"Invest in Anhui, go with the opportunity." On May 28 last year, at the launching ceremony of the "Invest in Anhui" series of activities, Anhui sent an invitation to the world with a loud slogan.
Looking back over the past year, the aggressive Anhui has fulfilled the invitation by taking action, made every effort to create a market-oriented, legalized and internationalized first-class business environment, promoted the market efficiency by the government, respected, understood and perfected the innovation and entrepreneurship creation of entrepreneurs, listened to, coordinated and promoted effectively, and promoted effective investment.
Looking back over the past year, the automobile industry has been "speeding along", the "engine" of major projects has roared, foreign investment has poured in, and the land of the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers is full of prosperity.
The year of "Investment in Anhui" opened a "door of opportunity":
In Anhui, this is a leading investment promotion action, which leads to the creation of a market-oriented, legalized, and international business environment, and continues to upgrade in the direction of enterprise demand. It shapes an image outside, promotes reform inside, and promotes internal outside. Under the changing macro trend, it creates a more deterministic and predictable investment opportunity.
For investors, the question they always think about is: where are the opportunities for "China Plus" that can "run through" industrial logic, market logic and business logic?
"Investing in Anhui" provides a vision of choice, but also a decisive support - there is such a place: on the road of scientific innovation+industrial development, which China most relies on, capital, technology, talent and other factors are gathering here at an accelerated pace, and the "new three kinds" industry, which represents the pioneer force of China's industrial reform, is booming here.
Based on this, to discover Anhui is to discover opportunities.
Significant increase in external influence
On April 21, the special promotion meeting of Anhui Investment Bank in Saudi Arabia was held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. During the activity, a promotional video of the investment in Anhui Branch was broadcast, and a project signing ceremony was held. Sky Tower Investment Co., Ltd., Saudi International Power and Water Group, Saudi Diesel Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd., Saudi Araj, etc. signed cooperation projects with Chery Automobile, Guoxuan Hi Tech, Jiangqi Group, Fuhuang Steel Structure, etc.
Taking the "Investment in Anhui" as the overall plan, we will build brands such as "World Hui Merchants Roundtable" and "Seafarers Roundtable", and spare no effort to expand foreign trade and attract foreign capital to promote cooperation. In the past year, there have been numerous special cooperation and exchange activities, which have significantly improved Anhui's external influence and popularity.
Anhui has successively held special promotion activities for investment in Anhui in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, Riyadh and other places, and organized and promoted 79 visiting delegations from cities to Germany, Italy, Britain, Japan and other countries and regions to attract foreign investment. Six "Seafarer Roundtable" activities were held in Hefei, Beijing, Xiamen, Shanghai and Singapore, and more than 80 foreign-funded enterprises and overseas business associations were connected.
In each promotion activity, Anhui has strongly invited representatives of local well-known enterprises and investment institutions, relevant business associations, and enterprises with cooperative relations with Anhui to participate in, with a targeted view, focus on promoting industries with high relevance, and strive to hit the spark of investment cooperation.
Each promotion activity is like a set of lookout glasses, which makes the image of Anhui more clearly displayed in front of everyone. It is characterized by vigorous innovation, distinctive manufacturing characteristics, vast inland hinterland, good ecological resources, profound history and culture... In the exchange and communication, people feel the infinite charm and vigorous trend of Anhui.
At the symposium on investment in Anhui (Shanghai) held in November last year, Liu Jinyu, the deputy representative of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in China, marveled at the rapid changes in Anhui. He said: "The development of emerging industries in Anhui Province in recent years is very impressive, and the investment and business environment are very good. In addition, there are also very powerful enterprises, universities and research institutions in Anhui. At present, Mitsubishi Electric has set up elevator and air conditioning companies and semiconductor production plants in Anhui, and will continue to expand its investment in Anhui in the future. "
The "gravitational field" of foreign capital is getting stronger and stronger
Since the launch of the "Investment in Anhui" series of activities, Anhui's "magnetic field" to attract foreign capital has become stronger and stronger.
On May 16, the commencement ceremony of the third phase project of Volkswagen (China) Science and Technology Co., Ltd. and the opening of the urban test track were held. The third phase of the project will be used to carry out research and development work such as new energy vehicle platform, whole vehicle, parts, software and hardware integration and testing, and focus on building a software and hardware ecosystem of the local automobile research and development industry chain.
