Investment Enviroment in Guizhou

Transportation

Guizhou is a transport hub of southwest china and been set up a comprehensive transportation network with Guiyang as core, which links up other province and regions outside the province with railway and highway transportation as framework in combination with water transport and coil aviation.

Railway

With Guiyang as centre, Guiyang-Kunming, Chengdu-Guiyang, Guiyang-Guilin, Guiayng-Changsha and Nanning-Kunming are railway lines as national economic lifelines pass through the province. They undertake the overwhelming part of freight volume both travelers and goods. This province owns the biggest goods marshaling station within southwest zone-- Guiyang south Railway Station. its main line has a length of 1468.564KM, f which,1068.4km of the railways have been electrified the whole nanning0kunming railway line passing through the western part of Guizhou has been opened to traffic. In future five years, Guizhou will become a key place of Chinese railways construction the project construction including the Zhu-Ku dibble-tracking Railways, the net-kun railway and the Shui-Bai railway and their related matching pivotal projects has begun, the construction of Chongqing-Huaihua railway is going to start after the completion of the project construction the main line from southwest zone of china to east china and south china will be open to traffic, fuming a new artery form south to north. the main line will give an enormous impetus to the economic growth in Guizhou , southwest china even throughout the country.

Highway

The whole provincial highway traffic mileage reaches 34000 km, the tow national main highways that are in process of the planning and construction, 5 national main highway and 30 provincial main highways that have provide traffic service form a highway network, through which all the counties and cities connects with each other.

With Guiyang as center, the average density of the road network being higher than that of the whole country after the construction of the Guiyang-Huangguoshu and Guiyang-Zunyi high-grade highways was completed and opened to traffic. The construction of the Guiyan-Biijie and Guiyang-Xinzhai of Guangxi high-grade highways has begun. On the estimation, the construction of the Guiyang-Bijie highway and Guiyang-Xizhai highway will be completed and opened to traffic in 2002.

Water transport

The inland rivers of Guizhou belong to either the Zhujiang of Changjiang river systems. The cruising range is 2123km including 6th class passage of 862km and 7th class passage of 821km one can navigate along the Wujang and Chichi rivers to the changing form north and along the Nana River and the Bedpan River to the Zhujiang River from south to go sea. Civil Aviation Civil aviation has developed rapidly and so far, there are 14 airline companies managing the airlines from Guiyang to 33 large-sized or medium-sized cities and Hong Kong region newly-constructed 4d level Guiyang longdongbao airport is one of the trunk line airports in the aviation transportation networks of out country and can meet the demands of going up and down for large-medium sized civil aircraft. The Tongren airport whose reconstruction and expansion are underway belongs to 4 C civil level airport. After its construction is completed, the airport will be able to meet the demands of Boeing 737airliner for going up and down, in addition the work of the preliminary feasibility study work has been noted concerning the setting up of the airports in Anshun, Xingyi, Liping. Libo, etc.

Post & Telecommunication

Post and telecommunications have developed rapidly throughout province. The construction of a digital main line transmission network has been completed on the basis of using the optical cable as a main communication means and digital microwave and satellite communication as an auxiliary communication means this network has the features of large-capacity and high rate that can cover the whole province. The total length of the optical cable of the main lines is 11138 km in the whole province. There are 1.86 million local telephone exchanges in this province, the total capacity of the long-distance exchange is 71000 line. There are 1.06million telephone customers in this province. The popularization rate of telephone is 3.24 telephones per100 person, analog moving telephone network, GSM digital moving telephone networks have covered over the counties and cities over the county, both sides of the high grade highways and the main scenic sports. The whole capacity of moving telephone exchanges is 600000 telephones in terms of post service. The volume of traditional business has steadily raised and while the new, light-weight business has developed rapidly and the level of the automatic and electronic handing mail service has risen day by day. The computer business handling system has been applied in the all postal business windows in the counties and cities over the county there are 141 electronic branches of the post office. The "green card engineering" has been set up in this province. This province has established the postal poormouth a computer interconnected network the level of comprehensive use of railway.

Power and Water Supplies

Guizhou possesses abundant energy resources and the prices of electricity and fuels are rather cheap there. The construction of 15 power plants covering hydropower stations and thermal power stations such as Wujangdu Dongfeng, Tianshengqiao pudding, Guiyang Qingzhen and Panxiang has been completed. The province's installed capacity was 5.95 million KW in 1999, with the annual power generation of more than 33.45 billion kHz. This province also can provide its surplus electric power to other regions and provinces including south china central south china Sichuan , Yunnan except to satisfying its own needs of production and living.

Guizhou has abundant water resources with good water quality. There are over 100 running water works throughout the provinces supplying 1.2 milling tons of water daily. the amount of average dairy living water is 152.46itr.per person the construction of the water supplying work including west suburb water works in Guiyang with a supply of 400000 tons/d, south suburb water works in Zunyi water supplying of 50000 tons/d and sansei water works in an shun will soon be competed therefore, the meets of industrial and agricultural production and living can basically be meet. the water price of Guizhou province is lower than that of the coastal area by over30%.

