Foshan high-tech zone ascends rankings in bid to further open up

A leading national high-tech zone in the city of Foshan, Guangdong province, is climbing up the ranks to become one of China's most open destinations for global cooperation and manufacturing innovation.

In the latest official ranking by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Foshan National High-tech Industrial Development Zone ranked 29th among China's 147 State-level high-tech zones in 2017. "We aim to move into the top 20 by 2020," said Liu Taogen, director of the zone's administrative committee.

"As a way to develop an open economy with superior quality, we will spare no efforts in upgrading the zone's globalization and its competitiveness in the global community and ultimately, explore a unique mode of international cooperation with a Foshan style," he added.