Tianhe Tops China’s Three Technology Districts on GDP/km2
来源: 时间:2017-03-07
The 2nd session of the 9th People’s Congress of Tianhe District, Guangzhou, was held recently, and revealed the development transcript of Guangzhou’s “largest engine”: in 2016, Tianhe District’s GDP reached more than RMB380 billion, up 9%, ranking Guangzhou’s first for 10 consecutive years, and accounting for Guangzhou’s 19.4% and Guangdong’s 4.8%. From the unit area GPD, Tianhe’s GDP/km2 reached RMB2.77 billion, and Shenzhen Nanshan’s RMB2.05 billion. The GDP/km2 of Haidian District of Beijing reached RMB1.16 billion. In another point of view, Tianhe’s is much higher than that of Haidian and Nanshan, and ranks the top of the Top 3 technology powerhouses of China.
“Tianhe is characterized by the obvious headquarters concentration, outstanding value chain integration, distinct modern service industries, and high intellectual capital density, and has good comprehensive innovation elements and excellent innovation environment, and has formed a unique innovation mode and innovation system. Especially when the industry, commerce and real estate and other traditional industries faced lower growth rate last year, Tianhe has enjoyed rapid growth of the technology innovation and modern service industry and realized transformation of the development momentum and optimization and upgrade of the economic structure.” said Chen Jiameng, director of Tianhe District, Guangzhou.
New kinetic energy enhanced, the proportion of emerging industries in the regional GDP increased to 43%
The data shows that Tianhe’s GDP in 2016 reached RMB380.12 billion, up 9%, accounting for Guangzhou’s 19.4%, and Guangdong’s 4.8%. “This is the result that Tianhe has vigorously developed science and technology, finance and headquarters economy and realized the transformation of development kinetic energy.” According to Lin Daoping, secretary of the CPC Tianhe District Committee, Tianhe has vigorously implemented the innovation driven development strategy, and adapted to and grasped the new normal of economic development, occupied the commanding height of science and technology, finance and headquarters economy, and completed the iterative replacement of the old and new kinetic energy on the condition of ensuring rapid and sound economic development.
The old kinetic energy of Tianhe District has declined obviously and the growth rate of the total industrial output value above the statistics threshold has slowed from 13.3% in 2014 to 3% in 2016 while that of the total sales of commodities from 16.4% to 0.9%, and the growth rate of commercial housing sales area has declined to zero. Correspondingly, the proportion of the industry, commerce and real estate and other traditional dominant industries in GDP has declined from 36% to 30% and their contribution to the economic growth has decreased from 30% to 9%. In contrast, the new kinetic energy has gradually enhanced, and the proportion of the software and information technology service industry, financial industry, and other for-profit service industries has increased from 34% to 43%, and the contribution rate increased from 32% to 50%.
To introduce four Fortune 500 projects this year
Tianhe is an important Internet innovation town of China, and the software and information technology service industry is the sector with the highest technology content in the industrial structure of Tianhe District. Since 2015 the district has made great efforts to support scientific innovation, and triggered the rapid growth of the industry. Six enterprises, including Netease and Guangzhou Chuangsi, have been rated among the Top 100 Internet enterprises, ranking the first in Guangdong Province in terms of the number. The growth rate of the software and information technology service industry has increased from 14.3% in 2014 to 25.4% in 2016, and the proportion in the regional GDP increased from 4.7% to 7.3%.
In recent years, Tianhe has strongly developed the multi-layer capital market and fostered and grown the special finance industry. Today the district has 1,168 financial enterprises, up 43% compared with that in 2014. The proportion of the added value of the financial industry in the regional GDP has increased from 14.3% in 2014 to 22.5% in 2016, and the proportion in Guangzhou’s added value of financial industry has increased from 35.9% to 47.4%.
With regard to the headquarters economy, Tianhe has introduced 10 Fortune 500 projects such as the headquarters of Zung Fu China in 2016, and saw 19 newly recognized municipal-level headquarters enterprises, up 21%, increasing the total number to 108, or 29% of Guangzhou’s total. Meanwhile, the district has accelerated quality and efficiency improvement of the other for-profit service industries with the commercial service industry as the leading force, and the growth rate of the operating revenue of the other for-profit service industries above the statistics threshold has increased from 5.8% in 2014 to 19.9%.
“This year Tianhe will strive to introduce four Fortune 500 invested projects,” said the related director of Tianhe Bureau of Commerce and Finance. This year Zhujiang New Town and the CBD will provide an office building area of 1.35 million square meters, creating a new high after the Asian Games. “Especially the Fortune Global Forum will be held in Guangzhou. Tianhe will hold a special promotion in September in the Silicon Valley in San Francisco. I believe it will attract more Fortune 500 corporations at that time.”
