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Harbin Development Zone (including Harbin Economic & Technological Development Zone and Harbin High-tech Park)
China Knowledge Press, June 2011, Pages: 25
Harbin Development Zone (HDZ) rated “A” by China Knowledge in a research report on China’s industrial real estate published today. Located in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, the development zone was established in November 2001 by combining Harbin Economic & Technological Development Zone (HEDTZ) and Harbin High-Tech Park (HHP).
HDZ has well-developed transportation networks. There are five major railways and seven highways connecting Harbin with the rest of China, as well as Russia. By highway, Harbin is 1,100 km from Beijing, 800 km from Suifenhe and 900 km from Heihe. The latter two cities are the province’s major trading ports with Russia. From the port of Harbin, ships are able to reach four Russian cities and numerous other cities in Japan and Korea. Harbin Airport offers about 60 regular flights to major cities throughout China.
In November 2009, HEDTZ and HHP were separated again, HEDTZ covers an area of 30.7 sq km, while HHP covers an area of 23.9 sq km. That year, GDP from the zone exceeded RMB 22.7 billion, growing 16.21% year on year. The value-added industrial output rose 16.62% to RMB 19.1 billion.
Automobiles and auto parts, agricultural product processing, medicine, biology, textiles, optical-electrical-mechanical integration, electronics and information are the major industries in the zone.
One of the old industrial bases of China, Harbin is a solid base of industrial technology. It also has several large manufacturers, especially for equipment and automobiles. Harbin Hafei Automobile Industry Group Corp is a well-known manufacturer in Harbin. By September 2009, the accumulative auto sales of the group surpassed 2.37 million units.
Another key investor in the automobile industry is Mando, a South Korean automobile parts manufacturer. A major grain production base, Heilongjiang is rich in agricultural resources. In 2010, the grain output of Heilongjiang exceeded 50 million tons, accounting for nearly 8.0% of China’s total.
Many agricultural product processing companies have invested in HDZ. These include Uni-president, Want Want, Fengyi, CJ and Associated British Foods. Benefiting from the abundant Chinese medicine resources in surrounding areas, Harbin’s medicine industry enjoys a unique advantage. Well-known medicine companies in HDZ include Harbin Pharm and Wandashan. HDZ, the window to Harbin, also cooperates closely with Russia. A Sino-Russia Cooperation Bureau was set up for this purpose. There are 27 Sino-Russian enterprises in HDZ with a total combined registered capital of RMB 230 million. By the end of 2009, more than 40 cooperative projects had founded in HDZ. Those gross industrial outputs of HDZ reached RMB 91.5 billion, increased by 18.6% over the previous year.
Compared to other cities in Northeast China, Harbin has an added advantage of having the most students in universities and technical schools. The Harbin Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s most famous universities in the engineering field.
Industrial parks rated A have above-average investor appeal. Basic conditions are adequate, but improvements are still needed in some areas. There are 50 single A rated industrial parks among 254 rated by China Knowledge since 2003. This class of industrial parks that are mainly found in the Northeastern, Western and Central China, benefits from these regions’ lower labor cost.
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