Since the beginning of this year, faced with the great impact of the COVID-19 epidemic and the downward pressure of the global economy, pinghu city has closely followed the two key words of “high quality” and “integration”, focused on “point, line and face”, and fought well the “three battles”. The whole city has a good momentum of attracting investment. From January to November, the actual foreign capital was USD 383.66 million, up by 27.4% year-on-year, and 13 projects with over USD 100 million were introduced into the world’s top 500 companies, leading enterprises in the international industry. Several important indicators, such as actual foreign capital and attracting strong investment, kept ahead in five counties and two districts of Jiaxing.
First, bravely fight the “charge war” and start with “first”
First, the increment is introduced by overall planning. Adhere to the “No.1 Project” No.1 Office, take the lead in formulating a new round of open economic support policies, set up the city’s war room for attracting investment as soon as possible, establish and improve the mechanism of “sunshine dynamics, weekly progress, monthly ranking evaluation”, coordinate operations and conduct wall chart operations. Adhere to the “number one” to take the lead in attracting investment, focus on the “reward and punishment” two-way efforts, and lead the investment promotion iron army in various towns and streets to make a front-line charge and break through difficulties around the target and task of foreign investment throughout the year. Since the beginning of this year, 27 main leaders of the city have participated in 2,520 investment invitations, and 131 newly signed domestic and foreign-funded projects with a total investment of 75.1 billion yuan.
The second is to pilot the excellent stock. Actively lead the pilot project of high-quality development of foreign capital in Jiaxing, innovate and implement the “three-color management” of foreign-funded enterprises, and establish the promotion mechanism of “three-no projects”. Through classification and precise policy, we can optimize a batch of green enterprises, upgrade a batch of yellow enterprises and revitalize a batch of red enterprises, so as to increase production, increase efficiency and increase capital of foreign-funded enterprises, reduce zombie enterprises, reduce resource consumption and reduce pollution emissions.
The third is to improve quality by competition. Organize the whole city’s competition for attracting investment and the hundred-day competition for utilizing foreign capital, and promote all towns and streets to focus on target innovation and carry out investment activities, so as to compete in the sunshine and strive for excellence. During the activity, Pinghu newly added 17 contracted foreign investment projects, with contracted foreign investment of 157.96 million USD, actual foreign investment of 170 million USD, 4 projects of attracting large investment and attracting strong investment, and 6 foreign companies increasing capital and shares, which won the winning prize in Jiaxing’s 100-day competition.
Second, focus on “key battles” and win online with “strong”
First, focus on key platforms and make excellent “habitat”. Based on the high level of opening up and giving full play to the advantages of foreign capital attraction in the development zone, Pinghu Economic Development Zone, Dushan Port Economic Development Zone and Zhangjiang Pinghu Park have completed three major platforms, and the actual foreign capital accounts for more than 90% of the city. Deepen international cooperation industrial parks, rely on international industrial parks such as China, Japan, China and Germany, and give full play to the advantages of foreign capital agglomeration in developed countries. From January to November, the investment from developed countries such as Japan, Europe and America accounted for 44% of the total foreign capital in the city. Pinghu Economic Development Zone is the industrial highland of the whole province. Foreign-funded enterprises account for 75.8% of the output value, and the average tax revenue per mu reaches 411,000 yuan.
The second is to target key industries and extend the “industrial chain”. According to the city’s “2+2” industrial orientation, it closely follows the advanced equipment manufacturing, electronic information and other characteristic industries, locks in key industries, continuously extends the industrial chain, and realizes “both quantity and quality”. This year, 35 key industrial projects have been introduced, with contracted foreign capital of USD 367.7098 million, accounting for 79.1% of the secondary industry. The actual utilization of foreign capital in high-tech industries has reached 44.1%, which is significantly higher than that of the same period last year.
The third is to focus on key projects and expand the “circle of friends”. Take the world’s top 500 companies, leading international companies, famous multinational companies and projects with over 100 million dollars as the main direction and starting point of attraction, “Screen? ? “Friends circle” of leading enterprises in the industry. Since the beginning of this year, the city has introduced 11 projects with a total investment of over $3,000, with contracted foreign capital of $426,645,300, accounting for 68.1%, and introduced 13 projects with a total investment of over $100 million from Fortune 500 companies and international industry leaders.
Third, skillfully play “service war” and win people with “precision”
First, tap the potential with “specialization”. Set up a special class for stabilizing foreign investment, and carry out the activities of “Big Visit and Great Service for Foreign-funded Enterprises” to realize the full coverage of more than 500 foreign-funded enterprises and foreign-funded projects in the city. Focus on publicizing the latest support policies for stabilizing foreign investment and foreign trade this year, and clearly give “one enterprise, one policy” to the capital increase and share expansion projects of foreign-funded enterprises and new-built projects, and assign special personnel to assist enterprises in capital increase procedures. Since the beginning of this year, there have been 26 capital increase and share expansion projects in the city, with contracted foreign capital of USD 251.831 million, up by 39.7% over the same period of last year, accounting for 40% of the city’s total, and up by 12 percentage points over the same period of last year. For example, Cargill in the United States and Crown in Denmark increased their investment by USD 250 million and USD 100 million respectively.
The second is to advance with “fast” precision. With deepening the reform of “running at most once” as the starting point, we will speed up the process optimization, link simplification, online operation, joint office of departments and non-discriminatory acceptance. This year, we have completed 696 pieces of all kinds of business, and 360 pieces have been run through the whole process network, and 60% of them have achieved “running zero times”, that is, the handling rate has reached 100%. Closely following the diversified needs of enterprises, the service window is moved forward, and “combination packages” such as “multi-certification integration”, paperless materials, electronic certification, and unified certification through one window are launched, which helps Colijn, Runze and other projects to realize “start work as soon as they get the land” through “multi-certification integration”, highlighting “Pinghu speed”.
The third is to solve the problem with “warmth”. In the face of the epidemic situation, we should pay in-depth visits and care, keep abreast of the thoughts and concerns of each foreign-funded enterprise, and give full play to the role of the service alliance of the party organizations involved in enterprises and the “enterprise service through train”, and do everything possible to help them out. Since the beginning of this year, we have sorted out and solved more than 400 problems of foreign-funded enterprises involving epidemic prevention and control, logistics and transportation, employee return to work, etc., and helped more than 400 foreign executives to apply for invitations to enter the country for commercial activities, thus ensuring that the negotiations will not fall into gear and progress will not stagnate. The good business environment has been highly recognized by foreign-funded enterprises, and it has successively received pennants and thank-you letters from Nissin Food, Mann’s and many other enterprises.
(Contributed by Jiaxing Municipal Bureau of Commerce)