Innovation drive accelerates, 64 enterprises newly listed at the New Third Board
During the transformation from the old to the new kinetic energy, scientific innovation has become the new energy, new engine and new highlight of Tianhe’s economic development.
From a series of scientific innovation related indicators we can see the innovation vitality of the district: in 2016 Tianhe saw 982 newly recognized national high-tech enterprises, an increase of 1.9 times, and increasing the total number to 1404, or 29.8% of Guangzhou’s total. The newly listed enterprises on the New Third Board reached 64, an increase of 1.9 times, and the total number reached 97, or Guangzhou’s 31.8%. The district has 34 newly increased municipal level public makers, an increase of 3.1 times, and the total number reached 45, or 40.2% of Guangzhou’s total. The newly increased municipal level and above technology enterprise incubators reached 20, up 69%, and the total number reached 49, or Guangzhou’s 26%. The invention patent applications reached 9,659, up 82%, accounting for 30% of Guangzhou’s total. “The number of invention patents was 5,310 in 2015, and increased by 81% in 2016 to reach nearly 10,000. The R&D institutes of enterprises have enjoyed explosive growth, and the number increased from 44 in 2014 to 169 in 2015, a sharp increase of 284%, and the number increased to 378 in 2016, up 124%.” From the scientific innovation related indicators of Tianhe District we can see that the startup business and innovation enterprises realized explosive growth.
GRG Square of the wireless group headquarters park has introduced more than 60 renowned enterprises, including Huawei, Inspur Group, UC Browser, China Mobile, China Construction Bank, and 13 listed enterprises, and seven Fortune 500 corporations. It has attracted more than 20,000 high-tech talents, entrepreneurs and employees, and the annual operating revenue of enterprises in the park reached RMB32 billion. A high-tech scientific innovation ecological circle has taken shape.
“Only with talent can one has technology, with technology can the industry develops, and with industries can the economic benefits be produced.” said Lin Daoping. Tianhe has formulated the “1+1+8” industrial support and scientific innovation policies which cover the headquarters economy, modern service industries and other dominant industries, and the strategic emerging industries such as Mobile Internet, green development, energy conservation and environmental protection, cultural creativity and biomedicine, and realizes full coverage of different types, including talent award, enterprise award, public listing award and rent subsidy to meet requirements of different fields, different industries and different levels.
Tianhe District has firmly grasped the principle that talent is the core element of innovation drive, and given the supporting funds of RMB5 million the highest to the startup pacemakers, and RMB500,000 the highest as the innovation expenditures to innovation pacemakers. In order to attract venture capital, Tianhe has taken a lead in issuing the equity investment incentive policies, and provided RMB3 million of award the highest to the equity investment group, and increased support to enterprises, and given awards of up to RMB2 million for the settlement of the major enterprises and RMB2 million of subsidy for the office building rent the highest, and an award of up to RMB800,000 for listing on the New Third Board. It has also encouraged construction of innovation and startup carriers, and offered an award of up to RMB2 million for the renovation of the old workshops to the startup parks, and subsidies of up to RMB400,000 to the recognized incubators and public makers.
BuildingTianhe District into a super-incubator
“Tianhe has many universities, talents and patent technology, but is in need of a large volume of scientific research and design land and the public makers. CBD is home to renowned enterprises, but cannot meet requirements of a large number of SMEs which are at the start-up stage,” said the related director of Tianhe Science, Industry and Information Technology Bureau. By building “the public makers in village” in the idle and lower-efficient parks, old workshops and collective properties, Tianhe has built the new type convenient and open innovation and startup carriers with low costs, which provide an area of 1.06 million square meters.
Tianhe sets forth to renovate the labor-intensive urban villages into the talent apartments for the public makers and turn the whole district into a super incubator. Tianhe Smart City Project has accelerated construction and aimed to add an area of at least 1 million square meters for the scientific innovation on the foundation of the newly increased 900,000 square meters of office buildings and incubators for technology enterprises in 2016. Moreover, it will integrate the resources along Guangdan -Guangzhou Olympic Center and systematically roll out the industrial plan and implement construction of infrastructure and public facilities to build this area into the innovation and creativity block centering on cultural creativity and scientific innovation.
At present, Tianhe, home to high-end elements such as projects of Fortune 500 corporations, is the most hopeful to build an innovation and investment avenue. The district has also set forth in the working report of the district government in 2017 that it will promote Guangzhou Tianhe Foundation, and Tianhe No.1 and Tianhe No.2 Foundation to play a role and build the venture capital street.
Ma Xingrui, governor of Guangdong Province, said Guangzhou and Shenzhen should, as the two “powerhouses” of Guangdong’s economic development, put into the high gear in the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area and further free the innovation, creation and startup influence and driving capacity. Tianhe must bear the mission given by the times.
Source: Translated from Invest Guangzhou, March 6, 2017
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