Lhasa Economic and Technological Development Zone

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Established in 2001, the Lhasa Economic and Technological Development Zone was approved by the State Council as a national economic and technological development zone in 2001.The zone has superior geographical location and convenient transportation. It is adjacent to the main urban area of Lhasa city in the east, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Freight Terminal in the west, Lhasa Railway Station in the south, and Duilong New District in the north. It is only 10 kilometers from Lhasa Railway Station, and 45 kilometers from Lhasa Gonggar International Airport.At present, Lhasa ETDZ has more than 40 famous local brands with high added value and unique characteristics, such as Tibet Green Barley, Tian Youde Highland Barley Beer, Zhuomaquan Tibet Glacial Water, and Ganlu Traditional Medicine. It has formed an industrial system led by characteristic health, high-tech, biomedicine, and plateau industries. The Several Provisions on Preferential Policies for Investment Promotion in the Tibet Autonomous Region (for trial implementation) encourages enterprises to invest in the fields of plateau biology, characteristic tourism culture, green industry, clean energy, modern services, digital high technology, and border trade logistics. The policy provides guidance for enterprises settled in the zone in terms of tax, finance, land, employment and entrepreneurship, and industrial and commercial services. The ETDZ has a total planning area of 5.46 square kilometers and is divided into two areas that cover the Lhasa Comprehensive Bonded Zone, the Nimu Industrial Park, the Niedang Industrial Park, the Liuwu High-tech Industrial Park, the Dazi Industrial Park, the Duilongdeqing Industrial Park, and the Qushui Industrial Park. The Lhasa ETDZ is building a new platform for opening up, and striving to become the bridgehead of Tibet's opening up to South Asia by actively connecting the Belt and Road and the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor, taking full advantage of the construction of the Himalayan Economic Cooperation Belt, accelerating the construction of the Lhasa Comprehensive Bonded Zone and the China-Nepal Friendship Industrial Park, and actively integrating into the regions of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle.

Lhasa Economic and Technological Development Zone

拉萨经济技术开发区

Established in 2001, the Lhasa Economic and Technological Development Zone was approved by the State Council as a national economic and technological development zone in 2001.