Jilin-China Permanent Virtual Exhibition and Business Directory

Jilin is abundant in natural and mineral resources. It has 27,000 kinds of wild plants, 9,000 kinds of medicinal herbs and 165 discovered minerals. Ginseng, sable and deer antlers, the “Three North eastern Treasures”, renowned both in China and overseas, are specialties of the Jilin Province.

The deposits of oil shale, diatomite, wollastonite, scoria, nickel, molybdenum and mineral water are also among the best in China. Timber production of Jinlin is ranked sixth in the nation.

Despite the international financial crisis, 2009 still witnessed steady and fast economic development trend in Jilin Province. The province’s GDP was 720.318 billion Yuan, increasing by 13.3% year on year; the incremental value of scale industrial enterprises was 292.665 billion Yuan, increasing by 16.8% year on year; the revenues of main businesses of private enterprises increased by 26.2%; the social consumer goods retails increased by 19.0%, all ranking first in China; the total annual fixed assets investments were 725.950 billion Yuan, increasing by 29.5% over the previous year.

Opening-up made a rather great breakthrough. The total accumulative foreign import & export value of Jilin Province was US$ 11.747 billion, decreasing by 11.9% year on year.

The total export value was US$ 3.132 billion, lowering by 34.4% year on year; and the total import value was US$ 8.616 billion, up by 0.6% year on year. The actually-deposited foreign capital of Jilin Province was US$ 3.567 billion, increasing by 18.6% year on year; the foreign direct investment amount increased by 14.7%. 52 of the world top 500 power enterprises had settled in Jilin Province. Jilin Province had attracted RMB 165.601 million from other provinces, marking a year-on-year increase by 35.5%.