Zhuhai City, set up in 1979, has become a Special Economic Zone since 1980. As one of the earliest Special Economic Zones in China, Zhuhai has been empowered with the local legislation authority by the National People抯 Congress. For the past more than twenty years, Zhuhai City has made rapid progress in economy and kept improvement in infrastructure such as the airport, several ports, a full inner-city highway network, and Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway and Yuexi Coastal Expressway which have already been opened to traffic. Currently, Jiangmen-Zhuhai Expressway, the west line of Guangdong-Zhuhai Expressway and Zhugang Thoroughfare are under construction; Guangdong-Zhuhai Railway is awaiting investment; two 50,000-ton container docks construction has been submitted to the State for approval; HK-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has been approved to build: all this will constitute a great communication network connecting Zhuhai with other cities. Zhuhai, situated among Hong Kong, Macao and the rest of the Pearl River Delta, has become the direct hinterland of Hong Kong and Macao, and also the springboard in the Pearl River Delta linking the west of Guangdong Province and Southwest China. Thus, Zhuhai has a distinct advantage in geography.

Byimplementing the strategies of Developing Industry Westward and Exploiting City Westward, Zhuhai has built up five dominant industries, i.e. electronic and communication equipments manufacturing, electric machinery and equipments manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and medical apparatus manufacturing, petrochemical materials and products manufacturing as well as computer software industry. The industrial parks are flourishing.

In Zhuhai, 17 famous universities has set up branches or research bases and built a supporting platform for the new and high technology and economic development. In the first half of 2003, Zhuhai抯 total GDP reached 22.4 billion yuan with an annual grow-rate of 15.4%. Zhuhai is granted by the State Department as One of the Central Cities in the Pearl River Delta and Important Tourism City in the Southeast Coast.

Jinwan District has made remarkable achievements in economic development and become a hotspot for investment. Its gross value of industrial output in 2002 totaled 10 billion yuan. Three industrial zones, Liangang, Pingsha and Lingang, and Sanzao Science and Technology Industrial Park have been built here. More than 560 industrial enterprises have settled down in Jinwan District, including some top-500 enterprises such as British Petroleum, Japanese Iwatani and China Petroleum, and other famous domestic and overseas enterprises such as Philips, EPCOS, Zhonghai Group, Zhuhai Power Plant, Eternal Chemicals, Amoco, United Laboratories, and so on.

Jinwan District has prominent advantages of air, sea, and land transportation. Designed in light of the 4E standard of international civil airport, Zhuhai Airport is planned to develop as an international express delivery pivot by Guangdong Province during the course of economic integration in the Big Pearl River Delta. Zhuhai Avenue runs though Jinwan District direct to Zhuhai Airport. Zhuhai Port is going to be brought into Hong Kong sea transportation network. Zhugang Thoroughfare linking Zhuhai Port with Yuexi Coastal Expressway and Xinhui City will be completed at the end of this year; started from Zhuhai Avenue, the

Zhuhai subsection of Jiangmen-Zhuhai Expressway has already broken ground and the whole line will be opened to traffic in 2005; and the west line of Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway is also connected here. Zhuhai Railway Station will be built in Jinwan District and Guangzhou-Zhuhai Railway construction be started. In particular, the HK-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which is going to be built soon, will successfully produce a Three-hour Economic Circle containing more than 100 cities and towns around Guangdong, HK and Macao and radiating to Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing. In this way, it will take much less time from HK to Guangzhou this way, it will take much less time from HK to Guangzhou and Zhuhai and it will be shorten to 20-minute drive from HK to Zhuhai and 40-minute drive from HK Airport to Zhuhai Airport.

By right of the advantages of geography and air, sea and land transportation, Jinwan District has broad and brilliant prospects for big industries and material flow development. Currently, HK China Travel Group is investing total of HK$3.5 billion in the project of Marine Hot Spring Holiday Resort with occupying 4 square kilometers, which is to be opened around Spring Festival in 2005.

Dalian Shide Group invests 4 billion yuan in a large new-style building materials base. The first stage of the project covering 1 square kilometer invested 1 billion yuan is to be completed and opened in 2004. Greencool Group, a HK listed Company, successfully purchased Meiling Electric Appliances and occupies nearly half of whole domestic refrigerator market. Greencool plans to build a Greencool Industrial Park covering 2 square kilometers in Jinwan District with a total investment of US$300 million, mainly manufacturing vehicle air-conditioners, electromechanical products and semiconductor refrigerators. The annual industrial output value is anticipated to reach 8 billion yuan after completion of the Park. Along with the interconnection among HK, Zhuhai and Macao, the implementation of CEPA, and the upgrading of Zhuhai City function, Jinwan District will.