Hengqin, connected to Macao,a free trade port, by the Lianhua Bridge has been listed as one of the four key development zones in Guangdong Provonce.The development strategy of Hengqin is to promote commerce and trade through tourism. The Zone concentrates on three types of economic endeavors: first, as an island, striving to promote tourism economy; second, by making full use of its advantage of being very close to Macao, pressing forward with the logistics industry, by making full use of its geographical resources, optimizing its industrial structure, and developing its environmental protection industry and building a green science and technology park.

    With an area of 96 square kilometers, it is an economic development zone established in 1992 with approval of Guangdong Provincial Government. Focused on the development of tourism with island features, it also develops such sectors as commerce and trade, catering, finance and real estate. Hengqin Port is a Grade A port of the nation and is the second important channel linking the Mainland with Macao.