立足“海、边、山”,防城港市书写开放发展新篇章
2020-01-13黄利霞
黄利霞
广西防城港市位于中国大陆海岸线最西南端,与东盟海陆相连,是广西北部湾经济区的核心区域,也是“一带一路”有机衔接的南向门户城市和西部陆海新通道的重要节点城市。
凭借地缘优势,防城港市对外开放合作内涵不断丰富,形成沿海沿边全方位开放合作新格局,開放型经济水平全面提高。
“十三五”以来,防城港市投资促进局加快建设“海边山”现代化经济体系的工作步伐,以产业链招商为主要途径,聚焦重点产业领域,积极融入“东融”“北联”开放格局建设。2020年,防城港市把握新形势,疫情逆境中全力推动招商引资,聚力开展“三企入桂”活动。截至目前,防城港市“央企入桂”签约项目总投资排广西第二,“民企入桂”“湾企入桂”签约项目总投资均排广西第三,“三企入桂”履约率排在广西首位。
海陆并举积极作为,提升对外开放水平
1968年3月,防城港市从“海上胡志明小道”发轫,不断释放“海”的潜力,做好“边”的文章。多年来,防城港市从昔日偏僻落后的边陲小城,蜕变为中国西部沿海第一大港、西部陆海新通道重要门户、中国—东盟开放合作前沿。
防城港市依港而建、因港而兴,已有52年建港历史。目前防城港市拥有泊位120多个,万吨级以上泊位40个,其中20万吨级泊位3个,40万吨级码头及航道等一批港航项目正在加快建设,与世界100多个国家和地区开展经贸往来,250多个港口通航。港口货物吞吐量连续8年保持亿吨水平。虽然今年遭受新冠肺炎疫情冲击,港口货物吞吐量和集装箱吞吐量却实现逆势上扬。2020年上半年,北部湾港防城港码头有限公司完成货物吞吐量5200万吨,同比增长17%,其中集装箱完成26.2万标箱,同比增长43.7%。预计全年该公司吞吐量将超过1亿吨,其中集装箱吞吐量突破60万标箱。
防城港市一直是中越边境线上边民交往和贸易最活跃的地方之一,拥有5个国家一类口岸和5个边民互市贸易区(点),年通关人次超过1200万。近年来,防城港市主动融入西部陆海新通道建设,依托深水良港和区位优势,先后开通了防城港至北京、沈阳、上海、济南、重庆等城市的冷链专列,以及往西南地区的多式联运班列,建成了一套比较完善的连接东盟与中国内陆的港铁联运、公铁联运、港公联运等多式联运体系,是中国内陆腹地进入东盟最便捷的主门户、大通道之一。
西部陆海新通道建设,海、陆缺一不可。围绕新通道建设,防城港市委、市政府出台《防城港市南向海陆通道建设三年行动计划(2018-2020)工作实施方案》,打造区域性国际航运中心、国际物流供应链交易中心、国际大宗商品交易中心,依托东兴国家重点开发开放试验区、东兴边境经济合作区,构建开放型经济新体制综合试点试验城市、沿边金融综合改革试验区、防城港边境旅游试验区等国家级开发开放平台,各项工作取得积极进展,努力构建全方位开放发展新格局。
近年来,防城港市在互联互通上进一步夯实基础,加强港口、码头、泊位、水域开放及国际班轮班列的开行,降低物流成本,优化通商营商环境,打造西南中南地区开放发展的重要门户。积极承接粤港澳大湾区产业潜能,加强与大湾区的合作,着力实现全方位、高水平对外开放。
聚焦产业链条,产业林枝繁叶茂
“海陆双通道,南向门户城”,紧抓“一带一路”和西部陆海新通道的机遇,防城港市委、市政府高度重视投资促进工作,先后成立了投资促进委员会、项目工作指挥部等投资促进工作机构,开启招商引资工作新局面。“十三五”以来,共签约招商引资项目520个,项目总投资超7800亿元,签约项目主要为医药康养、文旅、钢铜铝、港口物流、跨境合作、电子信息大数据、现代农业等领域的节点链条项目。
聚焦“强龙头、补链条、聚集群”的发展思路,防城港市从产业链最需要的环节入手,积极开展产业链项目招商,已成功引进五金铜材卫浴产业园、海洋生物芯片医药与金鲳鱼优势特色产业集群项目等项目。此外,打造向海经济、边境深加工、精品碳酸钙等产业集群,各县(市、区)、园区进一步明晰优势主导产业定位,规划编制产业树。深度开展重点区域、重点产业、重点企业和重点项目的联系对接,形成产业林枝繁叶茂的良好生态系统。
精准招商助力产业发展,着力扩大经济朋友圈
