Weinan is situated in the east-central area of Shaanxi Province, separated from Shanxi and Henan provinces by the Yellow River. It is bordered by Xian and Xianyang in the west, and neighboring Yan'an and Tongchuan in the north. The area spans for 182.3 kilometers from the north to south, and 149.7 kilometers from west to east, which has been taken a important role in the new land bridge of Asia and Europe, also is considered as the “east gate” of Shaanxi province as well as the west provinces to the middle and eastern regions of China. Five geomorphic types can be found by the axes of Wei River, and mountains and plateau forms are in both north and south sides, and the plain covers the center. The alluvial plain formed by the River Wei is the widest area in Qinchuan. With the administrative Division of 1 district (Linwei), 8 counties (Huaxian, Tongguan, Dali, Pucheng, Chengcheng, Baishui, Heyang, Fuping), 2 county-level cities (Huayin, Hancheng), Weinan hi-tech industrial development zone, 196 townships and 3221 administrative villages, it has a population of 5,430,000, and covers an area of 13,000 square kilometers.

　　Weinan is rich in natural resources and has a great development potential. With the flat topography, four distinctive seasons, abundant cultivated lands and water resources, it is always considered as the best agro-ecological zones in Shaanxi. Coal, molybdenum, gold, stone, water, electricity and other resources are very rich, which made it an excellent raw materials, energy and chemical industrial zone. Weinan is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation, rich in culture remains and the long history. A long history, the diverse cultures and the magnificent mountains and rivers come together, give Weinan a unique tourism resource. Dangerous but breathtaking Huashan, magnificent imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty, history saint Sima Qian Temple, the calligraphy saint Cangjie, the wine saint Dukang and the Qiachuan tourist scenic spot along the Yellow River are all famous around the world.

In the fifties, seventies, and eighties of last century, industry of Weinan has undergone three stages of development, and achieved three new constructive heights, which has laid a good foundation for Weinan industry. In recent years, especially after the implementation of the “Tenth Five-Year Plan”, the municipal government attaches great importance to the development of industrial economy, by putting forward and vigorously implementing the  “industry oriented municipal development” strategy, and actively promoting the pace of new industrialization, adhering to let project construction lead, focusing on adjust and optimize industrial structure, and improving the quality and efficiency of industrial economic operation, paying great attention to investment attraction and zones development, the industrial economy finished an unconventional and leap-forward development. At present, eight sectors of the advantage industries has initially formed, which are sectors of  metallurgy, energy, food, chemicals, machinery and equipment manufacturing, building materials, textiles and garments, and medicines. In 2006, the city's above designated size industrial enterprises achieved the totaled added value of 12.653 billion yuan, which increased 13.5% as compared with the corresponding period, and industrial output value of 36.875 billion yuan, which increased 12.80% as compared with the corresponding period. From January to June of this year, the city's above designated size industrial enterprises achieved added industrial value for 6.138 billion yuan, which increased 14.1% as compared with the corresponding period, the industrial output value was 20.301 billion yuan, which increased 18.06% as compared with the corresponding period.

 

In 2006 the completion of industrial output value for the eight industrial sectors was up to 36.605 billion yuan, which increased 12.84%, and accounted for 99.27% of the city's above-scale industrial output value.

 The metallurgical industry mainly include molybdenum, gold, aluminum, copper and other nonferrous metals resources, there were 33 large scale metallurgical enterprises in our city, and it’s industrial output value was 14.742 billion yuan, Jinduicheng Molybdenum Corporation is the largest national production and export base, also is a national super large state enterprise, it has an annual output capacity of molybdenum of 28,000 tons, which accounting for 89.74% of the province's total output of molybdenum, and also accounting for more than half of national molybdenum production. The city completed an output of 2.24 million tons of steel, 2.545 million tons of crude steel and 2.345 million tons of pig iron in 2006, of which Shaanxi Longmen Iron and Steel Group became the leading metallurgical industry in our city, and nominated the country's top 500 enterprises.

　　Energy industry, primarily for coal and electricity, are our city's traditional industries, by the end of 2006, there were 59 large scale energy enterprises, they completed industrial output value of 12.674 billion yuan, increased 17.43% as compared with the corresponding period, of which the completion of coal mining and washing output valued of 3.501 billion yuan, which mainly conducted by coal mining administrations of Chenghe, Pubai, and Hancheng, the three Mining has an annual output of raw coal of 12 million tons, together with the local coal mines’ annual output, the total annual output could reach 15 million tons. Coke production is dominated by Hancheng Heimao coking, Haiyan coking, coke and chemical enterprises of Shaanxi, their design production capacity was 7.54 million tons, and achieved  output value of 2.573 billion yuan with annual output of coke of 3.24 million tons. Electricity, heat output value of 6.6 billion yuan, as for power generation, mainly produced by thermal power plants of Qinling, Pudian, and Handian, they have a total installed capacity of 4.25 million kilowatts, which accounting for 35.42 percent of the province's total installed capacity, and annual power generation can almost reach 250 billion kilowatts