As one of the most vital parts of the Yangtze River economic belt, Jingzhou nowadays is trying to gather the strength, seize every opportunity to develop itself and build a new image to join the economic heavyweights under the guide of Strengthen the Core strategic project
This September, journalists from the interview group of Nine Places in Hunan, Hubei and Chongqing headed to Jingzhou and experienced its change from a famous historical city to an economically strong city.
Opening and Development: Accelerating the urban construction
Journalists drove to visit urban areas of Jingzhou City. At the east of the city, Golden Resource Century City, a new city with 20 billion investment is being built; At the west is the Jingzhou Zall City which takes the preemptive advantages of the logistics of Yangtze River and Han River areas; At the south, Wanda square leads to prosperity and at the north is the high-speed railway economic circle surrounded by Greenland Center. Jingzhou HOPSCA is strong enough to combine this old city with modern famous enterprises, leading Jingzhou to realize the vibration of this 100-year-old commercial harbor. Jingzhou is an old city with the spirit of opening and as well as a new cosmopolitan full of energy.
Three years ago, Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Hubei Provincial Government held the meeting to launch the Strengthen the Core project and confirmed the strategic goal, that is, “When our country is constructing the Yangtze River economic circle, Jingzhou is supposed to bring its superiority into full play and make a greater effort for its opening and development. After three years, Jingzhou with an increasingly strong endogenous power grasps more chances, such as the construction of Yangtze River economic circle, the approval of Dongting Lake Ecological Economic Zone and the planning and construction of city group in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In face of these unprecedented opportunities, Jingzhou focuses on the future and clears its path of development, i.e., leveraging its strengths, opening up and developing, comprehensive docking and embracing the construction of Yangtze River Economic belt.
The data shows that the investment of the Commercial logistics project based on Wanda, Greenland, Zall, Century Golden Resource, Yiwu small commodity market, Parmen Huazhong Industrial Park, Zhu Yeshan Motown, Red Star Macalline and Central China aquatic product market amounts to 49.9 billion.
Building a Comprehensive Transportation-hub: the gate to economic soar
Transportation comes first in the strategy of building big transportation, cultivating big industry and constructing big city. The railway linking Shanghai, Wuhan and Chengdu tremendously shortens the temporal and spatial distance among Jingzhou, Yangtze River Delta and southwest China. Many big cities along the Yangtze River Belt are closely connected to each other thanks to the Shanghai Chengdu high-speed railway.
In recent years, the construction of Jingzhou transportation infrastructure is growing by leaps and bounds. For instance, the highway network has developed, the trains have connected Wuhan and Yixing to almost every city all over the country and the North-South Coal Transport Channel has made Jingzhou involved in the national economic net. Furthermore, Jingzhou occupies a golden waterway and Jingzhou civil airport has entered the preparatory stage.
Transportation exerts a great influence on city development strategy. A host of commercial projects in construction, new business districts, Jinan ecotourism and the growth of Central China Agricultural Zone and new urban districts effectively enhance the integration of Jingzhou city and its industries. Jingzhou has become a central city among the middle reach of the Yangtze River with strong industrial agglomeration, complete functions, unique characteristics and perfect environment both for living and industry.
Jingzhou is trying to adjust and improve its logistic planning. A Logistics Industry Park is in progress and it will become a logistical center of Hanjiang River Plain to help Jingzhou rebuild the splendor of this one-hundred-old commercial harbor.
Innovation Driven Strategy: improve the quality and increase the efficiency
Since the project was carried out, lots of corporate champions such as Huaxun ark, Japan Takada, ZOOMLION, China high-tech compete for this land. Jingzhou has become a new blue ocean for private and foreign enterprises. Many more companies, moreover, settled down in Jingzhou due to the bonus such as the superiority of production factors and transportation.
Jingzhou is aiming at development of future industry and building a modern industrial system. Electronic information industry is the breaking point and it will definitely help Jingzhou to seize the highland of future industry.
As the first electronic information enterprise introduced from the coastal areas, Hubei Vector Electronic set about producing in a temporary plant and in the meanwhile started building a 100000-square-meters new plant. The first half of this year, Vector achieved a revenue of over 100 million yuan. A number of electronic information manufacturing enterprises like Hubei Vector, Yangtze River LCD and Huaxun ark settled in Jingzhou. Just in two years, Jingzhou civil electronic information industry chain has formed and Jingzhou is fostering an industry chain combining poly storage, transmission, intelligent terminal and software development. To begin with, a prospective layout is essential for the cultivation and development of strategic emerging industry. Next is the transition when developing. Upgrading of traditional industries makes industry in Jingzhou present a new height and new pattern. For example, Jingzhou in on the way to complete the transition from the production of auto parts to auto parts production line in order to develop high-end intelligent manufacturing industry and the transition from the home plate production in forest wood industry to new materials in strategic emerging industry such as precision sheet, nickel iron alloy and other high-end new material to realize the goal of made in Jingzhou. Take another thing for instance, Jingzhou is attempting to optimize the industrial structure beginning with the investment and capital source. Now many strategic emerging industries such as intelligent manufacturing industry, electronic commerce, creative industry, biological medicine, new materials and the circular economy industry are flourishing in Jingzhou. What’s more, for the traditional industries like food processing, textiles and clothing and white goods, Jingzhou is about to promote the technology, products, market upgrading, making the enterprises become a driving force behind the development of Jingzhou economy. For the first half of this year, the increasing rate of the value of electronic information industry in Jingzhou was 69% and for the field of environmental protection was 107%. Further, the increase value of the city's high-tech industrial was 5.7 billion yuan. The leading position of industry is obviously enhanced, accounting for 50.8% of the proportion of GDP. Also, the industrial structure has been optimized. Light and heavy industry proportion is 52.3:47.7; the high energy consumption industry output value takes up 20.4% of the total above scale industrial with a 0.5% decline compared with that in last year. Up to May, the city's above scale industrial enterprises realize a total profit of 3.81 billion yuan with a 36.1% increase compared to the same period and the rate of profit achieves a year-on-year growth of 0.5%.
Regional Interaction: A way to all-around development
After strengthening its core power, Jingzhou is determined to develop the regional interaction to realize all-around development. Let us look at the picture: from one hand, the east of Jingzhou borders Wuhan city circle. The truth is that Wuhan economic development zone has signed a co-operation agreement with Honghu City. Wuhan development zone and its supporting industry zone, Xintan new district will be blueprinted, invested and constructed to an area of 60 square kilometers, realizing a output value of 100 billion in 2020. Form other hand, the south of Jingzhou connects to Yueyang and Changde. Based on Dongting Lake, these two places will activate Inter provincial coordination development. Moreover, docking with the Yichang and Jingmen, Jingzhou will build a "Yi Jing Jing City Group", deepening industrial division. Jingzhou also relies on the Yangtze River shoreline, its sound customs and commodity inspection to facilitate import and export. Finally, the advantage of rail transportation of Jingmen and Yichang attracts bulk cargo transportation.
According to the plan, the development of Jingzhou will center on the central urban, accelerating Jingzhou new district construction covering central business district in Jingzhou Development Zone, Shabei new District and the railway station area. It is planned that up to 2020 the center urban area will be enlarged to a megalopolis with an area of 200 square kilometers and a population of 2 million. A new Jingzhou is rising beside the Jing River!