China's largest salt logistics center was established in Qingdao on July 8, 2009. The planned area of this center is 200mu, with an investment of 400 million yuan. Once it is finished, it is expected to attain an annual capacity of ten million tons with annual output value of 2 billion yuan.

According to Ji Jiadong, the director of local salt administration, the program will be finished in three phases.

During the first phase, they plan to build a warehouse, distribution equipment and service facility with an investment of 80 million yuan.

150 million yuan will be poured into the second phase. Shandong plans to offer its salt to other six provinces in east China for the chemical industry.

The third phase, with an investment of 170 million yuan, is to expand the use of sea salt and rock salt in Shandong, Henan and Shanxi, three provinces in north China.

By Ji Yuan (China Daily Shandong Bureau)

Editor: Li Jing