中山市

Zhongshan is one of the local-level cities under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province. It has 24 towns and districts. The city is located in the central and southern part of the Pearl River Delta Region neighboring Guangzhou in the north and Hong Kong and Macau in the south. The total area is 1,800 square kilometers with an average annual temperature at about 22 degrees. Its population is 1.394 million. Zhongshan is the hometown of Sun Yat-sen, one of the greatest revolutionist in China’s history. It is also a famous hometown for a large number of overseas Chinese who have been immigrated into 87 different countries or Hong Kong, Macau.

Zhongshan is also one of the pioneering city that opened to reform and development in a very early time. In current years, the city strongly promoted its industrialization. It has built up a group of national famous industrial production bases, such as the National Health Scientific Technology and Production Base, the Telecommunication Industry Base and some of the scientific and technological parks. The high-tech industries gradually became the leading industries of this city with a group of excellent enterprises, such as the Lebaishi Soft Drink Company, the Jahua Electronic Production Corp. etc. the specialized industries in different towns also have been developing really fast. For instance, the lighting and decoration productions in Guzhen Town, the furniture production in Dayong, etc. there are 20 enterprises listed into the top 500 enterprises list around the world. In 2004, the total GDP created reached 6.1014 billion RMB, among which the GDP created by industries reached 200.44 billion RMB.

The real estate industries in Zhongshan were first raised in the 1990s. at that time, there were only eight enterprises involved. Due to a lot of problems existing then in the field of legislation, management and vocation operation system, the development cost for real estate industries remained really low. In that circumstance, the high profit greatly encouraged a number of enterprises in real estate industry. In 1994 the total number of enterprises involved in real estate development grew to 29 from the previous 8. The total amount of investment also increased from 108 million RMB in 1990 to 653 million RMB in 1994. The total area under construction grew to 1.3344 million square meters in 1994 from only 0.3350 million square meters in 1990. In 1995, the National Statistic Bureau carried out a set of investigations and survey on real estate development and construction. According to the statistics, this city had very large scale of real estate development. In 1994, the total investment on budget reached 16.341 billion RMB with a total amount of investment completed at 4.352 billion RMB. The total area under development and construction reached 4.1029 million square meters. In order to further monitor the real estate development, the National Statistic Bureau put the major indices of real estate development into the national statistic survey requesting different cities to report to the Bureau accordingly. At the end of 2002, the total number of enterprises involved in real estate development reached 161 with 3,795 employees working in this industry. The total value of fixed assets in this industry reached 18.399 billion RMB. The total amount of investment within the year reached 3.655 billion. The scales of enterprises also were enlarged gradually.

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