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Nantong Economic and Technological Development Zone

Updated: 2006-04-19 11:17

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 milimeters.

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. Nangtong 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 new chemical materials are
the 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 fibre- 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.

Administration Committee
Tel: 86-531-3596030
Fax: 86-531-3596033
Email: info@netda.com
Website: www.netda.com

(Source: Ministry of Commerce)

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