Beautiful scenery of Dongguan Ecological Park (data map)
Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Feng Xixi Chen Zeyun intern Zhang Xiaoyue
Opening remarks
2022 is an important year to start a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, and it is of great significance to do a good job in the work of the whole year. Seeking progress in a steady manner is the general tone of Guangdong's work this year. In the new year, what kind of development goals have been set by various cities? And what kind of development blueprint will be drawn? From now on, Yangcheng Evening News launched a series of reports on the "Guangdong Good City Tour", focusing on the highlights of the economic and social development of cities across the province.
On the morning of January 20, the 2022 Guangdong Provincial Government Work Report was "freshly baked". "Dongguan has become the fourth city in our province with a total economic volume of more than one trillion yuan" was written into this year's provincial government work report. At the same time, the permanent population of Dongguan has exceeded 10 million. Dongguan joined the "trillion yuan club", what kind of development code is behind it? Based on the new starting point of "double ten thousand", how will Dongguan accelerate high-quality development?
On the afternoon of January 20, at the group meeting of the Dongguan delegation, Xiao Yafei, deputy to the Provincial People's Congress and secretary of the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee, said that such achievements were not easy to come by, and they were both proud and deeply responsible.
Xiao Yafei, deputy to the Provincial People's Congress (data map)
The development of Dongguan is inseparable from policy opportunities and the accumulation of internal vitality
Why is the fourth trillion city Dongguan? In fact, the development of Dongguan is inseparable from the accumulation of policy opportunities and internal vitality. Xiao Yafei believes that the rapid development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has injected surging impetus into the development of Dongguan, and Dongguan has firmly grasped the energy level of manufacturing upgrading.
"Last year, Dongguan (total economic volume) broke through the trillion yuan mark, and the city performed relatively well in the coordination and balance of development." Xiao Yafei pointed out. The data shows that in the whole year of 2021, the added value of industries above designated size in Dongguan was 500.881 billion yuan, an increase of 10.2% year-on-year, the total industrial investment was 102.021 billion yuan, an increase of 25.3%, and the general budget revenue was 76.946 billion yuan, an increase of 10.8%, all higher than the provincial average.
The manufacturing industry has stabilized its growth and maintained dongguan's dynamic economic vitality. There are more than 190,000 industrial enterprises in Dongguan, including 11,300 industrial enterprises, 7,387 state-level high-tech enterprises, 234 specialized new enterprises, 18 newly listed enterprises since 2020, and 5 enterprises that have passed the meeting. On this basis, Dongguan has begun to build an advanced road of "advanced manufacturing center in the Greater Bay Area". As early as 2019, the provincial government has supported Dongguan to build a provincial manufacturing supply-side structural reform and innovation experimental zone, and recently, the "Opinions on Supporting Dongguan to Accelerate High-quality Development in the New Era to Build a Strong City of Science and Technology Manufacturing" has also been introduced. "These policies not only enabled Dongguan to cross the trillion mark with high quality last year, but also maintained sustainable and high-quality development after the trillion yuan also has systematic policy support." Xiao Yafei pointed out.
"'Double Million' is a new starting point for Dongguan's development." Xiao Yafei said that Dongguan will base itself on the new starting point of "double ten thousand", focus on "scientific and technological innovation + advanced manufacturing", strive to achieve sustainable and high-quality economic development at the new starting point of trillions, and achieve deep integration, symbiosis and common prosperity between tens of millions of people and cities.
Scientific and technological innovation will cultivate and expand new momentum for economic development. Xiao Yafei said that it is necessary to take the construction of seven strategic emerging industry bases as the "No. 1 project" of the new pillar of the industry, pay close attention to promoting the construction of 9 large projects with an investment of more than 3 billion yuan that have been introduced, and strive to introduce a number of major projects in strategic emerging industries to invest more than 30 billion yuan throughout the year. Increase efforts to cultivate the main body of enterprise innovation, and promote the annual high-tech enterprises to reach 8200 and more than 150 innovative enterprises. Accelerate the development of the digital economy, coordinate the three-year overall arrangement of no less than 10 billion yuan of financial funds to support the high-quality development of the digital economy, promote the construction of digital transformation empowerment centers such as Huawei, SAP, and Siemens, lead the digitization of the industry, drive digital industrialization, and achieve an increase of more than 11% in the added value of the core industries of the digital economy this year.
