Situated in the middle of Liaoning province, Shenyang is the communications center of the Liaodong peninsula and the Songliao plain, the transportation center of the Northeast China and the central plains. As the capital of Liaoning province, Shenyang is the central city of Northeast China in economy, culture, transportation and business, the major heavy industry base and the historical culture city, which covers an area of 13000 square kilometers (including 3495 square kilometers urban area). With the general population of 7204000 (including 5066000 people who live in the urban area)，Shenyang covers 9 zones, 1city and 3 counties.
   Shenyang is one of the national heavy industry bases in manufacturing industry since the founding of our People's Republic. In recent years, Shenyang Municipal party committee, the municipal government takes it as a main line that how to vitalize Shenyang old industrial base, persist on the reform and open policy and the city industry plan, speed up the strategic adjustment in state-own enterprises. The foreign investment and private investment enterprises are growing fast and strength, the urban area developing environment and the industrial layout is well optimized in Shenyang. Some industries such as automobile and its fittings equipment manufacture and electronic information and chemical medicine industries begin to take shape, and these industries become an important support in the economy development in Shenyang. Technique & science innovation ability and enterprise research ability enhance unceasingly, a large number of enterprises and product have the strong competitive power in the modern market economy, the city infrastructure construction speeds up obviously, and the soft environment construction obtained further improvement. With the economy and the social development and the promotion of living standard, economy and the society marched into a fast development new period in Shenyang. At the same time, Shenyang successively obtained the title of “the National model city in environmental protection”, “the national forest city”. Shenyang is in the first ten in national hundred powerful cities in continuously two years and enters into ten competitive power city ranks in China.