Yantai Economic and Technological Development Zone
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Yantai Economic and Technological Development Zone (YEDA) (烟台经济技术开发区) , is an economic development zone established in 1984 in Shandong Province, China. It is near the Yellow Sea
coast, and administratively under Yantai Prefecture
. It covers 16 km² and has a population of 115,000.
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Yellow Sea
The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula. Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the water golden...
coast, and administratively under Yantai Prefecture
Yantai
Yantai is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Located on the southern coast of the Bohai Sea and the eastern coast of the Laizhou Bay, Yantai borders the cities of Qingdao and Weihai to the southwest and east respectively.The largest fishing...
. It covers 16 km² and has a population of 115,000.
Industry
YEDA is the largest producer of automotive parts in China (2006). Core industries at YEDA include industrial machinery, automobiles and parts, electronics, artificial fibers and textiles, and bio-pharmaceuticsPharming (genetics)
Pharming is a portmanteau of farming and "pharmaceutical" and refers to the use of genetic engineering to insert genes that code for useful pharmaceuticals into host animals or plants that would otherwise not express those genes. As a consequence, the host animals or plants then make the...
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