Site selection Integrated service

CI Consulting, established in Shenzhen in 2002, is a leading industrial research and strategic consultation organization in China.
CI Consulting has provided the generally accepted professional research reports, project investment consultations and investment site services for more than 100,000 organizations, including governmental departments, banks, research institutes, industrial associations, consultation companies, group companies and investment companies. CI Consulting has set up business site models for 59 subdivision industries and has established the nationwide database.
CI Consulting considers that an enterprise has the site selection demand second time in its growth and the period is 4.51 years in average. For any enterprise, a suitable investment site must be acceptable by the government / industrial park and enterprise. An enterprise that invests at a site needs less cost, better management and larger market share; for the government, a suitable investment project must highly improve local industrial strength and industrial agglomeration.
We determine the best business site for you through evaluating local industrial environment based on satisfactory cooperation with industrial parks and governments in China.

Local transport
Economic base
Industrial base
Industrial factors
Policy support
Performance capacity
Land conditions
Natural conditions

I）Local transport
Local transport is the essential support for development of a region or park.
Transport factors are involved with aviation, railway, road and waterway. In the aspect of aviation, the airport level, throughput capacity, airline quantity and frequency, driving distance to the project site shall be considered; in the aspect of railway, high-speed rail, throughput capacity of freight station, train number and driving distance to the project site shall be considered; for road, traffic control (for example, limitation of large truck), distance to expressway and national road shall be considered; for waterway, the port level, throughput, shipping mode (special products are not loaded into a container) shall be considered.
II）Economic base
The economic base is the indicator evaluating the comprehensive capacity of the city where the park is located and reflects the external comprehensive development environment of the park. It has indirect but essential impact to the park's development. Generally, CI Consulting uses GDP, GDP per capita, disposable income per capita, and local fiscal revenue to describe the economic base of the city the city where the park is located. In the event that the local fiscal revenue of each district or county in the city can reach RMB 3 billion (exclusive of transfer payment capital), its economic base is generally better.
III）Industrial base
Industrial base is the most important factor to investment enterprises. It mainly includes quantity of industrial enterprises, quantity of enterprises above the designated size, ratio of the industry's output value in the output value of all industries in the region, agglomeration situation of enterprises in the upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry, quantity of raw material suppliers and supply degree, quantity of downstream purchasing enterprises and sales channels. Our investigation cases also certify the importance of industrial base to the enterprise's business site. ……
IV）Industrial factors
Industrial factor, an important factor for business site, is mainly involved with land, water supply, power supply, gas supply and labor. A logistics enterprise pays more attention to land while selecting business site; a beverage enterprise considers more about water supply; a PCB enterprise considers more about electricity price; a ceramic enterprise focuses at gas (most ceramic enterprises use gas now); a textile enterprise pays close attention to the factor of labor. Research and development is vital for a pharmaceutical enterprise, therefore, high-end innovative talent is an important factor for business site. ……
V）Policy support
The policy support is the part of business site that is highly difficult to be evaluated and agreed. This course needs much time if the administrative efficiency is low. Generally, the policy support covers the support policy to a special industry; high-end talents; land price; electricity price; technical reconstruction (for example, special capital support from the government). It is prohibited that land transfer at the price of zero and tax return would be made in China, but local governments may make this policy invalid through special operation. In a few of places, purchasing land at the price of zero is operated with a fund on the state-owned capital platform. In the early stage, the land payment ratio by the enterprise was agreed with the local government, and the balance would be paid by the capital from the state-owned capital platform of the local government, and the local reserve part of tax would be deducted year by year after the investment enterprise commences production. Some local governments with strong financial resources will refund the land payment once by investment encourage. In the practice, meeting and communicating with the local chief executive is an essential determination sign on whether the key project has received the policy support from the local government.
VI）Performance capacity
The performance capacity of the local government is mainly considered for a major project. Now the competition in investment attraction is becoming intensive and the relevant investment policy is becoming transparent, but relevant risk has not been reduced. CI Consulting mainly reviews the local fiscal capacity, governmental service, and substitution of decision-maker in this aspect.
VII) Land conditions
Land is the basis for all industrial activities, and no industrial development space exists if there is not any land. We should pay more attention to land nature, land availability, construction condition and land cost. Land nature is the key point, and area, shape, connectivity and flatness should be considered; land availability may be easily ignored, and land regulations, relocation, space expandable in the future should be further considered; in the aspect of construction conditions, landform, hydrology, geology, high-voltage line orientation, municipal road, river direction and other details should be considered; about land costs, the prices of various lands are considered.
VIII) Natural conditions
Natural conditions are consistent for most projects but they should not be ignored. Natural conditions have basic impact on project. A mobile manufacturer employed a team of experts from South Korea, but those experts decided to return back only two days after arrival because of the heavy haze in winter in the North China. We pay close attention to the environmental quality and natural disaster.

