The Jingjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone – located in Jingjiang city, in East China's Jiangsu province – experienced great economic growth last year. Check out the numbers:
Key data for 2023:
- National ranking: the zone ranked 98th on the list of China's top 100 development zones, 12 places higher than the previous year. This catapulted it into the top 100 list for the first time.
- Regional GDP: 76.8 billion yuan ($10.75 billion), up 8.1 percent year-on-year
- General public budget revenue: 2.346 billion yuan, up 23.9 percent year-on-year
- Industrial invoiced revenue: 106.1 billion yuan, up 7.76 percent year-on-year
- Service industrial invoiced revenue: 78.2 billion yuan, up 7.87 percent
- Port cargo throughput: 255 million metric tons, a new record
- Total imports and exports: $3.012 billion
- Actual utilization of foreign capital: $154.5 million
- Recovered idle land spanning 2173.8 mu (144.92 hectares) to put all land resources to good use
Project construction in 2023:
- Various major investment projects were completed and started operating, including the first phase of the Jingjiang Stainless Steel Deep Processing Industrial Park with a total investment of 12 billion yuan
- The zone attracted 137 major projects, each costing over 100 million yuan
- Six projects were selected as major provincial projects, with the number selected and investment amount ranking first in Taizhou
Enterprises cultivation:
- Added two provincial-level smart factories and seven provincial-level model smart workshops
- Created 11 R&D institutions above the provincial level
- Approved 91 national high-tech enterprises
- Added 16 new engineering technology research centers above the municipal level
- Added 26 new provincial-level 'little giant' firms – new elite small and medium-sized enterprises that specialize in niche markets, boast cutting-edge technologies and show great potential