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Located in the East China's most prosperous
Yangtze River Delta region, Changzhou lies in-between two metropolitan cities
of Shanghai and Nanjing. It is about 100 miles from Shanghai and 70 miles
from Nanjing. With a cultural history of over 2500 years, Changzhou is also
a rising modern industrial city. It covers a total area of 180,000 acres,
and 11,000 acres are urban areas. The total population in Changzhou is 3.415
million, including 840,000 urban residents. Changzhou has a solid industrial
foundation. There are over 20,000 various manufacturing companies, forming
a complete industrial structure including mechanical, metallurgy, electronics,
textile, garments, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, building materials
and foodstuff. The six main industries in Changzhou are power industry,
engineering machinery, automobile, motorcycle and their parts, power transmission
equipment, electronics, new-style textile and garments. It has formed numerous
brand products such as the diesel engines, loaders, power transformers,
city buses, special and micro motors, DVD and indigo blue denim, etc. By
now, the percentage of new and Hi-Tech enterprises accounts for 50% of total
economy in the city. Changzhou National Hi-Tech District (CND), a national
industrial development area, was established in August 1992. The CND Administrative
Committee executes the same economic authority as the municipal government
does. The enterprises in the CND enjoy the preferential policies granted
by the State Council. CND is located in the north of Changzhou city, and
is adjacent to the riverside of Yangtze River. There is a national grade
oceangoing port consisting of a general dock, a container dock and a petro-chemical
dock with capacity of 30,000 tons each. CND has very convenient transportation
network by air, water, road and rail. The Shanghai-Nanjing Railway is in
the south, and the Yangtze River in the north.
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