Zhanjiang:

The most important resource aspect of Zhanjiang City is its resource port. Zhanjiang's Port has 241 kilometers of coastline which is 4 times as long as the world's first largest port—Rotterdam. Zhanjiang Port is one of the eight major ports in China, with an annual throughput of more than 2,600 million tons. It was the first self-designed and domestically built modern deep water port of China.
 
It is a seaport and trade center with a diversified industrial base, including a shipyard, textile plants, sugar refineries. plants producing automobiles, chemicals and electrical appliances as well as rice mills.
 
Agriculture
 
Sugarcane production was Zhanjiang's most prominent agricultural product in 2007: in 2006 it was 9,135,500 tons and it was 10,000,000 tons in 2007. Akoya cultured pearls, pineapples, bananas, papayas, seafood, farm-raised prawns and fish are native products and also play a prominent role in the agricultural economy of Zhanjiang.

Industry
 
Industrial economy to make a breakthrough, a marked increase in the number of units. Zhanjiang in 2007 of all industrial output value of 112.134 billion yuan, up 17.1 percent, a growth rate of nearly 4-year high of 15.3 billion net increase over the previous year. In 2007 the city's industrial enterprises above designated size reached 714, 71 more than last year, industrial output value of over a hundred million of the 132 enterprises.
 Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone
 
The zone was founded in 1984. Its total planned area is 9.2 square kilometers. It is located in Zhanjiang. The zone has a very good location for transportation. It is very convenient to get to the airport, the national highway G325 as well as the port. The major industries in the zone including automobile assembly, biotechnology and computer software.
 
Business
 
In 2007 the total value of retail sales of consumer goods in Zhanjiang was 38.216 billion yuan, an increase of 19.5% over the previous 12 years.