Grasping projects is a key move for Suzhou High tech Zone to move from scratch to the forefront of national high-tech zones, and it is also an advantageous skill for creating new brilliance in development at a new starting point.
On October 7th, the last day of the National Day holiday, Suzhou High tech Zone sounded the horn of fighting for the fourth quarter with a key project promotion meeting, anchoring major platforms, major reforms, major policies, and major projects, striving for economic development. A batch of key projects with a total investment of nearly 10 billion yuan have started construction, making every effort to attract large and strong investment, and accelerating project construction, which has been listed as an important measure for deepening economic reform in Suzhou High tech Zone.
Projects are the lifeline of economic and social development. Only by starting, completing, and putting into operation more projects can we continuously form growth points for development, "said Mao Wei, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Suzhou High tech Zone and Secretary of the Huqiu District Committee. In the process of development, a large number of high-quality projects with great potential and strong competitiveness have settled in, helping to promote the sustained improvement of the economic development of Suzhou High tech Zone. Suzhou High tech Zone will focus on the goal and task of this year's "Project Breakthrough Year", work hard to consolidate the upward momentum of development, and strive to promote Chinese path to modernization high-tech practice.
Focus on "core industries+" to attract big and strong players
Suzhou High tech Zone is the first new district established by Suzhou City to protect the ancient city. It started development and construction in 1990 and was approved as one of the first national high-tech zones in 1992. As early as the beginning of development and construction, Suzhou High tech Zone, with its excellent investment promotion work, opened up a new development situation in one fell swoop - the investment scale and intensity of introduced projects, as well as the tax payment, ranked among the top in the national high-tech zone.
Foreign investment projects are a golden signboard for attracting investment in Suzhou High tech Zone. On January 8, 1994, Suzhou Nippon Radio Electronic Industry Co., Ltd. settled down and became the first wholly foreign-owned enterprise in Suzhou High tech Zone. In the following 30 years, Suzhou High tech Zone has introduced nearly 2000 foreign-funded enterprises, with over 80 foreign-funded headquarters and functional institutions, and more than 60 investment projects from Fortune 500 companies. This has achieved a significant leap in the rapid development of an outward oriented economy and the continuous enhancement of innovation vitality.
During the development process, the "excellent genes" of investment promotion in Suzhou High tech Zone have always been present, but the concepts and methods have been constantly self innovated and iterated along with the consolidation of industrial foundations and the improvement of systems. At the beginning of this year, Suzhou High tech Zone designated 2024 as the "Project Breakthrough Year", mobilizing the entire district to make new breakthroughs in investment attraction and quickly triggering a new wave of project attraction and construction.
In February, I went to France and the Netherlands, in April to the United Arab Emirates, in May to Shanghai, in June to the United Kingdom, and in July to Shenzhen... From the intensive promotion activities, it is evident that the strategy of "project is king and investment attraction is important" has been further clarified. Suzhou High tech Zone highlights the concept of "core industries+", highlights the driving force of major platforms, reforms, policies, and projects, and attracts targeted large and good projects to strengthen, supplement, and extend key industrial chains.
Everything revolves around the project, everything revolves around the project. Since the beginning of this year, Suzhou High tech Zone has focused on the "2+3" modern industrial system, namely the two leading industries of new generation information technology and high-end equipment manufacturing, as well as the three emerging industries of new energy, photonics and integrated circuits, medical equipment, and big health. It has carried out precise investment promotion, comprehensively considered output value and growth potential, accelerated the attraction of long-term supported manufacturing projects and future development oriented R&D projects, and focused on anchoring major landmark projects such as Chinese characters, national brands, Fortune 500 companies, listed companies, and industry leaders to carry out "tough battles", striving to break through major projects worth 5 billion and 10 billion yuan.
When investment attraction is accurately matched to industries, it means stronger professionalism. Different industrial chains have different situations, demands, and requirements. Suzhou High tech Zone has made great efforts to establish and improve a diversified investment promotion mechanism, successively establishing an industrial investment promotion center, a technology investment promotion center, a service industry investment promotion center, and five specialized companies. With the "chain" policy, it promotes the simultaneous progress of foreign and domestic investment, the dual wheel drive of industrial technology, and the integration of manufacturing and service industries, and impresses good projects with more refined, specialized, and international investment promotion services.
