Situated on the upper reached of the Yellow River and in the middle of Ningxia Plain, Yinchuan is an important commerce and trade city along the route of New Eurasia Land Bridge. Yinchuan has 10 advantageous industry bases in respect of energy, advanced equipment manufacturing, fermentation and bio-medicine, Halal food and Muslim supplies, cashmere and related products, hazardless agricultural products, dairy industry, flowers, grape wine and modern logistics. In 2008, Yinchuan’s GDP totaled RMB 851.411 billion. The total population amounts to 1.4879 million, with a per capita GDP of RMB 34,154.

Yinchuan imported large-scale projects of high-intensive level S&T and strong leverage power,
pushing forward the transfer from “invitation of merchants and capital” to “selection of merchants and capital”. Yinchuan strives to do a good job on holding the first “Hui Merchants Convention” and a series of activities for attractions of merchants and economic and trade negotiations, with a view to surpassing the benchmark of RMB 10 billion for fund in draught. Yinchuan has concluded friendly city ties with 5 cities in 5 countries respectively, and conducted rich and colorful exchanges and cooperation in the fields of economy and trade, agriculture, S&T, culture, education and health etc.