Otog Economic Development Zone

Otog Economic Development Zone(鄂托克经济开发区) began official operation in 2003 following approval by the autonomous region’s government in 2001. 

The planning area is 85 sq km, including 20 sq km of east project area with a total population of 82,000. There are 123 enterprises including 39 enterprises surpassing their designated size and ten enterprises with a production value surpassing 1 billion yuan ($144.5 million). 

In recent years, the zone has been working hard to construct a modern coal chemical industry demonstration base and develop a circular economy. It has formed five major industries and chains, composed of coal, electricity, metallurgy, chemistry and building materials. The produced capacity contains 24 million tons of produced and washed raw coal, 2.6 million tons of coke, 200,000 tons of benzene hydrogenation, 50,000 tons of liquefied natural gas by coke oven gas, 1.5 million tons of silicon alloy, 3,000 tons of polysilicon, 1.3 million tons of calcium carbide, 400,000 tons of PVC, 300,000 tons of caustic soda, 2 million tons of cement and 2.05 million tons of urea as well as 3.08 million kW of installed electricity capacity.

Since opening, it has completed 100 billion yuan of fixed asset investment and obtained 300 billion yuan of total industrial output value, reaching the first category park standards of Ordos. The total greening area is close to 10 million sqm with over 100 sq m of green area per capita. It is identified as one of the first low-carbon transformation pilot parks.

In 2015, the economic zone achieved a total industrial output value of 53.5 billion yuan, 14 billion yuan of fixed asset investment, 56 billion yuan of sales revenue and 3.21 billion yuan of local financial revenue.

In 2016, the total industrial output value was 54 billion yuan, the fixed assets investment was 14 billion yuan, the sales income was 57.5 billion yuan, the local fiscal revenue was 3.5 billion yuan, and the general budget revenue was 1.64 billion yuan.