Changzhou National Hi-Tech District (CND), a national industrial development area was approved to establish by China State Council in November 1992. The CND Administrative Committee executes the same economic authority as the municipal government does. The enterprises in the CND enjoy the preferential policies granted by the State Council.

    CND is located in the north of Changzhou city, and is adjacent to the riverside of Yangtze River. There is a national grade oceangoing port consisting of a general dock, a container dock and a petrol-chemical dock with capacity of 30,000 tons each. CND has very convenient transportation network by air, water, road and rail. The Shanghai-Nanjing Railway is in the south, and the Yangtze River in the north. Shanghai is 100miles away in the east, and Nanjing is 70 miles away in the west.

    The Hi-Tech Zone covers an area of 30 square kilometers. About 20 square kilometers has been fully developed. All infrastructure facilities are available in the Hi-Tech Zone. The Hi-Tech Zone is divided into four parks.

    (1) Start-up Hi-Tech Park
    Covering an area of 5 square kilometers; the Start-up Hi-Tech Park has attracted many projects through the development in the past eight years, including electronics, biochemical, pharmaceuticals and integration of mechanical and electrical projects.

    (2) Industrial Park
    Covering an area of 10 square kilometers, the Industrial Park is functionally divided into five sub-parks: machinery industrial park, electronic industrial park, plastic processing industrial park, fine chemical industrial park and private enterprise park.

    (3) Commercial and Residential Park
    Covering an area of 5 square kilometers, this park has given priority to the development of commerce, insurance service, banking, public health, culture, education and residential quarters.

    (4) Tourist Park
    Covering an area of 2.4 square kilometers, a modern tourist park is under construction. The first 2 projects in this park are China Dinosaur Park and Expatriates' Club. They are among the most popular entertainment places along Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, which will integrate entertainment with health building.

    With a total area of 38 square kilometers, Changzhou New Port Area is located in the north part of Changzhou National Hi-Tech District and is about 10 kilometers away from down town. This area belongs to Alluvial Plain and the elevation is around 3-4.5 meters.

    Bordering the Yangtze River, Changzhou National Hi-Tech District boasts the golden coastal line of the Yangtze River. By now, along the 2.2-km-deepwater-front in the east, a general dock with a berth capacity of 30,000 tons has been completed; one container dock has been extended. One petrol-chemical dock and one tank zone are under construction. In the western part, docks with 1000-ton capacity will be built in the future. In order to speed up the development of the New Port Zone and Heavy Chemical Industry Park, complete infrastructure system has been built. The Water Plant is available, a Wasted Water Treatment Plant and a Cogeneration Power Plant are under plan. The New Port Zone has attracted many international and domestic investors.

    The New Port Area has been planned with the following six parks:
    (1) Chemical Industry Park in the east: about 3 Km2
    (2) Chemical Industry Park in the west: about 3 Km2
    (3) Fine Chemical Industry Park: about 2 Km2
    (4) Comprehensive Industry Park: about 3 Km2
    (5) Changzhou International Environment Protection Industry Park: about 8 Km2
    (6) Civil Facility Park: about 2 Km2
    (7) Residential and Town Area: about 4.3 Km2

    Changzhou National Environment Industrial Park (CEIP) is located in the north of Changzhou National Hi-Tech District. It is composed of the Environment Protection Industry Park, Environment Protection Ecology Park, the Scientific Research Park, the Exhibition Center and a Consultation Center. It covers an area of 8 square kilometers.

    The Park has a very convenient transportation. It is about 7 kilometers from Shanghai-Naijing Expressway and 4 kilometers from Changzhou Port. Some specific industries to be developed in the park are: water saving and water treatment industry, air pollution control industry, environment monitor industry, waste treatment industry, virescence industry, energy saves and green energy Industry, resources comprehensive utilization industry.

    Changzhou Electronic Industrial Park (CZ-EPARK) is one of the theme parks recently developed in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District. Located in the central part of the New District. The Park boasts a very convenient transportation network, it is only 3 kilometers away from Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway and 8 kilometers from Changzhou Port of the Yangtze River, it is 48 kilometers far away from the Zhangjiagang Port which is an ocean-going port, and 20 kilometers to Changzhou Civil Airport and 6 kilometers to the railway station and the downtown.

    The total area of the park is approximately 8.92 square kilometers. It has entrusted well-known China Engineering Consults Inc. from Taiwan and Shanghai Tongji University to construct the Park according to the latest design of the most advanced industrial parks in the world. It has also invited the managers from Taiwan Shin-chu City Science-base Industrial Park Administrative Bureau to act as the consultant. By the now, the infrastructure is being constructed and 6 foreign electronic projects with total investment over US$30 million each have settled down in the Park as the pioneers.

    Established in 1999, Changzhou Software Park is planned to be 1.5 square kilometers for Phase I. So far, more than thirty software development companies with Top Software and Fareast Technologies taking the lead have settled down in the Park, enjoying a series of preferential policies concerning the software industry development granted by the State and the local authority. The Software Park consists of two parts, the incubation area and industrial area. The incubation area has a 15,000m2 floor area; the 130-hectare-largeindustrial area will be put into use in the second half of year 2001 with a green land over 60%. In the neighborhood of Changzhou Software Park, there are Hehai University, Jiandong University, Technology Normal College, Changzhou Institute of Industry, China Dinosaur Park, residence quarters, etc., providing the software development companies with rich human resources, comfortable working & living environment and premium recreation facilities as well. Now software industry is becoming the highlight in the economic development of the Changzhou Hi-Tech District.

    During the past twelve years, CND has been consistently improving the investment environment following the international standard. Today, CND forms a complete set of industries and is one of the first bunches of development zones being ISO14001 certified in China.