Located in the central region of China and in the Yangtze River Delta that is most economically dynamic in China, Anhui is at
the frontier of the economic influence of the developed coastal regions and is engaged in industrial transfer from those
regions. It is the bridgehead that implements the western China development strategy and central China rising strategy,and
enjoys the geographic advantages of connecting western China, coastal China, northern China and southern China. Within a
500km radius of Hefei, there are important cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing and Wuhan, and a population of nearly 500
million, contributing nearly 40% of China’s GDP.
Hefei is a national second-class regional transportation hub in China. With well developed expressway network leading to all directions,it only takes 2 hours to drive to Nanjing, 4 hours to Shanghai or Wuhan, and less than 1 hour to Wuhu and other provincial major cities.
Six Railways are well connected in Hefei. After the completion of the Huhanrong(Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu) express railway in 2007, it will only take 45 minutes from Hefei to Nanjing and a little bit more than 2 hours to Shanghai or Wuhan.
Hefei Xinqiao Airport is an international standby airport in China. There are over 30 domestic air routes and direct flights to Hongkong.
The Jianghuai Canal under construction will make Hefei a waterway transportation center between Yangtze and Huaihe rivers in the
future. According to the recent and long-term plans, Hefei Port will build two container terminals. After completion, containers from Hefei
can be shipped right through the Yangtze River to ocean-going freighters in Shanghai.
On June 26 2014, the first cargo train along the new
Eurasian Continental Bridge sets off from Hefei,
central China's Anhui Province. It will cross the
Alashankou and arrive in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and
other Central Asian countries in a week, and arrive in
Europe in half a month. It signifies that Hefei has the
direct cargo train to Central Asia and Europe, and is
integrated with the Silk Road economic belt.
Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone was one of the first batch of State-level
high-tech zones ratified by the State Council in 1991.
It covers an area of 128 square kilometers and possesses a permanent resident population ofover 200,000.
With diversified emerging industries, great innovation potential, active financial capital and
rich talent resources, Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone is the core area of
the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center and has achieved numerous honors,
including being named a National Innovation Demonstration Zone, National Eco-industrial
Demonstration Park, and National Intellectual Property Demonstration Zone. Hefei National
High-tech Industry Development Zone ranked ninth among all the national high-tech zones in 2017.
Hefei is the largest home appliance manufacturing base and industry cluster in China, and the
country’s most influential and competitive home appliance manufacturing center.
The zone has gathered approximately 100 robotics enterprises, attracting about 50 projects now, achieving an
annual output value of 5 billion yuan ($723.35 million).
The China Speech Valley, located in Zone, is managed by Anhui IT Industry Investment & Holdings Co.
The energy conservation and environmental protection industry is one of the eight strategic emerging industries in
Anhui province, and in the Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone it’s a leader and at the forefront
of the city.
The automobile industry is one of the six leading components of the Hefei National High-tech Industry
Development Zone.
The Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone has more than 400 biomedical companies, over 30
percent of such companies in the province.
Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone boasts abundant innovation resources. A number of collaborative
innovation platforms such as the Institute of Advanced Technology, University of Science and Technology of China and
the CAS (Hefei) Institute of Technology Innovation Co., Ltd. are located here, and establishment of open platforms has
been approved, including Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing International Innovation Park and Qiaomengyuan,
an industrial cluster area for overseas Chinese talents. A total of 22 key laboratories and 109 technology research
centers at provincial level or above in place. More than 300 technology service agencies have settled in the zone,
including 48 technology incubators and accelerators, covering an area of 2.6 square kilometers. A regional financial
center has formed in Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone, attracting over 80 investment funds.
The total output value of Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone reached 56.24 billion yuan ($8.19 billion)
in 2016, rising by 11.1 percent; the industrial output above designated scale was 177.1 billion yuan. Value added totaled
34.72 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 10.2 percent; fixed assets investment amounted to 43.09 billion yuan, 26.01
billion yuan of which was taken up by industrial investment. Total retail sales of social consumer goods reached 10.58
billion yuan; the total volume of imports and exports was $2.41 billion; a total of 26.3 billion yuan were attracted for
investment and promotion, including $479 million of foreign direct investment and 18.7 billion yuan of industrial
investment. Public revenue reached 2.86 billion yuan, 1.68 billion yuan of which was local fiscal revenue.
The Sino German Intelligent Manufacturing International Innovation Park
The Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing International Innovation Park was approved by the Ministry of Science and
Technology in November 2016 to further strengthen cooperation on technological research, transformation of scientific
achievements, implementation of joint projects, personnel training and exchange and finance between governments, enterprises
and research institutes of the two countries.
The park is expected to improve bilateral cooperation and promote integration of the Made in China 2025 initiative and the
Industry 4.0 strategy proposed by the German government.
The park will accelerate the gathering of projects, funding, technology and human resources through Sino-German cooperation.
It will be built into an international technology cooperative demonstration base that settles down in Hefei city, serves Anhui
province and radiates through the whole country. It is sustainable, reproducible and easily promoted.
The park will advance cooperation between China and Germany in intelligent manufacturing technology and its industrialization.
Its intelligent manufacturing technology will be strengthened as a pillar of the park’s economic structure.
