The joint commencement ceremony of key industrial projects at China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (Lingang New Area)in 2020 were held on July 7th, which greeted 18 key industrial projects with a total investment of about RMB48 billion.
Li Qiang, Secretary of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, attended and announced the commencement of the projects. Gong Zheng, Deputy Secretary of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and Acting Mayor, delivered a speech.
Chen Yin, Member of the Standing Committee of CPC Municipal Committee and Executive Vice Mayor of Shanghai Municipal Government, presided over the ceremony. Wu Qing, Member of the Standing Committee of CPC Municipal Committee and Vice Mayor of Shanghai Municipal Government, unveiled the Investment Promotion Service Center of the Intelligent and New Energy Automobile Industry Chain at Lingang New District. ZhugeYujie, Member of the Standing Committee and Secretary Generalof CPC Municipal Committee, was present.
Adhere to high-end leading, innovation driven and integrated development, accelerate the construction of a world-class, open and modern industrial system, and give full play to the role of the city's economic growth pole and engine
Gong Zheng pointed out that at present, we are thoroughly implementing the spirit of general secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, doing a solid job of "six stability", implementing the "six guarantees" task in an all-round way, and striving to become the central node of the domestic big cycle and the strategic link of domestic and international double circulation. Lingang New Area should adhere to high-end leading, innovation driven and integrated development, accelerate the construction of a world-class, open and modern industrial system, and give full play to the role of the city's economic growth pole and engine. It is important to further strengthen institutional innovation, strengthen investment promotion, focus on the frontier industries, explore policies and measures to promote industrial development, and enhance the chain around the key links of the industrial chain. What's more, it is a must to be a good assistant for service enterprises, so that all kinds of market entities can concentrate on entrepreneurship, operate with ease, and invest with confidence, so as to develop and expand continuously.
18 key industrial projects cover integrated circuits, new energy vehicles, artificial intelligence, aerospace and biological medicine
The 18 key industrial projects cover key industrial fields like integrated circuits, new energy vehicles, artificial intelligence, aerospace and biological medicine, which will greatly help to expand the economic scale and improve the economic quality of the Lingang.
From August 2019 to June 2020, a total of 292 industrial projects have been signed, involving a total investment of RMB254.6 billion. The key industrial projects started this time were all introduced and signed in the first half of this year. Some of them only took more than four months from the signing to the commencement, which formed an unusual development upsurge in the overall promotion of epidemic control as well as economic and social development, bringing the development acceleration of new areas.
The Intelligent and New Energy Automobile Industry Chain at Lingang New Area will integrate relevant service resources, achieve precise investment promotion, promote project landing, improve industrial chain integration, and help build a RMB100 billion intelligent new energy automobile industrial cluster with the goal of attracting investment in the whole industrial chain and offering enterprise life cycle service.
The event set up sub venues in several project sites at Lingang. Comrades of relevant departments, districts, Lingang Management Committees and representatives of Chinese and foreign enterprises were present.
