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First, Guangzhou is the hub of the flow In- dreds of
of factors. During the period of “13th Five tel- thousands of the world’s Top 500 enter-
Year Plan”, Guangzhou will focus on the lectual prises, there are 283 enterprises which
building of “Three Strategic Hubs”, say, Property have made investment and sought devel-
International Shipping Hub, International Rights court. opment in Guangzhou. The top ten key in-
Aviation Hub and International Sci-tech In 2015 there are dustries of Guangzhou include automobile
Innovation Hub. Three strategic hubs will 6 Nobel Prize Laure- making, fine chemicals, heavy equipment,
bring not only the large infrastructure ates and 77 academicians of trade and commerce, conventions and
facilities but also the industries, hu- the Chinese Academy of Sciences exhibitions, finance and insurance, mod-
man resources, capitals and technology, and/or Chinese Academy of Engineering ern logistics, new information technology,
becoming the powerful absorber and the working in Guangzhou. bio-pharmaceuticals, new materials and
sourceofradiation. new energy as well as energy conservation
In addition,Guangzhou is not only one of and environmental protection. The level of
As for harbors, Guangzhou Port has 105 the four large railway hubs in China, one industrial manufacturing and the research
container lines, of which the cargo han- of the main hubs of national highways and and development (R&D) capability of
dling capacity was 520 million tons and one of the cities connected to the largest Guangzhou rank the top in China with the
that of the containers was 17.63 million number of the routes of the national high- annual gross value of industrial output
TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) in way network, but also is one of China’s amounting to more than US$300 billion.
2015. The two ranked the sixth and the three large communication centers, What’s more, a strategic cooperation
seventh respectively among the ports of Internet exchange center and one of the agreement was reached between Cisco
the world. As for airports, Baiyun Interna- three large international Internet export
tional Airport is one of China’s three large destinations. Guangzhou, with world’s
airline hubs. In the whole year of 2015, fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-2, is able to
the airport’s passenger throughput totaled connect 58 percent of the internet in the
about 55.21 million and the cargo through- Chinese mainland to the world.
put reached two million tons.
Second, Guangzhou is the center of indus-
As for innovation, there are 70 national- trial agglomeration with 320 headquarters
level R&D institutions including national- enterprises accredited. Among the hun-
level engineering centers, technical centers
of enterprises, key laboratories and
engineering laboratories, 16 national-level
incubators for technology companies, and
such institutions of intellectual property
rights as Guangzhou Intellectual Property
Rights Exchange Center and Guangzhou

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