Green region has much to offer investors

Jiangxi province is called Gan in Chinese for short because the Chinese character is made up of two parts, each standing for a large river running across the province from south to north. The province covers an area of 166,900 square kilometers and has a population of 45 million, both of which are similar to those of England.
Jiangxi is important part of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the Silk Road Economic Belt as it is an important cross point of the Belt and Road Initiative, a national strategy of China to promote regional interconnectivity and common development. The province is also of strategic significance in the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone strategy, as well as an important area for the industrial upgrading of Chinese coastal regions.
In the new round of China's opening-up efforts, Jiangxi has focused on improving people's livelihoods, protecting the environment and boosting the economy by developing industries. Jiangxi is enhancing its opening-up efforts and promoting the integration of its two large cities of Nanchang and Jiujiang. Jiangxi welcomes big projects featuring advanced technology, first-class management and big potential as economy drivers from developed countries in Europe.
Despite the lingering global recession and weak recovery, Jiangxi has maintained strong economic growth. Last year, its gross domestic product hit 1.5 trillion yuan ($242 billion), an annual growth of 10.1 percent. In the first five months of this year, its GDP was 340.6 billion yuan, up 8.8 percent year-on-year. The growth rate ranked the province fifth in China at that period and was the highest ranking Jiangxi has achieved in 10 years. From January to May, Jiangxi's practical utility of foreign direct investment stood at about $3.7 billion, up 11.3 percent year-on-year, and the province's imports and exports reached $19 billion.
Jiangxi's industry has unique characteristics. It has advantages in natural resources and industrial foundations. The province is home to 60 industrial clusters, 75 agricultural industry clusters, 35 tourism industry clusters and 50 logistic industry clusters. Jiangxi offers a variety of resources, capital and technology for investors.
The province is in the center of China in a region shared by the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the economic zone to the west of the Taiwan Straits. Jiangxi has nearly 5,000 km of highway, more than 150 km of riverbanks along the Yangtze River and connects with Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou by high-speed railway. The international airport in the provincial capital of Nanchang has flights to major Chinese cities and some large foreign cities.
Jiangxi has a pleasant natural environment with forest coverage of 63.1 percent, markedly higher than the 17 percent national average. It is sometimes called the greenest province in China and boasts some of the cleanest air in the country.
The province is home to five world heritage sites, four world geology parks, one world-class wetland, 14 national-level scenic spots and six national top-level tourist sites. The most renowned of these include Lushan Mountain, Jinggang Mountain, Sanqing Mountain, Longhu Mountain and Poyang Lake.
Jiangxi also has a good business environment, which the local government is committed to making fair, transparent and predictable.
(China Daily European Weekly 07/17/2015 page14)
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