On April 24, Hefei Branch of Standard Chartered Bank held the opening ceremony. Another Fortune 500 company settled in Anhui. "Anhui Province has a leading regional innovation capability, especially in semiconductor, new energy vehicles, artificial intelligence, high-end manufacturing and other cutting-edge fields, leading the rapid gathering of upstream and downstream industrial chains, and is one of the benchmark regions in China to accelerate the cultivation and expansion of new quality productivity." Zhang Xiaolei, president, president and vice chairman of Standard Chartered Bank (China) Co., Ltd., said, The opening of Hefei Branch is another powerful measure taken by Standard Chartered to deeply cultivate the Chinese market and continue to support China's high-level opening up.
Foreign capital keeps pouring in, providing new impetus for the high-quality development of Anhui's economy. By the end of last year, there were 602 newly established foreign-funded enterprises such as Volkswagen Science and Technology in Anhui, up 26.7%. 92 overseas Fortune 500 companies have set up 192 foreign-funded enterprises in Anhui, and investors from more than 110 countries and regions have set up 5000 foreign-funded enterprises in Anhui.
According to the data from the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, in 2024, 1427 key projects are planned to be implemented in the province, with an annual planned investment of 655.37 billion yuan. According to statistics, 318 key projects have been started in the first four months in the province, with a construction rate of 58.5%, 5.7 percentage points higher than the first quarter, and 25.2 percentage points higher than the chronological progress; The completed investment was 225.3 billion yuan, with an investment completion rate of 34.4%, 8.9 percentage points higher than that in the first quarter, and 1.1 percentage points higher than the chronological progress.
Special promotion activities constantly throw out the "olive branch" of attracting investment, making Anhui "seen". The series of activities of "Investment in Anhui" were launched throughout the whole process, focusing on optimizing the business environment, accurately and efficiently docking excellent enterprises and element resources, and further facilitating the project implementation.
Anhui has established and improved the working mechanism for provincial leaders to contact key foreign-funded foreign trade enterprises and export-oriented enterprises for door-to-door service, and has served more than 110 foreign-funded enterprises in total. We improved the network service efficiency of foreign-funded complaints at the provincial, municipal and county levels, and coordinated to solve more than 200 difficult demands of enterprises in 2023. We strengthened policy guarantee, formulated and issued policies and measures such as "30 policies for promoting foreign trade in Anhui Province" and "18 policies for optimizing the foreign investment environment in Anhui Province and increasing efforts to attract foreign investment", paid a total of 30 million yuan of special incentive funds for foreign investment, and supported 26 key foreign investment projects to invest in Anhui.
From consensus to action "no idling"
At the launching ceremony of the series of activities of "Investing in Anhui" last year, seven automobile enterprises, including Weilai Automobile, Volkswagen (Anhui), Chery Automobile, JAC Automobile, BYD Automobile, Chang'an Automobile, and Hanma Technology, signed and released the Consensus on Building a High level New Energy Vehicle and Intelligent Connected Vehicle Industry Chain Supply Chain to strengthen joint innovation, Improve the coordination level of the industrial chain supply chain, jointly promote the construction of the trinity industry standard of the whole vehicle, parts and post market, and promote the sustainable development of the industry.
In the past year, Anhui automobile industry has developed by leaps and bounds. One out of every four export cars in China is "made in Anhui"; For every 10 new energy vehicles produced nationwide, about one is "made in Anhui". Last year, the operating revenue of Anhui automobile industry chain reached a new level of trillion yuan. The added value of the automobile industry in the whole year increased by 33.9%, a new high since 2010.
At the recent Beijing International Automobile Exhibition, the new products and new technologies of Anhui automobile industry chain were intensively unveiled and became the focus of the industry. Both new models and technologies brought by Chery, JAC, Volkswagen Anhui, Weilai and other complete vehicle enterprises, as well as representatives of iFLYTEK, Midea Welling and other enterprises covering the automotive intelligent technology and parts industry shine.
Anhui exhibition area is the epitome of the development of Anhui automobile industry. Today's Anhui Automobile has formed an industrial ecology of collaborative innovation and complementary advantages from raw material supply to core parts manufacturing, to vehicle assembly and intelligent system development. Anhui has become an important pole in China's automobile industry.
Accelerate the construction of new energy vehicle industry cluster with the main line of accelerating the comprehensive development of complete vehicles, parts and post market. At present, Anhui gathers seven complete vehicle enterprises, including Chery Group, Jiangqi, Weilai, Volkswagen Anhui, Hefei BYD, and initially forms a number of automobile parts characteristic industrial clusters in Anqing, Xuancheng, Chuzhou, Ma'anshan, covering the whole automobile industry chain, such as power battery, electric motor control, sales maintenance, recycling and utilization.
The automobile industry is the first industry in Anhui. A consensus reached at the launching ceremony of "Investing in Anhui" a year ago is really promoting the new situation of industrial development.
This is a witness: Anhui today is such an action group. Here, opportunities will not "idle".
Investing in Anhui is really good.
