Capital of Guangdong Province, a national historical and cultural city, an important central city of China, an international business and trade center and a comprehensive transportation hub... In February this year, the State Council officially approved Guangzhou's positioning as a cutting-edge city. In the future, Guangzhou will deepen in-depth cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao and become an important hub of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. The Nansha Area of Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone will be built into a demonstration zone for in-depth cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
Centering on the goal of building an important central city, three international "hubs" of Guangzhou will support the future of the "center".
Nansha New Area's "International Shipping Hub" sets sail
Located at the southern end of Guangzhou and at the estuary of the Pearl River, Nansha New Area is one of the rare sea accesses of Guangzhou, as well as the geographical center and hub of the Greater Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration. On April 21 last year, together with Shenzhen Qianhai and Zhuhai Hengqin, Nansha New Area witnessed the official inauguration of China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone. Aiming at building an international shipping hub, Nansha New Area has set sail.
"I love Nansha just as sharks love the ocean and eagles love the sky." Long Xuesong, a former "coal boss" from Jincheng, Shanxi Province, has registered 34 companies (associations) in Nansha New Area in one go, covering cross-border commodity exhibition, parallel imported cars, shipping financial leasing and other fields, and built a "giant" platform named "Egret Headquarters". As of April 20 this year, 10,802 new enterprises have been established in Nansha New Area, with newly added registered capital totaling 111.3 billion yuan. 50 Fortune Global 500 enterprises have settled in one after another, and shipping logistics, innovative finance, financial leasing, cross-border e-commerce and other industries are gradually taking shape of agglomeration.
In promoting investment facilitation and customs clearance and trade facilitation, multiple "Nansha models" have been created: "combined processing of 11 certificates and 3 permits", the first initiative of government purchase of inspection services, the first initiative of rapid customs inspection and release mechanism, the first initiative of "smart inspection port", the launch of the professional international trade "single window" version 2.0...
To build an international shipping center, expanding and strengthening the port is the key. In just one year, 6 100,000-ton container berths at the third-phase terminal of Nansha Port Area were completed, which can accommodate the world's larger-tonnage container ships; 28 inland dry ports have been built, and the total number of international liner routes has reached 74; the construction of the cruise home port has been launched, and routes to Hong Kong, Sanya, Da Nang and Miyako Island have been opened successively. In 2015, the container throughput of Nansha Port reached 11.77 million TEUs, ranking 12th in the world. Meanwhile, the shipbuilding industry in Nansha New Area also has broad prospects. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China State Shipbuilding Corporation will invest 15 billion yuan to build a marine equipment industrial base in Longxue, Nansha, which will take Guangzhou as a base and further radiate the Beibu Gulf and Southeast Asia.
Seafood caught from Australia can be transported to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport within 36 hours, and after going through customs, border inspection and inspection and quarantine procedures, it can be delivered to the seafood market near Guangzhou citizens within 12 hours. Baiyun Airport Comprehensive Bonded Zone is one of the largest airport-type comprehensive bonded zones in China. At present, more than 260 enterprises of various types have settled in, and their businesses cover bonded logistics, warehousing and distribution, cross-border e-commerce, processing, customs brokerage and other industries.
"For Guangzhou to participate in international competition, it should gather high-end factors in the global industrial chain, innovation chain and value chain, and the international aviation hub is exactly the important resource, platform and carrier for building a central city." said Ren Xuefeng, Member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee.
Air routes are getting denser and logistics is getting more developed!
At 7:30 on May 7, a Finnair passenger plane departing from Helsinki arrived at Baiyun Airport smoothly. So far, there are 72 airlines operating at Baiyun Airport, including 47 foreign airlines; a total of more than 270 air routes have been opened, including more than 100 international routes, covering more than 70 international navigation points. The construction of Terminal 2 and its supporting projects are being pressed ahead. In addition, China Southern Airlines Group, headquartered in Guangzhou, has a transport capacity of 180 aircraft in Guangzhou, and as many as 141 navigation points around the world connected via Guangzhou. China Eastern Airlines Guangdong Branch has also successfully settled in Baiyun, and plans to operate 30 aircraft during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.
