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by The RightSite Team,

East China Locations Continue to Attract Attention for Investors

The October RightSite industrial zone Power Rankings show locations in Shanghai and Suzhou snatching eight out of the top twenty positions, as industrial investors continue to concentrate on these more developed locations in eastern China. However, many emerging cities, such as Ningbo, Kunshan and Nantong also made it to the top of the ranks.

The power rankings survey, which measures online traffic to information on more than 1,800 industrial zones and parks in China is designed to provide insights into what investors are searching for online and what industrial developments they devote the most attention to. While established destinations tend to generate the most interest, rising costs are causing more investors to look for alternate investment destinations, and Internet searches are usually their first tool in this site selection process.

October’s Big Winners

For the second month in a row, Suzhou Industrial Park sits on top of the rankings, and it is joined in the top ten by Suzhou Hitech Industrial Development Zone, showing the ongoing popularity of Suzhou with investors both international and domestic. If we are scoring projects by the developer, then Shanghai’s Lingang New City, Waigaoqiao Bonded Logistics Zone, and Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone – all of which are under the same management company – are perhaps the biggest single force on the charts, landing at #2, #5, and #16 respectively. Clearly, all that investment by the Shanghai government is generating interest on the Internet.

New to the Top 20

Joining the top of the ranks for the first time this month are Guangdong Foshan Shunde Industrial Zone, Kunshan German Industrial Park, Yangshan Free Trade Port Area, Qingdao High Tech Industrial Development Zone, Chengdu Tianfu Software Park, Jiangsu Xishan Economic Development Zone, Changzhou Hitech Industrial Development Zone, Shenzhen Futian Free Trade Zone, and Nordic Industrial Park.

Among these rapidly rising developments many of them are located in emerging cities whose governments have made strong commitments to attracting investment, or are in locations where they are poised to benefit from rising land and labour costs in more developed destinations in first-tier cities such as Shanghai or Guangzhou.

The detailed rankings are provided below including the zone’s rank this month, the rank last month and the total number of pageviews received. Among them, the top 20 parks on RightSite received a total of more than 4000 pageviews during the month of September.

Rank		Zone or Park	Pageviews
1		Suzhou Industrial Park One of China’s best known and earliest industrial parks, SIP remains at the top of the ranks for the second month in a row.	432
Last Month: 1
2		Shanghai Lingang New City As one of the priority projects of the Shanghai government, development in Lingang is attracting large investments (and big web traffic).	348
Last Month: 3
3		Guangdong Foshan Shunde Industrial Zone This top ranked zone in southern China encourages a broad range of industries, including intelligent electric appliances, telecommunication, biomedical, fine chemicals, and new materials.	319
Last Month: 43
4		Suzhou National New & Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone Suzhou scores two entries in the top five this month with this zone, which is also known as Suzhou New District, moving up from #6 to #4.	264
Last Month: 6
5		Shanghai Waigaoqiao Bonded Logistics Zone The highest ranking logistics zone in our survey comes with one of the best locations in Shanghai, next to busy Waigaoqiao port.	258
Last Month: 11
6		Kunshan German Industrial Park Increasing German investment in Kunshan may be turning this emerging city from a “Little Taipei” into a “Little Frankfurt.”	247
Last Month: 31
7		China Singapore Sutong Science & Technology Park This new project benefits from its relationships with two established parks, SIP and NETDA, as well as the increasing desirability of its Nantong location.	215
Last Month: 4
8		Dalian Software Park Perhaps China’s best known software park, DLSP has become a centre for both high tech and BPO operations.	201
Last Month: 10
9		Shanghai Jiading Industrial Zone With no Geely announcements in September, Jiading Industrial Zone drops from its #2 position of last month. However, Jiading continues to be a leading investment destination in Shanghai.	197
Last Month: 2
10		Yangshan Free Trade Port Area Adjacent to Shanghai’s Lingang area, this major port project is starting to catch investor interest.	173
Last Month: 25
11		Qingdao National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone Although still best known for its beer, Qingdao is increasingly catching on as an industrial investment destination.	169
Last Month: 29
12		Shanghai International Medical Zone As the only dedicated industrial destination for the biomedical sector in Shanghai, SIMZ continues to benefit from strong investor interest.	161
Last Month: 9
13		Chengdu Tianfu Software Park With incentives to help rebuild earthquake ravaged Sichuan, affordable engineering talent and aggressive marketing Tianfu has become a top software industry destination.	158
Last Month: 21
14		Jiaxing Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Industry Park Seizing upon environmentally friendly industries and development as a selling point, Jiaxing CECIC continues to bring investors to this northern Zhejiang city.	149
Last Month: 15
15		Jiangsu Xishan Economic Development Zone The development of China’s high speed rail system has made Wuxi a more attractive destination for many industries which would earlier have stayed in Shanghai or Suzhou.	142
Last Month: 28
16		Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone With two entries in the top 20, Waigaoqiao continues to attract investor interest, but is faced with shortages of land for some industries.	141
Last Month: 16
17		Changzhou National Hi-Tech District With a major investment event at the end of September, Changzhou’s only national-level industrial zone received many more visitors than in August.	139
Last Month: 26
18		Shenzhen Futian Free Trade Zone The largest of Shenzhen’s free trade zones, Futian benefits from its direct connections to Hong Kong.	137
Last Month: 37
19		Hangzhou Economic & Technological Development Zone This national level zone benefits from being in one of China’s most powerful emerging cities and is host to Singapore-Hangzhou Science and Technological Park.	129
Last Month: 13
20		Nordic Industrial Park This privately invested and managed park distinguishes itself through its service and international grade facilities.	126
Last Month: 22

About the Survey

The Power Rankings survey, which was based on analysis of RightSite’s online traffic through a third-party service provided by Google, measured which industrial zones were most sought out and viewed on RightSite from September 1^st to September 30^th, 2010, by measuring the number of unique pageviews of the listings for each park. The survey included listings for industrial parks, high tech parks, logistics parks and economic development zones of all types from throughout China.

The RightSite Industrial Power Rankings are conducted monthly.

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