Lixia district in Jinan, Shandong province has played a key role in boosting Wulong's industrial development and rural vitalization since the paired assistance established in 2016. Over the past seven years, Lixia has donated a total of 95.72 million yuan ($13.98 million) to Chongqing's Wulong district.

Lixia has set up a "1+13+N" assistance model and built an enterprise pool covering more than 300 enterprises in 20 sectors to facilitate industrial cooperation.

To promote agricultural leisure tourism and improve people's livelihood, Lixia and Wulong studied the model of "village, cooperative, company and farmer" in Yantang village, established the Daheshun rural professional cooperative and registered brands such as the Furong Pear and Yantang Shrimp. To date, Yantang has received more than 60,000 tourists and a revenue of more than 2.6 million yuan.

Lixia also innovated the "rural tourism plus industry" model and constructed modern agricultural demonstration bases in Wulong.

Up to now, Wulong has built a variety of high-mountain agricultural pastoral leisure complexes such as the Gaoshan Tomato Valley, the Huolu Peach and Canggou Watermelon, which are all part of the "State-owned enterprise, scientific research institution, association, agricultural management entity and rural collective economic organization" operation mode. The total output value of the bases is expected to generate 20 million yuan.

Lixia assisted in expanding the sales channels of Wulong's characteristic agricultural products by opening exhibitions, sales points and stores.

The district has also enhanced educational cooperation with Wulong such as conducting in-depth teaching and research through "air classrooms"— online platforms for inter-school exchanges.