Xiangshan County, the superstar on the gold coastal line in east China, located at south Ningbo City, consists of the Xiangshan Peninsula and coastal 608 islands, with a land area of 1,175 k ㎡ , a sea area of 5,350 k ㎡ and a population of 530,000. Dominated by a subtropical monsoon climate, the four distinct seasons and mild climate, Xiangshan owns an excellent air quality, which perennially hits the national first class.

The county has witnessed the fast growth of its export-oriented economy with the main industries including knitting and textile, food processing, distribution transformer, car, automobile spares, electronics & machinery etc. Xiangshan County ranked No. 68 in the New Round Competition of the National Top One-Hundred Strongest Economic Counties, while it ranked No. 93 in 1995. In 2005, its GDP reached 13.7 billion RMB, its revenue reached 1.5 billion RMB, the per capita income of each urban inhabitant reached 15,600 RMB and the per capita income of each farmer reached 6,900 RMB.

By the end of 2005, there had been 403 foreign invested enterprises, with a total actual used foreign capital of USD 185 million. In 2005, it realized a self-support exporting volume of USD 635 million. Therefore, Xiangshan County has formed an economic layout, consisting of food processing machinery and distribution transformer electricity in Dancheng, aquatic food and machinery in Shipu, Knitting garment in Juexi and automobile spares and modules in Xizhou.

Being rich in resources, the county is the leading area for producing aquatic food, fruits and livestock. Its specialties, such as Xiangshan seafood, superior oranges and special wild boars, enjoy high reputations both inside and outside the country. As the Hometown of Fishery, the county annually produces aquatic food of 565,000 tons. As the Hometown of Construction, the county owns 53 construction enterprises, among which1natioanl special-class construction enterprise and 6 enterprises hit the national first class, frequently winning the national Luban Prize and Shanghai Baiyulan Prize. Its knitting industry develops rapidly, and the county was named the China Famous City for Knitting Garment in 2003.

With ideal location, Shipu Port, the famous natural anti-wind port, listed the National Second-Class Opening Port in 1993, is one of the national six central fishing ports with convenient sea traffic. The completion of the Coastal Southern Line and the Coastal Express highly improves the optimization of the traffic conditions in the county. Meanwhile, three sea bridges like the Sea Bridge across the Hangzhou Bay, the Xiangshan Port Bridge and the Sanmen Bridge, together with the Tongzhou-Sanya Line of the National Coastal Express will be successively finished in the near future, so the county must thoroughly change its status as the traffic bottom. By then it will only take half an hour from Xiangshan to Ningbo, three hours from Xiangshan to Shanghai. Besides, bridge economy and port economy have apparently showed their superiorities, strongly promoting the intergration of industries, talents and urban scale in the Xiangshan Industrial Zone on the Ningbo Hangzhou Bay Circle Industrial Belt.

With unique geographical location, the county has formed its special tourism characters centralized on hills and sea resources, owning not only the Songlanshan Seashore Resort, which is the national four-A class resort, but also some natural interest places as the Songhuangchen Beach, the Hua'ao Stone Forest, the Red Rocks Scenic Spot, etc. Meanwhile, the China Fishing Village, the biggest domestic general sea culture tourism project, with a total investment of 500 million RMB, has been received tourists in 2004 May; The Movie City Besides, there are other attractive activities, such as the Shipu Fishing Needfire, Sea Island Hunting, Sunrise on the Mengdingshan, the Flying Waterfall in Lingyanshan, etc. absorbing more and more tourists.

