Since the beginning of this year, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, has focused on the “two-three-producing and co-promoting, integration within and outside the island, the development of internal and external needs, and the promotion of harmony for the benefit of the people†to speed up the transformation of economic development patterns, and strive to enhance traditional industries and support emerging industries. With sustained and healthy economic development, all work has achieved new results. From January to July this year, the regional GDP reached 105 billion yuan, an increase of 16.7%. Rapid growth in production, consumption, industrial, foreign trade, and port production, growth in industrial output value above designated size, and foreign trade import and export growth rate of over 30%; growth rate of indicators such as port cargo throughput, container throughput, and total retail sales of consumer goods at 20% the above.
Xiamen vigorously strengthened the construction of innovation system and service industry development. Xiamen Industrial Technology Research Institute, Food Testing Center and Food Science and Technology Incubator Park were established successively. At present, the national-level LED inspection center has been basically completed, and the Institute of Urban Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has passed the acceptance. In 2009, 303 high-tech enterprises were newly identified, and 2 state-level and 22 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research institutions were added. They also implemented a standardization strategy, participated in the formulation of 9 national standard projects, and 7 industry standard projects. Through the evaluation of “Creating an Intellectual Property Model Cityâ€, the city’s invention patent grants increased by 43.8%.
Xiamen vigorously develops high-tech enterprises and forms larger-scale, more competitive modern industries. Siming District is the center of the city. Due to the limited land resources, it has been determined to develop the optoelectronics industry in recent years. Moreover, it only develops upstream R&D and production of chips and epitaxial wafers, and strives to achieve energy conservation, environmental protection, and high efficiency.
Now we have not only cultivated leading companies such as Sanan electronic chips, but also established a modern lighting design center with 14 leading national enterprises. Xiamen Torch Hi-tech Zone, not far from Siming, took over the downstream production of the optoelectronics industry from flat panel display to computer, from chip to communication equipment, from LCD production equipment to electromechanical integration equipment, optical film, LCD TVs and other industries have formed an optoelectronic industry chain with an output value of over 50 billion yuan.
Xiamen City focuses on reconstructing and upgrading traditional industries, expanding and strengthening its leading industries, promoting industrial agglomeration and optimizing distribution, upgrading industrial standards, and vigorously developing high value-added, high-tech emerging industries, flat panel displays, computers and communications equipment, transmission and distribution, and Control equipment, biology and new medicine have become important R&D and production bases throughout the country. In the first 7 months of this year, Xiamen's industrial output value above designated size was 198.1 billion yuan, an increase of 39.8%, the highest level in nearly 10 years. Among them, 13 advanced manufacturing industry chains (groups) combined to achieve output value accounted for 65.1% of the city's above-scale industries. The Xiamen Torch Hi-tech Zone will accelerate the gathering of the three leading industries of optoelectronics, electronic information, and electronic appliances this year and is expected to become the first 100 billion yuan development zone in Fujian Province.
Xiamen's modern service industry has accelerated its development, increased its proportion, and improved its level. In the first seven months of this year, the tertiary industry increased by 47.2 billion yuan, an increase of 9%; the proportion of services in the contracted foreign investment accounted for 64%, more than doubled year-on-year; the development of 10 modern service industry clusters maintained a good momentum; the business sector continued. Strong, total retail sales of social consumer goods increased by 23% year-on-year in the first half of the year, and increased by more than 20% in a single month for six consecutive months; consumption hot spots such as automobiles and home appliances were outstanding, with an increase of more than 40%; port logistics developed rapidly, port cargo throughput, containers Throughput and airport passenger throughput all increased by more than 20%.
Xiamen focuses on the development of boutique business. On the beautiful lakeside and roundabout road, a characteristic commercial street attracts many tourists.
Here, the connotation of the modern service industry is continuously enriched, and the extension of the tertiary industry has expanded the level of the industry. Tourism focuses on leisure tourism; business development highlights featured streets and boutique businesses, and differentiates competition with other urban areas; emphasizes the development of the headquarters economy, and focuses on the development of regional headquarters; development and operation centers, settlement centers, accounting service centers, and design centers. The Guanyinshan Operations Center has attracted more than 330 companies, and the Wuyuanwan Operations Center has introduced more than 180 companies and has become a gathering area for the headquarters economy.
According to Yu Weiguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee, the Xiamen Special Economic Zone must adapt to new changes in domestic and foreign situations, meet new requirements for national development, and respond to new expectations of the people, continue to emancipate the mind, adhere to reform and opening up, and strive to be a good promoter of scientific development. The vanguard of promoting social harmony should be a pilot zone for promoting the peaceful reunification of the motherland and strengthening exchanges and cooperation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. It will advance the exchanges and cooperation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to a greater extent, a larger scale, and a higher level.