Zhaoqing Municipal Government held a press conference in Guangzhou News Center on December 2, 2010 and Liu Longping, Party Secretary of Gaoxin District, administered by Zhaoqing Municipality of Guangdong Province, briefed the media about the Social and Economic Development of Zhaoqing State-Level High-tech Industrial Development Zone.
According to him, from 2005 to 2009, the Zone was ranked NO.1 in all of 69 provincial industrial parks five times in a row. In the first three quarters of this year, its GDP increased 41%, industrial output value 42.9%, the general budget revenue 58.2% and the actual utilization of foreign investment 49%.
So far, the Zone has brought in a total of 500 companies, of which 300 have put into operation. The committed foreign investment and the actual utilization of foreign and domestic capital reached 7-odd billion USD, 3 billion USD and 100 billion RMB respectively. Several well-established domestic & international enterprises has made their presence here, including SK and Hyundai from South Korea, L & P from the United States, Toyo Aluminum from Japan, Asia Aluminum from Hong Kong, State Power Grid Corporation, a large enterprise owed by the Central government as well as Zhongheng Group co.
, one of the largest TCM biomedical corporations in Asia. Four leading industries have preliminarily formed, including metal new material, advanced equipment manufacturing, electronic information and biomedicine.
After a short period of 8 years, the Zone made a legendary jump from originally a poor farm to a state-level high-tech zone attractive to investors both at home and aboard. Provincial Party Secretary Wang Yang made five trips to the zone in two years and a half, with the word that Zhaoqing High-tech Industrial Development Zone should create favorable conditions to become a state-level hi-tech zone and achieve an output value of 500 billion RMB.
Governor Huang Huahua inspected the zone several times and praised that, of all the provincial high-tech zones, Zhaoqing High-tech Industrial Development Zone grows the best both in quality and speed.
For the next stage, Liu said the Zone will strive for more massive progress at a higher level and a larger scale through consistent efforts on attracting investment, perfecting investment climate and encouraging independent innovation in order that the following four goals can be realized, namely, the goal of being a model of the demonstration industrial transfer zones, of realizing an output value of 500 billion RMB, of being a innovative state-level high-tech zone, and of being a modern industrial city that represents achievements of Guangdong s scientific development.
To achieve those grand goals, the zone will carry out measures in following four aspects:
(1) To push forward the policy of screening investment projects;
(2) To speed up the construction of investment environment;
(3)To help elevate the development of four leading industry;
(4) To strengthen independent innovation capabilities;
