The growth rate has been higher than the national average for 6 consecutive quarters. Jilin Province's economy has been promoted to stabilize and optimize its structure
2024-08-20
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Original title: Growth rate has been higher than the national average for 6 consecutive quarters - (Lead)
Jilin Province's economy promotes stability and structural optimization through progress (theme)
Ma Hongchao, Economic Daily reporter
According to the unified calculation results of regional GDP, in the first half of this year, Jilin Province's regional GDP increased by 5.7% year-on-year (calculated at constant prices), 0.7 percentage points higher than the national average, and has been higher than the national average for six consecutive quarters.
Recently, Lin Mei, director of the Jilin Provincial Bureau of Statistics, said that in the first half of the year, the growth rate of Jilin Province's main economic indicators exceeded the national level, and the province's economy showed a good development trend of promoting stability through progress, optimizing structure and maintaining growth.
Key industries develop steadily
In May this year, China's FAW Hongqi brand brought its three sub-brand products, "Hongqi Golden Sunflower", "Hongqi New Energy" and "Hongqi Energy-Saving Vehicle", to the China Brand Expo held in Shanghai, attracting the attention of many car enthusiasts.
The world's first hydrogen-powered urban train independently developed by CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. Photo by Economic Daily reporter Ma Hongchao
The automobile industry is the largest pillar industry in Jilin Province. Changchun has established production bases for many automobile brands, including Hongqi, Jiefang, Pentium, and Volkswagen. In the first half of the year, the added value of Jilin Province's automobile industry increased by 9% year-on-year, and the production and sales volume of provincial-level vehicles of FAW Group reached 745,000 and 743,000 respectively, up 9.7% and 8.3% year-on-year respectively.
Liu Yigong, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and general manager of China First Automobile Group Co., Ltd., said that in recent years, the Hongqi brand has focused on implementing the five major measures of "strategic leadership, product renewal, ecological support, marketing innovation, and overseas breakthroughs" to continuously meet consumers' pursuit of "wonderful travel and a better life". In the first half of the year, a number of Hongqi brand gasoline and new energy vehicles were launched, which effectively promoted the growth of sales volume. Its wholesale sales exceeded 201,500 units, a year-on-year increase of 42.6%; retail sales exceeded 190,900 units, a year-on-year increase of 25%.
Not only has the production and sales of complete vehicles achieved impressive results, but the level of industrial supporting facilities has also been rapidly improving. With Audi FAW New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. starting pre-mass production in January, FAW Fudi New Energy Power Battery Phase I project officially going into production in February, and related projects of the "Step Up" project of the provincial automobile industry cluster being completed or put into production one after another, the level of supporting facilities for the automobile industry supply chain in Jilin Province has continued to improve. At present, the local supporting rate of China FAW's main engine plants in Jilin Province has reached 53%, and the proportion of parts companies in Jilin Province undertaking supporting services for Audi FAW New Energy has reached 71%; in the first half of the year, the output value of automobile supporting companies such as Fuwei Adient and Continental Automotive Electronics increased by 6.1% and 13.8% respectively.
Rail transit equipment manufacturing continues to shine. On May 28, CRRC Changchun officially signed a contract for the export of 24 subway trains to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This is the second time that CRRC Changchun has won a Brazilian city subway order after exporting electric multiple units and subway trains to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2012.
New energy equipment manufacturing is rising rapidly. With the rapid development of the new energy industry, new energy equipment manufacturing is growing stronger in the western region of Jilin Province. In the first half of the year, large new energy equipment manufacturing companies such as CRRC Wind Power Blades, Xinneng Photovoltaic Technology, and Sany Wind Power Equipment Technology accelerated their development in Jilin Province. Data shows that the added value of equipment manufacturing in Jilin Province increased by 12.7% year-on-year in the first half of the year.
Sun Dawei, second-level inspector of the Jilin Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, said that in the first half of the year, the added value of Jilin Province's industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 8.0% year-on-year, among which the added value of the eight key industries all achieved positive growth, playing an obvious supporting role in development.
Technological support continues to be strong
Recently, a FAW Jiefang J7 pioneering version high-end heavy-duty truck rolled off the production line, marking the official production of the 60 millionth car and the 9 millionth Jiefang truck of China FAW.
Wu Bilei, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of China FAW, introduced that this high-end heavy-duty truck is built based on FAW Jiefang's "J7 pioneering technology platform". This technology platform took three years to develop, focusing on the three energy-saving directions of power domain coordination control, vehicle predictive control, and vehicle ultra-low resistance, breaking through 16 core technologies, and saving 14% of energy for the whole vehicle.
In recent years, Jilin Province has taken scientific and technological innovation as the first driving force for development, actively cultivated and developed new productivity, and scientific and technological innovation has shown a healthy development trend. Data shows that since the beginning of this year, the central government's guidance of local science and technology development funds in Jilin Province has increased by 26.9%, the province's registered technology contracts have increased by 138% year-on-year, and the total transaction amount has increased by 516.5% year-on-year.