2020年,受新冠肺炎疫情影响,防城港市聚焦产业转型升级,采取有力措施强势推进各项工作,聚力开展“三企入桂”活动,翻开招商引资活动新篇章。
2020年以来,防城港市认真贯彻落实广西壮族自治区“央企入桂”“湾企入桂”“民企入桂”的“三企入桂”活动决策部署,把“三企入桂”作为应对经济下行压力、促进经济高质量发展的重要抓手,紧紧围绕“对接一批企业、组织一批推介、签约一批项目、开竣工一批项目、出台一批政策”的目标任务开展工作,积极推动“三企入桂”。截至2020年10月30日,全市“三企入桂”签约项目共139个,计划总投资3684.33亿元。其中,“央企入桂”签约项目13个,项目总投资1467.58亿元;“民企入桂”签约项目59个,项目总投资1022.29亿元;“湾企入桂”签约项目67个,项目总投资1194.46亿元。
今年以来,防城港市充分发挥国际医学开放试验区、边境旅游试验区、跨境经济合作区等平台优势,大胆先行先试,积极打造政策洼地,先后出台《防城港边境旅游试验区文化旅游产业高质量发展扶持奖励办法》《关于加快文化旅游产业高质量发展的意见》等7个产业扶持政策,大力扶持文化旅游、科技创新、实验室经济、再生资源利用等重点产业发展。
为完善产业链,推动产业集群化发展,防城港市围绕钢铜铝、生物医药、现代农业等重点招商方向,完成了重点产业招商引资“地图”,以及钢铜铝、医药产业、现代农业等“产业树”全景图的编制规划,并围绕重大临港工业、国际医学开放试验区、边境旅游试验区、跨境经济合作区等优势资源策划包装项目,共策划包装“三企入桂”招商项目142个,主要涉及文化旅游、医学医药、工业制造、基础设施、农林牧渔、港口物流六大产业。
在今年引進的项目中,既有重大产业项目支撑,加速布局更多龙头企业,不断发挥带动效应;又有延链、补链的产业集聚项目,项目关联度强,同时涵盖了许多口岸物流经济、海洋经济、高新科技的产业成分,不断优化产业结构和项目质量。其中,与广西保利、中建一局、诚城集团联合体签署合作框架协议,预计总投资超1200亿元,首期启动区开发投资约200亿元;与位列中国500强企业24名的太平洋建设集团有限公司签订战略合作框架协议,5年内计划投资超500亿元,在大港口建设、港航建设、水利重点工程、特色小镇文旅开发等领域开展合作。结合钢铁、镍铜、铝等项目,防城港市着力引进一批下游及配套项目,打造铜基新材料产业基地、铝高端产业园。目前已促成相关产业签约项目61个,项目总投资1124.4亿元;在谈项目159个,项目总投资超3000亿元。
聚焦建设国际医学开放试验区、构建西部陆海新通道、建设跨境合作区、边境旅游试验区等国家战略,防城港市经济朋友圈不断发展壮大。通过今年“三企入桂”一系列活动,防城港市当前正迎来优势集成、政策叠加、格局重塑的新机遇,处在提质升位的新阶段,站在纵深突破的新起点,在“上山下海又出国”这张绝美的风景图上,又添上浓墨重彩的一笔。
Fangchenggang City Writes New Chapter of Opening and Development with Advantages in “Sea, Border and Mountains”
Written by Huang Lixia / Translated by Zhang Xiaoyan
Located on the southwestern end of the Chinese mainland coast line and linking by sea routes to ASEAN, Fangchenggang in south Chinas Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is the core area of the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone and an important node city connecting southern gateway cities and the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor.
