Since the beginning of this year, Nantong and Changzhou have focused on high-quality development as their top priority. With more enthusiasm, higher morale, and more practical measures, they have adhered to the real economy, strengthened innovation drive, actively built a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, smoothed the domestic and international circulation, and worked hard to promote sustained economic recovery and improvement.
COSCO Shopping Heavy Industry Co.,Ltd., located in Qidong, is making every effort to fulfill the orders for 10 projects after releasing its offshore floating production and storage platform which is undergoing module lifting and integration processes. The ship will become the world's largest offshore mobile refinery with the largest tonnage and largest oil storage.
In the first half of the year, Nantong's shipbuilding and marine industries, spearheaded by COSCO and some others, experienced explosive growth to become a highland for the development of shipbuilding and marine industry clusters.
From January to June, Nantong delivered 35 ship and marine engineering orders, with a year-on-year increase of 19.2% in industry output value. The annual output value is expected to exceed 200 billion yuan, and key enterprise production orders have been scheduled for 2028.
At the beginning of this year, Nantong identified 755 new growth engine enterprises, all from strategic emerging industry projects spearheaded by the new generation information technology industry, high-end equipment, biopharmaceuticals, new energy, and new materials. These projects are expected to increase taxable sales by 180 billion yuan throughout the year, promoting high-quality development that relies more on innovation-driven growth.
“We support economic development through project construction. In the first half of the year, 45 provincial-level major projects in Nantong completed an investment of 15.18 billion yuan with 18 out of 21 projects starting construction”, Gao Ji, Director of Investment and Technological Transformation Division of Nantong Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, said.
Statistics show Nantong recorded a year-on-year increase of 16.5% in industrial electricity consumption in the first half of the year. Electricity is a barometer of the industrial economy.
In Changzhou, Li Auto recorded its sales volume exceeding 30000 units for the first time in June. It is estimated that the annual production and sales volume will exceed 300000 units, and the sales revenue will exceed 100 billion yuan.
“In the future, we will make Changzhou the center of our entire production and manufacturing by sparing no effort to develop it into our high-quality production and manufacturing base so as to promote the development of the supply chain and industrial chain in the entire Changzhou region”, Li Guanhua, Vice President of Li Auto, said.
From January to June, Changzhou recorded a year-on-year increase of 170.3% in the output value of new energy vehicles and a year-on-year increase of 25.9% in the output value of the power battery industry.
Changzhou is expected to record a new energy industry of 650 billion yuan for the entire year by producing 700000 vehicles.
In the first half of the year, Changzhou recorded 33 major projects with investments of 1 billion yuan or more, and 30 provincial major investment projects with a cumulative investment of 17.77 billion yuan, completing 69.8% of the annual investment plan. 16 out of 20 provincial-level major projects have started construction.
