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Basic geographical facts。

Total area （admin。 Area of tj） ： 11,760km2.
Urban 7399km2
Rural 4361km2

• There are 51 minority nationalities in Tianjin.

Economy：

broken into 6 key industries
Automobiles
Electronics
Petrochemical products
Metallurgy
Medicine
Energy

TEDA：development area： hosts various international companies including：Motorola, Toyota, Novozymes and Samsung。
Existing broad goals as mentioned on he Tiajnin municipal govt website。

Future Plans
Where Tianjin plans to by by 2010
To control growth by implementing a “three-step” development strategy
1）Comprehensively build Tianjin into a modern international port-metropolis and an important economic center in the north ofChina,
2）to establish a perfect system of socialist market economy,
3）take the lead in China to basically realize modernization.

projections

-The total output value in Tianjin will increase at the annualrate of 12%,
the per capita total output value will exceed US$7,000,
the financial revenue and fixed asset investment will grow at the annual rate of over 16% and 15% respectively.
-The energy consumption for 10,000 yuan output value will drop by more than 15% from the end of the tenth five-year plan period.
-The investment in research and development will account for 2.5% of the total output value.
-The average annual birth rate will be about 10‰.
-1,400,000 new jobs
-The unemployment rate in the city and town will be limited within 4%. The prices will remain basically stable.
-The per capita disposable income for urban residents and per capita net income for rural residents will increase by at least 10% every year.