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  Location:CND Overview > A Modern Manufacturing Base

Located in the East China, the most prosperous Yangtze River Delta, Changzhou lies in-between the two metropolitan cities of Shanghai and Nanjing. It is about 100 miles from Shanghai and 70 miles from Nanjing. With a cultural history of over 2500 years, Changzhou is also a rising modern industrial city. It covers a total area of 180,000 acres, and 11,000 acres are urban areas. The total population in Changzhou is 3.415 million, including 840,000 urban residents.
Changzhou has a solid industrial foundation. There are over 20,000 various manufacturing companies, forming a complete industrial structure including mechanical, metallurgy, electronics, textile, garments, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, building materials and foodstuff. The six main industries in Changzhou are power industry, engineering machinery, automobile, motorcycle and their parts, power transmission equipment, electronics, new-style textile and garments. It has formed numerous brand products such as the diesel engines, loaders, power transformers, city buses, special and micro motors, DVD and indigo blue denim, etc. By now, the percentage of new and Hi-Tech enterprises accounts for 50% of total economy in the city.
Changzhou National Hi-Tech District (CND), a national industrial development area, was established in August 1992. The CND Administrative Committee executes the same economic authority as the municipal government does. The enterprises in the CND enjoy the preferential policies granted by the State Council.
CND is located in the north of Changzhou city, and is adjacent to the riverside of Yangtze River. There is a national grade oceangoing port consisting of a general dock, a container dock and a petro-chemical dock with capacity of 30,000 tons each. CND has very convenient transportation network by air, water, road and rail. The Shanghai-Nanjing Railway is in the south, and the Yangtze River in the north. Shanghai is 100miles away in the east, and Nanjing is 70 miles away in the west.
During the past ten years, CND has been consistently improving the investment environment following the international standard. Today, CND forms a complete set of industries and is one of the first bunches of development zones being ISO14001 certified in China.
CND has attracted many local and overseas investors by its excellent location, convenient transportation, stable preferential policies and efficient service. A group of famous multi-national companies have settled down in CND, such as General Electronics, Ashland Chemical, Caltex Oil Corp., Flextronics Enclosure Systems and Watson Pharmaceuticals from the USA; Radici Plastic from Italy; Rieter Textile Instrument, Vsinor Steel and Valinox from France; Invensys from Britain; Leoni Electronics, KME from Germany; Disa from Denmark; Kymco Motors, Komatsu Engineering Machinery, Bridgestone Bicycle, Fujitsu Electronics, Takamisawa Electronics and Fuji Heavy Industry from Japan; Shinho Petrochemical from Korea; Embry from Hong Kong, etc..