Cixi, located at south bank of Hangzhou Bay, east edged by urban Ningbo, connected with city of Yuyao by south-west, and separated from Shanghai just by sea, lies in center area of the Golden Economic Hu-hang-yong Triangle, total area covering 1154 km with 78.5 km of coastline northerly, and a population of 1.214 million. Cixi is the historic cradle of China celadon, also the undock site supplied Xufu to successfully easterly crossing Japan.
Cixi has become one of the areas fastest developing its economy. By 2002, Cixi’s GDP reached 20.6 billion RMB; total production value for agriculture and industry be 82.815 billion RMB, of which industry held 80.4 billion and agriculture 2.415 billion; financial revenue be 2.66 billion RMB; per capita income of peasant and towner reached 6,328 and 13,931 RMB respectively; and their average dwelling space be 25 and 45 square meter individually. The Engel Coefficient of living standard for Cixi’s residents lower than 40%, having entered the fairly wealthy counties (cities) in advance. Cixi’s foreign trading, foreign investment and foreign economy experience linkage development, which fosters an excellent “foreign economic” service system. By December of year 2002, profiting private exportation enterprises amounted up to 335 with its own exportation value achieving 1.17 billion USD; 759 foreign economic” enterprises (with total investment of 1.542 billion USD); 50 overseas enterprises.
Cixi’s advanced industrial economy has formed more than 30 industries including hardware & machinery, electronic & electric equipment, plastics & chemical fiber, textile & garments, chemical industry & construction materials, metallurgy etc. with an industrial system of more than 3000 products. Presently Cixi has 27,000 industrial enterprises possessing total asset of 33 billion RMB. Amongst it, products of Ningbo AAA Groups, Kingring Group and Cixing Group like poker card, builder fabric, and mini-bearing have its production value stay dominant in the world. At present Cixi’s industry is developing by direction of scale-up, intensivism and internationalism.
Cixi could supply quality infrastructures such as transportation, telecommunication, power supply, water supply and 13,000 hectare of unique developable resources of sea-shoal. In year 2003, Hangzhou Bay Bridge with its southern bridge site in Cixi will start construction. This construction fulfills the reality to enable China’s national north-and-south traffic main artery---Tongsan Line to cross Hangzhou Bay, which will shorten overland distance between Shanghai and Cixi, turning Cixi as a traffic key post to Shanghai, southern Jiangsu Province, northern Zhejiang Province and south-eastern Zhejiang Province, and especially highlight Cixi as an idealistic hot land for investment. So establishment of the bridge will bring tremendous influence to the economy of Zhejiang and Shanghai, even the entire Yangtze Delta.
Cixi is an idealistic treasure-land for investment in coastal China by the 21st century. We cordially open “green passage” to inland and overseas investors, and pursue common development with friends all over the world to enter the global “e-era”.

Cixi Municipal Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation Committee
Add.: 269 Sishan Road, Cixi, Ningbo, P.R.C.
Post Code: 315300
Tel.: 86-574-63810508
Fax: 86-574-63810812
E-mail: cfic@public.cx.nbptt.zj.cn