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  Chongqing New Northern Zone: China’s Inland Open Economy Demonstration Zone
 

    In the world map suspending in the hall of United Nations, only four Chinese cities are marked, one of which is Chongqing. Somebody said that the territory of Chongqing looked like a phoenix. And Chongqing New North Zone, which is like a butterfly branded the phoenix in the chest, takes a very great part in the whole economic development of Chongqing.

    Ⅰ. The strategic status of Chongqing in the development of Chinese regional economy

    Chongqing is the joint of the east and the west of China with Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Shanxi, Guizhou as its neighors. About 32 million people have populated the whole area of 82.4 thousand square kilometers of Chongqing, which made Chongqing the largest municipality with the largest population of China in 1997. Historically, Chongqing became the earliest inland opened trade port in 1891, and became one of the opened cities along Yangtze River in 1992. In 2007, Chongqing was authorized with one of the comprehensive reform trial places between urban and rural areas. Thence, Chongqing is the brige head of the great development of the west and the front line of the opening of the west to the east of China, both of which entitle Chongqing the stategic place in the coordinate development of the east and the west as well as Chinese new century development.

    1. Chongqing is the logistic center of Chinese western transportation

    Chongqing has the advantagous geographic location for it is the center of the Chinese mainland territory and in the upper reach of Yangtze River. It’s the largest industrial and commercial city in western China and the only transportation hub city integrating air, land and water tranport in the west. In the east 2,400 kilometers away Shanghai is located, through which Chongqing can reach the great ocean. And it can connect the coastal regions and then the ASEAN countries by way of Guizhou and Guangxi along the 1,300 kilometers of Chinese Southwest passage leading to sea. The city of Chongqing has powerful comprehensive service function with commerce and trade, logitics and the capability of import and export in the first few places. And the one-day transportation circle has more than ten big and middle cities and 600 million people enjoying the convinence. After the completion of the project of Three Gorges, 3000-ton ships can reach Chongqing, and the yearly water port volume can reach more than 20 million tons from present volume of 10 million tons. And the yearly transportation capacity of the expanded Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport will be 15 million passengers. By now, the great companies like CMA, APL, MOL, HYUNDAI, EVERGREEN Group, etc have set up their businesses and logitic distribution centers in Chongqing.

    2. The manufacture centre of west China

    Chongqing is a most important manufacture base with a long history. Chongqing ranks in the first group in China’s big cities in terms of the number of state owned large and medium scale enterprise, of the fixed asset scale, of equipment and technology development level. In the 8 years fighting against the Japanese invaders, million and million plants moved to Chongqing from the coastal area like Shanghai, Nanjing. This move is known as an unprecedented “Iron plant move to westward in the blood” in Chinese temporary history. And this also found a new industrial area spread from Chongqing as its centre. In 1960s, Chongqing is a most key area to undertake the national defense investment. So abundant military enterprises’ gathering in Chongqing becomes an advantage of Chongqing. When those military enterprises turn their primary business to civil facility, they also attain a lot benefit. After such a long time’s construction, Chongqing has a quite full-scale industrial chain, both light and heavy industry, both assemble line and component support. Chongqing has a lot key industries, as followed, the manufacture industry, like automobile and motorcycle; the metallurgy industry, like steel and aluminum; the chemical industry, like synthetic material and fine chemical; instrument industry, textile industry and food industry. In 2009, the economic aggregate of Chongqing reached RMB 652.8 billion, up by 14.9% over the same period of last year; the industrial added value reached RMB 291.7 billion, up by 17.2% and accounting for 44.7% of the total GDP. It enables Chongqing to undertake industry western moving from eastern China.

    3. The culture and education centre of west China

    Chongqing is a well-known historical city of China, with more than 3000 years history and being the birthplace of Bayu culture. 11 century BC, in Shang and Zhou dynasty, Ba people held Chongqing as their capital and establish a country called “Ba”. In 1189 Song dynasty, Emperor Song guangzong was designated as a duke called “Gong wang” and then he came to the throne as the emperor. He named this as double (meaning of Chinese character Chong) happeness (meaning of Chinese character Qing). So Chongqing inherited the name from then almost 800 years ago.Chongqing city was established formally in 1929. From 1937 to 1946, Chongqing became the provisional capital of the republic of China during the World War 2. At the same time, it also was the centre of Chinese political, economy, and culture. At the beginning of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, Chongqing is the base of Southwest bureau of Communist Party of China (CPC) and of Southwest Military and Political Committee. Welding the Ba yu culture, immigration culture, Three Gorge culture, Red culture namely Revolutionary culture, Provisional capital culture, and Metropolis culture into one integrity, Chongqing manifests his own historical and cultural accumulation.

