The spring scenery of a city is half full of flowers, and the waves of thousands of hectares embrace the sea. Xiamen, Fujian, is a beautiful city with a city on the sea and a sea in the city. As one of the first four special economic zones, Xiamen has always adhered to the spirit of "pioneering and pioneering, daring to be the first in the world" in the past 40 years of reform and opening up. It has made breakthroughs in economic, social, ecological and other fields, and has explored fresh practical experience for China's reform and opening up cause.
The sea breeze and waves are still there, and the old look has changed. Today, centering on the reform and exploration of high-quality economic development and high-quality ecological environment, Xiamen's economic and social development has entered a fast lane: the city's gross domestic product has increased 280 times over 1978, financial revenue has increased 817 times, and the urban population has increased by 3 million. As a window for reform, opening up and modernization, Xiamen is making great strides from "small and beautiful" to "beautiful and strong".
High quality -- leading by innovation, building a new highland for economic development
Superimposed with 200000 graphene films, only one hair is thick, and its hardness is 200 times that of steel, harder than diamonds. The graphene industry, known as the "king of new materials", is now booming in Xiamen.
Entering the Xiamen Torch graphene new material public technology service platform, professional laboratories related to the development of graphene industry are readily available. "At present, there are more than 10 industrial graphene enterprises in Torch High tech Zone, and more than half of the graphene application enterprises entering the industrialization stage in the province are also concentrated here." Peng Junfeng, director of the Economic Development Department of Xiamen Torch High tech Zone, introduced that, "We have invested 50 million yuan to purchase professional equipment, build a public technology service platform, and provide technology testing, technology consulting, application development and other services for enterprises in Xiamen and surrounding areas."
"The graphene industry has a long R&D cycle and a large investment. Both early product verification and later market development need a lot of data to support, but it is obviously unrealistic for small and medium-sized enterprises to purchase a large number of professional equipment." Wu Tinglun, general manager of Longnaco Materials Technology Co., Ltd., said, "The technology services provided by the public technology service platform have solved this problem and greatly reduced the R&D cost of enterprises."
"If innovation and entrepreneurship talents and enterprises in the graphene field are compared to 'seeds', then we have prepared the sunshine, soil and water for their development," said Ni Jie, director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department of Xiamen Torch High tech Zone, "We provide policies, funds and services for innovation and entrepreneurship, and create a graphene innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem integrating industry chain, innovation chain, talent chain and service chain."
"The broad application prospect of graphene has become an important entry point for Torch High tech Zone to promote industrial transformation and upgrading." Peng Junfeng introduced that as of 2017, the high-tech industry revenue of Torch High tech Zone accounted for 84.9% of the total industrial revenue, and the park has more than 100 new material enterprises closely related to graphene.
Xiamen insists on taking innovation drive as the lifeline of the development of the special zone, the central link of economic restructuring and the transformation of the development mode, and focuses on promoting the construction of a high-quality innovation and entrepreneurship city.
In 2016, the State Council approved Xiamen to build the Xiamen area of Fuxiaquan National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone with the Torch High tech Zone as the core area. Over the past two years, Xiamen has taken the lead in launching 69 innovative projects in its self created area, which has continuously stimulated the vitality and motivation of innovation subjects in the whole society. At present, 63 projects have been put into practice. As of the first quarter of 2018, there have been 236 new industrial science and technology projects in Xiamen's self created area. Today, Torch High tech Zone has become a gathering place for a group of "single champion" enterprises in domestic and even the world's sub industries: Meitu, which is the leading face detection technology industry, and bill recognition technology, which are among the world's leading businesses
Take the lead in benchmarking the World Bank in China to build a business environment and form an evaluation system with its own characteristics, take the lead in promoting "multi compliance" and expanding its application in the approval process reengineering, and take the lead in forming a comprehensive intellectual property protection system... Since the establishment of the special economic zone, Xiamen has boldly practiced and made bold breakthroughs, running out of the "Xiamen speed" of the development of the special economic zone : From 1981 to 2017, the city's GDP increased by 15.9% annually; It has realized the transformation from the traditional manufacturing industry dominated by the processing trade of "three processing and one compensation" to the high-tech manufacturing industry dominated by electronic information and the knowledge intensive service industry dominated by software information, finance and commerce. In 2017, the industrial output value of Xiamen's high-tech industries above designated size was 424.1 billion yuan, accounting for 71% of the city's industrial output value above designated size.
