Guangzhou: an important hub of the 21st century Maritime Silk Road

In February this year, the State Council officially approved the latest urban positioning of Guangzhou. In the future, Guangzhou will strengthen in-depth cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao and become an important hub of the 21st century Maritime Silk Road. Nansha area of Guangdong free trade zone will be built into a demonstration area for in-depth cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.

Focusing on the goal of building an important central city, Guangzhou's three international "hubs" will hold up the future of the "center".

Nansha New Area "international shipping hub" set sail

Nansha New Area, located at the southernmost end of Guangzhou, is located at the estuary of the Pearl River. It is the only channel to the sea in Guangzhou and the geographical center and hub of the urban agglomeration in the Greater Pearl River Delta. On April 21 last year, Nansha New Area, together with Shenzhen Qianhai and Zhuhai Hengqin, welcomed the official listing of China (Guangdong) pilot free trade zone. Aiming at the international shipping hub, Nansha New Area set sail.

"I like Nansha, just as sharks like the sea and goshawks love the sky." Long Xuesong, a former "coal boss" from Jincheng, Shanxi Province, registered 34 companies (associations) in Nansha New Area, including cross-border commodity display, parallel imported cars, shipping and financial leasing, and built a "Big Mac" platform called "Egret headquarters". As of April 20 this year, 10802 new enterprises have been established in Nansha New Area, with a new registered capital of 111.3 billion yuan. 50 of the world's top 500 have successively settled in. Industries such as shipping logistics, innovative finance, financial leasing and cross-border e-commerce have gradually become concentrated.

In terms of promoting investment facilitation, customs clearance and trade facilitation, more "Nansha models" were born: "joint handling of 11 certificates and three chapters", the first government purchase and inspection service, the first customs rapid inspection and release mechanism, the first "intelligent inspection port", the first "single window" version 2.0 of international trade

Building an international shipping center and making ports bigger and stronger is the key. In just one year, six 100000 ton container berths at the phase III terminal of Nansha port area have been completed and can berth the world's largest tonnage container ship; 28 inland dry ports have been built, and the total number of international liner routes has reached 74; The construction of cruise home port was launched, and routes to and from Hong Kong, Sanya, Da Nang and gonggu Island were successively opened. In 2015, the container throughput of Nansha Port reached 11.77 million TEUs, ranking 12th in the world. At the same time, the shipbuilding industry in Nansha New Area also has broad prospects. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, CSSC will invest 15 billion yuan to build a marine equipment industry base in Longshu, Nansha, and take Guangzhou as the base to further radiate the Beibu Gulf and Southeast Asia.

Baiyun "international aviation hub" is ready to emerge

The seafood caught from Australia can be transported to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport within 36 hours. After customs, border inspection and quarantine, it can be delivered to the seafood market around Guangzhou citizens within 12 hours. Baiyun Airport comprehensive bonded zone is the largest airport type comprehensive bonded zone in China. At present, more than 260 enterprises have settled in, covering bonded logistics, warehousing and distribution, cross-border e-commerce, processing, agent customs declaration and other industries.

"If Guangzhou wants to participate in international competition, it must gather high-end elements in the global industrial chain, innovation chain and value chain. The international aviation hub is an important resource, platform and carrier for building a central city." Ren Xuefeng, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangzhou Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee, said.

More and more intensive routes and more developed logistics!

At 7:30 on May 7, the Finnish Airlines passenger plane departing from Helsinki successfully arrived at Baiyun Airport. So far, there are 72 airlines operating at Baiyun Airport, including 47 foreign airlines; More than 270 routes have been opened, including more than 100 international routes and more than 70 international navigation points. The airport terminal 2 project and its supporting projects are being pushed forward. In addition, China Southern Airlines Group, headquartered in Guangzhou, has a transportation capacity of 180 aircraft in Guangzhou, and there are 141 navigation points connecting the world from Guangzhou. China Eastern Airlines Guangdong branch has also successfully settled in Baiyun. It is planned to operate 30 aircraft during the 13th Five Year Plan period.

