Foreign trade

Jinan's foreign trade value totaled 1.14 trillion yuan ($179.83 billion) in 2021, up 7.2 percent from that in 2020, according to statistics from the Jinan municipal bureau of commerce. Exports increased by 17.2 percent to 75.5 billion yuan while imports surged by 30.7 percent to 62.76 billion yuan. 

Sister City

Since establishing relationships with its first sister city Wakayama, Japan, in 1983, Jinan currently has 27 international sister cities and maintains friendly cooperative exchanges with 52 foreign cities across five continents, including Sacramento in the United States, Coventry in the UK, Vantaa in Finland, as well as Nizhni Novgorod in Russia.