Advantage of city

　　A long history and a galaxy of advanced culture and talents. Dezhou is an important birthplace of Longshan culture and a place where Qilu culture and Yanzhao culture converge. A thousand-year-old canal passes through it, as one of 33 important industrial and commercial towns in the country during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Tales of Legendia such as Dayu's taming of the water, Houyi shooting the sun, and Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon originated here, and sages of the past such as Confucian master Dong Zhongshu, noted calligrapher Yan Zhenqing, and Wisdom Holy Dongfang Shuo left their brilliant footprints here.

　　Strategic convergence with broad prospects. Dezhou is the only city in Shandong Province listed in the national strategy for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. The "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinated Development Planning Outline" clarifies the development positioning of Dezhou's "one district and four bases", namely, the construction of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industry Achievement transformation, high-quality agricultural products supply, labor transportation base, and important ecological function area in southern Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. The linear distance between Dezhou and the Xiongan New Area under construction is 160 kilometers, and it is the "bridgehead" of Shandong Province connecting with the Xiongan New Area. It boasts many strategic opportunities such as the integrated development of the provincial capital economic circle, the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.

　　Superior Location and Convenient Transportation. Since ancient times, Dezhou has the reputation of "the water transport channel to Beijing from many provinces as the Gateway to Beijing". It is an important transportation hub city and regional logistics node city in the country, connecting the three major economic zones of North China, East China and Central Plains. It is connected to the capital economic circle in the north and to the two "world-class city clusters" in the Yangtze River Delta Economic Circle in the south, covering large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Jinan, Qingdao, and Shijiazhuang on one-day basis, covering a population of nearly 300 million. The "three vertical and three horizontal" railway networks of Beijing-Shanghai, Dezhou-Shijiazhuang, Qihe of Shandong-Handan of Hebei, Dezhou-Dajiawa Railway, Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway, and Qingdao-Taiyuan Passenger Dedicated Line, the "three vertical and three horizontal" expressway network of Beijing-Shanghai, Beijing-Taiwan, Qingdao-Yinchuan, Dezhou-Hengshui, Dezhou-Binzhou, and Dezhou-Shangrao pass through the border. It takes 40 minutes to Tianjin, 70 minutes to Beijing, and 4 hours to Shanghai; it has direct high-speed rail connections with 21 provincial capitals and municipalities and nearly half of the prefecture-level cities in China; it is 100 kilometers away from Jinan Yaoqiang International airport, 200 kilometers away from Beijing Daxing International Airport; 150 kilometers away from Hebei Huanghua Port, and 300 kilometers away from Tianjin Port and Qingdao Port. It can achieve "1 hour to the airport" and "2 hours to the seaport".

　　Rich resources with complete elements. Dezhou is rich in hydropower resources, with 9 reservoirs of more than tens of millions of cubic meters, realizing dual water source guarantees from Yellow River and Yangtze River; Huaneng Dezhou Power Plant in the territory is the main power plant of Shandong Power Grid, with a total installed capacity of 2.63 million kilowatts. With abundant human resources, it has 49 colleges and universities and secondary vocational education schools, and trains more than 200,000 high- and intermediate-level vocational and technical talents every year. Dezhou has the abundant land resources, which can meet the land demand of enterprises. With outstanding financial guarantee, it has 17 banking financial institutions and has held the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei-Shandong Capital and Technology Transaction Conference for nine consecutive years with the annual transaction volume of more than 100 billion yuan. It is an important scientific and technological achievement transformation base in Beijing and Tianjin surrounded by superior scientific research environment. It has 355 engineering technology research centers (4 at the national level, 47 at the provincial level, and 304 at the municipal level), 131 key laboratories (7 at the provincial level, 124 at the municipal level). The construction of Dezhou's new and old energy transformation demonstration zone has been fully launched, and the construction of high-tech incubator parks and international cooperation investment industrial parks has been promoted with high standards to create a new highland of innovation, entrepreneurship and opening up and cooperation.

　　Superior development relying on emphasizing and favoring the business. The Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government attach great importance to the work of investment promotion, set up a leading group for investment promotion work, and implement the secretary and mayor's "dual team leader" responsibility system; firmly establish the concept of "favoring, emphasizing, solidifying and respecting business", and continue to deepen the "one-time operation" reform, creating a new highland for the business environment, the city credit index released by the National Information Center, Dezhou ranks 38th among the 261 prefecture-level cities in the country. At the same time, the "Opinions on Promoting a New Round of High-Level Opening to the Outside World", "Dezhou City's Interim Measures for the Management of New and Old Kinetic Energy Conversion Funds", "Dezhou City's Investment Promotion Incentive Measures (Trial)", "Dezhou City's Construction of Coordinated Development Demonstration Zone Talent Support Plan" , a series of policy documents such as "Dezhou City's "Double Investment and Double Attraction" Business Reception and Communication Management Measures (Trial)" and other policy documents have been released, truly making businessmen invest, develop, work, start a business, and live at ease in Dezhou.

　　Key industries

　　New-generation information technology industry

　　Vigorously develop electronic information products, integrated circuits, software industry, information service industry, layout of big data, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and other industrial chains in a forward-looking manner, strengthen the construction of new-generation information infrastructure, and give full play to the optimization and integration of the Internet in the allocation of production factors, expand the new space of the Internet economy, and basically form a development pattern of collaborative interaction between the network economy and the real economy.

　　New Material Industry

　　Focus on the development of aerospace materials, inorganic non-metallic materials, new chemical materials, special metal materials, new building materials and other fields, expand the development of new environmental protection materials, cutting-edge new materials, promote the integration of new materials into the high-end manufacturing supply chain, and cultivate the new material industry to be a characteristic and advantageous industry.

　　New energy industry

　　Focus on the development of solar energy equipment and heat pump air conditioners, vigorously develop new energy vehicles, support the development of photovoltaic power generation, wind power and biomass energy, extend the development of "Internet +" smart energy, and increase the proportion of clean energy in terminal consumption comprehensively.

　　Biotechnology industry

　　Intensify the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements in the biotechnology industry, accelerate the upgrading of bio-manufacturing, bio-medicine, bio-agriculture and other industries, expand the development of biotechnology services, cultivate new forms of biotechnology services, and strive to build an important biological industry base nationwide.

　　High-end equipment manufacturing industry

　　Vigorously promote the in-depth integration of information technology and manufacturing industry, accelerate the construction of intelligent manufacturing, green manufacturing industry, and service manufacturing technology systems, and focus on improving the market competitiveness for advanced equipment, supporting equipment capabilities such as vehicle and ship parts, CNC machine tools, agricultural machinery equipment, petroleum equipment, environmental protection equipment, and rail transit and, deploy the intelligent robot industry in a forward-looking manner, and build an important high-end equipment manufacturing base in the province.