As a State-level economic and technological development zone, the Jingjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone, or Jingjiang ETDZ – located in the county-level city of Jingjiang, administered by Taizhou city in China's East Jiangsu province – covers a planned area of 102.66 square kilometers.
The south of the park borders the Yangtze River, with the zone boasting a total of 52.3 kilometers of the river's coastline and the zone's port having more than 100 berths for ships.
Things get busy at the port serving the Jingjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone. [Photo provided to etaizhou.gov.cn]
Running across the area is the Beijing-Shanghai expressway, the highway along the Yangtze River and the Xinyi-Changxing railway. This gives the zone geographical advantages for convenient water and land transportation.
As a result, it has earned a fine reputation for being as national first-class opening port, a national shipbuilding export base, a national industrial base for micro motors and controls and a national start-up base for small and medium-sized enterprises.
It has also been recognized as a national intellectual property pilot park, a national science and technology incubator, a modern service industry cluster zone, a provincial key logistics demonstration base, a provincial high-tech entrepreneurship service center, a provincial high-end equipment manufacturing demonstration base and characteristic industrial base, as well as a provincial high-tech ship industrial park.
The zone at present consists of four parts: the Jingjiang ETDZ headquarters, Chengnan Park, Chengbei Park and Xinqiao Park.
The impressive headquarters of the Jingjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone. [Photo provided to etaizhou.gov.cn]
- The Jingjiang ETDZ headquarters is focused on building a smart and efficient modern port and on building a demonstration zone for the integrated development of a port-industry-city.
An aerial view of Chengnan Park. [Photo provided to etaizhou.gov.cn]
- Chengnan Park – in order to help achieve a new southern city for smart manufacturing – is accelerating its industry-city integration, by upgrading existing industries and vigorously developing its modern services sector.
- Chengbei Park places an emphasis on building a diversified industrial system and is striving to build a new cluster for a smart air-conditioning industrial park and a high-end equipment industrial park.
- Xinqiao Park concentrates on the development of leading industries such as advanced metal materials, environmental protection equipment and smart kitchen appliances – in order to further advance its "Xinqiao Smart Manufacturing" brand.