Modern service industry is developing rapidly. Modern Binzhou Logistics Center has taken shape, while Binzhou International Exhibition Center is completed and put to use and the Olympic Park underway. Contests and activities such as the Home-textile Festival, Water Dual Match between Chinese and American Stars, the Zhanhua Winter Dates Festival and the International Boxing Opera Festival are held successively, while the exhibition economy is flourishing. Binzhou is deepening its development over offering a trustworthy cooperative environment, which has made great achievement successively in four Bank-Enterprise Cooperation Conferences and has got 106.7 billion yuan of contracts. Meanwhile, with the project of “Four Round-cities and Five Waters” and the great Strategist Su Tzu as its labels, Binzhou vigorously integrates tourist resources and gradually forms the tourist layout of “Two Mountains (Heban Mountain and Yeshi Mountain), Two Areas (areas along the Yellow River and the sea) and One Sage(Sun Tzu)” with Binzhou features.

Over these years, Binzhou has built the strategic systems of “Nine Binzhous” (Well-off Binzhou, Open Binzhou, Eco Binzhou, Trustworthy Binzhou, Scientific and Educational Binzhou, Talents Binzhou, Civilized Binzhou, Man-oriented Binzhou and Peaceful Binzhou), freed people’s mind, and worked scientifically. All these efforts lead to the favorable economic momentum of rapid and steady development, sound benefit, robust development potential and enormous changes.

In 2008, the city’s gross production was 123 billion yuan, rising by 12.7%; the urban per capita disposable income was 15960 yuan, increasing by 14.9%; while rural farmers’ per captia income was 5700 yuan, increasing by 14.3%. The city’s gross agricultural production is 24billion yuan, increasing by 5%. Value-added of large-scale industries is 66.06 billion yuan, increasing by 13%. Great progress has been made in opening up to the outside. The total volume of imports and exports will reach 4.62 billion dollar, increasing by 37.5％; among which, the volume of export will be 2.32 billion dollar, increasing by 23.2%. And 0.3 billion dollar of foreign investment has been utilized, increasing by 19.4%.

By Chen Weihong (Shandong Bureau)