Xiamen Haicang Investment Zone was approved as state-level deveopment
zone in May 1989. The zone now has a developed area of 31.8 square
kilometers.
Geographical Location
Haicang
is situated on the tip of the Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Quanzhou Triangular Area in South
Fujian, and separated from the Xiamen Island by the sea. Backing up by vast
hinterland, Haicang is just in between the two economically developed coastal
areas of the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta. As early as 300
years ago, Haicang was an important port in southern South Fujian for oversea
trade. Haicang is 165 nautical miles to the west away of Kaohsiung and 137
nautical miles to the west of Taichung of Taiwan on the east, 287 nautical miles
to the north of Hong Kong, and 564 nautical miles to the south of Shanghai. In
1989, Haicang was designated as an investment zone for Taiwanese businesses.
Climate
Haicang is in the sub-tropical marine monsoon
climate zone. The average annual average temperature is 21 centigrade, with the
lowest record temperature of 2 centigrade and the highest temperature of 38.5
centigrade. The average annual precipitation is 1143.5 millimeters.
Communication and Transportation
Landway
The
railway and State the national Highway 319 passing through the Zone link it with
the national road communication network. In addition, an 86-km-long highway,
which was recently completed, together with and the trunk roads to and from main
road in the city proper are also connect the Zone with the
Fuzhou-Xiamen-Zhangzhou Expressway and the State Highway 324 outside the
zone.
Harbor
Ranking among the top ten ports in China,
Xiamen Port operates is open to navigation routes with over 60 ports in more
than 40 countries and regions. Presently, Haicang Port presently has opened 9
ocean-going lines for container routes s to nearly 40 ports in Europe, the
United States, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Kaohsiung of Taiwan, China, Hong
Kong, China, Indonesia and Singapore and some European and American
destinations, etc. In 2001, the 2001 cargo throughput registered reached 4.5
million 50 million tons, and the container throughput hit 270,000 TEUs.
Airport
Haicang is only 10 kilometres away from
Xiamen Xiamen International Airport, which has opened more than 80 air routes to
domestic and overseas destinations, including Singapore, Osaka, Bangkok, and
Hong Kong, etc.
Bridge
The Haicang Bridge in operation links
Haicang with the downtown of Xiamen and the proposed Haicang-Zhangzhou
Sea-spanning Bridge will connect Haicang with Zhangzhou.
Human Resources
In Xiamen there are 120 scientific
research institutes, 8 colleges and universities and colleges, and 12
polytechnic schools.
Industrial Structure
The industrial structure has
basically shaped up focusing on such sectors as come into being mainstay of
polyester, PET, PVC products, photo sensitive materials, structural electronics
components, and power generation power. The petrochemical sector industry chain
with the leading enterprises of highlights Xianglu PET and PTA, while coupled
with the refined chemicals sector industry chain centers on pioneered by Kodak
photosensitive materials has been formed manufacturing. Moreover, electronics,
and electrical appliances equipment, machinery, and metallurgic products, new
building materials, bio-pharmaceutical and other light industrial products have
also started here industry have a considerable scale.
Investment Priorities
The government of Haicang
Investment Zone encourages investment in high-tech and capital-intensive
industries, with priorities the emphasis on petrochemicals, electronics,
machinery, refined chemicals, new building materials, and bio-pharmaceuticals
industry.
Administration Committee
Tel: 86-592-6052703
Fax:
86-592-6051056
Email: bgs@haicang.com
Website: http://www.haicang.com/eng/index.html
(Source: Ministry of Commerce)
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