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A ceremony was held to lay a foundation for the Liaoning (Dandong) International Optometric Industrial Zone, China’s first industrial park of its kind and a key industrial park in the province, on the morning of May 9. Over 50 Chinese and foreign companies have reached agreements with the industrial park, with a total investment of more than 3 billion yuan.
Vice-mayor Zhao Liansheng briefed 200 guests from 170 Chinese and foreign companies on the great advantages of Dandong to develop the optometric industry at the subsequent theme concept promotion meeting.
Liaoning (Dandong) International Optometric Industrial Zone, located in the Lingang Industrial Park, will attract enterprises producing optical instruments, medium and high-grade special spectacles and components, and developing photoelectric technologies and visual sciences, and R&D institutions. The industrial zone has a planned area of 79.6 hectares to develop in two stages. The initial zone covers 11.47 hectares at the third stage of the instruments and meters industrial base. The development zone, in an area of 68.13 hectares, is based in the equipment manufacturing zone of Dandong Lingang industrial park. In three to five years, the industrial zone will attract 300 companies (100 high-end companies and 200 supporting companies), with 15-30 billion yuan in sales revenues and 4-7 billion yuan in taxes annually.
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