Qinhuangdao development zone is located in the center of Bohai economic circle. The economic circle around Bohai Sea has a land area of 510.4 million square kilometers, a sea area of 77,000 square kilometers, and a total population of 210.5 million, accounting for 0/0.2% of China's land area and 20% of its population. Economic aggregate and foreign trade account for 1/4 of the whole country. On the 5,800 km coastline around Bohai Sea, nearly 20 large and medium-sized cities echo each other from afar, thousands of large enterprises gather in Longpan, and more than 60 large and small ports, including Tianjin, Dalian and Qinhuangdao, are scattered all over the country, becoming the most densely populated areas of urban agglomerations, industrial clusters, port clusters, crowds of people and logistics clusters in the country and even the world. The vast market hinterland provides huge business opportunities for investors in Qinhuangdao Development Zone. During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, Tianjin Bohai New Area and Tangshan Caofeidian Industrial Zone have been incorporated into the national development strategy, forming the trend of the rise of the roof of the world after the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta. The formation of this big pattern has brought greater development opportunities to Qinhuangdao Development Zone.
In the past 22 years, especially since the Ninth Five-Year Plan and the Tenth Five-Year Plan, the economic aggregate has expanded rapidly and the comprehensive strength has risen sharply. A number of large-scale, high-tech, capital-intensive and labor-intensive projects have settled in the Development Zone. During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, the economy of Qinhuangdao Development Zone showed a rapid development momentum, with the total GDP increasing at a rate of more than 30%, and the industrial added value accounted for more than 55% of GDP. Major economic indicators such as GDP, fiscal revenue, actual utilization of foreign capital, and foreign exchange earning through export continue to maintain the leading position in the province's development zones; In national development zones, the main indicators have also moved forward, which has effectively promoted the accelerated economic development of the city. According to the latest statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, the growth rate of various economic indicators and the contribution rate of Qinhuangdao Development Zone to the local economy rank among the top in the national development zones and become the window and leader of Hebei's economic development and opening up.
By the first half of 2006, the Development Zone had approved 4,224 projects of various types, including 636 foreign-funded projects, with a total investment of 4.24 billion US dollars, contracted foreign investment of 2.8 billion US dollars, and actually utilized foreign investment of 654.38+0.3 billion US dollars. There are 3,588 domestic-funded projects with a total investment of 654.38+06.6 billion yuan. World-renowned enterprises from 35 countries and regions, including General Electric Company of the United States, Itochu Corporation of Japan, Band-Aid Company of Australia, Fengyi Group of Singapore, Chia Tai Group of Thailand, LG Group of Korea, TI Group of Britain, Asahi Glass Company of Japan, ADM of the United States, Alcoa Group of Taiwan Province and Wanji, as well as domestic well-known enterprises such as COFCO, CITIC, Shougang, Harbin Electric, Hualong Group and Kangtai Medicine, have invested here.
After 22 years of development and construction, the functions of the park are more and more complete. Qinhuangdao Export Processing Zone was formally approved by the State Council in June 2002 and closed in September 2003. Yanda High-tech Park was launched in March 2000, with a total investment of more than 300 million yuan, forming an incubation area of 37,000 square meters and building six R&D institutions. In September 2003, it passed the acceptance of the expert group and became the first national university science park in Hebei Province. After passing the ISO9000 quality management system certification in 2004, the High-tech Entrepreneurship Center was officially approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology on June 5438+ 10 in 2005 and was promoted to the National Entrepreneurship Center. Hebei province software industry base (Qinhuangdao) has also started construction, taking shape. There are 85 software enterprises, of which 14 passed the "double soft certification" and 172 software products passed the software product registration. Incubators formed by parks with incubation functions, such as Development Zone High-tech Entrepreneurship Center, Qinhuangdao High-tech Entrepreneurship Base, Hebei Information Technology Transformation Center and Yanda Industrial Park, have become the cradles for the growth of various entrepreneurial enterprises.
