Financial reporter Wang Hao
In April, the capital Beijing and the coastal city of Qingdao West Coast New Area are closely connected, like the intersection of the pulse of the times, giving birth to new vitality and vitality.
On April 18, Qingdao West Coast New Area Walk into the Central Enterprises (Beijing) Meeting (hereinafter referred to as the "Meeting") was held in Beijing. At the event site, entrepreneurs, experts and scholars from more than 80 central enterprises and scientific research institutes, together with representatives of the West Coast New Area, relevant functional areas, district-level units and state-owned enterprises affiliated to the district, gathered together to interact and exchange, in order to carry out more fields, deeper and higher-level cooperation, cohesion of enterprise-local consensus, superposition of enterprise-local advantages.
This event is of great significance. This is not only a "self-recommendation" to stand on the stage of the national economic science and technology innovation center and show the business opportunities of the new area, but also a "co-creation" to strengthen the integration of the central government and the local government and promote the high-quality development of the region. Just a month ago, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the Action Plan for Promoting the High-quality Construction of National New Zones (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"), which clearly encourages central enterprises to cooperate more closely with new areas to jointly write a new chapter of high-quality development.
Since June 2014, it has been approved as the ninth national-level new area, and the GDP of the West Coast New Area has exceeded 500 billion yuan, becoming the 12th district in the country and the only district in the north except for municipalities directly under the central government to enter the "500 billion club", ranking among the top three of the 19 national-level new areas. Entering a new stage of development, the West Coast New Area has been given a new mission of "being a leader in the city's high-quality development", and this docking collision with central enterprises is undoubtedly the best starting point for the leader to take advantage of the high momentum.
If GDP is the "verification" of past achievements, the main business entity is the "witness" of the current economic and social vitality, and the science and technology innovation platform is the "certification" of future development momentum, then, as the only national-level new area in Shandong, the development trajectory of the West Coast New Area has been perfect since it was approved for ten years.
In terms of GDP, it has doubled from 212.1 billion yuan in 2013 to 500.338 billion yuan in 2023, becoming the first urban area in Shandong Province with a GDP exceeding 500 billion yuan, contributing one-third of Qingdao's GDP, gross industrial output value above designated size, fixed asset investment, and foreign trade import and export volume.
In terms of business entities, the number of business entities has increased from 60,000 to 446,000, the number of listed companies has increased from 8 to 19, accounting for 41% of the city's total, and 348 Fortune 500 projects have been laid out here.
In terms of science and technology innovation platforms, key institutes such as the Marine Science Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the China Academy of Ocean Engineering have been completed and put into use, 8 national key laboratories such as deep oil and gas have been inaugurated, 72 "national brand" innovation platforms have been established, and the number of high-tech enterprises has exceeded 1,500.
Promoting the high-quality construction of national-level new areas is both a mission and an opportunity for central enterprises that practice the will of the country and fulfill their social responsibilities. As we all know, Beijing is a cluster of central enterprises, and about 70% of the central enterprise headquarters are located here. At this meeting, more than 80 key central enterprises were attracted to participate, considering that there are currently 97 central enterprises in the mainland, the enthusiasm for participation is high, which can be seen. The eagerness to go in both directions stems from the long-standing and long-lasting foundation of cooperation between many central enterprises and the West Coast New Area.
Recently, the world's first W6X72DF-2.2+iCER host was successfully delivered to CSSC Engine Co., Ltd. in the West Coast New Area, which has become a new achievement in the high-end, intelligent and green development of Qingdao's marine equipment industry, adding new momentum to the mainland's competition for a new track of green shipping. As a core large-scale specialized marine low-speed engine manufacturing enterprise under China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited, this has also become another successful example of cooperation between the central and local governments since CSSC Engine Co., Ltd. settled in the West Coast New Area in 2017.
In fact, long before the approval of the new area, the central and local governments have a long history of helping regional economic development. As early as 1990, the Datang Huangdao Power Generation Company, invested by China Datang Group, has been settled in the country, and for many years it has steadily guaranteed the electricity and heating needs of enterprises and people on the west coast; since 2004, Sinopec Group has successively invested in the construction of Qingdao Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd., Dongjiakou Port Crude Oil Terminal and other projects, laying a solid foundation for the development of the petrochemical industry on the west coast.
It is reported that in the ten years since the approval of the new area, the West Coast New Area has cooperated deeply with 52 central enterprises such as China State Construction, China Railway, China Shipbuilding and Sinochem, and jointly built 164 key projects such as Qingdao World Expo City and China Shipbuilding Civil Ship Center Headquarters.
Momentum to accelerate iterationsAt present, new quality productivity has become the key to accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the industry and leveraging new growth points. For the regional economy, to a certain extent, the "density" of new quality productivity determines the "height" of high-quality development.