Thanks to its geographical advantages, Fangchenggang has constantly enriched the connotation of opening-up and cooperation with the outside world, forming a new pattern of all-round opening-up and cooperation along the coastal and border areas in its land and comprehensively improving the level of open economy.
Since the period when the Chinese national 13th Five-Year Plan was implemented (2016-2020), the Investment Promotion Bureau of Fangchenggang has accelerated the pace of building a modern economic system of “sea, border and mountains”, focusing on key industrial sectors through industrial chain investment promotion, and actively engaged in the regional strategy of “Eastward Integration” and “Northward Connection”. In 2020, faced with the COVID-19, Fangchenggang has taken advantage of the new situation and made every effort to promote investment and business and focused on the “settlement of three types of enterprises in Guangxi”. Up to now, the total investment volume brought by the “settlement of national state-owned enterprises in Guangxi” in Fangchenggang ranks second in the region, and that brought by the “settlement of prestigious private enterprises in Guangxi” and the “settlement of enterprises based in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area” ranks third respectively, making the total implementation rate under these three categories ranking first in Guangxi.
Active efforts in land and sea to promote opening up to the outside world
Both factors of land and sea are indispensable for the construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor. For the construction of the new corridor, the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government of Fangchenggang have issued the Implementation Plan of the Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of the Southern Seaward Land-Sea Corridor (2018-2020), which defines to build a new pattern of all-round opening and development. According to the Plan, a regional international shipping center, an international logistics supply chain trading center, and an international bulk commodity trading center will be built. Taking advantage of the existing Dongxing National Key Development and Opening Pilot Zone, and Dongxing Border Economic Cooperation Zone, a comprehensive pilot city of new open economic system will be built, which will provide a number of national development and opening platforms, including a pilot zone of comprehensive reform of border finance and a border tourism pilot zone in Fangchenggang.
In recent years, with its foundation on connectivity further consolidated, and the opening of ports, wharves, berths, waters and the operation of international liners and trains increased, Fangchenggang has achieved lower logistics costs and better business environment to build an important gateway for the opening and development in the southwest and the central regions of China. It has also actively received the relocated industrial potential of and strengthened cooperation with businesses based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and strived to realize all-round and high-level opening up.
Focusing on industrial chains to create a healthy industrial forest
To build a city featuring “dual land-sea corridor and southern gateway”, and to seize the opportunity of the Belt and Road Initiative and the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government of Fangchenggang have attached great importance to investment promotion. Investment promotion agencies such as investment promotion committee and project guiding groups have been established to usher in a new situation of attracting investment. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan period, 520 investment projects have been signed, with a total investment of over RMB 780 billion yuan. The contracted projects are mainly node chain projects in medicine and health care, culture and tourism, steel, copper and aluminum, port logistics, cross-border cooperation, electronic information big data, modern agriculture, etc.
Focusing on “strengthening leading enterprises, reinforcing chains and forming clusters”, Fangchenggang has actively carried out the investment promotion of industrial chain projects of the most needed links and successfully introduced projects such as the industrial park of hardware and copper bathroom products and the advantageous characteristic industrial cluster projects like marine biochip medicine and golden pomfret. In addition, the city authorities are planning to create industrial clusters such as ocean-based economy, deep processing industry in border areas, and high-quality calcium carbonate. Under the leadership, all counties (cities, districts) and industrial parks will further clarify the positioning of dominant industries, being able to plan and compile the industrial trees. In depth, they will also carry out the connection and matching of key regions, industries, enterprises and projects, creating a good ecosystem of industrial forests.
Targeted business promotion to support industrial development
In 2020, affected by the COVID-19, Fangchenggang has focused on industrial transformation and upgrading, taken strong measures to vigorously promote works aimed at attracting “settlement of three types of enterprises in Guangxi”, achieving a new chapter of investment promotion activities.
