Hongqiao International Open Hub 3rd Anniversary Series Report
In February 2021, the State Council approved the Overall Plan for the Construction of Hongqiao International Open Hub. According to the overall plan, the Hongqiao International Open Hub covers 14 districts and counties in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with the Shanghai Hongqiao International Central Business District as the core, including the northward expansion belt extending to Suzhou, Jiangsu Province and the southward expansion belt extending to Jiaxing, Zhejiang, with a total area of 7,000 square kilometers.
Suzhou and Shanghai are interdependent on each other in terms of mountains and rivers, humanities and economy, and have profound economic, cultural and historical origins, and have become a model of cooperation in the integration of the Yangtze River Delta. In the past three years since the implementation of the plan, Suzhou has accelerated the layout of innovation clusters and accelerated the formation of new quality productivity by promoting the northbound expansion belt of the Hongqiao International Open Hub, the Shanghai-Nanjing Industrial Innovation Belt and the Taihu Lake Science and Technology Innovation Circle. From now on, the reporter of this newspaper will go deep into the Suzhou Huanhu plate to dig out the "new" experience, show the "new" results, and analyze the "new" path.
In the three years since the implementation of the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hongqiao International Open Hub", the economic density of "one core and two belts" of Hongqiao International Open Hub has reached 400 million yuan per square kilometer. Among them, Kunshan, which is located in the northward expansion belt, firmly grasps the national strategic opportunity and depicts a new picture of county economic development in the new era. On August 16 last year, with the consent of the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Several Policies and Measures on Promoting the Further Improvement of the Energy Level of the Hongqiao International Open Hub", Kunshan proposed to conduct in-depth research on several policies to improve the energy level of the open hub, focusing on the integrated development of Huaqiao International Business District and Jiakun Tai, making good use of policies and coordinated development.
Industries are embedded in each other, and new ecology grows under the big tree
The unique location advantage can be seen from a subway. Suzhou Rail Transit Line 11 and Shanghai Rail Transit Line 11, which radiate the whole city of Kunshan, are intimately "embraced" in Huaqiao Economic Development Zone, driving a new era of Shanghai-Kunming-Suzhou subway commuting.
The high degree of interconnection of transportation infrastructure between Shanghai and Kunming promotes the high-frequency flow of talents, capital, resources and other factors, and many leading international enterprises have set up their headquarters in Shanghai and factories in Kunshan.
From the map, Huaqiao Economic Development Zone is like Kunshan's "one hand" reaching into Shanghai's territory, seizing fleeting development opportunities at any time, introducing high-quality industrial projects, and absorbing cutting-edge industrial thinking, becoming the best window to observe the clever inter-embedding, coexistence and co-promotion of industries in Shanghai and Kunming.
Two years ago, the thyssenkrupp automotive body intelligent manufacturing center project was announced to be located in Huaqiao, echoing with thyssenkrupp automotive system technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., injecting new strength into the world's top 500 enterprises to build an important auto parts manufacturing base in Kunshan.
At present, backed by Shanghai's world-class automobile industry center, represented by Huaqiao, Kunshan has gathered more than 960 enterprises in the field of automobile industry, forming an auto parts industry chain group with an output value of more than 150 billion yuan, and occupying an important pole in the Yangtze River Delta.
Strength wins the right to speak, and strong alliances stimulate new kinetic energy. In November last year, the 2023 Jiakun Tai Collaborative Innovation Core Circle Rotation Meeting was held in Huaqiao, the research of the "Shanghai West (Anting) Hub and Surrounding Areas Special Plan" was launched, and the "Jiakun Tai New Energy Vehicle Industry Alliance" and "Jiakun Tai Technology Collaborative Innovation Platform" were established, providing more abundant cross-regional element support for enterprises in the three places to carry out collaborative innovation and technological research in the automotive industry.
In addition to those who run on the ground, there are also those who fly in the sky.
