As an important node city in the Greater Bay Area, Huicheng District is the central urban area of Huizhou City, with superior geographical location, rich cultural heritage, developed commercial economy, 1/4 of the city's population living in the urban area, 40% of the permanent population with college degree or above in the urban area, 1/3 of the consumption gathered in the urban area, and the deepest historical and cultural precipitation is also in the urban area, which is a treasure land for development.
Huicheng promotes the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with high-quality development. Source: Huizhou Dongjiang Photo Agency
Since the release of the "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" five years ago, Huicheng District has actively seized the opportunity of the construction of the "dual districts" and the four major platforms of Hengqin, Qianhai, Nansha and Hetao, taking the "Millions and Thousands Project" as the general starting point of various tasks, and organically combining and integrating the tasks and requirements of the "Four Huicheng" and the modern first-class central area with the "Millions and Millions Project", and has reached a higher level in terms of economic cooperation, transportation improvement, industrial coordination, scientific and technological innovation, and people's livelihood exchanges.
Development is the first priority, and it is also the "keyword" that Huicheng has focused on for five years. Over the past five years, Huicheng District has adhered to high-quality development as the way to achieve modernization, and its regional GDP has increased from 77.173 billion yuan in 2018 to more than 100 billion yuan in 2022, becoming the city's first "100 billion district", and then to 107.177 billion yuan in 2023, with a five-year growth of 21.4%, and has been awarded the titles of 2023 National Top 100 Districts with Comprehensive Strength and Top 100 Areas with Investment Potential.
Dialogue on new developments
Carry out activities such as "10,000 young people to Huizhou" and "Zhixing Bay Area".
Huizhou Daily: At present, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a hot spot, and Huicheng, as an important node city in the Greater Bay Area, is the central area of Huizhou, what measures will be taken this year to promote the construction of the Greater Bay Area?
Huicheng District Greater Bay Area Office: This year marks the 5th anniversary of the release of the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The first is to accelerate the promotion of transportation connectivity in the Greater Bay Area. In recent years, Huizhou North Station of Ganzhou-Shenzhen High-speed Railway and Huizhou South Station of Guangzhou-Shantou High-speed Railway have been successfully completed and opened to traffic, and Huicheng has officially entered the era of high-speed rail. This year, we will continue to improve the management of the station yard and smooth the bus lines from the two rail transit stations to the main scenic spots and commercial outlets in the urban area, so as to facilitate the travel of citizens. At the same time, we will promote the construction of key projects such as Nanshan Express, Echeng Bridge, Jinshan Lake No. 1 and No. 2 Bridges, so that citizens can travel more conveniently and quickly.
The second is to strengthen the industrial linkage with the cities of the Greater Bay Area. Focus on linking Shenzhen, Dongguan and other places platform projects, business associations and other industrial resources, further increase investment efforts, the introduction of more than 10 industrial projects in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area throughout the year, with an estimated total investment of more than 1.5 billion yuan.
The third is to deepen cooperation with the Greater Bay Area in the field of people's livelihood. Carry out activities such as "10,000 young people in Huizhou" and "Zhixing Bay Area", and organize Hong Kong and Macao youths to carry out comprehensive practical activities such as rural tourism, exchange experience, project inspection, innovation and entrepreneurship in Huicheng District. Actively participate in the 4th "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival", carry out "Greater Bay Area Tourism Concert" and other cultural and artistic activities, and enhance the cultural soft power of Huicheng District in the construction of the Greater Bay Area.
Five-year development inventory
GDP growth of 21.4% in five years!
Huicheng handed over the "report card" of promoting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
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Accelerated development
Investment in fixed assets increased by 85.2% in five years, accelerating the construction of a consumption center in the eastern part of the Bay Area
In the past five years, the comprehensive economic strength of Huicheng District has reached a new level, and it has helped promote the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with its "hard core power".
From the perspective of economic restructuring and industrial transformation, the development of the real economy in Huicheng in the past five years has been more sufficient, the proportion of the three industries has been adjusted from 2.8: 26.6: 70.6 to 3.4: 27.9: 68.7, the proportion of the secondary industry has increased by 1.3 percentage points in five years, and the investment in fixed assets has increased by 85.2% in five years, forming a new generation of industrial clusters such as electronic information, equipment manufacturing, new energy and new materials.
As a central area, Huicheng has a proportion of three industries as high as 70%, which is an important pillar of the industry, and has natural advantages in the development of the service industry. Huicheng is a net inflow of population area, as Huicheng will participate in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area on a larger scale and at a deeper level, especially after the full opening of the Guangzhou-Shantou high-speed railway, the attractiveness of the urban area to the population will continue to increase, and the momentum of the development of the service industry is optimistic.
