The Ministry of Science and Technology has approved the building of a High-Tech Industry Belt Circling Beijing and Tianjin in Hebei province, making it one of the seven national High-tech Industry Belts.

Hebei Provincial Government attaches high emphasis on its cooperation with Beijing and Tianjin to push forward the integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. The Belt is an important measure taken for the construction of modern industry system and transformation of economic development modes by taking advantages of all the resources around Beijing and Tianjin in more fields.

The Belt is positioned as a national high-tech demonstration zone for pioneering and innovation, around Bohai industry clusters for high-tech industry, core zone for high-tech achievements and Heibei modern industry system main areas. The short-term goal is to build it into an influential national high-tech industry belt by 2015, with the development zone and high-tech industry base as its main supports and the industry clusters as its main body.

By Guo Changdong and Liu Xiang