In recent years，regarding of the old industrial base of Shenyang as the masterstroke，the Party Committee and Government of Shenyang Municipality are sticking to the reform and opening-up of the city as well as to the strategy of developing the city by industry. The pace of strategic readjustment of state-owned economy are being accelerated; foreign capitals and private economy are growing up and strengthened rapidly; the development space of the city and its industry's overall arrangement are expanded and optimized; industries such as cars，equipment and manufacture for spare parts，electronic information，chemical medicine，etc. are beginning to take’ shape，having already become an important support to the fast-developing economy of the city; scientific and technological innovation ability and the ability of research and development of enterprises are improving constantly，creating a number of products and enterprises with stronger competitiveness; the city's infrastructure construction is obviously being accelerated，and the soft environmental construction has been further improved.

At the same time，Shenyang successively has obtained the titles of“National Exemplary City of Environmental Protection”，“National Forest City"，and has entered top ten among the national 100 top cities for two years in succession. What's more，it ranks one of the 10 cities of the country that are most competitive.