In the process of building a socialist economy with Chinese characteristics, my country has established a large number of economic zones with local characteristics, such as economic development zones, high-tech industrial development zones, border economic cooperation zones, and special customs supervision zones, relying on the regional advantages of various regions. In August 1988, China's national high-tech industrialization development plan, the Torch Plan, began to be implemented. In 1992, the State Council approved the establishment of the first border economic cooperation zone. As an important carrier for the country to attract foreign investment, economic zones in various regions have made significant contributions to the economic development process of my country's reform and opening up.

  Whether it is a national or provincial economic zone, it is often accompanied by necessary policies such as infrastructure construction, enterprise support, and tax and land preferences, and it is given special historical significance according to the different regions and establishment purposes. After joining the WTO, China's economy has become more closely connected with the world economy. Development zones have attracted large multinational companies, and foreign capital has been introduced on a large scale and in batches. Advanced technology, equipment and management concepts have also come with it, which has directly greatly promoted the process of China's industrial modernization. But at the same time, there are too many development zones, and the phenomenon of blindly occupying land and opening without development is quite serious. In response to the excessive and excessive development zones of various types across the country, and some places occupying arable land in the name of development zones and infringing on the interests of farmers, the State Council has deployed and carried out the cleanup and rectification of various development zones across the country since July 2003. In early 2007, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the Ministry of Construction jointly issued the "China Development Zone Review Announcement Catalog (2006 Edition)". After more than three years of rectification, as of December 2006, the number of various development zones across the country has been reduced from more than 6,000 to more than 1,000, and the planned area has been reduced from nearly 40,000 square kilometers to more than 9,000 square kilometers.

  After decades of development, development zones have become the engine of rapid growth of local economies. my country will continue to actively promote all-round development, strengthen regional planning, improve development levels, and achieve healthy development.

  CnOpenData has launched administrative division data for China's development zones, covering existing development zone types such as high-tech zones, economic development zones, and border economic cooperation zones in my country. The data is divided into two tables, national and provincial, according to the level of the economic zone, and the three-level administrative division information of provinces, cities, and districts of each development zone is obtained, which is of great significance to the research of regional economics, industrial economics, etc.

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