The total retail sales of consumer goods in the region increased from 68.587 billion yuan in 2018 to 79.853 billion yuan in 2023, an increase of 16.4% in five years.
Shuidong Street has successfully created a "National Tourism and Leisure Block" and a "National Night Culture and Tourism Consumption Cluster".
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Park construction
The high-tech zone was rated as a provincial-level high-tech zone, and the total industrial output value above the designated size exceeded 50 billion yuan
Huicheng District adheres to the "big platform", the construction of the industrial park continues to "strengthen the muscles and bones", and the construction of the industrial platform has entered the fast lane.
In the past five years, Huicheng High-tech Zone, as a newly established park, has been accelerating its development speed with a strong new force, and the appearance of the park is changing with each passing day. In 2022, it will become the city's first provincial-level high-tech zone, with a total of 21,205 acres of land for storage in five years, 91 projects will be completed, and the "land will start immediately" will be implemented; 4.93 billion yuan will be invested to promote the construction of the transportation network in the park, and 51 roads such as Dongjiangwan Avenue and Lugang Avenue will be built;
In the past five years, the park has promoted the deep integration of deep and deep financial bays, and the park has introduced a total of 81 land supply projects and 438 platform projects, with a total investment of about 48.6 billion yuan. The total industrial output value of the park above the designated size has increased by 332% in five years, the number of high-tech enterprises has increased to 217, the proportion of high-tech industrial enterprises above the designated size has exceeded 50%, and the number of specialized and special new enterprises has increased to 79.
2023 is an important milestone in the development of the high-tech zone. The total industrial output value of the high-tech zone exceeded 50 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 25.6 percent, the added value reached 12.82 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 24.5 percent, and the industrial investment was 8.04 billion yuan and fixed asset investment was 13.62 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.9 percent and 11.2 percent, respectively. In the same year, the high-tech zone won the first place in the overall score in the evaluation of Huizhou 100 billion parks, and was rated as a provincial five-star service park and a provincial data element agglomeration development zone. In April this year, it was awarded the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Business and Environmental Functional Zone.
The development of the high-tech zone is changing with each passing day.
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Industrial synergy
It has set up a liaison office for investment promotion in Shenzhen, and introduced 79 projects in the Bay Area, with a total investment of more than 140 billion yuan
In the past five years, Huicheng District has continuously strengthened the industrial and spatial docking with advanced cities in the Bay Area, deeply integrated the development of "dual districts", and made new progress in the coordinated development of industries.
In the past five years, a total of 79 projects in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have been introduced, with an estimated investment of about 148.46 billion yuan and an estimated output value of about 206.45 billion yuan.
Since 2021, Huicheng District has taken the lead in setting up a liaison office for investment promotion in Shenzhen in the city, and the "iron army" of investment promotion and capital selection has advanced to the forefront, and has successively gone to Shenzhen and surrounding cities to carry out investment promotion activities 140 times, among which the industrial projects are all high-tech enterprise projects, and there is no shortage of "specialized, special and new" enterprises and small giant enterprises, showing the characteristics of large quantity and excellent quality.
Taking Huicheng District and platform-based enterprises as an example, Huizhou Tian'an Cyber City deeply excavates its industrial "resource pool" in the park in the Bay Area - among the more than 8,000 enterprises in the industrial park of Tian'an Cyber City Group in the Pearl River Delta region, more than 200 enterprises have set up branches or offices in Huizhou, and more than 800 enterprises have business dealings with Huizhou enterprises, among which the industrial docking is closely related to the city's construction of a "2+1" modern industrial system. The government and enterprises have vigorously carried out joint investment promotion, and have successively introduced more than 80 strong science and technology enterprises such as Chuangzhihua, Silu New Energy Technology, Maiwei New Power Technology, BOE Varitronix, etc., which have settled in the first phase of the industrial park, and at present, the second phase of the park has attracted investment from all over the world, with more than 60 enterprises intending to settle in.
At present, Huizhou Tian'an Cyber City also continues to link up with the science and technology resources of the Bay Area, and takes the lead in laying out comprehensive industrial facilities integrating technology, talents, markets, capital, and international through trains to help enterprises grow; every year, it will hold activities such as the Bay Area Science and Technology Industry Innovation (Huizhou) Jinshan Lake Summit and the Academician Lecture Hall, and sign a letter of intent with the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers to jointly cultivate talents, incubate enterprises, and tackle key problems, promote the joint research of major scientific and technological projects, and help the high-quality development of Huicheng in the industrial collaboration of the Bay Area.
The industry strengthens collaboration and cooperation, and the picture shows Huizhou Tian'an Cyber City.
