In order to change the economic pattern of Xi'an city of "strong south and weak north", expand the space for urban development, and "go all the way to the north", Xi'an has been planning for a long time.
In 2003, Jingwei New City, jointly built by Xi'an Economic Development Zone and Gaoling District, officially kicked off its construction and tried to develop to the north.
Twenty years later, in 2023, Xi'an officially ushered in the first year of the "Northern Cross".
Xi'an spans north, and Jingwei takes the lead. Jingwei New City has now become an important bearing area for industrial development in the province and the city and a core gathering area for advanced manufacturing, supporting half of the economic development area in the Economic and Development Zone.
As the pioneer and main force of the development of the northern span, Jingwei New Town will focus on building a modern new city with efficient and convenient transportation, ecological livability and work, complete functional facilities, and full of innovative vitality. The future is here, and it's exciting.
Build a new city together and test the water "north cross" Wei River for the first time
In the early spring of 2003, Xi'an Economic Development Zone began its entrepreneurial journey in the north of the city for ten years. A strategic decision of historic significance has been made in the vast Weibei land: the Xi'an Economic Development Zone adopts the "enclave" model, and the Jingwei Industrial Park, the predecessor of Jingwei New City, has become the first "test of the waters" of Xi'an's "northern cross" Wei River.
The construction of "enclaves" across regions is a local innovation of "eating crabs" in the Economic and Development Zone. Gaoling District is responsible for land acquisition and demolition and land provision, while the Economic Development Zone provides corresponding funds, supporting infrastructure and attracting investment. Both sides learn from each other's strengths in order to seek a "win-win situation".
The birth of Jingwei New Town is just in time. "At that time, Shaanxi Automobile Group, which had completed the restructuring, was planning to build a new base of 3,000 mu in Xi'an, and after several inspections, the Jingwei Industrial Park with a good location environment and abundant land impressed them." Relevant personnel of the Jingwei New City Management Committee said.
⊙ Shaanxi Automobile Group
The heavy entry of Shaanxi Automobile has ushered in a "good start" for Jingwei Industrial Park, and soon attracted a number of industrial projects, forming a cluster form in Weibei.
Under the strategic deployment of Xi'an's "retreat from two to three" and "retreat from the city and enter the park", Jingwei New City continues to attract a large number of major projects to enter the zone with its good industrial foundation and geographical conditions, preferential investment promotion policies and comprehensive and high-quality services, and firmly follows the direction of "project-led" new city construction.
In August 2012, with the establishment of Weibei Industrial Zone and the full launch of the construction of industrial groups such as Gaoling Equipment, Jingwei New City, as the industrial core of the Economic Development Zone, has added wings and opened a new wave of development. In 2013, in the first decade of construction of Jingwei New City, there were 165 projects in the area, with a total investment of 74 billion yuan.
Twenty years of sharpening a sword to lead the development of Weibei industry
Industry is the foundation of the country, and manufacturing is the lifeblood of the country's economy. After years of continuous struggle, Jingwei New City has developed into an important bearing area for industrial development in the province and the city and a core gathering area for advanced manufacturing, creating many "firsts" in the province and "only" in the city, supporting half of the economy of the Economic and Development Zone.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Economic Development Zone and the 20th anniversary of the cooperation between Jingwei New City. Today, the new city has become a model of cooperation and co-construction between development zones and administrative districts, and its solid industrial foundation, good innovation resources and business environment determine that Jingwei New City will remain a "golden treasure land" with broad development prospects in the north of the Wei River in the future.
⊙ Geely Automobile's Xi'an manufacturing base
At present, Jingwei New City has formed four major industrial clusters of automobiles, new materials and new energy, high-end equipment manufacturing, and military-civilian integration, and has introduced and gathered nearly 800 key enterprises, including 25 of the world's top 500 and China's top 500 enterprises, 95 industrial enterprises on the scale, and 2 of the 3 enterprises with an output value of more than 10 billion yuan in the whole region are located in Jingwei New City.
