subject: Aarkstore Enterprise Research Report Of Chinese Development Zone Industry, 2009 [print this page] According to the different levels, the development zones in China can be divided into the state, provincial and county level development zones. According to the different positioning and functions, the development zones can be divided into the economic-technological development area, hi-tech industrial development area, and export processing zones, tariff-free zones and the border economic cooperative zones. In China, there are 1,568 various development zones above the provincial level, including 223 state-level development zones and 1,345 provincial-level development zones.
The economic-technological development zones, the constitution of the open areas in China, refer to a small part area in the open cities, where are engaged in constructing perfect infrastructure and setting up the investment environment conforming to the international level through attracting foreign funds, forming the modern industrial structure majored in the hi-tech industries and becoming the major areas for developing the foreign trade of the cities and its nearby regions. In the early times, the economic-technological development zones highlighted the three mains, namely, majoring in introducing the foreign capitals, setting up the industrial projects and processing export products. After several-year development, the present positioning, targets and investment subjects have been diversity and no longer restrained from attracting the foreign funds.
The regional different quantities of the development zones directly correspond to the space distributions of the development zones. China has not balanced in the general distributions of the development zones, where has large gap between the coastal and inland areas as well as among the different provinces. Over 70% various level development zones are concentrated in the national 30% areas as well as over 60% state-level development zones in less than 20% of national areas and 65% provincial-level development zones in about 15% of national areas.
It can be seen from the distribution characteristics of the development zones that China has six large urban-intensive areas, including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Zhujiang Delta, Shandong peninsula, west coast of the Taiwan Strait, the middle and south Liaoning, where are also the most intensive areas of the development zones.
From 1984 to 1988, 14 state-level economic-technological development zones passed through the approval by the State Council of PRC and were set up in succession. From 1984 to 2002, the State Council totally approved and set up 49 stale-level economic-technological development zones and 5 industrial gardens, which shared the policies for the state-level economic-technological development zones, in which 37 were approved before 2000 and lied in the east regions and 17 were newly approved after 2000 and centered on the central and western regions.
The various development zones play huge driving forces in the development of national economy. From the aspect of the state-level economic-technological development zones, 49 state-level development zones and 5 industrial gardens sharing the policies for the state level development zones had totally finished 1.5313 trillion Yuan of the regional GDP, 1.0972 trillion Yuan of the industrial added values (the industrial added values accounting for 71.65% of the GDP), 248.1 billion Yuan of tax revenues, 205.1 billion USD of the total export amounts, 180.4 billion USD of the import amounts and 19.5 billion USD of actual uses of the foreign funds in 2008, rising by 20.61%, 19.26%, 19.54%, 21.81%, 15.17%, 18.08% and 12.8% respectively over the same period of last year and the growth rate of the total regional output values were 11.61 percentage points higher than the national growth rate of the same period.