Xiangshan Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation Bureau
Add.: 11/F, 153-161 Tianan Road, Dancheng Town, Xiangshan, Ningbo, P.R.C.
Post Code: 315700
Tel.: 86-574-65763768
Fax: 86-574-65763263
Website: www.xsinvest.com

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Key Investment Zone One —— Xiangshan Industrial Zone of Ningbo Hangzhou Bay Circle Industrial Belt

Xiangshan Industrial Zone of Ningbo Hangzhou Bay Circle Industrial Belt, located at south Xiangshan Port, north Xiangshan County, lying against hills on the south, facing the sea on the north, linking with Xizhou Town on the west, with a total planned area of 87 km2, involving A, B, C, three plots, is both the significant ecological industrial development base and one of the territorial goods circulation parks of Ningbo Port. With rich port resources, ideal conditions as deep water, wide port, and good anti-wind infrastructures, Xiangshan Port owns a central mid-line of over 60km long, the port gate of 20km width, an average water depth of 8m to 10m, while the deepest water depth of 47m. Cargo ships of 30,000 tons can pass in and out freely, while cargo ships of 30,000 tons to 50,000 tons pass in and out according to the tide. Xiangshan Port shares the same 117km long coastal line with the county, where eighteen 10,000 tons berths can be built, among which there are 54 berths range from 3,000 tons to 5,000 tons. Depending on the port resources, port-oriented industries, such as dorks, ship repairing base and containers transferring stations, can be developed.

Centralized on industrial used land planning, the zone reasonably distributes land for goods circulation, inhabitance and infrastructures near port. Choosing special and sustainable developed industries, such as automobile spares, knitting garments, agricultural byproducts processing, ships repairing and goods stocking, as the leading direction.

The zone covers a total industrial land area of 3027 ha, among which: Plot A, involving part areas of Xianxiang Town, Tuci Town and Huangbi’ao Town, covers an industrial used land area of 1469 ha, majoring in ships repairing and agricultural byproducts processing; Plot B, ranging from Wushashan to Chaixi in Xizhou Town, covers an industrial used land area of 374 ha, including Xiangxi Hi-Tech Macenical & Electrical Industrial Park, majoring in automobile spares and machinery modules; Plot C, involving Juexi Giant Eagle Knitting Park and Baiyanshan Salt Field, covers an industrial used land area of 900 ha, mainly dealing with knitting garments manufacturing.

Key Investment Zones-Xiangshan Economic Development Zone(Provincial Zone)

Xiangshan Economic Development Zone, a provincial one, was set up under the approval of the People's Government of Zhejiang Province in 1994. This zone is not only still kept after the large-scaled adjustment of national development zones, but also a key component to build Xiangshan into a modern coastal ecological tourism city. It covers a total planned area of 18 km 2 , an exploited area of 6.6km 2 , with a total investment in infrastructures of over 1 billion yuan. Presently, it has held over 350 enterprises, including over 90 foreign-invested enterprises.

In possession of convenient traffic, the zone has absorbed investors from over 20 countries and areas, such as Japan, Europe, America, Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc., to settle down in it, with their products exported to over 30 countries and areas throughout the world. As an excellent development zone commissioned by the People's Government of Ningbo City, it has formed an industrial layout majoring in knitting garments, machinery moulds, electronic parts and food processing. Meanwhile, Damutu Industrial Park, covering a total land area of 5km 2 , will be developed in 2005. Centralizing on environment-protecting industries, gathering comfortable inhabitancy and all-round services, it is a complete equipped coastal ecological industrial park. Besides the general background of land-short and lots of development zones-withdrawn all over the country, Damutu Industrial Park, by right of a large amount area of undeveloped land, still bears great potential to carry out further development, and creates superior surroundings for enterprises to settle down.

(1) Xiangshan Industrial Park Located at southwest downtown, with a total area of 30 km2, the park is not only one of the key construction projects, but also an important component to build the county into a modern ecological coastal city. Presently, the park has completed an exploitation construction area of 5 km2, with an electricity supply capability of 314 KVA, a daily water supply of 110 thousand tons, a telephone exchange system of 38,000 telephones, a green coverage area of 60 ha. With complete infrastructures, the park management office will handles all procedures free of charge for all enterprises settled down.
(2) Shipu Aquaitic Food Processing Industrial Demonstration Base of Xiangshan County with an area of 1 km 2 planned for developing, of which a planned area of 500 mu has been completely developed in its 1 st phase and the 2 nd phase development with an area of 1000 mu is being carried out, is one of the 1 st group of the State Agricultural Products Industrial Demonstration Bases. All of the basic necessary facilities, such as water supply, power supply, highway and roads construction and communication net, have be available in the Shipu Base. Possessing advantages of local rich and specific aquatic food resources, and gathering varied enterprises of sea products deep processing, food processing, shellfish products processing, algae products processing, marine biological products processing, and a great lot of cold storages, a big fishery wharf and convenient transportation in the industrial zone, the Shipu Base becomes the only one of the specific aquatic food processing industrial zone in Ningbo City.

