A bird's-eye view of the Third Green Expo in China, which was held in Wuqing
Wuqing District of Tianjin Municipality, located at the core area of the Jing-Jin-Ji (Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province) area, is hailed as "the golden corridor of Beijing-Tianjin economic development." In recent years, Wuqing takes the initiative to adapt to the economic new normal, proactively put into practice the advanced development concept, and comprehensively upgrades its economic transition through supply-side reform.
In the first four months of this year, Wuqing's GDP reached 33.5 billion yuan, increasing by 12 percent; its general public budgetary revenue reached 4.81 billion yuan, up 14 percent; per capita disposable income of rural residents stood at 8,100 yuan, increasing by 10 percent. The district is comprehensively promoting its industrial transformation and upgrading, and striving to improve both the quantity and the quality of economic development.
By Wu Ziran
An attraction to leading companies
VIP Goddess Festival, JD 315 Festival, Jiuxian 319 Spring Promotion... Along with the robust promotional activities of e-commerce websites, trucks filled with products head to various regions in north China from Tianjin E-Commerce Industrial Park located in Cuihuangkou Town of Wuqing District.
In recent years, the e-commerce industrial park, in keeping with the new trend of e-commerce boom, creates the miracle of doubling year-on-year growth for four consecutive years in gross regional output and tax revenue. Till the end of 2015, the industrial park had brought in over 260 e-commerce enterprises in total, over 40 of which are listed companies. Its annual output value exceeds 40 billion yuan and pays tax worth of over 1 billion yuan. It has become one of the industrial parks with the highest investment and highest tax revenue in Tianjin.
As early as in 2009, the e-commerce industrial park's predecessor - Tianjin Carpet Industrial Park - was established in Cuihuangkou Town, which was known as the "home of carpet." However, the newly founded carpet park was mired in losses of revenue as the carpet enterprises were short of science and technology support and innovation. In 2011, the carpet park turned in taxes of merely 50 million yuan. In June 2012, Wuqing's transportation advantage and sound administrative environment attracted China's largest vertical e-commerce website - Vip Shop - to establish its north China headquarters in the carpet park.
This high-quality project charted a new development course for the carpet industrial park. In 2003, Tianjin Carpet Industrial Park gained Tianjin municipal government's approval to change its name to "Beijing-Tianjin E-Commerce Industrial Park." JD Mall, Jiuxian.com, FineEx and other leading companies in the e-commerce industry successively moved into the e-commerce park.
Wuqing grasps the opportunity to successfully attract 19 of top 20 B2C e-commerce companies including Alibaba and Dangdang to settle in the park, forming an industrial chain involving 390 companies in e-commerce and relevant supporting industries. The district's sales value in 2015 reached 100 billion yuan. It is estimated that by the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-20), Wuqing will have brought in 1,000 related companies, and achieved annual sales of 300 billion yuan. The cluster development of industries requires a clear and reasonable geographical layout.
Currently, Wuqing Development Zone is a base for high-end manufacturing industry; Wuqing Business District is a base for financial industry; the e-commerce park is home to IT companies and relevant supporting industries; the automobile park for automobile and spare parts manufacturing; the Beijing-Tianjin Science And Technology Valley, Beijing-Binhai Industrial Park, and Beijing-Tianjin Gaocun Science and Technology Innovation Park are a destination of relocation of Beijing's
high-tech industries such as technology research and development. High-quality industrial platform is an inexhaustible driving force of Wuqing's transition and development.