Sichuan and Zhejiang are both major bamboo provinces, with unique resource advantages, industrial base and market space. The reporter learned from the Sichuan Provincial Economic Cooperation Bureau that in order to continue to deepen the industrial cooperation between Sichuan and Zhejiang provinces and promote the high-quality development of the bamboo industry, on December 20, the Sichuan and Zhejiang bamboo industry cooperation precision matchmaking meeting was held in Leshan.
In recent years, the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government have attached great importance to the development of the bamboo industry, and incorporated it into the implementation of major strategies such as rural revitalization. Sichuan has abundant bamboo resources, with a bamboo forest area of 18.35 million mu, ranking second in the country and the largest bamboo pulp and paper agglomeration development area in the country. According to statistics, nearly two-thirds of the country's bamboo pulp and paper are produced in Sichuan, which produces more than 1.9 million tons of bamboo pulp every year, accounting for more than seventy percent of the country's total bamboo pulp production capacity. In 2022, the total output value of the province's bamboo industry will reach 102 billion yuan. In order to further promote the development of the bamboo industry, the "Three-year Action Plan for the Improvement of Bamboo Industry in Sichuan Province (2023-2025)" issued this year proposes that by 2025, the total output value of Sichuan's bamboo industry will increase by 20%, from the current level of 100 billion yuan to a new level of 120 billion yuan.
The event attracted more than 70 leading enterprises in the bamboo industry from Sichuan and Zhejiang. At the meeting, Leshan, Luzhou and Ya'an respectively carried out bamboo industry investment promotion. Representatives of bamboo industry-related enterprises in Sichuan and Zhejiang provinces shared their views on how to promote the collaborative innovation and development of the bamboo industry. During the period, representatives of bamboo industrial parks and enterprises in Sichuan and Zhejiang provinces carried out precise docking, and actively offered suggestions, they said that they are very optimistic about Sichuan's good business environment, broad market and investment opportunities, and will further strengthen the cooperation of the bamboo industry in Sichuan and Zhejiang provinces and promote the high-quality development of the bamboo industry.
After the meeting, the representatives of Zhejiang enterprises attending the meeting went to Muchuan County, Leshan to inspect the bamboo industrial park and related enterprises. This activity is not only in line with the national policy, but also coupled with future opportunities, and making "bamboo" articles has become the consensus of the bamboo industry in Sichuan and Zhejiang.
In the next step, Sichuan and Zhejiang provinces will firmly establish and actively practice the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", deepen the achievements of east-west cooperation, establish a long-term cooperation mechanism, integrate the complementary advantages of the whole industrial chain such as resources, technology, production and circulation, and further promote the leading enterprises in Zhejiang's bamboo industry to accelerate the investment and development in Sichuan, discuss the upgrading path of the bamboo industry, and work together to build an important gathering place for the development of the bamboo industry in the country, and open a new situation of industrial cooperation between the two places.
*: Southwest Business Daily December 22, 2023 Edition 03: Sichuan News Sichuan and Zhejiang open a new situation of industrial cooperation).