Xiamen Torch Development Zone for High Technology
Industries (XMTORCH, http://xmtorch.xm.gov.cn/EN/，
https://xmtorch.xm.gov.cn/EN/83286/83287/), founded in
1990, is one of the first national high-tech zones in China
and one of the three national high-tech zones which are
named after \"torch\". It has successively won such \"national\"
titles as National High-Tech Product Export Base, National
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base for Overseas
High-Level Talents and National Demonstration Base for
Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship. It is the core area of
Fuzhou-Xiamen-Quanzhou National Independent InnovaXIAMEN TORCH DEVELOPMENT ZONE FOR
HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES
tion Demonstration Zone.
Adhering to high-quality development and the catching-up
strategy, XMTORCH vigorously attracts investment and promotes
development, speeds up the construction of core area of the
science and technology innovation center in the zone and
accelerates the building of the modern and international high-tech
zone to ensure that it plays a leading role in the development of
high-tech industries in the city and has the courage to act as the
main force of building Xiamen a high-quality innovation and
entrepreneurship city.
In 2021, Victwo and XMTORCH jointly set up an outbound & inbound investment
accelerator to boost the outbound investment of Chinese technology companies and to facilitate the
inbound investment of overseas small & mediumsized technology companies in China.
DEVELOPMENT
ACHIEVEMENTS
The national leader
of development quality
and benefits:
industrial output of
RMB16.3billion per
square kilometer of
land
XMTORCH boasts
more than900
national- level
high-tech firms,accounting for nearly
50% of the total
number in Xiamen
One of the first national
demonstration zones for
economical and intensive
use of homeland resources:
Covering less than 1% of
Xiamen’s land area,
XMTORCH contributes43% of the total
industrial output
One of the three
\"torch\"
national-level
high-tech zones
Ranking 17th
among 169
national-level
high-tech zones
Top Ten National
Cultural and
Technological
Integration
Demonstration Bases
The efforts in
innovation and
entrepreneurship were
commended by the
General Office of the
State Council in 2018
and 2020
Xiamen Software Park
tops the country in terms of
growth index, making it the
leading industrial park of
software and information
service in China and the
excellent software park in
China
XMTORCH is home to
more than 8,000
companies of various
kinds, including 7 with an
annual output of over RMB
10 billion and over 300
companies of over RMB
100 million
The output value of
high-tech industry
accounts for more The
output value of than
82% of that of
industries above
designated size
