(Panorama of Mayang County Photographed by Teng Shuming)
How to develop advanced manufacturing in mountainous counties has always been a problem explored by the Mayang Miao Autonomous County Committee and County Government. In recent years, relying on its unique advantages of geography, ecology, and characteristic industry, Mayang has seized the significant historical opportunity of the construction of Huaihua International Land Port, marking a new chapter in the upgrading of traditional industries, the continuous rise of new industries, and the constant improvement of characteristic industry chains.
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th Provincial Party Committee clearly identified the construction of the “Three Highlands” as the main path for high-quality development, pointing out the direction and creating opportunities for promoting the strategic layout of Mayang’s economic development. Jiang Tao, Secretary of the Mayang Miao Autonomous County Party Committee, stated that Mayang has anchored the beautiful blueprint of the “Three Highlands and Four New Missions”, actively integrated into the “Five New Missions and Four Orientations” Strategy, and focused on the real economy of enterprises, industries, and industrial chains. It lays the foundation of the industrial ecology, highlighting the four major industries of characteristic agriculture, emerging advantageous manufacturing, cultural and tourism health, and “scenic water storage”, as well as the development of 12 key industrial chain clusters such as fruits, hot springs, longevity water, and commercial logistics. It will comprehensively accelerate the transformation and upgrading of characteristic industries and promote high-quality development of county economy.
(Poverty alleviation workshop)
Exploration of a New Path Through the “One Main, One Special” Strategy of Leveraging the International Land Port to Expand Chains
In early winter, on the inner wall of the office of Hunan Wanxiang New Material Technology Co., Ltd., a schematic diagram of the “Huaihua-Qinzhou-Thailand” railway and sea transportation corridor is particularly prominent. Shen Kaifeng, Deputy General Manager of the company, introduced that since the last June, the company has imported rubber raw materials from Thailand through Huaihua International Land Port, greatly reducing transportation costs.
The Mayang Industrial Development Zone is gradually building an increasingly complete industrial chain around the high-purity deproteinized latex produced by Hunan Wanxiang Company, a polymer material with world leading technology. It is introducing a group of domestic and foreign high-tech enterprises to create a polymer industry cluster,” added Song Qingshan, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Mayang Industrial Development Zone Management Committee.
It is common to rise with the wind and plan according to the situation. Mayang firmly seized the significant historical opportunity of Huaihua International Land Port construction, led high-quality development with high-level openness, and clarified the development positioning of the “One Main and One Special” industry led by the electronic information industry and characterized by new materials. In this May, a series of documents titled the “Three Year Action Plan for Promoting the Construction of the ‘4+N’ Modern Industrial New System in Mayang Miao Autonomous County” were issued. With the “Chain Leader System” as the starting point, county leaders led the research on the current development status of the industrial chain, developed an industrial chain map, and formulated development policies to support various industrial chains, guiding enterprises to seize development opportunities.
Driven by the construction of Huaihua International Land Port and the layout of the “4+12” industrial chain, Hunan Wanxiang New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. Phase II project has entered a fast race. Mayang Jinjiang Development Group Co., Ltd. invested 150 million yuan in advance to participate in the investment and help the company build customized factories. By providing high-quality enterprises with “tailored” customized factory building services, it reduces fixed asset investment and helps them “light and fast”. At present, the main construction of the second phase project has been basically completed.
According to statistics, among the 70 enterprises that have entered the Mayang Industrial Development Zone, 58 are in line with the positioning of the main and special industries, accounting for 86.5%. From January to September this year, the park achieved a total revenue of 5.68 billion yuan from technology, industry and trade, an increase of 8.3%, completed tax revenue of 220 million yuan (the park completed 164 million yuan), an increase of 32%, 17 newly signed projects, including 1 enterprise from the “Top 500 of Three Categories”. The total import and export volume reached 304 million yuan, an increase of 500%. The International Land Port has completed 238 TEUs of cargo collection, equivalent to 4.76 trains, with a value of approximately 38 million yuan.
(A Bumper Harvest of Yellow Peach)
“Three Waters and Five Colors” Adds to a Brighter Future.
In the last December, a Sino-Vietnam cold chain train loaded with Mayang Bingtang Sweet Oranges departed from the Huaihua International Land Port Freight Hub. The first batch of 50 tons of oranges was exported to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which has become the first step for Huaihua’s agricultural products to enter the international market in bulk.
Mayang has always been a land of lush mountains and clear rivers, with a long and prosperous life. It is a world-renowned “Land of Longevity”, the “Top 100 Healthy Counties and Cities in China”, and the “Natural Selenium-Rich Land in China”. It has precious mineral resources such as “sapphire” hot springs and strontium rich mineral water, and agricultural specialty products such as rock sugar oranges, yellow peaches, and white geese are particularly delicious and abundant. In recent years, Mayang has grown and strengthened its “four billion dollar industries” supported by the “three waters and five colors” (hot spring water, mineral water, Jinjiang Spring liquor, green, red, antique, gold, and orange) characteristic industries, creating a new landscape of rural industry and people’s prosperity.
It has established the County Party Committee’s Characteristic Agricultural Industry Office, to coordinate and guide the high-quality development of the “one special and two auxiliary” Bingtang Sweet Orange, yellow peach, and kiwifruit industries throughout the county. By investing 20 million yuan annually in the construction of standardized industrial parks, building an expert+socialized service organization platform, and establishing a series of measures such as the “five into one” service management model, the “core competitiveness” of fruit products has been greatly enhanced. It introduces a “citrus enzyme industry deep processing production line” with an annual processing capacity of 30,000 tons, and completes the layout of the entire citrus industry chain. Last year, the production and price of Mayang yellow peaches increased by 50% year-on-year, while the production of rock sugar oranges increased by 11% year-on-year and the price increased by 40%. The “longevity fruit” has become the “wealth fruit” of the people.
