Location 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.