Forty years of wind and rain, to take on the new era.
On October 15, 1981, the sound of a cannon on the hills of the Huli Export Processing Zone opened the curtain on the construction of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone.
Reform and opening up set sail, Xiamen faces the sea, and spring is blooming.
Xiamen is an important breeding place, germination place, and practice place of Xi Jinping's socialist thoughts with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
Over the past 40 years, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Xiamen Special Economic Zone has always kept in mind the entrustment and gratitude, and has undergone earth-shaking changes. , High-value, modern, and international "garden city" has written a magnificent chapter in Xiamen in the process of reform and opening up.
Fast industrial upgrading and business optimization
In 1991, it was approved by the State Council as the first batch of national high-tech zones in the country. With less than 3% of Xiamen’s land area, it achieved 43% of Xiamen’s industrial output value, among which high-tech industries accounted for more than 82% of the planned total industrial output value. There are more than 12,000 enterprises of various types and more than 1,000 national high-tech enterprises... Huang Shigao, Director of the Economic Development Division of the Management Committee of Xiamen Torch High-tech Zone, introduced that for 30 years, the Torch High-tech Zone has become the main engine of Xiamen’s innovation-driven development. "Three highs" (high-tech, high-growth, high-value-added) enterprise clusters, the main carrier of Xiamen's 100 billion yuan industrial chain (group), and the main platform for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Xiamen's industrial "ballast stone" is firmly supported, and the total output value of industries above designated size has increased from 7.655 billion yuan in 1990 to 686.121 billion yuan in 2020.
The relevant person in charge of the Xiamen Development and Reform Commission introduced that in recent years, Xiamen has been committed to industrial transformation and upgrading, strengthening core competitiveness, insisting on "grasping the chain group", implementing the 100 billion yuan industrial chain group cultivation project, and striving to build 12 100 billion yuan. Meta-industry chain group.
As of the end of 2020, there are a total of 9 industrial chain groups with a scale of over 100 billion yuan.
The excellent business environment and sincere talent policy have also made Xiamen a paradise for innovation and entrepreneurship.
"Since we settled in Haicang Bio-Pharmaceutical Port in 2008, we have truly felt the improvement in the business environment. Government departments at all levels in Xiamen have helped us solve a lot of worries." Specialized new "little giant" company Xiamen Aide Biomedical Technology Luo Jiemin, general manager of the company said.
"When our office space was in short supply, the Huli District Government helped and approved two plots of land in the Huli Innovation Park one after another, which solved the major problem of enterprise development. From the street to the city government, officials from all levels and departments often visit the company. Understand the development situation." said Zhang Huirong, deputy general manager of Xiamen Yealink Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Great development within the island
Ascend to the top floor of the Xinglin Bay Business Operation Center Building in Jimei New City, and look down from the floor-to-ceiling windows to have a panoramic view of the Xinglin Bay waters.
The coastline is winding, lush islands dotted with skyscrapers lined up, and cross-sea bridges "float" like ribbons on the magnificent sea of Xinglin Bay.
Xiamen has a total area of about 1,700 square kilometers, consisting of the island and the island. Due to historical and geographic reasons, urban construction and development have long been concentrated on the island, which is less than 160 square kilometers. The economic and social development levels inside and outside the island are very different.
In 2002, Xi Jinping, then governor of Fujian Province, went to Xiamen for investigation and proposed Xiamen's grand strategic concept of "improving the development of the island and cross-island".
As a result, Xiamen started the process of accelerating cross-island development and promoting the integration of inside and outside the island.
Liu Yongchun, former director of the Construction and Management Office of Jimei New Town Command, introduced that as the first "battlefield" for the construction of the four major new cities across the island in Xiamen City, in February 2010, the groundbreaking ceremony of Jimei New Town kicked off, sounding the integration of the island's interior and exterior. The construction of the storm horn.
