Guangzhou: an important hub of the 21st century Maritime Silk Road
The provincial capital of Guangdong Province, the national historical and cultural city, the important central city of China, the international trade center and the comprehensive transportation hub... In February this year, the State Council officially approved the positioning of Guangzhou as a leading city. In the future, Guangzhou will strengthen in-depth cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao, and become an important hub of the 21st century Maritime Silk Road. Nansha area of Guangdong free trade zone will be built into a demonstration area for in-depth cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
Focusing on the goal of building an important central city, Guangzhou's three major international "hubs" will support the future of the "center".
Nansha New Area "international shipping hub" set sail
Nansha New Area, located at the southern end of Guangzhou, is located at the estuary of the Pearl River. It is the only channel to the sea in Guangzhou and the geographical center and hub of the urban agglomeration in the Greater Pearl River Delta. On April 21 last year, Nansha New Area, together with Shenzhen Qianhai and Zhuhai Hengqin, welcomed the official listing of China (Guangdong) pilot free trade zone. Aiming at the international shipping hub, Nansha New Area set sail.
"I like Nansha, just as sharks like the sea and goshawks love the sky." Long Xuesong, a former "coal boss" and a native of Jincheng, Shanxi Province, registered 34 companies (associations) in Nansha New Area, such as cross-border commodity display, parallel imported cars, shipping and financial leasing, and built a "Big Mac" platform called "Egret headquarters". As of April 20 this year, there were 10802 new enterprises in Nansha New Area, with a new registered capital of 111.3 billion yuan. 50 of the world's top 500 enterprises have successively settled in Nansha New Area. Industries such as shipping logistics, innovative finance, financial leasing, and cross-border e-commerce are gradually gathering.
In terms of promoting investment facilitation, customs clearance and trade facilitation, many "Nansha models" have been born: "joint handling of 11 certificates and three chapters", the first government purchase inspection service, the first customs rapid inspection and release mechanism, the first "intelligent inspection port", the first "single window" of international trade version 2.0
The key to building an international shipping center is to make the port bigger and stronger. In just one year, six 100000 ton container berths of phase III terminal of Nansha port area have been completed, which can berth the world's large tonnage container ships; 28 inland dry ports were built, and the total number of international liner routes reached 74; The construction of cruise home port was started, and the routes to and from Hong Kong, Sanya, Da Nang and gonggu Island were successively opened. In 2015, the container throughput of Nansha Port reached 11.77 million TEUs, ranking the 12th in the world. At the same time, the shipbuilding industry in Nansha New Area also has broad prospects. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, China Shipbuilding Group will invest 15 billion yuan to build a marine equipment industrial base in Nansha Longxue, and take Guangzhou as the base to further radiate the Beibu Gulf and Southeast Asia.
Baiyun "international aviation hub" is about to emerge
The seafood caught from Australia can be transported to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport within 36 hours. After customs, border inspection and inspection and quarantine, it can be delivered to the seafood market near Guangzhou citizens within 12 hours. Baiyun Airport comprehensive bonded zone is a large-scale airport type comprehensive bonded zone in the country. At present, more than 260 enterprises have settled in the zone. The business covers bonded logistics warehousing and distribution, cross-border e-commerce, processing, customs declaration and other industries.
"To participate in international competition, Guangzhou must gather high-end elements in the global industrial chain, innovation chain and value chain. The international aviation hub is an important resource, platform and carrier for building a central city." Said Ren Xuefeng, member of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Provincial CPC Committee and Secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal CPC Committee.
More and more intensive routes and more developed logistics!
At 7:30 on May 7, the Finnair passenger plane departing from Helsinki successfully arrived at Baiyun Airport. Up to now, there are 72 airlines operating at Baiyun Airport, including 47 foreign airlines; A total of more than 270 routes were opened, including more than 100 international routes and more than 70 international navigation points. The airport terminal 2 project and its supporting projects are being accelerated. In addition, China Southern Airlines Group, which is headquartered in Guangzhou, has a capacity of 180 aircraft in Guangzhou, and 141 navigation points connecting Guangzhou to the world. China Eastern Airlines Guangdong branch has also successfully settled in Baiyun. During the "13th five year plan" period, it plans to operate 30 aircraft.