Scientific and Technical Force and Managerial Level

For the needs of the economic construction, in particular, for and in crease of the input made by state in the "construction of third line of defense" in 1960's and 1970's many scientists and technicians moved to Guizhou from the developed provinces and a large number of scientists and technicians has become the mainstay of the construction of Guizhou in respect of science and technique and management. Guizhou possesses a number of competent scientific technical and managerial personnel the average number in 10000.staff and workers being higher than one of throughout the country.

The national defense scientific and technical industry relying on the three bases of aviation, aerospace and electronics possesses not only advanced technical equipment, scientific experiment facilities and measuring and testing means, but also a competent staff, a high managerial level, perfect technical responsibility and quality guarantee systems it has the capability of absorbing import technique and developing new products. The products made by some enterprises are on sale to the international market and enjoy a good reputation.

Construction of Market

Along with the economic development and establishment of the economic system of the socialism market according to the market system the production factor markets including the means of production real estate finance security technique labour talent etc. have been established in the all central cities they can basically meet the needs of developing economy.

This province is setting up the perfect labor market step by step that accord with the economic demands of the social market At present, it has established a batch of the market, Guizhou provincial labour preparatory center of the national labor market information network Anshun. Qiandongnan. Qiannan labor markets labor Central market of Guiyang city and the market branches in Yunyan Nanming and Xiaohe districts. Most of the markets have been equipped with the computers that are used to manager their business and transfer and share information in time. Demand information of labor is given in the form of a large screen, touch screen, newspapers, radio station, oral notes, etc. the markets have actively developed the work of vocational guide analysis and evaluation and have got initial results as to wage price guide. They give applicant concrete arrangement the labor market at different levels in this province. Annual average income of workers and staff was RMB5385 yuan in 1998.using similar computation conditions, annual average income of worker and staff was RMB 6078 yuan in 1999.

Construction of Development Zone

The development zones of this province was instituted in 1992. There are 2 state level and 9 provincial level development zones.

They are scattered in the central cities such as Guiyang , Zunyi, Liupanshui, Anshun, Duyun, Xinyi, Tongren and Kaili etc. along the both sides of 4 main lines and 3 high grade highways. These places have transport facilities.

The goals of setting up the development zones are to attract more funds from the investors relying on the strength of the central cities and large-size and middle-size enterprises in order to mend the peace of the reform and opening-up to carry out import from abroad and linkage at home in order to further the progress of science and technique to center on fostering the back bone in dustiest including automobile and electronic industries can vigorously promote the economic developing and are competitive on the market this province plan to construct there developing and are competitive on the market. This province is planning to construct these development zones according to the high standards and to make them become the urban modern new zones in the near future.

Since 1992, all development zones have made marked progress. At present, the development zones have made an investment of RMB4.77billion in infrastructure. A tentative construction of the small industrial park and small developed area in commerce and trade with facilities of a complete set including water, electric power, road, communications and gas has been completed, the state level new and high-tech industry Development Zone are playing a "incubation device" function.

Relying on the development of resources and the strength of the central cities and the state-owned large and middle scale enterprises is the features and superiority of the development zones of Guizhou province, as these development zones can provide adequate energy resources, cheap electric power and fuel and have many enterprises that own idle plant buildings and a number of competent scientists and technicians the investor would yield faster results and bigger economic returns with smaller investment in these development zone. By the end of 1999, the development zones throughout the province implemented 3023 projects with a total amount of the contract funds of RMB20.71 billion, among them, the actual funds provided by the investors are RMB9.227 billion.

In terms of the soft environment, excerpt to the various favorable policies stipulated by state that encourage foreign investors to make an investment in china, Guizhou provincial people's Government and the development zones in different level have formulated a series of the favorable policies and measures, including the administration management in industry and commerce, taxes, urban construction, state land management have established the offices in the all development zones so that their working efficiency can be further improved. Through the past several year's construction, the development zones in our province. Traveling traders of all walks of life both at home and abroad are welcome to go to Guizhou for visiting, making an on-the-spot investigation and initiating industries.

Service Facilities

In recent years, enormous changes of the appearance of the cities and villages in this province have taken place. Among them, change of Guiyang city can be regarded as a typical example. The service facilities are becoming better and approaching perfection day by day. The highway, post and telecommunication and finance networks over 220kv have covered 76 ones of 86 counties and cities of the province and will reach its all reigns in the end of this province and will reach its all regions in the end of the "Ninth-Five Year Plan". There are 20 odd three-star or two-star hotels, one villa-styled guesthouse and other batch of reformed and comparably full functional hotels that can accommodate foreign guests. Some other three-star or more luxuriant hotels are under building or are being planned.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　[Origin:Guizhou Government website]