On September 26th, the BioMerieux Asia Pacific Production Base, Changguang Huayi New Factory, TAG Heuer Medical Artificial Lens China Base, and Kurita (Suzhou) Water Treatment R&D Center were respectively put into use or completed; On September 23rd, the Xingxing Technology Group signed a contract to settle in the automotive industry base project; On September 22nd, the Ates energy storage integration system factory project started construction... Last month, in just one week, multiple high-quality projects were landed, started, and put into operation in Suzhou High tech Zone, accelerating investment attraction and project construction.
According to data, Suzhou High tech Zone has seen a continuous increase in the number of projects and investment amounts attracted and implemented, with over 123 billion yuan projects implemented this year. These projects not only have high technological content and large investment scale, but also highly match the local "core industries"; In addition, effective investment has achieved good results, with an 11.8% increase in industrial investment completed. Among them, investment in emerging industries and high-tech industries account for 79% and 52% of industrial project investment, respectively.
Two pronged approach to investment and business promotion
The process of project implementation, construction, and production is also a process of examining and showcasing the local business environment.
Suzhou High tech Zone, which is well versed in this principle, has made it clear that it focuses on both investment promotion and business operations. On the one hand, closely focusing on the practical needs of the project, providing a full lifecycle accompanying service of "approval+service+cultivation", and acting as a "booster" for project implementation and development. On the one hand, by entering from more levels and broader fields, we will continue to improve the overall business environment.
This year, a total of 8 projects in Suzhou High tech Zone have been included in the provincial major project list, ranking first in the number of projects in Suzhou City. The intelligent core component project of Yingweiteng industrial mother machine is a major provincial project, and the pile foundation construction has been completed.
The person in charge of the project introduced that during the project preparation period, in order to ensure the smooth start of the project, local approval staff provided on-site services. They not only guided them to use the land certification period to advance the pre review work of scheme design, construction drawing review, civil air defense permit, real estate certificate and other matters, but also delivered "pile foundation first", "pre electricity plan intervention", "decoration construction permit for construction in progress" and other favorable policies "big gift packages" on site, helping the project seize time and refresh the speed of "land acquisition and start".
After the construction of the factory site is completed, the project enters the operation period. In response to the difficulties encountered by enterprises in operation, Suzhou High tech Zone has established a "1+3+X" enterprise service system, set up Suzhou High tech Zone and three functional area enterprise service centers, and extended "shop assistant" like services to industrial parks. Service teams are active around enterprises, responding more efficiently to their demands. Not long ago, the Suzhou High tech Zone Enterprise Service Center was awarded the title of "Excellent Grassroots Small and Medium sized Enterprise Public Service Institution" nationwide.
Currently, Suzhou High tech Zone is actively carrying out the "Innovation Action to Optimize the Business Environment", promoting reform measures such as data acquisition, investment to promote production, and comprehensive inspection. Not long ago, the "Suzhou High tech Zone Optimizing the Business Environment Innovation Action 2024" was officially released, which clarified 24 key tasks in five aspects: implementing benchmarking reform and further improving actions, assisting enterprises to improve services and efficiency actions, improving legal guarantees and quality actions, improving factor guarantees and organizational guarantees actions.
It is worth noting that this action plan precisely targets the difficulties and pain points of the enterprise for unblocking. For example, in response to the difficulties in the process of "individual to enterprise" transformation, Suzhou High tech Zone has clearly stated that it will deepen the reform of the commercial system, establish a "individual to enterprise" cultivation library, and open up a green channel for "individual to enterprise" transformation; In order to reduce the institutional costs of enterprises, Suzhou High tech Zone plans to carry out pilot projects of "pre inspection and commissioning, acceptance and trial production, and completion and certification" for industrial projects.
It is reported that the newly started projects in Suzhou High tech Zone have fully commenced, and a batch of major provincial projects with large investment scale, strong driving effect, and good industrial prospects, such as Neway CNC industrial mother machines and components, are being fully promoted and accelerated in construction. In addition, 49 key municipal projects are also accelerating their construction.
Creating an important growth pole for new quality productivity
A few days ago, the unveiling ceremony of the BioMerieux R&D Innovation Incubation Center (Suzhou) and the completion ceremony of the Changguanghua Medical New Factory were held in Suzhou High tech Zone. BioMerieux is currently the largest in vitro diagnostic company in France, the world's largest microbial in vitro diagnostic company, and one of the top ten companies in the global in vitro diagnostic field. As an "old friend" of Suzhou High tech Zone, French bioMerieux has repeatedly cast a "vote of confidence" for Suzhou High tech Zone——
In November 2018, BioMerieux acquired Changguang Huayi, committed to building a leading enterprise in China's local chemiluminescence immunoassay diagnostic products, and took the first step in investing in Suzhou High tech Zone; In April 2019, Merieux (Suzhou) Biological Products Co., Ltd. was established to build the largest production base for blood culture bottles in the Asia Pacific region, which will be completed and put into operation in November 2023; In January 2024, the first batch of locally produced BACT/ALERT in Merieux ® Microbial blood culture bottles have been officially launched.