At present, the spatial information industry has become the focus of global scientific and technological and industrial competition. Last year, Shanghai formulated the Action Plan for Promoting the Development of Commercial Aerospace and Building a Highland for the Space Information Industry (2023-2025) to lead the integrated development of space information in the Yangtze River Delta region.
What Shanghai plans is also the active layout of Kunshan. Under the big tree, another new ecology with abundant vegetation can still grow.
Along the east of Shanghai Avenue, in the 10,000-square-meter workshop of Aerospace Times Feipeng Co., Ltd., the robotic arm carries out the automatic assembly of drones. "Double thousand", "double hundred" and "double ten", the aerospace era Feipeng is classified by flight mileage and load capacity to achieve full coverage of the production of large, medium and small models, among which the large fixed-wing unmanned transport aircraft FH-98 is the only product in the world to achieve normalized operation, with a maximum range of 1,200 kilometers and a cargo capacity of 1.5 tons.
There is the first domestic drone production line with industrial 5G technology. "We stand on the shoulders of 'giants', use the technology accumulation of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation for many years, and accelerate independent research and development on the basis of promoting landing and transformation." Yao Yu, deputy chief economist of Aerospace Times Feipeng Co., Ltd., said that soon, the company will also move into the digital aerospace industrial park built in Huaqiao to accelerate the attraction of upstream and downstream and improve the industrial chain support.
Technology is "Kun", and "innovation vouchers" leverage Shanghai's resources
With more than 40 years of open development, Kunshan has accumulated a deep manufacturing foundation. Among the 150,000 corporate enterprises, more than 2,000 enterprises above the designated size, and nearly one million business entities, Kunshan has 30 industries in the manufacturing field, covering all 8 types of industries in the "Strategic Emerging Industry Classification".
In the face of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, transformation, innovation and reconstruction have become a new proposition for the high-quality development of Kunshan's economy. Kunshan, who once went to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport to "squat" to sell and find projects, set its sights on Shanghai for the first time this time.
"The 'Shanghai-Kunming Innovation Voucher' is really 'timely rain'." Kunshan Yantong Mould Co., Ltd. head of Ge Lei said. In the early stage, the company docked with the relevant technology research and development team of Shanghai Second Polytechnic University to jointly develop the EDM automation system. However, the company is still in the development stage, and the 600,000 yuan scientific and technological research and development expenses make the company feel a little "unbearable".
At the time of the difficulty, the Kunshan Science and Technology Bureau recommended the "Shanghai-Kunming Innovation Voucher" policy to the enterprise, and the school and enterprise successfully signed the contract, and the project was quickly successfully developed and put into industrialization, and the company's production efficiency was greatly improved. According to the contract, the Kunshan Science and Technology Bureau bears 50% of the R&D costs, which greatly reduces the burden on enterprises.
"Shanghai-Kunming Innovation Voucher" is a new model evolved from Shanghai's "Sunday Engineer" in the 80s of the 20th century. From a large number of engineers who used to travel back and forth between Shanghai and Kunming on weekends to the scientific and technological innovation vouchers that are now invisibly circulating, the times are developing, the social context is evolving, and Kunshan's ambition to seek "new" is getting stronger.
Last year, the "Shanghai-Suzhou-Hui" Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Voucher Cooperation Promotion Conference was held in Shanghai, and the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Voucher was connected throughout Suzhou, from a successful practice in one place to an important "science and technology hard currency" in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Scientific and technological innovation is the core element in the development of new quality productive forces. Kunshan is deeply integrated into the construction of the "Hongqiao International Open Hub" and the "Taihu Lake Science and Technology Innovation Circle" and "Wusongjiang Science and Technology Innovation Belt" in Suzhou, and continuously promotes the construction of science and technology innovation carriers such as science and technology innovation centers on both sides of Yangcheng Lake, so that more and more innovation resources will pour into Kunshan. Before the "Shanghai-Kunming Innovation Voucher", Kunshan's layout of science and technology innovation had already begun, and there were many similar explorations.
