The Dandong Qianyang Economic Development Zone is a provincial-level zone founded in 1994, with an area of 120 square kilometers and a population of 80,000. When the Liaoning Coastal Economic Belt was made a part of a national strategy in 2009, the zone became one of the belt’s 42 key opening-up areas and a future traffic hub, logistics center and industrial area for Dandong.

Priority is given to modern logistics, textiles, apparel, and the nutrition and health business, and to developing a Northeast China modern logistics and distribution center and an international small commodities center.

Qianyang has certain location advantages since it borders the new urban area of Dandong and is 20 km from Dandong’s old urban area, to the east, and 8 km from a new Yalu River highway bridge. It is only a stone’s throw from North Korea and a strategic link to the development area of Northeast China, especially with the opening up of North Korea.

Qianyang has a traffic network that involves sea, land and air transport and is 10 km from Dandong Airport and connected with Shenyang and Dalian, major Northeast China cities, thanks to its expressways. National Highway 201, Huanghai Avenue, and Yalujiang Avenue all converge here.

It has the Shugang Railway, running from Dandong to Dadong Port and work on the China Eastern Railway, which crosses the zone, has begun. The largest stations on the railway cargo line lie inside the zone. The zone contains Dataizi Port, a national category-2 port, which does 2 billion yuan worth of barter trade with North Korea. Dadong, is a natural ice-free port, is only 12km from the development zone.

The Qianyang Economic Development Zone asked Tsinghua University’s Urban Planning and Design Institute to draw up a new plan for an 80-square-kilometer area, from the bank of the Yalu River in the south to the Dandong-Dalian Expressway in the north, and the Liulin River in the east to the Shifo River in the west.

The general layout has “one city, one axis, two wings, three belts and three industries”. The “one city” refers to the Qianyang New City, the economic, business, residential and service center of the Qianyang Economic Development Zone. The “one axis” is the Jiangshan Road area of development. After Jiangshan Road opens to traffic, it will become a landscaped street. The “two wings” are the Liulin River on the eastern side and “Shifo River” to the southwest. They are relaxation and landscaped areas and an ecological barrier for the Qianyang Economic Development Zone. The “three belts” are bounded by National Highway 201 and Huanghai Avenue: the northern part is an ecological, living area; the middle part, an economic, industrial area; and the southern part, a trade and residential area.

The “three industries” that Qianyang gives priority to three industries, namely, modern logistics, textile and apparel,,nutrition and health industry.

In 2010, the zone realized 20.86 billion yuan of total output value of enterprises, up 35.9 percent year on year; 9.27 billion yuan of total output value of enterprises above designated size, up 49.1 percent year on year; 127 million dollars of export, up 12 percent year on year; 5 billion yuan of investment, up 425 percent year on year; 5 billion yuan of investment in fixed assets, up 233 percent year on year; 180.46 million yuan of general budgetary revenue, up 84.6 percent year on year. In the year, 128 projects with investment of above 5 million yuan were under construction in the zone. The total investment of the projects is 7.492 billion yuan. 5 billion yuan of the investment was completed. There were 13 projects with investment of above 100 million yuan.

In 2011, Qianyang Economic Development Zone will accelerate its infrastructure construction and push on urbanization; make great efforts in project construction focusing on Best Mountain (Dandong) Construction Materials Co, Ltd. and expand industrial clusters; ensure the industrial output value of the enterprises in the zone reaches 27.5 billion yuan, up 30 percent year on year; the total output value of enterprises above designated size reaches 13.2 billion yuan, up 42 percent year on year; export reaches 145 million dollars, up 15 percent year on year; 7 billion yuan of investment is attracted, up 40 percent year on year; general budgetary revenue reaches 221 million yuan, up 32 percent year on year.

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