Beautiful landscape of Qingdao, a coastal city in East China's Shandong province. [Photo/IC]

Deputies from Qingdao, Shandong province encouraged more strong Qingdao brands to facilitate the development of the city after watching a promotional video named Made in Qingdao during the annual two sessions in Beijing.

The video shows great achievements of well-known Qingdao-based enterprises such as Tsingtao beer, Haier and Hisense, and stimuliated deputies' discussions on the bright future of Qingdao, a city of brands.

Zhou Houjian, chairman of Hisense, a consumer electronics maker, believes that the development of a city's manufacturing sector indicates its productivity.

According to this year's government work report, the tax rate of the manufacturing industry will decrease from 16 percent to 13 percent.

"Policy support is important. The reduction will help companies to update their machines for high-quality products," said Zhou.

Zhou Yunjie, president of domestic appliance giant Haier Group, shares his views on the transformation of the manufacturing industry.

"In the age of the Internet of things, major enterprises should set up a platform via the industrial Internet to provide global consumers with integrated solutions. The platform will not only help enterprises to upgrade themselves, but also promote comprehensive competiveness of Qingdao by driving the development of many small and medium-sized enterprises,"said Zhou.

Customers choose Hisense refrigerators at a shopping mall in Qingdao, Shandong province.[Photo/VCG]