Guangdong Market Opportunities - Urban Economies with Various Characteristics

Zhuhai City

Located in southern Guangdong and connected to the sea of Hong Kong and Shenzhen and bordered with Macao. Zhuhai covers a land area of 1,653 square kilometers and with a population of 1.23 million. It is one of the earliest special economic zones in China and the new and hi-tech industrial base focus on developing information technology industry.

1. General Survey of Economic Development

Zhuhai has now established the export-oriented economy structure with the industry as the mainstay and other industries coordinately developed. In 2003, the foreign trade import and export value reached US$ 16.78 billion, increased by 30.8% than that of last year, among which the export value was US$ 6.91 billion, increased by 32.8%, the contractual utilization of foreign capital was US$ 1.597 billion, increased by 21.9%, and the actual utilization of foreign capital was US$ 849 million, increased by 21.6%.

2. Unique Advantages and Development Characteristics

(1) Having outstanding location and environment advantages. Zhuhai has good location advantages such as adjoining Hong Kong and Macao and bordering main international sea-route, so Zhuhai can conveniently connect to far sea market and mainland. Zhuhai also insist the environment protection and construct the good ecology system. Its atmosphere, water and voice environment keep ahead in the whole province.
(2) Having good infrastructure facilities. Zhuhai owns 5 first-grade port, 20 second-grade port and 9 berth with 10000 millions capabilities. The traffic network with the expressway as the mainstay and the city as the core has been formed. The optical wire and wireless communication through the whole city has been formed.
(3) Having completed industrial facilities. The five major industries are telecommunication facilities manufacture industry, computer software industry, biochemical, medicine and medicine instrument manufacture industry, electric machinery and instrument manufacture industry and petrochemical industry.
(4) Having great potential tourism industry. Zhuhai enjoys many good titles such as one of the top 40 Chinese great interest tourism place, the excellent tourism city, modern technology model city, model city for environment protection, ecological model city, United Nation’s international model for improving the living environment. The impact of the symposium of China International Aviation and the International Automobile Race Game has been enlarged.