Recently, the Ministry of Commerce and other 10 departments jointly issued the Notice on Several Measures to Support the Innovation and Enhancement of State-level Economic and Technological Development Zones to Better Play the Role of Demonstration, guiding the development of 230 State-level Economic and Technological Development Zones in terms of stabilising and expanding the scale of investment in manufacturing and stabilising the supply chain of industrial chains. In addition, with the Ministry of Commerce taking the lead in working with relevant departments and localities to "accelerate green, low-carbon and cyclical development", the development of national-level economic development zones has become even greener, with spring hills to look forward to.
Stabilising the scale of investment in manufacturing
The Notice proposes 12 support measures in four aspects, including increasing the support for investment attraction, strengthening the guarantee of factors for manufacturing projects, making efforts to promote the quality and efficiency of the manufacturing industry, and making every effort to maintain the stability of the supply chain of the industrial chain, broadening the resources for investment attraction, optimizing the process of project environmental assessment, actively cultivating industrial clusters, promoting the green low-carbon cycle development, and establishing the logistics guarantee mechanism, etc., and focusing on solving the bottleneck constraints of capital, land, talents and other resources required for the development of the manufacturing industry. In order to better stabilize and expand the scale of attracting investment in manufacturing industry, the government has taken 12 support measures, including optimizing the process of environmental assessment of projects, actively fostering industrial clusters, promoting green, low-carbon and circular development, and establishing logistics guarantee mechanism.
Jiangning Economic Development Zone in Jiangsu Province has always been the leader of innovative development and positive thinking. In recent years, around the "industrial chain" investment has become an important change in its investment model. "Around new energy vehicles, smart grid, intelligent manufacturing equipment and other leading industries, we have established 10 industry development team, drawing industry chain mapping, from task decomposition, key project scheduling, industry supporting policies, assessment mechanisms, etc., a full range of sound system program, and the industry chain investment situation included in the annual assessment focus." Liu Qun, deputy director of the management committee of Jiangning Economic Development Zone, said in an exclusive interview with the reporter, focusing on the role of "leading settlement - chain layout - cluster development", the automotive industry is one of the successful cases of chain investment in the zone. Jiangning Economic Development Zone around Volkswagen, Mazda, Ford and other vehicle joint ventures, the successful introduction of Tata, Valeo, Brembo and more than 140 domestic and foreign parts supporting business.
Liu Qun told reporters that at present, Jiangning Economic Development Zone is focusing on building a green and intelligent automobile industry landmark, vigorously promoting the transformation of the automobile industry to the "new four" direction of electrification, networking, intelligence and sharing, and newly introducing CAC Chuangzhi, T3 Travel, Ford Product R&D Centre and China Operation Centre, FAW Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Institute, Columbus Intelligent Network Link, Truck and Van. A number of technology-based, platform-based and flagship automotive projects have been introduced, such as Columbus Intelligent Network, Truck Home, FAW Smart, InBev Super Calculation, Kaiwu Automotive Software R&D Centre and Harness Technology. Jiangning Economic Development Zone has also seized the strategic opportunity of new energy transformation, relying on nearly 20 years of cooperation with Ford, and introduced Ford's new energy headquarters and "three electric" projects with a total investment of US$2 billion.
Promoting green and low-carbon development
On 30 December 2022, Wuhan Economic Development Zone (WEDZ) signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the State Power Investment Group (SPID), under which the SPID Group's Zero Carbon Integrated Smart Energy Demonstration Zone and Integrated Smart Zero Carbon Power Plant are among the major projects to be located in WEDZ. As a result, Wuhan Economic Development Zone tens of billions of major projects to increase the "force", China's car valley to explore the green development model, to accelerate the manufacturing industry to green, low-carbon transformation and upgrading installed on the "accelerator".
National-level economic development zones are taking practical action to implement the work related to promoting green low-carbon cycle development in the Notice. Among the national-level economic development zones, Jiangning Economic Development Zone, a national eco-industrial park and the first batch of low-carbon pilot parks, has taken the lead in formulating a double carbon action plan and green development approach, contributing to the "Jiangning sample" of innovative green development.
"Around green development, we will focus on four 'one' projects." Liu Qun introduced that the so-called four "ones" are to create a new growth point, develop and cultivate low-carbon emerging industries; create a number of industrial Internet + green double carbon application scenarios, enhance the low-carbon competitiveness of leading industries; create an online energy integrated management platform, technology innovation to empower low-carbon development; create a number of demonstration projects, accelerate the promotion of energy supply-side reform.
In the next step, Jiangning Economic Development Zone will focus on new tracks around green energy production, transmission and utilization links, gather projects and cultivate new growth points. For example, it will focus on the deep integration of emerging technologies and traditional industries, create a number of replicable "5G+industrial internet" model projects and typical scenarios, form benchmark demonstrations for the whole industrial chain, the whole manufacturing process and the whole life cycle control, and release the superimposed multiplier effect of digitalisation, intelligence and greening. At the same time, Jiangning Economic Development Zone will also strengthen green technology innovation, focusing on exploring key technologies such as carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), new energy storage technology, clean energy recycling, carbon asset monitoring, etc., breaking technical barriers and improving the whole process system of carbon reduction, zero-carbon and carbon-negative technologies. Vigorously promote the diversified layout of distributed photovoltaic power generation, take distributed photovoltaic power generation as an important measure for low-carbon transformation, explore the development of enterprise-side energy storage projects, encourage and support enterprises to build "photovoltaic + energy storage" multi-energy complementary projects, and rely on the good smart grid foundation of the development zone to actively promote the "energy storage The construction of a "demonstration zone" will be actively promoted.
