Seize the new opportunities of Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle

Infrastructure connectivity and industrial cooperation continue to accelerate, and the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle provides an important opportunity for the development of Chongqing’s manufacturing industry. Chongqing West area is located between the central city of Chongqing and Chengdu, in the past under the “dual core” siphon, the middle zone once became the development of “subsidence area”, now it is becoming the new growth pole of Chongqing advanced manufacturing industry.

At the Yongchuan production base of Great Wall Motors, an average of one Great Wall Gun or Tank 300 is produced every 72 seconds. Zhang Guoxin, general manager of the Chongqing branch of Great Wall Motor Co., LTD., said that since the Yongchuan base was put into operation in 2019, although affected by the epidemic, it has maintained a prosperous trend of production and sales, with a cumulative production of 570,000 vehicles, of which 222,200 vehicles will be produced in 2022, an increase of 5.5% year-on-year.

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Asia’s largest curved LED virtual shooting screen, can quickly switch caves, offices, skyscrapers and other complex virtual scenes… The “Yongchuan Technology Studio”, which was officially unveiled in early May, has attracted a number of films and TV dramas to be filmed here, and the schedule is scheduled for the end of this year. At present, the Big Data Industrial Park in Yongchuan District has gathered 487 digital economy enterprises such as Huawei and Alibaba, with nearly 20,000 related employees and a revenue of 35 billion yuan in 2022.

Li Guocai, director of the Economic Information Committee of Yongchuan District, said that Yongchuan has seized the strategic opportunity of the construction of the Shuangcheng economic circle in Chengyu region in recent years, played its own vocational education, location and transportation advantages, and focused on building emerging industries such as automobile, intelligent equipment, smart home, and has gathered a number of chain master enterprises such as the Great Wall Automobile, Dongpeng Ceramics, and Yadi electric vehicles.

Not long ago, Chongqing formulated the “West Chongqing Leap-over Plan” for the development of advanced manufacturing industry, and proposed that Jiangjin, Hechuan, Yongchuan and other “eight districts in West Chongqing” would build national important industrial backup bases and world-class advanced manufacturing clusters around the twin city economic circle of Chengdu-Chongqing area, and vigorously undertake the national major productivity layout. For the central urban area of Chongqing and Chengdu, the whole vehicle, complete machine, and complete assembly are actively developed, forming a number of industrial bases and industrial clusters with national influence. It is planned that by 2027, the industrial enterprises in the west Chongqing area will achieve revenue of 1.4 trillion yuan.

With a package of actions such as green and low-carbon development, industrial layout adjustment and optimization, deepening opening up and cooperation, and improving factor guarantee capabilities, a number of “Chongqing brand” pilot enterprises have accelerated growth, and Chongqing, an old industrial base, is increasingly showing new vitality. (Reporting by Zhou Kai in Chongqing)