Transcript Lower Silesia

LOWER
SILESIA
(LOWER SILSIA)
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Helsinki
Sztokholm
Oslo
Tallin
Moskwa
Ryga
Dublin
Kopenhaga
Londyn
Amsterdam
Bruksela
Wilno
Berlin
DOLNY ŚLĄSK
Kijów
Praga
Paryż
Mińsk
Wiedeń
Budapeszt
Lizbona
Madryt
Rzym
Stambuł
Ateny
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AREA 19 948 km2
(6,4 % of Poland’s total area
Population (updated: 31 XII 2010):
2877,8 thousand
(7,5 % of population of Poland
Region: 169 municipalities 29
poviats
Share in national GDP– 8,2% (2009)
GDP dynamics in the region 6,8%
(2009)
GDP per 1 citizen in Poland
35,2 thousand PLN 8 546 EUR)
GDP per 1 citizen in Lower Silesia
38,4 thousand PLN 9319 EUR)
Ranked second in Poland
Unemployment rate (February 2012):
13,6% (country average 13,5%)
Economic entities (February 2012):
327,1 thousand (including foreign
capital- 6,7 thousand)
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 INDUSTRY
 Mining and extraction (lignite, copper, rock raw materials)
 Production of automobiles
 Production of electric devices
 Production of machines and components
 SERVICES
 Trade
 Transport and logistics
 Finance services and insurance
 ICT
 Housing market services
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 3,5% exports – to China
 biggest exporters to China from Lower Silesia:
 Faurecia Wałbrzych – metal components of automobile seats
 KGHM Polska Miedź S.A Lubin – copper
 PM Poland Jelenia Góra – designing and constructing machines for paper
production
 10,8% import – from China
Import structure in Lower Silesia
Export structure in Lower Silesia
other
24%
Germany
37%
Slovakia
4%
other
28%
Germany
27%
France
3%
China
3,5%
Japan
4%
Italy
4%
Great Britain
8%
South Korea
18%
France
9%
Czech Republic
10%
Czech
Republic
4%
Italy
5%
China
10,8%
41% of Polish exports to China come from
Lower Silesia’s enterprises!
Dynamics of exports to China
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Wałbrzych SEZ
Kamienna SEZ
Legnica SEZ
Tarnobrzeg SEZ
4% of companies with foreign capital in the region comes from Asian
countries
presence of companies with Chinese capital (12 economic entities)
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 high level of education and good conditions for foreign students,
 over 2 thousand foreign students obtain education in Lower Silesia’s Institutes
of Higher Education (1,2% of all students), their biggest share is obtaining
educated at the University of Wrocław, Medical Academy, and Wrocław University
of Technology
 cooperation of universities in Lower Silesia and China – partnership agreements
 students from China are already present at Lower Silesia’s Institutes of
 Confucius Institute at the Wrocław University was officially open in December
2008. The institute organizes chinese language courses, film viewings and cultural
evenings.
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(Lower Silesia)
 comfortable connection with the west (A4 highway)
 broad offer of the Wrocław airport after its expansion
– new flight destinations, direct connections with key airports in
Europe
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 Institutes of Higher Education:
 38 Institutes of higher education
 166 thousand students
 Around 40 thousand graduates a year
 Human capital on the labor market:
 1,2 mln employed
 28% employed with higher education
 28% employed with secondary and vocational education
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 future infrastructural investments in the region– possibility to
cooperate for companies from the construction and energy sector:
 roads
 solutions supporting the use of renewable sources of energy
(photovoltaics, biogas plants, hydro power, waste management)
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Lower Silesia’s institutes of higher education open for cooperation
with regard to exchange of students/PhD students as well as
cooperation with regard to R&D activity.
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 Learning Chinese at schools and an offer of language courses
 Learning about traditions, customs and cuisine
 The concept of a Chinese Garden in Wrocław – joint
project of Polish and Chinese architects prepared at the Wrocław
University of Technology
 Fryderyk Chopin Music Festival in Duszniki Zdrój
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