The Kunming High-tech Industrial Development Zone is a state-level
high-tech industrial zone established in 1992 in Northwest
Kunming
Kunming is the capital and largest city of the province of Yunnan in China. The political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province, Kunming is also the seat of the provincial government. During World War II, Kunming was a Ch ...
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Yunnan Province
Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...
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China
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. It is administratively under
Kunming Prefecture. It covers an area of 9 square kilometers. The zone is located in the northwest part of Kunming city, four kilometers from
Kunming Railway Station and five kilometers from
Kunming International Airport.
Yunnan province
Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...
has rich deposits of
phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has Chemical symbol, symbol P and atomic number 15. All elemental forms of phosphorus are highly Reactivity (chemistry), reactive and are therefore never found in nature. They can nevertheless be prepared ar ...
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salt
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aluminum
Aluminium (or aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol Al and atomic number 13. It has a density lower than that of other common metals, about one-third that of steel. Aluminium has ...
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copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orang ...
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lead
Lead () is a chemical element; it has Chemical symbol, symbol Pb (from Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a Heavy metal (elements), heavy metal that is density, denser than most common materials. Lead is Mohs scale, soft and Ductility, malleabl ...
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zinc
Zinc is a chemical element; it has symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed. It is the first element in group 12 (IIB) of the periodic tabl ...
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tin and is famous for its production of
Yunnan tea,
coffee
Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially a ...
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rubber
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Types of polyisoprene ...
, and
tobacco
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. Kunming's key industries draw on these resources to manufacture
steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon that demonstrates improved mechanical properties compared to the pure form of iron. Due to steel's high Young's modulus, elastic modulus, Yield (engineering), yield strength, Fracture, fracture strength a ...
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non-ferrous metal
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Generally more costly than ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals are used because of desirable pro ...
s,
building materials
Building material is material used for construction. Many naturally occurring substances, such as clay, rocks, sand, wood, and even twigs and leaves, have been used to construct buildings and other structures, like bridges. Apart from natur ...
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chemicals
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,
diesel engine
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s and
machine tool
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s. In the past few years, the traditional economy has
diversified through growth of
advanced technology industries such as
biotech
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optoelectronics
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, and
information technologies
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data and information processing, and storage. Information technolo ...
. Many of these industries are located in the Kunming High-tech Industrial Development Zone. These key industries accounted for 80% of the Kunming's US$9.3 billion gross industrial output value in 2004, a 26% increase over 2003.
Incubators, Sub-zones and Sub-parks
Incubators, high tech parks and industrial zones inside Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone are:
*Kunming Power Equipment Industrial Base
*State Level Kunming Pioneering Service Center
*State Level Yunnan Software Park
*State Level
Yunnan University Science Park
*Yunnan Pioneering Park for Returned Overseas Scholar
*Kunming Modern Bio-medicine Industrial Park
*State Level Yunnan High & New Product Export Center
*Kunming Public Bonded Warehouse
*Bio-tech Innovative Park
*Yunnan New Material Incubator
*Yunnan Kunming Production Force Promotion Center
*and others.
Companies and Industry Structure
As of 2007, Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone has hosted 3,165 companies including 1 company with an annual turnover of 10 billion
Yuan. Investors come from more than 25 countries and regions such as US, Russia, UK, France, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 2007, Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone had a total income of 46.3 billion Yuan and an industrial output of 40.8 billion Yuan.
Four pillar industries at Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone are
biology
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and
biomedicine
Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine) industry,
electronic &
information technology
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...
,
Opto-Mechtronics and new materials industry.
The new materials industry, led by new type metal materials, organic functional polymer materials and materials surface engineering technology, takes a share of 65% among the overall industry output of Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone. Flagship companies in new material industry including Yunnan Copper Ltd, Sino Platinum Metal Ltd, Yunnan Reascend Science and Technology Ltd have formed an industrial cluster based on Yunnan National Rare Metal Manufacturing Base.
The biology and bio-medicine industry, led by Kunming Pharmaceutical Corporation, Dihon Pharmaceutical Ltd, Kunming Jida Pharmaceutical Ltd, Institute of Medical Biology of CAMS and Miaosen Biology ltd, takes a share of 25% among the overall industry output of Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone.
Opto-Mechatronics industry, led by Yunnan Nantian Electronics Information Ltd, Yunnan Transformer Electric Ltd, North Night Vision Technology Limited Company, Kunming Jin An Li Information Technology Ltd and Kunming Yun Jin Di Geo-information Ltd, takes a share of 7% among the overall industry output of Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone.
See also
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Kunming Economic and Technology Development Zone
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Hekou Border Economic Cooperation Zone
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Ruili Border Economic Cooperation Zone
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Wanding Border Economic Cooperation Zone
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Economic and Technological Development Zones
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References
*http://economiczonepro.com/htiz/kunming-industrial-zone.html
*https://web.archive.org/web/20080629025535/http://www.buyusa.gov/china/en/kunming.html
External links
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