Wuqing, between Beijing and Tianjin, is a place full of fighting spirit and legend.
Wuqing is located at the intersection of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, with unique geographical advantages, and is known as the "Beijing-Tianjin Corridor" and "Beijing-Tianjin Pearl".
For a long time, Wuqing has been an important fertile ground for foreign-funded enterprises in the northern region, with 867 foreign-funded enterprises operating here, including 42 of the world's top 500 enterprises and more than 200 leading enterprises in the industry at home and abroad.
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Walking in Wuqing Beijing-Tianjin Industrial New Town, you will inexplicably have a sense of travel, and countless foreign-funded enterprise logos will pass in front of you.
This future-oriented "city of new industries" also has a deep Danish affection.
Denmark, also known as the "fairytale kingdom", is located in the north of Europe, bordering Germany to the south, the North Sea to the west, Norway and Sweden to the north.
For decades, Wuqing and Danish enterprises have sincerely intersected and cooperated in depth, working together to shape and give full play to the city's industrial advantages, achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, and form deep friendships. At present, there are 22 Danish enterprises in the region, with a total revenue of more than 170 billion yuan in 2022, accounting for about one-fifth of the total revenue of foreign-funded enterprises in the region, and it is an important source of foreign investment in Wuqing.
Among the Danish enterprises in Wuqing, in addition to large and medium-sized enterprises such as Danfoss, Ayazhi Fashion, Nebo Gear, and Mike Rometik, small and medium-sized enterprises such as Nissen, Schutte, Difa, and Scandillo have factories in Wuqing. Today, Wuqing is one of the most concentrated areas in northern China for Danish companies, covering manufacturing, services, wholesale and retail sectors.
Danfoss (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. is the first wholly-owned subsidiary of Danfoss Group established in China in 1996, which is one of the crystallization of Wuqing's close cooperation with Danish companies. Looking back on the past 30 years, Danfoss (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. has witnessed a solid footprint of going hand in hand with Wuqing; Looking forward to the future, we will work with Wuqing to nurture good expectations for promoting intelligent manufacturing and green innovation.
Founded in 1933 in Nordborg, Denmark, Danfoss has 42,000 employees, sells its products in more than 100 countries, and has 100 factories worldwide. Danfoss continues to make significant investments in China to enhance its strategic position as a "second home market". In May 2023, the Danfoss Global Refrigeration R&D and Testing Center was officially opened in Wuqing, Tianjin. The center has greatly enhanced the Group's innovation capabilities in the field of commercial compressors, providing partners with first-class green refrigeration technology and promoting the green transformation of the industry. The Group has completed the comprehensive upgrade of R&D capabilities in Tianjin Wuqing, Zhejiang Haiyan, Jiangsu Zhenjiang and other bases, and actively promoted the transformation from "Made in China" to "Created in China".
Danfoss is the world's benchmark enterprise in the field of intelligent manufacturing. At the beginning of 2019, the Danfoss Commercial Compressor plant in Tianjin was named by the World Economic Forum as a "lighthouse factory" leading the new trend of intelligent manufacturing development in the fourth industrial revolution. In the same year, the factory was also awarded the honorary title of "Intelligent Manufacturing Benchmarking Enterprise" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In May last year, Danfoss Group's largest and world-leading refrigeration R&D and testing center was officially opened in Wuqing Development Zone, with a total construction area of about 7,000 square meters and a total investment of 140 million yuan. This is the sixth and largest capital increase for Danfoss since it settled in Tianjin. The center is mainly committed to the R&D and testing of commercial compressor inverter technology, heat pump and other industry applications, as well as environmentally friendly refrigerant alternatives, leading the transformation of the refrigeration industry to environmentally friendly refrigerants.
At present, Wuqing is thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on inspecting Tianjin, resolutely shouldering the responsibilities and missions of Wuqing as the "bridgehead" and "main force" of Tianjin to promote the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, taking the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei as the strategic traction, developing new quality productivity according to local conditions, accelerating the construction of Beijing-Tianjin New Industrial City "New Industrial City", and striving to build Tianjin's "new economic growth pole".
Here, you will feel the vigorous momentum of Wuqing to help promote the construction of a new development pattern, make better use of both international and domestic markets and resources, and achieve stronger and more sustainable development.
Sincere cooperation to spread a new chapter; Affectionate friendship and timelessness. Wuqing will closely focus on the city's "Ten Actions" to promote high-quality development and the "3+1+1" work idea of the District Committee, starting from the two aspects of introducing and nurturing the increment of foreign investment and strengthening the stock of foreign investment, take multiple measures to promote foreign-funded enterprises to take root in Wuqing and invest in Wuqing, attract more high-quality projects to land, promote the development of foreign investment in Wuqing and the iterative upgrading of the industry, and work together with enterprises to promote the development of foreign investment industry in Wuqing and the overall improvement of the economy of the whole region, so as to achieve a wider scope, wider fields and higher level of exchanges and cooperation.