Brief Introduction of Gulou, Nanjing, Jiangsu

Location of Gulou:

Gulou District is central part of Nanjing which is located in the west north of middle downtown. Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress, Jiangsu Provincial Government and Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Military Area Command are in Gulou District. Covering a surface area of 25.44 k㎡ with a population of 656 million. Gulou is in the monsoon climate area of north subtropical zone, with clearly divided four seasons. The abundant historical relics, in harmony with the elegant and graceful mountain, water, city and forest, constitute the distinctive and profound historical humanity.Gulou is continuously reinforcing the development of market, meanwhile, cultivating and maintaining a good environment for the circulation of business and trading. Integrating the shopping, catering, leisure and entertainment as a whole, the Hunan Road Commercial Street has been the only one that has been crowned as the national model street of no fake commodities and the national model street of civilized activities. To further enlarge the social and economic effect brought by the circle, a second initiation is being committed on the Hunan Road by the District, as Longjiang plot and Shanxi Road plot.Gulou speeds up the construction of modern service industry, the competitive ability and the influence unceasingly promotes the tertiary industry. We have Bestbuy, Bosch,Siemens, Warner,Li&Fung many famous worldwide enterprises. We also have the headquarter economy like Suning Group, Suning Universal, Jiangsu Power, Jiangsu Publication，Jiangsu branch of CNPC.As the carrier of headquarters economy, Gulou has undertaken the technical innovation and market organization in the regional economy development. We have introduced local headquarters, the agent and so on. These enterprises become the important support of the headquarters economy.
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Overall strength:

Nanjing is one of the important central cities in Chinese economy, with heavy chemical industry as its pillar. The production capacity of both electronics and chemicals rank the 2nd among all the cities in China; automobile manufacturing ranks the 3rd; machine building, home electric appliances and building materials are also at a considerable production scale. Nanjing is the hub of transportation and communication in East China. A transportation network consisting of different transport means with a high transporting capacity has been formed, including all the transport means of railway, highway, air, water and pipeline. And the communication system has also been modernized. Nanjing is the 2nd largest commercial city in East China, only next to Shanghai, wid education, concentrated here with a large number of first-rank higher learning institutions and research institutes of China.

Industry:

Nanjing is an important industrial base in East China with strong industrial economic strength, accounting for about 1% of the country total in terms of gross industrial capability, and about 40% of the total economic volume of the municipality. Nanjing has a complete range of industrial sectors, with some outstanding components. Nanjing has built up a comprehensive industrial system with three mainstay industries of electronics and information, petroleum and chemical and automobile manufacture, six major leading industries of machinery and equipment, iron and steel, biological engineering and pharmacy, new type building materials, food and beverages, and textiles and garment, covering 36 sectors of over 200 categories with more than 2000 major varieties.

Agriculture:

Nanjing is situated on both banks of Yangtze River, with abundant unique produces and resources, being one of the important agricultural zones in the lower reaches of Yangtze River. There are 261,600 hectares of cultivated land, 71,800 hectares of forested land and 37,000 hectares of water area for breeding.
New progress has been made in agricultural restructuring. Since 2002, increased efforts have been made in restructuring of planting and breeding, with reduction in land area by 20000 hectares for grain and by 700 hectares for cotton, and increase in land area by 14700 hectares for vegetables and an increase in area by 24% over the previous year for forage grass and other green forage. In the whole municipality, the ratio of plantation area of grain to that of cash crops is now 34:66, and the production value ratio of plantation to that of breeding being 50:50. The quality of bulk agricultural products has improved, and area of pollution free agricultural products bases accounts for 13.1% of the total cultivated land area. Breeding of special domestic animals and poultry and fresh water breeding have developed rapidly, with the proportion of special aquatic breeding exceeding 30%. Production in animal husbandry and fishery has been increasing continually.

Developmental Zones:

Nanjing now has 4 state-level development zones, respectively for high technology, economic and technological development, processing for export and as a chemical industrial park. There are also 6 provincial level development zones in Nanjing.Accumulated investment in the development zones have reached 15 billion yuan, and there are over 5000 enterprises in the development zones, including over 1000 with foreign investment, with actual amount of foreign investment exceeding USD3.7 billion.
In the development zone construction, emphasis has been placed on creating unique features and innovation. Nanjing has established the IT Industrial Park, Biological and Pharmaceutical Industrial Park and Jiangsu Software Park, which have produced fairly great effect to aggregate resources and marketing, attracting a number of technology intensive projects with foreign investment to settle down in the development zones, including some invested by enterprises ranking among the top 500 in the world. Among them, 37 companies from 8 countries, such as the US, Japan and Germany, among the top 500 in the world, have established over 70 enterprises in Nanjing, with a total amount of investment of USD 5.7 billion.