Greater Nanjing with Hefei

This report covers the greater Nanjing-Hefei megapolis which lies just to the west of greater Shanghai and connects to the north to the Huabei Plains region. This megapolis reaps the benefits of both, namely it has the services and industry and tech know-how from greater Shanghai, and adds value to many of the agricultural goods, food processing, and logistics from its Huaibei Plains neighbor.

This megapolis has over 50 million residents and plus migration of over 3.5 million people that have moved in. The governments making up the capitals of both Anhui and Jiangsu provinces are highly engaged in business both through large state enterprises, government funded enterprises and investment (directly or ability to obtain preferential bank loans.

In fact, Nanjing means ‘southern capital’ and Beijing means ‘northern capital’. The reason for this was that Nanjing was the capital of China during the Three Kingdoms period, the Six Dynasties, the capital of the Republic of China and the southern capital during the Ming dynasty. It carries considerable weight in China, and as in the past, has a high focus on education and this entire megapolis has many fine Universities and highly educated workforce.

This entire region has a strong automotive industry along with having China’s largest steel company MaGang. It contains the largest medical and pharmaceutical zone the China Medical City containing many global and local pharmaceutical company’s including Takeda, Neptune, Astra Zeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim along with hundreds of others. It has China’s largest ship building company, and a specialized high educational  zone cranking out 20,000 ‘silver-collar workers’ providing technology know-how to the main enterprises throughout the entire great Yangtze River Area. And, has one of the largest Export processing Zones and numerous high-tech parks.

In this report, we provide you with all the numbers you need to gain a thorough perspective of what makes this region so strong including full data down to the city, district and county levels across a range of demographic, retail, economic, educational, indusrtial and wellness numbers that will give you one of the best overviews of the megapolis.

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