    Chongqing is quite competitive in technology and education. There are more than 1 thousand R&D institute, 600 thousand technological employees; 57 superior colleges and universities, 650 thousand students engaging in studying in school; 356 professional colleges, 450 thousand students engaging in studying in school, more than 100 provincial and national institutes; more than 800 thousand professional talents, 100 thousand university graduates and 200 thousand professional college graduates each year, out of question, all of them above could meet the talent need of international enterprises.

    4. The financial centre of west China

    Finance is the centre of the economic activity. And a financial centre could attract huge mount of capital to flow in and give various business an impetus to diversify and expand. In 2009, the added value in Chongqing’s finance industry reached RMB 38.997 billion, up by 31.2% over the same period of last year and accounting for 6.0% of the total GDP. As a result, the finance industry ranked first in terms of growth rate in the national economy and became one of pillar industries, stimulating the rapid growth of Chongqing’s economy. Chongqing is full in financial institute category and has a well financial environment. Its bad debt rate is much lower to the national average. In 2009, the deposit remaining and loan remaining of bank respectively reached RMB 1093.3 billion and RMB 876.6 billion, and the ratio of deposit to loan stays about 87%. In recent years, financial asset is increasing by 20% annually. While Chongqing’s faster and faster opening-up, more and more foreign financial institute located in Chongqing. Chongqing has already to be one of the cities that have most foreign financial institutes. Now, Chongqing has 7 foreign banks, 3 foreign insurance companies. At the same time, Chongqing has 60 insurance companies. The insurance industry scale of Chongqing rank No.1 in west China. Chongqing also, the only province in west China, possesses fund managing corporation and security corporation. Expanding on the transaction range, Chongqing united asset and equity exchange become the largest asset and equity exchange market, enterprise domestic and abroad could make transaction here, to lower exchange cost. Since the establishments of four exchanges, Chongqing owned the domestic influential factor market, highlighting Chongqing’s status as the financial center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze.

    5. The only municipality in middle and west China.

    Chongqing is the only municipality in middle and west China, with more than 5 million inhabitants in urban area, and advantageous resource gathering, in March, 2007, General Sectary Hu jintao himself made a general deployment for Chongqing, namely “314”, which in detail is 3 orientations as a west China’s most important growth engine, an up-stream of Yangzi river economic centre, a municipality balancing the urban and rural areas, 1 goal as to be the leading one in construction of all-round welfare society in west China. In June 2007, under the affirmation of stat council, Chongqing is approved to be the trial area striving in balancing the urban and rural area. In September 2007, was approved by the state council. In this plan, it clearly declare 5 status of Chongqing that Chongqing is one of important centre cities of China, a national historical and cultural city, the economic centre of up-stream Yangzi river, the national modern manufacture base and a transportation hub in southwest of China. In the future, Chongqing is going to be a city with 1062 square kilometers, a city with more than 10 million people. That means Chongqing will advance in civil service function much more than usual. In January, 2009, the State Council introduced the Same Questions on Balancing Urban and Rural Reform and Development of Chongqing (state issue [2009] No. 3), which greatly support the overall urban and rural reform and inland open economy development. At the end of 2007, CPC political bureau member Bo xilai serves in CPC Chongqing municipality sectary concurrently, which enhances so much Chongqing’s political advantage and celebrity domestic and abroad.


    Ⅱ.The comparative advantages of Chongqing New North Zone in the development of Chongqing.

