Tianjin Hi-tech Industrial Park

TIANJIN is North China's biggest industrial and commercial city, and is economic center of the Bohai Bay area. It is also a comprehensive trade port, encompassing the largest container wharf in North China. An old industrial base, the city has convenient transportation, the latest technology and ample human resources.

The arrival of hi-tech in the late 1980s made Tianjin's municipal leaders aware that industrialization of high technologies was vital to sustained development of the local economy. Consequently, in 1988 they authorized establishment of the Tianjin Hi-tech Industrial Park (Tianjin Hi-tech). The park was among the first group of national-level hi-tech industrial development zones approved by the State Council in 1991. It was not until 1997 when Pang Jinhua became its chief administrator, however, that Tianjin Hi-tech began to flourish at the rate of at least one enterprise per day entering the park. Over the past five years, 3,000 enterprises have joined Tianjin Hitech.

http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/e20034/tianjin.htm