Relying on Baidu’s brand effect, focusing on the construction of application software platforms, attracting relevant projects and talents to settle in Yangquan, and striving to create a highland for the information industry in North China——
November 6, Beijing The inland city of Yangquan, the headquarters of Baidu Company, has attracted great attention from domestic and foreign IT giants.
These big bosses from well-known domestic and foreign companies such as HP, Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co., Ltd., Wasu Group, IBM, etc. have a strong interest in the cloud computing service center being built in our city. They seem to see unlimited business opportunities hidden behind the project.
This is also a rare development opportunity for our city. In December 2010, following Shanghai Pudong New Area, Tianjin Binhai New Area, Shenzhen City, Wuhan City Circle, Changsha-Zhutan City Group, Chongqing City, Chengdu City, and Shenyang City, the entire province of Shanxi was included in the country's 9th comprehensive supporting facilities. Reform pilot area. This is the largest comprehensive preferential policy that Shanxi, an inland province, has received since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The wind of transformation is quietly blowing through the mountain city.
Yangquan, a resource-based city dominated by coal, is moving forward persistently, carrying the burden of history. Someone has made such statistics. Yangquan has produced a total of 1.8 billion tons of raw coal over the past 60 years since its establishment. It is the region with the largest coal production per unit area in the country. If these coals are piled into a one-meter-square "black dragon", it can circle the earth's equator 29.7 times; if a 60-ton truck is connected end to end to haul the coal, this "steel dragon" can circle the equator 10.7 times.
Over the years, due to long-term reliance on the coal industry, our city has not only formed an industrial structure in which "one coal industry dominates", but more seriously has accumulated unreasonable economic structures, extensive development methods, and economic problems. There are a series of contradictions and problems such as low efficiency, serious resource damage, intensified environmental pollution, large ecological debts, and heavy social burdens.
After taking office in 2012, the new leaders of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government seized the major opportunity of the province's resource-based economic transformation comprehensive supporting reform pilot zone and proposed "strengthening the city through industry and revitalizing the city through culture". The grand strategy of "expanding the city, expanding the city, and creating an ecologically beautiful city" puts transformation and leapfrog development in a more important position. The development of high-tech industries such as the IT information industry is an important part of the strategy.
In the process of implementing the "Four Major Strategies", the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government took the opportunity of the "Project Implementation Year" activity to focus on project implementation and investment promotion, setting up a stage for merchants to display their talents, and strive to By the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the actual utilization of foreign investment has increased by an average of 34% per year, and the contribution of investment promotion has reached more than 30%.
“Our city will further focus on high-end industries such as e-commerce and information industry to carry out targeted investment promotion work, hoping to introduce high-tech projects such as Baidu Cloud Computing and Zhongke Chunming Laser Project. Promote the rapid development of emerging industries and the upgrading of traditional industries.” The words of Zhang Lijun, director of the Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, succinctly summarized the future trend of investment promotion in our city.
● New businessmen invest in new industries
How to achieve leveraged development through attracting investment? A group of new businessmen represented by Robin Li have entered the strategic vision of the municipal party committee and municipal government.
At the same time, Baidu founder Robin Li also set his sights on his hometown-Yangquan. Of course, this is not only due to the fermentation of simple hometown feelings in the heart, but also the need for the company's everlasting foundation and sustainable development.
At the 2012 Baidu World Conference, Robin Li said that current application development has entered the "cloud development era" and Baidu Cloud will allow developers to access cloud capabilities on a mature cloud platform and use them in development and operations. It has received all-round support to help developers develop high-quality, diverse, easy-to-use, cross-platform applications to better meet user needs, help developers make good use of Baidu Cloud from different angles, and promote the prosperity of mobile applications. Behind the concise words lies the great ambition of a new generation of businessmen to develop the cloud industry.
Both sides are moving closer to each other. After a period of docking negotiations, on August 19, the Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center project with an investment of 4.7 billion yuan was grandly laid in the city's development zone.
This project created the largest investment record for Chinese Internet companies and was regarded by Shanxi Province as a basic project to "build an information industry highland in North China." Once the news was sent out, it quickly set off a storm in the domestic IT industry.
Cloud computing is one of the main development trends in the Internet field. Baidu has done a lot of basic work in building a cloud platform architecture and building a cloud computing center, and has achieved initial results.
