QINGDAO, China - Positioned at the heart of the Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone, Laixi City is rapidly transforming into a regional powerhouse, blending advanced manufacturing, eco-tourism, and rural revitalization to drive high-quality development across eastern China. Backed by national strategic initiatives and global investment, Laixi is poised to become one of China’s leading cities for innovation, industry, and sustainable living.

Located at the crossroads of Qingdao, Yantai, Weifang, and Weihai, Laixi spans 1,568 square kilometers and functions as a vital transportation hub in the Jiaodong Peninsula. Boasting high-speed rail, expressways, and intercity lines, it serves as a gateway to opportunity within Shandong Province.

Endowed with abundant natural resources, Laixi is home to the region’s largest lake—Laixi Lake—along with four major rivers and the 25-square-kilometer Jiangshan Wetland, offering a rich ecological landscape. The city has earned multiple national honors, including recognition as a National Food Industry Strong City, National Agricultural Modernization Demonstration Zone, and National Ecological Demonstration Zone.

The city has also been awarded numerous national honors, including National Food Industry Strong City, one of the first National Agricultural Industrialization Demonstration Zones, National Agricultural Modernization Demonstration Zone, National Rural Revitalization Demonstration County, and National Ecological Demonstration Zone.

It hosted the World Leisure Sports Conference in both 2015 and 2019, and has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Leisure Tourism Destinations in Asia (Golden Travel Award), one of China’s Top 10 All-for-One Tourism Demonstration Cities, and a national pilot city for leisure and tourism standardization.

Laixi is a land of opportunities and promise. Embracing the new stage of development, advancing new development concepts, and integrating into the new development pattern, the city is entering an unprecedented golden period of growth.

Major national strategies—such as the National Pilot Zone for Urban-Rural Integration and the Laixi–Laiyang Integrated Development Pioneer Zone—are converging here.

Six dynamic advantages are taking shape: a regional cooperation pioneer zone, a hub for advanced manufacturing, a model for green development, a showcase for rural revitalization, a premier destination for leisure tourism, and a center for factor market aggregation.

Together, they are shaping the vision of a prosperous, dynamic, eco-friendly, and happy Laixi.

Laixi is a fertile ground for thriving industries and strong economic momentum. The city focuses on expanding and strengthening two leading sectors—advanced manufacturing and food & beverage—while accelerating the development of two emerging industries: intelligent connected vehicles and life & health.

It is also enriching and diversifying a range of specialty industries, fully developing niche sectors such as graphite new materials and low-altitude economy, and building an innovative “2+2+1” industrial system.

Fourteen Fortune Global 500 companies, including Nestlé (Switzerland), Lufthansa (Germany), CJ Group (South Korea), and China National Building Material, have established operations here.

Landmark projects include Qingdao’s first fully qualified headquarters of a major vehicle brand, the province’s only aviation-themed industrial town, and Qingdao’s sole demonstration base for prefabricated ultra-low-energy green buildings. These developments showcase Laixi’s immense potential and have earned it recognition as one of China’s Top 100 Manufacturing Counties and a Progressive County for High-Quality Development in Shandong Province.

Laixi is a land ideal for living, working, and rural revitalization. The city closely integrates rural revitalization with the further development of the “Laixi Experience,” coordinating efforts to improve rural living environments, increase village collective income, and raise farmers’ prosperity.

With a forward-looking vision and leading spirit, Laixi continues to promote high-quality, efficient agriculture, livable and business-friendly villages, and prosperity for famers, contributing Laixi’s model to rural revitalization in Shandong.

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