“Settlement of three types of enterprises in Guangxi” is a long-term strategy of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to promote industrial transformation and upgrading and to achieve high-quality development. Since the beginning of this year, Fangchenggang has conscientiously implemented the decision and deployment of the strategy covering national state-owned enterprises, prestigious private enterprises and enterprises based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Taking attracting such enterprises to Guangxi as an important tool to cope with the downward pressure of economy and to promote high-quality economic development, Fangchenggang has actively promoted the strategy, with efforts made in “matching a number of enterprises, organizing a number of promotion, signing a number of projects, starting or completing a number of projects, and issuing a number of policies”. As of October 30, 2020, there are 139 signed projects under the strategy of “settlement of three types of enterprises in Guangxi”, with a total planned investment of RMB 368.433 billion yuan. Among them, 13 signed projects with a total investment of RMB 146.758 billion yuan are under the category of “settlement of national state-owned enterprises in Guangxi”; 59 with a total investment of RMB 102.229 billion yuan under “settlement of prestigious private enterprises in Guangxi”; and 67 with a total investment of RMB 119.446 billion yuan under “settlement of enterprises based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”.
Since the beginning of this year, giving full play to the platform advantages of the international medical opening pilot zone, the border tourism pilot zone and the cross-border economic cooperation zone, Fangchenggang has successively issued seven policies, including Incentive Measures for High-quality Development of Cultural Tourism Industry in Fangchenggang Border Tourism Pilot Zone and Opinions on Accelerating the High-quality Development of Cultural Tourism Industry. The policies are intended to vigorously support industrial development of cultural tourism, scientific and technological innovation, laboratory economy, renewable resources utilization and other key industries.
In order to improve the industrial chain and promote the development of industrial clusters, Fangchenggang has completed the preparation and planning of the “map” of attracting investment for key industries and the panorama of “industry trees” such as steel, copper and aluminum, pharmaceutical industry and modern agriculture, with a focus on major port industries, international medical opening pilot zone and border tourism pilot zone, cross-border economic cooperation zone. 142 projects in total under the “settlement of three types of enterprises in Guangxi” have been planned to be introduced, mainly covering six industries, namely, cultural tourism, medicine and pharmaceuticals, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, and port logistics.
Among the projects introduced this year, there are not only projects that can offer major industrial support to accelerate the layout of leading enterprises and constantly play a leading role, there are also industrial cluster projects with chain extension and chain supplement, which have strong relevance and cover many industrial components of port logistics economy, marine economy and high-tech, with a view to continuously optimizing the industrial structure and project quality. Among them, the cooperation framework agreement signed with Guangxi Poly Properties, China Construction First Group and Cheng Cheng Group, has an estimated total investment of over RMB 120 billion yuan, with an investment of about RMB 20 billion yuan being put in place in the first phase development. The strategic cooperation framework agreement signed with Pacific Construction Group Co., Ltd., which ranked 24th of Chinas top 500 enterprises, plans to invest more than RMB 50 billion yuan in five years in the construction of large ports, ports and navigation, key water conservancy projects, and cultural and tourism development of special towns. In consideration of supporting the iron and steel, nickel copper, aluminum and other projects, Fangchenggang focuses on introducing a number of downstream and supporting projects to build a copper-based new material industrial base and an aluminum high-end industrial park. At present, 61 projects have been signed in related industries, with a total investment of RMB 112.44 billion yuan, and 159 projects are under negotiation, with a total investment of more than RMB 300 billion yuan.
With the ongoing construction of national strategies like international medical opening pilot zone, the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, the cross-border cooperation zone, and the border tourism pilot zone, Fangchenggang has expanded its circle of economic friends. Through a series of activities under the “settlement of three enterprises in Guangxi” this year, the city is now favored with a new opportunity featuring combined advantages, multiple incentive policies and reshaping of developing patterns. Standing at a new starting point for in-depth breakthrough, high-quality development and industrial upgrading, it has worked hard to tap its potential in local advantages featuring sea, mountain and border areas and made great accomplishments.