Industrial Parks in Xinjiang

By Chong Loong Charles Chaw

Bole, one of the major border land port cities in Xinjiang, is under the jurisdiction of Bortala Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture. It is located in the northwestern part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at the northwestern foot of Tianshan Mountain. The city is located in a temperate zone with a continental climate. Its average temperature ranges from 3.7°C to −7.4°C.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chong Loong Charles Chaw
• Release date: Jun 30, 2010
• ISBN: 9789810861902

Chong Loong Charles Chaw

Charles Chaw is the author of many business guidebooks and market research reports on China. His bestselling: “Manufacturing, Outsourcing and R&D in China” is the first rating guide on China’s industrial parks across the country. Began in 2000, he has researched, consulted and promoted China’s most established industrial parks. Today, his rating on hundreds of industrial parks set the benchmarks for the sector and made available in Bloomberg BMART, FactSet, Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ and Thomson Reuters Research Bank. Under his leadership, the company has published hundreds of research reports covering more than 40 industries on China for over a decade. Charles also appears regularly as guest speaker in numerous business channels with BBC Asia, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Phoenix TV (Chinese), Channel News Asia, Russia TV 24 and Al Jazeera etc. Leveraging on his extensive knowledge and experience on China’s industrial parks development, he has produced a 5-episodes television documentary program titled: “Inside the World Largest Factory” in 2004, and another 6-episode: “Inside China Next Powerhouse” in 2007. Both programs were broadcast internationally in 4 languages. Charles had worked with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell’s investment banking unit and Cargill Financial Services Asia, the proprietary trading arm of Cargill Group prior founded China Knowledge.

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China Knowledge Rating System and Year 2010 Rating Results

Rating China’s Industrial Parks

The culmination of years of research, surveys, interviews and site visits, the China Knowledge Rating System assigns ratings to industrial parks based on five broad factors subdivided into 21 attributes with a view to guiding foreign investors looking to set up in China.

The Rating System not only indicates the best industrial parks in China, but also serves as a guide to understanding China’s economy and future directions for development and to finding the hottest investment spots in a vast land of approximately 9.6 million sq km.

The rationale behind this large-scale research project, and the resulting Rating System, lies in the significance of industrial parks to China’s economic development and to the country’s ability to attract foreign investment.

However, the Rating System also offers more to investors; it allows existing and potential investors to gauge investment locations to find the one that will best suit their business needs. The Rating System is based on factors that include location, infrastructural development, contracted and utilized foreign direct investment (FDI), availability of human resources and administrative efficiency, giving investors a good sense for which industrial park is most suitable for their particular industry, product or service.

The importance of industrial parks to China’s economy cannot be underestimated. In 2008, the GDP of 54 state-level Economic and Technological Development Zones (ETDZs) reached RMB 1.53 trillion (US$220.3 billion), accounting for 5.1% of the nation’s total. Meanwhile, the 54 state-level High-tech Industrial Development Zones (HIDZs) contributed 9.7% of China’s total value-added industrial output.

Similarly, in terms of attracting FDI,