Huaiyin is one of the four main districts in Jinan, covering an area of 151.48 square kilometers with 600,000 permanent residents. It is becoming "a new threshold of Shandong, a new trade zone of Jinan, a new center of the city and a new cultural highland".

Huaiyin adheres to the policy of integration and opening-up and has actively joined the economic group of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the area around the Bohai Sea, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Central Plains, thus accumulating a wide-ranging flow of capital, technology, products, industries, and talent.

Vigorous Huaiyin

Huaiyin is prominent for its high-quality development. In recent years, its local financial revenue increased from 1.4 billion yuan ($200 million) to 4.56 billion yuan; GDP increased from 26.34 billion yuan to 46.6 billion yuan; and investment increased from 4.28 billion yuan to 11.0 billion yuan.

It is estimated that by 2020, the local financial revenue will reach 7.2 billion yuan; GDP will reach 57 billion yuan; and investment will reach 18 billion yuan.

Transportation advantages

High-speed rail, highways, light rails, long-distance transport, and passenger transport blend seamlessly in Huaiyin, forming a sound transport system. It is a 30-minute drive to Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport, which connects more than 110 large- and medium-sized cities at home and abroad.

The Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway runs through the west of Jinan. The newly-operated Renaissance high-speed train only takes 1.3 hours to Beijing and three hours to Shanghai. Its yearly operating capacity ranks second in China. The 1.5 hour high-speed rail economic circle covers nearly 300 million people.

The three-hour high-speed rail economic circle links with three municipalities, reaching out to six provinces, accounting for 10 percent of the land area, 37 percent of the national population and 43 percent of nationwide GDP.

Ecological advantages

Huaiyin district enjoys wetland of 50 square kilometers and hot spring resources with an average of 3,000 cubic meters water volume. Jinan West Wetland Park, covering an area of 33 square kilometers, is the largest state-level wetland park in the northern region of the Yangtze River.