Chengdu Hi-tech Zone (hereinafter called “the Zone”) was established in 1988, and ratified by the State Council as the State Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone in March, 1991. The Zone is one of the APEC scientific and technological parks in China. The Zone consists of south region and west region with a planned area of 87 km2 (including 47 km2 of the south and 40 km2 of the west).

The pillar industries in the Zone are electronic IT and biomedical engineering. In 2002, GDP totaled 16.8 billion, an increase of 25% over last year; industrial output totaled 38.8 billion, increased by 24.5%. Total income from technology-industry-trade operation was 47.2 billion, increased by 27%.

By 2002, foreign invested projects totaled more than 400, with the investment of more than 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. Now a number of famous international/foreign companies have invested in the Zone, including Motorola, Intel, Corning, Toyota, Accor, Fairchild, Parker Aerospace, Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, Itochu, Fuji, Carrefour, Alcatel, Siemens and Marconi. Hi-tech enterprises totaled more than 600.
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Local Environment

According to the environment monitoring data, the indexes of underground water meet the Quality Standard of Underground Water. The atmosphere quality is ranked as ‘II’ or ‘good’ in the Zone.

At the end of 2001, the Management Committee of Chengdu High-tech Zone passed the ISO14001 Environmental Quality Management System authentication and received UKASISO14001 international certification and ISO14001 Chinese certification.