The characteristic industrial chain continues to extend, and the synergy of the industrial chain is further enhanced. Last August, Mayang Longevity Mountain Spring Water went abroad for the first time through Huaihua International Land Port. This year, it has established a special team for the county’s Longevity water industry chain to conduct in-depth research on the mountain spring water and mineral water industries throughout the county, actively plan to promote the development and utilization of water resources in Mayang Longevity, develop a linkage mechanism among various departments, and force industry transformation and upgrading with a problem oriented approach,” added the relevant person in charge of the county’s longevity water industry chain.
At present, the Longevity Aquatic Industry Chain and the County Geothermal Survey Command, in collaboration with the Beijing Expert Group, have preliminarily completed a series of work such as mineral water point detection and positioning, mountain spring water industry standard formulation, mineral water quality testing, and regional public brand declaration. In June, the Mayang Longevity Aquatic Industry Chain Promotion Conference and the “Return of Hunan Merchants” Symposium were held in Shenzhen. At the conference, the county government signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Shenzhen Jinrunde Investment Group Co., Ltd., involving the production and sales of new energy specialized vehicles and the development and sales of Longevity Aquatic. The total investment of the project reached 2 billion yuan.
Jiang Tao, Secretary of the Mayang Miao Autonomous County Party Committee, stated that Mayang will accurately grasp the “time” and “trend” of development, seize historical opportunities, rise up for a second entrepreneurship, accelerate the construction of the Mayang China Supply and Marketing Smart Cold Chain Logistics Park, high-speed rail economic zone, and highway service area, and strive to build Mayang into a cold chain logistics warehousing e-commerce base in the five provinces, border regions, and a distribution center for characteristic fruits, rubber, and traditional Chinese medicine in Southwest China. It will promote more high-quality and characteristic products from Mayang to be exported to Hunan, and even to the outside China.
(Mayang Bingtang Sweet Orange Photographed by Teng Shuming)
“Chain Investment Promotion” to Step out of Mountain and Cross the Sea
The wave of industrial transformation is surging. Mayang, starting with the construction of the “4+12” industrial chain cluster and using the “chain investment” strategy, has made a breakthrough in the high-quality development of the industry.
At the end of August, the “Zhejiang Merchants’ Travel in Huaihua” Investment Promotion Conference was held, and many merchants turned their attention to Mayang. “Mayang has obvious transportation advantages and abundant agricultural and sideline product resources, which can provide the company with higher quality selenium rich agricultural and sideline product raw materials. The potential for cooperation between the two parties is enormous,” added Wu Junquan, the person in charge of Chuanhui Food Co., Ltd., which is a Zhejiang foreign trade oriented enterprise that integrates the planting, processing, sales, and export of agricultural and sideline products. The company has obtained international export standard certification, and the product sells well both domestically and internationally.
“Mayang is an important node city for Huaihua to integrate into the province’s joint construction of the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, and it has prominent advantages in industrial layout and unique resources,” added Hu Honglin, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Mayang Miao Autonomous County Committee and head of the county.
It is a must to engage in projects and attract investment. Mayang benchmarking 12 key industrial chains, sorting out and clarifying 80 key supporting projects, with “chain master+chain owner” as the “lead”, optimizes the business environment as the “bottom line” to achieve “investment-attracting through business” and “precise investment”. A batch of good and large projects have successively landed in Mayang.
Continuously Enhance the Policy of “Hard Power”
It will introduce the “ten hard policies” to attract investment and the “sixteen measures” to continuously optimize the business environment, establish a “Risk Compensation Fund” for the park, and leverage banks to issue loans of up to 100 million yuan to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Continuously Improve the “Soft Environment” for Investment Promotion
It will continue to deepen the reform of “streamlining management and serving the government” and “handling each matter once”, establish a green channel for project approval, and fully implement the deadline for completion system. It has fully implemented the “five into one” service enterprise system, visited over 4,800 business entities, and implemented over 900 practical tasks to alleviate difficulties and solve difficulties for enterprises. It has also assigned over 90 key issues with a satisfaction rate of 100%. Efforts should be made to create a strong atmosphere of working hard and quickly seizing projects, and striving for development through cohesion.
Continuously Upgrade “Mom-Like” Services
It should implement the “three-level linkage” mechanism for assisting and handling affairs, so that government services can provide warmth, convenience, and timeliness. It has opened a “direct train” for tax and convenient payment reform. This year, it has signed service commitment letters with 38 tax paying enterprises, completed 266 assistance and agency tasks, and helped solve more than 40 issues related to corporate demands. It has reduced taxes and fees by 24.09 million yuan.
Excellent service lies in precision. “If one has any problems, he/she can directly contact the government and enterprise liaison personnel. Even if it is difficult for enterprise employees to park or there are safety hazards in the elevator of the enterprise workshop, it would be solved in a timely manner,” added Zheng Longbing, General Manager of Hunan Hongxin Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., in satisfaction with the park service.
The chain investment promotion has achieved significant results, and the vitality of the county economy has erupted. According to statistics, from January to October, the county introduced 20 new industrial projects with a total investment of over 8.85 billion yuan, including 11 major projects worth over 200 million yuan, 3 major projects worth over 1 billion yuan, and 1 project from a Fortune 500 enterprise. The entire county utilized 3.66 billion yuan of funds from outside the province and within the country, completing 104.57% of the annual total task.
(Translated by Tian Xia)