Weihai Torch High-tech Industrial Development Zone was established in 1991. It is one of the three Torch High-tech Zones in the country jointly established by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the People's Government of Shandong Province and the People's Government of Weihai Municipality. The coastline in the area is 46.5 kilometers long, with seaside forest farms and natural bathing beaches. The natural environment is beautiful and the scenery is gorgeous. High-tech industries such as electronic information, optomechanical and electrical integration, new materials, biomedicine and medical equipment have now been formed. There are 3,000 enterprises of various types and 100,000 employees. The main economic indicators have maintained an average annual growth rate of more than 30%. , is a "National Advanced High-tech Industrial Development Zone", "National High-tech Product Export Base", "ISO14000 National Demonstration Zone", "National Intellectual Property Demonstration Park", "National Computer Peripheral Products Industrial Park" and "Torch Plan Advanced management unit".
Climate characteristics: It has a temperate continental monsoon climate. Winters are warm, summers are cool, springs are cold, autumns are warm, and the annual temperature difference is small. The annual average temperature is above freezing for more than 290 days. The annual average temperature is 12.1℃, the monthly average maximum temperature is 24.6℃, and the minimum temperature is -1.5℃.
Investment environment: It is strategically located at the easternmost tip of the Shandong Peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides, facing the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Archipelago across the sea to the east, facing the Liaodong Peninsula to the north, and bordering Yantai to the west. The natural environment is beautiful, with a coastal protective forest belt stretching for more than 20 kilometers and a forest farm of 10,000 acres. The air is fresh, and it has four natural bathing beaches including the International Bathing Beach. The water is clear, the beach is gentle, and the sand is soft and fine. It is a good place for tourism, summer vacation, and recuperation. It is also recognized by domestic and foreign experts as an ideal place to develop high-tech industries; the water, electricity, roads, heating, communications and other facilities in the area are complete, and the green coverage rate reaches 41.9; the comprehensive energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of output value is 0.51 tons of standard coal/10,000 yuan Yuan, the comprehensive energy consumption per unit added value is 0.25 tons of standard coal/10,000 Yuan. The policy and regulation system is complete, various social intermediary service agencies are complete, the internal management system is sound, an e-government system has been established, and a "one-stop" service hall has been established, adhering to the service tenet of "as long as you do it, I will handle the procedures." Strengthen the concepts of "Enterprises create wealth, and the government creates the environment" and "Enterprises do everything inside the institution, and the government handles everything outside the institution" to provide investors with quality services. Among the national high-tech zones, it was the first to pass the ISO14001 environmental management system certification and was recognized as an ISO14000 national demonstration zone by the State Environmental Protection Administration and the Ministry of Science and Technology. In order to expand the development space of the high-tech zone, in 2003, the Weihai Municipal Government transferred Chucun Town from the established system to the high-tech zone to build a new science and technology city. In the past five years, the high-tech zone has accelerated the gathering of talents, funds, and technology in accordance with the requirements of “high starting point planning, high-intensity investment, and high-standard construction” to create a concentrated area of ??advantageous industries. Up to now, a total of more than 600 million yuan has been invested in infrastructure, the construction of supporting facilities has been continuously improved, and the project carrying capacity has been continuously enhanced. 13 projects have been settled.
The high-tech industry includes electronic information represented by Samsung Digital Printer Co., Ltd., biomedicine and medical equipment represented by Weigao Group, optical, mechanical and electrical integration represented by East China CNC Co., Ltd., and expansion of The scale of the four major advantageous high-tech industries, including new materials represented by Fiber Co., Ltd., continues to expand. It has a large number of high-tech enterprises and high-tech products such as Samsung, Weigao Group, Guangwei Group, Golden Monkey Group, East China CNC, Beiyang Group, New Beiyang Group, Shuangfeng Electronics, Carl Electric, and Sandun Welding Materials. It owns two listed companies, Weigao Co., Ltd. and East China CNC. High-tech enterprises account for 60% of the city's total; high-tech products account for 67% of the city's total. There are currently 5 Chinese famous brands in the zone; 20 provincial famous brands; 2 well-known trademarks and 10 provincial famous trademarks.
Technological Innovation The district has more than 7,000 employees with college degrees or above, more than 800 masters, and more than 150 doctors. More than 20 academicians are engaged in research and development work in enterprises in the region. It has successively established comprehensive cooperative relations with Tsinghua University, Shandong University, Harbin Institute of Technology and other institutions of higher learning. More than 80 companies in the zone have developed different forms of cooperative relations with domestic and foreign universities and research institutes.
