The international digital health center project of 5 billion yuan and the south Zhejiang quantum information security industrial park project of 2 billion yuan… On August 3, in the provincial characteristic town investment promotion conference, 12 projects with an investment of more than 1 billion yuan were signed on site, with the signing amount reaching 19.6 billion yuan. Another 110 projects will be displayed on the site, and will be signed across the province, with a signing amount of 80 billion yuan. With 122 projects and a signed amount of about 100 billion yuan, Zhejiang characteristic towns have unusual “attracting money” ability.
As a high-end industrial platform in Zhejiang province, the characteristic town has always taken grasping major projects and promoting effective investment as the “bull nose” of the town construction since its launch. Since the beginning of this year, to overcome the adverse impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, Zhejiang characteristic towns have bucked the trend in attracting effective investment and delivered an excellent report card.
Data show that in the first half of this year, 110 characteristic towns in Zhejiang completed the investment of 41.48 billion yuan (excluding commercial residential and commercial complex), town investment of 370 million yuan, investment growth rate of 3.9%, 0.1 percentage points higher than the provincial average; provincial characteristic industry investment accounted for 79.4%, 1.6 percentage points. The investment of Zhoushan, Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Huzhou, Taizhou and Jinhua all exceeded the provincial average level. In particular, in the second quarter, the growth rate of investment increased by 35.7 percentage points compared with the first quarter, with a year-on-year growth rate of 21%, far 10.4 percentage points higher than the provincial growth rate of investment in the second quarter, making a beautiful turnaround.
Not only did the investment growth rate turn positive, but the investment structure was also more optimized. In the first half of this year, a total of 1,544 projects were implemented for the establishment of characteristic towns in the province, including 807 major projects worth more than 100 million yuan, accounting for 52.3% of the total number of projects, and the completed investment accounted for 90.9% of the province’s investment. In particular, in the first half of the year, eight characteristic towns have invested more than 1 billion yuan. Among them, the completed investment of Yuhang AI Town reached 2.2 billion yuan, far exceeding the provincial average level. By industry, out of the 8 small towns, 3 are high-end equipment manufacturing towns, 2 are small towns in the field of digital economy, and 1 is each small town in the field of environmental protection, tourism and health, all of which are the key industries that Zhejiang will develop in the future. Although the current epidemic situation and economic situation bring severe tests to attracting investment in characteristic towns, they also bring new development opportunities to the digital economy, life and health, high-end equipment manufacturing and other industries.
After years of cultivation and development, many characteristic towns have become an important development platform of key industries in Zhejiang. In 2019, the province’s characteristic towns (including naming and creation categories) accounted for 1.8% of the province’s construction land, creating 7.9% of the industrial output and contributing 7.0% of the tax revenue. The output per mu is 8.548 million yuan, 1.6 times the industrial output per mu; the per mu tax is 591,000 yuan, 1.9 times the industrial per mu tax of the province.
(Source: Zhejiang Daily)