In February this year, the State Council officially approved the positioning of Guangzhou as a frontier city, which is the capital of Guangdong Province, a national famous historical and cultural city, an important central city in China, an international trade center and a comprehensive transportation hub. In the future, Guangzhou will strengthen its 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 international "hubs" will support the "central" future.
Nansha New Area "International Shipping Hub" Set sail
Nansha New Area, located at the south end of Guangzhou, is located at the estuary of the Pearl River. It is one of the few channels to the sea in Guangzhou and the geographical center and hub of the Greater Pearl River Delta city group. On April 21 last year, Nansha New Area, together with Shenzhen Qianhai and Zhuhai Hengqin, welcomed the official opening 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." The former "coal boss", Shanxi Jincheng Renlong Cedar Pine, has registered 34 companies (associations) in Nansha New Area, including cross-border commodity exhibition, parallel import cars, shipping finance leasing, and built a "giant" platform called "Egret Headquarters". As of April 20 this year, there were 10802 newly established enterprises in Nansha New Area, with an additional registered capital of 111.3 billion yuan, and 50 of the world's top 500 enterprises have successively settled in. Shipping logistics, innovative finance, financial leasing, cross-border e-commerce and other industries have gradually become concentrated.
In terms of promoting investment facilitation and customs clearance and trade facilitation, more than one "Nansha Model" was born: "11 certificates and three chapters jointly", the first government purchase inspection service, the first customs quick inspection mechanism, the first "intelligent inspection port", and the first "single window" of international trade version 2.0 online
To build an international shipping center and make the port bigger and stronger is the key. In just one year, six 100000 ton container berths at Nansha Port Phase III Terminal have been completed, which can berth container ships of larger tonnage in the world; 28 inland dry ports and 74 international liner routes have been built; The construction of cruise home port was launched, and routes to and from Hong Kong, Sanya, Da Nang, and Miyako Island were opened successively. In 2015, Nansha Port's container throughput reached 11.77 million TEUs, ranking 12th in the world. At the same time, the shipbuilding industry in Nansha New Area 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 Longxue, Nansha. Based in Guangzhou, it will further radiate the Beibu Gulf and Southeast Asia.
Baiyun "international aviation hub" is ready to emerge
Seafood caught from Australia can be transported to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport within 36 hours. After customs, border inspection, 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 airport type comprehensive bonded zone in China. At present, more than 260 enterprises of various types have settled in the zone. Its business covers bonded logistics warehousing and distribution, cross-border e-commerce, processing, customs declaration agency 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. International aviation hub is an important resource, platform and carrier for building a central city." Ren Xuefeng, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangzhou Provincial Committee and secretary of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee, said.
More and more intensive routes, more and more developed logistics!
At 7:30 on May 7, the Finnair passenger plane departing from Helsinki arrived at Baiyun Airport smoothly. So far, there are 72 airlines in operation at 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. The airport terminal 2 project and its supporting projects are being accelerated. In addition, China Southern Airlines Group, headquartered in Guangzhou, has a capacity of 180 aircraft in Guangzhou, and there are 141 navigation points connecting Guangzhou to the world. China Eastern Airlines Guangdong Branch has also successfully settled down in Baiyun, and planned 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 the 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 accelerate the development of airport industry cluster, and promote the construction of China Australia New Korea Free Trade Industrial Park, Guangzhou Airport Cross border E-commerce Cluster, Valuables Distribution Trading Center and other projects. At present, FedEx Asia Pacific Hub, Postal Express South China Processing Center, Fuli Logistics and other projects have been settled in succession, and the annual handling capacity of international freight at 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 the regional radiation." Sun Xiuqing, director of Guangzhou Airport Management Committee, introduced.
Air traffic is faster, and ground traffic is not backward. At present, on the basis of the existing 9 subways, 13 railways, high-speed railways and inter city tracks, Guangzhou is also planning to build railways from Guangzhou to Hainan, Shaanxi, Guangxi, Yunnan (Southeast Asia), Beijing, Shanghai, Macao and Hong Kong, as well as 11 subways totaling 303 kilometers. At that time, with Guangzhou as the center, a strategic channel will be built to connect the east and northwest of Guangdong, the Beibu Gulf, the southwest, the southeast and the Yangtze River Delta.
Yangcheng "International Science and Technology Innovation Hub"
In such a large welding workshop, rows of intelligent machine arms bend and rise, and each intelligent rail car moves or stops, or loads or unloads... On April 18, the GAC Fick factory with an annual output of 160000 Jeep Freeman was officially put into operation, with a R&D expenditure of 1.08 billion yuan, and GA8, which represents the higher level of car manufacturing in China, went offline.
"Against the background of global automobile overcapacity, we rely on independent innovation, and at least 4 models sell well every year. All models have won the C-NCAP five-star evaluation for safe collision by China Automotive Technology Center, and we have core technologies such as major parts, vehicle control, and new energy in our hands." Wu Song, General Manager of GAC Passenger Car Co., Ltd., said proudly. As the leading pillar industry of the city, Guangzhou Automobile is expected to contribute an output value of 500 billion yuan this year.
The traditional industries are rejuvenated, and the new business forms are developing in full swing. In 2015, the total number of cross-border e-commerce enterprises in Guangzhou reached 879, and the total import and export value of cross-border e-commerce was 6.85 billion yuan, ranking among the well-known enterprises in the whole network. The "Tianhe-2" supercomputer, located in Guangzhou University Town, has the highest computing speed in the world for six consecutive times and provides 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 enterprises, with an output value of nearly 40 billion yuan. Shangpin Home Furnishings, Sofia, Europa, Coomanju, etc. have become the benchmark of the national customized furniture industry.
"This year, the district's financial funds for scientific and technological innovation 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 Guangzhou Development Zone and secretary of the Huangpu District Party 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, namely, Sino Singapore 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 emerged as a new force. It has successfully introduced Tencent, Alibaba, Xiaomi Technology and other leading Internet enterprises. On May 27, the 2016 China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Achievement Exchange was opened, with more than 1700 innovation and entrepreneurship achievements projects exhibited. In order to encourage people to start businesses and innovate, the China Association for Science and Technology has decided to set up the conference in Guangzhou for a long time and hold it once a year.
"The construction of a central city cannot be separated from a high-quality talent team. At the beginning of the year, we launched a strong innovation and entrepreneurship leading talent support plan. We believe that entrepreneurship is in Guangzhou, innovation is in Guangzhou, and development is in Guangzhou." For the future,Guangzhou Mayor Wen Guohui is full of confidence.