In the first quarter, the actual utilization of foreign capital increased by 163.3%
Why Suzhou continues to favor foreign investment
Economic Daily · China Economic Net reporter Xue Haiyan
Just sent away the April day in the world, and ushered in the turbulent "Red May".
Strolling the streets of Suzhou, the flowers bloom like breezes. Corresponding to this beautiful season, Suzhou's foreign investment introduction in the first quarter is even more exciting. In the first quarter, Suzhou actually utilized US $ 4.23 billion in foreign capital, an increase of 163.3%, a record high. At the same time, Suzhou industrial investment increased by 13.3%, of which emerging industry investment increased by 23.1%, injecting a strong impetus to full-scale resumption of production.
Why does Suzhou allow foreign capital to "have a soft spot"?
Open to the outside world, expand and expand
On the morning of January 3, the "Suzhou Opening and Restarting Conference" organized by the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government was held by the Jinji Lake in the Suzhou Industrial Park. About 3,000 innovative and entrepreneurial talents and entrepreneurs gathered at home and abroad Pound policy initiatives.
At the meeting, Lan Shaomin, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee, proposed to promote innovation and development by opening up and enhance the source of science and technology innovation in Suzhou; , To enhance the global resource allocation function of Suzhou; to optimize the business environment by opening up, to enhance the siphoning of various elements in Suzhou; to shape the quality of the city by opening up, and to enhance the function of Suzhou ’s open hub portal.
In order to build the first choice for investment in China, Suzhou decided to draw a 667 square kilometers industrial and productive R & D land protection red line, and released 68.8 square kilometers of recently available industrial land to ensure that strategic industries and high-tech industries land in Suzhou. Suzhou also decided to set up a special development fund of less than 80 billion yuan in the Suzhou area of the Jiangsu Free Trade Zone within five years to improve the construction of infrastructure and public facilities in the free trade area with world-class standards, and promote the economy in frontier industries, high-end talents and headquarters Accelerate development in other fields, and create a new height of reform and opening up in the new era.
At this conference, the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and the municipal government issued the "Suzhou Open Innovation Cooperation Heat Map", which includes investment investigation route maps, excluding 106 investment investigation routes; platform carrier guide maps, providing 230 carriers with a total of 6.55 million Square meters of available investment space; industrial land supply map, providing 45 industrial land areas; investment cooperation opportunity map, providing 175 investment cooperation opportunities and 718 cooperation needs.
"In the first year of the year, Suzhou was competing against every second, actively acting, and showing its determination to further open up. I was very surprised." Zhou Hongren, President of Global Manufacturing of Wistron Group, told reporters that as a Taiwan-funded enterprise rooted in Kunshan, Suzhou in 19 years, it will take the opportunity to accelerate Promote smart manufacturing.
In the signing ceremony of major projects of the conference, a total of 556 projects were signed and settled, with a total investment of 735.9 billion yuan. Among them, 423 industrial contracted projects with a total investment of 282.5 billion yuan; 133 financial contracted projects with an investment scale of 453.4 billion yuan.
Industrial chain, perfect and perfect
Attracting capital and retaining capital need to create the best industrial ecological chain. Suzhou ’s approach is to continuously improve the industrial chain, innovation chain, talent chain, factor chain, resource chain, capital chain, build a platform, do a good job of the carrier, optimize the environment, create an industrial ecological chain suitable for its growth for capital, introduce and nurture The strongest enterprise cluster, further complement, strengthen and expand the chain.
In order to accelerate the creation of a high-end talent gathering area in the biomedicine field in the country, Suzhou Industrial Park has deeply implemented the "Jinji Lake Talent Program", "Technology Leading Talent Entrepreneurship Project" and "Talent Settlement Project", through "Project + Talent" "Platform + Talent" and " 27 combined top-ranking scientific research institutes and innovation institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences Pharmaceutical Institute, Sanofi China R & D Center, and 112 biomedicine "national top talents" innovated in the park, in the field of biomedicine The total number of high-end professionals has exceeded 40,000.
"The development of the company benefits from Suzhou's good R & D atmosphere and talented personnel policy." Wang Hongwei, general manager of Suzhou Sundia Biopharmaceutical Company, told reporters that Sundia was registered and established in Suzhou Industrial Park in September 2015 and is mainly engaged in independent Innovative biopharmaceutical research and development, production and sales. At present, there are more than 200 independent R & D teams, of which high-tech talents account for more than 60%, and we are striving to become the first biomedical landmark enterprise with a production value of over 10 billion yuan in Suzhou.
