Border Economic Cooperation Zone of Yining City


Present Development Status
    In 1992, Yining City was approved by the State Council as a frontier open city, and the establishment of border economic cooperation zone at the state level was also approved. Adjacent to the downtown of Yining City, the cooperation zone lies in the western suburb of Yining City and 3 km away from the downtown. In the north the zone reaches No.218 National Highway, to the east of the zone is West Ring Road, and to south of the zone lies the Ili River. The planned area of the zone covers 10 km2, and the area for development reaches 15 km2. Efforts will be focused on the establishment of management and service zone, specialty industry zone, export processing zone, new and hi-tech zone, commercial and trade zone and Ili River tourist zone in the cooperation zone.     
  The cooperation zone is a comprehensive multi-tiered and diversified economic zone with resource industry with Ili characteristics, hi-tech industry and export-oriented economy as the main business and with the integration of trade, industry and commerce. It develops by relying on the local resources advantages and the geographic advantage of the four ports such as Horguos Port and Alashankou Port, the advantage of eastern and western cultures and the advantage of grasslands in Tianshan Mountain. Effort will be made to develop the zone by relying the old city. Since the zone was established 10 years ago, efforts have been focused on the improvement of investment environment and thus, infrastructure facilities in the zone have been greatly developed, such as road, supply of water and drainage, electricity supply, communication and heat supply.   
  With the complete service facilities of commerce, finance, culture and education, medical care, tourism and entertainment, the cooperation zone can meet the needs of investors for these services. We have been smooth in attracting businesses and investment and more and more enterprises register in the zone, more and more projects are being built in the zone. A number of enterprises were put to operation successively, bringing about good economic returns and social benefits. The real estate industry has entered a track of sound development.        
                           
Development Orientation
  According to the overall arrangement of the state for the western development and the development objective put forward by the Party committee and government of Yinnig city, by taking into account the advantages of our prefecture and the actual conditions of the cooperation zone, the development orientation of the cooperation zone was set for the five years to come: according to the principle of mutually complementing in advantages, technological and system innovation and strengthening cooperation, and in light of industrial advantages of Ili, great efforts will be made to develop industry of the zone and bring in large-scale, intensive and high technology content projects engaged in the processing of competitive-edge resources of Ili by focusing on the attraction of exterior investment while being supported by the development of trade. By the promotion of the industrial economy, the cooperation zone will be turned into an export-oriented, multi-function and modern economic zone with strong innovation capability, high degree of opening, improved infrastructure facilities and rational layout. Thus, the cooperation zone will better play the role of powerhouse and promotion in economic development of Ili, gradually forming a pattern with the cooperation zone as the leading, large enterprises as the key force, and large and small enterprises developing in a coordinated way so as to step by step make the cooperation zone the industrial base and the distribution center for import and export goods of Ili.      
                                    
Administration System
  In accordance with the principle of ^streamlining, uniform, efficiency and keeping away from corruption, the Administration Commission of the Cooperation Zone practices a comprehensive and one-station service system and provide fast and quality service for investors in an effort to cultivate a good environment for investment. 
                                    
Preferential Policies
  New joint venture, solely invested enterprise and cooperative joint venture established in the zone by foreign investors and enterprises based in other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions may enjoy relevant preferential policies formulated by the State Council concerning the western region development and policies formulated by the Xnjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for the invitation of businesses and encouraging foreign investment. In addition, foreign-invested enterprises and cooperating domestic enterprises investing in the zone will be granted preferential policies and measures for encouraging investment and promoting cooperation, such as Preferential Policy of Border Economic Cooperation Zone of Yining City, Xinjiang.
 
     We warmly welcome investors from home and abroad to the cooperation zone for survey and investment, and seek common development.

Contact
  Administration Agency: Yining Municipal Administration Commission of Border Economic Cooperation Zone, Xinjiang.
  Address: Beijing Road, Border Economic Cooperation Zone of Yining City, Xinjiang.
  Tel: 0999-8133576 8120443  Fax: 0999-8128184       Post Code: 835000