3 top high-tech parks presidents to gather at Expo
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2004-05-19 16:27

Dai Wei, executive vice-director of the Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park; Chen Jianbo, general manager of Shanghai Zhangjiang High-tech Group; and Lu Yong, director of the Administrative Committee of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, will converge at the 7th China Beijing International High-tech Exposition to deliver high-level, frontier speeches on exploring the developmental perspective of high-tech parks in China and the world, its great contribution to high-tech corporation growth and incomparable advantages, offering valuable advice to high-tech enterprises -- both home and abroad -- for decision making.

Based on intensive intellectual conditions and an open environment, China's high-tech development zones fully incorporate international, advanced scientific resources, capital and management to optimize soft and hard environments by implementing preferential policies and reformative measures in hopes of transforming scientific achievements into real productivity.

As an important achievement of China's economic and scientific reform, high-tech development zones have been an effective approach in popularizing high-tech industries across the country.

Currently, they should be developed into key bases for scientific innovation and industrialized development and give an impetus to regional economic growth by relying on systematic and scientific innovation, reinforcing functional construction and building a high-quality environment to attract top technological staff.

Given a complete system, optimized functions and constant industrial development, the total income of high-tech zones in terms of technology, industry and commerce will maintain a year-on-year growth rate of 30 percent, topping 3.5 trillion yuan (US$422 billion) in 2005, with three trillion and 800 billion yuan (US$361 and 96 billion) in industrial output and value-added respectively, 150 billion yuan (US$18 billion) in taxes and US$60 billion in exports. In addition, five million new job positions will be opened up, with a per-capita production value of 600,000 yuan (US$72,000).

At least 3,000 high-tech corporations will achieve 100 million yuan (US$12 million) in production; 200 will gain 5 billion yuan (US$600 million); and 20, 10 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion).

Furthermore, high-tech parks such as the Beijing Zhongguancun Science Park, Shanghai High-tech Development Zone and their counterparts in Shenzhen, Xi'an and Yangling will be brought up to international standards to serve as examples. Various types of corporate incubator organizations will exceed 500, with 30,000 companies being incubated and 6,000 graduated.

By 2010, the construction of national high-tech zones will be mature, offering an excellent environment for industrial development, a complete innovative system and integrative functions, a powerful developmental capacity and unique cultural environment for pioneering work.

Meanwhile, main tasks in the initial phase will be fulfilled and the developmental strategy of high-tech zones, industrial belts and intensive allocation will be implemented in an all-round fashion.

As a result, a batch of world-class high-tech parks will emerge, over 10 high-tech development belts will witness great growth and four high-tech intensive zones will take shape.

China's industrial structure will be optimized as a whole by high-tech industries, whose total economic volume will occupy 20 percent of industrial value-added and exports, contributing greatly to employment, social stability and the country's integration into global economic development.

With the dawn of the intellectual economy, national high-tech development zones will play an increasingly important role in China's -- and possibly the world's leap forward in high-tech industries.