Guangxi - UNIDO Investment Promotion Programme Office (IPPO) for Southern China

Guangxi Province still little known has a maritime frontage and important resources in the field of energy (in particular a strong hydraulic potential). Dynamism of Nanning, provincial capital in full change, every year Nanning, the capital city of Guangxi, is the host of the CAEXPO and the China ASEAN Investment Summit. The tourist rise of the area of Guilin, seem however to indicate that this mountainous and wedged province is on the way of the development.

More than 130 billion RMB were invested since 1991, in private individual in the field of transport. The province has 5 national airports. It should profit from the development campaign from west of China launched in March 2000 by the Chinese government. Railway sector knew a strong activity: completion of the line railway electrified Kunming-Nanning in 1997 and reopening of the railway line Nanning-Hanoi in 1996. In the same way, the road network was the subject of a detailed attention in order to "open up the province": construction of the motorway between Liujing/Xingye; projects of motorways between Nanning/Beihai, Nanning/Tanluo, Hepu/Shankou, Yizhou/Liuzhou, Nanning/Wuyu and a "main road of the West of China", which would connect Guangxi to the other close provinces.

The strongest industries in Guangxi are sugar transformation, machinery, automobile, aluminium, paper and pulp, black metallurgical, building materials, herbal medicine and food process.

Industry is a pivotal position. 2003 mechanically refined sugar production exceeded 600 million tons, accounting for more than half of sugar production in the country. Guangxi Sugar Industry Chain longer, paper-plate biogases, molasses, amino acids, single-cell protein, alcohol and acetone extract organic compounds, such as filter Hefei cement production and comprehensive utilization of complicated technologies to achieve the world's advanced level. Meanwhile, Guangxi's sugar production cost per tonne lower than the 10 to 20 other sugar-producing areas, coupled with a comprehensive range of benefits, market competition is quite strong.

This industry has Guangxi 11 sub-sectors, the annual sales income and profits have exceeded 20% of the whole region. As traditional industries, the machinery industry has fostered a number of powerful enterprises, such as Yuchai stock company is the largest car engine production enterprises, Liuzhou Construction Machinery Factory is the largest pre stressed machinery manufacturing enterprises in Liuzhou Engineering Machinery Corporation is the industry's leading enterprises loader. Air compressors, machine tools, agricultural machinery and a considerable scale, products sold across the country, most products of modern science and abroad.

Fostering the growth of the automobile industry is a pillar industry. China FAW, SAIC and Dongfeng three car group, and the United States overall, South Korea's Daewoo and Renault of France and other international auto companies have established production bases in Guangxi. In 2003, production of passenger cars and commercial cars, compact cars, truck, buses, vehicles and other 200,000 vehicles, while in Liuzhou, Yulin, Nanning, Guilin for the auto parts industry is gradually taking shape, and further strengthened its capability of supporting the automobile industry. Currently, Guangxi domestic auto companies are using capital, technology, brand and management advantages, increase technological transformation of the auto industry and expand production capacity, Shenyang and Liuzhou opened as a new industrial base for auto parts industry, auto production in 2005 were 500,000, and strive to become China's major automobile industry base.

Aluminium industry is a pillar industry in most development potential and advantages. Pingguo Aluminium Company has an annual 850,000 tons of alumina and 130,000 tons of electrolytic aluminium production capacity expansion through 2004; annual production will eventually reach 1.6 million tons of alumina, 400,000 tons of electrolytic aluminium production scale. Guangxi China Aluminium Industry Company, China Metals, Mineral Company has started construction of the alumina plant in western Guangxi, with a scale of 1.6 million with an annual output of alumina. Guangxi aluminium processing has considerable infrastructure. Will be formed in 2010 with an annual output of 5 million tons of alumina in Guangxi, 1.5 million tons of electrolytic aluminium, 1.2 million tons of aluminium processing production, the aluminium industry has become an important base in Asia.

Forestation area is about 14 million hectares, accounting for 57.7% of the total land area in the southern provinces, which focus on the development of fast-ranked number one. There is an area of 9.82 million hectares of existing forests, the forest coverage rate of 41.3%. Tree Species: eucalyptus pine, pine and other timber bamboo, and 1.80, chestnut, cinnamon, tung oil trees and other Kudingcha economic forest. Currently, Guangxi has been pushing the fast-building and forest, pulp and paper, forestry industries combined board, the development of support. The existing one million hectares of forest into the rotation speed, can guarantee an annual output of 500-600 million tons of pulp needs.

With an annual output of Guangxi 2.5 million tons of steel, 600,000 tons of iron and manganese ore production capacity of 800,000 tons. Liuzhou Iron and Steel (Group) Company is one, including mining, processing, steel, iron and steel rolling, coking supporting large enterprises and scientific research institutions in the iron and steel enterprises, the company iron and steel production accounts for about 80% of the similar products of Guangxi, to be extended to 2005 with an annual output of five million tons of steel products scale. In coastal areas, Guangxi will rely on the 200,000-ton deep-water berths and other favourable external conditions and vast Southwest, the Southeast Asian market, plans to build large-scale steel joint ventures.

In Guangxi there are mainly building materials including cement, glass, talc, stone, barite, in certain competitiveness, and a considerable influence in Southeast Asia. Guangxi limestone mineral reserves total 2.37 billion tons of cement output in 2003 reached 26.65 million tons, with Wuyang, Yufeng, Red River, Temple, wasp and other well-known brands. Liuzhou cement production capacity of 180 million tons, the country's largest cement factory, the factory's products have become commodities exports waived. China Resources Group, Anhui Conch and other famous enterprises to invest and set up factories in Guangxi have access. Guangxi's high-quality quartz sand and good quality, and the glass is to create high quality raw materials, has more than 2,500 million tons of proven oil reserves, ranking the second place. Nanning Glass Factory is the first in the country with three float glass production technology enterprises, with an annual output of 1.2 million TEUs float glass products being sold in places as far away as Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao, and other countries and regions. Guilin, Longsheng talc mine to the second largest talc mines in China, the ore-bearing rate 79%-92%, 77.85%-93.7% high brightness products sold nearly 20 countries and regions in the world. Guangxi mainly natural stone granite, marble and diabase series of three varieties of its leading products, "Cenxi red" granite in the country ranked No. 2 39 appliances resources and the development of external conditions and price advantages are obvious.

Relying on the rich resources, the production of Chinese medicine products separate statistics 13 type 410 species, of which 18 new drugs and 55 countries medicine to protect species. Watermelon Frost, three gold, Sweets Golden Throat, the number of fine bone links Plaster brand has been formed, the essence goes, Jigucao capsule, bonuses and other proprietary Chinese medicine pharmacy with special effects, some of the first to produce and sell products. Currently, Guangxi GMP pharmaceutical enterprises have been basically completed transformation of raw materials, and efforts to promote the GAP (a traditional Chinese medicinal herb production quality control) research and plant cultivation bases.

In Guangxi there are wide variety of tropical and subtropical fruits, vegetables, sea fisheries, and economic characteristics with abundant crops, the raw materials for the food industry. Output of canned food is the number 2 of China. There are products like five black kind of cereals, Wuzhou Binquan Food, Liuzhou Jinsangzi, Xiangshan canned product. And also Chinese famous food brand like Huiyuan Juice, Wahaha Food, Shuanghui Food, China National Cereals, oils and Foodstuffs Corp. and Jilin Oil and other well-known large companies have invest and build factories in Guangxi.