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Approved in December 1984, Nantong
Economic and Technological Development Zone is one of the first national
economic and technological development zones in China.
Geographical Location The
Nantong Economic & Technology Development Zone, located in the middle
part alongside China's coastline and on the northern bank of the estuary
of the Yangtze River, is an important sea gate of this drainage area.
Climate The
Nantong Economic & Technology Development Zone is of a humid subtropical
monsoon climate, mild and with four distinctive seasons. Its annual
temperature averages 14.9 degrees centigrade and the annual average
precipitation is 1,066.8 millimeters.
Communication and
Transportation
Harbor The
Nantong Port is one of the ten largest ports in China, with 45 berths of
various kinds, including 28 ten-thousand-ton ones. Nantong Port is open
to navigation to 199 ports in 65 countries and regions such as the USA,
Russia, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, and has opened three lines
for international container shipment, namely the Hong Kong Line, the
Japan Line and the South Korea Line, with 28 regular container vessel
liners shipping to various parts of the world every day. At present,
this port has an annual handling capacity of over 23,000,000 tons, and
an annual container transportation volume of 160,000 TEU, as well as
well developed river transportation capacity.
Airport
The Nantong
Economic & Technology Development Zone is 100 kilometers away from the
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, 150 kilometers away from the
Shanghai Pudong International Airport, 240 kilometers away from the
Nanjing Lukou Airport, and 16 kilometers away from the Nantong Airport.
The Nantong Airport now operates airlines between Nantong and the
following cities, namely Beijing, Dalian, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Qingdao
and Xiamen.
Road
It is less than
three hours' drive along the Ning Tong Expressway from the Nantong
Economic & Technology Development Zone to Nanjing. Before the Su-Tong
Yangtze River Bridge was built, a drive to Shanghai via a car ferry
would take about two hours, covering a land distance of 100 km.
Railway
The Nantong section of the Xinchang Railway, which has been put into
operation after the completion of construction, has a direct connection
to the Nantong Economic & Technology Development Zone, so does the
Ningqi Railway about to be constructed.
Industrial Structure
Electronic communications, textile fabrics and chemical materials are
three leading industries.
Investment Priorities
Volume handling capacity projects, including projects of new building
materials, heavy machinery, shipping, metallurgy, electric power, food
processing, foodstuff processing and projects in need of a base for
storage such as warehousing, transshipment , trade and whole sale
market. New and high-tech projects, including projects of new materials
(new chemical and synthetic materials such as structural type of
materials and functional type of materials, special fiber use colophony,
new electronic materials, new ceramics materials, alloy material and
nami materials), new medicines, animal and plant protection, and seed
engineering. Projects for upgrading traditional industries, including
projects that can improve the traditional industries of Nantong and the
Nantong Economic & Technology Development Zone, namely the textile
industry, the clothing industry and the fine chemical industry of.
Science and technology intensive or Labor intensive projects, including
projects of processing the spare parts of electronic and communications
products.
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