On May 27, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to review the "Several Policies and Measures to Accelerate the Rise of the Central Region in the New Era". The meeting pointed out that promoting the rise of the central region is a major strategic decision made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core.
As an important grain production base, energy and raw material base, modern equipment manufacturing and high-tech industrial base and comprehensive transportation hub in China, the central region is striving to promote various key tasks and make new major breakthroughs in the rise of the central region.
From May 31 to June 2, the 13th Central China Investment and Trade Fair (hereinafter referred to as "Central China Fair") was held in Changsha, Hunan Province. With the theme of "opening up, innovating and rising in the central region", this Central China Expo attracted 1052 enterprises from 32 countries and regions and 220 multinational companies.
How to better erect the central "backbone"? At the Expo site, reporters felt the surging momentum of the rise of the central region. Entering the Hunan International Convention and Exhibition Center, the exhibition areas of new energy vehicles, low altitude economy, biomedicine, etc. are brilliant, and the exhibits of carbon fiber composite light sports aircraft, 5G+hydrogen energy driverless tractors, etc. attract people. Compared with the first Central China Expo held here before, some businessmen sighed: "The content of new, green and gold is not what it used to be."
Food, energy and resources security capacity is more prominent
There are 13 major grain producing areas in China, 5 of which are in the middle. In 2023, the total grain output of the six central provinces will account for 29.2% of the national total grain output. It can be seen from the dazzling array of agricultural machinery exhibition stands and the international agricultural machinery docking conference of the Central China Expo that modern agriculture in the central region has achieved rapid development, and a large number of green and intelligent agricultural machinery enterprises have emerged, providing a solid material guarantee for the construction of important grain production bases in the country.
At the International Agricultural Machinery and Smart Agriculture Innovation and Development Matchmaking Conference of the Central China Expo, leaders of domestic and foreign agricultural machinery enterprises and experts in the field of agricultural machinery carried out agricultural machinery technology exchange and experience sharing. The participating enterprises and experts believed that intellectualization and unmanned development based on mechanization is an important development direction of agriculture in the future, and also an important support for improving the ability of food security in the central region.
Professor Hu Lian, director of the Key Laboratory of Paddy Field Agricultural Equipment Technology of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that the team built an unmanned farm in Wangcheng District, Changsha, where two or three people can manage 200 mu of farmland. The unmanned farm in Datong Lake District, Yiyang City, Hunan Province, through scientific design of the machine harvest route of ratoon rice, the machine rolling rate was reduced by half, effectively improving the yield of the second season.
"In recent years, agricultural machinery enterprises in central provinces are trying to make up for the shortcomings of agricultural machinery in hilly and mountainous areas." Shou Yuanfeng, the technical director of Hunan Nongfu Electromechanical Co., Ltd., said that the enterprise and Hunan Agricultural University jointly established the Hunan Agricultural and Forestry Machinery Engineering Technology Research Center to promote the research and development of characteristic agricultural machinery.
At the Central China Expo, new energy has become a new business card of Shanxi.
"Not long ago, we signed a new energy heavy truck zero carbon transport corridor demonstration project with Tianjin Port Group, accelerating the implementation and application of new energy heavy trucks," said Zheng Peng, the "chain owner" enterprise of Shanxi hydrogen energy industry chain and chairman and president of Shanxi Pengfei Group.
"The proportion of new energy and clean energy installed capacity in Shanxi is constantly increasing. Next, we will strive to build a new energy system," said Yang Chunquan, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and director of Shanxi Provincial Investment Promotion Bureau.
At the new energy industry chain promotion and matchmaking meeting in the central region, 23 major projects were signed with a total investment of 23.58 billion yuan, which involves not only the transformation and upgrading of the traditional energy industry, but also the vigorous development of green energy. The cooperation between the upstream and downstream of the energy industry chain in the central region has deepened and consolidated.
More solid modern industrial system
Focusing on the modern industrial system, the Hunan International Convention and Exhibition Center will bring its latest achievements in digital finance, low altitude economy, agricultural food, equipment manufacturing and other fields to participate in trade talks with representatives of all parties.
With the "high-speed train" as the creative element, Hunan Museum has gathered 19 outstanding enterprises to participate in the exhibition. From the Hainiu II subsea large hole deep pressure maintaining coring drilling rig system for exploring the deep sea, to the CRCC Heavy Industry's domestic large-diameter multi support rock tunnel boring machine "Plateau Pearl", to intelligent unmanned equipment such as health service robots, autonomous patrol robots, etc., a variety of cutting-edge scientific and technological products have demonstrated the achievements and potential of Hunan in promoting high-quality development.
In Anhui Pavilion, Kedadaodun Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. demonstrated the application results of new technologies such as quantum technology. With quantum encryption technology, once the identity is stolen or monitored, the screen will become black and the voice will become noise. In Hubei Pavilion, the fully automatic wafer laser cutting intelligent equipment of Huagong Technology Industry Co., Ltd. solved a key process of semiconductor sealing and testing. "Relying on independent innovation, we have achieved a comprehensive upgrade of key components, and the cutting accuracy of equipment is within 5 microns, reaching the international advanced level." Yu Zhijun, deputy manager of Huagong Technology Brand Development Department, said.
"For the first time, this Expo will adopt the joint mode of six provinces to jointly attract investment around the 'signboard' industrial chain, and each of the six provinces will lead an investment promotion conference for key industrial chains," said Yin Difei, a second level inspector of the Department of Commerce of Hunan Province.
Shanxi promotes new energy, Anhui promotes new energy vehicles, Jiangxi promotes electronic information, Henan promotes hub economy, Hubei promotes new materials, Hunan promotes modern petrochemicals... With the help of the platform of the Central China Expo, the key industrial chains of all provinces are intensively displayed to achieve regional extension and coordinated development.
Data shows that more than 280 projects have been signed in six provinces in central China, with a total investment of more than 251.1 billion yuan. Bright data reflects the positive actions of the central region to accelerate cross regional cooperation, cultivate and develop new quality productivity, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system.
Firmer confidence in investing in central China
On the eve of the opening of this Central China Expo, the land for the Yuhu Cold Chain (Changsha) Trading Center project was delisted, and the project started immediately after land acquisition. This 5 billion yuan cold chain food circulation hub base is another important layout of Hong Kong Yuhu Group in the central region.
"The central region is a comprehensive transportation hub, connecting the east to the west, and connecting the river to the sea. After the completion of the Yuhu Cold Chain (Changsha) Trading Center, it will become the largest base for enterprises in the central region." Lu Peng, director of Hong Kong Yuhu Group and chairman of Yuhu Cold Chain, said. In the future, the enterprise will rely on the Changsha base, integrate key resources of the industrial chain, and help Hunan and other central regions better "buy the world and sell the world".
This Central China Expo attracted 220 multinational companies and 75 overseas Fortune Global 500 enterprises to participate, highlighting the huge opportunities in the central region and demonstrating the firm confidence of the world in investing in the central region.
The relevant person in charge of Finland Berry United said that he had reached an intention with the commerce department of Yiyang City, Hunan Province, to visit relevant industrial chain enterprises in the local area and look for cooperation opportunities through the cooperation and development docking meeting between multinational companies and Hunan in the Central China Expo.
