NanTong Daily's top headline focuses on: Project 'speeding up', industry 'climbing steadily' -- Tongzhouwan Demonstration Zone's industrial added value above designated size increased by 30.3% in the first quarter, ranking first in the city

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2024-04-29

NanTong Daily's top headline focuses on: Project 'speeding up', industry 'climbing steadily' -- Tongzhouwan Demonstration Zone's industrial added value above designated size increased by 30.3% in the first quarter, ranking first in the city

Above-scale industrial added value increased by 30.3%, the highest growth rate in the city; general public budget revenue increased by 8.2% year-on-year, the highest growth rate in the city... The Tongzhou Bay Demonstration Zone's first-quarter report has been released recently, achieving a successful start to the year.

Behind these figures is the demonstration zone's firm confidence in seizing the opportunities of cross-river integration and seaward development, and its unremitting efforts to focus on projects, cultivate industries, and increase the total volume. Since the beginning of this year, the entire zone has adopted a competitive spirit, a determined attitude, and proactive measures to ensure a good start to various tasks, painting a picture of striving for development in the spring.

Continuously striving to attract projects

A closer look at the report shows that Tongzhou Bay has continuously made efforts to attract projects: In the first quarter, 20 new projects with investments exceeding 100 million yuan were signed, with a total investment exceeding 200 billion yuan.

The success stems from good planning. At the beginning of this year, the demonstration zone outlined its annual investment attraction plan: actively integrating into the co-construction of the Yangtze River Estuary Industrial Innovation Collaborative Zone, strengthening cross-regional industrial cooperation with southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, and other places, frequently conducting investment promotion "door-knocking actions," and integrating and stacking the capital chain, innovation chain, industrial chain, and service chain to ensure that the total investment in newly signed projects will exceed 600 billion yuan this year. Combining industry development trends and regional advantages, Tongzhou Bay's investment promotion team has "followed the map," continuously organizing activities such as the "Caring for Bay City" New Year Salon, "Tongcai Returns to Tongzhou," and the Tongzhou Bay Demonstration Zone (Shanghai) Yangtze River Estuary Industrial Innovation Collaborative Cooperation Exchange Conference, and conducting more than 30 investment promotion activities.

Based on the investment promotion "battle map," the demonstration zone further clarified the direction of industrial investment promotion: while consolidating traditional advantages in marine engineering and new materials, it has opened up "new tracks" for investment promotion in the service industry and foreign-funded projects. Su Ping, director of the Tongzhou Bay Demonstration Zone Economic Development Bureau, introduced: "Among the newly signed projects in the first quarter, there are two foreign-funded projects with investments exceeding US$30 million, and the demonstration zone's first aspiring above-scale technology-based service enterprise—Clover Wisdom Number Technology—has settled here. These will all shape new impetus for the high-quality development of the demonstration zone's economy."

Projects need to be attracted, but they also need to be implemented. The demonstration zone firmly grasped the "bull's-eye" of project construction, further optimized the "three-center" service mechanism, provided full support for major project construction, and promoted rapid construction and early production of projects. In the first quarter, 10 industrial projects with investments exceeding 100 million yuan were started, and 12 were completed. There are 63 existing projects under construction, with a total investment of 60.7 billion yuan. Fixed asset investment increased by 35.6% year-on-year, and construction investment increased by 44%, both ranking first in the city.

Accelerated industrial upgrading

What is the secret to the double-digit high growth of above-scale industries? The demonstration zone provided the answer with its solid and strong project support: In the past two years, there have been a total of 15 major provincial and municipal projects, 11 of which have been put into production. This year, the number of major provincial projects in the demonstration zone has reached a new high, with six projects including Huaneng Nantong (Tongzhou Bay) 2×1000,000 kW large-scale clean and efficient coal-fired power plant, Furite Solar Photovoltaic Glass and Backplane, Tongzhou Bay Libert Large-scale Industrialized Modules, and Nantong Tongzhou Bay Runbang High-end Equipment and Lanshui Marine Engineering Equipment being included. Among them, the investment completion rate of Furite, Huaneng, and Lanshui, major provincial and municipal projects, reached 34.2%, exceeding the scheduled progress by 9.2 percentage points.

