Haicang District
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Haicang (Chinese: 海沧区 Pinyin: Hǎicāng Qū ) is one of the six county-level districts in the municipal region of Xiamen, FJ, and one of the four located on the mainland proper, as opposed to on Xiamen Island.
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[edit] History
Haicang was always the port of call for trade incoming to Xiamen.
[edit] Liberation
In May 1989, Chinese central government established the Haicang District as a petrochemical investment area for Taiwanese business magnate Wang Yongqing. Since then, Haicang has developed world class port, industrial and agricultural base for exports.[1]
[edit] Geography
Haicang District Investment Zone is located on the lowermost left (or northern) bank of the Jiulongjiang River, to the west of Xiamen Island. The left bank provides 5 km of coastline with shallow water of 10m.
The urban (eastern) area of the District is separated from Xiamen Island by an 870 metre stretch of water crossed by the Haicang Bridge.[2]
[edit] Administration
Haicang District was established in 2003 on the bulk of the territory of the old Xinglin District, which had already pipelined a Taiwanese-invested Investment Zone (台商投资区).
[edit] Street Committee, Town & Township level
- Haicang Street Committee (海沧街道)
- Xinyang Street Committee (新阳街道)
- Dongfu Town (东孚镇)
- Haicang Govt Farm (海沧农场)
- Number One Govt Farm (第一农场)
- Tianzhu Mountain Govt Forest (天竺山林场)
[edit] Haicang as Investment Zone
In its planning, the District executive divides its Investment Zone into functional areas: [2]
- Haicang Port covers an area of 12.4 square kilometers. Development focus is on port transportation, energy industry and warehousing (bonded storage), with as many as 36 berths of over 10 000 tonnage grade will be built -- ten in the first phase. The port railway spur of the Yingtan-Xiamen (鹰潭-厦门) Railway was completed in 1999. The 5km-long deep water port is predicted to handle 90 million tons of goods annually.
- Southern Industrial Area (南部工业区) covers 17.7 km2, adjacent to the port area. Its flat terrain is ideal. Development focus is on technology- and capital-intensive heavy industry -- machinery, electronic, metallurgical, and chemical fibre industries. Middle and downstream petro-chemical projects are especially favoured.
- The Residential Area has a planned area of 27.6 square kilometers, and will be a major sub-urb of Xiamen. Development focus is on real estate and tertiary industry. There already facilities such as banking, commerce and trade, tourism, public communication, kindergarten, primary and middle school and professional training, hospital, hotel, recreation and entertainment.
- Xinyang Industrial Area (新阳工业区) is a key industrial area for both Haicang and the whole Municipal region. Planned area is 29.6 km2; development focus is on capital- and technology- and capital-intensive small and medium industries -- machinery, electronics, fine chemicals, plastic, rubber and new building materials. Infrastructure facilities --roads, water supply, power supply, post, drainage and waste discharge-- are top-notch, and there are commercial, real estate and public facilities. Over a hundred projects have settled down in the area, and over thirty are in production; when all have reached full production, their output value will total 10 billion yuan.
- Dongfu Industrial Area (东孚工业区) and Xiamen Export Processing Zone (AEPZ, 出口加工区) have subsidiary, special roles in the District's Investment Zone plan.
[edit] Economy
The government of Haicang Investment Zone actively invites foreign investment in high technology and capital intensive industries, with emphasis on electronics, manufacturing, petrochemicals, machinery, refined chemicals, new building materials, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industry. [3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Guide to Xiamen
- Official website (in Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese)
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