I. China-Switzerland (Europe) Industrial Park Profile

Guangdong Province is China?s strongest province in economic strength as well as one of the areas that first opened up to the outside. It has long been a major province that attracts foreign investment. Nearly 30 Fortune 500 companies have invested in Zhongshan, including Novartis? Sandoz and ThyssenKrupp.

China-Switzerland (Zhongshan) Industrial Park is a new model industrial park built in a special economic district called Cuiheng New Area, Zhongshan City, Guangdong province. It results from the 21st century economic trend, Guangdong?s leading economic status, the favorable policies granted by the Central Government and combination of China?s planning and Switzerland?s technological advance. The park will attract the leading companies and hi-tech companies from Switzerland and other European countries, and become a concentrating, creative and influential model park for China-Switzerland cooperation

? The Cooperation Mode

In the large background that China and Switzerland have signed a free trade agreement and maintained a sound trade partnership, the Construction Management Team are actively communicating and coordinating with Switzerland?s relevant governmental departments and companies in depth and details about the issues concerning construction of the industrial park, project attractions, supporting policies, company servicers and so on.

? The Operation Mode

It is guided by the government, dominated by companies and operated by the market to maintain effective and flourishing. China-Switzerland Joint Venture Companies will be set up to be responsible for investment attraction, management, service, guarantee and other work.

II. The Industrial Park Plan
? The Industrial Park Orientation

1. High-end Industries
In the light of scientifically planning, actively promoting and pragmatism, the park aims at two parts, one of which is healthy pharmaceutics, including pharmaceuticals, food, essences and balsam while the other is precision machinery manufacturing, including instrumentation equipment, textile machinery, electrical equipment

2. Leading technologies
The industrial park will be enhanced in supporting facilities for scientific research incubation centers and improved in concentrating scientific research workers and organizations, emphasizing not only industrial production, but also transactions and transformation of intellectual property as well as research. The specific ideas are as follows: 1. Producing-learning-research cooperation; 2. Transformation of technologies; 3.transfer of technologies; 4 Science and technologies and finance; 5. Inspection and test; 6. intellectual property protection

3. Ecological Demonstration
The park takes full advantage of Cuiheng New Area?s special geographical location and ecological advance in the light of respect for nature, wise land and seas use, environmental protection. It aims to be a new elegant and comfortable garden town, a new low-carbon ecological smart town, a new beautiful coastal town and a new special birth town of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. The park should simultaneously have the following features: 1 Swiss elements, Lingnan style and Zhongshan characteristics; 2. Green ecology and blue ecology; 3. Swiss culture, customs and architectural styles.

? The Goals
The immediate goal is to set up an innovative mode for construction, development and operation, attract the leading companies and hi-tech projects from Switzerland and other European countries, and promote the concentrating development of healthy pharmaceuticals, precision machinery manufacturing.
The long-term goal is to build an international model industrial park that is highly concentrating, creative and influential, setting an example for the cooperation between the two countries.

? The Land Use Plan
The park plans more than 600 acres for healthy pharmaceuticals, more than 400 acres for precision machinery manufacturing, 460 acres for the ecological demonstration zone and about 200 acres for finance and education. The whole coverage surpasses 165 acres. Divided into different steps and orders, the first-phase about 250 acres will be planned as the initiating area and 7 acres of the first phase is under construction.