Many apples eaten by Singaporeans are produced in Yantai, Shandong, China.
The hometown of Apple was promoted to China's "GDP trillion city club" last year. It is the fifth trillion GDP city in northern China except Beijing and Tianjin.However, the gas of Yantai does not mainly come from agriculture, and the manufacturing industry is the main economic engine of Yantai.
This is an old industrial city. In 2017, the "manufacturing strong city" strategy was launched to accelerate the conversion of old and new kinetic energy.The effectiveness brought by this strategy is that the total product value of Yantai last year reached 116.246 billion yuan (RMB, the same below, S $ 189.4 billion).
Yantai is the third city of GDP through trillion in Shandong Province.Before Yantai, Shandong Qingdao joined the "trillion -dollar city club" as early as 2016, while the provincial capital Jinan was "admitted" in 2020.
However, Yantai is the only ordinary prefecture -level city in northern China that is among the "trillion urban clubs". Other northern "friends" are not municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin), or provincial capital cities (Jinan, Zhengzhou) or deputy provincial cities(Qingdao, Xi'an).
As of the end of last year, there were 26 GDP trillion cities in the south, and the remaining northern, central and western regions. This pattern highlights the obvious gap between the north and south development.
Not long ago, Lianhe Zaobao reporters visited Yantai with the official visit to China to learn how the prefecture -level cities were upgraded to break through the industrial manufacturing industry.Yantai's economic stories include shipbuilding, marine industry, modern pharmaceuticals, etc. Among them, an old -fashioned state -owned enterprise has become a global chemical giant by innovation.
Wanhua Chemical is called "Huawei"
There are 370 chemical production enterprises in Yantai City, and Wanhua Chemistry is one of the leaders.
In the Wanhua Exhibition Hall in Yantai Chemical Industry Park, the company's executives answered reporters' questions that the company can achieve today's achievements, all because the company has the same goals in the past, and a blueprint is painted to the end."We only do chemical industry, what real estate is relatively fast, we do not touch."
Wanhua Chemistry, which was established in 1978, was a small leather factory. In 1996, it mastered the production technology of isocyanate (MDI) and broke through the technology blockade of a few chemical giants.Petrochemical, fine chemicals, and emerging materials: four major industrial clusters.MDI is the most important raw material for producing polyurethanes, with a wide range of downstream applications, including building insulation, light industrial textiles and automotive appliances.
Comprehensive China Securities Times and First Financial reports, Wanhua Chemistry is already a leading enterprise in the world's polyurethane industry and the new Chinese chemical materials field.MDI production capacity currently accounts for about 63%of domestic capacity, accounting for about 30%of the world's.The company's net profit last year reached 16.816 billion yuan, an increase of 3.59%year -on -year, which was called the "Huawei" of the chemical industry.
On the occasion of the development of the green petrochemical industry in Wanhua's chemistry, high -tech industries such as biomedicine are also a bright color of the Yantai economy, and it has formed a relatively mature innovation platform and industrial cluster.
There are more than 900 people in the R & D team of Green Leaf Pharmaceuticals
Green -leaf pharmaceuticals established in Yantai in 1994 are dedicated to innovating the development, production, and sales of drugs. The business focuses on central nervous nerves, tumors, viruses and pathogens, and cardiovascular diseases.
Since 2021, Green Leaf Pharmaceutical has successfully achieved 11 innovative products in China, the United States, and Europe. Among them, "Ruo Xinlin" used to treat depression is China's first independent research and development of independent intellectual property rightsInnovative medicine.
Yang Liang, the vice president of public affairs Yang Liang, said in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that the Yantai Municipal Government attached great importance to guiding enterprises to gather, platform sharing, and innovation linkage, providing more jobs for talents in the biomedical industry.Opportunities and more diverse choices are very important bonus points for companies to attract young people.
Green Leaf Pharmaceuticals currently have R & D centers in China, the United States and Europe. There are more than 900 R & D teams, of which more than 500 people in Yantai Group R & D headquarters.
However, Yang Liang also admits that the career development space, learning and social opportunities of big cities are more attractive to young people, and Yantai still has room for progress.In terms of, you can also "do more and better."
Test of the negative population growth
Even if it appeared in the trillion city last year, Yantai still faced Test of the negative population growth .Data show that the resident population of Yantai was 7,102,100 in 2020, and by 2023 to 7.032 million, a decrease of about 70,000.
This is not only the helplessness of the prefecture -level city, but it may also reveal that although Yantai High -tech Industry is prosperous, the industry that can absorb a lot of employment still needs to develop, and high -quality employment opportunities are not enough.How to overcome this challenge is worthy of further observation.
Yantai Yixin Ocean ’s GDP broke 250 billion yuan last year
Long Island, which is affiliated with Yantai City, is located between Jiaodong and Liaodong Peninsula. It consists of 151 islands and 10 of the islands of residents.Long Island's fishery has a long history and a developed marine economy. The lives of ordinary people are very rich. In 1992, it became the first well -off county in Shandong Province.
Yu Feng, member of the Standing Committee and Secretary -General of the Yantai Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, Yu Feng, Secretary of the Working Committee of the Comprehensive Pilot Zone of the Long Island Marine Ecological Civilization District and the director of the Management Committee, told Lianhe Zaobao that Genghai Muyu Fishing is the password of the Changdao Fumin Qiang District.
Long Island is vigorously promoting the construction of modern marine pastures. Among them, the "Blue Grain" Marine Economic Development Zone was approved in December last year, becoming China's first maritime economic development zone.The development zone vigorously develops related industries such as seedlings breeding, midstream seawater breeding, downstream processing circulation, and sea industry equipment, clean energy, and marine literature.
Except for the Long Island, Yantai has been promoting the sea throughout the city, and strives to build a marine economic market.Last year, Yantai's GDP exceeded 250 billion yuan, accounting for about a quarter of the regional GDP. Marine fisheries, cultural tourism and transportation industries were dominant industries.
SeaThe work and equipment manufacturing industry is particularly developed in Penglai, Yantai, and a local shipyard, Penglai Zhongbaijing Lu Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (referred to as Jinglu Shipbuilding) starting from fishing vessels. After continuous upgrading, different types of commercial cargo ships can be created today.Customers are all over Europe and the United States, and they also build ships for Singapore customers.
Wang Xiaoli, deputy general manager of Jinglu Shipbuilding, said in an interview that his father Wang Bang dropped out of school at the age of 12, and then engaged in ocean fishing and seafood processing.Establishing Jinglu Shipbuilding, Jinglu Shipbuilding was restructured into a state -owned controlling enterprise in 2019.Wang Xiaoli grew up in a fishing village in Yantai at an early age, and then studied in the UK and lived in the UK for 14 years.She returned to China in 2019, and then joined the Jinglu Shipbuilding.
When talking about the development of the enterprise, Wang Xiaoli said: "In the past, we could only buy old ships in Japan and South Korea, and we could not catch fish."Every year, the fishing volume of saury is very abundant, and it has accounted for one -third of China in the past ten years.
She also believes that her hometown Yantai has various natural resources, hard -working people, as well as vineyards, products, and beautiful coasts. Development "" is just a matter of time."
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