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Shenyang New &: High-Tech Agricultural Development Zone

2008-07-24 From cnnshenyang.com

Shenyang New & High-Tech Agricultural Development Zone was found in 2002 approved by the Communist Party Shenyang Committee and Shenyang Municipal Government. The zone claims equal authority as that of the city government in terms of economic management. The zone is located in the east suburbs of Shenyang and is 12 kilometres away from the city centre. Natural resources are rich covering an area of cultivated land of 2,347 hectares, forest land of 1,300 hectares, forest land of 1,300 hectares, water land of 213 hectares, orchard land 160 hectares. The River Pu flows through the zone, connecting which with the Qipanshan Reservoir high quality water.

With 28% forest coverage rate, high standard air quality and a nice environment protection index of water and soil, the zone could be an ideal place for Shenyang to development its green ecological agriculture. Transportation is convenient in the zone with a distance of 20 minutes drive from the Taoxian International airport and multiple tele-communication and other services are all provided by the complete set of infrastructure facilities.

Shenyang Committee of CPC and Shenyang Municipal Government are attaching great importance to the development of Shenyang New and High-Tech Agricultural Development Zone, offering various preferential policies, such as establishing seed funds for investment enterprises and providing allowance and reward, setting up a credit guarantee centre for enterprises to tackle problems of shortage of working capital, and establishing technological incubator and enterprises technical innovation funds.

The objective of the zone is to develop into a center for high-tech agricultural talents home and abroad a base for new and high-tech agricultural projects and a foundation for industrializing new and high-tech agricultural achievements, becoming agricultural Silicon Valley of China in the end.