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BEIJING, Nov. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

East China-located harbor city Zhangjiagang hailed 61.5 billion contracted

investment(https://en.imsilkroad.com/investment/index.html) for 68 newly signed

projects during the ongoing 2020 golden autumn economic and

trade(https://en.imsilkroad.com/trade/index.html ) week.

During the event, the city kicked off the industry chain cooperation summit on

October 31 and announced to leverage four advantageous industry chains of new

metallurgical materials, intelligent equipment, new chemical materials and

high-end textile and four emerging industry chains of new energy, digital

economy, bio-pharmacy and high-end medical equipment, and advanced

semiconductor to scale up industry sizes and enhance competitiveness.

To boost high-quality development of the industry chains, Zhangjiagang released

an industry chain chief system to further sharpen its industrial planning,

preferential policy(https://en.imsilkroad.com/policy/index.html) support, project

blueprinting and investment(https://en.imsilkroad.com/investment/index.html) attraction.

Pan Guoqiang, head of the municipal party committee of Zhangjiagang said at the

summit that the city will actively foster integration of its innovation and

industry chains and craft full-chain industries to form five industry clusters

each with 100 billion yuan outputs and several industry clusters each with 10

billion yuan outputs by 2025.

Being listed among the Forbes China's best cities for business for years,

Zhangjiagang has over 1,000 large enterprises and nearly 600 high-tech

enterprises and attracted more than 1,300 foreign-funded enterprises to invest

in the city.

The city boasts more than 80 kilometers of coastal lines along the Yangtze

River and 135 dock berths, deemed as the largest harbor for international trade

along the Yangtze River. Currently, it operates 20-plus international shipping

lines and keeps trade with over 300 ports in more than 60 countries and regions

worldwide, with an annual throughput of 235 million tonnes.

As a traffic hub city, Zhangjiagang is increasingly integrated with the

"One-hour economic circle of the Yangtze River Delta", especially when the

Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong railway, a rail line running through the city, was put

into operation in July and two high speed railways (HSR), namely south HSR

along the Yangtze River and the Nantong-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Ningbo HSR are also

under construction or in progress.

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SOURCE: Xinhua Silk Road

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   Caption: The industry chain cooperation summit was convened in Zhangjiagang on October

31 during the 2020 golden autumn economic and trade week.