The construction period of Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center project is 4 years, and the first phase construction area is 120,000 square meters. The completed center will reach the top level in Asia in terms of data storage scale, computing power, environmental protection and energy saving. It will fully support Baidu's Internet business, realize dynamic allocation of computing and storage resources, and improve the stability and reliability of Baidu's overall operations. In addition, the center will also provide a series of services such as Baidu cloud storage, cloud operating system, Baidu application engine, operations based on data analysis, and cloud testing to the society.
Baidu Cloud Computing has such a strong technological radiation advantage, laying the foundation for our city to become the "North China Silicon Valley".
In the view of some economic people in our city, the settlement of cloud computing in Yangquan will not only drive the growth of the local economy, but also have its own symbolic significance. This shows that Yangquan's focus on high-tech industries and its confidence in developing high-tech industries are a change in development concepts.
Ding Daoshi, editor-in-chief of Sutu.com Review Center, believes that "Baidu's investment in Yangquan will play a leading role. Baidu's 4.7 billion yuan investment may bring 47 billion yuan of investment to Yangquan." ”
In the process of advancing the cloud computing project, our city has established a project leadership team for Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center, established and improved a regular communication and coordination mechanism, strengthened the project tracking service system, and provided Baidu with the best service in our city. Develop and create a good investment environment. The municipal party committee, municipal government and relevant functional departments across the city have worked together to make the project take root and bear fruit.
Baidu's financial headquarters is in Beijing, and all tax declaration reports and materials must be faxed from the headquarters to our city for indirect declaration. In response to the actual situation, the Development Zone State Taxation Bureau has carried out targeted reporting reminder services, and designated dedicated personnel to remind companies to report in a timely manner before each filing period, so as to avoid losses in tax-related reputation, economic interests, etc. due to delays in filing by companies.
“The settlement of this project in Yangquan will enhance our city’s popularity and urban influence, drive and promote the development of Yangquan’s software development industry, and even the manufacturing of computers and their parts. At the same time, it will also have a positive impact on the local The development of the three industries and the adjustment of the urban industrial structure will play a key role and will surely become a powerful driving force for the GDP and tax revenue growth in the jurisdiction." Faced with the actual situation that no tax revenue has been collected yet, Zhang Fugui, director of the Development Zone's National Taxation Bureau, is "calculating a big deal." This approach provides a reference example for our city's transformation and change.
As a representative of new Shanxi merchants, Robin Li made a speech on "Inheritance but also pioneering and innovation" at the first World Shanxi Merchants Conference held in Taiyuan on August 20, specifically pointing out that "the Compared with Shanxi merchants a few hundred years ago, Shanxi merchants were only in Eurasia. Today, Shanxi merchants have a wider footprint and have spread to many countries around the world. Another difference is that many Shanxi merchants are now engaged in high technology. "Businessmen are not just coal bosses. This requires more publicity to let the outside world understand that the most critical aspect of high technology is innovation."
Speaking of the cloud computing center project jointly built by Baidu and Yangquan, Robin Li said that after the project is completed, its data storage scale and computing power will be the first in Asia.
Faced with the good situation of Shanxi's pioneering innovation, transformation and leapfrog development, Robin Li said, "I have always hoped to connect Baidu's career with the development of my hometown. I hope this cloud computing center can become the key to Shanxi Province's development." Science and technology business card. I also believe that the business spirit nurtured by this fertile land that has profoundly influenced China for more than half a century will surely inspire more outstanding companies and entrepreneurs to show the world the innovative and enterprising spirit of the new generation of Shanxi businessmen. Style and pioneering spirit!”
Robin Li’s entrepreneurial ambitions are quietly aligned with our city’s transformation strategy. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government launched a series of investment promotion activities, and the high-tech industry was ready to develop.
● Extend the chain and leverage development
The Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center project with an investment of 4.7 billion yuan is a "pearl" among the city's key projects. Our city seizes the opportunity of project implementation, unswervingly promotes the strategic adjustment of the economic structure, focuses on extending the modern information service industry chain, strives to introduce upstream and downstream enterprises, and plans a layout for the formation of a diversified industrial pattern with a full range of categories.
Thinking determines the way out, and hard work achieves development. On September 8, during the 16th CIFIT, our city delegation embarked on the "Long March" to promote cloud computing nationwide and held discussions with the Xiamen E-Commerce Association to discuss the IT information industry and Baidu cloud computing related industries. Communicated and exchanged on the supporting construction.
According to Zhang Lijun, the Xiamen E-Commerce Association is an industry association jointly established by Xiamen's widely representative commercial enterprises, information electronics, scientific research institutions, financial industries and other units. It has There are more than 400 member companies, and their main responsibility is to serve as a bridge and link between enterprises and institutions engaged in and applying e-commerce, to help member companies communicate with domestic and foreign contact channels, and to develop domestic and foreign markets. The Xiamen E-Commerce Association has organized several delegations to our city for inspections, and has reached investment intentions for a number of projects.
