Guangdong provincial capital, national historical and cultural city, China's important central city, international business center and comprehensive transportation hub ... In February this year, the State Council officially approved Guangzhou's position as a frontier city. In the future, Guangzhou will strengthen in-depth cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao, and become an important hub of the Maritime Silk Road in the 21st century. The Nansha area of Guangdong Free Trade Zone will be built into a demonstration zone for in-depth cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
Focusing on the goal of building an important central city, Guangzhou's three international "hubs" will hold up the "central" future.
Nansha New District "International Shipping Hub" Set sail
Located at the southern tip of Guangzhou, Nansha New District is located at the mouth of the Pearl River, which is one of the few sea passages in Guangzhou and the geographical center and hub of the Greater Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration. On April 21st last year, Nansha New District, together with Shenzhen Qianhai and Zhuhai Hengqin, ushered in the official listing of China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone. Aiming at the international shipping hub, Nansha New District set sail.
"I like Nansha, just as sharks like the sea and goshawk loves the sky." The former "coal boss" and Shanxi Jincheng Renlong Xuesong registered 34 companies (associations) such as cross-border commodity display, parallel imported cars and shipping financial leasing in Nansha New District, and built a "Big Mac" platform named "Egret Headquarters". As of April 20th this year, there were 10,802 newly established enterprises in Nansha New District, with an additional registered capital of 111.3 billion yuan, and 50 Fortune 500 companies have been stationed in succession, and industries such as shipping logistics, innovative finance, financial leasing and cross-border e-commerce have gradually gathered.
In promoting investment facilitation and customs clearance trade facilitation, several "Nansha models" were born: "Eleven Certificates and Three Chapters Joint Office", the first government to purchase inspection services, the first rapid customs clearance mechanism, the first "intelligent inspection port", and the first "single window" version 2.0 of international trade were launched ...
It is the key to build an international shipping center and make the port bigger and stronger. In just one year, six 100,000-ton container berths of Nansha Port Phase III Terminal have been completed, and container ships with larger tonnage in the world have been berthed. 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 started, and routes to and from Hong Kong, Sanya, Da Nang and Miyako Island were opened successively. In 2015, the container throughput of Nansha Port reached 11.77 million TEUs, ranking 12th in the world. At the same time, the shipbuilding industry in Nansha New Area also has broad prospects. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, CSSC will invest 15 billion yuan to build a marine equipment industrial base in Longxue, Nansha, and take Guangzhou as the base to further radiate the Beibu Gulf and Southeast Asia.
Baiyun "International Aviation Hub" is ready to appear.
Seafood caught from Australia can be delivered to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport within 36 hours. After customs, border inspection and quarantine, it can be delivered to the seafood market around Guangzhou citizens within 12 hours. Baiyun Airport Comprehensive Bonded Zone is a large-scale airport-type comprehensive bonded zone in China. At present, it has settled in more than 260 enterprises of various types, covering bonded logistics warehousing and distribution, cross-border e-commerce, processing, customs declaration and other industries.
"If Guangzhou wants to participate in international competition, it 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." Ren Xuefeng, member of the Standing Committee of Guangzhou Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, said.
The routes are more and more dense, and the logistics is more and more developed!
At 7: 30 on May 7th, Finnair passenger plane departing from Helsinki arrived at Baiyun Airport successfully. So far, there are 72 airlines operating in Baiyun Airport, including 47 foreign airlines. More than 270 routes have been opened, including more than 100 international routes and more than 70 international navigation points. Airport Terminal 2 project and its supporting projects are being pushed forward. In addition, China Southern Airlines Group, headquartered in Guangzhou, has a capacity of 180 aircraft in Guangzhou, and there are as many as 141 navigation points connecting Guangzhou to the world. China Eastern Airlines Guangdong Branch has also successfully settled in Baiyun, and it plans to operate 30 aircraft during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period.
In January this year, the Measures for the Administration of Guangzhou Airport Economic Zone was promulgated, and 116 square kilometers 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 agglomeration, and promote the construction of China-Australia New Korea Free Trade Industrial Park, Guangzhou Airport Cross-border E-commerce Cluster, and valuables distribution and trading center. At present, FedEx Asia-Pacific Transshipment Center, Postal Express South China Processing Center, R&F Logistics and other projects have successively settled in, and the annual international freight 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 one hour, greatly enhancing regional radiation." Sun Xiuqing, director of Guangzhou Airport Management Committee, introduced.
Air travel is faster, and the ground traffic is not far behind. At present, on the basis of existing 9 subways, 13 railways, high-speed trains and intercity tracks, Guangzhou is also planning to build railways from Guangzhou to Hainan, Shaanxi, Guangxi, Yunnan (Southeast Asia), Beijing, Shanghai, Macau and Hong Kong, and 11 subways with a total length of 303 kilometers. By then, with Guangzhou as the center, a strategic channel will be built, which will run through the east and west of Guangdong, connect the Beibu Gulf, the southwest, the southeast and the Yangtze River Delta.
Yangcheng "International Science and Technology Innovation Hub" sings loudly.
In the vast welding workshop, rows of intelligent robot arms bend, rise and fall, and one intelligent railcar goes or stops, or is loaded or unloaded ... On April 18th, GAC Fick Factory with an annual output of 160,000 Jeep Freemen was officially put into production, with an investment of 1.08 billion yuan, which represents a relatively high level of domestic car manufacturing.
"Under the background of global automobile overcapacity, we rely on independent innovation, and at least four models sell well every year. All models have won the five-star evaluation of C-NCAP safety collision of China Automobile Technology Center, and the core technologies such as major parts, vehicle control and new energy are in our own hands." Song Wu, general manager of Guangzhou Automobile Passenger Car Co., Ltd. said proudly. As the leading pillar industry in the city, Guangzhou Automobile is expected to contribute 500 billion yuan in output value this year.
Traditional industries are rejuvenating, and the development of emerging formats is in full swing. In 2015, the total number of cross-border e-commerce enterprises in Guangzhou reached 879, and the total import and export of cross-border e-commerce was 6.85 billion yuan, making it famous in the whole network. The "Tianhe II" supercomputer located in Guangzhou University Town has the highest computing speed in the world 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 delivery, Sophia, Ou Pai, Kumanju, etc. have grown into the benchmark of the national custom furniture industry.
"This year, the 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 Guangzhou Municipal Committee, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Guangzhou Development Zone and secretary of Huangpu District Committee, said that 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 Pearl River Delta independent innovation demonstration zone. At present, Guangzhou Development Zone (Huangpu District), with an area of less than 500 square kilometers, has four innovative development platforms: Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City, Guangzhou Science City, Guangzhou International Biological Island and Huangpu Lingang Economic Zone. Pazhou Internet Innovation Cluster, which is adjacent to the Canton Fair, has also sprung up, and has successfully introduced a number of leading Internet companies such as Tencent, Alibaba and Xiaomi Technology. On May 27th, 2016, China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Achievement Exchange Conference was opened, with more than 1,700 innovation and entrepreneurship achievement projects on display. In order to encourage people to start businesses and innovate, China Association for Science and Technology decided to settle in Guangzhou for a long time and hold it once a year.
"Building a central city is inseparable from a high-quality talent team. At the beginning of the year, we have launched a strong talent support program for innovation and entrepreneurship. We believe that entrepreneurship is in Guangzhou, innovation is in Guangzhou, and development is in Guangzhou. " Wen Guohui, the mayor of Guangzhou, is full of confidence in the future.