China Financial Daily

Dalian focus on building a service-oriented government
A few days ago, Intel IT Data Center Dalian factory put into use the engine room, the first wafer transfer equipment is being installed. Intel’s Dalian plant is the introduction of China’s Dalian 30 years of reform and opening up the biggest foreign high-tech projects. Ko, general manager of Intel’s Dalian plant Bijie said that despite international financial crisis, the Intel investment in the global slowdown, but the commitment to a total investment of six billion U.S. dollars “to bring world-class factory in Dalian,” the goal remains unchanged, the recruitment of 1500 in Dalian high-tech employees remains unchanged.

Dalian is China’s old industrial bases in northeast earliest cities opening to the outside world, there are more than 13,000 foreign-invested enterprises, there are 88 Fortune 500 companies in Dalian to invest in 200 projects, with an accumulated actual utilization of foreign investment over 300 billion dollars. How to simplify the administrative examination and approval procedures, standardizing the construction of a clean and efficient government? Dalian City in recent years have been carried out 4 times a significant reduction of the administrative examination and approval projects, from the initial reduction in 1309 to 116 now. In order to cope with the international financial crisis, the composition of this year, the Dalian municipal government administrative service fees, clean-up a leading group with 400 they have received an informal discussion units have complete control of the county district and fees, a clean-up work, decided to cancel and stop the administrative fees and charges 65. According to estimates, Dalian City has decided to cancel and stop the 65 administrative fees, direct reduction of the financial year 238 million yuan.