The Huating Industrial Park was established in June 2002 and was originally known as the Shibozhen Development Zone of Huating County. In May 2006, it was approved as a provincial-level industrial park with coal chemical industry, environmentally friendly metallurgy, and mining machinery manufacturing as its leading industries, and was renamed the Gansu Huating Industrial Park.It currently administers four community residents’ committees, covering a total area of 1,980 hectares, with 1,964 households and a population of 5,901, and 720 hectares of arable land.
The planned construction area of the park is 385.3 hectares, with 86.7 hectares (over 1,300 mu) currently available for development. It is divided into five functional zones: the Central District, the Coal Chemical High-Tech Industrial Zone, the Eco-friendly Metallurgy Industrial Zone, the Coal Chemical Downstream Products Development Zone, and the Comprehensive Industrial Development Zone.Key planned projects include a 600,000-ton-per-year coal-to-methanol facility, polypropylene production, electric-fused zirconia refractory materials, as well as metal smelting and equipment manufacturing projects. The park has attracted 24 enterprises, including 4 projects with investments exceeding 100 million yuan and 10 enterprises with investments over 10 million yuan. The total planned investment amounts to 7.02 billion yuan, with 4 billion yuan already invested to date.