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Recently, the reporter learned from the Lishui Municipal Development and Reform Commission and the Municipal Bureau of Statistics that in the first half of this year, based on the unified accounting results of regional GDP, Lishui achieved a regional GDP of RMB 96.35 billion. Calculated at comparable prices, this represents a year-on-year increase of 6.9%, ranking second in the province and 1.9 and 1.3 percentage points higher than the national and provincial averages, respectively.
Commenting on the “impressive performance” in the first half of the year, Li Jianjun, Director of the Lishui Municipal Bureau of Statistics, analyzed, “The coordinated growth of the three primary industries, with outstanding new drivers of growth, especially the sustained rapid growth of industrial enterprises above designated size, has played a pivotal role.” He also noted that the robust momentum and innovative vitality of Lishui’s economic development are inseparable from the city’s efforts in recent years to vigorously implement the “dual recruitment and introduction” strategy, vigorously develop eco-industrial parks, and focus on cultivating new productive forces.
In the first half of this year, Lishui’s core digital economy industries, including manufacturing, equipment manufacturing, and strategic emerging industries, recorded robust growth rates, with their industrial value-added increasing by 24.5%, 17.5%, and 13.5%, respectively. Investments in industries, manufacturing, and high-tech industries also surged by 38.0%, 26.1%, and 31.8%, respectively, all ranking first in the province.
Since 2019, Lishui city has seized the opportunity presented by the national integrated circuit industry's development window and proposed a layout for the semiconductor industry. After repeated research and discussion, Lishui identified its niche—building a distinctive semiconductor industry chain dominated by integrated circuit materials and power devices.
The silicon wafer epitaxy project of Zhejiang Lishui Zhongxin Wafer Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. Lishui Branch, with a total investment of RMB 4 billion, is a major project under Zhejiang’s “Thousand Projects, Trillion Investments” initiative to expand effective investment. “Lishui’s excellent water and air quality have significantly reduced corporate costs,” said Xu Xinhua, the company’s deputy general manager. He explained that the production of 12-inch epitaxial wafers demands rigorous environmental conditions, such as a hundred-grade clean room where there must be fewer than 100 dust particles with a diameter of 0.3 microns or larger per cubic foot of air, and ultrapure water used for cleaning epitaxial wafers requires extremely high raw water purity.
In just four years, Lishui city has successfully landed 78 semiconductor industry projects with investments exceeding RMB 70 billion, cultivated 60 semiconductor industry chain enterprises above designated size, and achieved nearly RMB 10 billion in output value above designated size in 2023, blazing a trail for developing strategic emerging industries in mountainous regions.
In 2023, the Liandu District of Lishui city researched and formulated the “Upgraded Plan 2.0 for Enhancing the Beautiful and Healthy Industrial Chain” and established a pioneering zone for the beautiful and healthy industry in the “Sanjiangkou” Baiqiao area, focusing on exploring regional development through dislocation. So far, it has attracted and established two major projects worth over RMB 100 million each: the headquarters base project for Hanerxi China’s automatic production line of pen-style injectors and the digital health integrated smart manufacturing project of Xincheng Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Co., Ltd. in Liandu District, Lishui City, with a total investment of RMB 2.95 billion. Concurrently, Lishui is striving to open up new avenues for strategic emerging industries and future industries such as smart transportation (low-altitude economy), artificial intelligence (metaverse), new energy, and new materials.
Since the beginning of this year, Qingtian County of Lishui city has leveraged its first-mover advantage in the field of metaverse intelligent computing platforms (computing power infrastructure) to accelerate the formation of an industrial ecosystem, further promoting the development of the industry into a cohesive chain. The half-year revenue of the metaverse and its related industries has surpassed the RMB 100 million mark.
“To accelerate the construction of Qingtian’s metaverse industrial development ecosystem and consolidate the foundation for the development of the digital economy industry, we have continuously promoted the development of the metaverse industrial ecosystem from a ‘chain’ to a ‘circle’,” said Dai Huasen, the head of Qingtian’s metaverse task force. Currently, Qingtian’s Innovation Empowerment Center has partnered with 34 enterprises and formed a database of intended enterprises for metaverse recruitment, with a cumulative total of 351 enterprises in the database, gradually shifting towards precise investment attraction.
Automatically recognizing traffic lights, turning and changing lanes independently, automatically slowing down and yielding to vehicles cutting in... In Songyang County, Lishui City, the futuristic-looking Wenyuan minibus has attracted the attention of many citizens and tourists with its precise automated operation. Such autonomous vehicle testing scenarios are common in Songyang.
Since 2021, Songyang County has targeted the comprehensive transportation industry with smart transportation as its core. “I didn’t expect that in less than three years, Songyang has achieved so many smart transportation application scenarios,” said Wang Yiming, Chairman of Dalezhixing (Zhejiang) Technology Co., Ltd., a smart transportation software enterprise rooted in Songyang. Currently, in addition to undertaking the operation of the Songyang Baidu Apollo Intelligent Transportation Ecosystem Alliance Innovation Center, the company has also facilitated the settlement of over 10 technology-based enterprises in the local area.
The favorable development trend and business environment have attracted major projects representing new and innovative productivity one after another. In 2010, Sichuan KELUN Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. restructured and acquired Zhejiang Guojing Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., located in Longquan. This subsidiary, situated in southwestern Zhejiang, leveraged its environmental advantages to emerge as KELUN’s top performer and star enterprise within just three years. Due to its high recognition of Lishui Longquan’s ecological environment, industrial development, and business environment, on July 12th of this year, KELUN and Longquan renewed their partnership, with the official settlement of KELUN Pharmaceutical’s high-end pharmaceutical preparations and health food project in Longquan, with a total investment of RMB 2 billion. This project brings practical opportunities and technical support for the local industry’s “lane change overtaking” and “iterative upgrading”. On the same day, Suichang County also held a centralized signing ceremony for major investment projects, including four new energy and new material projects with a total investment of RMB 14.1 billion.
Recently, during Lishui’s second-quarter “Racing for Excellence” exchange meeting, the Lishui Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government once again rallied the troops to forge ahead, emphasizing the importance of building a technological innovation engine and intensifying efforts towards reaching our objectives.