Tianjin Huibin Law Office was established on the New Coastal Financial Street of TEDA on March 22 under approval of the Bureau of Justice of Tianjin Municipality.

Tianjin Huibin Law Office is the fourth partnership law office established in TEDA after Liren Law Office, Gaodi Law Office, and Jinghai Law Office. Having worked in this field for many years in such locations as Beijing and Hei Longjiang, the three partners of the law office have solid basic skills in law theories and good sense of legal service and as well as rich experience of legal practice in terms of criminal law, business contracts, maritime affairs and business, and real estate.

Tianjin Feng´ai Automotive Seat Parts Co., Ltd. held its foundation stone laying ceremony in TEDA a few days ago.

As is known, Tianjin Feng´ai Automotive Seat Parts Co., Ltd. is an exclusively foreign-owned enterprise co-established by two powerful Japanese automotive interior and exterior trim and seat part manufacturers, Toyota Boshoku Corporation and Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. with a total investment of 47.5 million dollars and a registered capital of 16.5 million dollars. With a total area of 51,000 square meters, the new factory is expected to go into operation in May of 2007. In the beginning of operation the company will be capable of an annual output of 240,000 automobile seat frames and functional parts, and it will go up to 500,000 in the future.

The inauguration ceremony of the extended Tianjin Factory of Novo Nordisk (China) Biotechnology Co., Ltd. was held in TEDA a few days ago.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, capital of Denmark, Novo Nordisk now has branches in 79 countries and factories in 6 countries with a staff of over 22,000 and sales in 180 countries. As the key Asia-Pacific manufacturing base of Novo Nordisk, its new factory in Tianjin was established in 2002 with an area of 40,000 square meters and a staff of over 100 at present. This important extension of the factory is a step indicating that the Tianjin factory is turning itself into an internationalized strategic manufacturing base. After extension, the Tianjin factory will introduce brand new production facilities to expand its current production capacity. It will focus on the domestic market while paying attention to the overseas market, constantly satisfying the increasing demand for Novo Nordisk´s insular products in Asia and other regions.

The 2006 Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu New Science & Technology Artery Forum was inaugurated in TEDA on March 24. Topic for this forum was to ¡°Bring into full play the functional advantages of the New Coastal District and Make Full Effort to Construct the Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu new science & technology artery¡± and the purpose was to seize the historic opportunity in which the New Coastal District has been included in the development strategy of China¡¯s Eleventh Five-Year Plan, explore the regional cooperative mechanism, accelerate the pace of cooperation, promote an all-around cooperation among all involved regions in terms of science and technology, industries, markets, resources, etc., to achieve cooperation, development, and mutual benefit.

Regions along the Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu Expressway constitute an important link for the cooperation and development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei as well as the Circum-Bohai Region. Thus they are called the Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu new science & technology artery. It extends from Haidian Park of Zhong Guancun Scientific and Technological Park of Beijing Municipality in the west to TEDA in the east, and it has Zhong Guancun Scientific and Technological Park, Haidian District, Chaoyang District, Tongzhou District of Beijing Municipality, Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, Langfang Municipality, TEDA, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone, and Tianjin Port along the way. The Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu New Science & Technology Artery Forum started in 2003 on the initiative of TEDA Administrative Commission and government of Haidian District of Beijing Municipality on the purpose of promoting regional cooperation, coordinated economic and social development with science and technology as the link and the regions along Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu Expressway as the carrier. This forum has been held twice and has achieved good results.

Nine organizations including governments of Chaoyang District, Haidian District, Huairou District, and Tongzhou District of Beijing Municipality, Administrative Commission of Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, Langfang Municipal Government of Hebei Province, Administrative Committee of Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone, Tianjin Port (Group) Co., Ltd., and TEDA Administrative Commission signed the TEDA Declaration of Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu New Science & Technology Artery Forum.