    Chongqing New North Zone was established on Dec.18th, 2000 and on Apr.25th, 2001, Mr. He Guoqiang himself, the secretary of Chongqing municipal Party committee during that period awarded the tablet to CNNZ. Many central leaders, such as Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo and Wen Jiabao had come to inspect CNNZ for several times. CNNZ covers 130 square kilometers and has a population of 1.2 million people. Five streets, including Renhe Street, Yuanyang Street, Dazhulin Street, Tiangongdian Street and Cuiyun Street in Lijia Town, are under its jurisdiction. In 2009, the local GDP of CNNZ reached RMB 54.1 billion; the total industrial output value came to RMB 139.3 billion; the total FAI amounted to RMB 27.8 billion; the regional fiscal revenue came to RMB 16.7 billion; and the local retaining fiscal revenue came to RMB 7 billion. All the economic indicators are increasing by over 40% on average in 5 years. On January of 2009, the state council issued the document about promoting reform and opening up in both rural and urban areas of Chongqing(Guofa(2009)3)), which clearly stated that CNNZ will be developed into a model area for inland open economy and an area for high technology research and development, manufacturing and modern services. On June 18, 2010, ratified by the State Council, the Chongqing Liangjiang New Area (CLNA) was officially established. As a part of CLNA, CNNZ was planned to be developed as the core zone and leading zone.

    1. The unique location

    Chongqing New North Zone (CNNZ) is located in the metropolitan area of Chongqing. It backs Chongqing International Airport to the north, looks over the central business district of Chongqing to the south and the Jialing River to the west and borders the “Golden Waterway”—Yangtze River on the east. It is the only zone that has the advantage of stereo-transportation network which integrates waterway, airway, highway and railway as one unity and is ordinarily called the sub-centre of Chongqing. With 1 million containers, 500 thousand ro-ships and other bulk cargos, Cuntan Port is the largest port in the 12 provinces of western China and the 3000-ton’s fleet can arrive at it along Yangtze River. Chongqing Cuntan Bonded Port, China’s first inland bonded port, adopted the operation model of “water port + air port”, being a inland bonded port with two functions in one zone. The biggest railway station, Longtousi Railway Station has been constructed and used here, from where 8 railways lead to the whole country and makes it a transportation junction in western China for north-south and east-west highways. Ranking the 9th among more than 130 airports in China, the incoming and outcoming passengers to and from the Chongqing International Airport. In 2009, the passenger throughput exceeded 1.4 million and there will be 16-17 million until the year of 2010, which makes it one of the large-scale junctional airports in China. The unique position of CNNZ has attracted many medias’ attention. In recent years, more than 10 media from CCTV, Xinhua News Agency, China Taiwan, ETTV and China Times showed their interest in and had an interview with CNNZ. They believed that CNNZ is a precious area in Chongqing.

    2. The good infrastructures

    From the year of 2003, CNNZ has accumulatively invest over 90 billion RMB for the construction of main projects, such as comprehensive transportation, energy resources, water supply and drainage, communication facilities, ecological environment and infrastructure, etc. and has created a comprehensive stereo-transportation network which integrates waterway, airway, highway and railway as one unity. At present, the main roads, avenues of “golden” series such as Jinkai Avenue and Jinyu Avenue have been opened to traffic and there will be formed a netwok of the main roads. The facilities such as pressurized water supply station and transformer substation have been come into use. Yu-Huai railway, Jiangbei Passenger Transport Railway Station, Cuntan Port and logistic park have been constructed one after another. Meanwhile, a group of symbolic and functional infrastructural facilities are under construction, all of which can reflect the Chongqing’s culture, education, science and technology, sports, sanitation and tourism as a municipality. The international bilingual school, international hospital, high-grade residence, golf course and Renhe Folk Culture Village will provide people with the best environment for economy and trade, living, leisure and tourism. In the April, 2008, the commercial delegation from Singapore came to CNNZ, and the Minister of State for Trade and Industry of Singapore, also the delegation leader, Mr. Li Yixian said, “CNNZ is an ideal place for investment and leisure due to its convenient trasportation and first-class environment.”

