Investment environment
Infrastructure: Guiyang National Economic Development Zone is equipped with infrastructures such as water, electricity, gas and telecommunication facilities. It has established waterworks with daily water supply capacity of 350,000 tons and a sewage treatment facility capable of treating wastewater of up to 300,000 tons a day. The development zone has 18 transformer substations, a gas station and a natural gas receiving station.
Productive service: It has a number of financial institutions and insurance agency branches including state-owned commercial banks, municipal commercial banks, policy banks, rural credit cooperatives and postal savings organization. Besides, it is equipped with intermediary organs providing professional services of notarization, accounting and audit for enterprises.
Catering and accommodation: There are many high-end catering and accommodation enterprises such as Grand Skylight Hotel (Five-star), Haban Hotel (Four-star) and Xiyuan Jinrun Hotel (Four-star) in the development zone, providing meeting rooms, banquet halls, western restaurants and fitness centers.
Daily consumption: The development zone houses retailers such as Wal-Mart, Beijing Hualian Union, Sunning Appliance, Gome Electrical Appliances, convenient stores and food market, meeting various needs of residents' daily life.
Transportation
Located in the half-hour transport circle of Guiyang, Guiyang Economic and Technological Development Zone is one of the urban areas of the city.
It is 10 kilometers away from Guiyang 4E level international airport, 3 kilometers away from Guiyang railway station and 12 kilometers away from Guiyang North station (for high-speed trains and bullet trains)
The development zone is home to the largest logistics port in Southeast China. It connects the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for foreign trade by Guiyang China Railway Express.
Air: Guiyang Economic and Technological Development Zone can be reached by 36 airlines' 138 domestic and international routes.
Railway: two hours to Chongqing and Kunming; three hours to Changsha; four hours to Guangzhou and Wuhan; five hours to Hong Kong; six hours to Zhengzhou; seven hours to Xi'an; eight hours to Beijing and Shanghai by high-speed train and bullet train.
Light rail: Guiyang light rail Line 1, Line S1 and Line 3
Highway: The traffic network featuring six vertical and six horizontal highways runs through the development zone; a ring highway passes through the zone; it is connected by an expressway network and 23 road networks.
Resources
Technological strengths: Guiyang Economic Development Zone houses four national research and development platforms; two national productivity promotion centers; 53 provincial research and development centers; two technology transfer institutions; three municipal-level research and development platforms.
Human resources: It has nine provincial and municipal management experts; five academician workstations; two postdoctoral workstations; two "Thousand Talent Plan" expert workstations; six technical master studios; 10 vocational skills training bases; 28 employment trainee units (bases) for college graduates.