Shenyang—an regional center of commerce, trade, economy, science and technology, transportation and information in Northeast China.

Shenyang, a famous industrial base and a city with long history and splendid culture, is the capital of Liaoning Province, having a population of 7.2 million. It has comparatively geographic or position advantage. Eight large cities are all within a 150km-radius circle of which Shenyang is the center. They are steel capital Anshan, coal capital Fushun, iron and coal city Benxi, coal and electricity city Fuxin, petroleum city Panjin, light textile industry city Dandong, chemical fiber city Liaoyang and grain and coal base Tieling. Thus, Shenyang becomes the central city of a well-known group of industrial cities. As to the transportation, Shenyang has the largest civil airport and railway hub in Northeast China and the highest-grade highway network in China. The city is non-replaceable in Northeast for its special accessibility. As a regional large marketing center, Shenyang has strongly absorptive, radiative and tractive powers to its peripheral cities and even other cities in the whole country.