Editing Xining (section)

== Economy ==
[[File:Xining skyline.jpg|thumb|View of partial Xining skyline from the north]]
[[File:Plateau Pearl Sightseeing Tower - Xining.jpg|thumb|upright|Plateau Pearl Sightseeing Tower]]

The [[Gross domestic product|GDP]] per capita was 49,200 RMB (US$7,897) in 2015. Its main industries are wool spinning and textiles, fur, meat, milk, salt, and light processing industries.

===Economic and Technological Development Zones===
* Xining Economic & Technological Development Zone
Xining Economic & Technological Development Zone XETDZ) was approved as state-level development zone in July 2000. It has a planned area of {{convert|4.4|km2|abbr=on}}. XETDZ lies in the east of Xining, {{convert|5|km|abbr=on}} away from downtown. The XETDZ is the first of its kind at the national level on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is established to fulfill the nation's strategy of developing the west.

XETDZ enjoys a convenient transportation system, connected by the Xining–Lanzhou expressway and run through by two main roads, the broadest roads of the city. It is {{convert|4|km|abbr=on}} away from the railway station,{{which|date=February 2013}} {{convert|15|km|abbr=on}} from Xining Airport.

It focuses on the development of following industries: chemicals based on salt lake resources, nonferrous metals, and petroleum and natural gas processing; special medicine, foods and bio-chemicals using local plateau animals and plants; new products involving ecological and environmental protection, high technology, new materials as well as information technology; and services such as logistics, banking, real estate, tourism, hotel, catering, agency and international trade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rightsite.asia/en/industrial-zone/xining-economic-technology-development-zone/ |title=Xining Economic & Technology Development Zone &#124; China Industrial Space |publisher=Rightsite.asia |date=2013-11-18 |access-date=2014-02-07}}</ref>