In January this year, the administrative measures for Guangzhou airport economic zone was issued. The 116 square kilometer area of Baiyun District was designated as the key development zone of the airport economic zone. In the future, the airport economic zone will speed up the development of airport industry cluster, and will first promote the construction of China Australia New Korea Free Trade Industrial Park, Guangzhou airport cross-border e-commerce cluster, precious goods distribution and trading center and other projects. At present, FedEx Asia Pacific transit center, Postal Express South China processing center, R & F logistics and other projects have successively settled in Baiyun Airport. The annual international cargo handling capacity of Baiyun Airport will also be increased to 1.5 million tons. "In the future, the airport can reach the central city in 20 minutes and cover the Pearl River Delta in 1 hour, greatly enhancing the regional radiation." Introduced by sun Xiuqing, director of Guangzhou Airport Management Committee.
Air traffic is faster, and ground traffic is not lagging behind. At present, on the basis of the existing 9 subways, 13 railways, high-speed railways and intercity tracks, Guangzhou is also planning to build 8 railways from Guangzhou to Hainan, Shaanxi, Guangxi, Yunnan (Southeast Asia), Beijing, Shanghai, Macao and Hong Kong, and 11 subways with a total length of 303 kilometers. By then, with Guangzhou as the center, a strategic channel connecting the East and northwest of Guangdong, the Beibu Gulf, the southwest, the southeast and the Yangtze River Delta will be built.
Yangcheng "international science and Technology Innovation Hub" sings loudly
In such a large welding workshop, rows of intelligent robot arms bend and rise, and each intelligent rail car moves or stops, or loads or unloads... On April 18, GAC motor ga8, which has an annual output of 160000 Jeep free riders, was officially put into production, with an investment of 1.08 billion yuan in research and development. GAC motor ga8, which represents the high level of vehicle manufacturing in China, was offline.
"Against the background of global automobile overcapacity, we rely on independent innovation, and at least four models are sold well every year. All models have won the five-star evaluation of C-NCAP safety collision by China Automotive Technology Center, and core technologies such as major parts, vehicle control and new energy are in our hands." Wu Song, general manager of GAC Motor Co., Ltd., said proudly. As the city's top pillar industry, Guangzhou automobile is expected to contribute 500 billion yuan in output value this year.
Traditional industries are full of youth, and new business forms are in full swing. 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 was 6.85 billion yuan, ranking well-known in the whole network. The "tianhe-2" supercomputer, located in Guangzhou University Town, has the world's fastest 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 of nearly 40 billion yuan. Shangpin home distribution, Sofia, europai, cool Manju, etc. have grown into the benchmark of the national custom furniture industry.
"This year, the financial funds for scientific and technological innovation in the whole region will reach 1 billion yuan, double that of last year." Chen Zhiying, member of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou municipal Party committee, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Guangzhou Development Zone and Secretary of the Huangpu District Party committee, said that the Guangzhou Development Zone (Huangpu District) should be the main engine for Guangzhou to build an international scientific and technological innovation hub and the core area of the independent innovation demonstration zone in the Pearl River Delta. At present, the Guangzhou Development Zone (Huangpu District), which covers an area of less than 500 square kilometers, has four major innovation and development platforms: Zhongxin Guangzhou Knowledge City, Guangzhou Science City, Guangzhou International Biological Island and Huangpu port economic zone. Pazhou Internet innovation cluster, which is close to the Canton Fair, has also sprung up. It has successfully introduced a number of Internet leading enterprises such as Tencent, Alibaba and Xiaomi technology. On May 27, the 2016 China Innovation and entrepreneurship achievement Exchange Conference opened, with more than 1700 innovation and entrepreneurship achievement projects displayed. In order to encourage the masses to start businesses and innovate, the China Association for science and technology has decided to settle in Guangzhou for a long time and hold one session every year.
"Building a central city can not be separated from a high-quality talent team. At the beginning of the year, we launched a strong innovation and entrepreneurship leading talent support program. We believe that entrepreneurship, innovation and development are in Guangzhou." Wen Guohui, mayor of Guangzhou, is full of confidence in the future.