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Dezhou Economic and Technological Development Zone

investinchina.chinadaily.com.cn Updated: 2019-02-20

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Dezhou Economic and Technological Development Zone [Photo/dzkfq.gov.cn]

Dezhou Economic and Technological Development Zone in East China's Shandong province, was founded in 1998 and upgraded to a national-level development zone in March 2012 by the State Council, becoming the 10th such zone in the province. It covers 320 square kilometers and has a resident population of around 300,000.

The zone enjoys a good location, with Beijing and Tianjin to its north, the province's capital city Jinan on its south, China's energy base, Shanxi province, to its west, and Shandong Peninsula Urban Agglomeration to its east. It is situated at the intersection of the Bohai Economic Rim and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Economic Circle.

It also boasts convenient transport, with the Beijing-Taipei, Beijing-Shanghai, Dezhou-Shangqiu, Jinan-Liaocheng, Qingdao-Yinchuan, and Binzhou-Dezhou expressways passing through the zone. The Beijing-Shanghai and Qingdao-Taiyuan high-speed railways, as well as the Beijing-Shanghai, Shijiazhuang-Dezhou, Deda-Longyan and Jinan-Handan railways join up here. It is a one-hour drive to Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport and Huanghua Port on Bohai Gulf, and it takes two and four hours to drive to Tianjin Port and Qingdao Port.

After more than 20 years' development, the zone has cultivated six leading industries: new energy, equipment manufacturing, electronic information, biological medicine, agricultural product processing, and modern services.

By the end of 2018, there were 9,076 companies settled in the zone. In the first half of 2018, the regional GDP reached 13.34 billion yuan ($1.93 billion), increasing by 6.3 percent year-on-year.

From January to August 2018, the zone's general public budget revenue rose by 9.37 percent to 1.71 billion yuan, ranking second among the city. The added value of industrial enterprises above designated size in the zone increased by 8.7 percent year-on-year, which was 0.6 percentage point higher than that of the same period last year.