Continuous investment in scientific research brings gratifying results——
On March 21, the world's first hydrogen-powered urban train independently developed by CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. conducted a full-load running test at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour on the CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles test line in Changchun. This test is the first time in the world to achieve full system, full scenario, and multi-level performance verification of a 160-kilometer-per-hour hydrogen-powered train, marking a new breakthrough in the application of hydrogen energy in the field of rail transportation;
On April 8, the recombinant human albumin injection developed by a company in Tonghua, Jilin Province, a special project of the National Key R&D Program "Green Biomanufacturing", was successfully approved for marketing by the Ministry of Health of the Eurasian Economic Union-Russian Federation, becoming the only recombinant human albumin injection product currently on the market in the world;
On June 8, Jilin Chemical Fiber Group Corporation successfully started up its 150,000-ton annual Huarong project. The Huarong fiber produced by the project is a new type of textile material that Jilin Chemical Fiber has independent special technology through integrated innovation. In the first half of the year, the company's carbon fiber sales increased by 85% year-on-year, and composite product sales increased by 59% year-on-year;
So far, the "Jilin-1" satellite constellation independently developed by Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. has 108 satellites in orbit, building the world's largest sub-meter commercial remote sensing satellite constellation, and has provided high-quality remote sensing information services to hundreds of units in more than 170 countries and regions;
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Data shows that in the first half of the year, strategic emerging industries and high-tech manufacturing accounted for 16.7% and 13.1% of Jilin Province's industrial output above designated size, respectively, and the output value of high-end equipment manufacturing increased by 10.4%, 5.6 percentage points higher than the growth rate of total industrial output above designated size. The "China Regional Innovation Capacity Evaluation Report 2023" shows that Jilin Province's innovation capacity ranking has risen by 6 places, the largest increase in the country.
Bao Chengsheng, deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Department of Science and Technology, said that as Jilin Province's mechanism for focusing on scientific and technological innovation continues to improve, major scientific and technological projects will make new breakthroughs one after another, and scientific and technological achievements will be better implemented and transformed.
Investment achieved rapid growth
Despite the scorching sun, the Shanghai Electric wind power coupled biomass green methanol integrated project in Taonan City, Jilin Province is still under construction. The project started in March this year, with a total planned investment of 22.4 billion yuan. It will be implemented in three phases and produce one million tons of green methanol annually. Among them, the first phase of the project strives to have power generation conditions at the wind power end and trial production conditions at the chemical end by the end of this year.
Since the beginning of this year, Jilin Province's investment has maintained a steady and rapid growth. In the first half of the year, the province's investment grew by 5.6%, 1.7 percentage points higher than the national average.
Zhao Shuli, deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said that Jilin Province has made every effort to make full use of multiple policy opportunities, promote projects, promote investment, and stabilize growth with high quality and efficiency, and strive to promote the growth of fixed asset investment. This year, Jilin Province plans to implement 488 projects with a total investment of more than 1 billion yuan, an increase of 35 over last year, and 31 projects with a total investment of 10 billion yuan, an increase of 11 over last year.
Not only has investment grown steadily, but the project investment structure in Jilin Province has also been continuously optimized.
In the first half of the year, private investment in Jilin Province grew by 5.4%, 5.3 percentage points higher than the national average. It is reported that in early April, the Jilin Provincial Private Economy Development Conference was held and the conference was broadcast live to all counties and districts, demonstrating the province's confidence and determination to firmly support the development of the private economy.
In the first half of the year, Jilin Province's industrial investment grew by 17%, 10.3 percentage points higher than the total investment, accounting for 51% of the total investment, 5 percentage points higher than the same period last year. Among industrial investment projects, "smart transformation and digital transformation" accounted for a considerable proportion. It is reported that Jilin plans to focus on supporting more than 300 "smart transformation and digital transformation" demonstration projects in the fields of automobiles, medicines, equipment, food, petrochemicals, raw materials, etc. within three years, and build 1 to 2 "lighthouse factories", 100 smart manufacturing demonstration factories, and 300 provincial-level smart manufacturing digital workshops.
In order to implement relevant measures, relevant departments of Jilin Province have concentrated on compiling and publishing a list of policies from the central government and Jilin Province to benefit and strengthen enterprises, strengthened publicity and classified guidance, and promoted the precise and efficient implementation of various policies.
Guo Fangrui, financial manager of Jilin Panshi Zhucheng Seamless Steel Pipe Co., Ltd., said that since the beginning of this year, the company has invested more than 4 million yuan to update annealing furnaces and other equipment to accelerate the implementation of digital transformation. "Since we have been awarded relevant environmental protection qualifications such as green factories, the tax department has come to help sort out the tax preferential policies that the company has and has not enjoyed." Guo Fangrui said that last year the company enjoyed a series of tax preferential policies totaling nearly 10 million yuan, including income tax reduction and exemption for high-tech enterprises, additional deductions for R&D expenses, and one-time deductions before corporate income tax for newly purchased equipment within 5 million yuan.
The Fifth Meeting of the Finance and Economics Committee of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee held recently proposed that Jilin Province will strengthen its confidence and determination to do a solid job in all work in the second half of the year, strive to consolidate and enhance the upward trend of the economy, and lay a solid foundation for new breakthroughs in Jilin's comprehensive revitalization.
Source: Economic Daily
