Foreign investment serves as a key benchmark of a region's internationalization and business climate. In recent years, Jiaxing National High-tech Zone has attracted a cohort of globally renowned enterprises through targeted investment promotion and professional services, demonstrating robust international appeal and dynamic development vitality.
Precision Investment Promotion: Building a New Highland for Foreign Capital Agglomeration
DEWERT OKIN Technology Group, a global leader in the intelligent health sector, has officially established the global headquarters of its subsidiary BEWATEC in Jiaxing High-tech Zone in 2023. This strategic decision stems from the zone's comprehensive industrial ecosystem and superior business environment.
As the world's seventh-largest automotive technology supplier and a leader in automotive seating systems, France's FORVIA has made two additional investments in the High-tech Zone within two years since its initial establishment in July 2020 – launching an Intelligent Comfort Systems project followed by a New Energy Smart Seating project.
UFI Group, a global leader in filtration systems and thermal management technology from Italy, completed a new round of foreign capital investment in 2024 at the Jiaxing National High-tech Zone, where it is constructing the UFI New Energy Technology Project to continuously expand local production capacity.
Jiaxing National High-tech Zone, leveraging its established strengths in specialized industries such as photovoltaic new energy, intelligent manufacturing, optoelectronic information, and high-end informatics, continues to deepen the integration of international innovation industrial chains. Through the implementation of the "Chain Leader System" for targeted investment promotion, it has successfully built a "1+2+X" hundred-billion-level industrial cluster.
Strategic Location: Driving the Aggregation of Sci-Tech Industries
The success of these foreign investments stems from Jiaxing High-tech Zone's strategic location and its continuously optimized industrial ecosystem.
Jiaxing National High-tech Zone is situated in the core hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, boasting an integrated "air-water-road-rail" transportation network. Located within a one-hour commuting circle of key cities including Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou, it is crisscrossed by major transport arteries such as the Shanghai-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway and the Shanghai-Kunming Expressway, enabling rapid flow of talent, technology, capital, and other essential factors.
The High-tech Zone is actively developing comprehensive transportation hub services centered around Jiaxing Airport, establishing a new highland for all-round, multi-level, and high-quality opening-up. Jiaxing Airport, the first specialized air cargo hub in the Yangtze River Delta and the second nationwide, operates under the principle of "prioritizing cargo transport while supporting passenger services." In October this year, Jiaxing Airport Logistics Hub Management Company signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Cardiff Airport in Wales, UK, jointly creating a new model for international collaboration in civil aviation airports.
Furthermore, leveraging the Jiaxing Port and Jiaxing South Railway Station hubs, Jiaxing High-tech Zone gains the unique dual advantage of connecting to global markets while deeply integrating into the Yangtze River Delta's industrial chain collaboration system. This strategic positioning empowers the Zone to effectively absorb international industrial transfer and aggregate high-end innovation resources.
Supporting Services: Building a World-Class Business Environment
Jiaxing High-tech Zone provides " butler-style " services to established enterprises, integrating the offline "Enterprise Home" platform to fully support the factor demands of high-quality companies. It offers seamless, comprehensive, and nanny-style premium services spanning project approval, land use, and registration, continuously attracting multinational corporations to put down roots in both China and Jiaxing.
In the process of building a trillion-yuan industrial cluster, the High-tech Zone has attracted a growing number of multinational enterprises to establish headquarters bases and R&D centers. These companies are casting tangible "votes of confidence" through real investments, offering compelling proof of the superior business environment in Jiaxing National High-tech Zone.
Currently, through platforms such as the Hanhai Jiaxing International Innovation Center, Jiaxing High-tech Zone has established bridges for talent exchange and industrial resource connectivity with leading innovative nations including the United States, Germany, France, Spain, and Singapore. Moving forward, Jiaxing National High-tech Zone will integrate into the global innovation network with even greater openness, leveraging its progressively refined industrial chain ecosystem and continuously optimized international business environment to provide fertile ground for the flourishing of global innovation seeds.
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