Kunshan Industrial Technology Research Institute is a core platform for scientific and technological innovation in Kunshan established by drawing on the experience of Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute. From the "Shanghai-Kunshan Science and Technology Innovation Community", the Kunshan Training Base of the National Technology Transfer Talent Training Base (Eastern Center), to the Kunshan Science and Technology Market of the Shanghai Technology Exchange and the Kunshan Branch of the Lingang Global Cross-border Technology Trade Center, the Kunshan Industrial Technology Research Institute has initiated the establishment of a large number of Shanghai-Kunming science and technology innovation service platforms to accelerate the seamless connection and two-way empowerment of Shanghai-Kunming science and technology service resources.
In the future of "algorithms", the digital economy is the new "flashpoint"
Looking at the world, the scale of data elements has expanded rapidly, the market-oriented allocation reform has been deepened, and the digital economy has become a new track and the main track of industrial transformation. Kunshan is accelerating the construction of a digital industry innovation cluster with regional competitiveness and international influence.
Let's start with a set of data. In 2023, the added value of the core industries of Kunshan's digital economy will exceed 100 billion yuan, accounting for 23.3% of the regional GDP, achieving both quantitative and qualitative improvements, and becoming an important driving force for stabilizing the economic growth of the "strongest county" and promoting transformation and development.
The wind and tide surge, "calculate" the future. Computing power is the foundation of the digital economy, and the construction of "Nansong Zhigu", an advanced computing industry cluster located in Kunshan High-tech Zone, is accelerating. From the layout of top-level computing power to the construction of advanced computing industrial parks, Kunshan has gathered a number of key enterprises such as Zhongke Control, Cambrian, Zhongke Jingshang, and Kungaoxin High-tech Chip, which will become another new coordinate of Kunshan's modern industry.
Since 2023, the development of Kunshan's "digital economy" has entered a period of acceleration. In the Cross-Strait Digital Entertainment Industrial Park of Dream World, the "first share" of Kunshan's metaverse industry to be listed - Superstar Legend Group, with the help of the influence of leading artists in Hong Kong and Taiwan such as Jay Chou, Liu Genghong, Sun Yaowei, etc., has driven more than 50 settled enterprises, built a star IP portfolio, and built a large-scale headquarters live broadcast base integrating artist live broadcast, air fitness and other formats. Li Daoling, general manager of Kunshan Jiabao Wangshang Cultural Investment Co., Ltd. and head of the Dream World project, said that in 2023, the park has completed a total output value of more than 4.5 billion yuan since its opening, and paid taxes of about 300 million yuan.
"Huaqiao is the only Suzhou Digital Economy Industrial Park in Kunshan, and it is the first to build a digital economy experimental zone with high standards of global digitalization concept." The person in charge of the Cultural Industry Section of the Huaqiaotai Service Office said that Huaqiao will continue to make precise efforts in the fields of digital entertainment, fashion creativity, culture and technology, actively seize innovation hotspots, launch celebrity brands, and seek a new path for the high-quality development of the digital economy.
It not only focuses on exploring "new ways to play", but also vigorously builds a new ecology of clusters. On December 27, 2023, at the Kunshan International Digital Innovation Valley Partners Conference and Audit Model Release Ceremony, 10 benchmark enterprises in the field of digital economy signed new contracts to enter the Kunshan International Digital Innovation Valley Operating Company, and Kunshan International Digital Innovation Valley Operating Company also joined forces with industry leading enterprises and scientific research institutes to establish the Kunshan International Digital Innovation Valley Ecological Alliance to provide more high-quality solutions for digital transformation.
The ubiquitous digital "intelligence" is becoming the "flashpoint" to activate Kunshan's innovation potential, accelerating the process of value-based data and other new production factors in the development of new quality productivity, and bursting out with majestic new vitality.