Weihai "Hawking" Entrepreneurial City

"We are surrounded by clear water and blue sky in Weihai."

"Weihai is the most suitable place for human settlement."

This is the local environmental advantage of Song Yuanfang, mayor of Weihai, in the Great Hall of the people for the Weihai China International Human Settlement Festival, which will be held from 1 to 5 September.

Weihai is located at the easternmost end of the Shandong Peninsula, surrounded by three sides. In the past 10 years, it has been rated as "the best example of improving the living environment in Dubai" in the past 10 years. Last year, it won the highest award in the field of improving human settlements in the world, the UN Habitat Award.

As the first national health city in China, there is no severe cold in winter and no heat in summer. Nearly 1000 km of coastline twists and turns, the sea is clear, the land is densely covered with mountains and forests, plus more than 80 places of interest and scenic spots (spots), which attracts more than 7 million tourists every year at home and abroad.

It also invested heavily in rebuilding bathing beach, renovated 3 international golf courses, and added fitness equipment to most of the living quarters and parks, plus bars, bowling alley, gymnasium and discos.

Qi Daofu, honorary president of Kunshan Association of Taiwanese businessmen, said that Weihai is home and has returned many times in recent years. The beauty of Weihai is no less than that of Hawaii, the United States.

Wei Dong Day Food Co., Ltd. is a famous Japanese enterprise, the ninth joint ventures operated by the company in China.

Luo Huiming, a graduate of agricultural science from Hokkaido University in Japan, has been the general manager of this company for more than two years.

"The reason why I didn't stay abroad and take the initiative to choose employment in Weihai is mainly to see the first-class human settlement environment here.

The streets are clean and clean, and there is no difference here from abroad. "

Of course, Weihai's hosting of the international human settlement Festival is a necessary step on the basis of this.

At the same time, the eighth annual meeting of the Northeast Asia Economic Cooperation Forum and the Asian Science Park Association (ASPA) will be an exact fact.

As an important maritime pportation hub and foreign trade import and export channel in northern China, Weihai has become one of the hottest areas for global capital to enter the northern market in recent years.

Reporters noted that the names of the staff of the Weihai government were bilingual between China and Korea.

A staff member of the Weihai Municipal Committee explained that due to its special geographical advantages, Weihai has become the largest Korean Enterprise Cluster in China and has more than 1700 Korean enterprises.

Due to the large number of Taiwanese compatriots in Weihai, Taiwan funded enterprises, which have invested in Weihai in recent years, have surged, accumulatively settled in more than 330 Taiwan funded enterprises, and actually utilized Taiwan's capital of 250 million US dollars.

According to statistics, in the more than 14200 industrial enterprises in Weihai, about 1/3 are invested or controlled by outsiders. By the end of 2002, overseas enterprises in more than 50 countries and regions had invested in Weihai, and 1150 foreign-funded enterprises were established. The accumulative total contract utilized foreign capital was 5 billion 320 million US dollars, and the actual utilization of foreign capital amounted to 2 billion 740 million US dollars.

In the course of attracting foreign investment, Weihai has begun to guide and act on all projects such as "tracking service", investors' inspection, project settlement, and formalities. In order to improve the efficiency of administrative examination and approval, the city of Weihai has cancelled, pformed and consolidated 57.6% of the examination and approval matters since 2001. At the same time, it has also specially printed the guide for political examination and approval to the public and increased social pparency.

In the newly built Weihai administrative examination and approval center, there are currently 27 government functional departments to set up counters to carry out face-to-face office work, and 364 items of approval can be completed. The rate of completion is 100%.

When some investors were asked by reporters why they invested in Weihai, they even agreed that environment plus services were the two secrets of turning the "Habitat habitat" into a "city of entrepreneurship".