Based on the functional identification, the Tianjin Lin’gang (Harbor) Industrial Park (TLIP) has been constantly improving their industrial structure to strive for further development. As of now, 36 billion yuan have been invested into the park, where 64 investment projects involving a contracted value of more than 130 billion yuan. This provides a solid foundation for the new industrial city’s development.

The TLIP was first built in August 2004. The construction of this park is based on land reclaimed from the sea. It is a national-level petrochemical base planned by the National Development and Reform Commission and one of the key development areas of Tianjin and the Tianjin Binhai New Area.

The offshore construction area under the overall planning of the TLIP is about 80 square kilometers, which consists three phases. Its development target is to become a significant national chemical base in North China, a ship construction & maintenance base and an equipment-manufacturing base. Meanwhile, it will become a port logistics base, an R&D transformation base, and industrial tourism area all part of a new offshore industrial city.

The TLIP boasts a superior transportation network. Located at the opposite bank facing the Tianjin Port, the largest harbor in North China, the park is one of port’s five largest areas. The park has established 50,000 DWT channel, two berths for liquid chemical wharf with ten thousand DWT and above, and five berths for general wharf, whose annual throughput can reach 10 million tons. The TLIP is only 38 km from the Tianjin Binhai International Airport, China’s largest airfreight center.

Its convenient location and superior environment have attracted lots of enterprises to invest in this hot land. At present, eight World Top 500 enterprises have invested in the TLIP, where five projects valued at more than 10 billion yuan are undergoing. The TLIP will strive to complete a fixed assets investment of 18 billion yuan in 2009.

The TLIP adopts proactive measures to ensure a safe and green zone. With the principles of being technologically, economically and environmentally safe and with a vision directed towards urban safety, the TLIP tries to escape the traditional concept of “pollution first and treatment afterwards”. Based on the overall layout, the TLIP has carried out the ISO 14001 Environment Management System and composed guidelines for environmental protection and forestation.

According to the TLIP’s development plan and long-term schedule, its investment contracts fund will reach 140 billion yuan in 2009. That number will reach 400 billion yuan by 2018, with a gross industrial output value of more than 500 billion yuan.