TIELING——AN IDEAL PLACE FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT

Located in the northern part ofLiaoning Province,Tieling isan inland region on the LiaodongPeninsular.With Shenyang to thesouth,Fushun to the east,InnerMongolia to the west and Jilin to thenorth,Tieling covers 13,000 sqmand has two prefectures,threecounties and a population of 2.87million under it.The overlappingmountains and tall trees and wildanimals and plants in the easternpart serve as the forestry base ofTieling.In the middle and westernsection along the Liaohe River valleyare grown farm and economic cropson flat and fertile land.Known as the"granary of Northern Liaoning," it isa State key commodity grainproduction base,where 2.5 billionkilograms of grain are produced eachyear,accounting for 1/5 of the totalgrain output in the province.Theexport of grain and corn here makesup 1/3 and 2/3 of the provincial total.Tieling is also abundant in thebreeding of cows,pigs,chickens,geese and sheep as well as in theproduction of such famous Chinesemedicinal herbs as Ginseng,piloseantler and bear gallbladder,