Specific to the West Coast, the industrial path is very clear. In-depth implementation of the "one core leading, three-point layout, intelligent integration, land and sea co-ordination" industrial planning, focus on the development of "5+5+7" key industries, integrated circuits, new displays, green and low-carbon new materials, hydrogen energy and other emerging industry professional parks agglomeration, quickly build smart home appliances, high-end chemical new materials, "core screen" 3 100 billion-level, shipbuilding and marine engineering, automobiles, intelligent manufacturing equipment 3 50 billion-level industrial clusters.
In the list of major provincial projects in 2024 announced by the Shandong Provincial Government, 42 projects in Qingdao were selected, ranking first in the province, including the "Zhonghua" thermophysical test device project, the functional new material industrial park of the National Rubber Center, and the Chengzhi New Material Industrial Park, 9 implementation projects in the West Coast New Area were selected, an increase of 4 projects compared with 2023, and the investment amount ranked first in the city.
A little analysis will find that the use of disruptive technology and cutting-edge technology to give birth to new industries, new models, and new kinetic energy is the common and core of these projects. In the logic of the layout of the new productive forces on the West Coast, compared with the industries that have achieved scale, the enthusiasm for basic scientific research and innovation is no less impressive.
For example, the "Zhonghua" thermophysics test device project of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the first project to obtain national approval and start construction in the "14th Five-Year Plan" national major scientific and technological infrastructure, mainly for the basic theory and experimental research of engineering thermodynamics and circulation system, aerothermodynamics, combustion, heat and mass transfer and other thermophysics disciplines and interdisciplinary basic research under complex and changeable conditions for air-breathing engines. The construction and operation of the device will effectively support the improvement of the existing air-aspirated engine design system and the establishment of the new principle air-breathing engine design system in the future, and provide solid conditions for the independent innovation and development of China's advanced air-aspirated engine.
It is reported that as early as the beginning of the establishment of the new area in 2014, the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences settled in the West Coast New Area, cooperated with the local community to build the Qingdao aviation technology industry innovation base, and created a "1+N" model, which has formed an industrial cluster development pattern of "one park and four companies". At the meeting, Huang Congli, Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced that after ten years of development, in addition to the successful implementation of the "Zhonghua" thermophysical test device project, the four core industrialization companies have gathered nearly 5 million people in the industrialization team, and initially realized the development and cultivation of high-end equipment manufacturing industries such as light aero engines and high-performance UAVs based on independent innovation and independent control. From scientific research to mass production, it is inseparable from the best service, best policy and best guarantee provided by the West Coast New Area.
To accelerate the cultivation of new quality productivity, we need the help and empowerment of central enterprises. 13 important carriers and resource platforms of the West Coast New Area were released on the spot, including Qingdao National Deep Sea Green Aquaculture Pilot Zone, Qingdao Haikong Marine Biomedical Industrial Park Phase III, Xin'an Digital Intelligence Industrial Park, CEC Optics Valley Qingdao Park, Agricultural High-tech Industrial Complex, Sino-Dutch Smart Agriculture Industrial Park, Phoenix Island International Coastal Cultural Tourism Supporting Project, Zhushan National Forest Park Comprehensive Cultural Tourism Project, Langyatai Regional Comprehensive Cultural Tourism Project, Qingdao West Coast Ecological Sightseeing Park, Lingzhu Mountain Area, Lingshan Weigu Acropolis Area, In the Chang'an Road area, the projects to be attracted cover many fields such as marine fishery, biomedicine, intelligent manufacturing, modern agriculture, cultural tourism and health care, and urban renewal. It is worth mentioning that these carrier platforms are not staying in the planning and promotion stage, but "cooperation can be started now", full of sincerity.
At the scene, the West Coast New Area issued an invitation to the participating central enterprises: "We sincerely welcome the majority of central enterprises to lay out new products, new sectors and new businesses in Qingdao West Coast New Area, plan to jointly build a number of strategic and supporting large projects, and work together to build a new highland for the development of the real economy." ”
The ocean is Qingdao's biggest feature and advantage, as a state-level new area, the West Coast New Area takes the development of marine economy as the theme, undertakes the national strategy of managing the ocean, and has been approved for ten years, the average annual growth rate of the marine production value of the West Coast New Area is 14.9%, with a total of nearly 200 billion yuan, accounting for nearly half of the city's marine GDP and 2% of the country.
The development of the marine economy is "confident". Haixi Bay, one of the country's three major shipbuilding bases, gathers a number of leading enterprises such as China Shipbuilding and CNOOC, and has built and delivered the world's first 100,000-ton intelligent fishery large-scale aquaculture ship, the world's largest tonnage "offshore oil factory" and other offshore heavy equipment; 10. Create a precedent for salmon farming in the world's warm seas, and the world's largest marine gene bank and the largest sodium alginate production base are all located on the west coast.
