2011年6月1日推出湖南“四化两型”专题报道，展示湖南“四化两型”建设成果。
《长株潭三城吸引高科企业入驻》
Tri-city area attracting high-tech firms
By Feng zhiwei and Han Tianyang (China Daily)
The province has a complete modern transportation network and infrastructure. Zhang Jingming / for China Daily
The Hunan government, in its move to build a more eco-friendly, energy-saving society, has been pushing hard to change its economic development methods.
It has already had some success in that with a pilot zone in the provincial capital, Changsha, and the cities of Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, which has been set up in 2008.
From 2008 to 2010, the combined GDP of the three cities accounted for 43 percent of the entire province's GDP.
The area has attracted enterprises in information technology, biological medicines, new materials and new energy, and, from 2008 to 2010, it almost doubled the added value output of the high-tech sector, to 81.2 billion yuan.
In the process, since a number of scientific and technological inventions came out of the region, "Created in Hunan" became a more promising label.
Some of this came from Changsha's National Defense Technology University, which developed the Tianhe No 1 super computer that out-performed some of its international counterparts.
At the same time, the city's China Electronics Technology Group's Research Institute 48 joined the global top 10 in photovoltaic equipment last year, in sales.
The city of Zhuzhou has taken the lead in a range of high technology fields such as electric locomotives, super hard materials, metal base materials, and structural ceramics.
Xiangtan has its strengths in areas such as energy-saving technology, fine chemicals, organic polymers, and wind power. The Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd produced a 5-megawatt direct-drive offshore wind turbine last year, the first of its kind in China.
Environment protection
This past April, the province made its first sulfur-dioxide-emissions trading deal, where the Zhuzhou Smelter Group bought the rights to 2,000 tons of emissions. The company said that the trading will force it to pay greater attention to environmental costs.
The province also started a mandatory pollution insurance project, whereby the insurer picks up the tab if an insured company has a pollution accident.
A new water-pricing system involving the three cities is also on the provincial government's books. It works in the manner of a progressive taxation system whereby, the more water a unit uses, the more costly the transaction, so water resources are controlled on a more orderly way.
The local government has said that all these pioneering works will be spread to neighboring cities like Yueyang, Changde, Yiyang, Hengyang, and Loudi, and eventually, across the entire province.
In addition, to maintain the water quality of rivers and lakes, more than 1,000 polluters were shut down in the three-city area over the past three years.
In those areas where the three cities meet each other, there is a vast 500-square-kilometers area with 55 percent in forest coverage. The local government plans to turn this into a special "green heart" of urbanization, with forest parks and wetlands.
In Hunan, 23 towns and eight villages have been recognized as national-level eco-towns or eco-villages, thanks to their environmental protection efforts.
(China Daily 06/01/2011 page36)
