There are frequent good news on the investment front, the fruitful production front, and the accelerated return of foreign trade orders... In the first quarter of 2023, the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone will fully implement the "Ten Actions" of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, especially the decision-making deployment of "High-quality Development Support and Leading Actions in Binhai New Area". The confidence in Tianda Scale was strengthened, the determination to fight to the end was shown, and the economic development was unstoppable, and the positive trend continued to be consolidated, and the results exceeded expectations-GDP growth of 13.2%.
In the first quarter, the "new production lines, new large orders, and new first flights" that reflected the momentum of Tianjin's development all came from the bonded area, accumulating momentum for Tianjin's high-quality development and becoming a strong economic driving force for innovation and hard work.
Riding a long wind can break thousands of miles of waves. The Free Trade Zone will seize the golden opportunity period of development, compete for time and speed, focus on key points, and overcome difficulties, and effectively turn opportunities and advantages into development victories, strive to build a first-class port economic demonstration zone, and be the main force for high-quality development. "Ji Jihong" guarantees "annual red" and serves as the "main support" for the development of the new district and the city.
Since the beginning of this year, China has released a series of positive signals for foreign investment: the Central Economic Work Conference has made "greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment" as a key task in 2023, and proposed to promote high-level opening up to the outside world and improve the quality and level of trade and investment cooperation; The "Government Work Report" of the National Two Sessions listed "foreign capital" as an important content separately, emphasizing greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign capital...
This makes foreign-funded enterprises more confident in developing in China. Statistics from the Ministry of Commerce show that foreign-funded enterprises continue to increase their stake in the Chinese market, and their confidence in China's development continues to increase. In the first quarter, foreign investment was "opened and stable". The Chinese market is becoming a "strong magnetic field" to attract foreign investment.
As a typical export-oriented area, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone enjoys the special policy of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone and Binhai New Area, and has always been a highland for foreign investment. In the context of the continuous growth of foreign investment in the Chinese market, the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone is receiving frequent success stories. Airbus, BorgWarner, Hantman Group, Air Liquide Group, Fayat Group, Honeywell and other foreign-funded enterprises have continuously deepened their cooperation with the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone, continued to increase investment in Tianjin, and successively invested in expanding production. It is a high recognition of the business environment in the bonded area, and it will also promote the high-quality development of the beautiful "Bincheng" and drive the industrial upgrading of Tianjin.
French Airbus
Investment is the key support for economic recovery and development, and it is also the core of high-quality development. On April 6, Airbus signed an agreement to build the second final assembly line for A320 series aircraft in Tianjin. After the second A320 assembly line project is put into operation, the overall layout of two single-aisle aircraft production lines and one dual-aisle aircraft production line will be formed in Tianjin, which will strongly support Airbus to increase its global production capacity and better meet the strong demand of Airbus aircraft. Market demand.
"We are honored to be able to support the development of China's civil aviation with our leading series of civil aircraft products and continue to deepen our long-term cooperation in China. This reflects the positive recovery momentum and bright prospects of the Chinese aviation market, and the use of Airbus' new generation of environmentally friendly and efficient The desire to achieve sustainable development of aircraft." Airbus CEO Faury said, "Airbus values its partnership with China's aviation industry. We are honored to be China's long-term reliable strategic partner and jointly shape China's aviation industry. the future of the industry."
CMA CGM
When foreign-funded enterprises invest in China, they also pay more and more attention to cooperation with Chinese enterprises. On the same day that Airbus signed the agreement on the construction of the second final assembly line, China State Shipbuilding Corporation signed an agreement with CMA CGM to build 16 ultra-large container ships of type 2, with an amount of more than 21 billion yuan, setting a record in China's shipbuilding industry. A new record for the amount of contracted container ships. It is reported that this cooperation agreement includes 12 15,000TEU methanol dual fuel-powered large container ships, of which 6 are built by CSSC (Tianjin) Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as DSIC Tianjin), an enterprise in Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone. This is a major breakthrough for DSIC Tianjin in market development, and it has laid a solid foundation for the sustainable development of the enterprise and the high-quality development of the shipbuilding industry in Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone.
BorgWarner
BorgWarner, one of the world's top 100 auto parts suppliers, has also continued to increase innovation and investment in the field of new energy, investing 1 billion yuan to settle the most technologically advanced new energy motor and electric drive project in the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone. At present, the project is stepping up its construction. The joint workshop and the main body of the engineering center have been completed, the auxiliary building has entered the decoration stage, and the equipment assembly has started. It is expected to be officially put into use in July this year. With the completion of the new project, Tianjin will become the most important production base in North China of BorgWarner, realizing the "dual synchronization" of production and R&D with the world.
Hantmann Group
Good news followed. Following the additional investment of 150 million yuan in 2018, the German Hantmann Group invested another 140 million yuan to build a new energy vehicle battery pack casing and engine lower cylinder casting production line in Tianjin. After the completion of the project, Hantmann Light metal Casting (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. will produce key components for the latest new energy pure electric vehicles of Audi and Porsche brands, and produce engine lower cylinder castings for Beijing Benz and Ningbo Daimler-Geely pieces. It is predicted that by 2030, the income from new energy vehicle projects will account for no less than 70% of the company's total income.
