TEDA ended 2011 with GDP estimate of 186.5 billion yuan, up by 24%, and has achieved the goals in the 11th five-year plan, as evidenced by the top rank among all national development zones in 14 successive years in terms of economic strength and investment environment comprehensive index. In 2012, TEDA will focus on turning itself into a base of high-end industry, R&D and talent pool with international environment and harmonious & credible society. The GDP estimate will exceed 200 billion yuan in 2012 and industrial output value 700 billion yuan. Economy and society will develop in a fast and sound approach.

While putting restructuring, transformation and upgrading high on the agenda, TEDA will also be dedicated to boosting the optimization and upgrading of traditional pillar industries such as electronics, automobile and petrochemical, and set to enhance industries such as aerospace, next generation information technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, biopharmaceutical and new energy & new materials as well. A new round of good & large projects, the engine of real economy, will go through construction and operation. Construction of great projects such as China-Russia oil refinery project, Sinopec LNG and Shell lubricants will be launched, while Foxconn manufacturing base, Great Wall Motor Phase II and the new plant of Samsung Mobile Display will be finished and put into operation. By the end of the 12th five-year plan, the industrial output value of electronics, automobile, equipment manufacturing and petrochemical industries will surmount 200 billion yuan respectively. The added value of modern service industry is expected to cap 100 billion yuan and gross industrial output value over 1 trillion yuan.

Being resolved to facilitate the growth of numerous Little Tech Giants into the backbone of the industry, TEDA will be the home to over 300 national-level high-tech companies and 4,800 scientific and technological SMEs, with a talent pool of over 100 academicians and the leading global experts and more than1,500 supreme talents. (Tr. by Ma Yu)