Guangdong Market Opportunities - Urban Economies with Various Characteristics
Maoming City
Maoming is located in the southwest of
Guangdong province with Yangjiang City to
its east, Zhanjiang City to its west and
Yunfu City and Guangxi province to its north,
the South China Sea is on its south. It
has an overall area of 11,458 square kilometers
and a population of 6.5476 million. With
petrochemical industry as its main dependent
industry, Maoming is marching on the road
of new-typed industrialization.
1. General Survey of Economic
Development
Maoming City developed with a high speed.
In 2003, its GDP reached RMB 65.699 billion,
up by 11.3%. The output value of the three
industries accounts 15.9%, 42.7% and 41.4%
to GDP respectively. The export reach a
new high and the total export value reached
US$ 1.38 billion, increased by 42%. The
utilization of foreign investment increased
considerably. The contractual attraction
of foreign capital was US$ 145 million with
an increase of 51.6%. Actual utilization
of direct foreign investment was US$ 101
million with an increase of 13.6%.
2. Unique Advantages and Development
Characteristics
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Having complete infrastructure
facilities. It has a multi-dimensional
network of land, railway, water, pipe
and air transportation. Moreover, the
city has well-functioned modern communication
network and full water and electricity
supply. With the neatly planned construction,
the city has a beautiful environment.
It is the civilized city and clean city
of Guangdong Province and was honored
as “National Garden City”. |
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With famous “Three-High”
agriculture. A favorable industrial
structure, with production of litchis,
longans and bananas as the mainstay,
has come into being, fully exhibiting
the regional characteristics of Maoming.
With the largest fruits and north-transported
vegetables production base in China,
the city was warded The Largest Fruits
Production Base of China by the concerned
department of The State Council. |
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Maoming is the important petrochemical
industry base. Its petrochemical industry
with oil refining and ethane production
as the mainstay takes an important position
in China. It is the base of resource,
raw and processed materials and heavy
chemical industry of Guangdong Province.
It is named the Southern Oil City of
China with the largest crude oil processing
capacity in Southern China. There are
more than 400 different kinds of chemical
enterprises in Maoming and the production
of oil and chemical products are more
than 400 kinds. |
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With considerably economic value of
mineral resources. The city has as many
as over 57 mineral resources exploited,
among which the exploration and processing
industry with Nan Yu and kaolin as the
mainstay are characteristic. The output
of oil shale and kaolin rank the first
in China and the reserves of gold, stannum,
titanium, zircon, rare-earth, porcelain
clay and granite keep ahead in the whole
province. |
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