Suzhou High-tech Zone has accelerated the cultivation of the strongest enterprise clusters. The district has accumulatively gathered more than 300 companies such as Danaher of the United States, Merrier of France, and domestic Yuyue Medical and Hengrui Medical. Pilots such as innovative industrial clusters.
"The company's surgical robot project has received a total of 25 million yuan in various awards and support over the years. Suzhou's industrial ecological environment has greatly promoted the development of entrepreneurial enterprises." Innovation leader in the high-tech zone, Suzhou Kondo Robot Co., Ltd. General Manager Yan Zhiyuan told reporters.
On April 25, Suzhou held a biopharmaceutical development conference and announced that it would strive to build a world-class biomedical and health industry landmark. It was determined that by 2022, the city's biopharmaceutical industry output value would exceed 280 billion yuan; 10,000, the industry scale exceeded 1 trillion yuan, which will make Suzhou the most approved biomedicine gathering area in China with the most approved innovative products, the most complete industrial chain, and the latest R & D cooperation model.
In this industrial ecological environment, it is not surprising that investors are rushing to settle in Suzhou.
Business environment, optimization, optimization
A high-quality business environment is the key to the success of the modern economy in the future. On March 28, Suzhou held a business environment innovation conference and was determined to use the five-star hotel standard "highest service" to win the reputation of "investing in China, preferred Suzhou".
At the meeting, the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government issued the "Innovation Action for Optimizing the Business Environment 2020", which was hailed by the business community as "Business Environment Version 3.0". Its core content is to strive for the integrity of the rule of law, smart government, corporate services, and resource allocation. Achieve greater breakthroughs in cooperation, win-win cooperation, and overall coordination, and strive to create the "Suzhou's most comfortable" business service brand, so that companies and investors can invest in Suzhou with peace of mind, develop peace of mind, be happy with the company, have a happy business, and live a comfortable life.
Taking the optimization of the business environment as a starting point, the Suzhou Municipal Government vigorously promotes the "three transformations": from "taking approval as the center" to "service as the center", and integrating the optimization policy from the standpoint of the enterprise more; "Stable optimization" shifts to "pursuing the limit", and vigorously explores a system that connects with international high-standard investment and trade rules; from "homogeneous" competition to "branding" shaping, creating "Suzhou's most comfortable" and "4S" International version of business service brand. In order to build a new type of political and business relations and make entrepreneurs become “insiders” in policy-making for enterprises, Suzhou has also set up “three systems” for entrepreneurs ’monthly salons, WeChat group contacts, and direct information reporting, allowing entrepreneurs to voice their opinions in their professional fields. To express opinions and make policy formulation more responsive to market needs.
Borui Medical is the first biomedicine company listed on the Science and Technology Board in East China. The taxation department of Suzhou Industrial Park takes the initiative to provide services, establish a coordination mechanism to support capacity transfer services, and accelerate the implementation of export tax rebate facilitation and tolerance acceptance commitment system. A series of policy measures, through tax stewards' special services, remote tutoring of VAT refund and refund, support of social insurance reduction and resumption of resumption of production, and one-time pre-tax deduction for newly purchased equipment to expand production capacity, allowing enterprises to accelerate scientific research , The pace of expanding overseas markets is more light.
Yuan Zou, Chief Financial Officer of Borui Pharmaceutical, told reporters, "Since the resumption of work, the company has refunded more than 6 million yuan in export tax rebates alone; in 2020, the percentage of deductions for R & D expenses increased to 75%, and it is expected that an additional deduction of more than 7 million The company also enjoys a high-tech enterprise income tax discount of 12 million yuan. "At the end of March, the construction of Borui Pharmaceutical's global headquarters and high-end pharmaceutical production base started in Suzhou Industrial Park, with a total investment of about 440 million yuan.
Today, Suzhou has become a blessed place for capital gathering and growth in the world. Standing on the square of Suzhou International Expo Center, the large red screen on the outdoor screen "open before you start, Suzhou is the most comfortable" red fonts directly at the eye. Vehicles passing by quickly, pedestrians passing by, all make people feel the strong pulse of the city's development.
Xue Haiyan