Local News From Around The World
Chengdu, China News About Chengdu, China Chengdu is the economic center in western china, the GDP in 2006 reached 275 billion Yuan, per capita GDP achieved 3213 dollar, its import & export volume reached 6.9 billion dollar. Chengdu is also the financial center in west of china with 27 financial institutions, 29 insurance companies and 43 stockjobbers. In the near future, Chengdu will become a new financial center in china. With great number of scientists and specialists, Chengdu is the most important scientific research base in the west of china. Chengdu is home to more than five thousand foreign-funded enterprises, because of tax breaks and other perks offered to companies investing there. Over thirty large multinational corporations, including Motorola, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and McDonnell Douglas of the Untied States, chit Tat of Thailand, Bayer and Siemens of Germany, and Toyota and Mitsubishi of Japan, have started operations in Sichuan. Key industries are IT, machinery, metallurgy, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food and beverage, and building materials. There are more than 20 Higher Learning Institutes, 120 independent research institutes and 2500 scientific research entities. More than 500,000 intellectuals are professional in electron, biology, new material, photics, Nuclear Techniques, laser optics, etc. Chengdu is the transport hub for railway, high way and air transport .As the fifth biggest airport, Shuangliu international airport is not only the main gateway to Tibet, but also a new rising air hub to connect the middle and west of china with European and south east Asian. The National Development and Reform Commission has formally approved Chengdu's proposed establishment of a national bio-industry base there. China's aviation industries have begun construction of a high-tech industrial park in the city that will feature space and aviation technology. The local government plans to attract overseas and domestic companies for service outsourcing and become a well-known service outsourcing base in China and worldwide. Other Major Cities:
| ||||||||||
WORLD NEWS
|
Financial
News
Copyright (c) 2008 All Right Reserved - LocalNewsDigest.com