In 10 years, the third phase of the software park here has changed from a "farmland beach" to a fertile ground for innovation and entrepreneurship. More than 3,000 companies and more than 46,000 software talents have settled here, bringing new momentum to the economic development of Jimei District and Xiamen.
Today's Jimei District, where industries are concentrated, livable and suitable for business, is vigorously building into the most beautiful new urban area for cross-island development.
In 2020, Digital China Group from Beijing settled in Jimei, and built a production base, supercomputing center, Xinchuang Research Institute, etc. with Kunpeng's basic software and hardware system as the core.
Lin Guanhong, general manager of the production base operation department of the Kunpeng Division of Digital China, said: “With the construction of the third phase of the Software Park and other constructions, the software information service industry continues to gather and grow, which strengthens our investment confidence in Jimei.”
The Xiamen East Sports Convention and Exhibition New City area next to Xiamen’s East Sea is full of passion for catching up with and surpassing major projects in the construction of major projects.
Wang Huaqi, deputy commander-in-chief of the Xiamen East Sports Convention and Exhibition New City Area Command and Chief Engineer of Luqiao Group, told reporters that the Sports Convention and Exhibition New City is the main position of Xiamen’s “big improvement on the island and great development outside the island”. The landmark "One Field and Two Halls" (Egret Stadium, Phoenix Stadium, White Dolphin Swimming Hall) and the new exhibition center will rise in this land.
Reform does not stop and opening up does not stop
Forty years ago, Xiamen was still a closed and backward fishing port.
Over the past 40 years, Xiamen has set sail to the sea. Xiamen has given full play to the policy advantages of the special economic zone and its location advantages to Taiwan, and has gradually formed an all-round and multi-level opening-up pattern, with an economic outward orientation of 108%, and an opening-up economic pattern has continued to expand.
Since its listing on April 21, 2015, as the "test field" of Xiamen's reform and opening up, the construction of the Xiamen area of the China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone has gone through 6 years.
He Dongning, Party Secretary of the Management Committee of the Xiamen Free Trade Zone, stated that over the past six years, the Xiamen Free Trade Zone has launched a total of 498 innovative measures, including 111 national firsts, and 30 "Xiamen Experiences" have been replicated and promoted throughout the country; the area’s annual GDP growth has increased. 13.5%, accounting for about 11% of the city, the total import and export volume increased by 11.4% annually, accounting for about one-third of the city of Xiamen.
If reform and innovation are a strong driving force for development, what opening up brings is to enhance the unlimited potential for development.
Dai Bin, director of the Economic Development Bureau of the Management Committee of the Xiamen Free Trade Zone, said that on the one hand, the Xiamen Free Trade Zone serves the national strategy, actively explores new roads for cross-strait integration and development, and vigorously builds the "first stop" for Taiwanese and Taiwanese enterprises to land in the first home. Promoting cross-strait integration in an orderly manner; on the other hand, it is the first to seize the great opportunity of "Silk Road Shipping", connecting land and sea to air, and supporting the docking of "Silk Road Shipping" liners with Fujian-Taiwan sea and air routes and China-Europe Express (Xiamen).
The high-quality business environment has attracted global "Golden Phoenix".
In the first ten months of this year, the Xiamen Free Trade Zone added 1081 projects to the database, with a total investment of 187.788 billion yuan; 889 new projects were launched, with a total investment of 120.573 billion yuan.
Among them, there are 59 high-level projects such as the world's top 500, China's top 500, and large state-owned enterprises.
Standing at the new starting point of the 40th anniversary of the construction of the special economic zone, Ludao’s sons and daughters are guided by Xi Jinping’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and follow the principles of "a city of high-quality innovation and entrepreneurship, a city of high-value ecological gardens, and a modern international city." The grand blueprint of Xiamen, focusing on the development goals of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the long-term goals for 2035, strives to make Xiamen more beautiful, richer, safer and more prosperous.
(Economic Daily reporter Xue Zhiwei Liu Chun Muyang)