Linking up with global finance and trade capital

Thanks to its various resources and sound economy, Shandong has proven popular with investors and business people from Hong Kong.

Provincial commerce department statistics show 498 Hong Kong-backed projects there, last year. That was a year-on-year increase of 9.5 percent; the amount of capital used was equal to $4.33 billion, a 12.1-percent increase.

By the first quarter of this year, Shandong had approved 15,619 Hong Kong-funded projects. These bring in more than $57.91 billion in investment and $32.6 billion in used capital.