The "plateau" of global ocean governance is high. The permanent site of the Qingdao Forum of the East Asia Marine Cooperation Platform was settled, and the world's first batch and the only Ocean Decade International Cooperation Center and Ocean and Climate Collaboration Center were opened, serving the construction of a community with a shared future for the ocean.
The surging blue kinetic energy also means that the new quality productivity bred in the land industry can accelerate the extension and fission in the broader ocean space.
Taking the gene and cell industry as an example, the West Coast New Area has given full play to its advantages in marine scientific research, gathered companies such as MGI and CP Pharmaceutical in marine biological gene sequencing and marine biomedical innovation, and accurately deployed gene sequencing equipment and reagents, molecular biology breeding, gene precision health and synthetic biology and other fields. Among them, CP Pharmaceutical's marine innovative drug has become the first anti-tumor marine drug to enter clinical trials in China. MGI is accelerating the localization of core equipment and building an independent R&D and production base for the world's most important marine genetic equipment.
Shen Shuangping, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and general manager of China National Petroleum Group Offshore Engineering Co., Ltd., said that after ten years of hard work, the development achievements of the West Coast New Area are eye-catching. The scale is growing, and the new area will work hand in hand, in-depth cooperation, and jointly write a new chapter in the ocean.
An ecosystem that accelerates growthThe "Action Plan" clearly proposes to "innovatively hold the Qingdao International Beer Festival" and "seize the opportunity of Qingdao Port to build an international hub port, focus on the development of port industry and modern shipping service industry, and expand the linkage between land and sea at home and abroad and the space for seaward economic development." A series of specific development tasks involving the high-quality construction of the West Coast New Area. Support the new area to deepen the reform of key areas.
"In the field of trade, the first imported crude oil 'first release and then inspection', the inspection and release time of goods is reduced by 2-3 days, saving enterprises 2 million yuan in tank rental costs. In the financial sector, the implementation of export tax rebate 'first retreat and then verification', 'white list' enterprises to achieve tax rebate within 8 hours. In the field of logistics, the 'Yungang Tong Smart Inspection Platform' has improved its efficiency by more than 30%, creating a free and convenient development environment for enterprises. At the meeting, Gao Shanwu, deputy secretary of the Working Committee of Qingdao West Coast New Area and director of the Management Committee of Qingdao Area of China (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone, used specific cases to help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, reflecting the "business logic" of expanding new development space with high-level opening-up.
It is reported that in the past ten years since its approval, Qingdao West Coast New Area has undertaken 160 reform pilots above the municipal level, such as the national climate investment and financing pilot, and more than 200 innovative experiences have been promoted throughout the province and the country. Deepen the reform of the administrative management system, and build a management system of "new district management planning, overall management, and coordination, functional areas emphasizing development, industry, and projects, and towns and streets to promote development, maintaining stability, and benefiting people's livelihood", which has been praised by the National Development and Reform Commission as "the most smooth new district system". Deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises by classification and grading, and establishing three major holding groups, the total assets of state-owned enterprises in the district increased by 10.9 times, and the total revenue increased by 18.8 times. Efforts have been made to build a large financial system, and the integrated launch of "one gold, two loans and two insurances", the total number of financial institutions has doubled, the balance of deposits and loans has increased by nearly 7 times, and the five major state-owned banks of industry and agriculture, China and China will invest nearly one trillion yuan in intentional financing in the future.
It not only has the blessing of institutional innovation, but also the sincerity of real money to help enterprises. For example, the Qingdao Integrated Circuit Industrial Park implements 10 support policies such as "a maximum reward of 10 million yuan for technical research" for enterprises in the park, and Qingdao New Display Industrial Park implements 10 support policies such as "a subsidy of up to 20 million yuan for newly introduced talents" for enterprises in the park.
Under the superposition of multiple measures, the development speed of the industrial ecology of the West Coast New Area has become the best portrayal of the business environment. At present, the integrated circuit industrial park has settled in key projects covering all aspects from raw materials, equipment to design, manufacturing, testing, etc., and high-end packaging and testing projects have filled the industrial gap in Shandong Province; new display industrial park, settled in the "chain master" enterprises BOE, Hisense Video, gathering fusion equipment, Wanda Optoelectronics and other more than 30 upstream and downstream enterprises, with a total investment of nearly 40 billion yuan of core screen industrial park, Hanbo Optoelectronics and other projects are speeding up construction.
With the same heart, nothing can be done. Looking forward to the future, driven by both national and provincial policies, the West Coast New Area will join hands with central enterprises to write a new chapter of high-quality development of the national new area in the new era, which is gradually getting better. (Photo courtesy of West Coast New Area)