Qiqihar High-tech Industrial Development Zone

Design sketch of Qiqihar High-tech Industrial Development Zone

Located in Qiqihar city in Heilongjiang province, Qiqihar High-tech Industrial Development Zone was founded in 1992 and approved as a provincial-level high-tech industrial development zone in 2001. It was upgraded to a State-level development zone in November 2010 and identified as a heavy machinery industrial base of the Torch Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology and a national new-type industrialization demonstration base.

With a planned area of 45.93 sq km, the zone is home to 126 enterprises and has formed two leading industries -- equipment manufacturing and green food. In recent years, it has strived to upgrade its traditional equipment manufacturing with new energy and new materials and boosted the green food industry with new biological industry.

A group of projects have settled in the area, such as the 2.1 billion-yuan ($313.43 million) Longhua New Energy Vehicle project, a 2 billion-yuan biopharmaceutical project of Guangxi-based Zhongheng Group and Hong Kong Tsinghua Tongfang’s 700 million-yuan information port project.

The zone aims to develop innovation-driven industries and set up a highland for industrial clusters, upgrade its industrial structure with high-end business services, so as to achieve ecologically sustainable development.

It centers on the cultivation and development of strategically emerging industries, including new energy, new biological and new materials and information technology.

The zone strives to grow into an innovation-driven development area in northernmost China by improving traditional leading industries, fostering emerging industries, attracting investment and integrating sci-tech with financing.

Investment from the industries of equipment manufacturing, green food, new energy, new biological, new materials, information technology and headquarter economy are all welcome to invest in the zone.