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| Lanzhou
High & New Tech Development Zone (LHNTDZ) is one of the first
high and new technology development zones at state level approved
by the State Council in March 1991. The whole area covers 29.18
sq. Km including the area enjoying preferential policies in total
of 4.7 sq. Km and the newly-opened area in 5.48 sq. Km. |
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present, the land developed within the newly-opened area stretches
to 1.59 sq. Km with an area of 67.97 sq.m already constructed.
There has been invested 2.319 billion Yuan RMB for its capital
construction. With the investment, the following infrastructure
facilities are completed: 6.14 km newly-built roads, conditions
for supplying water, heating and electricity, communications,
setup of road lamps, 30,000 sq.m of industrial workshops for general
use and the No. 1 building in 8,400 sq.m at the university science
and technology park. 171 million Yuan RMB invested for building
the Lanzhou Yintan Bridge on the Yellow River is now completed.
Besides, some other key projects have also quickened their construction.
They are: |
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No.2 Lanzhou Telecommunications Hub with an investment of 568
million Yuan; |
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Provincial Radio & Television Center with 175 million Yuan invested;
and |
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Education & Training Center of Gansu Provincial Bureau of Electricity
Supply with an investment of 110 million Yuan. |
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are 501 enterprises set up in LHNTDZ, including 260 high and new
tech ones and 47 foreign-funded ones. The industrial structure
has taken shape with advanced and new tech industries as its mainstay
and integration of various economic components including state-owned
enterprises, collective, private and foreign-funded ones. A developing
tend has also formulated with such pillar industries expressed
as refined chemistry, bio-technology, new hospitals, energy saving
and environmental protection and IT. |
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The following economic goals had been realized by LHNTDZ by the
end of 1999: |
| The
Total Income in Terms of |
| Technology,
Industry and Trade with Average Annual Increase |
9.317
billion Yuan
48.13% |
| Annual
Tax Income with Average Annual Growth |
433
million Yuan
60.17% |
| The
Foreign Exchange Obtained from Export with Average Annual
Increase |
US
$ 20.74 million
50.6%. |
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development zone had also taken up 28 projects set in China's
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¨”Torch Plan¨•Program and 45 projects in the provincial "Torch Plan
" Program. |
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1999, LHNTDZ fulfilled 2.802 million Yuan in its overall income
from technology, industries and trade with annual increase of
36.5% compared with the previous year, and the tax income achieved
for 111.7 million Yuan with 16.7% rising than the year of 1998.
The annual foreign exchange earned from export reached to $5.296
million USD. Some back-bone enterprises in advanced and new technological
domains were founded and put into operation successively. For
example, the Langang Petro-Chemical Co., Weixin Pharmaceutical
Plant, Qizheng Tibetan Medicine Co., Lianchuang Systematic Integration
Co., Wanwei Multi-Media Co. and Tianxing Rare-Earth Appliance
Co. They have demonstrated the great vitality of the high and
new tech industries, which have become a new focus in the city's
economic growth. |
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