In January this year, the measures for the administration of Guangzhou airport economic zone was issued, and the 116 square kilometer area of Baiyun District was designated as the key development zone of the airport economic zone. In the future, the airport economic zone will accelerate the development of airport industrial agglomeration, and first promote the construction of China Australia New South Korea Free Trade Industrial Park, Guangzhou airport cross-border e-commerce agglomeration area, precious goods distribution and trading center and other projects. At present, FedEx Asia Pacific transfer center, Postal Express South China processing center, R & F logistics and other projects have been settled successively, and the annual international freight processing capacity of Baiyun Airport will also be increased to 1.5 million tons. "In the future, the airport can reach the central urban area in 20 minutes and cover the Pearl River Delta in one hour, greatly enhancing the regional radiation." Sun Xiuqing, director of Guangzhou Airport Management Committee, introduced.

The air traffic is faster, and the ground traffic is not willing to lag behind. At present, based on the existing 9 subways, 13 railways, high-speed railways and intercity tracks, Guangzhou is also planning to build 8 railways from Guangzhou to Hainan, Shaanxi, Guangxi, Yunnan (Southeast Asia), Beijing, Shanghai, Macao and Hong Kong, as well as 11 subways with a total length of 303km. At that time, with Guangzhou as the center, a strategic channel connecting East and northwest Guangdong, Beibu Gulf, southwest, Southeast and Yangtze River Delta will be built.

Yangcheng "international scientific and Technological Innovation Hub" Sang loudly

In such a large welding workshop, rows and rows of intelligent robot arms bend and rise, cadence and fall, and intelligent railcars run or stop, load or unload... On April 18, GAC Fick factory with an annual output of 160000 Jeep freedom Xia was officially put into operation, with an R & D cost of 1.08 billion yuan, and ga8, which represents the highest vehicle manufacturing level in China, went offline.

"Under the background of global automobile overcapacity, we rely on independent innovation, and at least four models sell well every year. All models have won the five-star evaluation of C-NCAP safety collision of China automobile technology center. We are in charge of core technologies such as major parts, vehicle control and new energy." Wu Song, general manager of GAC Passenger Car Co., Ltd., said proudly. As the city's first pillar industry, Guangzhou automobile is expected to contribute 500 billion yuan of output value this year.

Traditional industries are rejuvenated and new business forms are developing in full swing. In 2015, there were 879 cross-border e-commerce enterprises in Guangzhou, with a total import and export volume of 6.85 billion yuan, ranking first in China. The "tianhe-2" supercomputer, located in Guangzhou University Town, has won the sixth consecutive global computing speed and provides typical application services for more than 660 users. The city's industrial robot and intelligent equipment industry has gathered more than 20 production, R & D and integrated application-oriented enterprises, with an output value of nearly 40 billion yuan. Shangpin home furnishings, Sofia, Europa, cool Manju, etc. have grown into the benchmark of the national customized furniture industry.

"This year, the region's financial funds for scientific and technological innovation will reach 1 billion yuan, double that of last year." Chen Zhiying, member of the Standing Committee of Guangzhou municipal Party committee, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Guangzhou Development Zone and Secretary of Huangpu District Party committee, said that Guangzhou Development Zone (Huangpu District) should be the main engine for Guangzhou to build an international scientific and technological innovation hub and the core area of the independent Innovation Demonstration Zone in the Pearl River Delta. The area of Guangzhou's new biological development zone (Huangpu and Huangpu) is less than 500 square kilometers, and the area of Guangzhou's new biological development zone is less than that of Guangzhou's New Huangpu economic development zone and Huangpu International Innovation Zone (Guangzhou's new knowledge city). Pazhou Internet innovation cluster, close to the Canton Fair, has also sprung up, and has successfully introduced a number of Internet leading enterprises such as Tencent, Alibaba and Xiaomi technology. On May 27, the 2016 China Innovation and entrepreneurship achievement Exchange Conference opened, with more than 1700 innovation and entrepreneurship achievement projects on display. In order to encourage the public to start businesses and innovate, the China Association for science and technology decided to settle in Guangzhou for a long time and hold one session every year.

"Building a central city is inseparable from a high-quality talent team. At the beginning of the year, we launched the most powerful innovation and entrepreneurship leading talent support plan. We believe that entrepreneurship, innovation and development are in Guangzhou." For the future, Guangzhou Mayor Wen Guohui is full of confidence.