The Taixing Economic Development Zone – located in the county-level city of Taixing, under the administration of Taizhou, in East China's Jiangsu province – is a provincial EDZ with a planned area of 59.8 square kilometers.
Cranes offload a freight vessel in the port in the Taixing Economic Development Zone. [Photo provided to etaizhou.gov.cn]
It has successively been officially recognized as a National Torch Program Taixing Fine Specialty Chemicals Characteristic Industry Base, a Global Fine Chemical Industry Cluster Cooperation Base, a China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Demonstration Base and a National Intellectual Property Rights Pilot Park.
It has also been recognized as a National Key Support Park for Recycling Transformation, a Fine Chemical Industry Pilot Park of National Industrial Cluster Regional Brand Building, a National New Industrialization Demonstration Base, a National Foreign Trade Transformation and Upgrading Base and as a China Smart Chemical Industry Pilot Park.
The Taixing Economic Development Zone has also been listed among the top 10 chemical industrial parks in China for nine consecutive years. In 2021, it ranked No 5.
The zone is home to 19 businesses funded by Global 500 enterprises and produces 19 leading international products including vinyl chloride, phthalocyanine pigments, polyacrylamide and lithium battery electrolyte additives.
Its products – such as caustic soda, styrene, acrylic acid and polyvinyl chloride – have big international market shares. Moreover, the China-Japan (Taixing) New Material Industrial Park was approved as a provincial international cooperation park.
As dusk descends, the zone gets into its night routines. [Photo provided to etaizhou.gov.cn]
Great efforts have been made to develop cutting-edge new materials such as high-performance resins, special engineering plastics, elastomers, polyurethanes and plastic alloys.
Efforts have also been made to develop a complete pharmaceuticals industry supply chain for what is called R&D + APIs + finished drugs + biological drugs – and daily care products for washing, cosmetics and oral care and modern productive services.
The impressive office building housing the Taixing Economic Development Zone administrative committee. [Photo provided to etaizhou.gov.cn]