Gangzha district in Nantong, Jiangsu province has cultivated several innovation-driven businesses which own advanced technologies and have become leaders in different industries.

Nantong NTEC Monofilament Technology Co, a company dealing with monofilament, recently sent three containers of its monofilament products to a Germany plant. Its monofilament products are mainly used for high-level automotive interior adornment.

The company's carbon fishing lines are sold at a price of over 500 yuan ($71.4) per reel which weighs about 1.5 grams. The new products of the company have promising new applications and large potential markets.

Baosteel Group Nantong Wire Products Co takes the lead in terms of bridge cables. Its cables are considered the strongest and the most corrosion-resistant in the world.

Its steel wires have also been praised by Lin Yuanpei, an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, as the world's best bridge cable wires.

A worker checks the production of steel wires at the Baosteel Group Nantong Wire Products Co. [Photo/WeChat account: ntgzsd]

Nantong Great Electric Co. focuses on the automobile wire harness, which is called the "nerve and blood vessels" of vehicles. Over the past few years, the company has developed 23 key technologies and made 29 scientific achievements, playing a significant role in the industry.

Gangzha district has 219 companies above the designated scale (companies with annual revenue of above 20 million yuan), among which 144 are high-tech enterprises, said Huang Yuelei, director of the district's development and reform commission.