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SICHUAN - Chengdu (Capital of the Province): Chengdu is located at the center and is the capital of Sichuan Province. It is a well-known historical and cultural city, a major commercial and trade, financial and scientific center in the southwestern China, and a transport and communication center. Under its jurisdiction, the city covers an area of 12,300 square kilometers and has apopulation of 9.8074 millions, including 3.2 millions are urban residents.

Rapid Development of Urban Economy: In the recent years, Chengdu's average annual GDP has reached to 90 billion yuan, and the primary, secondary and tertiary industries proportion in the GDP were 13.5%, 44.5% and 42% respectively.

Transportation and Communication: The city's transportation and communication service had achieved great development. Its civil aviation and highway transportation had grew smoothly. The city cargo handling volume hit to 20 billion ton - kilometers, and its passenger miles hit 19.8 billion person-kilometers. It had expanded over 850,000 program-controlled exchanges and bring the city has more than 500,000 telephone subscribers, 135,000 mobile phone subscribers and 250,000 public telephone stations.
Development of Foreign Economic and Trade: Chengdu is continuous strengthened its effort to attract outside investment. From the foreign investments, the number of enterprises in the three forms of joint-ventures has rose to 2,500 in the recent year. The enterprises in the three forms of joint ventures earned 78.5 million US dollars by exports. The city cooperation in economy and technology had established economic and trade relations with 82 foreign countries.

Urban New Economic Development Zone: The city had established 16 development zones and five experimental zones-two by state, two by province and one by the city. Five key development zones show rapid growth, becoming windows to attract outside investors. By now, more than 50 foreign enterprises invested in the zones, with agreed investment totaling over 200 million US dollars.

Other cities Economic Development of the Province: Panzhihua, Deyang, Yibin, Zigong, and Luzhou are the most economic developing cities of the Sichuan Province.