    3. The first-class ecological environment

    CNNZ has distinctve ecological conditions in the metropolitan area of Chongqing with unique water system and wetland which consists of 28 mountainous reservoir lakes and 11 streams and covers an area of 1.45 square kilometers. It will give you a full expression to the beliefs “ livability, forest, landscape and leisure” of a demonstrative area of metropolitan image. By the year of 2012, the constructed area of CNNZ will be more than 70 square kilometers, the urbanization ratios will be 100%, the per capita green area will be 20 square meters, the per capita road area will be 50 square meters, the green area ratios of city will be over 56%, the Coverage ratios of forest will be over 38%. The landscape belt extends for 16.5 kilometers, covering 12 square kilometers and will gradually exhibit Chongqing’s most beautiful landscape of “ Two Rivers and Four Banks” along the Jialing River. About 20 city and community parks and some theme parks including Chongqing Poly International Golf Course, Chongqing Northern Botanical Garden, Ecological Park of Sloping Land, Longjing Lake Park, Huangjiao Park and Baiyun Park will be a driving power for CNNZ to turn it into a leisure resort with large scale, distinctive characteristics and best quality.

    4. Mature supporting facilities for industries

    Mature supporting facilities can make good industrial environment. The development of leading projects depends on mutual support of industrial chains. And then a new industrial group can be developed. New North Zone has been working very hard to improve its infrastructures, labor resources and financial service to upgrade the supporting ability of guiding industries in order to create a first-class platform for undertaking industries. Therefore, New North Zone has taken a place in international hot competition. A relatively coherent industrial chain with production, circulation and sales of automotives and motorcycles led by Chang’an-Ford-Mazda has been formed. An industrial chain of instruments led by Sichuan Instrument, Zhongzhilian Instrument and Qianwei Instrument has been initially formed. An industrial chain of electronic information led by some Glob Fortune 500 such as Xinwei Telecom, Putian Telecom and Fujitsu has been initially formed. An industrial chain of modern service led by Chongqing Digital City and Japan’s Service Outsourcing Base has been initially formed. An industrial chain of new medicine and biological pharmacy led by Huapont, Yaoyou and Qingyu Pharm has been initially formed. In addition to improving the supporting facilities such as logistics, banking, intermediary, education, insurance and information, NNZ is trying to gradually strengthen the supporting capacity of inviting industrial groups and to invite the supporting enterprises at the same time so as to enhance the industrial chains. And then the enterprises’ capacity of making profits and their key competitiveness will be improved.

    5. Favorable investment policies

    CNNZ has the most favorable investment policies. Here enterprises can enjoy the total benefit of national commonly favorable policies, the preferential policies for developing the west and three gorges region favorable policies. That means all industrial enterprises in CNNZ income tax is just 15%, far less than common 25%, new products are free of income tax, value-added tax and business tax, and three gorges emigration employment policies and industrial park tax favorable policies are all could be available. In CNNZ, investors can enjoy the preferential policies for developing the west, three gorges emigration and coordination of rural and urban areas, and those of Chongqing local government as well as those to Chongqing Liang New Area issued by the State Council. Therefore, CNNZ is the district with most favorable policies in Chongqing. CNNZ is also granted titles such as Chongqing Software Park, Chongqing Bio-industry Base and Return Overseas Students Business Starting Park by the central government. Overall Investors could get adequate intellectual and financial support here.


    Ⅲ. The leading industries of CNNZ to promote

    By the end of 2009, 3551 projects have signed contracts with CNNZ with a total contractual invest amount of RMB 126.5 billion, 868 foreign-founded enterprises among of them, contractual foreign amount 8.2 billion USD and more than 40 Fortune 500 set their factories here. In 2009, the industrial output value reached RMB 139.3 billion occupying 23% of Chongqing. The actual production of automobile is 387 thousand (cars 365 thousand and trucks 220 thousand), up by 46.6% over the same period of last year and making up 32.6% of the total in Chongqing while 2.8% in China. Therefore, the automobile industry is taking shape. The number of hi-tech enterprises reached 70, accounting for 37.2% of the total in Chongqing; and the output value of hi-tech products accounted for 30% of the total in Chongqing.

