Lianyungang Economic and Technological Development Zone was approved as
state-level deveopment zone in December 1984. The zone now has a developed
area of 8 square kilometers.
Geographical
Location
Lianyungang Economic & Technological Development Zone
is located in the eastern urban district of Liangyungang City, Jiangsu Province.
Located at the easternmost end of the new Euro-Asian continental bridge
(Liangyungang to Rotterdam), it is an international trade channel connecting two
big international markets of Asia and Europe. It has an annual capacity of over
30,000 TEUs in transit. Lianyungang is also the eastern end of
Longhai-Lanzhou--Xinjiang railway, which runs cross the eastern, middle and
western parts of China.
Climate
Located in the transitional belt between the
temperate zone and the northern subtropical zone, Lianyungang enjoys a moist
temperate monsoon climate, with an annual average temperature stands of 14
centigrade and a yearly average rainfall of 900-950 milimeters.
Communication and Transportation
Harbor
As
one of the 8 largest ports along the coast of China, Lianyungang now has 21
international shipping lines to 962 ports of 154 countries (regions) of the
world. 55 container liners depart every month for worldwide destinations. The
port boasts 31 berths, of which 19 are of 10,000-ton class. The handling
capacity 2001 reached 30,581 million tons, including 158,000 TEUs.
Airport
Lianyungang Airport ranks among China's
4D standard airports, which can land Boeing 737 passenger planes and has flights
to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xiamen.
Railway
As the artery that traverses eastern and
western China with Lianyungang as the eastern end, the Longhai-Lanzhou-Xinjiang
Railway is connected with Central Asia and reaches Rotterdam Port of the
Netherlands to the west, with a total length of 10,900 km and acting as the
shortest continental bridge connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic. 95 percent
of the freight shipped to the five central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan
via this continental bridge passes Lianyungang.
Road
Lianyungang is one of the main hubs for
China's road communications. Of the two vertical and two horizontal trunk roads
under construction in China, one vertical and one horizontal have their
intersection in Lianyungang, namely, the road from Lianyungang to Huoerguosi,
Xinjiang and the road from Tongjiang, Heilongjiang to Sanya, Hainan Province.
High-grade roads include Nanjing-Lianyungang Expressway and Xuzhou-Lianyungang
Freeway.
Human Resources
There are 151 institutes of scientific
research in Lianyunguang with 6078 research staff and 101,000 technical
personnel, of which 3126 have high technical titles and 239,000 have
middle-class technical titles. There are 3 general-purpose institutions of
higher learning, 8 secondary technical schools, 6 secondary schools for
mechanics, and 23 vocational schools. The total number of permanent residence is
4.4353 million, of which 2.1978 million are employed.
Investment Priorities
Lianyungang Development Zone is
divided into four sub zones: Processing for Export, Industrial Base for New
Pharmaceuticals, Eastern Industrial Park and High-tech and private business. The
main areas in which investment is encouraged include:
1. The chemical industry: the production technology of new kinds of
fertilizer, pesticides, fungicides and herbicide as well as raw materials for
chemicals, fine chemicals, rubber processing agents, new kinds of additives and
new anti-combustion agents.
2. New pharmaceutical industry: high-productivity fungus species for
antibiotics, new kinds of semi-compound antibiotics, new types of anti-tumor
drug, new types of anti-hepatitis alga, cardio-vascular drugs, hormones,
slow-release drugs, targeted drugs and so on, amino-acid drug materials, algae
produced by genetic engineering and cell engineering technologies. New types of
medical appliances and compound packaging materials for pharmaceuticals.
3. The machinery Industry: data retrieval systems, soft processing central
machine tools, general-purpose machine tools, electric products, textile
machinery, basic tools, instruments, precision ball bearings, precision molds,
water meters, presses and new types of farming machinery.
4. The electronic industry: electronic measurement instruments and
appliances, electronic components, basic materials and specific-purpose
equipment, instruments, manufacturing of industrial molds, epoxy plastics,
quartz products, specific-purpose resin, silica powder and other
microelectronics materials. Quartz crystal components, diode chips, electronic
function modules, automobile sensors and similar new type of electronic
components.
5. The light industry: machinery for daily use, household electric
appliances, electric lighting, silicate for daily use, chemicals for daily use,
plastic products, hardware appliances, leather dyeing, tanning and processing,
high-grade electric toys, fresh flower preservation and dried flowers.
Development of industrial enzymes, and industrial processing of nitric acid.
6. Building materials: large-scale cement plants, high-grade roof and wall
building materials, non-metal ore mining and processing, high purity crystal
powder refining, energy conservation technology for buildings (including solar
energy and utilization of thermal energy), deep processing of glass, special
glass fiber products, water-proof paint, fire-resistant materials, decoration
materials, non-organic non-metal new materials, fire-proof materials and plastic
tubing.
7. The textile industry: high-grade special cotton, woolen goods, the
finishing of blended fabrics of chemical fiber, superfine textiles, fire
resistant and anti-static fibers, oils for chemical fibers, deep finishing of
high-grade special category silk products, high-grade mixed imitation silk
products, amino-synthetic fiber, polyester fiber, plush and short fiber, new
chemical fibers and new textile machinery.
8. The service industry: information consulting, high-tech, the construction
of new product development centers and enterprise incubation.
Administration Committee
Tel: 86-518-2396838
Fax:
86-518-2341573
Email: jiangwd@lygetdz.gov.cn
Website: http://www.lygetdz.com/english/
(Source: Ministry of Commerce)
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