BEIJING, April 29,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a report from
China Daily:
Aiming to become a hub for the coordinated development of
the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and bolster high-quality
development of Xiong'an New Area, North
China's Hebei province is
focusing on creating a regional collaborative innovation community
and striving to absorb the spillover effects of science, technology
and industry from Beijing and
Tianjin.
Currently, Hebei's Xiong'an New
Area is at a key stage of realizing large-scale construction and
undertaking the relocation of noncapital functions from
Beijing.
Centering on innovative thinking and new concepts, the province
is carrying out the comprehensive support policies of the central
government, ensuring that children's education, salaries and
housing provident funds in Xiong'an are not lower than in
Beijing.
Construction of the headquarters for the first batch of four
relocated central enterprises has been accelerated; three schools
supported by Beijing have started
classes; and construction of four relocated universities and the
Xiong'an branch of Peking University People's Hospital has
commenced.
Since 2023, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei
region has focused on the coordinated development of key industry
chains such as hydrogen energy, new energy, and intelligent
connected vehicles, forming more than 200 technology-related tasks
and a list of over 200 targeted enterprises for investment
attraction.
Several companies chose to base its research and development
activities in Beijing and
production in Hebei and
Tianjin.
Beijing Guohua Technology Group is one of them. It integrates
the R&D of new coal preparation processes and equipment,
engineering design and contracting, and coal preparation equipment
manufacturing.
In 2018, the group optimized its layout in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei
region, keeping its headquarters and R&D center in Beijing while establishing production
facilities in Tangshan, Hebei.
It also founded a clean coal technology company in the Tangshan
Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone that year.
"Taking the high-speed train from Tangshan to Beijing is very convenient and this is an
important reason why the company's headquarters set up a subsidiary
here," said Meng Lingyun, general manager of the Tangshan-based
company.
Meng added that the increasingly convenient rail transportation
not only allows them to better communicate with the headquarters
but helps them expand their business nationwide, injecting vitality
into the high-quality development of the company.
To bolster the development of new quality productive forces and
build advanced industrial systems, Hebei is ramping up efforts to integrate into
the new development pattern of China's modernization with local
characteristics.
Ni Yuefeng, secretary of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the
Communist Party of China, noted that as the region surrounding the
national capital, "Hebei will
inject new vitality into high-quality economic and social
development and continue to make remarkable achievements in the new
era."
"We are striving to blaze new trails in boosting
innovation-driven growth while taking more responsibilities in
advancing the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei
region and the high-standard, high-quality construction of the
Xiong'an New Area," added Ni.
During a recent visit to the HBIS-POSCO automotive steel sheet
project, a joint venture between Shijiazhuang-based HBIS Group, one of the
largest steelmakers and integrated service providers in
China, and South Korean steelmaker
POSCO, Ni expressed the need to fully leverage the province's
unique advantages, empower advanced manufacturing, ensure major
technological upgrades and promote large-scale equipment renewal to
propel the high-end, intelligent and green development of the
manufacturing industry.
The project, which was completed and put into operation in
Hebei's Tangshan city last
October, utilizes a high-strength ultra-thin automotive steel sheet
production process that significantly reduces the weight of car
body while extending the service life of the body and components,
achieving energy saving and carbon reduction from a
whole-life-circle perspective.
"We must firmly grasp the major national strategy of coordinated
development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei
region, strengthen collaborative innovation and industrial
cooperation, vigorously boost the deep integration of sci-tech and
industrial innovation, and foster emerging industries such as new
energy, new materials and robotics in a targeted manner," Ni
said.
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