Enterprises above designated size have established more than 80 R&D institutions of various types, including 13 enterprise R&D centers at or above the provincial level and 1 national-level enterprise technology development center. The ownership of "China Patent Shandong Star Enterprises" accounts for 35% of the city's total, and the patent ownership accounts for 30% of the city's total. The incubator covers an area of ??170,000 square meters, and the entrepreneurship center has been recognized as a national-level entrepreneurship center by the Ministry of Science and Technology. It also introduced Tsinghua University Science and Technology Park to participate in the construction of the Weihai Torch Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base. Together with *** from Kyungpook University in South Korea, he co-founded the "Weihai-Kyungpook University Sino-Korean Science and Technology Enterprise Entrepreneurship Center". Up to now, nearly 300 companies have settled in the incubator, 30 of which have met the graduation standards, and 20 have acquired land to build factories or purchased factories in the area to implement industrial production. Seed funds were set up, Weihai Innovation Investment Company was co-founded, and Tianheng Guarantee Company was introduced to alleviate the financing difficulties of small and medium-sized technology companies. In 2007, the region's R&D investment accounted for 2.7% of its GDP. At the same time, the construction of the science and technology intermediary service system has been strengthened, and various public technology service platforms have been built to provide all types of enterprises with comprehensive, wide-ranging, and multi-functional scientific and technological innovation services. The region has implemented nearly 500 Torch, Spark and scientific research plan projects, and 15 national “863” plan projects.
Opening up to the outside world, a total of 605 foreign investment projects have been approved in the zone, with a contracted foreign investment of US$1.78 billion and an actual utilized foreign investment of US$1.26 billion. The cumulative total import and export volume is US$16.18 billion, of which exports are US$11.1 billion, with an average annual increase of 42%. It has established economic and trade relations with 107 countries and regions, and has successively introduced many Fortune 500 multinational companies such as Samsung, Itochu, and Mitsubishi. Exports of high-tech products account for 70% of the city's total. It was recognized as one of the first 16 "high-tech product export bases" in the country by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
Business, trade and tourism The area has complete business facilities and good production and living conditions. It has two five-star hotels, Golden Bay Hotel and Haiyue Jianguo Hotel, and more than ten star-rated hotels, Liqun Shopping Mall, Weihan Trade City, Jiajiayue Supermarket Chain, Dayu Building Materials Mall, Haiyue International Shopping Center, Free Oriental, etc. Ten trading companies. Commercial projects such as Torch Oriental, Lianqiao Building, Jincheng Building, Cuizhuyuan, Changhong Plaza, Tourism Development Building, and Holiday Inn International Seaview City are under construction. The construction framework of "Weihai Western Business District" is gradually unfolding. Tourist attractions such as the International Bathing Beach, Golden Beach, Seth Swimming Pool, Xiaoshidao Fishing Park, and Beihai Bathing Beach receive more than 2 million tourists annually. The International Bathing Beach is listed by the State Oceanic Administration as one of the 10 key bathing beaches that regularly monitor seawater quality.
Rural economy: There are 1,830 hectares of cultivated land and 1,500 acres of orchards. In 2007, the region's total rural economic income reached 6.94 billion yuan.
Income from specialty agriculture such as pollution-free vegetables, American ginseng, and special breeding accounts for more than half of farmers' income. 35,000 square meters of rural roads have been hardened and 300 biogas digesters have been built. The rural pension security system continues to improve, and the coverage rate of new rural cooperative medical care reaches 100, which is 10 percentage points higher than the city's average level.
Education and Health There are 4 universities in the area, including Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), Shandong University Weihai Branch, Shandong Pharmaceutical College, and Weihai Vocational (Technical) College, with more than 40,000 students enrolled. There are 3 middle schools, 12 primary schools, and 49 kindergartens in the district, and the compulsory education penetration rate reaches 100%. It has 4 hospitals - Weihai Municipal Hospital Shandong Branch, Weihai Municipal Hospital High Zone Branch, Weihai Jinhaiwan Hospital, and Weihai Chucun Hospital.
People's Life In 2007, the per capita income of employees in the region was 18,698 yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 8,002 yuan. The urban registered unemployment rate is controlled within 0.7. The savings balance of urban and rural residents was 3.4 billion yuan. There are 2 social welfare institutions. An apartment for the elderly with an investment of 71 million yuan is under construction smoothly. A social security system covering employee pension insurance, medical insurance, work-related injury insurance, maternity insurance, unemployment insurance, and landless farmers' security has been established covering the entire region.
Weihai High-tech Zone is the most suitable place for human beings to live and start businesses. We sincerely invite elites at home and abroad to join our entrepreneurial team and work together to create a better tomorrow.