Locates in the central-west part of Guangdong Province, Zhaoqing is a middle city at Prefecture rank. Zhaoqing is a famous historical and cultural city at state-rank, which has a history of more than 2000 years. It is one of the first-batch of China's Excellent Tourist Cities and a new developing industrial city.

Zhaoqing is not only known to the world for abounding with the first-kind of China's-Four-Famous Ink-slabs, but also known at home and abroad for its beautiful and fantastic key scenic resorts at state-rank, which are the Seven-Star-crags and Dinghu Mountain. Zhaoqing has a total area of 15,000 square km. and a population of 3.866 million. It exercises the jurisdiction over four counties, two county-rank urban districts and two county-rank cities. In addition,Zhaoqing has a High-Tech Industry Development Zone. All the counties, county-rank cities and county-rank districts also joined in the establishment of industrial gardens actively, among which, places like Duanzhou, Gaoyao, Sihui, Deqing, have respectively set up one or more large-scale industrial park, which has prepared a fine and firm foundation for investors from home and abroad to make investments and run businesses in Zhaoqing.

Zhaoqing municipal party committee and Zhaoqing municipal government promulgated "Provisions of Certain Policies for Encouraging Foreign Investment and the Development of Civil Managing Economy" to build a fine policy circumstances and preferential conditions. To increase efficiency of administrative work, Zhaoqing started the operation of administration service center in 2002. In order to reduce the investing costs of foreign merchants, Zhaoqing has taken the construction of bearing carriers for attracting investments as an important task to implement, so that there appear a wide spread upsurge of setting up industrial parks in the whole city of Zhaoqing.

Since reform and opening to the world, great achievements have been made in the field of foreign economy and trade in Zhaoqing. Businessmen from more than 30 countries and regions have made investments and run businesses in Zhaoqing successively. The aggregated actual amount of funds absorbed from the investments of foreign businessmen has reached 3.742 billion US dollars. Zhaoqing has been awarded by the provincial government for its achievements in the aspect of foreign trade exports and absorption of foreign funds for four years in succession.
In the coming 5 years, the leaders of the new plenary session of the Municipal Government and the Party Committee will focus on organizing and Implementing the following Ten Major Systems Engineering: Advance the project of expending the city zone to the east and moving to the south. Speed up the construction and development of the Industrial Block in the east and south of Zhaoqing. Push the economic development of the mountainous areas. Build up the corridor of science, technology, education and culture. Invests more into the construction of infrastructure. Push the development of the reform of the state-owned enterprises. Enrich the connotation of 1000-Mile Travel Corridor. Build up the city into a strong educational city and great cultural city. Build up a Digitalized Zhaoqing. Increase the enforcement on environmental protection.

New Zhaoqing with new opportunity, Zhaoqing Committee of Communist Party of China and Zhaoqing Municipal Government sincerely welcome all businessmen from home and abroad to make investments and set up businesses in Zhaoqing.