In January this year, the "Administrative Measures for Guangzhou Airport Economic Zone" was issued, and an area of 116 square kilometers in Baiyun District was delimited as the development zone of the airport economic zone. In the future, the airport economic zone will accelerate the clustered development of airport-oriented industries, and give priority to the construction of projects such as the China-Australia-New Zealand-South Korea Free Trade Industrial Park, Guangzhou Airport Cross-border E-commerce Agglomeration Area, and the distribution and trading center for valuable goods. At present, projects such as FedEx Asia-Pacific Transit Center, South China Processing Center of China Postal Express & Logistics, and R&F Logistics have settled in one after another, and the annual international cargo handling capacity of Baiyun Airport will be increased to 1.5 million tons. "In the future, the airport economic zone can achieve direct access to the central urban area within 20 minutes and coverage of the Pearl River Delta within 1 hour, which will greatly enhance regional radiation capacity." introduced Sun Xiuqing, Director of the Guangzhou Airport Economic Zone Management Committee.
Air travel is getting faster, and land transportation is also catching up. At present, on the basis of the existing 9, 13 railways, high-speed railways and intercity rails, Guangzhou is also planning to build railways in 8 directions including Hainan, Shaanxi, Guangxi, Yunnan (Southeast Asia), Beijing, Shanghai, Macao and Hong Kong, as well as 11 subway lines with a total length of 303 kilometers. By then, with Guangzhou as the center, a strategic passage connecting east, west and north of Guangdong, the Beibu Gulf, southwest China, southeast China, the Yangtze River Delta and other regions will be completed.
Guangzhou (Yangcheng) is striding forward in building the "International Science and Technology Innovation Hub"
In the large welding workshop, rows of intelligent robot arms bend and lift rhythmically, intelligent rail carts move or stop, load or unload... On April 18, the GAC FCA plant with an annual output of 160,000 Jeep Renegades was officially put into operation, and the GAC Trumpchi GA8, which represents the highest domestic automobile manufacturing level and cost 1.08 billion yuan in R&D, rolled off the production line.
"Against the background of global overcapacity in the automobile industry, we rely on independent innovation, and at least 4 models sell well every year. All our models have obtained the five-star safety evaluation in C-NCAP crash test conducted by China Automotive Technology and Research Center, and we have mastered core technologies in key components, vehicle control, new energy and other fields." said Wu Song, General Manager of GAC Motor Co., Ltd., proudly. As the leading pillar industry of the whole city, Guangzhou's automobile industry is expected to contribute an output value of 500 billion yuan this year.
Traditional industries are glowing with new vitality, while emerging business forms are developing vigorously. In 2015, the total number of cross-border e-commerce enterprises in Guangzhou reached 879, and the total import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce hit 6.85 billion yuan, ranking among the top nationwide. The "Tianhe-2" supercomputer located in Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center has topped the world's computing speed for six consecutive years, providing typical application services for more than 660 users. The city's industrial robot and intelligent equipment industry has gathered more than 20 production, R&D and integrated application-oriented enterprises, with an output value close to 40 billion yuan. Enterprises such as Shangpin Home Collection, Sofia, Oppein and Koman have grown into benchmarks in the national custom furniture industry.
"This year, the financial funds allocated by the whole district for scientific and technological innovation will reach 1 billion yuan, doubling that of last year." said Chen Zhiying, Member of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Working Committee of Guangzhou Development Zone and Secretary of the Huangpu District Party Committee. Guangzhou Development Zone (Huangpu District) will become the main engine for Guangzhou to build an international scientific and technological innovation hub and the core area of the Pearl River Delta national independent innovation demonstration zone. At present, Guangzhou Development Zone (Huangpu District), with an area of less than 500 square kilometers, already has four major innovation development platforms: Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City, Guangzhou Science City, Guangzhou International Bio-Island and Huangpu Port Economic Zone. The Pazhou Internet Innovation Cluster adjacent to the Canton Fair has also emerged as a new force, and has successfully introduced a number of leading Internet enterprises such as Tencent, Alibaba and Xiaomi Technology. On May 27, the 2016 China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Achievement Exchange Conference opened, with more than 1,700 innovation and entrepreneurship achievement projects on display. To encourage mass entrepreneurship and innovation, the China Association for Science and Technology has decided that the conference will be permanently located in Guangzhou and be held annually.
"Building a central city cannot be achieved without a high-quality talent team. At the beginning of this year, we launched a strong support plan for innovation and entrepreneurship leading talents. We believe that entrepreneurs will start businesses, innovators will carry out innovation, and developers will achieve development in Guangzhou." Wen Guohui, Mayor of Guangzhou, is full of confidence in the future.