Credits of the subject “Foreign Trade and Business in Beijing”: 1 ;
Duration: one week.
Beijing: The Chinese “Silicon Valley.”
International Trade and Business in Beijing
Beijing is the political, financial, and cultural centre of the People's Republic of China.
The population of Beijing is 15 million people;
The majority of the residents in Beijing belong to the Han ethnic Group;
Beijing is home to hundreds of thousands of Chinese, foreign and Sino-foreign companies;
Foreign companies alone have employed 20,000 locals (most are young professionals with high revenues);
Many top 500 global enterprises (Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, Sun, Hitachi), all occupied in high-tech industries, are situated mainly in the Haidian District;
The Gross domestic product of Beijing was double that of 2000;
The main economic districts and counties of Beijing are Dongcheng, Haidian, Fengtai, Tongzhou, Chaoyang, Chongwen, Shijingshan, Yanqing, Xicheng, Xuanwu, Shunyi;
High tech and modern manufacturing companies have become the leading forces of the industrial growth of Beijing;
Haidian hosts the Haidian Science Park, known as
the Silicon Valley of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Fengtai District is as a major resource for the high-tech industry;