The Quanzhou High-tech Industrial Zone (Jiangnan Park) is a central part of the Licheng district of Quanzhou in the development of high-tech industry. Construction work of the park began in November 2001 and it was approved as a provincial development project in 2003 and has become an important technological innovation base for Quanzhou.

Land development

The park has a planned area of 6 sq km and it has developed around 467 hectares, 327 of that for industrial projects, 55 for support facilities, and 106 for infrastructure. Industrial development

The zone has attracted 431 companies, 337 of them in operation. In 2009, its industrial output amounted to 11.5 billion yuan ($1.17 billion), an 18 percent year-on-year increase. It paid 700 million yuan in taxes, a growth of 16.3 percent over the previous year. It had industrial output worth 8.52 billion yuan in the first half of 2010 and paid 560 million yuan in taxes. It has an industrial cluster focusing on electronic information, with machinery and automobile parts, textiles, shoes and clothing as other major industries.

In the electronic information field, it has a silicon-based thin-film solar cell industry with the Fujian Golden Sun Electronic Co and Win Chance Co as lead producers, and has a new solar photovoltaic industry concentrating on solar lighting equipment. It also has a growing radio communication industry focused on radio frequency technology and microwave equipment, a new electronic parts and components industry focused on leaded ceramic disc capacitors for space navigation and military use, and an energy-saving, reduced-consumption electronic control equipment industry.

In machinery and automobile parts, it has formed an engineering-machinery manufacturing cluster, an auto parts manufacturing cluster, and circular knitting machine manufacturing cluster. In textiles, shoes and clothing it a new textile materials base, an export-oriented underwear and sportswear base, and a sneakers and slippers manufacturing base.

For infrastructures and support facilities the zone has put 1.15 billion yuan into roads, water supply, electricity supply, and drainage and sewage disposal and has added 30 km of new roads, 10 km of new drainage and sewage disposal facilities, and 100,000 sq m of green area.