| Changsha High-Tech Industrial Development Zone | |||||
| Native Name: | 长沙高新技术产业开发区 | ||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh-Hans | ||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||
| Subdivision Name: | People's Republic of China | ||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Province | ||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Hunan | ||||
| Subdivision Name2: | Changsha | ||||
| Subdivision Type3: | District | ||||
| Subdivision Name3: | Yuelu District | ||||
| Area Total Km2: | 140 | ||||
| Population Density Km2: | auto | ||||
| Coordinates: | 28.2226°N 112.8994°W | ||||
| Pushpin Map: | China Hunan | ||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | top | ||||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Hunan | ||||
| Timezone: | China Standard | ||||
| Utc Offset: | +08:00 | ||||
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code | ||||
| Postal Code: | 410000 | ||||
| Area Code: | 0731 | ||||
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Changsha High-Tech Industrial Development Zone (; abbr: CSHTZ) is a national high-tech industrial zone in Changsha City, Hunan Province, China. It is the original Changsha Technology Development Experimental Zone founded in July, 1988. It was renamed to the present name, meanwhile the zone was upgraded to one of first batch of national HTZs. In March 1991, and became a national innovative technology pilot zone approved by the Ministry of Science & Technology in 2009. Its core area is situated in the west of Changsha on the west shore of the Xiang River, and the north side of Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area.[1]
In 2016, the total planned area of CSHTZ is 140km2.[2] The CSHTZ consists of Yuelu Mountain Hi-Tech Park, Xingsha Industrial Hi-Tech Park, Longping High-Tech Park, Broad Hi-Tech Park and City Proper Policy District, of which the Yuelu Mountain Hi-Tech Park is its core industrial park directly managed by CSHTZ. Yuelu Mountain Hi-Tech Park is also called "Luvalley". The controlled overall plan area of Luvalley is 80km2 and up to now 15km2 are of development scale.[3]
The pillar industries in CSHTZ are service outsourcing, environmental protection, new materials, new energy, biomedicine, electronic information and advanced manufacturing. As of 2015, the total business income of enterprises in the zone reaches 425.1 billion yuan (US$68.25 billion), the gross output value of industry is 379.2 billion yuan (US$60.88 billion). of which the total business income in Luvalley is 250 billion yuan (US$40.14 billion),[4] its added value of scale-sized industries is 36.78 billion yuan (US$5.91 billion).[5]