(From left to right: Mr Huang Zhiqiang, General Manager, Agfa Graphics Asia; Ms Gwenn Sonck, FCCC/EUCBA Executive Director; Mr Stefaan Vanhooren, FCCC Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors of the EU-China Business Association; Mr Hua Yuan, Mayor of Fengxian District; and Mr Gu Yi, Vice Mayor of Fengxian District)

A delegation from the Flanders-China Chamber of Commerce, including Mr Stefaan Vanhooren, FCCC Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors of the EU-China Business Association and Ms Gwenn Sonck, FCCC/EUCBA Executive Director, visited Fengxian District of Shanghai in June. They paid a visit to the Oriental Beauty Valley; the Park for European SMEs at the Comprehensive Industrial Development Zone; the Administrative Service Center of the Zone; and the Meeting Center of the Zone.

Introduction to Fengxian

Fengxian, the coastal city with the population of about 1million, is located in the south of Shanghai, the most developed center of Yangtze River Delta circle in China.

There is less than 1 hour’s drive from two largest international airports, Hongqiao and Pudong. The city’s transportation also includes the highways of S4, S2 and G1501 running through the whole territory. The completed Fengpu Bridge, Minpu Bridge, the cross-river tunnel in Southern Hongmei Road and Jinhai Road and the forthcoming extension section of Metro Line 5, the city’s first bus rapid transit (BRT), Jiamin viaduct, making Fengxian an important part of China’s coastal traffic arteries.

Fengxian has an SME Technological Innovation Zone in Shanghai Fengpu Industrial Park.
Key Industries are: Beauty and health industry; new energy and new material industry; information technology; intelligent manufacturing equipment; energy conservation and environmental protection.

In recent years, Fengxian is getting more attention on its Oriental Beauty Valley concept: an industry chain with integration of R&D design, testing and certification, raw materials procurement, manufacturing and marketing promotion has basically formed. Among 253 cosmetics enterprises in Shanghai, 65 enterprises are located in Fengxian, more than a quarter of its total quantity. In 2017, the cosmetics production and sales revenue in Fengxian accounted for nearly 40% of the municipality. FP industrial park has gathered an industrial cluster of overseas and domestic well-known beauty and health enterprises, such as Nu Skin, Melaleuca, Jala, Kans and Cosmax.
FP industrial park also embraces different foreign enterprises from other industries, such as: Mahle (Germany) and Autoliv (Sweden) for auto parts, Markem Imaje (France) and Rossi (Italy) for equipment manufacturing, JA Solar (American) for New Energy and Pioneer (Japan) for Electronic Information, etc.

FP industrial park would like to support potential investors with great resources, such as land, workshop and financial incentives.

Companies interested to receive more information, please contact: Gwenn Sonck, Executive Director FCCC: gwenn.sonck@flanders-china.be.