"With the support and care of the demonstration zone, we have completed the transformation of our first production line, which can increase production capacity by 20% and save 30% of manpower." In the production workshop of Jiangsu Mengda New Materials Technology Co., Ltd., the newly transformed soft magnetic powder and MIM powder production lines are operating at full capacity. Cheng Jexin, the head of the company, said that the transformation of the production line has helped the company achieve a double improvement in manufacturing efficiency and product quality, with a 40% increase in output and a 20% increase in sales in the first quarter. "All eight production lines of the company will be completed by the end of the year, and the company's new 500 million yuan investment and 75-mu second-phase project has entered the piling stage. After reaching full production, the annual sales are expected to reach 800 million yuan."

This is a microcosm of Tongzhou Bay's targeted measures and the rapid advancement of industrial upgrading. Since the beginning of this year, the demonstration zone has focused on supporting enterprises in accelerating the application of new technologies and equipment, with 13 enterprises with technological transformation projects exceeding 10 million yuan included in the first batch of cultivation, and two enterprises applying for provincial intelligent manufacturing demonstration workshops.

The ability of enterprises to accelerate their progress with high spirits is inseparable from the demonstration zone's always-online enterprise support services. Ten measures to promote a successful start to the first quarter and related supporting policies were introduced; leaders led teams to visit 291 enterprises, solving 98 problems and adding 19 "above-scale" enterprises; the "30-article" policy on technological innovation was revised, serving 4 enterprises in applying for municipal enterprise technology centers, and two enterprises applying for the "provincial specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises" certification... A series of solid measures have deepened the "mutual achievement" between the local government and enterprises. In the first quarter, the proportion of high-tech industrial output value in the demonstration zone reached 50.1%, an increase of 5 percentage points compared to the whole year of last year.

Steady improvement of urban level

Recently, the construction site of the InterContinental Holiday Hotel project is bustling with activity, with tower cranes standing tall and machines roaring. As an important part of the improvement of the urban level of the Tongzhou Bay Demonstration Zone, the project has a total investment of 500 million yuan. It is expected that the main structure will be topped out in the third quarter and completed within the year. After completion, it will further promote industrial agglomeration and improve functional supporting facilities in Tongzhou Bay.

"As Nantong's urban sub-center and the central city of "Greater Tongzhou Bay," the demonstration zone continues to carry out various activities to promote consumption, increasing market vitality and attracting people to the city." Yu Xiaoxia, director of the Tongzhou Bay Urban Functional Development Investment Promotion Bureau, introduced that in the first quarter, the demonstration zone promoted the recovery of the service industry through a series of "Welcoming the New Year and Promoting Consumption" activities, with the sales of above-scale retail businesses increasing by 15.3% and the turnover of above-scale catering businesses increasing by 23.6%, continuously enhancing urban vitality.

In addition to continuously improving commercial supporting facilities to create a lively atmosphere, the demonstration zone has also spared no effort in upgrading medical and educational supporting facilities.

The much-anticipated Tongzhou Bay branch of the First People's Hospital of Nantong City has opened, with expert teams providing regular consultations, and the number of outpatient visits has exceeded 5,000; the co-construction of famous schools such as Zilan Primary School, the First Kindergarten of Organs, and Tian Jiabing Middle School continues to improve quality; and the co-construction of the Nantong Vocational University's industry-education integration body is deeply integrated...

While striving for a successful start to the year, we must also strive for sustained success. In the future, the demonstration zone will aim to increase the volume of key projects, maintain stable operation through innovation, continue to tackle key projects such as PetroChina and Furite, eight major provincial and municipal projects, and projects with investments exceeding 500 million yuan, accelerate the production and efficiency of 11 projects newly completed in the first quarter, adhere to the development of new productive forces as an important focus, continue to support enterprises in accelerating technological transformation and upgrading, increasing the intensity of "intelligent transformation, digital transformation, network connection," and accelerating the achievement of exponential growth in quantity and effective improvement in quality.

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