Changchun High-Tech Industries Development Zone
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Sprawling industrial facilities in the zone. Its burgeoning industries provide opportunities to experts whose projects in turn boost the local economy. |
Since it was established in 1991, the Changchun High-Tech Industries Development Zone in Northeast China's Jilin province has made substantial progress toward becoming a world-class base for innovative industry.
The zone was one of the first national economic development zones and today remains at the forefront in terms of proprietary innovation, competitiveness and services for companies located within.
According to official statistics, the 150-square-kilometer zone is now home to more than 40 State-owned enterprises and Fortune 500 firms that generated 148 billion yuan ($24 billion) in revenue in the first five months of 2012, a year-on-year increase of 26 percent.
The zone's administrators said its goals for the coming years include upgrading outdated industries while fostering a modern high-tech industrial cluster in the province. Its leaders hope to make it a national model park for proprietary innovation and a demonstration area for high-tech cooperation with neighbors in Northeast Asia.
A comprehensive industrial cluster has been formed in such sectors as the auto industry, photoelectric technology, biological medicine, new materials, alternative energy, food processing and modern production-oriented services.
The zone will gather innovative elements and optimize configuration of resources to develop new emerging industries.