Cixi makes policies to support economic entities
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- Category: Ningbo Business
- Published: Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:11
The government of Cixi steps up its efforts to make policies to support economic entities after the end of the 12th Party Congress of Ningbo. According to Ningbo Economy & Information Technology Bureau, the new policies would implement at least twice as much as the reward of the previous year on such industries as technical innovation, foreign trade, brands building and emerging industries. This is also one of the measures of Cixi to promote industry quality.
Industry quality concerns not only a city’s ecological environment and the quality of the services uplifting people’s well-being, it is also a matter of improving people’s living standard. Given to its great importance, Xu Hua, the Secretary of Cixi Municipal Party Committee of the CPC voiced that Cixi should strengthen people’s well-being through the promoting of industry quality which centered on developing the real economy and quickening the pace of upgrading economic structure.
There have been several specific measures to reach the above-mentioned goal. First is to guide the upgrading of industrial structures. To be specific, the first step should be to draft the transformation plan in industrial economy and give priority to the development of industries of low resource-consuming, less environmental pollution and high output efficiency. The development of emerging industries is covered in this step and it alone must complete an investment of 2.5 bln yuan and an annual output value of 60 bln yuan. And so the agglomeration effects of the four new industries—new energy resources, new materials, electronic information, and high-end equipment manufacturing—would be more evident. The second step is to eliminate backward production capacity and further implement the three-year plan of weeding out backward production capacity. It is estimated to eliminate over 4,000 outdated equipments in 2012. The replacement of air compressors, transformers and turret lathe can save 3000 kwh of electricity one year, equivalent to almost ten thousand tons of standard coal.
Second is to build platform to support industrial agglomeration. The government is already set to construct a special zone for emerging industries in the downtown of Cixi. In the first phase, the infrastructure constructions of 7 companies are already under way. And 4 companies have located in the second phase project and half a bln of investment have been put into the construction. In addition, Cixi is also striving to promote the construction of other cluster zones such as the Binhai Zone in eastern Cixi and other areas. These zones are all of different emphasis. For example, the Binhai Zone in Eastern Cixi is concentrated on the development of equipment manufacturing, automobile parts, mechano-electronics and new electronic equipments etc.
Third is to advance innovation to lift core competitiveness. It has become a consensus between government and enterprises to develop real economy by innovation. Thus, enterprises are also making greater efforts to develop innovation. For example, the sealing system developed by Cixi Tiansheng Corporation, the winner of the second class of the National Science Progress Award, and IHEP has gone through proof session and once it has been put into practice, Cixi Tiansheng Corporation will become the first company in China which has the technology to recycle nuclear waste. At present, the 136 municipal and above level engineering centers in Cixi own special R & D equipments worthy of 690 mln yuan. Moreover, Cixi also has 1,481 senior technical staffs that form a strong impetus to uplift industry quality.
