HUANGPU District, located in the north of Pearl River Delta and the east of Guangzhou, is in the intersection of Pearl River and the estuary of Dongjiang River. It is 148 kilometers away from Shenzhen, and 80 nautical miles apart from Hong Kong. Covering 94.23 square kilometers, Huangpu has a total population of 400,000.
Enjoying abundant tourism resources like "Huangpu Military Academy " and "South China Sea God Temple", Huangpu is a modern industrial base in the east of Guangzhou. It has complete industrial varieties and covers 33 industries including automobile, petroleum, chemical industry, iron and steel, electronics, machinery and food. Over 2000 enterprises, such as Guangzhou Honda, Dongfeng Honda, Sinopec Guangzhou, Guangzhou Port, Swire Guangdong Coca-Cola, Sanyo Electric, General Mills, Bluescope, President Enterprise, Hedy Computer, Blue Moon Biotechnology and CSG Glass are settled in the area.
Huangpu District provides domestic and foreign investors with great potential for business development, thanks to the advantages involving long industrial chain, great volume of logistics, a diversity of traffic by railway, highway and waterway. Huangpu Port, the largest port in South China , whose international shipping lines can reach more than 300 ports in over 100 countries and areas. Vessels from Pearl River can reach Dongjiang River, Xijiang River and Beijiang River, with shipping lines connected to more than 100 domestic ports in China. It possesses six 35,000-tonnage container berths, with a total annual container handling capacity of 331 million TEU and a cargo throughput of 215 million tons. It' s one of the top ten ports around the world in 2004. A convenient transportation network has been built in Huangpu, like Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway and Expressway, 107 national highway, Guangyuan East Express Trunk. They run through the whole district and connect Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Kowloon. No.5, 7 and 9 metro lines are planned to be constructed to run through Huangpu. It takes no more than 30 minutes from Huangpu District to new Baiyun Airport .
Recently, according to the industrial theory of "optimizing the second industry and developing the third one", Huangpu focuses on automobile fittings and modern chemistry, which are based on the establishment of Guangzhou Honda and Sinopec Guangzhou. In 2004, its production output value exceeded RMB 33.376 billion, 22.72% higher than the previous year, with the growth speed ranking the first in Guangzhou . The second industry grew by RMB 21.139 billion, 27.4% up by; the tertiary industry RMB 12.122 billion, 14.92% up by. The industrial output value reached RMB 82.626 billion, 35.35% up by, 1/7 of Guangzhou' s total quantity. The hi-tech production value was RMB 47.726 billion, 35.8% up by, 1/3 of Guangzhou' s total quantity.
According to Guangzhou's urban space development strategy, Huangpu district is the economic, scientific and technological, educational, medical, informational, traffic and service center of east industrial zone of Guangzhou and will become the east new urban area of Guangzhou that has great influence on the surrounding areas.
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