Bio-engineering & pharmaceutical industry

The world is fixing eyes on Beijing

Beijing, the Capital of China, is an international communication center and an international metropolis shined with old culture and modern civilization with 16, 800 square kilometers of precinct and 14,927 thousand population.

Beijing is one of the cities in China with her strongest comprehensive strength.

● Beijing possesses the complete industry system with solid foundation and complete categories, keeping the high speed for her industry growing.

● Beijing's GDP has been over 360 billion Yuan. Per capita GDP has been over 4000 US$. The economic growth rate has been keeping over 10% for many years successively.

● According to the objective putting forward by Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing's GDP will reach 720 billion Yuan by 2008, and per capita GDP will reach 6000 US$. Beijing is going to basically realize the modernization first.

Beijing possesses the most prominent position advantage.

● Beijing is the core city of the economic ring around Bohai bay.

● The economic circle around Bohai bay includes the areas of Liaodung peninsula, Shandong peninsula, and Beijing - Tianjing - Hebei Provinces. The economic circle characterizes the high technology, the solid industry foundation, the huge economy capacity, the abundant resources, the dense population and the great market potentialities. Beijing has very strong economic radiative function to the northeast, the northwest and the northern areas of China and even to the whole country. Beijing is the most active place for her economic development with the greatest potentialities in China and with the most prominent position advantage as well.

Beijing is the city with the highest modernization level for the urban transportation in China.

● Beijing is the most important transportation hub in China.

● The whole urban transportation has reached the level of first-class international metropolis. The highways, expressways, ring roads, radiate roads, light rails and subways constitute the huge, convenient and solid transportation network.

Building the financial metropolis in China

● Above 80% headquarters of the banks, insurance, securities and funds companies are gathered in Beijing.

● Beijing's Financial Street has become the largest domestic capital market. The financial capital at Financial Street district amounts to 60% of the whole volume in the country; and the daily capital flow exceeds ten billion Yuan. The financial enterprises run the total capital of 13 trillion Yuan, and control over 90% of the credit capital and 65% of the insurance capital in the whole country, representing basically the core and the leading power of Chinese financial industry.

The complete set of the infrastructure

● The power supply: The power supply can be guaranteed with the installation capacity of 5200MW in Beijing district and the sufficient power supplement from other provinces, together with the reasonable and huge power distribution network.

● The fuel supply: The gross gas supply will reach 3 billion steres by 2005 with the natural gas as the dominant and high-quality fuel supply system.

● The water supply: The water resources mainly come from the surface water and the groundwater. The tap water system in Beijing is perfect, and after the South-to-North water diversion engineering is accomplished, the water supply condition in Beijing will be improved much more.

The most comprehensive self-elevation

● Providing all-round services. Beijing will provide modern third - party logistics service, high - level information service and all kinds of agency services for enterprises according to the international advanced level.

● The most developed area for education in China. There are 77 universities and colleges in Beijing with the largest scientific and research base as well as the important distributing center for science and technology information at home and abroad. Beijing also possesses the resource market for high-quality talents, gathering elites from all over the country.

Beijing is one of the most attractive hotspots for investment of the global capital.

By the end of 2003, Beijing government had approved over 13,000 foreign investment enterprises. Of the global top 500 enterprises, 159 enterprises have set up their headquarters or invested in enterprises in Beijing. 9,611 foreign corporations have founded their deputy offices in Beijing.