Overview

The Donggang Economic Development Zone was founded in 1992, and named a provincial-level development zone in 1994. It’s located in the eastern part of the Liaodong Peninsula, at the juncture of the Yalu River and the Yellow Sea, and opposite North Korea, South Korea and Japan.

The total area is expected to cover 70 square kilometers, 60 sq km of that for the western coastal area (30 on land and 30 at sea), with 44.9 square kilometers approved by the provincial government as a key Liaoning Coastal Economic Belt development area.

Development plan

The zone’s purpose is to change and improve the use of the industry of the entire region, help develop Donggang as a medium-sized near-port city, and build up the near-port industrial area at the eastern tip of the Liaoning Coastal Economic Belt. The zone could also be turned into a storage and logistics center for the eastern part of the Northeast.

Priority is being given to five industrial parks and one zone: 8.23 sq km for renewable resources, 7.5 sq km for equipment manufacturing, 5 sq km for storage and logistics, 4.5 sq km for a high-tech park, 5 sq km for food processing, and 15 sq km for a commercial and residential zone.

Development advantage

Location: the zone sits at the center of Northeast Asia and the juncture of the Northeast Asia Economic Circle and Bohai Economic Rim and is a main passageway between Korea Peninsula and Eurasia, and a harbor at the northernmost tip of China’s coast. Dadong Port lies to the east, and Donggang to the north, with which it practically forms one city.

Traffic: The zone has obvious land, sea and air transport advantages, with National Highway 201 running through it, and three expressway exits. It has direct access to Shenyang to the east and Dalian to the west and the Haicheng and Tonghua expressways will be open to traffic soon. Donggang also sits at the starting point of the Shenyang-Dandong Railway Line, giving it direct access to Beijing, Tianjin, Harbin and other important Chinese cities. The China Eastern High-speed Railway, across the city, is under construction.

The Dandong Airport is 20km from the development zone and it sits adjacent to a natural ice-free port at the northernmost tip of the Chinese coast. The port has 26 berths and annually handles 60 million tons of cargo. Its annual handling capacity is expected to reach 150 million tons by 2015.

Policy: The development zone is covered by the Preferential Policies for Revitalizing the Old Industrial Base of Northeast China, Preferential Policies for Liaoning’s Five-Point One-Line plan, and the Interim Measures of Donggang City for Supporting Enterprise Development. It owns the Liaoning (Donggang) Renewable Resources Industrial Park – Dandong’s first national industrial park.

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Donggang Economic Development Zone