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The traffic is perfect
The Ganzhou-Shenzhen high-speed railway and the Guangzhou-Shantou high-speed railway have been put into operation, and the construction of a half-hour commuting circle in Rongshen and Rongwan has been accelerated
In the past five years, Huicheng District has actively participated in the construction of the "Greater Bay Area on the track", and the improvement of transportation rail has been accelerated.
Huicheng District has made every effort to promote the opening and operation of the Ganzhou-Shenzhen high-speed railway and the Guangzhou-Shantou high-speed railway, as well as the construction of the Dongguan-Huizhou intercity north extension line, the Huizhou North Station of the Ganzhou-Shenzhen high-speed railway will be opened in December 2021, and the number of arrivals and departures has increased from 3,000 on the initial peak day to 21,000 on the highest day, and the Huizhou South Station of the Guangzhou-Shantou high-speed railway will be opened in September 2023, with about 4,000 people arriving and departing in a single day.
Over the past five years, Huicheng District has actively promoted the construction of the main framework of "Feng" transportation, and fully cooperated with the acceleration of the construction of a number of high-speed projects: the Huicheng section of the Huixia Expressway and the reconstruction and expansion project of the Huihe Expressway have all been handed over and entered the construction of the whole line; the Longmen-Huizhou section of the Shaohui Expressway has been officially opened to traffic, and the whole journey from Huicheng District to Longmen County has been shortened to about 40 minutes; and the Huizhao Expressway has completed the signing of a land acquisition agreement.
In the past five years, Huicheng District has continuously improved the cross-river passage and built a new artery that links the two sides of the strait to benefit the people and prosper the industry: in cooperation with the promotion of the opening of the Longsheng Bridge and the Third Dongjiang Bridge, the Echeng Bridge is planned to be completed by the end of September 2024, and the construction of the No. 1 and No. 2 bridges in the Jinshan Lake area is planned to be completed and opened to traffic by the end of June this year.
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Scientific and technological innovation
The number of high-tech enterprises reached 562, doubling from the end of 2018
In the past five years, Huicheng District has been guided by the construction of an international science and technology innovation center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, actively cultivating scientific and technological innovation platforms and enterprises, and making new progress in scientific and technological innovation capabilities.
The headquarters project of the "two major scientific installations" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been basically completed, and the delivery ceremony of the headquarters area of the Heqiao Science and Education City project has been successfully held, and the project has made phased progress.
By the end of 2023, there will be 1 provincial key laboratory, 29 provincial engineering technology research centers, 2 provincial new R&D institutions, 8 national "little giant" enterprises, and 175 provincial-level specialized, special and new small and medium-sized enterprises.
By the end of 2023, there will be 562 high-tech enterprises in the region, doubling compared with the end of 2018, and the added value of high-tech enterprises in the region will account for 43.6% of the added value of industries above designated size, an increase of 13.4 percentage points compared with the end of 2018.
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People-to-people exchange
We will continue to strengthen the interconnection with Hong Kong and Macao, education, medical care, culture and other livelihood undertakings
Over the past five years, Huicheng District has continuously strengthened exchanges with Hong Kong and Macao, such as education, medical care and culture, and has become closer in exchanges and cooperation in the field of people's livelihood.
At present, a total of 9 schools in the district have become sister schools with schools in Hong Kong and Macao, and no less than 30 activities have been carried out during this period, such as teaching, teaching and research exchanges, and cultural integration.
Over the past five years, Huicheng District has continuously deepened the integration of medical services in the Greater Bay Area, promoted the signing of cooperation agreements between the Third People's Hospital of Huicheng and Guangzhou Medical University, Shenzhen Maternal and Child Health Hospital, and the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, promoted the Second Municipal Maternal and Child Health Hospital to become the first county-level hospital unit to sign a medical alliance with the Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, and established a number of specialty alliances, and carried out more than 100 academic exchange activities in other cities in the Bay Area in the past five years.
Huicheng District is a famous historical and cultural city with a national reputation, an important cultural relic of Dongpo, with a unique style of "two rivers and four banks", and is known as the reputation of "half a city with mountains and half a city lake".
In the past five years, Huicheng District has focused on the construction of the humanistic Bay Area and strived to enhance the influence of cultural tourism in the urban area, with obvious results - Shuidong Street has successfully created a "national tourism and leisure block" and a "national night culture and tourism consumption cluster", and Zhuwu Lane has successfully created a "provincial tourism and leisure block" and a "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural Heritage Trail", and two new trails will be selected as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Trail in 2023, helping the Greater Bay Area to connect cultural resources and integrate family and country feelings.
Hui Bao all-media reporter Xie Jingjing, special correspondent Zhou Wenmei, correspondent Zhong Kunlin