Sichuan - Chengdu High-Tech Industrial Development Zone (Chengdu HTIDZ)

Chengdu High-Tech Industrial Development Zone (Chengdu HTIDZ) (including Chengdu Export Processing Zone (Chengdu EPZ))

Facts&Figures (2007) 

Source: Chengdu HTIDZ

Introduction

Chengdu High-Tech Industrial Development Zone (Chengdu HTIDZ) was established and approved by the State Council in March 1991 as a state-level development zone.

Chengdu HTIDZ consists of the Western Zone and the Southern Zone with two national export processing zones located in each.

Chengdu HTIDZ has a well-developed traffic network and infrastructure. Both the Western and Southern Zones are within a 30-minute drive to Shuangliu International Airport, the North Railway Station (Passenger) and the South Railway Station (Cargo).

Investment Climate

In 2007, Chengdu HTIDZ realized a value-added industrial output of RMB 41 billion, accounting for 35.0% of the city's total. It has established electronic information, biopharmaceuticals, machinery, software and service outsourcing as its pillar industries.

The world's largest chip maker, Intel, opened an assembly and testing facility in Chengdu in 2005 which employs over 600 people and there are plans to expand the site. The establishment of Intel's assembly and testing facility is widely expected to attract related IT enterprises to establish themselves in Chengdu HTIDZ.

In addition, in Mar. 2008, a cooperation memorandum was signed between American Vivo Ventures and Chengdu High-tech Investment Group, in which the two parties agreed to jointly invest RMB 150 million to set up a business investment company. The primary aim of this company is to support small and medium-size enterprises in Chengdu HTIDZ engaged in technology innovation which promotes the development and industrialization of biomedicine projects from home and abroad.

Software and service outsourcing is the foremost pillar industry of Chengdu HTIDZ and has received 11 national honors. In 2007, the sales revenue and the export value of the software and service outsourcing industry (including embedded software and package testing) amounted to RMB 21 billion and US$ 150 million, up 37% and 87% year on year respectively.

By the end of 2007, Chengdu HTIDZ had attracted over 440 service outsourcing enterprises, of which 308 enterprises had won "double-software certificates" (i.e. both for software enterprises and for software products), accounting for 57% of the province's total. 12 enterprises had won certificates of CMM/CMMI2 or above, accounting for 86% of the city's total. Among them, three had won CMM/CMMI5 certificates. There are about 50 software enterprises with the CMMI authentication.

Currently, the core service outsourcing area of Chengdu HTIDZ has set up service outsourcing industrial bases including Tianfu Software Park PhaseⅠand Ⅱ, Financial Back Office Service Zone, Software Incubator Park and Digital Entertainment Park.

Chengdu HTIDZ is expected to realize a sales revenue industrial target of RMB 40 billion in 2010 for software and service outsourcing.