Industrial Cluster: Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone Moves Towards "New" And Draws A "Roadmap" For Development

Cultivating and strengthening advanced industrial clusters, comprehensively improving the level of opening up, and implementing precise decentralization and empowerment... Recently, the General Office of Henan Provincial Government issued Several Policies to Support Zhengzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone to Develop New Quality Productivity and Create a New High for High Quality Development, clearly giving Zhengzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone greater autonomy, providing more powerful guarantee, and promoting high-end, intelligent Green development will build Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone into a new highland of high-quality development. 　　

　　 What is the far-reaching significance of this policy for the development of Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone?

"This policy has drawn a clear 'roadmap' for the development of the Economic Development Zone, that is, to cultivate new quality productivity as the development path, to develop advanced manufacturing industry as the main direction, to reform management systems and innovate development models as the main work line, and to take high-level opening up as the strategic support. At the same time, the decentralization and empowerment proposed by the policy provide a solid foundation and strong support for the high-quality development of the Economic Development Zone, and further enhance our confidence and confidence in promoting high-quality development. " Li Xiaohu, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone, said.

Tang Xiaowang, a researcher at the Institute of Reform, Opening up and International Economics of the Henan Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the state clearly proposes to develop new quality productivity according to local conditions, and the local government needs to find a suitable focus. For Henan, the selection of Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone as the focus of support reflects that Henan attaches great importance to the primary task of accelerating the development of new quality productivity and high-quality development, as well as the idea of precise support. This also shows that Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone has a solid foundation and is capable and powerful to take on the important task of high-quality development pacesetter.

Groups of data and achievements confirm this view. In 2023, the GDP of Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone will reach 132.84 billion yuan, an increase of 8.2% year on year, accounting for nearly one tenth of that of Zhengzhou; The added value of industries above designated size reached 64.03 billion yuan, up 12.9% year on year, accounting for a quarter of the city. At the beginning of this year, the "National Examination" results of the national economic development zone were released, and Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone ranked 26th in the country and continued to rank among the top 30 in the country. From the perspective of the whole province, Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone is also the only "five-star development zone" in Henan, setting a good example for the industrial transformation, structural optimization, innovation and upgrading of the development zones in the whole province.

Several Policies put forward that by 2030, the GDP of Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone will exceed 300 billion yuan, the added value of industries above designated size will double, and it will become one of the top 20 economic development zones in China, becoming the "two zones and one hub" supporting high-quality development of the province.

　　 Focusing on this goal, how will Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone work?

Industry is the foundation and lifeblood of regional economic development. The Several Policies highlight the priority of support for industrial development and clarify the key points of industrial development - support Zhengzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone to strengthen the four leading industries of new energy and intelligent connected vehicles, high-end intelligent equipment manufacturing, biological medicine and health, and intelligent logistics, and cultivate two new economic industries of new generation information technology, international trade, and new consumption, Accelerate the building of advanced manufacturing and producer service clusters with international competitiveness.

According to the analysis of insiders, such a clear development direction can avoid blindness and decentralization of industrial development, help the Economic Development Zone concentrate its advantageous resources to promote the rapid development of key industries, attract more upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, and constantly strengthen the industrial agglomeration effect.

In terms of opening up, the Several Policies pointed out that, Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone will build the headquarters base port of the "Global Exchange" of the "Belt and Road" International Business District with high standards; Support the coordination and linkage between Zhengzhou International Land Port Economic Development Area and Airport Area to improve international transportation and domestic collection and distribution capacity; Build a base for transformation and upgrading of foreign trade, a demonstration base for foreign investment in emerging industries, and support Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone to promote automobile going to sea 。

In order to ensure the implementation of policies, the Several Policies also put forward the implementation of precise decentralization and empowerment, which mainly includes the decentralization of planning and management authority, strengthening the guarantee of land use factors, strengthening fiscal and tax security, increasing the efforts to take the lead in the field of energy information, supporting the construction of an international, professional and market-oriented talent system, supporting regional cooperation, supporting the reform and innovation of systems and mechanisms, and so on.

"This is the precise empowerment of Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone at specific development stages and special development needs." Li Xiaohu said that this can reduce the approval process, improve decision-making efficiency, further stimulate endogenous power and development vitality, so as to promote Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone to build a high-energy industrial ecosystem, create a high-energy innovation carrier, and improve the high-energy open platform, Achieve upgrading in the new round of development zone development competition, play an economic supporting role in the rise of the Central Plains strategy, and firmly shoulder the heavy task of high-quality development of Henan development zone.