CHENGDU, China, Sept. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On
September 17, the 16th EU-China
Business and Technology Cooperation Fair was held, and the
Internationalization Index of Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial
Development Zone (2021) was officially released. Taking
the nominal index 100 in 2018 as the base period, the
internationalization index grew by 33 percentage points.
The Internationalization Index, jointly compiled by
Chengdu High-tech Industrial Development Zone and China High-tech Zone Research Center of
Strategic Consulting Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, is
the first internationalization index at the level of development
zone in western China. The internationalization index system in the
report includes five first-class indexes, namely, "global factor
concentration, international organization leadership, world
innovation competitiveness, economic development circulation, and
support for an open environment," reflecting the level of
international development of Chengdu High-tech Zone.
In particular, the world innovation competitiveness index saw
the largest increase (73% increase over 2018), showing that Chengdu
High-tech Industrial Development Zone outstood in terms of trade
level, industrial status and social responsibility; support for an
open environment index steadily rose, reflecting that the high-tech
zone has made steady progress in personnel and goods circulation,
livable living and business, natural and cultural aspects.
With its construction starting in 1988, Chengdu High-tech
Industrial Development Zone is one of the first national high-tech
zones in China, a pilot zone of
"World-class High-tech Park" and the first National Innovation
Demonstration Zone in western China. The comprehensive strength of
Chengdu High-tech Zone tops among the 169 national high-tech zones
in China.
As one of the regions with the highest degree of
economic extroversion and internationalization in western
China, Chengdu High-tech Zone is focusing on building three
international cooperation parks (Singapore-Sichuan Hi-tech
Innovation Park, Sino-Korean Innovation and Start-up Park,
Sino--Japanese (Chengdu) Local
Development Cooperation Demonstration Zone), Center for
China-Europe Cooperation and other cooperation platforms, having
gathered 130 Fortune 500 companies. In 2020, the Comprehensive
Bonded Zone ranked first in China
for three years with an import and export volume of RMB 549.17 billion.
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