    1. Automobile motorcycle industrial cluster

    Automobile industry is CNNZ’S pole industry, and the most outstanding representation is Changan Ford Mazda. The ten-li automobile city has formed basically, and Ford, Mazda, Volvo, Fiat etcetera fortune 500 enterprises has invested in it. At present, the automobile city has these projects--two auto manufacture enterprises, about 89 auto spare parts companies well-known at home and abroad and one auto exhibition and sale market with 20 four-s stores, over 70 brands and 300 types of cars. One of the two auto manufactures is CFM with capacity of production 300,000 cars per year; the other is Lifan with 100,000 minicars per year. A complete auto industrial chain with integration of research, manufacture, exhibition and sales has initially been taking shape. In 2009, the output value in automobile and auto parts industry reached RMB 86.5 billion, up by 34.7% over the same period of last year. Mr.Zou Wenchao, the CEO and broad of CFM said, CFM in CNNZ is the most beneficial company among the 130 enterprises invested by Ford around the world. The increase of investment for CFM and the enhancement of cooperation with local government indicate that the auto industry in CNNZ has a brilliant future.

    2. Intelligent instrument industrial cluster

    Intelligent instrument industrial cluster has taken shape basically relying on millions square meter start series of technological buildings, gathering a passel of key enterprises and research institutes such as Silian, Zhongzhilian, Naide, Qianwei, Henghe etcetera and application technology academy, statistics and quality inspection institute, power engineering institute etcetera, becoming the largest domestic instrument manufacture base, appraised as the pilot project of instrument industrial cluster by national science and technology commission. At present, domestic equipment manufacture enterpriseses such as Silian group and Geli electronic apparatus company are expanding fast and well in CNNZ. Silian instrument group has become the largest compositive automatization instrument manufacture with abundant types of products and strong systemic integration ability, its output value reaching 3.9 billion in 2009. And Geli electronic apparatus local company is a large-scale professional air-conditioner manufacture base in west of China, having 10 advanced world-level producting line. In 2009, the output value of the company reached RMB 12.3 billion. Now it has settled in Dayun Industrial Park.

    3. Electronic information industrial cluster

    A large number of high-tech enterprises whose products are knowledge-intensive and high value-added have been making scale effect, and their ability of independent innovation has been promoted greatly. Above 80% of Chongqing top ten software companies locates in Neptune building and Mercury building in CNNZ, where one of the Chongqing’s first creative industry bases was set. The research unites of fortune 500, domestic powerful companies and institutions such as Datang group(Xinwei communications), Putian communications, Fujitsu, Honeywell, Microsoft, IBM, Ericsson, ZTE, Chinese engineering academe, Chinese academy of sciences are moving into CNNZ. Therefore, CNNZ has become the manufacture base of Chinese chip having completely independent intellectual property right, and its void of integrating circuit area of IT industry chain has been filled.

    4. Modern service industrial cluster

    CNNZ has unique advantage and huge potential to develop modern service industry. Its modern service industry mainly about logistic and software is flourishing. So far, there are 12 logistic enterprises with total investment 1.5 billion and storage area about 550 thousand m2. The CNNZ’s output value of software took 50% of that of Chongqing. The biggest telecom exchange hinge in the southwest of China is located in CNNZ. Chongqing numeral market in Shiqiaopu area of CNNZ, is one of the biggest markets in the west China, its annual transaction value beyond 5 billion. And China mobile communications, China netcom and China Unicom all have set their local companies in CNNZ. CNNZ establishes a software outsourcing to Janpan base relying on the research-manufacture center of ZTE, Zhengda software, Golden abacus software, HeXingJiangYuan, China dragon chip, southwest information industrial park, RuiDeSi company and global digital etcetera, which is on the list of national torch plan. CNNZ’s commercial system develops rapidly. China southwest auto sale company, Metro and B&Q, their sales income greatly increased. In CNNZ there are 4 five-start hotels. The special commercial walk steets for eating and entertainment have formed in Shiqiaopu and Renhe area gathering a strong commercialized atmosphere and a large quantity of consumers.

