Shantou's "Starting": Port and Railway For the shortcomings, digitalize the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries

21st Century Business Herald reporter Wu Wenxi Shantou report

In the eastern part of Guangdong, the geographical location of Shachajie Jie three cities formed a small triangle. The peak of this triangle is Shantou in Linhai.

As early as 1860, Shantou officially opened a port. It was one of the earliest port cities to open to the outside world along the coast of China. In 1980, with the spring breeze of reform and opening up, Shantou became one of the earliest batch of special economic zones in my country.

Today, Shantou Special Economic Zone has come to the year of confusion. "I was born in Shantou, and I lived here for the first half of my life. Before, Shantou was very young. When I was young, the city of Shantou was called Shakong Road. Later, Shantou approximately one kilometer every five years. Expansion, these forty years, expanded to the East Coast. "Chen Hongyu, former vice president and professor of the Party School of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, said in an interview with the 21st Century Business Herald.

But just like every city will experience the "pain period" of development. Over time, Shantou has gradually weakened as an important transportation hub in eastern Guangdong, southern Gan, and southwestern Fujian. The difficulty, the gap with the developed cities of the coast has gradually expanded, making Shantou face many challenges.

At the end of 2021, Shantou City proposed to unswervingly follow the road of "strong industrial industry in the industry" and make every effort to build a "three new two specials and one big one" industrial development pattern.

From the latest release of Shantou's economic operation briefly from January to July 2022, Shantou's key industries from January to July of 2022, Shantou's key industries have maintained a steady growth. In the first July this year, the city's industrial added value of the city exceeded 43 billion yuan. "Three New Two Specials and One Big" industry investment increased by 9.3%, of which new energy industry investment increased by 69.1%.

As a special economic zone and provincial sub -center, will Shantou usher in a new round of development opportunities?

Shantou, which is promoted by Hong Kong

Enter from the corner of the street, the cultural block of the small park is present. At the beginning, the Zhongshan Memorial Pavilion extends around the street. The building is a common building in the old town of the south. You can see the signboards of old -style signboards such as Zhenyuan Department Store, Yifeng Ninjin Factory General Distribution Office, Ruian Xiangyaozhuang, etc. Hanging, "Chaoshan flavor" is full.

Shantou, a city located in the east of the eastern part of Guangdong and the southern end of the Hanjiang River Delta, is "Lingdong Gatery Portal, South China is going to rush". After opening the port, it became the best in China's early reform and opening up.

This is related to the geographical location of Shantou. In the past, in the mountains and mountains in the east of Guangdong, only Hanjiang, which was winding thousands of miles, was the most convenient channel. This channel could be connected to the Ganjiang River. The Shantou is located at the top of the southwest corner of the Hanjiang River Delta.

After opening the port in 1860, Shantou replaced Zhanglin to become the first port in eastern Guangdong. At that time, Shantou Port was a regional cargo distribution port that was more economical in the southeast and ocean routes in the southeast of China. It was also a suitable route supply port with more geographical location. As far as the sailing capacity of the ship was concerned, it took only a few days to one week from Shantou Port to Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Bangkok, respectively.

"Born because of Hong Kong, it can be summarized by Shantou." Chen Hongyu said.

To this day, despite the rise of many port cities in the surrounding area, Shantou Port is still one of the ports of important ports in Guangdong Province and China's "Belt and Road" key construction.

Zheng Liangze, director of the Economics and Teaching and Research Office of the Party School of the Shantou Municipal Party Committee, said in an interview with the 21st Century Business Herald that there was a stage of the development of Shantou Port. The boat, the fleet could not come to Shantou, and also formed a constraint on the development of Shantou. But later, Shantou focused on improving the port conditions.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Shantou City Transportation Bureau, with the two 100,000 -ton container terminals of the second phase of the Guang'ao Port Area in Shantou, the Guang'ao Port District Rubble Embankment Project and the second phase of the channel project, the port area has already been available. The hardware conditions of the large ocean container ships are stopped to lay a good foundation for the core port area of ​​Guangdong Port Group and the public logistics hub for the Guang'ao Port area.

