coastal ports will be built into internationally leading world-class ports.

, in terms of focusing on improving port intelligence and green development, has carried out in-depth pilot projects for the construction of smart ports with strong transportation countries, promoted the construction of key projects such as automated terminals and smart management platforms, and deepened the application of port scenarios such as 5G, Beidou, and the Internet of Things. By 2025, professional terminal operations of dry bulk cargo above 50,000 tons will be basically automated.

The "Opinions" propose to build an international hub and seaport in Qingdao Port, and accelerate the construction of an international container transportation hub in Northeast Asia and an important global energy raw material transfer and distribution base. Extend and expand logistics chains such as cold chain and complete vehicles, and accelerate the upgrade from transportation and logistics hubs to supply chain hubs and industrial chain integration platforms. Explore the domestic and international transit business of foreign trunk ships in bonded port areas. By 2025, the proportion of container transit will reach 18%.

In addition, the Lingang cross-border e-commerce industrial park will be built in the Shandong Free Trade Pilot Zone to create the first choice for entry of Japanese and Korean goods. Develop spot commodity trading market and form a Northeast Asia maritime trade interoperability index with international influence by 2022. Promote port enterprises to list and issue bonds at home and abroad. Promote the deep integration of financial businesses such as ports and banks, vigorously develop full-process services such as Hong Kong and airline property insurance, personal insurance, shipping credit, and shipping transactions, and research and develop internationally influential shipping financial products such as freight derivatives and bulk cargo forward transactions.

In order to expand cooperation, it encourages the provincial state-owned backbone port enterprises to cooperate with well-known domestic and foreign shipping companies such as COSCO Shipping and Maersk to add new international shipping routes, build a route system with complementary domestic and foreign trade, supporting trunk and branch lines, and both near and far-sea, and create five major advantageous route groups for Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, India, Pakistan, and Europe and the United States. By 2025, the number of foreign trade routes will reach 278.

At the same time, improve the layout of inland ports, expand the functional hinterland of seaports, and promote the integrated and intensive aggregation of production chains, supply chains and resource chains in the Yellow River Basin. By 2025, 50 inland ports will be built. Establish a cooperation linkage mechanism between the port and the "Qilu" Eurasian freight train to broaden the channels for cross-border cargo distribution and transit transportation. Improve the efficiency of China-South Korea international passenger and cargo roll-off liner transportation, promote the launch of China-South Korea land-sea intermodal transport, and create conditions to strive to launch China-Japan land-sea intermodal transport. Deepen customs clearance cooperation with Japanese and South Korean customs, promote the implementation of customs AEO facilitation measures, and take the lead in realizing the 6-hour release of land-sea integrated vehicle transportation.

(Evergreen)

leverages the "China-Europe Geographical Indications Agreement" Dongfeng

Laizhou Apple opened the door to the EU market

Our newspaper Laizhou News Recently, 21.4 tons of apples from Laizhou Jiahao Food Co., Ltd. were quickly loaded and shipped to the European market. This is the first time that the company has exported Apple after the China-EU Geographical Indications Agreement officially came into effect on March 1. In the agreement, "Yantai Apple" became one of the first batch of China-Europe geographical indication products.

It is understood that the China-EU Geographical Indications Agreement was signed in September 2020 and mainly involves alcohol, tea, agricultural products, food, etc. The agreement will provide high-level protection for both parties' geographical indication products, effectively prevent counterfeit geographical indication products, and enable consumers on both sides to eat and use genuine high-quality products, and also provide strong guarantees for relevant Chinese products to enter the EU market and enhance market visibility.

"At the end of last year, we started to contact the signing of orders from EU customers, but the order volume is not large. Now, the China-EU Geographical Indications Agreement has officially come into effect, and the popularity of "Yantai Apple" has gradually increased in the EU market, and the order volume has increased greatly. We are more confident in exporting apples." said Su Jitao, head of Laizhou Jiahao Food Co., Ltd.

At present, there are 12 registered export factories and 28 registered orchards in Laizhou. In 2020, nearly 13,000 tons of apples were exported."The signing of the China-EU Geographical Indications Agreement has enabled the geographical indication of "Yantai Apple" to obtain EU protection and further enhance the popularity of Yantai Apple in the EU market." Yuan Xilei, head of the Second Section of the Laizhou Customs Inspection Section, told reporters.

(from Chunlong)

Shandong's first prefabricated construction production base for marine industry started construction

This newspaper Haiyang News Recently, Shandong's first prefabricated construction production base for marine industry - the Northern Blue Marine Economic Research and Production Base started construction.

The project mainly serves the construction of marine and seaside projects, with a total investment of about 1.23 billion yuan, and is divided into three phases. The main construction content includes production plant area, pedestal, dock and bank protection, etc., which are divided into production and processing areas, pipe piles and tower steel component storage areas, concrete production areas, steel bar storage processing areas, test materials areas and technology R&D areas and other functional areas. It is reported that after the project is fully put into production, an annual production capacity of 150,000 cubic meters of prefabricated building modules, 200,000 cubic meters of caisson prefabricated components, more than 20,000 tons of steel piles and 20,000 tons of offshore wind power tower structure will be formed. (Evergreen)

The picture is: a simulation diagram of the northern blue marine economic research and production base.