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CHENGDU, China, Sept. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

On September 17, the 16th EU-China Business and Technology Cooperation Fair was

held, and the Internationalization Index of Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial

Development Zone (2021) was officially released. Taking the nominal index 100

in 2018 as the base period, the internationalization index grew by 33

percentage points.

The Internationalization Index, jointly compiled by Chengdu High-tech

Industrial Development Zone and China High-tech Zone Research Center of

Strategic Consulting Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the first

internationalization index at the level of development zone in western China.

The internationalization index system in the report includes five first-class

indexes, namely, "global factor concentration, international organization

leadership, world innovation competitiveness, economic development circulation,

and support for an open environment," reflecting the level of international

development of Chengdu High-tech Zone.

In particular, the world innovation competitiveness index saw the largest

increase (73% increase over 2018), showing that Chengdu High-tech Industrial

Development Zone outstood in terms of trade level, industrial status and social

responsibility; support for an open environment index steadily rose, reflecting

that the high-tech zone has made steady progress in personnel and goods

circulation, livable living and business, natural and cultural aspects.

With its construction starting in 1988, Chengdu High-tech Industrial

Development Zone is one of the first national high-tech zones in China, a pilot

zone of "World-class High-tech Park" and the first National Innovation

Demonstration Zone in western China. The comprehensive strength of Chengdu

High-tech Zone tops among the 169 national high-tech zones in China.

As one of the regions with the highest degree of economic extroversion and

internationalization in western China, Chengdu High-tech Zone is focusing on

building three international cooperation parks (Singapore-Sichuan Hi-tech

Innovation Park, Sino-Korean Innovation and Start-up Park, Sino--Japanese

(Chengdu) Local Development Cooperation Demonstration Zone),  Center for

China-Europe Cooperation and other cooperation platforms, having gathered 130

Fortune 500 companies. In 2020, the Comprehensive Bonded Zone ranked first in

China for three years with an import and export volume of RMB 549.17 billion.

Source: Chengdu Hi-tech Zone

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