Location proves profitable for zone

Lying in central Yunnan province - the passageway to Southeast Asia - the Kunming National High-tech Industries Development Zone is taking advantage of its geographic location and the presence of a large amount of natural and mineral resources in its home province to make a "big income within a small area". It also won a reward given out by the Ministry of Land and Resources early this year for the economical efficient use of land resources.

About 5,400 enterprises had come to the zone by the end of 2011. Three of them had an annual income of $1.57 billion, and another 54 had an annual income of more than $1.57 million.

Called the "kingdom of nonferrous metals", Yunnan contains many great opportunities for manufacturers. The high-tech zone's nonferrous and precious metals industries had $7.8 billion in industrial output in 2011, making up more than half of the zone's total output.