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Tai`an is located in the middle part of Shandong Province, bordering upon Ji`nan, Qufu and Zibo. Because of its important geographical position and convenient traffic conditions, Tai`an becomes the indispensable part of the Eastern Coastal Economy Belt and the Economic Zone around the Bohai Sea. Tai`an is in the region from longitude 116°02`  to 117°59`  east and latitude 35°38`  to 36°28`  north, with 176.6 kilometers in length from east to west and 93.5 kilometers in width from south to north, covering an area of 7,762 square kilometers. It consists of two districts (Taishan District and Daiyue District), two county-level cities (Xintai City and Feicheng City) and two counties (Ningyang County and Dongping County), having a population of 5.5 million people.

Situated in the continental half-moist monsoon climate district of the Temperate Zone, Tai`an enjoys a pleasant climate with an annual average solar radiation amount of 117.9 kilocalories per square centimeter, an annual average sunshine time of 2627.1 hours, an annual average temperature of 12.9℃ and an annual average precipitation of 697mm. The total amount of annual average usable water resource is 1.92 billion cubic meters, among which the amount of usable surface water is 1.39 billion cubic meters.

Tai`an is remarkable for its culture and tourist resources, among which Mount Taishan is popular in the universe. In 1982, Tai`an has been authorized by the State Council, to be among the first group of the tourist city opening to the foreign tourists. The name Tai`an is right derived from Mount Taishan and an idiom "Guo Tai Min An" meaning "The country is prosperous and its civilians live in peace". Relying on the gifted tourist resources of Mount Taishan, Tai`an has been honored with "An Excellent Tourist City of China" and "The National Sanitary City".

Tai`an has a long term of industrial construction and development. It has advantages in the traditional items, such as energy, metallurgy, machinery, electron, chemical industry, building materials, textile, biological medicine, food and beverage. Through the year-long construction and development, a modern high-tech industrial system has been formed and rapidly developed.

Superior Traffic Position
 

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Tai`an is the significant communication hub in East China and the highway and railway extend in all directions. The Beijing-Shanghai Railway goes across the city. The Beijing-Fuzhou Expressway and Beijing-Shanghai Expressway meet in Tai`an. Mount Taishan Station, one of the 21 stations of the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway that is being built, is confirmed to set up in Tai`an. Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport is about 50 minutes` drive to Tai`an. Relying on the well-developed transportation system, it is within 4 hours to the important ports such as Qingdao, Rizhao, Lianyungang; it is within 6 hours to the important domestic cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Zhengzhou by expressway; and it is 1 hour to Seoul of S.Korea and 2 hours to Tokyo of Japan by air. 

Abundant Human Resources

   

Tai`an is one of the three major higher education centers of Shandong Province. At present, it has 5 colleges and universities of Shandong Agricultural University, Shandong University of Science & Technology, Taishan Medical University, Taishan University and Shandong Vocational College of Clothing Technology, and the students at school are nearly 100,000. There are about 35 high-and-medium-sized vocational technical universities and colleges with 80,000 students at school. The advanced, intermediate and elementary professional technical training system is perfect, having trained a large quantity of well-educated, high-quality and high-ability technological staff, who can meet the needs of different work or the work post. The workforce resources in Tai`an are abundant, the price is cheap, the whole quality is relatively high, and the personnel density of accepting medium-and-high-grade education coming out at the top in Shandong Province.

Abundant Mineral Resources
 
Tai`an is abundant in mineral resources. It has the characteristics of large reserves, high grade and wide distribution. More than 50 kinds of proved mineral resources such as coal, iron, copper, gold, alumina, quartzite, ophiolite, gypsum, rock salt, sylvine, natural sulphur, potassium feldspar, cement limestone, asbestos, granite, marble, pottery clay, fireclay, etc. with 50 billion tons of reserves. The reserves of natural sulfur gypsum, rock salt, sylvine rank first place in Shandong Province, the reserves of alumina rank second, the reserves of iron ore rank third and the reserves of coal rank fourth. and is an important base of energy and raw materials in Shandong Province. 

 
Date:2011-9-23 15:37:09     
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