Pudong Software Park

A major task for the Shanghai government to meet its strategic need for an economic structure oriented to a service economy is to build up and develop service outsourcing.

The Shanghai Municipal Committee and the Shanghai municipal government  place great emphasis on service outsourcing.

In October 2006, Shanghai was granted the first group of service outsourcing bases by MOFCOM, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Science and Technology.

A month later, Pudong New Area, Luwan district, Changning district and Caohejing High-Tech Park were authorized to be service outsourcing model areas.

Five service outsourcing parks — Shanghai Zhangjiang Financial Information Outsourcing Center, Shanghai Zhangjiang Biomedicine Outsourcing Center, Shanghai Nanhui Biomedicine Outsourcing Center, Shanghai Information Technology Outsourcing Center and Shanghai Human Resources Outsourcing Center — were accredited in March 2008.

Now Shanghai Pudong Software Park and Luwan Human Resources Outsourcing Park as Shanghai have been accredited as information technology service outsourcing and human resource outsourcing centers. An additional 40 key outsourcing firms have also been accredited.
Source: China View

     China-Vietnam
             border

China and Vietnam settled their long disputed land border, only hours before a deadline. Beijing and Hanoi — who normalized relations in 1991 and are now major trade partners — have had teams working on both sides to plant border stones to mark their approximately 1,400 kilometer frontier in the remote and mountainous region.

On New Year’s Eve, hours before the midnight deadline, both sides issued a joint statement in Hanoi saying they had ‘finalized the demarcation and placement of markers along the entire land border between Vietnam and China.’

Today China and Vietnam say they plan to turn the land border zone into a region of ‘peace and prosperity’.
Under the plan, Vietnam’s poor far-north is set to be transformed with industrial projects and zones and new road and rail links that would connect China’s Yunnan and Guangxi provinces with Vietnam’s Haiphong seaport.

The economic corridors, part of a web of highways linking China with Southeast Asia, will help boost annual two-way trade to a targeted $25 billion by 2010 from $16 billion last year.
Source: The Seferm Post

NOT a demonstration zone of traffic control

This is a first. The China Academy of Transportation Sciences has officially designated Qingyang district as the country’s first Demonstration Zone of Modern Urban Comprehensive Transportation.

In any town in China — and the illustration is NOT of Qingyang district — something of this sort is plainly urgently needed.

As an exploration and experiment of smooth transportation, from now on, Qingyang district will put forward a series of whole new measures such as parking management, public transportation and road building.

These are expected to be used in the entire Chengdu after the first trial if it is successful.
Source: All Roads Lead to China

The Yangtze foreign trade wharf

China has formally approved establishment of a bonded logistics center in Wuhan, Hubei province of central China, the fourth zone of its kind in the country.

China’s General Administration of Customs, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation and other departments have jointly approved Wuhan’s application for founding the bonded logistics center.

The first three such centers are in the Suzhou high-tech zone, the Nanjing Longtan and Beijing Airport.

Location is excellent. Wuhan Dongxihu bonded logistics center is 18 kilometers away from Wuhan central business district, 13 kilometers from Hankou railway station, 24 kilometers from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport and 26 kilometers from the Yangtze foreign trade wharf.
Source: CargoNews

                       FETZ

Fuzhou Economic & Technical Development Zone (FETDZ) was established in January 1985. It was one of the first state-class economic-technological development areas in the China.

Located in Fuzhou, the capital  of Fujian province, it has now  extended to the outlet of the Min River. The total area covers 23 square kilometers and  FETDZ is unique in that it integrates an Export Processing Zone, Free Trade zone, a Taiwanese investing zone and high-tech Park in one.

In August. 1996, the Ministry of Communication made the FETDZ-based Fuzhou port the pilot port for direct shipping across the Taiwan Straits.
Source: Alibaba

                  Li Ning store

Chinese sportswear brand Li Ning has announced plans to build a manufacturing and distribution base in Jingmen, Hubei province at a total investment of RMB3.2 billion.

Li Ning Industrial Park will be in Jingmen Economic Development Zone. Li Ning will be responsible for the construction of the distribution and R&D bases while two companies established by its core suppliers will invest in the construction of footwear and apparel manufacturing bases.

