The Ningbo Hi-tech Park is new and hi-tech park area jointly created by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the municipal government of Ningbo in 1999. The Planned area of the park is 32.9 kilometers. Ningbo Hi-tech Park is the undertaker of the No.1 project of Ningbo, City Improvement with Science and Technology. Under the 10th five-year-plan of Ningbo new century construction, Ningbo Hi-tech Park is the important part of the construction of "Four Areas, Three Gardens, River, Lake, Port and Bridge". The Park is situated in the eastern part of the city, where the municipal administration center will sit. Ningbo University, Ningbo Branch of Zhejiang University Software and Network College are located at the park area. The Park is near to the deep water Ningbo Port to the east, the city downtown to the west, Hangzhou-Ningbo expressway to the south, the Hangzhou Bay Bridge in construction to the north, 10 kilometers to the Lishe Airport.

Comparing with successful hi-tech parks home and abroad, Ningbo Hi-tech Park has its own superior location advantages and natural conditions, close to the city downtown, complete associate service, convenient transportation, assembled talents, beautiful environment.

As the best undertaker of the effective combination of Ningbo science &technology and economy, the center of the future urban area under the city's overall development plan, Ningbo Hi-tech Park now has completed a construction area of 6 square kilometers, with the accomplishments as follows: has introduced over 90 investment projects home and abroad, total investment over tens of billions; has introduced over 40 sci-tech R&D institutes, over 200 entrepreneurship enterprises; has introduced over 2000 talents, including over 500 high-calibre talents, such as masters, doctors, etc. Through the "Green Garden" construction plan, the greenery rate has reach 45%. Under the approval of the municipal and provincial related authorities, the park has gradually set up a series of pioneering base and featured parks, such as Zhejiang Talents Market, Zhejiang Postdoctoral Workstation, Ningbo Software Industry Park, Ningbo Doctoral Pioneering Park, Ningbo Undergraduate Pioneering Park, Returned Overseas Students. In April, 2001, Ningbo Hi-tech Park was cited as the first new hi-tech industry park in Zhejiang Province; In May, 2002, the park was cited by national ministry of science and technology as Ningbo Electronics and Information Commercialization Base Under the Torch Plan of the State; In December, 2002, the park took the first place in the comprehensive evaluation of the provincial hi-tech parks, and Ningbo Innovation Center was assessed as the State-level Innovation Center by the national ministry of science and technology.

According to the requirements of the Overall Planning of Ningbo City, Ningbo is on the way to be built into an ecology-friendly, modern international port city, and the eastern area will focus on the development of science and education to be first-rate, ecology-friendly new area. Ningbo Hi-tech Park has given itself definite goal of ecology-friendly, modern new sci-tech town, and based on the High Education Area, focused on R&D, enterprises incubation and technology innovation, featured by the urban new hi-tech industries, such as electronic information industry, etc. Ningbo Hi-tech Park is expected to be built into a multi-functional new sci-tech town, with R&D, enterprises incubation, urban featured industries, software exemplary base, sci-tech commercial business, sci-tech housing areas. The mission for the development of the park has been decided, that is through the following five years' effort (to 2007), the park will be built into a hi-tech entrepreneurship base with top-notch talents, a hi-tech innovation base with topmost R&D institutions, a model base with hi-tech industries, an environment-friendly hi-tech city of Ningbo, an oriental silicon valley with quality service, the first ranking modern and ecology-friendly hi-tech park in China. The specific goals are as follows: to introduce 100 topmost R&D institutions, 100 hi-tech enterprises; to construct incubation base of 30,000 square meters, 1000 entrepreneurship enterprises; to introduce 1000 top-notch talents.

Now, Ningbo Hi-tech Park is on the full construction of Digitalized Park. Thus 100% of the area can reach the Wide Band, 100% of the governmental affairs can be done on the internet, 100% of the communication can provide the residents with the digitalized and networked services.

Ningbo Hi-tech Park is dedicating to build a first class investment environment and community, cherishing warmly welcome to the investors home and abroad to invest, innovate, and live in this "Oriental Silicon Valley".
 
Featured Industries

1. Microelectronics Industry: It is building into Ningbo Microelectronics Sci-tech Park, mainly engaged in IC design, chip manufacturing and packaging, semiconductor and electronic components manufacturing and packaging.

2. Photoelectric and Communication Industry: It is building into Ningbo Photoelectric and Communication Sci-tech Park, mainly engaged in the development of LCD, PDP, OLED, high brightness LED, LCOS, color optical filter, negative-photo module group, touch panel, various optical instrument and lens; mainly engaged in the manufacture and development of the third-generation CDMA mobile communication system, base station subsystem, mobile phone and its accessories, broadband exchange, network access equipment, optical communication products, broadband terminal products, high-speed routers and network safety products.

3. Software Industry Park: It is building into Ningbo Software Sci-tech Park, mainly engaged in the development of application software, multimedia software, intelligent software, office management software and network applied software.

Some other hi-tech industries are encouraged, such as Optical and Electronic Integration Industry, New Material Industry, and Pharmaceutical Industry, etc.

Associated Industries: hotels, office buildings, apartments, recreation facilities, supermarkets, all kinds of schools (such as kindergarten, primary schools, middle schools, universities and colleges, etc.), hospitals, facilities for the senior citizens, etc.

 Development Goal for year 2003-2007

 ---- a state-level hi-tech innovation base with hundreds of topmost R&D institutions

 ---- a state-level hi-tech entrepreneurship base with tens of thousands of top-notch talents and thousands of incubation enterprises.

 ---- a state-level electronic information industry base with hundreds of new hi-tech enterprises

 ---- a state-level hi-tech park

Address: 599 Jiangnan Road, Ningbo

Post code: 315040

TEL: 0086-574-87903667, 87901409

FAX: 0086-574-87901115

Website: http://www.nbhtp.gov.cn/en/

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