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Bonded Zone and the Mengzi Economic and to promote the process of urbanization and an
Technological Development Zone, focusing on the experimental demonstration area for institutional
development of processing and trade, health, cross- innovation, playing an increasingly important role
border tourism and cross-border e-commerce in the economic development, industrialization
industries, and striving to create a processing and and urbanization of Yunnan and Kunming. It has
manufacturing base, a trade logistics center and formed a development pattern of ¡°one core, seven
the China-Vietnam Economic Corridor Innovation parks¡± with the management and service center
Cooperation Demonstration Zone for ASEAN. of the development zone as the core, information
industry base and export processing zone and
? Dehong Area focuses on the development gathered industrial clusters led by equipment
of cross-border e-commerce, cross-border capacity manufacturing, optoelectronics, biomedicine,
cooperation and cross-border finance, becoming a food and beverage and tobacco processing and
gateway for the pilot opening up area of the border supporting facilities. It ranks third among the
and the China-Myanmar economic corridor. national economic and technological development
zones in the west and has leaped to the upper level
Over the next three to five years, the YNFTZ of the western development zone.
will embark on institutional innovations in line
with advanced international standards, in a bid In the next few years, the economic zone
to boost quality, efficiency and competitiveness in will further consolidate the development of five
its economic development. Steps will be taken to leading industries, create more industrial clusters
build a world class free trade zone that facilitates and bases as well as competitive enterprises and
trade and investment, offers good accessibility in make coordinated efforts to introduce micro,
terms of transportation, supports ease of doing small and medium-sized enterprises. In addition,
business and maintains a sound, innovative the economic zone will help relevant enterprises
financial services sector. further upgrade their technologies and bolster
technological research, make full use of a special
Kunming Economic and Technological fund for innovative development of the digital
Development Zone 88 economy, roll out demonstration projects for digital
transformation, optimize industrial layout, promote
The Kunming Economic and Technological the development of key research platforms and
Development Zone, founded in 1992, was approved innovation & entrepreneurship services platforms.
as a national development zone by the State
Council on 13 February 2000. The zone is the only Qujing Economic and Technological
multifunctional and comprehensive industrial park Development Zone 89
in Yunnan, which integrates national economic and
technological development zone, national export Located in the western part of Qujing city, the
processing zone, national science and technology Qujing Economic and Technological Development
innovation base and provincial high-tech industrial Zone was established in early 1992 under county-
development zone. The Kunming Economic and level management and was approved as a National
Technological Development Zone covers an area Economic and Technological Development Zone by
of 11.8 km (including 2 km of export processing the State Council in June 2010. Covering a total area
2
2
zone) and an actual jurisdiction area of 156.6 km . It of 157 km , the zone has developed seven pillar
2
2
is home to about 64,000 market entities, including industries: nonferrous metal deep processing,
36,000 enterprises. optoelectronics and new materials, automobile and
equipment manufacturing, featured light industry,
After nearly 20 years of development, the biopharmaceuticals and modern agriculture.
Kunming Economic and Technological Development
Zone has become the largest new industrialization After 15 years of development, The Qujing
base in Yunnan, an important platform for attracting Economic and Technological Development Zone
investment and foreign trade, an important force has become a major base for the city¡¯s industrial
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