Only the double cycle inside and outside can output inexhaustible power for urban development, and there is an economic scene of "flowing water without corruption". As a large foreign trade city, Dongguan is also crucial to stabilize foreign trade. Xiao Yafei said that in the future, he will also make every effort to stabilize the basic disk of foreign trade, seize the new opportunities of RCEP, consolidate and enhance the good momentum of foreign trade stabilization, guide and help enterprises to vigorously expand the international and domestic markets, stabilize orders in the European and American markets, seize orders in emerging markets, actively develop new foreign trade formats, and use the "Bay Area Express + Cross-Customs Aviation Line" to further expand the trade volume of air transport channels.
Dongguan's economy has great vitality and resilience
In addition, some of the provincial people's congress deputies of the Dongguan delegation also shared their feelings and experiences in an interview with the Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter.
From a traditional agricultural county to a megacity with a total economic volume of more than one trillion yuan and a permanent population of more than 10 million, the rapid development of Dongguan has made Zhan Wenguang, a deputy to the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and a second-level inspector of the Dongguan Municipal CPPCC Office, feel proud and proud. Zhan Wenguang is a native of Dongguan, who has worked in Dongguan's tax and financial system for many years, and has served as the party secretary of Many town streets such as Dalingshan, Houjie, and Nancheng, and has personally witnessed the vigorous economic and social development of Dongguan. In his view, Dongguan's economy has a very strong vitality and resilience.
Talking about the success code of Dongguan's economic development, Zhan Wenguang said that the first thing is to benefit from a strong manufacturing industry. "Dongguan is a famous manufacturing city, and manufacturing is the foundation and lifeblood of Dongguan's economy." Zhan Wenguang believes that the vigorous development of Dongguan's manufacturing industry benefits from Dongguan's unique geographical location advantages, "adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, located in the middle of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen corridor, the traffic is very convenient, the business environment is good, so that many upstream and downstream enterprises in the manufacturing industry also settled in Dongguan." ”
The second is the strong strength of scientific and technological innovation. Zhan Wenguang said that the strong scientific and technological innovation force can continuously improve productivity and production efficiency, but also improve the quality of enterprises, to achieve transformation and upgrading, many enterprises have independent core technology, can use high-quality products to win the domestic and foreign markets.
"Dongguan has become the fourth city in Guangdong to have an economic aggregate of more than one trillion yuan, and as a representative of the Dongguan delegation, this makes me feel very proud." Zhang Shuyan, deputy to the Provincial People's Congress and president of the Dongguan Institute of Advanced Science and Technology of Materials And Genes, said that today, Dongguan has become a national innovative city, and scientific and technological innovation has provided strong empowerment support for advanced manufacturing.
At the same time, Dongguan also has high-quality government services and a good business environment of integrity and rule of law, "Dongguan market openness is high, resource allocation efficiency is good, the relationship between government and enterprise is very healthy, is a fertile land for investment, so as to continuously attract many high-quality large enterprises to settle in Dongguan, take root and develop." Zhan Wenguang said.
Strong urban "soft power" allows excellent talents to stay
Xu Zhi, deputy to the Provincial People's Congress and deputy director of Guangdong Zhongcheng Antai Accounting Firm, said that what impressed him most about Dongguan's economic development was the city's "soft power". "Whether it is a large enterprise or a small enterprise, Dongguan governments at all levels have given good policy support, and also attracted enterprises to invest here from various supporting policies such as education and medical care, and at the same time, more and more outstanding talents are willing to stay, which is the embodiment of the city's soft power."
Edit: Mu Qing
Source: Golden Sheep Network