AS China's key industrial base, Wuhan enjoys an industrial system with comprehensive and complementary categories of sectors. The city is stepping up efforts to develop its modern manufacturing sector, focusing on the technical escalation and industrial conglomeration. Priorities are given to 10 leading sectors of “iron and steel, automobile, machinery, electronic information, petro-chemical industry, environmental protection, tobacco and food, household electric appliances, textile and garment, pharmaceuticals, paper-making, packaging and printing. Industrial polices are used to encourage businesses to get concentrated in industrial parks. Importance is placed on developing iron and steel, chemicals and environmental protection gathering area, automobile, machinery and electronics gathering area, opto-electronics and biological medicines gathering area, food industrial gathering area and metropolitan industrial gathering area. A number of huge enterprises with sales of over 10 billion RMB yuan and brands with autonomous core technology of “Made in Wuhan” are coming into being. |