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rate ecological and business environment in Automobile Production Base of Guangxi, China-
China, and realized GDP exceeding Rmb120 billion, ASEAN New Energy Electric Vehicle Production
significantly enhancing the quality and efficiency Base and Electronic Information Manufacturing
of development. Highlight measures include: Base. Guigang was rated by the State Council as
a city promoting stable industrial growth with
- Adhere to regional coordination to build significant technological transformation, and has
a fully open gateway to the Greater Bay Area: been positioned as a strategic emerging industrial
Building a "One Belt, Two Wings" eastern- city by Guangxi Autonomous Region.
merging development pattern, accelerating
the development of Canghai New District, On June 4, 2019, the People’s Government of
continuing to optimize and enhance the business Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region released
environment, strengthening the integration the “Three-year Action Plan for Constructing
of innovative elements, and improving joint Guangxi Strategic Emerging Industry Cities
governance of the ecological environment. (Guigang) (2019-2021)”, which emphasizes
docking in the Greater Bay Area, development
- Build cluster hubs for integration with of strategic emerging industries, promotion of
Greater Bay Area industries: Cultivating and development environments and enhancement
expanding emerging industries, transforming and of supporting services. The Action Plan’s
upgrading traditional advantageous industries, strategic objectives include developing and
promoting the transformation and upgrading of strengthening strategic emerging industries
characteristic resource industries, and developing such as new energy vehicles, next generation
characteristic agriculture oriented industries for information technology, biomedicine, intelligent
the Greater Bay Area. equipment manufacturing, fine chemicals, and
new materials. By 2021, (i) the emerging industrial
- Adhere to green development and build the clusters supporting high-quality development
"Eastern-Merging" portal with prospective modern of the industry will be mostly constructed, (ii)
service industries: Speeding up the development the output of strategic emerging industries will
of modern service industries, optimizing urban reach more than Rmb100 billion, (ii) the status
livable environments and building a core city in the of the economic belt’s central city will become
eastern ecotourism circle of Guangxi. more prominent, and (iii) Guigang will become a
strategic emerging industrial city of Guangxi.
In 2019, there were 337 registered enterprises
in the Guangdong-Guangxi Cooperative Special I. Constructing strategic emerging industry
Experimental Zone with 65 companies already development clusters
in production. Among them, 38 are industrial
enterprises with regulatory standards. The total - Develop and strengthen the new energy
amount of external investment was Rmb36.9 automobile industry, develop and expand the
billion, and the contract amount totaled around next generation information technology industry,
Rmb47 billion. cultivate and develop the biomedical industry,
develop the intelligent equipment manufacturing
Guangxi Strategic Emerging Industry industry, enhance the development of fine
City (Guigang) chemical industry, and actively develop the new
materials industry.
Guigang is located in the southeast of Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region and the middle II. Creating a Strategic Emerging Industry
reach of the Xijiang River in the Pearl River Development Platform
Basin. It spans 287 kilometers of the “golden
waterway” of the Xijiang River. Since 2015, - Accelerate the construction of Guangxi's
Guigang has developed the concept of "Industry Second Automobile Production Base and
to Promote and Strengthen City Development", China-ASEAN New Energy Electric Vehicle
and established a framework for the Second Production Base, actively construct a national
comprehensive logistics park, and build a

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