Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) announced Monday that in order to support the development of the service-outsourcing industry and intensify assemblage of industrial advantages, TEDA has decided to build a base especially for service outsourcing and to help provide a platform for companies in the area to share information, policies, scale accumulation and resources.
Service-outsourcing companies assembled in TEDA mainly engage in BPO, ITO, IC design, E-commerce, and information security, etc. Supported by the relevant policies of the management committee of TEDA, they have gained a certain scale. Construction of the service-outsourcing base will provide an even better platform for the development of these companies.
The total area of TEDA's service-outsourcing base is about 890,000 square meters and designed by Land Design, Inc. of America. The design concept is to build a pleasant work environment and let people enjoy life in work. There are complete commercial, recreational and exercise facilities in the park and a circular driveway develops around building and auxiliary commercial areas. Grassy landscapes will also be plotted throughout the middle of the whole park, and single buildings are arranged around the floating public landscape in a bid to build a modern service-outsourcing park that integrates work, life, leisure and recreation.
The construction area of TEDA's service-outsourcing base is about 1.52 million square meters and its plot rate is 1.7, which is mainly divided into three big functions: the industrial area (about 780,000 square meters), apartments and the auxiliary commercial area (about 540,000 square meters) and finally land for flexible use and auxiliary commercial facilities (about 200,000 square meters). Building sizes in various function areas are arranged in differently, according to their grades, in order to create an alternatively interchanging space.
Road traffic networks have been designed to design adopt a circular driveway system with terminals, which ensure rapid circulation on the main ring road and reduces interference with organizations in the park. The grades of the roads in the whole park are clear-cut and clearly stratified, and reflect the design principles of convenience and high-efficiency. Pedestrians and vehicles are separated properly in order to prevent the green landscape from being interfered with by motor vehicles and to maintain the relative continuity and completeness of the green ecosystem.
A long green landscape also extends from the central landscape axial line in the urban public center to the industrial park, introducing an urban and public space system. Green open spaces and the arrangement of organizations have been comprehensively considered to realize functions of the green land in connection with the ecology, protection, landscape, sports and leisure needs of the park.
About Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area
Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (abbreviated to TEDA, with "Taida" as its Chinese transliteration) was established in 1984, upon the approval of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It was one of the first state-level economic and technological development zones in the country.
Located in the centre of the Circum-Bohai economic circle and in the east of the Eurasia continental bridge, TEDA is a portal to two such metropolises as Beijing and Tianjin and a vital passage to Northeast China. So far over 3,300 overseas-founded companies have settled in TEDA. Among them 93 are founded by 44 corporations of the Fortune Global 500 like Motorola, Samsung, Toyota Motor, etc. In 2000, TEDA was acclaimed by Fortune of US as "the most admired industrial park of China." In 2002, it was elected by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), along with five other Chinese cities and areas including Shenzhen, Suzhou, Pudong New Area of Shanghai, etc., "the most dynamic regions of China."
(China.org.cn June 19, 2007)