On the completion of this industrial park, it will be one of the largest sportswear manufacturing and distribution centers in central China. Its products will account for 40% to 50% of Li Ning’s product supply chain and its annual output is expected to reach RMB6billion. It is expected to provide about 50,000 jobs for local people.
Source: China Retail News

                   Snow Beer

China’s leading beer brewer China Resources Snow Breweries will invest RMB650 million to set up a production base in Shanghai.

Covering a total area of 190,000 square meters within the Shanghai Baoshan Industrial Zone, the manufacturing base will have an annual production capacity of 400 million liters on its completion. This will probably make it the largest brewery in Shanghai.

China Resources Snow Breweries  is jointly owned by the Hong Kong-listed China Resources Enterprise and the world’s leading beer brewer SABMiller. It has more than 60 breweries across China. In 2007, the company sold over 690 million liters of beer in China, accounting for 17% of the total beer consumption.
Source: China Sourcing News

                Zone Beijing 798

798 Art Zone, or Dashanzi Art District, is a part of Dashanzi in the Chaoyang District of Beijing that houses a thriving artist community.

The area occupied by Beijing 798 Art Zone was once the Beijing North China wireless joint equipment factory (which was known as, 718 Joint Factory). This was built in 1954 and put into production in October 1957. That it is now an artist’s community might be thought ironic.

The buildings are located inside alleys number 2 and 4 on Jiuxianqiao Lu, south of the Dashnziqiao flyover.

The original 718 Joint Factory was designed by a German architectural institution in Dessau, which was strongly influencd by the Bauhaus movement which had, in turn,  a strong influence on the design of the original building.

In December 2000 the former six factories of 700, 706, 707, 718, 797, and 798 were reorganized and incorporated into Beijing Sevenstar Science and Technology.

Eventually the unique style of Bauhaus architecture and the convenient location attract many art organizations and artists. They rented what we then thevacant plants and transformed them.

Thus the 798 Art Zone gradually became  a district of galleries, art studios, cultural companies, fashion shops — pretty much anything to do with design and the arts.  And so it acquired its name — Beijing 798 Art Zone.
Source: EOL.cn and research

Zhongguancun Science Park is China’s biggest science park with a high concentration of scientific and technological institutions and intellectual resources. Located in this area are 39 institutions of higher learning represented by Beijing University and Tsinghua University.

There are 213 research institutions as exemplified by the
institutions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and
the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE.) 37% of the
academicians of both the CAS and CAE are
living and working in this area.

Many state-level laboratories and important engineering and technology centers are concentrated in this area and Zhongguancun Science Park is the largest software development and production center in China.

Zhongguancun Science Park is composed of five science zones:Haidian Zone, Fengtai Zone, Changping Zone, the Electronic City Zone and Yizhuang Zone.

Some ten thousand new and hi-tech enterprises, such as Legend, Stone, Founder, Zhongguancun Science and Technology, Tsinghua Tongfang, Netease, are operating in Zhongguancun. In addition, there are some 1,500 R&D centers and hi-tech companies set up by or invested by renowned overseas transnational companies.

The business income generated from the industry, trade and technology of Zhongguancun Science Park accounted for 18% of the total income of all the 53 national new and hi-tech parks.
Source: Alibaba

Dongguan began with garments, footwear, toys and Christmas trees, then moved into consumer electronics.

Now it also assembles communications equipment, telecom switches, routers and automobiles. It is also engaged in new, painstaking efforts to build a different image by fostering hi-tech industry and innovation.

That transformation can be seen in Songshan Lake Sci-Tech Industry Park, an hour’s drive from the airports in Shenzhen or Guangzhou, South China’s booming economic powerhouses.

Apart from being so conveniently close to the ‘world’s factory’, the park embodies Dongguan’s new direction. Which is to move up the manufacturing chain.

He Yuepei, director of Dongguan Sci-Tech Bureau said, ‘We have laid a solid foundation to do so.’

He said 400 nation-level hi-tech companies and 1,500 private hi-tech companies of various scales have been set up in the city. In 1978, the city had only one registered engineer; now it has more than 1.2 million.

During the past five years the government has invested more than RMB10 billion  to improve the infrastructure of the fledging hi-tech park, which will eventually expand to the size of Hong Kong Island.
Source: Business