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Xiamen Haicang Investment Zone

Updated: 2006-04-18 17:24

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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