During the discussion, Vice Mayor Liu Xing made a presentation focusing on the city’s development intention of building an information industrial park, as well as the investment environment and preferential policies for investment promotion, and pointed out that Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center The start of construction of the project will play a positive role in demonstrating the city's industrial transformation and upgrading, will bring huge economic and social benefits, and build a high-tech industrial chain. It is hoped that member companies of the Xiamen E-Commerce Association can seize the opportunity, actively participate in the development and opening of Yangquan, achieve greater undertakings, win greater development, and create greater miracles in Yangquan.
The participating member companies expressed a high level of interest in the construction of our city’s information industry park and stated that they would actively try to cooperate and seek investment opportunities to achieve a win-win situation. Zheng Huozhuan, chairman of Xiamen Lianda Information Technology Co., Ltd., said, "We are very confident in the investment environment in Yangquan. We believe that with the support and help of the Yangquan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, we can successfully reach a cooperation agreement and get the project off the ground as soon as possible."
On November 6, relevant personnel from our city set off for Beijing again to promote cloud computing and our city’s investment environment. At the headquarters of Baidu Company in Beijing, our city successfully held a briefing on Baidu Cloud Computing Industry Investment Environment Policy to enhance the understanding of Baidu Cloud Computing Center projects among IT entrepreneurs across the country, and to provide guidance for the creation of our city’s Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park and the introduction of Baidu Cloud Computing supporting enterprises. and industry extension to seek opportunities.
Mayor Li Dongliang said at the briefing that the settlement of Baidu Cloud Computing project in Yangquan is a new achievement in attracting investment and a milestone in the development of the information industry, especially the IT industry. It will definitely have a positive impact on the adjustment of Yangquan’s industrial structure and the development of the IT industry. The improvement of industrial quality has a profound impact and injects new impetus into informatization-driven industrialization. Yangquan will rely on Baidu's brand effect, focus on the construction of application software platforms, attract relevant projects and talents to settle in Yangquan, and strive to build an information industry highland in North China.
Li Dongliang hopes that the implementation of preferential policies will accelerate the layout of Baidu Cloud Computing and its industrial chain in Yangquan and ensure that related projects take root and bear fruit as soon as possible. At the same time, server manufacturers, network equipment manufacturers and service outsourcers are welcome to come to our city for technology research and development, production and processing, and actively participate in the opening and development of Yangquan to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
At the meeting, representatives from Hewlett-Packard Company, Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co., Ltd., Wasu Group, IBM and other participating companies asked questions about project electricity consumption, technology support funds, talent introduction, etc. He also stated that he would further strengthen communication and exchanges with our city, seek cooperation based on his own expertise, and achieve a win-win situation.
One month later, on December 6, our city held a briefing on investment environment policies for the modern information service industry in the Pearl River Delta at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Conference Center. 45 companies including Guangdong Electronic Information Industry Group Co., Ltd., Guangdong Original Power Culture Communication Co., Ltd., and Guangdong Galileo Satellite Navigation Co., Ltd. were invited to participate.
At the briefing meeting, our city took advantage of the situation and took the Baidu cloud computing project as an example to provide preferential policies in terms of land, taxation, platform building, project services, etc., and explained the investment environment policy, hoping to have a strategic vision. Investors can seize the opportunity and invest in our city.
Policy-driven, service follow-up, publicity in place, and relying on the agglomeration effect of high-tech projects such as cloud computing, our city is gradually getting better at attracting investment.
As of the end of November, ***228 projects in the city have achieved foreign investment, with actual funds in place of 24.97 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 149.3%, respectively completing 125.3% of the provincial target of 19.92 billion yuan and the municipal responsibility target of 230% 108.5 billion. The city has signed 156 investment promotion projects, with a total project investment of 164.56 billion yuan and a planned investment of 152.61 billion yuan. It has completed 205.7% of the provincial target of 80 billion yuan and 164.6% of the municipal responsibility target of 100 billion yuan.
The introduction of Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center project has brought a breath of fresh air to our city’s investment promotion work. Zhang Lijun, director of the Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, said, “In recent years, our city’s investment promotion has been continuously transforming into investment promotion and investment selection. The purpose is to introduce a batch of urgently needed advanced technologies and projects, promote advantageous industries, increase jobs, and promote the city’s open economy. Steady and rapid development. ”