China News Service, Beijing, March 11 (Reporter Zhao Yejiao) "The textile industry is a pillar industry of the national economy and a traditional advantageous industry with international competitiveness. It is recommended to increase the concentration and gold content of the textile industry, drive the regional manufacturing industry to accelerate its leap to the high end, and promote Build a modern industrial system." Shi Huifang, deputy to the National People's Congress and mayor of Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, said in an exclusive interview with China News Service.
Shi Huifang, deputy to the National People's Congress and mayor of Shaoxing.
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Manufacturing is the foundation of a country, a tool for rejuvenating a country, and the foundation for a powerful country. It is also a key support for building a modern industrial system.
Under the general trend of industrial transformation and upgrading, the traditional manufacturing industry, represented by the textile industry, needs to accelerate its leap towards high-end, intelligence, and clustering.
Why do "old" industries move towards "new" ones?
Shi Huifang suggested that national industry authorities should vigorously support areas with advantages in the textile industry to carry out national advanced manufacturing cluster demonstration pilot projects, guide qualified local areas to innovate supporting policies, promote high-quality development of textile industry clusters, and consolidate and improve the basic development base of the manufacturing industry.
In 2023, three foreign businessmen who started their businesses in Shaoxing praised Shaoxing's textile industry.
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China is the country with the largest textile industry in the world.
Looking around, regions with advantages in the textile industry are working to build manufacturing industry clusters with complete upstream and downstream, good innovation atmosphere, and outstanding brand quality. For example, Zhejiang Province proposes to build a trillion-level modern textile and clothing industry cluster.
"In particular, Shaoxing City, known as the 'city on a piece of cloth', has always been a hot spot for the textile industry to continue to rise to the high end, covering key links in the entire industrial chain such as PTA, chemical fiber, weaving, printing and dyeing, clothing, textile machinery, and dyes. ." Shi Huifang said that the added value of Shaoxing's entire textile industry chain accounts for nearly 40% of the added value of the manufacturing industry, but the industry's gold content needs to be further improved.
China Textile City Market.
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In recent years, Shaoxing has vigorously promoted the "4151" plan to strengthen the city with advanced manufacturing, done both the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation and expansion of emerging industries, so as to make the development of the real economy bigger and stronger.
For traditional industries such as textile printing and dyeing, through cross-domain integration and agglomeration improvement, the concentration ratio of Shaoxing's printing and dyeing industry has increased to more than 80%, achieving centralized heating, centralized gas supply, and centralized sewage discharge, effectively enhancing the overall competitiveness of the modern textile industry cluster. .
As industry concentration becomes higher and higher, the demand for industrial gold content becomes more and more urgent.
"To accelerate the development of new productive forces, we can neither stick to the old ways nor pursue only the new. We must adapt to local conditions, establish first and then break, implement policies in categories, and find a new path for industrial development that suits our own reality." Shi Huifang gave an example. For Shaoxing, It is to promote the wonderful transformation from a "traditional manufacturing city" to a "strong advanced manufacturing city" through a combination of industrial transformation and upgrading.
Specifically, in addition to deepening the traditional industry "emptying the cage to change the bird, the phoenix is reborn", Shaoxing is also working hard to cultivate and expand strategic emerging industries and seek breakthroughs. Currently, it has integrated circuits, biomedicine, advanced polymer materials, intelligent vision, etc. The four major Zhejiang provincial-level new industrial platforms of “10,000 acres and 100 billion” are also planning ahead for future industries such as aerospace and aerospace.
In 2023, the added value of Shaoxing's designated industries will be 215.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.8%, ranking second in Zhejiang Province in terms of growth rate.
The production workshop of a manufacturing enterprise in Shaoxing.
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To improve the value of the manufacturing industry, we must not only tap the "depth" of the industry, but also lengthen the "width" of opening up and raise the "temperature" of the environment.
"The construction of a modern industrial system needs to be organically connected with the new development pattern of high-level opening up to the outside world." Shi Huifang said that currently, Shaoxing is using the "Sweet Potato Economy" to increase the capacity and upgrade the "No. 1 Opening Project" as a guide to build a "steady expansion and adjustment" combination. We must practice hard, sing the concerto of "bringing in" well, cultivate new advantages of "going out", and promote high-quality development with high-level opening up.
For example, focusing on "going out", the local government coordinates to improve the functions of national-level open platforms such as China (Shaoxing) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone and Shaoxing Comprehensive Bonded Zone, optimizes the layout of overseas warehouses, strengthens new business formats such as cross-border e-commerce, and at the same time promotes "Silk Road" The "Road Navigation" action will vigorously cultivate local multinational companies, guide enterprises to accelerate their climb to the high end of the value chain, and deeply integrate into the global industrial division of labor.
Fish are jumping in the deep water, and birds are gathering in the dense forest.
Only a better business environment can foster a modern industrial system that is competitive, creative and high-quality.
The Yuewang Terrace, located in Fushan, Shaoxing, was built to commemorate the Yue King Gou Jian who resurrected his country by lying down on firewood and tasting gall.
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Looking back to September 2023, Shaoxing was given the important mission of "composing a brave sword chapter in the new era".
Talking about why the new year is about writing a brave chapter in the new era, Shi Huifang believes that the key is to insist on high-quality development as the absolute principle of the new era, dare to do good, strive for strength, and bravely embark on a new path of Chinese-style modern city practice , to build Shaoxing, a good place, even better.
In this process, Shaoxing must grasp the greatest advantages of the private economy.
"Among the 779,000 market entities in Shaoxing, there are 230,000 private enterprises; the total number of listed companies has exceeded 100, including 80 A-share listed companies, ranking third among similar cities in the country." Shi Huifang knows a lot. He said that if private enterprises are strong, then If Shaoxing is strong and the private economy is good, Shaoxing will do well.
In order to cultivate fertile ground for business, Shaoxing has formulated and implemented "33 measures" to improve and strengthen the private economy in 2023, deepen the value-added reform of government services, promote a series of "love enterprises" actions, and strive to solve the "matters outside the walls" of enterprises.
Shi Huifang also said that, especially since this year, in response to the needs of local enterprises to reinvest and expand production, we have formulated and implemented special policies to support the construction of endogenous projects in the manufacturing industry, stimulate the investment enthusiasm of local enterprises, and inject strong impetus into the stable and positive development of the economy.
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