Recently, the Department of Commerce of Zhejiang Province announced the comprehensive evaluation results of the 2020 Zhejiang Economic Development Zone. In the national ranking, Jiaxing Economic and Technological Development Zone ranks second in the province and is rated as the “2020 Advanced National Economic and Technological Development Zone”. Jiaxing Economic and Technological Development Zone ranks 11th and Pinghu Economic and Technological Development Zone ranks 16th, both achieving the goal of “competing for the top spot”. In the provincial list, Haining, Tongxiang, Haiyan, and Zhapu Economic Development Zone are among the top ten provincial-level areas. The performance of the single item list in the development zone is still impressive, with Jiaxing City’s Jiaxing Economic Development and Jiashan Economic Development ranking among the top ten foreign trade companies of the year; Among the top ten foreign investment utilization zones in the year, our city holds four exclusive seats, including Jiaxing Economic Development Zone, Jiashan Economic Development Zone, Pinghu Economic Development Zone, and Tongxiang Development Zone.
In recent years, Jiaxing City has relied on important work deployments of the Municipal Party Committee and Government such as the “Open Jiaxing” Conference, based on “open innovation, scientific and technological innovation, and institutional innovation”, with the goal of building a beautiful park, solidly promoting the “chain leader system” of the industrial chain, the construction of international industrial cooperation parks, and the integration and improvement of innovation in the development zone, striving to build a high-energy modern platform and enhance the governance capacity of the development zone.
1、 Establish a precise investment attraction mechanism for the industrial chain
One is to improve the mechanism for attracting investment and investment. Develop and introduce advantageous and actionable policies and opinions on improving the quality and efficiency of foreign investment, and utilizing foreign investment to tackle the “100 day challenge” around the main direction of the industry. Establish a working mechanism for promoting the recruitment of major projects through the personal efforts of the “top leaders”, and form a joint effort between the main leaders of the party and government, as well as the main responsible persons of the park, to attract investment. In the first half of the year, the actual utilization of foreign investment in the development zone of the city was 1.611 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 74.73%, accounting for 69.5% of the total amount of the city; Among them, three national level development zones actually utilized $700 million in foreign investment, an increase of 83.9% year-on-year. The total output value of above designated industries in the city’s development zones is 391.4 billion yuan, the added value of above designated industries is 75.949 billion yuan, and the tax revenue is 25.872 billion yuan, accounting for 64.7%, 64.5%, and 62.1% of the city’s total, respectively. The second is to focus on key areas and implement precise policies. Overseas focus is on Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea, while domestic focus is on North, South, and South Korea. Focusing on Fortune Global 500 and multinational companies, we carry out a hundred day investment promotion competition and flexibly adopt methods such as spot investment promotion, fund investment promotion, industry chain investment promotion, and business investment promotion to introduce and cultivate a number of projects with strong competitiveness, good growth potential, and strong radiation and driving effects. The third is to strengthen the attraction of major foreign investment projects. As the main platform for the city’s opening up to the outside world, the development zone has always prioritized attracting large and strong enterprises, and guiding high-quality foreign investment agglomeration. Increase services for settled foreign investment projects, promote the implementation of key projects, and increase the recruitment of “large, good, and excellent” projects. In the first half of the year, the development zone of the city attracted a total of 51 Fortune Global 500, international industry leading enterprises, and industrial projects with a total investment of over 100 million US dollars, accounting for 53.13% of the city’s total.
2、 Establish an innovation driven development mechanism
One is to create a high-energy industrial ecological park. Jiaxing City seizes industrial development opportunities, leverages its comparative advantages, and uses strategic emerging industry functional parks as carriers to focus on seven leading industries, including high-end intelligent equipment, new materials, semiconductors, big health, automobiles, the Internet, and aerospace. In accordance with the requirements of “international standards, world level, and future vision”, 12 high-energy industrial ecological parks are constructed to scientifically layout the development space of major industries, strengthen the industrial chain, innovation chain Deeply integrate the ecological chain and create a world-class advanced manufacturing park cluster. The second is to gather high-end innovative resources. Integrate the city’s science and technology innovation resources to create the Jiaxing G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Innovation Axis, actively promote innovation synergy in the Yangtze River Delta region, fully connect with Shanghai’s construction of a global science and technology innovation center, layout and construct a “science and technology innovation enclave”, deepen strategic cooperation with prestigious universities such as Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Zhejiang University in all aspects, and rely on Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute to implement the “Deep Rooted Plan” to create a “1+N” comprehensive science and technology innovation service system. The third is to cultivate and strengthen enterprise entities. Promote and strengthen the position of enterprises as the main body of innovation, promote the aggregation of innovative elements to enterprises, and comprehensively enhance the independent research and development capabilities of enterprises. Implement the plan to double the number of listed companies and billions of enterprises, and fully leverage the leading and supporting role of large enterprises in innovation. Actively implement the national high-tech and provincial technology oriented small and medium-sized enterprise doubling plan, high-tech industry doubling plan, accelerate the cultivation of more “specialized, refined, and new” enterprises, and accelerate the transition from “Jiaxing Manufacturing” to “Jiaxing Intelligent Manufacturing”. As of now, the city has received a total of 34 national level “specialized, refined, and innovative” small giant enterprises.
3、 Establish a mechanism for competing for excellence, benchmarking, and finding differences
One is the tree benchmark. Actively promote the development zones to carry out the “benchmarking advanced, striving for advancement” activity based on the national and provincial comprehensive evaluation rankings. Each provincial-level or above development zone has identified one advanced platform within the province, the Yangtze River Delta, and the whole country as the target for benchmarking and catching up within three years, setting a high benchmark and achieving goals, actions, and measures. The second is to make up for shortcomings. In comparison with the evaluation system for the comprehensive development level of national and provincial development zones, we will further investigate the causes of the problems, clarify the work path, and complement the shortcomings of high-quality development in terms of industrial competitiveness, open economy level, innovation ability, capital market, ecological environment protection, business environment, etc. The third is to emphasize supervision. Based on the dynamic management mechanism of development zones implemented through national and provincial assessments, which includes “entry, exit, promotion, and demotion”, the comprehensive assessment method for high-quality development of development zones (parks) has been revised and improved, highlighting the work orientation of practical results in institutional innovation, industrial cultivation, investment attraction, and creating an excellent environment. Supervision, supervision, and evaluation notifications have been strengthened to orderly promote high-quality economic development of development zones.
(Contributed by Jiaxing Municipal Bureau of Commerce)