All places to play in Optics Valley are in Optics Valley Pedestrian Street. Food, entertainment, and shopping are all together. Optics Valley Development Zone is just one commercial area. "Optics Valley" generally refers to "Wuhan East Lake New Technology Industrial Development Zone" Wuhan
East Lake New Technology Industrial Development Zone is located in Hongshan District, southeast of Wuhan City, within Jiangxia District.
Between Wuhan East Lake, Nanhu Lake, Tangxun Lake and Niushan Lake, it starts from Zuoling Town east of Wuhan Outer Ring Road in the east, ends at Minzu Avenue in the west, borders East Lake in the north, and Tangxun Lake in the south. It covers an area of ??518.06 square kilometers and has a permanent population of 1.906 million.
(2012).
It consists of Guandong Optoelectronics Industrial Park, Guannan Biomedicine Industrial Park, Thompson Lake University Science and Technology Park, Optics Valley Software Park, Wuhan Software New City, Fozuling Industrial Park, Mechanical and Electrical Industrial Park, Optics Valley Biocity and other parks.
The northern scientific research institutes and university clusters are an important foundation for its science and technology and industry support.
Also known as China Optics Valley.
There are many colleges and universities in the East Lake New Technology Development Zone, including Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), and Wuhan Institute of Physical Education
, Wuhan Vocational and Technical College, Wuhan Software Engineering Vocational College and other 58 colleges and universities, with 1 million college students; there are many scientific research institutions, including 71 national scientific research institutes such as the Wuhan Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Wuhan Institute of Posts and Telecommunications
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