Clear demand of business site
Designation of business site model
Investigation and review on site
Policy comparison

Establishment of business site team
Optimization of business site model
Scoring of site
Final decision

CI Consulting provides all-process professional services on the business site issues based on big data.

01
Initial determination of site
Analysis on investment area distribution of similar projects
Research on industrial support policy
Cost analysis on production factors
Case study on project

02
On-site review
Evaluation on regional investment environment
Due diligence on industrial carrier

03
Project package
Planning on investment project package
Improvement of project setup grade

04
Commercial negotiation
Negotiation strategy and plan preparation
Application for industrial support policy
Supervision after performance of contract

For any enterprise with investment over RMB 500 million, we provide free services on business site selection, review and evaluation;
For any enterprise with investment RMB 300 - 500 million, we provide free business site selection if you will pay travel expenses;
For any enterprise with investment less than RMB 300 million, we freely communicate with local governments and industrial parks in China for you.

I) Our precise industrial big data and industrial map will help you find the proper area most rapidly
CI Consulting owns the industrial big data platform, which gathers the industrial information from 2000 counties and districts of China and continually updates 19 sectors and 59 industries. We can match the suitable investment fields according to the different demand. We ever helped a vehicle enterprise communicate with a few of dozens of investment promotion bureaus in the province within three days, and assisted a special equipment enterprise in completing communication, interview and signature of intention agreement within a week.
II）Our industrial research experience for 15 years will help you find the suitable field accurately
CI Consulting completes 100 industrial planning projects and issues 1000 industrial investment analysis reports every year in 15-year period of its industrial research. We have accumulated rich experience in industrial planning, enterprise investment and park operation. We can understand the demand of government, park and enterprise and provide professional implementation program. We helped an automobile post-market enterprise determine business site. Based on our deep investigation and systemic analysis to the automobile post-market of China, we concluded the market in the East China, South China, Central China relatively saturated but the market in the Northwest China is relatively blank, so we determined the region as the Northwest China. Finally, we recommended Lanzhou City and Xi'an City for option, and the client selected the New District of Lanzhou City.
III） Our reliable experience related to business site helps your enterprise seek for the best land lot
CI Consulting continually collects reserve, assignment and transfer of land lots in China, and issues industrial land use information by public number every week. We have the professional capacity in analysis of business site factors, evaluation and selection of land lots, negotiation on intentional land lot, and have obtained the best land lot for some projects. The professional business site team will meet the investment promotion bureau, development and reform bureau at the place of project after the project is set up, and review local industrial base and factors (water supply, power supply, gas supply and human resources), land supply area, land supply period, land price, traffic conditions and support policy.
IV）Our risk experience in project packaging and gaming with the government will help you seek for the best industrial policy
CI Consulting designs industrial policy, completes industrial project packaging for the government, draws up investment promotion conditions, and guides improvement in local software and hardware environment for long term, so we are familiar with project packaging, design of industrial support policy, negotiation skills. We will consider project packaging in view of regional industrial development, so it is easy to obtain the most suitable support policy. The support policy includes special allowance, tax reduction and exemption, industrial guidance fund, incubator, construction of standard workshops and etc., which may seek for the great support for your enterprise.

