A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, Zhongshan is an open-up city in the coastal areas of China, bordering on Hong Kong, Macao, Gangzhou and Shenzhen, which are the international or regional centers of economy, trade and culture. With infrastructure and industrial deployment etc. connected or integrated with Hong Kong, Macao, Gangzhou and Shenzhen, Zhongshan City is an important node connecting the east and west banks of the Pearl River estuary, west Guangdong and the Pan-Pearl River Areas. In 2008, Zhongshan’s GDP totaled RMB 140.9 billion. The population of permanent residents amounts to 2.8 million, with a per capita GDP of 56,034.

Zhongshan is a city with high-intensive level industries and complete industrial sectors, forming a batch of unique regional pillar industries of electronics and information, hardware, light-fixture making, electric machinery, chemical industry and medicine, textile and garments etc. with the newly-emerged industries developing fast in respect of equipment manufacturing, modern logistics, new & high technology, new energy and new materials etc. The city has 25 state-level industrial bases. Zhongshan Port is one of the top 100 ports in the world, its container handling capacity one of the 10 ports with container handling capacity surpassing one-million TEU.