While vigorously developing the regional economy, the development zone takes beautifying the urban environment, improving the urban functions and enhancing the urban image as the main line, pays attention to environmental brands, continuously increases capital investment, and strives to improve infrastructure and supporting capabilities, creating a number of municipal fine works with modern style, development zone characteristics and meeting the requirements of sustainable development. The green coverage rate of the built-up area of the development zone reached 42.8%, the green space rate reached 38. 12%, and the per capita public green space 12.42 square meters. By the end of 2005, the total investment in infrastructure and municipal administration in the whole region was nearly 5 1 100 million yuan, and water, electricity, roads, gas and telecommunications in the whole region were all "seven connections and one leveling".
Qinhuangdao Development Zone imported ISO 14000 international environmental management system from February 2000 1999, and passed the standard audit of ISO 1400 1 in February 2000, obtaining a "green pass" to enter the international market. It has become the first and sixth national "ISO 14000 National Demonstration Zone of International Environmental Management System" in Hebei Province after Dalian Development Zone and Suzhou New District. On March 7th, 2000/KLOC-0 successfully passed the on-site acceptance of the State Environmental Protection Administration, and officially passed the national listing certification of the ISO 14000 international environmental management standard demonstration zone in June, and got the "green business card" handed to the world. There are four gardens and three squares in this area. The daytime is a scenic spot, the night is a bright spot, and the festival is a point of view.
Qinhuangdao development zone takes innovation as a breakthrough, adheres to the purpose of high-quality and efficient service and the investment attraction concept of pro-business, security business and wealthy businessmen. Established the "three service systems" of "one-stop" service for project approval, all-round service for project construction, and regular service for enterprises after production; Vigorously promote the first question responsibility system, public commitment system, fault investigation system and customer evaluation system. The Investment Service Center of the Development Zone has been established. 14 departments involved in project consultation, examination and approval, service and other fields are all concentrated in the service hall to accept service matters in a unified way. The business departments implement the system of agency and time-limited settlement, and the whole process from project site selection to property management is handled by special personnel for merchants, thus truly realizing "one window to the outside" and "one-stop service". The online business approval system and office automation system have been opened, and the government work is standardized, fair and transparent, and the efficiency is more efficient and faster. Become an honest government, sunshine government and legal government recognized by Chinese and foreign merchants.
On June 9th, 2005, the State Council approved the expansion of Qinhuangdao Economic and Technological Development Zone with an area of 16.08 square kilometers. During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, Qinhuangdao Development Zone will take the opportunity of expanding the area, scientifically position itself, make the best use of the situation, and comprehensively improve the overall scale and level of regional economic and social development. Focus on strengthening industrial agglomeration and realize the transformation from attracting investment to selecting business and capital. Optimize the economic structure and realize the transformation from scale benefit to quality benefit. Promote industrial upgrading and realize the transformation from introducing capital to introducing technology. Strict land management to realize the transformation from rational development to intensive utilization. Innovating the mechanism and system, the reality has changed from policy investment invitation to environmental investment invitation. Build a harmonious society and realize the transformation from a simple industrial zone to a multi-functional comprehensive industrial zone. Adhere to the development policy of "three priorities, two efforts and one promotion" with Scientific Outlook on Development as the overall situation, take the theme of making the characteristic industries bigger and stronger and constantly enhancing the overall strength, and focus on the two major goals of building a "strong economic and technological zone" and a "harmonious park", make efforts to strengthen the construction of four innovative capabilities of "development concept innovation, management system innovation, operation mechanism innovation and industrial technology innovation" and make every effort to build major equipment near the port. Strive to build an important opening window around Bohai Sea, an advanced manufacturing base, a processing trade base, a high-tech industry research and development transformation base, a high value-added service industry undertaking base, an important regional logistics hub, a model for developing circular economy, and a multi-functional comprehensive industrial park with economic prosperity and social harmony in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan area.