In April this year, SK Hynix built its second factory in Wuxi High-tech Zone. This 10 nano-scale storage chip product production base with a total investment of 8.6 billion US dollars took only 1 years from signing to putting into production, and "Xinwu Speed" once again stood out.
"We can achieve the second leap here and become the third largest semiconductor company in the world, thanks to the excellent business environment created by the high-tech zone." According to Zheng Yintai, vice president of SK Hynix Semiconductor (China) Co., Ltd., enterprises will inevitably encounter some difficulties in the development process, and it is very lucky to successfully overcome these difficulties with the support of the local government. "This kind of atmosphere has prompted us to participate more actively in building an industrial ecosystem and open up a new win-win development model."
In recent years, a large number of foreign-funded projects with global influence, such as SK Hynix, Caterpillar, Atlas Copco, Bridgestone and johnson controls, have found suitable soil for growth in Wuxi High-tech Zone (Wuxin District), and gradually formed Japanese highland, Korean plate and European and American groups. Up to now, there are more than 1670 foreign-funded enterprises in the whole region, and the registered foreign capital exceeds 33 billion US dollars, accounting for half of Wuxi's direct utilization of foreign capital, ranking first in the province for three consecutive years. Here, Jiangsu has become the frontier of a new generation of information technology innovation and opening up.
Localization development of foreign-funded enterprises
The development of SK Hynix in Wuxi High-tech Zone began with the investment agreement signed 15 years ago. Today, the accumulated investment has reached 20 billion US dollars, which has become a model for Korean high-tech enterprises to invest and cooperate in Jiangsu, and has gathered local semiconductor supporting enterprises. Last year, its sales headquarters in China also moved to this city in southern Jiangsu. "In Wuxi, we are ready for medium and long-term development." Zheng Yintai said.
In addition to industrial localization, SK Hynix is also planning the localization development of social undertakings in order to provide benefits for local society and members, such as the ongoing hospital and school projects. It is understood that Hynix School is expected to be completed and opened in the second half of 20021year, and is committed to providing high-quality educational resources for employees of the company, children in Wuxin District and even the whole city; The Hynix Hospital project is scheduled to be completed and opened in 2022, striving to build a comprehensive hospital with the world's top medical level.
165438+1On October 29th, the first hydrogen fuel cell center set up by Bosch Group outside Germany was laid in Wuxi High-tech Zone, which was completed by the end of 2020. "China is an important market for fuel cell development and application in the future." Wang, president of Bosch Powertrain China, said that this will further strengthen Bosch's R&D and manufacturing capabilities in China and serve the China market more quickly and flexibly.
Wuxi is also the China headquarters of Bosch's diesel system and powertrain business. On the day of the launch of the hydrogen fuel cell center project, Ufu Gahrstadt, CEO of Bosch Powertrain Solutions Division, expressed his feelings: "We never feel that we are a foreign company, but one of many localized enterprises." His testimony mainly comes from Wuxi and High-tech Zone's multi-faceted support for enterprise development over the years.
It is understood that Wuxi High-tech Zone (Wuxin District) has completed the "factory headquarters" of 109 key enterprises, including 4 regional/comprehensive headquarters, 30 sales centers, 22 R&D centers, 5 capacity transfer 1 home and profit distribution adjustment1home. By the end of 20 18, there were 17 enterprises recognized as "regional headquarters and functional organizations of multinational companies" by Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce, accounting for more than half of the total number recognized in Wuxi, and Caterpillar, Atlas Copco, Bridgestone, johnson controls, Konica Minolta, General Electric Medical, Bosch diesel system, AstraZeneca and Hynix emerged.
"We continue to promote the recruitment of headquarters-based projects, which has brought both economic growth points and innovation growth points. At present, the number of new R&D personnel in the region has reached 1.700, and various headquarters enterprises in the region are an important support for talent gathering, exchange and interaction. " According to the relevant personage of Wuxi High-tech Zone (Wuxin District) Bureau of Commerce, upgrading from "factory" to "headquarters" and changing from "manufacturing" to "creation" will promote enterprises to extend to both ends of the smile curve of industrial chain, value chain and technology chain, and further form a pattern of "supported by high-end manufacturing and expanded by services such as R&D, sales and logistics".
Business environment is also productivity.