As a major participant in the national "A Hundred Events and Ten Thousand Enterprises" series activities to connect large-, medium- and small-sized enterprises, Shandong launched its "Ten Chains, One Hundred Clusters and Ten Thousand Enterprises" Action Plan to Integrate and Consolidate Industrial Chains in Jinan on March 21, 2024. It is learned that this year, Shandong will organize 300,000 enterprises to carry out online and offline exchanges on integration and consolidation of industrial chains. While continuing to build, strengthen, enhance and extend the 11 landmark industrial chains, Shandong incorporated 100 characteristic industrial clusters consisting of small and medium-sized enterprises across the province into the action plan in 2024.

The integration and innovation of large, medium and small-sized enterprises serve as a crucial approach to unleash innovation vitality in large enterprises, stimulate innovation potential in small and medium-sized enterprises, and enhance the stability and competitiveness of industrial and supply chains. This year, focusing on boosting the industrial economy as the main driver, Shandong has introduced the Opinions on Promoting High-Quality Development of Industrial Economy through Ten Major Actions, with a significant focus on advancing breakthrough projects in key industrial chains and implementing the action plan to integrate and consolidate industrial chains. It will make efforts to hold over 1,000 matchmaking events, facilitate more than 10,000 cooperation outcomes, and serve over 100,000 market entities throughout the year.