In 2021, Shantou's annual port throughput was 41.38 million tons, an increase of 23.5%year -on -year, and container throughput was 1.8 million standard boxes, an increase of 12.9%year -on -year, ranking among the forefront of Guangdong Province. Among them, the annual cargo throughput of Guang'ao Port District was 23.83 million tons, an increase of 97.9%year -on -year, and the container throughput was 1.63 million tanks, an increase of 86.5%year -on -year, which continued the rapid growth of container throughput over the past five years.

In addition to ports, the construction of the Shantou railway has also developed rapidly. At present, the Guangmeishan Railway and Xiamen -Shenzhen Railway have been built in Shantou City. At the same time, the construction of the Shanshan Railway has entered the stage of tackling sprints. The construction of the Guang'ao Port Slutter Railway and the Guangdong East Urban Railway was launched. The Zhangshan Railway is accelerating the preliminary work.

Zheng Liangze said that the construction of transportation infrastructure is one of the important starting points for promoting the revitalization of the northwestern region of Guangdong and the achievement of the coordinated development of Guangdong. Shantou seized this opportunity and has been vigorously developing traffic in recent years. So far, Shantou's transportation infrastructure has gradually improved, which has not only shortens the time and space distance from the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta and other regions, reduces the cost of transportation, and has also brought great help to the economic development of Shantou.

Traditional industry rejuvenation

The superiority of the geographical location has created the developed business of Shantou.

"The ship Emei took the early tide, and the north and south flags were floating. The three streets and six cities are voiced, and the north and south are used to do businessmen." A Chaozhou poet once described Shantou like this. As a hometown of overseas Chinese, most overseas Chinese who returned to Shantou from overseas are mostly willing to engage in business operations, and Shantou's industrial development has risen. At the same time, Shantou is actually one of the first cities to develop industry along the coast.

Chen Hongyu introduced to reporters that Shantou's earliest industries with industries were repaired by the industry, as well as the repairs of ports, trestle bridges, docks, and cargo stations. Shantou's industry has risen from the handicraft industry. The three handicraft industries of Chaoshan, Tide Blue, Tide Sugar and Tide Smoke are the most famous. After opening the port, Tide Blue, which is the soil cloth industry, became the first modern industry in Shantou. By the end of the 19th century, water plants and power plants began, and then there were matchmakers, fabric factories, battery factories, etc.

The many achievements of the textile industry, toy industry, material factories, and pharmaceutical factories, and Shantou Industry have been mapped to this day, and have been transformed into a solid foundation in the development of Shantou's industry.

However, the number of traditional advantages in Shantou's industrial structure is large, and there are insufficient planning for emerging industries. The overall strength of the industry is not strong, the large industrial projects are not large, the capacity of independent innovation is not high, and the scale effect is not obvious.

Based on this, Shantou began the "new journey" of traditional industries and the development of emerging industries, and made every effort to build a "three new two specials and one big" industrial development pattern. "Sanxin" is new energy, new materials, and new generations of electronic information.

The relevant person in charge of the Shantou Industrial and Information Bureau told the 21st Century Business Herald reporter that this idea is more in line with the development direction and layout of the country and Guangdong Province, and at the same time, it can give full play to the resource endowment and industrial foundation of Shantou. In addition, these industries can rapidly grow the scale, driving Shantou to accelerate their heads to catch up, and effectively crack the long -term low -end development of Shantou's industry.

On the one hand, Shantou promotes the transformation and upgrading of traditional advantageous industries such as textiles and clothing, toys. For example, Shantou uses Aofei Entertainment and Xinghui Entertainment as a leader, and uses the functions of Bao Ao City, Science and Technology Center, toy Exhibition Hall, toy Association, focusing on improving research and development design capabilities, creating first -class IPs, strengthening industrial chain and supply chain collaboration, development across the way Boundary integrates new formats to cultivate industries such as "toys+cultural tourism", "toys+IP and derivatives", "toys+digital creativity" and "toys+intelligent manufacturing".

Chen Hongyu believes that Shantou's clothing and textile industry and toy industry are accelerating digital transformation. "Chenghai's spray paint robot, stamping robot, including CNC robots, all reflect the transformation and upgrading of the traditional industry of Shantou. Underwear produced by Chaoyang, a lace and one accessories are produced by imported intelligent machines. These industries these industries. These industries. It still has market potential and cannot be simply defined as a low end. "

On the other hand, Shantou focuses on promoting the development of emerging industries.

