Brief Introduction of Shangrao 　　Shangrao is located in the north-east of Jiangxi Province, between 27°34’-29°34’ of north latitude, and 116°13’-118°29’ of east longitude, Quzhou City of Zhejiang Province to the east, Wuyishan City of Fujian Province to the south, Huangshan City of Anhui Province to the north, Nanchang City to the west and next to Poyanghu Lake, and always be the place of “passageway of four provinces” and “the superior rich land”. It occupies an area of 22.8 thousands square kms., has a population of 6.7 million. In 2007, its GDP was 52.8 billion yuan, and the revenue was 5.54 billion yuan. It is the second biggest city of Jiangxi Province and one of the four important regional developing cities of the province, the open city approved by the State Council, commanding Shangrao, Guangfeng, Yushan, Yanshan, Hengfeng, Yiyang, Wuyuan, Wannian, Yugan, Poyang ten counties and Xinzhou District, taking the management of Dexing City. 　　Remarkable advantages in position and transport. Shangrao is the nearest city with district to Changjiang Delta, is the forefront of Changjiang Delta, Zhujiang Delta and south-east of Fujian Delta and the inner place of south-east coastal developed areas. The five expressways of Hukun (Shanghai-Kunming of Yunnan), Jiujing (Jiujiang-Jingdezhen), Jingwuhuang (Jingdezhen-Wuyuan-Huangshan), Jingwuchang (Jingdezhen-Wuyuan-Changshan) and Jingying (Jingdezhen-Yingtan) pass through the city. Shangwu (Shangrao-Wuyishan city) and Changde (Nanchang-Dexing) expressway are to be built soon. The three railways of Zhejiang-Jiangxi, Anhui-Jiangxi and Hengfeng-Nanping, and the 320 and 206 National Highways connect seven outward roads from east to west, from south to north. It is one to three hours’ drive from Shangrao to Wuyishan, Quzhou, Yiwu, Jingdezhen, Nanchang and Hangzhou Airport. Shangrao (Sanqinshan) Airport item has been listed by Jiangxi Provincial Peoples’ Government, and been listed in the “11th Five-year-plan”, its spot selecting almost finished. It is only 4 hours’ drive to Shanghai, 3 hours’ drive to Hangzhou and 2 hours’ drive to Nanchang. 　　Long history and brilliant culture. As the earliest place with administrative system of Jiangxi Province, Shangrao has a long history of 2000 years from Qin Dynasty and has many world famous people like the Confucian Philosophy Zhu Xi in South Song Dynasty, Father of China railway Zhan Tianyou were all born in this land. It’s also the residence of the painter Yan Liben, Tea Sage Luyu, famous official Fan Zhongyan and poet Xin Qiji. Shangrao also has many historic relics: the Immortal Cave and Diaotong Ring Relics are the earliest birthplaces of rice found in the world, the collections of Wuyuan Museum are brilliant. The operas of Yiyang Tune, Wuyuan Tea Art, Exorcising Dance and Taige Performance, the Geese Lake Institute and Xinjiang Institute are all the emblems of Shangrao’s ancient culture. 　　Elegant ecosystem and unique sceneries. Shangrao is the “China Excellent Tourist City”, the quality of city environment and air are perfect to living, reaching the second grade of national standard. We have many kinds of scenic spots here, plus many ecological environments, typical regions with Chinese marvelous phenomenon and treasured tourist resources. In north-east, there is the “World’s Heritage, World Sanqing Mountain” —“Western Pacific Rim's most beautiful granite”, in the west, lies the China’s biggest fresh water lake, praised as “China’s last clean water” by Primer Wen Jiabao —Poyanghu Lake, in the south, situates the national nature protection zone Huanggangshan Mountain, in the north, locates “China’s most beautiful village” Wuyuan, and in the mid of Shangrao sits “Natural Potted Landscape” Guifeng. 　　Rich resources and cheap cost. We have now explored more than 70 kinds of minerals, more than 500 ores. Metals including copper, gold, silver, lead and zinc the “five golden flowers”; Nonmetals are mainly coal, limestone, marble, inkstone, serpentine, phosphorous rock, black talcum, bentonite clay and so on. Asia's largest copper mine -- the Dexing Copper Mine seated in Shangrao ("Form of Proved Reserves of Main Minerals of Shangrao City " attached). As to the agricultural resources, we have 4.48 million mu of arable land, of which 3.85 million mu of paddy fields, 630 thousand mu of nonirrigated farmland; the forest coverage rate is 58 percent, of which 233,000 hectares forest are 500 meters above, more than 130 million hectares of forest land, living trees volume is 40 million cubic meters, 170 million trunks of bamboo; There are more than 320 large and small rivers through the city, and water for farming of more than 100,000 hectares (Poyang Lake’s surface in Shangrao is up to 1 / 3), hydropower reserves of 1 million KWh, the capacity of developing is more than 60 million KWh; We have humid climate with the average temperature of 16.7-18.2 ℃ and annual rainfall of 1,700 mm, the average annual frost-free period of 266 days. Business costs, Shangrao’s labor, land, water supply, electricity and other rich resources, can adequately protect and meet the development of business; The city's college graduates each year is about 30,000 people, and millions of people work outside. With the completion of the first phase of the project of national Huangjinbu Power Plant and began to produce electricity, which invested 1100 billion yuan and has 2.4 million KW installed capacity, the power support is enough. Complete facilities and perfect environment. Shangrao has improved steadily its open platform for economic development. Shangrao “dry port” collaborated by Shangrao Customs and Ningbo Port Group is being developed and will be open in the end of 2008. "The net fair of the two sides of the Taiwan Straits -- Shangrao Museum" offer investors and enterprises an everlasting platform of the network investments and trade negotiations. Shangrao is the "important national processing trade gradient shifts place" is declaring of national export processing zones positively. We are committed to creating "the best city for investment" brand with "the lowest cost, most efficient, best reputation, the fastest return". we have also won the reputations as: Zhejiang merchants’ (from other provinces) best city for investments, China's best city for Guangdong merchants’ investments, The most Prospective city for investments in the eyes of multinational corporations, World investing in China -- charm of small and medium-sized cities award.