西宁市是青海省省会，是全省政治、经济、科技、文化、交通中心，主要工业基地。现辖城东区、城中区、城西区、城北区、海湖新区、国家经济开发区及大通、湟中、湟源三个县，总面积7649平方千米，总人口达222.8万人。
“十二五”期间，西宁市将进一步促进经济发展方式转变，夯实农业稳市的基础，坚定工业强市的步伐，增强服务业活市的动力，提高自主创新能力。推动东部城市群建设，完善城市规划体系，全面提升城市品质，拓展城市空间骨架。促进城乡区域协调发展，推动绿色发展，努力把西宁建设成为人民满意的生活之城、幸福之城和更加繁荣、更加美丽、更加宜居的青藏高原现代化中心城市。
Xining is the capital of Qinghai Province, center of the province's political, economic, science, education ,transportation and communication. Jurisdiction over the east, medium,west,north, Economic and Technological Development Zone and Sea Lake New Districtofareasandthreecountriescalleddatong,huangzhong,huangyua n, the total area 7649 square kilometers, the total population of 2.228 million people.
During “The 12th Five-Year Plan ”，Xining City, will further promote the economic development mode shift, consolidate the basis of stable agricultural city, strengthen the pace of the strong city, and
enhance the momentum of the service industry living city, improve the capability of independent innovation. Promote the construction of the eastern city groups, and improve the urban planning system to raise the overall quality of the city, expanding the skeleton of urban space. Promote the coordinated development of urban and rural region, to promote green development, and strive to the Xining become the City of satisfaction of the people living, the city of happiness and a more prosperous, more beautiful, more livable Qinghai-Tibet Plateau modern central city.