Not only that, the gross domestic product and industrial added value of Jingwei New City in 2022 account for about 40% of the entire Weibei region, and it is a core gathering area that truly leads the industrial development of Weibei.
⊙ production line of Xi'an Cummins Engine Co., Ltd
With four leading industrial clusters, Jingwei New City has built a resource integration platform with the largest scale of advanced manufacturing industry and the most prominent industrial characteristics in Shaanxi Province. Among them, commercial vehicles represented by Shaanxi Heavy Duty Truck and Cummins and passenger cars represented by Geely have formed an annual production capacity of 600,000 units, accounting for about 31% of the city's automobile industry, and are well-deserved "pillars" of Shaanxi and Xi'an manufacturing industries.
The agglomeration effect and correlation effect caused by industrial clusters are becoming more and more prominent. In 2022 alone, Jingwei New Town will attract investment in the Yangtze River Delta and other regions, hold 6 investment promotion activities, and introduce as many as 28 industrial projects settled in Jingwei New City.
Jingwei New City is rich in innovation resources, and has successively been approved as a number of national brands such as the National New Industrialization (Automobile) Industry Demonstration Base and the National New Industrialization (Military-Civilian Integration) Industry Demonstration Base, has a number of innovative technology research and development platforms such as the National Enterprise Technology Center, and has settled in 127 high-tech enterprises and technology-based enterprises, making it one of the most dynamic areas in the city.
⊙ Jingwei International Center
In terms of business environment, Jingwei New City continues to deepen the "one station, two ports, three complete" economic development government service model, and fully implements the "2334" working method and "four from four complete" chain services, which greatly saves the "foot cost" and "time cost" of enterprises in the park.
Industry-city integration "Jingwei model" carries the future
2023 is the first year of the western security to open the northern span strategy, and Jingwei New City, as the "sharp soldier" of the northern span, will also usher in a key moment of urban renewal.
⊙ the city's centralized groundbreaking ceremony for promoting the "North Cross" development key project was held in Jingwei New City
"During the two sessions this year, the groundbreaking ceremony of the city's key projects for promoting the development of the 'North Cross' was held in Jingwei New City, which brought a new rare historical opportunity for Jingwei New City to accelerate the promotion of high-quality development." Liu Ke, member of the Party Working Committee and deputy director of the Management Committee, said. At the same time, it is also a highly symbolic event.
Documents such as the Action Plan for Xi'an to Promote the Development of the "Northern Cross" (2023-2025) and the Outline of the Spatial Planning for the Development of the "Northern Cross" of Xi'an City put forward that the banks of the Wei River and the Weibei region will become a model of modern new city and new urbanization of industry-city integration with efficient and convenient transportation, ecological livability and work, complete functions and full of innovative vitality in the future.
Li Dong, president of Xi'an Tongji Regional Planning Institute, said that the "northern span" in a broad sense is a new agglomeration of economic factors, especially the orderly northward population. In this context, if we solve the problem of "standing" of new cities rising and industrial agglomeration, it is urgent to leap forward to a new form of complex city that organically combines "production, life and ecology" in the future.
The relevant person in charge of Jingwei New City said that in the future, Jingwei New City will seize the historic opportunity to promote the leapfrog improvement of industrial energy level and project construction, and continue to expand the bearing space, combined with a new round of land space planning and preparation, coordinate the layout of production, life and ecological space, and create a "Jingwei model" of industry-city integration. Under the guidance of the plan, the implementation of urban renewal will also be accelerated.
In addition, Jingwei New City will also take the construction and management of the park as an important starting point, improve the road transportation system, strengthen the supply of public resources such as education, medical care, and culture, and accelerate the completion of the shortcomings of high-quality urban construction.
In the future, the new Jingwei New City will become a support point for building a new pattern of "northern span" development space, as well as a "pioneer" for promoting infrastructure construction, improving the quality of public services, rural revitalization and urban-rural integrated development.