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Port Economic Zone will become a high-level heavy
equipment manufacturing base in China’s coastal area
Port Economic Area was a merged identity from 2 old areas, the old
port industrial area (built in Aug. 2004) and the old port production area.
Port Economic Zone is located in the Haihe River estuary, south of
the shallow beach area. To the North it meets the waterway of Dagu River,
to the south are the Nan’gang Industrial Zone and Textile Economic Zone.
To the west is the planned New City of central Binhai New Area, and to
the east is the Bohai Sea. Port Economic Zone in the heart of the Bohai
Sea Economic Zone, across two rivers, vertical to the sea, backed by
China’s “Three North”, and open to the world. The direct economic
hinterland includes two municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin and ten
provinces and autonomous regions in North China and Northwest China. It
also radiates into Northeast Asia.
It is a unique area with convenient transportation and a smooth, vast
and flat area. It has advanced ocean and air transportation network. As
of the ocean freights, it not only lies close to the world’s fourth
largest port, Tianjin Port, south Duliujian River Channel, but also has
its own waterways of Dagusha, and Gaoshaling, with more than 2 million-ton
berths. As of ground transportation, nine high-speed highways crisscross
through the port, and “five verticals and three horizontals” backbone
network has been formed. As of air transport, it is only 38 kilometers
away from China’s important airport and air cargo center — Tianjin
Binhai International Airport.
According to “Binhai New Port Economic Zone regional planning
(2010-2020)”, the Economic Zone will heavily rely on the advantages of
port and land, focusing on the development of rail transportation
equipment, wind power and nuclear power equipment and other large heavy
outfits development, and manufacturing, ship building and repairing as
well as logistics and other producer services, and gradually build into
a national heavy equipment manufacturing base, forming the “one belt,
two cores and three areas” spatial layout. “One belt” refers to the
functional area along the Binhai Avenue; “two cores” refers to north
and south comprehensive service areas; “three areas” refers to the North,
South and Central Districts.
In 2015, the economic output of the zone reached GDP of 32.3 billion
CNY, or an increase of 35%. On top of this, in 2016, Port Economic Zone
will strive to achieve GDP of 37.1 billion CNY, or up 15%. It will attract
more than 90 big and good projects, including marine CNOOC, Sinopec
equipment, Yinlong track panels, and continue to build five equipment
manufacturing industry clusters.
According to the positioning of a high-end equipment manufacturing
base, in 2016, the port zone will build a high-end marine equipment
industry cluster with Taifu Heavy industries and Sanyi Heavy Industries;
with Tianjin University’s underwater glider, Beijing Zhizaobao’s 3D
printing projects as leader, it will create an industry, agriculture,
health, education and entertainment as well as the space robots consisting
of intelligent manufacturing industry cluster; taking Tianjin Electric
Locomotives, Qianjiang Heavy Industries and other projects as the leader,
it will build a rail transportation industry cluster. With State Oceanic
Administration Desalination and Comprehensive Utilization Base, Bohai
Ineos and other projects as the leader, it will build a desalination
equipment cluster; with Longking, SCU Sewage and other projects as the
leader, it will build an energy-saving environmental protection industry
cluster.
In 2016, the port will attract 4 research centers from Beijing and
undertake the transfer of 40 projects with research funds totaling 40
billion CNY. It will seize the “Belt and Road” national strategy to build
Chengdu, Xi’an, Shenyang as connection points and extend to other
countries along the “Belt and Road”. It will continue to grow marine
economy, introduce more than 15 projects related to new port machinery,
marine engineering equipment, offshore oil platforms and other marine
industry, and accelerate the clustering of intelligence equipment
industries.