Staff work at the potato chips production line in the Panpan Foods Co in Xinmin Economic Development Zone, Shenyang, Liaoning [Photo provided to China Daily]

This Development Zone was established in 1992, and in 2006 became a province-level economic development zone with Liaoning provincial backing and with a planned area of 23 square kilometers and construction area of about 10 sq km, with the focus on pharmaceuticals, bio-medicine, and modern Chinese medicine, the food industry, green food, and healthcare products, as well as papermaking. In 2013, it had a total output value of 4.44 billion yuan, 5 billion yuan in fixed assets, revenues of 120 million yuan, and exports worth 59 million yuan. It has industrial parks for pharmaceuticals, food processing, and papermaking, with the pharmaceutical park becoming one of 20 key industrial clusters for the city of Shenyang, in 2003, a Top 100 Industrial Cluster for Competitiveness, and a Founding Unit for Hi-tech Industrial Clusters of Shenyang, in 2008, and a Northeast China Industrial Development Base, in 2009.

Inside the Panpan Foods Co, Shenyang [Photo provided to China Daily]

With more than a decade of development and growth, the pharmaceutical industry has seen immense development and the park has over 35 pharmaceutical companies with more than 1,000 products and a number of industrial leaders, such as the China Resources Double-crane Pharmaceutical Co, China Resources Sanjiu Medical & Pharmaceutical, Xiuzheng Pharmaceutical Group, Shenyang J&Health Pharmaceutical, Lvzhou Pharmaceutical, and Dongxin Pharmaceutical Co. The food industry park is giving priority to green healthcare foods and agricultural and sideline products, with Panpan Foods, Chengda Food Group, Shenyang Hengfeng Meat Industry Co, and Xiuzheng Healthcare Food moving here.

The provincial government has recognized the papermaking industrial park an Industrial Demonstration Park and the largest industrial base of its kind in the province and northeastern China, with the focus on paper for households, packaging, and for industry. APP is now in operation as one of its leading enterprises, while Nine Dragons Paper Ltd is under construction.

The zone follows a development concept of "Attracting investment and pleasing, enriching, and favoring merchants for winning results", and has the support of policies and has a special development fund for the pharmaceutical industry, an entrepreneurship fund for SMEs, and technological and innovation funds, and other incentives to guide the zone’s enterprises in their branding and helping them accelerate growth. The zone welcomes talented people in papermaking, packaging, printing, pharmaceutical chemicals, agricultural products processing, equipment manufacturing, lighting sources, flooring and furniture, and any other related industries from China and abroad to invest in the zone and start a business, and the zone will do its best to provide efficient services for your life and business.