Banking, Technology and Enterprise Join Hands to Boost Zhongguancun's DevelopmentEntrepreneurs from Zhongguancun Sci-tech Park (ZSP), together with experts in financial and scientific circles, conducted in Beijing March 25 discussion and exchange on hot spots and difficult problems arising in ZSP, and offered their ideas and suggestions on quickening ZSP's development.Since March of last year, People's Bank of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Beijing municipal government have held activities on four occasions with participants from the fields of banking, technology and enterprise, which has brought closer relations among these fields, promoted exchanges, enhanced cooperation and boosted ZSP's development. Last year, ZSP registered an added value of 32.6 billion yuan for the hi-tech industry, up 44.2 percent over the previous year; raked in a total income of 154.03 billin yuan from technology, industry and trade, up 40.4 percent; made profits valued at 8.77 billion yuan, up 30.1 percent; turned in taxes worth 6.17 billion yuan, up 51.2 percent; earned foreign exchange to the tune of US $1.94 billion through export, up 100 percent, with its rate of contribution to the city's industrial economic growth topping 60 percent. By PD Online staff member Yin Zhili |
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