In August 2005, Jiujiang Municipal Committee of CPC made decision to construct a new socialist Jiujiang of beauty, wealth, harmony and prosperity, drawing up a magnificent blueprint for development of Jiujiang in the new stage and proposing a large-scale opening-oriented strategy to enhance the industry, tourism, logistics and urbanization.

According to the Opinions of CPC Jiujiang Municipal Committee on the Making of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Jiujiang’s Economic and Social Development, governments will work during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and “Three Representatives” thoughts, deeply implementing the spirit of the 16th NCCPC and the Fifth Plenary Session of the Party's Sixteenth Central Committee, upholding the scientific concept of development to focus on economic construction, insisting on the general orientation of large scale opening-up to enhance the industry, tourism, logistics and urbanization; taking the improvement of the fundamental interests of the most people as our goal, sparing no effort to construct a harmonious society; uplifting two flags of “harmony and development”; seizing chances to conduct innovation and upgrade quality; doubling efforts to go through the hardships to achieve overall progress of Jiujiang’s economy and society and the overall development of people and to construct a new socialist Jiujiang of beauty, wealth, harmony and prosperity.

According to the Outline of Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Jiujiang Municipal Economic and Social Development, Jiujiang will optimize foreign investment structure, improve investment promotion quality, firmly control four investment promotion fields of large-scale industry, large-scale logistics, large-scale tourism and large-scale urbanization so as to introduce a number of important projects influencing on the pillar industries in terms of industrial chain, extension of value chain and industrial gathering, and actively attract foreign investors to participate in the construction of industrial park, export processing zone, tourism focusing on Mt. Lushan new Zhelin Lake scenic spot, logistic park and Hewen Lake new area. Jiujiang shall also take full advantage of its resources and industries to attract foreign investment in such industries as metallurgy, building materials, petrochemicals and modern agriculture.

To further promote the industrialization process, Jiujiang has planned to form a T-shaped industrial layout constituting with Yangtze River industrial belt, Poyanghu industrial belt and Chang-Jiu Expressway and Jiu-Jing Expressway industrial belt. While further speeding up the construction of Jiujiang City Economic and Technological Development Zone and Gongqing High-tech Development Region, Jiujiang will spare no effort to build export processing zone and three emphasized industrial centers of “Terminal, Shacheng and Jinshawan”, to strengthen infrastructural construction of industrial parks and zones, to speed up the construction of twelve industrial parks and zones to create the platform for large-scale industry and the carrier for investment promotion.

Jiujiang is a cost-effective place for investment. The base price for land in urban areas is only RMB 210 thousand Yuan– RMB 1.2 million Yuan per mu (0.067 hectare). The labor rate is also lower. The monthly salary of employees is only RMB 400 –1,000 Yuan. Water and electricity prices are also lower, which are RMB 1.1Yuan/cubic meter and RMB 0.4-0.5Yuan/kwh respectively for industrial use. Other services are also charged in a lower rate.

JiujiangCity Economic and Technological Development Zone
Jiujiang City Economic and Technological Development Zone was founded on July 12, 1992, one of the first development zones of JiangxiProvince. According to the planning and thinking on development of “one district several parks, one district several systems and bigger and stronger”, the area of the Zone was extended to 1.2 million square kilometers from 30.4 square kilometers. During the 12 years after the Zone was founded, about RMB 500 million Yuan has been invested in infrastructure construction, including 31 roads, 2 bridges and 2 circular islands. Currently there have been over 100 industrial projects invested by different countries and regions, with a total investment of RMB 6.6 billion Yuan, and RMB 3.5 billion Yuan thereinto has been contributed. The leading industries, such as electrommunication, precision machinery, auto making, biomedicine, textile and garment, apparatus and beverage, control circuit apparatus, new building materials and compound feedstuffs, have taken initial shape. Jiujiang City Economic and Technological Development Zone is convenient in transportation and its infrastructure is going to be perfect gradually.

Export Processing Zone: Jiangxi Jiujiang City Export Processing Zone was founded on June 3, 2005 through approval of State Council, currently the only state-level export processing zone of Jiangxi Province. It has a planned area of 2.81 square kilometers, and 0.987 square kilometers was developed in the first stage. An administrative committee and custom supervision organ have been set for the export processing zone. Separation facilities and supervision system have been set up strictly in accordance with supervision regulations to implement the management mode of “One Declaration, One Document Review, and One Commodity Inspection”.
The processing zone lies in northeast of the comprehensive industrial park of Jiujiang City Economic and Technological Development Zone, 9 kilometers away from downtown Jiujiang, 15 kilometers away from Jiujiang Terminal for foreign trade, 100 kilometers away from ChangbeiInternationalAirport, and 14 kilometers away from JiujiangAirport. Beijing-Kowloon Line and Wuhan-Jiujiang Line meet here. Nanchang-Jiujiang Expressway and National Highway 105 extend along the processing zone. So it has an advantageous location and convenient transportation. The infrastructure in the processing zone is going to be perfect gradually and services for living outside the processing zone are available nearby.

Gongqing High-tech Development Region
Gongqing City is located in north of Jiangxi, middle section of Chang-Jiu Industrial Corridor, with Mt. Lushan to its north and Poyanghu Lake to its east, 50 kilometers away from Nanchang and Jiujiang City respectively. It has always been praised a pearl by the side of PoyanghuLake. It is integrated with development zone, zone for Taiwanese investment, ecological demonstration area, demonstration area for agriculture with greater and better yields, and migrant nature reserve. It currently governs one district and three towns, with an area of 200 square kilometers and population of 100 thousand. Beijing-Kowloon Line and Chang-Jiu Expressway extend through it in south and north. There is an easy access to ChangbeiInternationalAirport and JiujiangAirport. As for waterway, it can travel directly to Yangtze River through PoyanghuLake. It has excellent investment environment and preferential investment policies, prominent ecological advantage and abundant tourist resources. It is authorized to examine and approve projects involving foreign investment. GongqingCity is an important base of JiangxiProvince to earn foreign exchange through exports as well as the first base of JiangxiProvince for textile and garment products production.
Industry is the backbone of GongqingCity's economy. The leading industry is the making of down and feather products. Over 130 garment and textile enterprises have been settled in GongqingCity. The annual capacity of garment production reaches 50 million pieces. Produced by Jiangxi Gongqing YAYA (Group) Co., Ltd. “YAYA” brand product is national quality-inspection-free product. “YAYA” is a national-level well-known mark, and national-level name brand. “Huiyuan”, “Dazuiya”, “Kanghe” and “Shen’ao” are six well-known marks of JiangxiProvince. Products are marketed in over 60 countries and regions. On the strength of the first garment and textile base of Jiangxi Province, an international garment industrial and trade center are being planned with a total investment of USD 160 million.