Official name: Shandong Province
Area: 156,700 square kilometers
Population (2009 est.): 95,8 millions
Capital City: Jinan
Official Language(s): Chinese
Currency: Ren Min Bi (RMB)
Regional Leader: Governor: Jiang Daming
Party Secretary: Jiang Yikang
Geography
Shandong Province is located in the eastern coastal area of China and has a 3000 km long coastline on the Yellow Sea. The Huang He flows into the Bohai Golf in Shandong. The main part of the province lies on a plain, but in central an southern Shandong there are also mountains with several peaks more than 100 m high, the most famous of which is the Than Shan (1454 m).
Economy
Shandong Province is one of the country’s leading economies with its total economic strength ranked 3rd. Last year, affected by the impact of the international financial crisis, Shandong was faced with severe difficulties and challenges in its economic development.
At present, Shandong Province, by deepening the implementation of the Scientific Outlook for Development and implementing a pro-active fiscal policy and moderately relaxed monetary policy, strives to make new breakthroughs in energy conservation, emission reduction, transformation of the mode for economic development and readjustment of the industrial structure, new measures on reform and opening up of the economy, and new achievements in benefiting people’s livelihood and ensuring stability.
GDP: 387,6 million Euro (2009)
GDP per head: 4,67 Euro (2009)
Economic growth: 11,6 percent (2009)
Unemployment rate: 3,4 percent (2009)
Politics
Jiang Daming has been Governor of Shandong Province since January 2008 and also member of the 17th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
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Direktion Präsidium
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