Chengdu High-Tech Development Zone:

Chengdu High-Tech Development Zone was constructed in 1988 and established itself as a national level high-tech industrial zone in 1991.

Chengdu High-Tech Development Zone was ratified as an APEC technological industrial zone in 2000. It has been rated as an advanced high-tech zone in all evaluations by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST).

In 2006, it became the first group of pilot units in China to nurture first class industrial parks. It ranks the fourth among 56 national high-tech zones in the latest MST appraisal.

The Chengdu High-Tech Development Zone has a planned area of 87 square kilometers and comprises the southern and western quarters. The southern quarter is located in the southern part of Chengdu with 52 square kilometers of planned area. It is known as the Tianfu Economic Development Zone.

The priority is to develop technological innovation, software development, headquarters economy and modern services. This will create an internationalized new town for science and commerce.

The western quarter faces the Chengdu-Dujiangyan expressway with 35 square kilometers of programmed area. The priority is to construct a comprehensive industrial park focusing on electronic information, bio-medicine, and precision machine manufacturing with complete supporting functions.

The two quarters are supported with a national export processing zone. Chengdu High-Tech Development Zone is constructed jointly by the Sichuan provincial government and Chengdu municipal government. It is mainly directed by the Chengdu municipal government.

The provincial and municipal governments have set up a leading group for administration. The Chengdu High-Tech Development Zone Party Committee is an agency dispatched by the Chengdu municipal Party Committee and government to assume all management functions of Party affairs, economic, administration and social affairs.

It has 14 affiliated departments and five organs directed by the Chengdu municipal government (excluding the Court and Procuratorate). It also has five sub-district administrative offices.

Since its establishment, the Chengdu High-Tech Development Zone has made remarkable achievements in industrial development, product incubation, system innovation, and business attraction. Its opened itself to the world, under great care of the national, provincial and municipal governments.

In 2008, it realized 31.77 billion yuan in terms of industrial added values, up 26.2 percent over the previous year. The social fixed assets investment amounted to 28.7 billion yuan; industrial added values were 20.01 billion yuan, up 38.4 percent. The financial revenues amounted to more than 10 billion yuan for the first time to reach 10.48 billion yuan, up 26.67 percent; local finance general budgeted revenues were 3.027 billion yuan, up 48.28 percent; contracted foreign investment reached $2.18 billion, up 41.9 percent and the actual use of foreign investment was $1.229 billion, up 35.3 percent.

The Sichuan Chengdu Export Processing Zone, based in the development zone had $4.75 billion import and export values, the highest in the central and western regions of China.