Our last company visit for the trip is “Sanzao Science and Technology Industrial Park”. It occupies an area of 2.66 million square meters. It is a hi-tech industrial park with the development of such industries as electronics and IT, biological pharmaceutics and environmental protection as the main hub and other hi-tech industries as the complementary sets.Within the area they have a commercial bank center and 52 enterprises, out of which 22 are overseas enterprise. In order to encourage pioneers as well as overseas students to set up companies, they have a 40% rebate on the rent. There are some pieces of land reserved for future big development. 40,000 sq meters is used for recreation consisting of 2 golf courses. This park has the reputation of the most “changed” environment and I can see why. The place is really beautiful. We were told that when the researches get too stressed up, they take a walk in the park to try and get some stroke of inspiration. During our walk around, we see various reputable universities, and they tend to specialize in software development. This is why I believe that there is a vast amount of talents for the companies in the area to tap in, it even has a student area, known as the “Pioneer Undertaking Park for Chinese Students studying abroad”. This along with the advantage of the basic package of software environment makes the whole place really an attraction on its own. We were told that in Mainland China the tax rate is 15%, Pearl River Delta 20% and Zhuhai 15% (两免三剪半). If I was an investor ready to set up a enterprise based on software development, this will definitely be the place I head for. I have a ready young talent pool and the basic infrastructure for me to use. And when my family comes along with me, the management of the area will help me get settled down like housing and after 1 year of establishment I can look forward to have funds provided.

Next we went to Zhuhai Sante Cableway. Paid some money to take the cable car up Going upPretty steep but really nice view of the valleyand another way down.

At the top, we get to see the whole Zhuhai. It was a breathtaking sight.


On our way back to the hotel for debrief, we passed by the river side. The black parts in the middle are all the shells where you get pearls from. There is lots of them which is how Zhuhai got it’s name because of the harvest of pearls from this place.

Back at the hotel, we all went back to our rooms to grab our journal before heading down to a mahjong room to do our debriefing. The teacher sat in front and the rest simply gathered on the floor. Some of us had to stand due to lack of place while Lao Yao stand guard outside the door for? Mr Wong commented on each person’s one comment. Many of us had leg cramps after all that. Then it was free and easy for the night. More market research was done before and after dinner. We were told that the driver was leaving Zhuhai and heading back to Shenzhen/Guangzhou on that night. It was rather sad to see him go, though I have never spoken to him before but I really appreciate his service. Driving us through all those traffic while we all slept through. Cleaning up the mess we made in the bus. But before he left, he dropped us off at another place away from the underground shopping centre. The group of us, Rong Xing, Elizabeth, Stephanie, Yi Ling and I decide to head back to 拱北地下商场 to resume shopping. Was trying to figure our way out when suddenly Rong Xing commented, so this is where Xiao Deng buys his books. Turned out that Xiao Deng was buying his story books from a road stall. He was surprise to see us and asked why we were there. He offered to bring us back to the underground shopping mall. More market research and we ended going back to the hotel with Ms Ng.

Day 11
After breakfast we went off to 渔女像 and 情人路.