Yancheng city enjoys a long history of more than 2100 years and thus claims a deep and profound culture. It isnow an energetic coastal city open to the outside world with outstanding regional advantages owing to the fact that it is within the economic circle of the Yangtze River Delta and Shanghai Economic Circle, two most developed economic centers in China.

Yancheng city also enjoys convenient transportations with express highways linking the city to Shanghai, Nanjing, Xuzhou and other neighboring cities within 2-3 hours of travel. The city has an airport with international flights to Seoul, South Korea, Shizuoka and Osaka, Japan, and national flights to Taipei, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Kunming, Xiamen, Wuhan, Changsha, Harbin, Shenyang etc. Railways run to Beijing, Harbin, Lanzhou, Chengdu, Qingdao and other cities. In 2019, it takes only 1 hour from Yancheng to Nanjing and Shanghai, 4 hours to Beijing by the high-speed rails. With these and Dafeng City Harbor, a first-class open port, Yancheng claims the convenience of air, water, and land transportations.

Yancheng City is also a newly-developed manufacturing base with 6 pillar industries like automobile (the largest pillar industry), machinery, textile, chemical industry, light industry, energy resources. Yancheng City is well known as “automobile city” for the successful cooperation with KIΛfrom South Korea.