    5. Biological-pharmaceutical industry Group

    A large number of high-tech biological pharmaceutical enterprises represented by Huapont Pharm, Yaoyou Pharm, Qingyutang Pharm, Southwest Pharm, HIFU Research and Production Base and Anke Medical Instrument which have their own independent intellectual property right, has composed an industry group of biological pharmacy. Their output value comes to over 10 billion yuan per year, leading the others in China. In 2005, the National Research Center of Ultrasonic Treatment was set up by Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing HIFU Technology Co., Ltd and some other related units. It is the only national research center in the field of Chinese digital medical equipment. After several years struggle, Chongqing HIFU Technology Co., Ltd developed and manufactured HIFU knives, which are large-scale medical equipment with complete own intellectual property right. It made a first in the world. With key technology ranking ahead in the world, HIFU knives have been exported to countries which are powerful in the field of medical equipment. It ended China’s history of having to import medical equipment from other countries. In Aril 2007, Mr. Dong Jianhua, the vice chairman of the national Committee of the CPPCC, and also the first chief executive of Hong Kong, visited HIFU and praised that HIFU was so great that it changed the history of our country and changed the world eyes on us.

    6. Real estate industry and other industries

    New North Zone carried out a concept of “a strategy makes a new city” and concentrated its efforts on building high-quality housing for senior managers and white collars, and creating international demonstrative landscape of metropolis. Until now, Hong Kong Land Holdings Limited, Longhu, Jinke, Poly, Olympic, Palm Spring and other ones from Top 100 China Real Estates, have invested in New North Zone. So many high-quality commercial buildings with an construction area of nearly 10 million square meters were completed one by one. They are Longhu Fragrant Forest, Longhu Lake County, Longhu Bamboo Grove, Poly Golf International Garden, Beverly Hills, Olympic Garden, Jinke China Town, Palm Spring International Garden and etc. Longhu Real Estate Group built itself up in New North Zone and realized its sales income of over 10 billion yuan in 2007, which is the first and the only one in west China. At present it has been listed on Hong Kong market. Besides, there is great potential in new energy and new materials. In May 2007, Chongqing Haizhuang Windpower Equipment Corporation was established in NNZ with a total construction investment of 5 billion yuan and a production capacity of 2 million KW per year to achieve sales income of 30 billion yuan. It will become an important research and production base of generating electricity by windpower at home in three to five years and get into top three in this field in the whole country, which will also become an industrial project of windpower with an output value over 10 billion yuan in the field of equipment manufacturing industry in Chongqing.


    Ⅳ. Main investment platform in New North Zone

    In following five years, New North Zone will be accomplished and six industrial parks and four gathering places of modern service industry will be set up. The six industrial parks are Huangmao Ping industrial park mainly for automobiles and the compare parts with the planned area of 3.03 square kilometers, Pingchang industrial park mainly for new energy, equipment manufacturing and automobile parts with the planned area of 5.87 square kilometers, Dayun industrial park mainly for electric information, medical instrument and bio-medicine with the planned area of 4.35 square kilometers, Huachao industrial park mainly for new energy, equipment manufacturing and automobile parts with the planned area of 6.58 square kilometers, Cunyun industrial park mainly for automobiles and the compare parts with the planned area of 4.06 square kilometers and Shabao industrial park mainly for instrument and meters (including medical instrument) and bio-medicine with the planned area of 2.65 square kilometers. The four gathering places for modern service industry are Renhe ecological science business area mainly for modern service industry like information service, science service, creativity industry, exhibition industry and high business, Lijia central business area mainly for information service, science service, creativity industry, exhibition service and high business, etc, North railway station commerce and trade center mainly for civil convenience service such as transportation, commerce and trade, journism, hotels, restaurants and information consultation, etc, and Jinshan international logistics center mainly for export-oriented service like multi-modal transport, bonded logistics, processing trade, internation sourcing and distribution, detection and maintenance. In the coming five years, another 400 billion yuan RMB will be invested in fixed assets, which will provide more investing space and create many cooperating opportunities for investors home and abroad.


