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The growth and development of Chinese high-tech industry development zone

Today there are 53 National High-tech Industrial Development Zones(hereinafter high-tech zone) in China. For the purpose of promoting industralization of high technology, many regions in China has established numerous forms of high-tech zones since China implemented reform and opening policy. From these high-tech zones, the Chinese State Council selected some cities which have advantages of intensive intellectual resources and good industrial basis, and permitted them as National high-tech zones. The development of high-tech zones is one of the core components among national high technology industry development strategies. These high-tech zones has become a base of Chinese economic development, and obtained dramatic economic growth within only 15 years from its early development stage. With such important roles in economics of China, the ‘economy of zones’ has become one of the most rapid economic growth point of the development Chinese economy. Although Chinese high-tech zones have obtained remarkable performance, they just have passed primitive accumulation stage such as depending on special policies from government, introduction of foreign merchant and capital, and so on. Experts view that Chinese high-tech zones is now has entered the ‘second start-up’ stage which core content is innovations, and this stage will take from 5 to 8 years. This article focused on the growth of Chinese National High-tech Zones, and to study their overall development situations. For this purpose we first look at the objective, definition, function of the high-tech zones, and then review the development history, strategic distribution, economic performance, and future goals of the Chinese high-tech zones.