Developing new industries: the development of non-oil industry 

As an oil city, Dongying has vigorously developed a non-oil industry for many years, nurtured hundreds of billion-yuan-grade industrial clusters producing rubber tires and automotive parts, non-ferrous metals and petroleum equipment. 

More than 80 percent of the technical equipment used by leading industries has reached the advanced level in China, and it has paved a new way of resource-based city transformation.

Hengyuan Copper Industry Railway's electrification special-shaped copper wire project is included in the national torch plan. Corey Group has built the first online trading platform in the global oil and gas field. Tyre King Information Technology Co has developed a project for an intelligent cloud bank, which will result in the comprehensive upgrading of the tire industry's intelligent network of manufacturing and logistics. 

In recent years, many enterprises have emerged in Dongying, which have mastered the core technology of their industries. They are either rooted in traditional industries or active in emerging industries. With the core technology in their hands, they have created industry brands and set up industry benchmarks.

"Our company's lithium-ion battery electrolyte solvent now accounts for 60 percent of the world's total output." said Zhang Weihai, marketing manager of the New Energy Company of Shandong Shida Shenghua Chemical Industry Group. 

In recent years, the enterprise's lithium hexafluorophosphate project has achieved remarkable benefits and now supplies high-quality solvent raw material for many lithium-ion battery electrolyte manufacturers at home and abroad. 

Dongying is also getting results in the fields of energy saving, environmental protection, biomedicine and high-end equipment manufacturing. 

China Porcelain Functional Material Company specializes in high-end ceramics in Dongying. 

At present, the company produces nearly 30 percent of the world's dielectric ceramic materials. It is the supplier for Apple, Samsung and other prominent global companies. 

With advanced ceramic research and development technology, is has become the largest producer of functional ceramic materials and the largest high-end nano-barium titanate enterprise in China. It has been ranked No 6 in the top 100 listed companies in China by Forbes magazine.

In addition, in recent years the company has acquired many enterprises, and has found a industrial distribution of electronic ceramics, dental materials, energy conservation and environmental protection and new energy. 

In 2017, 111 new technology and product projects in Dongying were included in the provincial innovation plan, all of which reached the domestic advanced level or above. 

Dongying has accelerated the construction of a science and technology financial system, and set up a 20-million-yuan fund for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and a 5-million-yuan fund pool. Thirteen industrial technology research institutes have been set up, and the road map for technological innovation of the petroleum equipment and non-ferrous metals industry has been worked out.

Cooperation between industry, university and research institutes has been deepened, and 205 enterprises in the city have established close cooperation with 49 scientific research institutes. 

"Five-star service": service becomes competitiveness

Service is a combination of attractiveness, competitiveness and productivity. 

Only when government departments bend down to be "the server" and think about what enterprises want and need urgently, can they upgrade those services and create a good environment for development. 

"In the past, we had to go to several departments for the formalities, but now we can do everything in one place," said a citizen surnamed Li. 

In March, Dongying municipal government service center opened a comprehensive service window to provide people with integrated services by allocating government resources. 

At present, 494 items of examination and approval services have been stationed in the service center. 

Covering an area of 153,000 hectares, the Yellow River Estuary Ecotourism Area in Dongying, Shandong province is a land that hums with life and activity. [Photo by Ding Hongan/Dongying Weekly]

The petrochemical industry is booming in the Dongying Port Development Area. [Photo/dypedz.gov.cn]

A comprehensive service center in Hekou district, Dongying. [Photo/dongyingnews.cn]