Persist in working hard and work hard to promote high-quality development and take new steps

Dongguan: A city with narrow roads and windy roads, with high spirits and high spirits.

　　This Spring Festival, Dongguan is very popular. "Auspicious Dragon", a trendy toy made in Guangdong, went into space; "Bingdundun" made in Dongguan, a special edition for the Year of the Dragon, "Longdundun" became a top-selling New Year product. It was not only popular in China, but also quickly went global... becoming "Made in Dongguan" A Spring Festival gift to the world.

　　When countless people in Dongguan saw the astronauts stationed on the Chinese Space Station through CCTV news, holding the auspicious dragon of "Happy Spring Festival" and sending New Year blessings from the "Heavenly Palace" to Chinese people around the world through video, they felt even more proud and joyful. It has been a hard year.

　　Faced with a complex and severe situation that exceeded expectations, Dongguan took a narrow road to achieve new results, withstood external pressure, overcame internal difficulties, persisted in working quickly and hard, and promoted high-quality development to take new steps and achieve new results in various undertakings. In 2023, Dongguan withstood. In 2024, Dongguan continues to move forward.

Withstand the pressure and stabilize for the better

　　Looking back in 2023, Dongguan actively responded to unexpected changes and promoted the city's economy to bottom out and continue to improve.

　　More than 1.7 million market entities in Dongguan continue to strive for self-improvement, vigorously promote entrepreneurship, and do everything possible to expand markets, grab orders, and stabilize operations. 310,000 new market entities were added throughout the year, ranking first among prefecture-level cities in the province for 12 consecutive years; new There were 1,797 industrial enterprises that were upgraded to above-standard level, and 1,216 new digital transformation enterprises, both ranking first in the province; the number of A-share listed enterprises increased to 58, and the number of national-level specialized and special new "little giants" increased to 170, both ranking first in the province. Ranked first among provincial and prefecture-level cities.

　　The main enterprises of 9 key industrial chains have bravely taken the leading role, leading upstream, mid-stream and downstream enterprises to integrate innovation and jointly build the ecology, accelerate the chain replenishment, strengthen the chain and expand the chain, and help introduce 11 major industrial chain projects of more than 3 billion yuan, with more than 425 billion yuan. The total agreed investment exceeds 360 billion yuan. 398 industry associations and chambers of commerce have established connections, held a total of 50 local exhibitions, and organized and participated in 224 domestic and overseas exhibitions, effectively helping enterprises to connect supply and demand and develop together.

　　168 financial institutions have accurately implemented drip irrigation and innovatively launched quality loans, digital loans and other products, driving the balance of deposits and loans to increase by 11.1% and 9.7% respectively. Among them, the growth rate of manufacturing and inclusive small and micro enterprise loans exceeded 20%, which was watered by financial water. Trillions of fertile land for Dongguan’s real economy. Dongguan also took the lead in the province to introduce a combination of "15 measures to stabilize industry" and "8 measures to reduce costs". It launched more than 20 enterprise-friendly policies focusing on expanding investment and promoting consumption, reducing the burden on enterprises by more than 20 billion yuan, promoting fixed investment, Social consumption and consumption increased by 2.7% and 3.4% respectively.

　　With the joint efforts of the whole city and all walks of life, Dongguan's industrial added value has maintained positive monthly growth since August 2023, with an annual growth rate of 2.6%, showing a clear trend of bottoming out, rebounding, and stabilizing.

Enrich your wealth and become bigger and stronger

　　Over the past year, Dongguan has laid a foundation for long-term benefits and made every effort to make this solid manufacturing industry bigger and stronger.

　　The municipal government issued the No. 1 document with the theme of taking the manufacturing industry as the leading role, adhering to both stabilizing pillars and establishing new pillars. Focusing on the development of large industries, we will build a high-quality development fund system with a total scale of 200 billion yuan, promote the accelerated construction of new bases in the Seven War, and the output value will exceed 100 billion yuan. The output value of the "three major mobile phones" increased by 13.3%, reversing the decline trend for three consecutive years, food The output value of beverages exceeded 120 billion yuan, and investment in biomedicine and high-end medical equipment, semiconductors and integrated circuits, and new materials increased by 44.1%, 35.7%, and 31.5% respectively.

　　Focusing on building a large platform, 60 modern industrial parks have been planned, more than 7,500 acres of contiguous land have been completed, and the construction of high-quality, low-cost industrial space has started to exceed 10 million square meters.

　　Focusing on seizing large projects, we will build a large-scale investment promotion work pattern, implement the global promotion campaign of Invest in Dongguan, conduct large-scale visits to the headquarters of hundreds of teams and thousands of enterprises, launch investment promotion at the Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen liaison offices, hold the largest global investment conference in the past five years, and promote Jiangxi 251 major projects including Feng Lithium Battery and Tianyu Semiconductor started construction, with an investment of 133.5 billion yuan completed.

　　Focusing on cultivating large enterprises, we established a comprehensive evaluation system for the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, supported the development and growth of key enterprises through one chain and one policy, cultivated 94 individual champions in the manufacturing industry, 25 enterprises with revenue exceeding 10 billion yuan, and 22 Dongguan enterprises were selected as Guangdong enterprises. the 500 strongest.

