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including knowing their difficulties with regard to capital, technology, human
resources, patent protection, providing relative solutions, enlarging enterprise
scale, improving their technologies and products, promoting sales, and so on; so
that green growth will be ultimately realized in concerned fields and regions.
3.4.1 Case: Beijing Yizhuang Technopolis Supports
Green Growth-Oriented Enterprises
In the first half of 2008, Yizhuang Economic and Technology Development Zone
achieved 34 % growth of total industrial value and 60 % taxation, while the newly
added consumption of land only increased by less than 10 %, water 11.9 %, and
power 25 %. The anticipated full-year industrial value is up to 200 billion RMB
and taxation has reached 12 billion RMB. Rapid economic growth supported by
low-energy consumption could never have been realized without the system of
''selective merchant recruitment'' and systematic measures for water saving. It has
been a major task for the Yizhuang Development Zone, over recent years, to set up
a scientific standard of ''selective merchant recruitment'' for attracting high-tech
industries that are technology-intensive with low energy consumption and pollu-
tant discharge.
For that purpose, the Development Zone has rejected investment valuing over 6
billion RMB over the past 2 years. In addition, systematic water-saving measures
have also been an innovative action taken by Yizhuang Development Zone to
drive the mission of energy saving and emission reduction. By the end of May in
last year, 140 institutions in Yizhuang had received water balance test and the
authority has formulated the Comprehensive Water Resource Plan, which aims to
realize integrated utilization of ''five types of water'', i.e., rain water, polluted
water, tap water, surface water, and recycled water, so that the water resource can
be intensively utilized in a recyclable way.
3.5 The Science and Technology Park Shall Try to Gain
Policy Support from Local Government for Green
Growth
Development of Technopolis can never proceed without the support of govern-
ment policies. Vice versa, to formulate policies and implement them, the gov-
ernment also needs to refer to the experience and ideas of Technopolis.
Development of the science and technology park is one of the driving forces for
government to make relevant policies. The Technopolis represents the most
advanced productive force in the region. It is said that ''The economic base
determines the superstructure''. Therefore, to continuously develop the productive
force, it is imperative for the government to renew old policies and develop new