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Advantage of Shantou Free Trade Zone
1、Function Advantage:
Free Trade Zone is a special zone supervised by the
Customs, it implements the administrative system of
“Inside the Frontier, Outside the Customs? the
country grants
FTZ the functions of export processing, boned warehousing,
international trade and commodity exhibition. The customs
has carried out a convenient and loose supervision principle,
which enable the FT.Z. to become the important platform
between our country and foreign investors by following
the international practices, become a important carrier
for pushing the development of foreign economy, become
the important base for technology innovation and high-tech
industrialization, and become the important bridge to
connect and communicate the foreign and domestic market.
2、Port Advantage:
Shantou Free Trade Zone has a special port----Guang
Ao Deep-water Port that
is ratified by General Administration of Customs. It
is only 8 miles from Western Pacific Sea routes, IT
is a fine deep-water port in eastern Guangdong Province.
It lies in the golden middle point between HONGKONG
and Taiwan. Currently, it has a 25,000-dwt berth has
been in use. and is building two 50,00-dwt berths, which
can be put into user in 2006, and it plan to build 28
berths varying from 20,000-dwt to 100,000-dwt. The port
now is supervised by Shantou F.T.Z. Customs, and the
goods in the port can be directly delivered to the zone,
so it has preliminarily formed the pattern of Integration
of Zone and Port.
3、Environmental Advantage:
Shantou Free Trade Zone lies in the south area of Shantou
City, it enjoy a fine , mild and moisture climate, it
is a humid temperate, neither cold in winter nor hot
in summer. It is supported by the Shantou developed
Sea-Land-Air Transportation network with a great convenience.
The Express Way connects two S.E.Z of Shenzhen and Xiamen.
Its railway joins the national railway network. Shantou
Airport has opened more than 40 routes of domestic and
international. In the zone, it has a perfect supported
environment; it has completed the project of
"Five Workable and One Leveled" and landscaping
project in the zone of 2.34 square kilometer. Currently,
the zone has built 8-driveway Shugang Road and 25-kilometer
in-zone road network, and set up 440-thouand-square-meter
plants, warehouses and commercial buildings. It is also
equipped with a 110-thousand-voltage transformer substation
and 10-thousand-voltage switching station and a mobile
communication station and its virescence rate has reached
36%, therefore, it has created a fine investment environment
that is suitable for investment of multinational companies.
4、Industry Advantage:
After Shantou Free Trade Zone has completed infrastructure,
it gradually eliminates passive influence, and gains
the attention of overseas investors and thus acquires
a rapid development. It has primarily formed three advantageous
industries: firstly, boned warehouse and logistic industry
with principal body based on multinational companies.
Secondly, high-tech industry integrating production,
study and research together, which bases on the technology
of Tsinghua University, Beijing University and China
Academy of Sciences, and is jointly initiated by private-owned
enterprise specializing in biological engineering and
higher-educational universities and colleges. Thirdly,
large-scale light industrial enterprises mainly invested
by foreign capital and private capital, including edible
oil, electronic and electrical equipment, fiber and
textile, medicine, high-class packaging material and
so on. Now, the functional development and operational
management of zone is keeping a fine developmental tendency,
which enables it to become a special vigorous economy
zone with a certain scale. |
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