According to the person in charge of the Shantou Industry and Information Bureau above, Shantou New Energy has planned to develop more than half of Guangdong Province's development capacity; Xilong, Guanghua, Wanshun, and Midno for new materials, ultrasonic electrical electronics, Hongli, great health of electronic information, big health, big health, great health The Tai'antang, Xianle, Wannong and other companies are leading the domestic segmented industry. In recent years, Shantou has introduced head enterprises such as Shanghai Electric, BYD, and Lixin Precision to integrate local resources, extend the industrial chain, and quickly form a scale.

In 2021, among the industries above designated size in Shantou, the value -added of the "Sanxin Two Specials and One Big" industry was 49.885 billion yuan, an increase of 8.3%year -on -year, and the added value of industries above designated size increased by 7.4 percentage points. Among them, the added value of new energy, new materials, and new generations of electronic information increased by 14.4%, 7.4%, and 8.8%, respectively, and the added value of textiles and clothing and toy creativity of 9.4%and 3.9%, respectively, and 6.3%of the great health added value.

Shantou Special Economic Zone "Departure again"

Shantou's geographical location, transportation advantage and industrial development have made Shantou one of the earliest economic zones in my country.

But today, in the eyes of everyone, the development of Shantou Special Economic Zone is not prominent. Shen Yiyong, an associate professor of the Marxist College of Shantou University and deputy chairman of the Shantou Social Sciences Association, believes that there are many objective reasons.

"On the one hand, comparison with Shenzhen and Zhuhai adjacent to Hong Kong and Macau, Shantou is located in the northeast of Guangdong, lacking the advantages of geographical location; on the other hand, Shantou's foundation is relatively weak, lack of large enterprises and large projects. Most of them are private enterprises. And the vitality of local private enterprises has not been fully released. "Shen Yiyong said.

The development of Shantou is facing many difficulties such as weakening the function of ports, difficult industrial transformation tasks, and expanding the gap between the coastal cities, but "crisis" and "machine" coexist.

In the past few years, Shantou has received a series of policy support.

In February 2021, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government issued the "Opinions on Supporting the Construction of Shantou's Construction of the Socialist Modern Economic Economic Zone in the New Era", which proposed that it supports Shantou to build an important development of the provincial sub -center city and the modern coastal economic belt. Showing a new look of high -quality development in the new era of the Special Economic Zone in the New Era, and deploying to promote the establishment of a "nuclear+sub -center" in -depth collaboration mechanism in Shenzhen and Shantou.

Today, Shenzhen and Shantou not only connect to transportation infrastructure, but also have more commonly connected resources in industries, capital, and talents in the two places. The Shenzhen -Shanshan Special Cooperation Zone has also been included in Shenzhen GDP statistics, and the potential for future growth cannot be ignored.

At the same time, in the five major metropolitan widths of Guangdong, Shantou, as the core city of Shachaojie Metropolitan District, will also radiate the coordinated development of the metropolitan area in addition to its greater development. "In the early years, the three cities were one of them, and the same urbanization was also an inevitable trend in the future. With the opening of the traffic in Shachao, the resources and advantages of the three places can be fully integrated. For Shantou, more development will be achieved. Opportunity. "Shen Yiyong said.

In addition, Shantou has been approved to establish the Shantou Lien Development Zone in the Guangdong Free Trade Zone this year. The planning and construction area of ​​Shantou Lianhe Development Zone is 120 square kilometers, covering the Overseas Chinese Pilot Zone (including the core area of ​​the Overseas Chinese District and the Liuhe Pyan Area), the core area of ​​the Lingjiang Lingang (including the comprehensive insurance area and the Shantou Port Guang'ao Port area), and Nan'ao in Nan'ao 3 blocks including the island area.

Chen Hongyu said that from the perspective of internal and external conditions, Shantou's non -institutional conditions have been greatly improved, and institutional conditions have been fully supported. Shantou has reached a new key time node for development. "All history is the root cause of reality. In the past, Shantou lacked traffic supplementation, lack of policy supplement policies, and lack of positioning. Now it has reached the last ring in the shortage industry. Select Shantou again. "

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