Brief Introduction of Jintang Island Jintang Island locates in 29°58’-30°05’N, 121°50’-55’E, which lies in the central part of the coast of southeast China, on the south of the mouth of the Yangtze River, on the outer margins of the Hangzhou Bay, and it is where the Yangtze River, Qiantang River and the Yong River reach the sea. Beside Jintang Island, there are large or medium-sized cities like Hangzhou, Ningbo, et al., and extensive interior areas like the Yangtze Delta and the Yangtze River valley. Jintang Island is 3.5 kilometers away from the Beilun port in Ningbo, which faces Jintang Island across the sea and both stand in the sea area. And it is 76 kilometers from the deep-water outer ports of the Shanghai International Shipping Center. Jintang Island is attached administratively to Jintang town, Dinghai area, Zhoushan city, Zhejiang province. It covers an area of 77.85 square kilometers, and is the fourth biggest island of Zhoushan city. Jintang Island is the ideal place to build the super-container transfer port, mass bulk cargo transfer port and industry overhanging the port. Resources of Deep-water ports in Jintang Island Jintang Island has the natural advantage to build ports. The length of the coastlines of the whole island is 49.2 kilometers, thereinto 15.7 kilometers deep-water coastlines, which can be exploited to more than 15 meters, distribute mainly on the southwestern and southeastern coast, and the 20 meters depth contour is about 200-600 meters away from the coast. In Jintang Island, there are long and straight coastlines, and the water is deep and flows fluently, and the coastlines are stable. As there are mass islands and islets play the roles of natural barriers, the ports can work 300-330 each year. The sea-routes are expedite, and the water will not freeze the whole year. There are favorable super-anchorage ground and anchor work area.
Gradually Improved Basic Facilities The basic facilities in Jintang Island is gradually improved. There are 35KV substations on the island, which are connected with the electricity networking in Huadong and Zhoushan through overhead wires of sea cables. The water resource is abundant there as the total pondage of the whole island is 7.886 million square kilometers. Communication is through fiber, digital and broadband technology, and the whole town is with IT application and modernization. On the island, there are roads above Grade-III standard connect every village, and there are buses, ferries and liners connect Shanghai, Ningbo, Dinghai, et al. The Zhoushan-Ningbo joining project, which is under construction and will run through the Jintang Island, will be built till 2007.
The Plan for the Development of the Ports According to the “Coordination Plan for Sea Port Resources of Zhoushan Ningbo” of Zhejiang province, Jintang Island has planned to concentrate on building international container ports, which are large, intensive and modernized, and Jintang Island will advance the materials flow industry and industry overhanging the port energetically, which rely on the ports. Therefore, Jintang Island has planned to build 34 berths of 2-10 ton level container, 4-5 current berths of 2-5 ton level, whose annual throughput is 12.1-14.4 million TEUs, and 3 super raw oil docks.
Preferential Policy of the Ports for Attracting business 1. Preferential Land Policies 1.1 Providing land preferentially. Expect turning in country and province, fulfilling requisition fee and ploughland compensation fee, all of the land fee is lifted. For important projects, there will be “special policy for special project”. 1.2 For the requisition of important industry areas in our city, the funds (fee) showed as below are derated: 1.2.1 Market risk fund is derated 50%, viz. 2500 yuan per mu; 1.2.2 Paid land use fee is derated 70%, viz. 9800 yuan per mu; 1.2.3 Remising fee is derated 100%, according to the actual occurrence; 1.2.4 Ploughland cultivation fee is derated 4000 yuan per mu; 1.2.5 Irrigation found is derated 100%, viz. 200 yuan per mu; 1.2.6 Land management fee is derated 50%.
2. Preferential Tax Policies 2.1 If the running time of the company is above 15 years, under ratification, the income tax rate of the company will be reduced to 15%. 2.2 If the running time of the company is above 15 years, under ratification, after the first of gaining profit, the income tax of the company is free from the first year to the fifth year, the income tax of the company is derated 50% from the sixth year to the tenth year; under ratification, after the first of gaining profit, all of the participation part of the income tax of the company will be given back to the company from the first year to the fifth year, half of the participation part of the income tax will be given back to the company from the sixth year to the tenth year. 2.3 If a foreign investor of a foreign-funded enterprise wants to invest the profit obtained from the enterprise to the same one directly to add more registered capital, or open other foreign-founded enterprises, and if the running time of the company is not less than 5 years, under ratification, 40% of the income tax of the re-investment will be returned.
3. Other Preferential Policies 3.1 Standardize charging activities, and perfect the charging card of foreign-funded enterprise (charging content is described in detail in “major administrative and public charging catalog of foreign-funded enterprises”). If the charging item is floating, charge according to the lowest. 3.2 Production factors needed by foreign-funded enterprises, which are used to build and product, should be provided by correlative department abundantly and efficiently, whose charging standard is same to domestic companies; 3.3 The charging standard of quarters, medical visits, shopping, entertainment, filial education and transportation of foreign investors of the foreign-funded enterprises and foreign employees should be same to local people. |