Binhai New Area (Chinese: 滨海新区) is a major development in Tianjin municipality. It will enlarge Tianjin port, and build many new industrial parks in the Tanggu area east of Tianjin city. It is to emulate operations seen in Shenzhen and Pudong, Shanghai.[1] It is an SEZ (Special Economic Zone) in the PRC, where experimental reforms are done throughout the zone. Unlike Pudong, however, the Binhai New Area is not on the official administrative strata of PRC governance, and in fact consists of several districts in Tianjin, namely Tanggu District, Hangu District, and Dagang District [2].

BICDS

Tianjin Binhai Integrated Circuit Design Service Center (BICDS) is a non-profit organization that provides public basic-technology supporting service for IC design companies. BICDS sets focus on small-sized IC design companies incubating, medium-sized guiding and large-sized supporting, as well as world class IC design companies bring-in to upgrade the overall IC design standard of Binhai, Tianjin. BICDS works on public technology platform construction, talent training organizing, oversea market presenting, preferential policies drafting and world-class company/investment inviting etc. so as to strengthen the core competitiveness of its affiliated companies in the global IC design market.[3]

External links

• Official Government website