The largest cloud computing data center in East China, the rendering base of CG animation clusters in Asia, the five node cities of quantum communication in China, and the pilot city of national smart cities... This is China's "Central Yundu"!
Shoe giants Belle, Kangnai, Dongyi, Hongxing Erke and so on gathered. The world's footwear industry, "the destination of the three states", here is China's "central shoe city"!
In 2021, at the sixth party congress in Suzhou, the goal of "striving to sprint to the top 100 cities in the country" was shouted out loudly.
People can't help but ask: Sprinting to the top 100 in the country, where does Suzhou's confidence come from?
Confidence comes from strength!
In just ten years, Suzhou has quietly completed the journey of breaking the cocoon, experiencing the "butterfly change" from a traditional agricultural area to an inter-provincial intersection regional center city.
Among the 333 prefecture-level cities in the country, Suzhou's GDP jumped from 196th in the country in 2010 to 138th in 2020, an increase of 58 places in ten years. In the "13th Five-Year Plan" period that just passed, 36 places were promoted in five years!
Suzhou cloud computing data center. Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of suzhou municipal party committee
The "Digital Suzhou" has sprung up
Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", Suzhou has focused on high-quality development, gone all out to build a solid foundation for development, increased the momentum of development, and continuously enhanced its comprehensive strength. In the past five years, the regional GDP has spanned eight billion yuan in a row!
Ten years a sword, gather "clouds" cloth "number". Suzhou regards cloud computing as the first industry, arranges 200 million yuan of special funds for industrial development every year, supports the development of the cloud computing industry, attracts well-known Internet companies such as Huawei and 21Vianet to settle down, and forms a digital industry cluster that has attracted national attention.
The construction of "Digital Suzhou" has changed from "making something out of nothing" to "rising out of nowhere", from "becoming a sudden force" to "surging clouds". Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba and other technology giants gathered, more than 1,600 cloud computing, big data and intelligent manufacturing related enterprises landed and deepened, Anhui's first 5G continuous film pilot zone has become a scale, and the only virtual panoramic test laboratory in Asia in the field of navigation has been completed...... All these are for the development of the 5G and intelligent networked vehicle industry, which has planted fertile soil for growth, broadened the development space, and enhanced scientific and technological support.
After years of development, Suzhou has now become a national smart city, a "broadband China" demonstration city, a quantum communication node city, a model city of cloud computing industry, the most distinctive cloud computing center in the Yangtze River Delta region, and a cloud computing industry agglomeration development base in Anhui Province.
Relying on the big data center, Suzhou city strives to promote the development of high-tech industrial clusters. Suzhou High-tech Zone has basically formed a dual-first industrial development pattern of cloud computing and intelligent manufacturing. In 2020, there will be 60 cloud computing enterprises above designated size, with an output value of 7.533 billion yuan. The cloud computing base was rated as a provincial strategic emerging industry agglomeration development base, and the digital characteristic town was shortlisted in the top 50 towns with Chinese characteristics.
Suzhou Cloud Computing Industrial Park 21Vianet employees inspect the operation of the cabinet. Photo by Ding Hui
"Someone has a home and a hundred industries"
"This place is my hometown and I have a responsibility to make it even better!" Li Xiting, the "leader" of Mindray Medical, a leading medical device enterprise in China, looked at the pear trees hanging with fruits in his hometown of Zhongshan and talked about the original intention of returning to his hometown to invest, simple and sincere.
Li Xiting brought 400 million yuan of industrial investment to his hometown. In December 2020, Shenzhen Mindray Biomedical Electronics Co., Ltd. signed a contract with Mindray to invest in the construction of Mindray Medical Technology Industrial Park in Zhongshan County, becoming one of Mindray's main production bases in the country.
"Be your own person, do your own thing, and do things quickly." Suzhou City unblocks an acceptance channel, creates an intelligent platform, clarifies a scope of acceptance, optimizes a handling process, and improves a set of working mechanisms. Strive to optimize the business environment, improve efficiency, serve people's livelihood, help enterprise development, and truly build Suzhou into a place where "some people have a home and a hundred industries".
There is a road under the "foot", and the "shoe" is gathered into a city. Since the fall of the shoe giant Belle in 2010, Guangzhou, Wenzhou, Quanzhou shoe industry layout Suzhou, Belle, Kangnai, Hongxing Erke and other well-known shoe companies have settled, and gradually formed the shoe industry "three states homecoming" trend, Suzhou Economic Development Zone (shoe city) has become an important domestic shoe industry base.
The word "Su" in Suzhou has the meaning of peace of mind and peace, and prosperity of hundreds of industries. At the World Manufacturing Conference, Suzhou Mayor Wang Qirong mysteriously explained "Suzhou" and invited major enterprises to lay out Suzhou, and will definitely give those who come to Suzhou to invest in Suzhou a satisfactory return of living and working in peace and contentment and returning to their souls.
