Promoting urban transformation and upgrading

Once upon a time, the manufacturing industry is the short board of Hefei, in recent years, because of the bet on the track, the introduction of BOE, NIO, investment Changxin storage, Hefei is also known as the outside world “the most cow venture capital city.”

At the beginning of this year, a new batch of global “lighthouse factories” list was released, and Hefei has two manufacturing plants, which makes Hefei a total of four “lighthouse factories”, ranking second in the number of cities in the country.

The city, whose total industrial output value will exceed one trillion yuan in 2022, has opened a catch-up mode in the manufacturing sector.

Take the new energy automobile industry, Li Bin, founder and CEO of NIO, once said that “the factory of Porsche is certainly not as good as the factory of JAC.”

Li Bin’s confidence in the new energy vehicle manufacturing ability of Jianghuai factory comes from the continuous accumulation of manufacturing strength in Hefei over the years. For example, in the new energy automobile industry chain, in addition to having BYD, NIO, Jianghuai, Volkswagen Anhui and other vehicle enterprises, Hefei also gathers more than 500 industrial chain enterprises.

In Zeng Gang’s view, Hefei new energy vehicles present the following characteristics: First, rapid growth. Nearly 100 new industrial chain enterprises have been attracted, BYD’s first and second phases have been fully put into operation, and projects such as the second phase of electric drive and the first phase of battery in Xinqiao Intelligent electric Vehicle Industrial Park have started smoothly. In the first half of 2023, the added value of automobiles and parts increased by more than 130% year-on-year, and the output of new energy vehicles increased by nearly four times in the first seven months to 370,000, ranking among the top five cities in the country; Second, the industrial ecological environment is superior. Hefei Municipal Party Committee and municipal government attach great importance to it. Comprehensive support has been given in organizational security, policies, funds, resource allocation, and the integration of industry, university and research.

“Hefei’s new energy automobile industry has strongly promoted the development and growth of Hefei’s manufacturing industry. In 2022, Hefei’s planned industrial output will exceed one trillion yuan.” Zeng Gang said.

The most intuitive manifestation of the spillover effect of manufacturing is the promotion of urban capacity.

In Zeng Gang’s view, NIO, BOE and other large projects have contributed greatly to the driving role, in addition to its own rapidly expanding industrial scale, its spillover effect, the promotion of other manufacturing industries can not be underestimated. Looking to the future, Hefei is expected to become one of China’s important national strategic emerging industry bases.

In addition to the upgrading of Hefei’s manufacturing industry to drive the city’s energy level, there are some cities that are promoting the transformation of traditional manufacturing industries.

For example, the motorcycle industry in Chongqing. From the late 1970s, Chongqing relied on Jialing, construction and other motorcycle brands gradually formed a large number of nationally famous Chongqing “motorcycle gang” and parts enterprises.

According to the data disclosed by the relevant media, in 2007, Chongqing’s motorcycle production accounted for about 30% of the country, and motorcycle engines accounted for more than 50% of the country.

The “Mo Bang” of traditional manufacturing accelerates the transition to new energy, testing whether Chongqing’s manufacturing industry can smoothly transition to “intelligent manufacturing”.

In June this year, Chongqing held a conference to promote the high-quality development of manufacturing industry, proposed to build 33618 modern manufacturing cluster system, clearly strengthen the new energy motorcycle, high-end motorcycle research and development, vigorously develop high-end indoor motorcycle frame, electric drive and other key components, improve the local supporting system, accelerate the development of motorcycle industry cluster.

Whether it is city competition or big country game, manufacturing industry is the key track, strong industry is strong city, strong city is strong country.