{"id":11203,"date":"2018-10-23T22:04:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=11203"},"modified":"2018-10-23T22:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:04:36","slug":"foreign-reporters-start-discovering-jining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=11203","title":{"rendered":"Foreign reporters start discovering Jining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of foreign reporters embarked on a four-day-long tour in Jining, Shandong province on Oct 17, exploring the city&#8217;s achievements in protecting traditional culture, replacing old growth drivers with new ones and rural revitalization over 40 years of reform and opening up.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 20 reporters from the world&#8217;s major media organizations, including BBC, Russia&#8217;s Rossiya Segodnya, South Korea&#8217;s JoongAng Ilbo, Thailand&#8217;s Nation Multimedia Group, the Reporter and the Daily Monitor Newspaper from Ethiopia, the Nepali Times, the Jahon Information Agency from Uzbekistan, the Elegant Magazine from Sri Lanka, Pakistan&#8217;s Daily Jang, Geo News, and Express Tribune, Tajikistan&#8217;s Avesta News Agency, the Public Security Newspaper and the Vientiane Times from Laos, the Viet Nam News and the MONTSAME News Agency, joined Chinese domestic media for the tour entitled &#8220;40 Years of Reform and Opening-up: Foreign Media Focus on Jining&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yan Jianbo, deputy Party secretary of Jining, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the city has made great achievements in the economic and social development in 40 years of reform and opening-up.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yan, Jining&#8217;s GDP increased by 290 times while local fiscal revenue increased by 257 times. Incomes of urban and rural residents increased by 87 times and 189 times respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Jining has developed into a modern industrial city with a number of national industrial bases such as coal chemical industry, engineering machinery, special automobile, biotechnology, new textile materials and optoelectronics industry.<\/p>\n<p>Yan added that 51 Fortune 500 companies have invested in 92 projects in Jining.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The event offers a great opportunity to promote Jining,&#8221; said Yan.<\/p>\n<p>Qufu city, Yanzhou district, Jining National High-tech Industrial Development Zone and Jiaxiang county will be the major stops during the media trip.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"455072\" title=\"1539931875239036733.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20181019\/1539931875239036733.jpg\" alt=\"0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yan Jianbo, deputy Party secretary of Jining, delivers a speech at the opening ceremony on Oct 17 in Qufu, county-level city in Jining, Shandong province. [Photo\/jnnews.tv]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"455073\" title=\"1539931882701041957.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20181019\/1539931882701041957.jpg\" alt=\"1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Foreign reporters attend the opening ceremony of the discovering Jining media trip on Oct 17 in Qufu, Shandong province. [Photo\/jnnews.tv]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"455074\" title=\"1539931889839063252.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20181019\/1539931889839063252.jpg\" alt=\"\u62a5\u793e (10).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The urban landscape of Jining, Shandong province. [Photo\/China Daily]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"455075\" title=\"1539931897806016451.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20181019\/1539931897806016451.jpg\" alt=\"\u6768\u56fd\u5e86 \u57ce\u5e02\u5efa\u8bbe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jining has achieved new progress in city construction. 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