The capital increase and production expansion of the landing project is an important addition to the investment report of Suzhou High tech Zone. In June of this year, Suzhou Keshida Printing Co., Ltd., which has been deeply involved in the Suzhou High tech Zone for 25 years, opened a new factory, expanding its area to more than three times that of the original factory and introducing new equipment and production lines; Since its establishment in 1997, WEKA Automation Instrument (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. has continuously expanded its investment and increased its layout. Currently, there are also projects under construction such as WEKA China's regional headquarters and functional institutions, Asia Pacific R&D centers, and production bases.
The fruitful investment has brought stronger technological innovation momentum. On the wall in front of Suzhou Optoelectronic Technology Research Institute, there are enterprise nameplates hanging one after another. These enterprises were introduced and incubated by us, each solving a bottleneck problem in the field of photonics industry, and they are interconnected. Many enterprises are not only 'neighbors', but also potential customers of each other, "said Li Xia, Executive Director of Suzhou Optoelectronic Technology Research Institute. The institute has built a 1000 square meter' Innovation Incubation Base ', a more than 5000 square meter' Pilot Service Base ', and a more than 5000 square meter' Industrial Manufacturing Base ', providing platform support for enterprises from project start-up, technology verification, to industrialization. Since the beginning of this year, Suzhou High tech Zone has added 3 new listed companies, totaling 36, and 28 national specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprises, totaling 78.
The vitality of emerging industries has become more abundant. At Suzhou Jingkong Energy Technology Co., Ltd., a batch of energy storage cabinets in the shape of containers are being loaded and shipped to Xizang. A cabinet is equivalent to a large power bank with 5000 kWh of electricity, equipped with dozens of battery packs and an intelligent control system independently developed by the enterprise. It can also operate safely and stably in high-altitude areas at an altitude of over 4000 meters. Song Jiufu, the head of the enterprise's energy storage integration business, said that lithium batteries have high activity, and how to improve their safety and stability has always been a major challenge in the industry. The company continues to increase its R&D investment and has finally explored a solution, becoming the largest energy storage system integrator in East China. Last June, Jingkong Energy decided to place its new headquarters project in Suzhou High tech Zone. The base has introduced automated production lines, which will double the production capacity after completion, helping enterprises expand into larger markets.
Since the beginning of this year, there have been over 200 new high-quality projects in emerging industries such as new energy, photonics, and medical devices in Suzhou High tech Zone. "Integrated Circuit Design and Application" has been selected as a characteristic industry cluster for small and medium-sized enterprises in the province, "High end Measurement and Control Instruments and Equipment" has been selected as an innovative industry cluster in the province, and "General Intelligence" has been approved as one of the first pilot projects for future industrial agglomeration development in the province.
The pace of industrial transformation has also accelerated. While technology-based enterprises are embracing emerging industries and new trends in future industries, manufacturing enterprises are also actively seeking transformation and embracing new quality productivity. This year, the output value of Forewin has increased by more than 20%. This steady growth trend is closely related to the intelligent transformation of enterprises.
Arriving at the production workshop of the enterprise, various intelligent devices are running at high speed, carrying out assembly, testing and other processes in an orderly manner. Forewin has been deeply rooted in the local area for 14 years, and its main products are high-order arbitrary layer interconnect HDI rigid flex bonding boards. Self built industrial Internet platform, integrated and upgraded various software and hardware systems; Targeting the market trend and optimizing product structure... The enterprise has accurately positioned itself in the high-end mobile phone display module and camera module fields, firmly occupying market share. Since the beginning of this year, Suzhou High tech Zone has been approved for 4 provincial-level intelligent manufacturing factories and 4 provincial-level engineering research centers.
Projects are moving towards' new ', while enterprises are moving towards' new'. A more active innovation factor and stronger development momentum of industrial science and technology innovation main battlefield is accelerating to form in the west of Suzhou city.
Source: China Jiangsu Network
