Liaoning Province covers an area of 145,900 square kilometers and has a population of 40.41 million. It is located in the southern part of China's Northeast. Bordering on the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea in the south and the Korean Peninsula in the east and facing Japan to its southeast. A heavy industrial base from the 1950s, Liaoning has a solid industrial foundation abundant natural resources. It is one of the comparatively well-developed coastal areas in northern China that are opened to the world. It produces corn, rice, soybeans, apples, prawns, abalones and kelp. Its principal minerals include coal, petroleum, iron ore, diamonds, etc