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Dalian hi-tech park bids to be China's 'Silicon Valley'
By Zhang Ranran (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-09-11 13:16
 With an annual 30 percent increase across a raft of economic indicators over recent years, the growth of the Dalian's Hi-tech Industrial Park has seen it catapulted to the number one slot in the city. The growth of the State-level facility continued unabated in the first half of the year, making it one of the best performing sites in northeast China's Liaoning province. As the market leader in Dalian's highly-competitive software and service outsourcing industry, the park has now established nine dedicated software zones within the Lushun South Road Software Industrial Belt. It has also expanded nationally and internationally over the last years, with associate facilities in Tianjin, Chengdu, Suzhou, Wuhan and Tokyo.
In recent years, a number of related industries - including network development, animation and comics (AC), industrial design, and integrated circuit (IC) design - have begun to make a major contribution to the park's growth. Currently the park has four public technology service platforms for AC and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) four national technology-transformation centers and 106 R&D units. It has also contributed to the development of 1,000 software products with independent intellectual property rights. Concurrently, it has established nine incubators, 31 software-training institutes and 12 economic technology headquarters. As a result of this expansion, the park is now the foremost industrial zone in terms of both industrial conglomeration and internationalization in China. Across several indices - notably capability, scale and the quality of its software and service outsourcing industry - the park is now ranked ahead of the facilities offered by any other city in the country. |
