In recent years, based on its solid industrial foundation and characteristic advantages, Shandong has innovated its investment promotion mode, comprehensively improved the quality and efficiency of investment promotion, and empowered the county-level economy.

Focusing on the four leading industries of food processing, equipment manufacturing, electronic information as well as energy conservation and environmental protection, relying on "one zone and four parks" and adopting a demand-oriented approach, Anqiu in Weifang City has elaborately drawn an investment promotion map. Revolving around leading enterprises and chain-chief projects, Anqiu has attracted investments for its industrial chains, extended its industrial chains, upgraded its capacity levels, and realized leapfrog industrial development.

Heze City's Luxi New Area has adhered to system and mechanism reform. Specifically, it has innovatively implemented the working method whereby half of the time is spent on investment promotion and the other half on other affairs, the investment mechanism in which special industrial parks and flexible sharing platforms are used to carry out directional, targeted, specialized, professional and accurate investment promotion, the performance appraisal and incentive mechanism, etc. and made multi-pronged efforts. It has also optimized the business environment comprehensively and actively implemented the "speedy approval" system and tax and fee reduction policy. So far, a cumulative total of more than 70 approval procedures have been streamlined. Besides, it has conducted high-quality investment promotion to gather excellent resources and expand the development space.

Feixian County has continuously held the activity of "investment promotion breakthrough year" and actively developed new investment promotion methods. Meanwhile, special teams to take charge of key investment promotion work for five industries such as wood, medicine, metallurgy, and strategic emerging industries have been set up to carry out specialized investment promotion. In the first half of the year, the county signed a total of 59 projects with their combined investment reaching 18.94 billion yuan.