On December 23, the Kickoff Ceremony & Investment Promotion Conference of the 1st Shandong Enterprises' Tour of Cooperative Areas-Gansu took place in Dingxi City, Gansu Province. This event was hosted by the Shandong Development and Reform Commission and the Gansu Provincial Bureau of Rural Rejuvenation, organized by the Dingxi Municipal People's Government and the Shandong Official Management Group for Cooperation with Gansu. More than 80 enterprises from Shandong visited Gansu to seek cooperation and common development with local governments and enterprises.

2021 is the launch year for the all-round cooperation between Shandong and Gansu. Over the past year, the two provinces have worked closely to consolidate the outcomes of poverty alleviation, advance rural rejuvenation in an all-round way and promote coordinated regional development. Shandong pressed ahead with group support to Gansu by maintaining the intensity of financial investment and official exchange and strengthening labor, industrial and consumption cooperation, brought in 79 enterprises from Gansu with a total investment of more than 1 billion yuan in place, helped 54,700 rural laborers and 47,100 impoverished laborers get employed, purchased and sold featured agricultural products worth 2.07 billion yuan from Dingxi, Longnan and Linxia, over-fulfilling the targets and tasks under the annual agreement.

A total of 13 projects were signed at the ceremony with a total contract amount of more than 4 billion yuan, covering fields such as industrial cooperation, the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin and consumption support. An agreement of purchase intent worth 170 million yuan was also reached. Other special activities during the event included Tour Exhibition of Featured Agricultural Products, Project Roadshow & Bank Credit Extension to Enterprises, Industrial Investment Promotion Talkfest & Launch Meeting of Shandong-Dingxi Initiative on Enterprise-Village Support, Fair on Featured Agricultural Products of Gansu and Dingxi Featured Art (Intangible Cultural Heritage) Show.