Suzhou Economic Development Zone Biomedical Park. Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of suzhou municipal party committee
Create a "fruit sea granary" for the Yangtze River Delta
Fu Liji roast chicken, Zhongshan crispy pear, Yaoqiao soybean, Xiaoxian grape, Sixian sweet potato... These well-known agricultural products have become a delicacy on the tables of more and more families in the Yangtze River Delta region.
In recent years, Suzhou City has conscientiously implemented the decision-making and deployment of the provincial party committee and the provincial government on strengthening the construction of the production, processing and supply base of green agricultural products in the Yangtze River Delta, closely following the two keywords of integration and high quality, focusing on the new industries of high-quality grain and oil, livestock and poultry, fruits and vegetables, forests and other famous and excellent new industries, actively carrying out the creation of the whole industrial chain of "one county and one industry (special)" and the production and processing supply base of green agricultural products in the Yangtze River Delta, further promoting the transformation of production to high-quality, relying on existing high-quality agricultural products, further improving quality, polishing the brand. It is listed with standard tape code to escort the "rice bags", "vegetable baskets" and "fruit plates" in the Yangtze River Delta.
"We will take the express train of integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, aggregate multiple platform effects such as the National Modern Agricultural Demonstration Zone in Yanqiao, the National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park, and the National Rural Reform Pilot Zone, work fast and ahead of schedule, and strive to make Suzhou a new landmark for the production and processing of green agricultural products in the Yangtze River Delta." Wang Lingfeng, director of the Suzhou Municipal Agricultural Machinery Bureau and director of the Office of the Yangtze River Delta Green Agricultural Products Production and Processing Supply (Suzhou) Base Headquarters, introduced.
Suzhou High-tech Zone E-commerce Industrial Park. Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of suzhou municipal party committee
Four "circles of friends" are connected
"Settling in XiaoXian from Shanghai, it has achieved such rapid development in more than four years, which is inseparable from the strong support of the local government and the park." Xing Cancan, the relevant person in charge of an akondi digital equipment company located in the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in Xiaoxian County, said.
The development of Ankodi Digital Company is a microcosm of Suzhou's vigorous promotion of the construction of industrial transfer agglomeration areas in northern Anhui.
The innovative development model of strategic cooperation between Xiaoxian and Shanghai Zhangjiang High-tech Zone has been affirmed by the Anhui Provincial Government and has become a model for deep integration into the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. Focusing on the information technology, new energy, new materials, and medical device industries, more than 200 enterprises have been introduced into Xiaoxian Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park.
In recent years, Suzhou has actively integrated into the four major economic circles of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Circle, the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration, the Huaihe Ecological Economic Belt and the Huaihai Economic Zone around the national strategy of integration of the Yangtze River Delta, adhered to the integration of the four "development groups" and the four "circle of friends", carried out closer cooperation with surrounding cities, and built a more frequent, smoother, more stable and more effective intercity cycle.
In 2020, Guangzhi Electric was transferred from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province to Suzhou Suzhou Modern Industrial Park, and a number of intelligent and automated production lines were launched, and the output value of that year achieved a significant jump. At present, the stray current monitoring and protection products produced by the company have occupied 60% of the national market share.
Suzhou City actively integrates into the Huaihai Economic Zone, participates in the establishment of the Huaihai Economic Zone Industrial Alliance, and participates in the establishment of the huaihai economic zone industrial investment fund that raises 3 billion yuan in the first phase. Cooperate to build Suzhou Xuzhou Modern Industrial Park, and undertake a total of 135 industrial transfer projects.
"Anhui Northern Lock Key, Xu Nan Shape Victory". Suzhou, with its superior location and rich resources, faces the opportunity of policy superposition such as the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, and contains huge investment opportunities, entrepreneurial flashpoints and cooperation space.
A few days ago, the National Development and Reform Commission announced the "Implementation Plan for The Pairing and Cooperation of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Cities to Help Northern Anhui Cities", and Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, is paired with Suzhou. Yang Jun, secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee, said that it is necessary to take the implementation plan issued by the National Development and Reform Commission as the model, seek details and implement various cooperation and docking measures, especially to deepen docking cooperation with Hangzhou in terms of optimizing the business environment, and strive to create a good development environment, so as to lay a solid foundation for undertaking industrial transfer and promoting development. "We put forward the three major visions of building 'one city, two districts and three bases', striving to sprint to the top 100 cities in the country, and comprehensively building a modern Shinjuku prefecture."
Under the "clouds" of the wind, Suzhou has unlimited opportunities and will surely usher in a better future.
Co-produced: People's Daily Anhui Channel Chat Time Dawn News