I) Site of production base of an automobile group co., ltd.

A very successful automobile model made in China by a group is being manufactured with full load at the headquarter due to good sales in the market. The group has acquired an automobile manufacture base in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province; and invested in a small base with annual output of 50,000 cars in Xinjiang, but it has not a manufacture base that can effectively influence the market in the Midwest China, so it entrusted CI Consulting to seek for a manufacture base with the best condition in the region. CI Consulting investigated more than 10 cities with better base of automobile industry in the Midwest China and recommended Chongqing as the targeted manufacture base after evaluation and selection. Chongqing is one of the most important manufacture bases of China, and one of every eight cars made in China is manufactured in the city. Nearly all of large-scale automobile corporations have established their manufacture bases in Chongqing. The group fully accepts our investigation and analysis and decides its business site in Chongqing. Now the group is negotiating about investment agreement with the government of Chongqing City.

II) Site of headquarter of smart logistics of an automobile group co., ltd. in South China

A modern logistics enterprise under a group has set up an operation department in South China. The Guangzhou Company of the enterprise leased its office in Guangzhou in the past, and now it decides to build up the headquarter of smart logistics in an area in the Pearl River Delta. This area should be about 200 mu and with outstanding location advantages. After accepting the entrustment, we sought and compared the targeted areas and found that the local governments in the Pearl River Delta have higher advancement requirements to projects. They do not accept any logistics project with low additional value. Based on long-term cooperation with the local governments on industrial consultation and investment promotion, we have determined an ideal land lot at Nanhai District, Foshan City for the enterprise after deep communications with more than ten parks managed by the governments.

III) Site of automobile mall project of a company of Shenzhen

A company situated in Shenzhen is the parent of Shengang Driver Training School, the largest driver training school in Shenzhen. This is a comprehensive company which businesses are involved with Internet, finance, real estate, high-tech, new energy taxi, logistics supply chain, sale and leasing of cars, driver training and large-scale training place, professional training, and capital operation. The company hopes to establish an automobile industry complex International Car Mall for the industry chain of automobile post-market. The company entrusts CI Consulting to determine the business site for the project.
Based on our deep investigation and systemic analysis to the automobile post-market of China, we consider the market in the East China, South China, Central China relatively saturated but the market in the Northwest China is relatively blank, so we determine the region as the Northwest China. Finally, we investigate the economic situation, industrial base, preferential policy, land resource and other factors of a few of major cities in the region and recommend Lanzhou City and Xi'an City for option, and the client selects to invest in Lanzhou City. CI Consulting assists the client in planning design for the investment project and the program is highly accepted by the government of New District, Lanzhou City. Four months after we provide the planning report to the government, the client signs the investment agreement with New District, Lanzhou City. The total investment of the project is RMB 10.6 billion and the land area is 4,000mu.

IV) Site of a new energy car and auxiliary project

1 Name of project： business site of new energy car and auxiliary project
2 Introduction to the project： an automobile enterprise intends to enter the field of new energy automobile, and it will mainly manufacture passenger cars, and manufacture some key parts and components. The enterprise entrusts us to determine business site in China.
1）Requirements about business site：
a. Transport: the new energy car manufacturing plant requires convenient traffic conditions, including port and railway;
b. Economic development level: advanced urban economy and good industrial base are required; the local car market has certain scale. The government's purchasing behavior should be concurrently considered;
c. Industrial agglomeration: the effect of agglomeration is the major factor to be considered for determining the business site, and good automobile industry base and perfect auxiliary resources is the important reason that attracts whole car manufacturing plants enter;
d. Policy and tax: leader's attention and participation, industrial preferential policy, and efficient administrative promotion of government are the points accepted by the enterprise.
2）Area：the land area under planning is 5,000mu, and the enterprise's auxiliary land use demand and future development demand are not considered temporarily.
3）Capacity：the planned capacity is 300,000 cars.