IV . Development Zones

(i) State-level and Province level Development Zones

Beijing Economic and Technology Development Area

The Beijing Economic and Techn-ological Development Area, also known as the Beijing Development Area (BDA), is the only State-level development zone in the Chinese capital, which enjoys policy privileges granted by the State to both State-level development zones and State-level high-tech industrial zones. According to the general plan of BDA, it covers 46.8 square kilometres, which includes an industry area, a business area and a residential area.
In line with the industrial policies of the State and the principle of the local government that calls for concentrating on building up a high-tech based industrial establishment of Beijing, the BDA favours foreign-funded, high-tech and export-oriented enterprises. The BDA also favours electronic information, pharmaceuticals, automobile industries and others.
About 1,800 companies were operating in the area at the end of 2005, which involved a combined investment of US$10.913 billion; and the production value of Hi-tech enterprises took up over 87% of the total industrial value. And more than 80 well-known multinational enterprises have settled at BDA, namely Nokia, GE, Corning, SMC, Cummins, Schneider Electric, Panasonic, SMIC, Foxconn, Bayer, Daiichi and Novo Nordisk etc.

    Beijing Export-Oriented Processing Area, is Beijing's only State-class export-oriented processing area with a developed area of 1.25km2. As a customs' special area under closed management, the area operates according to international practices to provide export-oriented processing enterprises with an easier and more convenient operational environment. The total investment of production base reached 400 million USD, mainly from USA, UK, Japan and Hong Kong SAR. The newly established Modern Automobile City, New International Exhibition Center and Venues for 2008 Olympic Games have made here an energetic area of industry, commerce, exhibition and service trade.
  It is located one kilometre from the Beijing Capital International Airport.

Zhongguancun Science and Tech-nology Park

The ZSTP was inaugurated in May 1998 with approval of the State Council, as the country's fi rst state-level, new- and high-tech development zone. Geographically, in includes Beijing's scientific research, knowledge, human and information resources. There are 39 colleges,such as Tsinghua University, Peking University,with 400,000 students in the development zone, as well as 213 various scientifi c institutions represented by China Academy of Sciences. By 2005, the zone had 17 thousand high-tech enterprises in total, with sales income of over 480 billion yuan, about one seventh of all high-tech enterprises in China, with added value of 96 billion yuan, about 14.1% of GDP in Beijing.

 　

3.Other Service Organizations