China News Service, Guangzhou, December 9 (Tang Guijiang, Zhao Ding) In order to strengthen its global competitive advantage, CATL New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. invested in the construction of a lithium battery production base in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, and built a power battery cell, lithium battery materials, and energy storage. Industrial chain in the fields of application, battery recycling, new energy vehicles, drive motors and electronic control.
Among them, the planned production capacity of the first phase and the first phase of the project under construction is 1.5 billion watt-hours, with a total investment of 7.75 billion yuan.
In November 2021, in order to meet the high-efficiency funding needs of the project, ICBC's institutions at all levels closely coordinated and quickly organized personnel to collect project data for preliminary review. The head office proactively opened a green channel for credit approval, participated in the formation of syndicated loans, and undertook loans Among them, 1 billion yuan will effectively help project construction and the development of new energy industries.
The reporter learned from ICBC Guangdong Branch on the 9th that data showed that as of the end of October 2021, the bank’s domestic and foreign currency manufacturing loans balance was 192.3 billion yuan, a net increase of 33.4 billion yuan from the beginning of the year; the number of manufacturing loan users reached 8,256, accounting for the bank. 39% of all companies have loans, which is the industry with the largest number of loans, covering all 31 first-level sub-sectors of the manufacturing national standard.
"In recent years, our bank has continued to optimize the investment and financing business layout, highlighting the strengthening of financial support for high-tech manufacturing, strategic emerging industries, traditional manufacturing transformation and upgrading, and "stuck neck" key core technology breakthroughs. Good leading enterprises, core enterprises, and “specialized, special and new” small and medium-sized enterprises provide services throughout the industry chain.” The relevant person in charge of ICBC Guangdong Branch said, “At the same time, we will comprehensively deepen the reform and innovation of strategic resource allocation, assessment and evaluation, and risk management and control. Explore the high-quality development path of the service manufacturing industry with ICBC characteristics."
As of the end of October, the bank's strategic emerging industry loan balance was 85.59 billion yuan, an increase of 72.67 billion yuan from the beginning of the year, of which 42.22 billion yuan was provided for financing support for 3600 strategic emerging industry cluster customers of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology; the manufacturing medium and long-term loan balance was 866 100 million yuan, a net increase of 24.8 billion yuan from the beginning of the year.
As for the high-tech industry, as of the end of October, the bank’s domestic and foreign currency financing balance of national high-tech enterprises reached 77.68 billion yuan, an increase of 13.95 billion yuan from the beginning of the year.
"In the next stage, our bank will continue to strengthen the orientation of prioritizing the development of industrial finance, keep up with the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation trends, increase resource tilt, optimize investment, adjust structure, expand the scale of medium and long-term loans, credit loans, and develop in-depth The special action to replenish the chain and strengthen the chain of financial services will continuously increase the proportion of investment and financing in advanced manufacturing, consolidate the effect of fee reduction and profit, and help the modernization of my country's manufacturing industry chain supply chain and the improvement of international competitiveness." The above-mentioned head of ICBC Guangdong Branch emphasized.
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