Shenyang is the capital of Liaoning Province, the center of economy, culture, transportation and trade in Northeast China along with national important industrial base and famous historical and cultural city. Shenyang governs nine districts, one city and three counties, with total area of 13,000 sq.km, urban area of 3495 sq.km, a population of 7.204 million and urban population of 5.066 million.

Shenyang is located in the south of northeastern region, central section of Liaoning Province where plain dominates the area, mountains and hills concentrate in the southeast, Liaohe River, Hunhe River and Xiushui River and so on run through. Shenyang is of the semi-humid continental climate of temperate zone. The temperature in the whole year is between -29°C to 36°C and average temperature is 8.3°C, the amount of precipitation of the whole year is 500mm and frost-free period is 183 days a year. Shenyang is featured with concentrated precipitation, big difference in temperature and distinct four seasons as affected by monsoon.

Shenyang is the largest central city in northeast region. It is located at the center of economic circle of northeast Asia and Ring-Bohai economic circle, and has an important strategic position. In the scope centering on Shenyang and with semidiameter of 150 kilometers, it integrates 8 large cities which focuses on basic industry and processing industry, forming a city agglomeration in mid Liaoning which has rich resources, strong structure complementarity, and high technical relevance. Shenyang has the largest civil airport in northeast region, nationally biggest railway marshalling station, and “One Ring and Five Radiation” expressway network of national top grade. Dalian Port which connects various big ports in the world, Yingkou New Port and Jinzhou Port under development and construction are not more than 400 kilometers from Shenyang, so Shenyang has an advantaged geographical and regional advantage. As the central city of the northeastern region, Shenyang has a strong attraction, radiation and driving force to peripheral region even the whole country.

Shenyang has technical and human resources advantages for developing manufacture. In Shenyang, there are 140 independent state-, province- and city-level scientific research institutes, 28 institutions of higher learning, more than 300,000 persons of various specialized technical personnel and more than 500,000 technical industrial workers. Here, you can find all kinds of technical personnel required for manufacture.

Shenyang is in possession of strong economic strength. In 2006, Shenyang achieved GDP RMB 248.25 billion yuan, an increase of 16.5% over last year, which created the highest increase in passed 14 years; total investment in fixed assets completed RMB 179.03 billion yuan, created a new record and went up 31.3%; total retail sales of consumer goods achieved RMB 104.87 billion yuan, went up 14.6% which is the highest increase in passed five years; foreign investment actual utilized was USD 3.04 billion, went up 43.4%, which firstly broke USD 3.0 billion; Non-state owned economy achieved value added of RMB 153.9 billion yuan which accounted for 62% of the whole city’s GDP and has been the leading strength to drive the economic increase; local finance revenue was RMB 23.64 billion yuan, went up 30.3%, and has kept an increase speed of over 30%; per capita disposal income of urban citizen was up to RMB 11,651.4 yuan, went up 15.4%; per capita net income of farmer was up to RMB 5,712 yuan, went up 13.1%, and has kept rapid increase. The increase of main economic index stood the top among national sub-province cities.