　　Focusing on optimizing the environment, striving to create first-class services against Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Dongguan Private Entrepreneur Day and Engineer Day were established to popularize the priority window for policy implementation in the government hall. The through-train service for key enterprises was expanded to 1,000, and the "Enterprise-Dongguan Family" was realized as planned. Full coverage of enterprise service specialists. Reforms such as "industrial-to-industrial" integration of approval and production upon completion have been implemented, and a number of experiences have been replicated and promoted by the province.

Pay close attention to innovation and promote openness

　　Over the past year, Dongguan has been determined to innovate and promote opening up, further accumulating new momentum for high-quality development.

　　Adhere to innovation as the first driving force. Promote the approval of the second phase budget estimate of the spallation neutron source and the feasibility study of advanced attosecond laser facilities, and establish the first China-Latin America technology transfer center in China. The City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan) has made breakthrough progress in its application for establishment, and the teaching area of ​​the Greater Bay Area University (Songshan Lake Campus) has been basically completed. R&D investment intensity increased to 4.1%, and the total number of high-tech enterprises exceeded 10,000.

　　Deeply participate in Bay Area interconnection. The construction of Shenzhen-Jiang Railway and Shenzhen-Huizhou Intercity Railway has been accelerated, the first phase of the tunnel of Line 1 has been fully completed, the third phase of Line 2 has been steadily advanced, and the Humen High-speed Railway Station has been upgraded. The third phase of the Guan-Fan Expressway was completed and opened to traffic, and the reconstruction and expansion of the Guan-Shenzhen and Changhu Expressways were accelerated. 100 new services will be added to Guangzhou-Dongguan and Shenzhen-Dongguan, and the entire Dongguan area will be included in the Shenzhen metropolitan area.

　　Make good use of the "five external linkage" combination punches. Dongguan's "Overall Plan for Deepening Cross-Strait Innovation and Development Cooperation" was approved by the State Council to hold the country's largest annual economic and trade exchange meeting with Taiwan and work with Hong Kong to create the world's first cross-border sea and air transport project. Cross-border e-commerce exceeded 90 billion yuan, bonded logistics exceeded 300 billion yuan, and domestic sales by foreign companies exceeded 600 billion yuan.

　　Further blowing the clarion call of “Talents Come to Wanlai”. The province took the lead in exploring the independent evaluation of senior technicians, improved academic qualifications and skills for 368,000 people, introduced 152,000 undergraduates and 12,000 masters and above, and put all 33 town and street (park) talent service areas into use. A new team of strategic scientists was added, the National Innovation Institute for Outstanding Engineers was officially unveiled, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China achieved zero breakthroughs for local outstanding young people.

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Cultivate new momentum and rejuvenate

　　In 2024, Dongguan will focus on the theme of "Investment Year" as an important breakthrough for Dongguan to cultivate new momentum and revitalize new vitality. Focusing on industry, infrastructure, people's livelihood and other fields, it will highlight space, projects, and efficiency, and comprehensively launch a batch of construction projects and the completion of a new project. The construction boom of major projects has been approved and reserved.

　　Promote the acceleration and expansion of industrial investment. Accelerate the start of construction of 136 high-quality manufacturing projects that have been picked up, promote the completion and commissioning of 90 major industrial projects such as the OPPO R&D center, strive to increase the fixed investment of the new base by more than 30%, and complete the city's industrial investment of 140 billion yuan. Implement a new round of "major technological transformation" action to ensure that investment in technological transformation reaches 73 billion yuan. We will make every effort to ensure that existing high-quality enterprises expand their production capacity, increasing capital and expanding production by more than 36 billion yuan. "Today's input is tomorrow's output. The current investment structure determines the future industrial structure and competitiveness. Industrial investment is the main battlefield of the 'Investment Year'. We must give full play to the initiative of enterprises and entrepreneurs and create good policies and systems The environment allows state-owned enterprises to dare to do business, private enterprises to dare to venture, and foreign companies to dare to invest." said Lu Chengqi, deputy secretary of the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and Mayor.

　　Dongguan insists on seeking motivation from reform and innovation, and will build Songshan Lake Science City into a core engine that leads Dongguan's high-quality development. Focusing on building an industrial innovation engine, we will start the construction of the second phase of the spallation neutron source and advanced attosecond laser facilities, strengthen the orientation of "park incubation, town and street manufacturing", and promote the deployment of a number of high-quality transformation projects in various towns and streets.

　　Focusing on building a high-end talent engine, we will promote the opening of the City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan) and the delivery of the teaching area of ​​the Greater Bay Area University (Songshan Lake Campus), introduce a group of operational and innovative high-end talents, and fully unleash the talent spillover effect. Focusing on building an urban construction engine, vigorously promote projects such as science parks and international talent communities, and accelerate the creation of a future-oriented science and technology ecological new city based in the Bay Area. Strive to achieve Songshan Lake’s R&D investment intensity of 10%, the coverage of R&D institutions of industrial enterprises above designated size to reach 80%, and GDP growth of 10%.

　　Dongguan, a city with narrow roads and windy streets, is full of new vitality and vitality.

　　Text/Wang Wanli

　　Guangzhou Daily