The trademarks of some 14 companies in Nantong, Jiangsu province, received recognition as "Chinese Famous Trademark" on Oct 10, taking the total number of the city's famous trademarks to 57.
The surge in the number results from the local government's efforts to improve the competitiveness of local companies and facilitate their transformation and upgrading by strictly controlling trademark registration and enhancing trademark protection and management.
The business scope of these 14 companies involves textiles, clothing, sports equipment, agricultural products, steel and construction.
The NETDA Free Trade Zone got the original go-ahead, on Jan 3, 2013, from the State Council, for a 5.29-sq-km area, in two parts.
Suzhou-Nantong science & technology industrial park
Equipment manufacturing industrial park
Urban-rural commercial zone
Nengda central business district
New materials industrial park
Medical treatment & health industrial park
Sci-tech industrial park
Precision machinery industrial park