Air Liquide
In the first quarter of this year, some key foreign-funded projects have also successfully landed. In March, the key foreign investment project of the Ministry of Commerce - Tianjin Hydrogen Energy Supply base of the French Air Liquide Group was successfully registered and launched in the Lingang area of Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone. The total investment of the project is expected to exceed 1 billion yuan. The land will be purchased and constructed in two phases. The first phase plans to build a hydrogen purification device, a hydrogen pressurized filling device, and supporting public works facilities. It is expected to be put into operation in the second half of 2024; the second phase According to the development of the hydrogen energy market, the project will build a new hydrogen liquefaction unit at an appropriate time, with an estimated annual output of about 10,000 tons of high-purity hydrogen. This project has opened up a new situation for Air Liquide Group to increase its investment in green fields in Tianjin. After completion, it will further help accelerate the development of the regional hydrogen energy industry. On the basis of meeting the hydrogen supply for vehicles, it will further enhance the hydrogen supply capacity in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The largest hydrogen energy supply base in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Fayat Group
Optimistic about the Chinese market, the French-funded enterprises settling in the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone include France's largest construction group and industrial equipment manufacturer - Fayat Group. On March 30, Fayat Group's global spare parts logistics collection center (hereinafter referred to as Fayat Project) was officially listed and put into operation in the bonded area. The main body of the first phase of the Faya project uses the existing factory buildings in the Tianjin Port Comprehensive Free Trade Zone to build an intelligent unmanned warehouse. With the help of digital and intelligent empowerment transformation, it completes the digital drive of the entire operation process from customer information capture to efficient material management and delivery in the intelligent warehouse. The advantages of the comprehensive bonded area link the two markets at home and abroad, do a good job in global logistics distribution, fully realize the global spare parts, commodity supply and purchase transaction settlement of the Fayat Group, and form the central function of global distribution of materials and global settlement. In this project, only the centralized procurement and distribution of materials and parts is expected to exceed 100 million yuan in operating income in the first year of 2023.
Honeywell
Honeywell, one of the world's top 500 high-tech companies, has also set its sights on the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone, investing in the establishment of the Honeywell Process Control (China) Operation Center and Innovation R&D Center Project, which marks Honeywell's advanced technology research and development The center is integrated and landed in Tianjin, focusing on China's intelligent manufacturing and digital development, with an estimated total output value of 1 billion yuan.
New possibilities are also constantly being added. On April 20, Honeywell signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone to give full play to Tianjin's location advantages and industrial resource endowment, and combine Honeywell's advanced technology, catalysts and equipment to discuss the first construction of a sustainable North China region in the Free Trade Zone. The benchmark project of aviation fuel production base helps to meet the growing market demand for sustainable aviation fuel.
"China is one of the most important aviation markets in the world. The aviation business as a whole is in a stage of continuous growth, and its carbon emissions are also rising. Therefore, the efforts of the aviation industry in the field of carbon emission reduction are important to achieve China's 'double carbon' goal. hands." Xu Jun, President of Honeywell Aerospace Asia Pacific, said, "Honeywell has a history of innovation and technology accumulation in the aviation field for more than 100 years. Tianjin's aviation industry is concentrated, and the entire aviation industry chain is becoming more and more perfect. There are many of us. We look forward to working together to promote China's aviation fuel structure reform, accelerate the low-carbon transformation of the aviation industry, and jointly help China's aviation industry move towards a safer, more efficient and sustainable future."
The continuous investment and construction of foreign-funded enterprises is inseparable from the efforts of the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone Management Committee. The reporter learned from the interview that in order to promote the completion and commissioning of the BorgWarner project as soon as possible, the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone has set up a special class for major projects to serve enterprises. Under the impetus of the special class, State Grid Dongli Electric Power Co., Ltd. immediately established a multi-department collaborative service team such as marketing, transportation inspection, and regulation to ensure that the project will pass the inspection and acceptance as soon as possible in the future.
For a long time, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone has continued to pay attention to the development of domestic and foreign-funded enterprises, while continuously optimizing industrial support policies, providing efficient government services, creating an international standard business environment, attracting more foreign companies to settle down and invest, and fully promoting regional development strategy. Pillar industries and advanced manufacturing. "I am very grateful to the Free Trade Zone Management Committee for its support for the company's development. This proves that our first investment ten years ago was the right decision, and we will continue to deepen our cooperation in the future." Markus Hantmann, President of Handtmann Group, said, Up to now, Hantman Group has invested nearly 900 million yuan in Tianjin.
Against the background of China's continuous release of opening up dividends and steady economic development, China has become a hot spot for investment by foreign-funded enterprises. The open Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone will also provide more opportunities for the development of enterprises from all over the world. The continuous in-depth cooperation between Chinese and foreign companies will also compose a new movement for the high-quality development of the region. In the future, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone will continue to adhere to the concept of "Party building leads joint creation", and under the strategy of "manufacturing city" and "manufacturing strong zone", it will focus on building a "4+2+3 "The modern industrial system contributes bonded strength to Tianjin's efforts to create a pioneering area for socialist modernization, a core area of "one base and three areas", a high-quality development demonstration area, a northern hub of domestic large cycles, and an important strategic fulcrum for domestic and international dual cycles.
