Recently, Torch Zone released “The Work Plan for the Construction of Zhongshan Torch Development Zone National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Regional Demonstration Base”.

In June 2017, Torch Zone was included in the second group of “national entrepreneurship and innovation regional demonstration bases”. The latest released work plan addresses the promotion of the construction. In specific, Torch Zone will centralize innovative industries by taking “new industries, new formats, new technologies and new patterns” as the main forces of economic growth and strive to accumulate the number of local high-tech companies to 250, with 80% production value of high-tech products over the total industrial output value, by the end of 2018.