Zhaoqing Mayor Xu Xiaoxiong: Deepening Zhaoqing’s strategic position in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
By Sun Lei
Hong Kong Economic Herald
As an important node in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and a key component of the Guangzhou metropolitan area, Zhaoqing is fully implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, actively implementing the "1310" strategic deployment of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, and accelerating the construction of a highly competitive western region. Create new cities. During the National Two Sessions, our reporter had an exclusive interview with Zhaoqing Mayor Xu Xiaoxiong to gain an in-depth understanding of how Zhaoqing accelerates the high-quality development of manufacturing and how to accelerate the development of the real economy through attracting investment.
Mayor Xu Xiaoxiong said that Zhaoqing City insists on taking the real economy as the basis and manufacturing as the leading industry, and implements the ten actions of "Manufacturing Leadership" and strives to build two 100-billion-dollar industrial clusters, including new energy vehicles and new energy storage. Since last year, Zhaoqing City has held more than 120 large-scale investment promotion activities, connected with more than 3,000 companies, and successfully introduced manufacturing projects with a planned investment of more than 100 billion yuan. Industrial investment has grown by more than 20%, maintaining the same level for three consecutive years. Double-digit growth.
Emerging industries such as new energy vehicles, new energy storage, and electronic information are developing rapidly and have become new driving forces for Zhaoqing's industrial development. Zhaoqing has become an important city in the new energy automobile industry in Guangdong Province. The output value of the new energy automobile industry exceeded 80 billion yuan last year; the new energy storage industry, which has carried out all-round strategic cooperation with companies such as CATL, has an industrial output value of nearly 50 billion yuan in 2023; electronics The information industry is also developing rapidly, and Zhaoqing is gradually becoming a R&D, production and export base for new components and basic electronic information products.
Regarding how to further promote industrial development, Mayor Xu Xiaoxiong proposed that Zhaoqing will be deeply integrated into the industrial chain of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and accelerate the formation of three hundred-billion-level industries such as new energy vehicles, new energy storage and metal processing by optimizing the layout of industries and parks. cluster. At the same time, Zhaoqing will rely on technological innovation to promote the upgrading of traditional industries and the growth of emerging industries, opening up new paths for the city's industrial development and economic transformation.
In terms of green development, Zhaoqing actively adjusts its industrial and energy structure, promotes "dual carbon" work, is committed to building green and low-carbon factories, promotes the green transformation and development of industries, and builds high-quality green energy bases to promote green power resources and manufacturing. Deep integration.
These measures taken by Zhaoqing City not only demonstrate its determination and efforts in accelerating the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, but also provide abundant investment opportunities for investors at home and abroad, indicating that Zhaoqing will become a leading player in the development of the manufacturing industry in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and even the country. new high ground.