(3) Juexi industrial park,Xhiangshan county, which is honored ad “Chinese textile star city”, consists of more than 500 companies, and whose staple products are textile commodities for international trade.

Giant hawk textile park, whose floor space is about 3.2 sq.km ， is a multifunctional integrating processing park which consists of products designing and developing, weaving, embroidery, printing, dyeing, clothing, detection, packing, append materials and so on. Now the park becomes Xiangshan textile products cluster area of Ningbo channel industry zone.

(4) Xiangshan Mechanical & Electricl Industrial Park The park was the first approved science and technology park among national town enterprises in 2000 by the National Agriculture Department, with a 1 st phase planned area of 0.8 km2 being completed, a 2 nd phase planned area of 5.15 km2 under exploitation. There are 35 enterprises successively settling down the park. Wushashan Power Station Project, with a total investment of 12 billion RMB, is under construction. Whole automobiles, automobile spares and modules producing are special industries in the park. As a predominant component of Xiangshan Industrial Zone of Ningbo Hangzhou Bay Circle Industrial Belt, the park has been a magic investment zone for investors from areas all over the country.
Contact Phone: 0574-65734559
Contactor: Mr. Zhao, Mr. Li
Fax: 0574-65752624
Committee Office of Xiangshan Economic Development Zone, Zhejiang Province

Key Investment Zone —— Xiangshan Tourism Resorts

Xiangshan, a peninsula county on the gold coastal line of east Zhejiang Province, is abundant for its natural sceneries and coastal resources. The county is the unique area with six coastal resources like mountains, seas, islands, beaches and seafood. With green mountains, clean water and mild climate, the county owns 78% of the national scenery series and categories, 67% of the national scenery types. Its particular sea eroding physiognomy gets a high fame in southeast China. Its hi-quality and various coastal resources not only show the beauty as “The immortal island in the east, the faery country over the sea”, but also provide a wide space for sea tourism exploitation.

Songlanshan Seashore Resort

This resort, the national Four-A tourism zone, the provincial-class tourism resort, takes only ten minutes drive from the midtown. Covering a total area of 40.1km2, a coastal line of 15 km long, there are more than ten various conjoint beaches in the resort. The Coastal Sight-Seeing Tourism Line, which links the General Qijiguang Anti-Japanese Site with the ZhaoWuniang Temple in Baisha Bay, is a wonderful tourism line with mountains and seas.

Hua’ao Island

This Island, with rich sea sceneries, covers a total area of 11.12km2. The stone forest over the sea, like the Faery Sawing Rock, is a complimentary sight. According to the research made by experts from the National Planning Committee, this unique stone forest is one of the original physiognomies of the global three lavas. Therefore, the forest is called the Natural Geologic Textbook. Meanwhile, ZhangCangshui, a famous anti-Qing Dynasty national hero, ever stationed his army and was later arrested on the Island.

Red Rocks Scenic Spots

This Spots, is located at the half way of the Danchen-Shipu Road. The whole scenery consists of seashore, cliffs, sand columns, pebble beaches, etc. The most famous sight on the spots is those blood-colored cliffs and rocks, which like rising red flames when watching from far away.

Taitou Island

Lying 8.5 km far from east Shipu Port, there are 14 diverse mountains. With zigzag coastal lines and natural scenes, the Sisters Beach is a wonderful site to tourists, hitting the fame “Snow sent by flood tide, and gold left by ebb tide”. With ideal vegetations on the island and fresh air, the island is also called Taixiangshan in China.

Other sceneries, such as the Yushan Islands, on which the first Light Tower in far oriental areas was built, named the Faery over the Sea; the Steep Lingyanshan; the clean Fengmenkou in Nantian Island; have infinite value in tourism exploitation.

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