From June 16th to 21st, Mao Jian, Secretary of the District Party Committee, went to Austria and Germany to carry out economic and trade exchange activities, visited well-known enterprises and overseas universities, introduced the investment environment, deepened friendly exchanges and exchanges, promoted the accelerated implementation of projects under discussion, continuously expanded the "circle of friends" of industrial cooperation, and enhanced the "openness" of the regional economy.
Headquartered in Graz, Austria, Magna Steyr is the largest wholly-owned subsidiary of Magna International, the world's leading independent automotive engineering services and vehicle manufacturing company, and established a joint venture with BAIC New Energy in 2018 to build a high-end new energy vehicle manufacturing base and experimental center in our region. Mao Jian visited Magna's Steyr Graz vehicle plant and took a test ride of the latest models. Matthias, senior manager of Magna Steyr Asia Project, introduced the company's basic situation, development concept, operation strategy and related business promotion to the delegation in detail. Subsequently, Mao Jian had in-depth negotiations with the company's vice president Cote and others. Mao Jian said that the new energy vehicle and parts industry is one of the key industries in the development of the region, and since the beginning of this year, under the leadership of BAIC Magna, the industry has maintained a rapid growth momentum. In the next step, Dantu will make every effort to do a good job in service guarantee, and hopes that Magna will give more support in technical cooperation, product development, parts and other aspects, so as to promote more cooperation results between the two sides. Kete believes that Dantu is located in the Yangtze River Delta region, with obvious comparative advantages in location and transportation, and its manufacturing plant is Magna's only vehicle manufacturing base in China, which has great development potential, and will increase support, continuously improve product production capacity, and strive to promote more parts supporting enterprises to settle in Dantu, and jointly realize the high-quality development of Dantu's new energy vehicle and parts industry.
EREMA Group is one of the world's largest suppliers of plastic recycling equipment for the manufacturing sector. Mao Jian visited the headquarters and equipment manufacturing base of Erema Group, and communicated with Manfred Hackl, President of the Group, and Robin Roth, Director and General Manager of the Group. After focusing on the development of Dantu industry, entrepreneurship and innovation, investment environment, etc., Mao Jian said that for a long time, Dantu enterprises and groups have maintained close cooperation, which has laid a solid foundation for further cooperation and exchanges between the two sides, and hopes that the group will take Dantu as a key area for investment in China and accelerate investment layout and project cooperation. Manfred Hacker introduced the development history, business layout and technical services of Erema Group, and said that he would strengthen communication, enhance understanding and mutual trust, better carry out pragmatic cooperation and achieve fruitful results. During the exchange, the two sides witnessed the signing of the cooperation between Erema Group and Jiangsu Saiwei New Material Technology Co., Ltd.
During his stay in Germany, Mao Jian visited internationally renowned companies such as BITZER Group and Hella Group. In August 2020, BITZER and Jiangsu Deao Compressor Refrigeration Technology Co., Ltd. established a joint venture "BITZER Rotary Compressor (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd." in Dantu, investing 1.1 billion yuan to build a project with an annual output of 6 million sets of rotary compressors, and the first phase of the project has been completed and put into operation. Mao Jian came to the group headquarters to have in-depth exchanges with Meister, vice president of operations in the Asia-Pacific region. Mao Jian said that he will continue to serve the construction and operation of the Bizel apprenticeship project, and looks forward to all-round cooperation in more fields to better promote the high-quality development of both parties. Meister expressed his gratitude to Dantu for his care and support to BITZER, and gave a detailed introduction to BITZER's development strategy, especially the next cooperation plan of the BITZER project, saying that he is full of expectations for the project and will make every effort to accelerate the pace.
HELLA Group is a listed international auto parts supplier under Freya Group, and the key projects in our region are showing a good momentum of development. Mao Jian visited Hella's factory in Lipstadt, and had a discussion and exchange with Johannes Müller, vice president of strategy and mergers and acquisitions of the group, on the group's strategic development, industrial layout, project construction and other contents, thanked HELLA for its care and support, and hoped to further increase cooperation on the basis of existing projects, lay out more high-quality projects and advanced technologies, and promote more advanced production capacity to be implemented. Johannes Müller welcomed the delegation to visit the group, and said that he would further optimize the production capacity and technical layout based on the group's strategy, and better deepen cooperation and win-win development.
Talent is the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. In Germany, a manufacturing powerhouse, the dual vocational education system has a distinctive "school-running" characteristic, which has provided a large number of excellent industrial workers for the high-quality development of "Made in Germany". Baden-Württemberg State University is one of the first two dual universities in Germany and now has more than 30,000 teachers and students after 50 years of development. Mao Jian came to the school for a field visit to learn more about the practice mode of the "dual system", the direction of talent training, the employment situation of students, etc., and said that the dual system teaching in Germany is an initiative of cooperation between enterprises and the government in the field of higher education, which has important reference significance for promoting the deep integration of "industry, talent, city and education" in the whole region, and hopes that the two sides can take this opportunity to build a platform and build a good mechanism, and strive to cooperate in culture, education, economy and other fields.
During this period, Mao Jian also met with Norbert Egger, former first deputy mayor of Mannheim, Germany and honorary citizen of Zhenjiang City. Mao Jian said that Norbert Eiger is an old friend of the people of Zhenjiang and has made positive contributions to the establishment of sister cities between the two cities and the friendly exchanges between China and Germany. As one of the key sectors of the city, Dantu has been committed to the high-quality development of economic and social undertakings in recent years, and looks forward to further deepening understanding, enhancing friendship between the two sides, and constantly writing a new chapter of friendly cooperation.
District leaders Ma Yunfei and Yang Fan attended the event.