    V、Government Services, Investment Costs and Cooperation Prospects of CNNZ

    1、Government Services of CNNZ

    After joining the WTO, the investment environment is increasingly becoming a major regional economic competitiveness, and the quality of investment environment is mainly determined by government services. Enterprises stationed in CNNZ will be offered first-class services. Firstly, to attract investment in the form of babysitter. It is clearly requested that in CNNZ the government staff are bound to guide the investors, to offer excellent services and to open green channels in handling relevant procedures in the whole process. Secondly, quick service is assured. Chongqing Municipal Government has entrusted the rights of examination and approval to the administrative committee of CNNZ in order to reduce administrative costs, simplify procedures and improve efficiency. Thirdly, investor complaints system has been established. With the help of One-stop Service Hall, one-stop service and responsibility system will be implemented. Besides, the examination and approval of invest projects, as well as governmental services, will be carried out within the zone. Fourthly, to work on continuous improvement for the quality of water, electricity and natural gas for industrial use in order to guarantee the production of high-tech enterprises. At the very beginning of project negotiation the land for industrial use is being evaluated and backfilled, while pipe networks and road construction are ready for the red line, which trigger the project into construction and operation as early as possible. Practical training for talents is intensified to provide abundant talents for enterprises. It is estimated that services of recruitment and registration offered for thousands of labor units in recent years are appreciated. The establishment of industrial development fund is assured focusing on a batch of most dynamic enterprises such as high-tech enterprises, overseas students enterprises.

    2. Investment Costs of CNNZ

    Firstly, CNNZ enjoys favorable geographical location and convenient transportation, only 10 minutes’ drive to Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, therefore, high transportation rate and low cost can be assured. Secondly, CNNZ is close to Chongqing Lianglu Cuntan Bonded Port, which helps to lower the logistics cost of foreign trade in West China, as well as break through the regional limitation to connect the global industry and economy. Thirdly CNNZ is connected to Shapingba District and Beibei District where there are plenty of colleges, universities and research institutes through several bridges. Human resources, intellectual resources and high-quality talents can be effectively gathered. Fourthly, average land price in CNNZ is only 33% of eastern regions, the prices of electricity, gas, water for industrial use 60%- 70%, labor costs about 60%, and the integrated costs of production elements only 50%-60%. Chongqing has become the country's important energy transportation base, such as oil, natural gas, electricity, coal and so on, therefore, they will be guaranteed to the maximum in CNNZ. Fifthly, CNNZ enjoys high-quality ecological environment. It can meet the requirements of enterprises, creating a harmonious coexistence of the ecological environment combined with Human City Nature. The green rate per capita, forest rate and grassland rate are playing a leading role in Chongqing City.

    3. Broad Prospects for Cooperation between CNNZ and Investors at Home and Abroad

    Saarinen, an American famous Urban Planning scholar, said, “ City is like an open book, from which you can read his people's aspirations and pursuit.” The implementation of New Chongqing Overall Plan for Urban and Rural Areas will bring enormous business opportunities to Chinese and foreign investors who come to invest in Chongqing. Firstly, as Chongqing urban areas are moving northward, it is to expand up to 1,000 km2 and population exceeds 10 million, which will bring investment in fixed assets of over 2 trillion yuan. Secondly, the rapid development of industrial parks and modern service industries will bring business opportunities. As the construction of 6 industrial parks and 4 modern service industries is approaching gradual completion, Chongqing will become the most dynamic region. Thirdly, the booming development of 5 leading industries, which include automobiles and motorcycles, instrument and meter, electronic information, bio-medicine, and modern service, will bring business opportunities. They will show great vitality, which will become a powerful driving force for Chongqing’s ultra-conventional development. Fourthly, the Undertaking of international capital and the shift of eastern industries will bring opportunities. As forefront of Chongqing’s economic development, CNNZ’s undertaking industries from eastern part of China will make the value of city further embodied. Through efforts, CNNZ will become modern high-tech industrial base, demonstrative internationalization area of urban image, and become a powerful engine to realize 314 overall planning, western highland opening up to outside world, all-rounded centre connecting central and western areas, regional headquarters of transnational corporations and China's third economic new district.

    Unlimited business opportunities lie in Western Areas Development and investing in CNNZ wins the future. CNNZ’s ultra-conventional leap-forward development is destined to provide unlimited opportunities and broad space for exchange and cooperation between domestic and foreign enterprises. In the course of China's reform and opening up, Pudong has led the development of the Yangtze River Delta and Binhai New Area the pan-Bohai Zone, which have made remarkable achievements in Eastern China development. It is expected that the rapid rise of CNNZ will promote the opening-up process of Chongqing even of China's western areas. CNNZ, the eco-industry area, is bound to promote development of unlimited creative vitality with dynamic spirit and erect up as the third international new area in the world.