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Lanzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone

Updated: 2006-04-19 15:05

Lanzhou Economic & Technological Development Zone(LETDZ) was established
in 1993, and was approved as state-level on March 15, 2002. The zone
covers an area of 9.53 square kilometers.

Geographical Location
Once being a communication fortress and an important commercial town on
the Ancient Silk Road with a history of 2000 years, Lanzhou is now a
central metropolis in West China in politics, economics, business,
culture, science and education, and information., Lanzhou is located in
the geometric centre of China's land territory with mountains surrounding
in the north and the south and Yellow River passing through from east to
west. And the zone lies in An'ning district of the city on the north bank
of the Yellow River

Communication and Transportation
Being one of China's 12 major communication centers with the four main
railways of Gansu-Lianyungang, Lanzhou-Qinghai, Lanzhou-Xinjing,
Baotou-Lanzhou converging there, Lanzhou is a comprehensive communication
hub of railways, highways, and aviation. It is also the largest freight
station in Northwestern China, one of the important commercial container
transportation centers on the new continental bridge connecting Asia and
Europe.

It enjoys sophisticated highway networks of 6 expressways, 5 national
highways, 6 provincial highways, and 47 county highways. As the aspect of
aviation is concerned, Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport facilitates the landing
and passing flights of 8 airline companies, and it has routes to 38
domestic cities and tourism charter flights to Hong Kong and Singapore.

Mineral Resources
Lanzhou and its adjacent area hold in store abundant mineral resources
mainly including 35 mineral types within 9 categories, such as black
metals, valuable metals, rare earth, energy mines, and so on. Baiyin and
Jinchang, which are quite close to Lanzhou, are important producing areas
for nickle, lead, cuprum, rare earth, and platinum.

Human Resources
As one of China's key bases for scientific research, Lanzhou boasts 700
various scientific research and development institutions including
Lanzhou Branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences. There are 9 state-level
key laboratories including Heavy Ion Accelerator Laboratory, and 13
universities and colleges for high education including Lanzhou
University. Having about 300 thousand various scientific and
technological talents including 13 academicians of Chinese Academy of
Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, Lanzhou ranks the 4th in
density of talented people across the country.

Investment Priorities
Special priorities will be given to the following: namely, information
industry, electronic industry, green environment protection industry,
biomedicine, foodstuff industry, new type building material industry,
fine chemistry, further processing of raw materials, light textile
industry, high efficiency agricultural demonstration base, urban
infrastructure, road building, municipal construction, land exploitation,
hi-tech venture investment enterprises, social intermediary agencies,
commerce, cultural recreation, exhibition and convention, science and
education, sanitation, and sports industry. Enterprises of the world top
500 are welcome to settle down into the zone to establish research
centers for new products and develop new hi-tech businesses.

Administration Committee
Tel: 86-931-7672965
Fax: 86-931-7672883
Email: info@lzeda.com
Website: www.lzeda.com (Chinese)

(Source: Ministry of Commerce)

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