Recently, when a researcher from the Beijing News Zero Carbon Research Institute visited Chuzhou, Anhui Province, he found that Chuzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone is lined with photovoltaic panels and many new energy companies, which is "like two places" a few years ago.
The relevant person in charge of Chuzhou High-tech Zone told reporters that today's high-tech zone is still recruiting big and strong to enhance the level of industrial development, "In recent years, the key objects of investment in the jurisdiction are photovoltaic and other new energy enterprises." ”
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In recent years, Chuzhou has relied on the layout of the photovoltaic track in the mode of industrial investment, stationed investment, business investment, and first-class investment, and has maintained close contact with more than 600 member units of the National Photovoltaic Industry Association, and in 2023, there will be 10 new projects in the photovoltaic sector, 27 new projects, and 24 newly signed projects, becoming an out-and-out "photovoltaic capital".
Industrial upgrading drives the development of urban GDP. In 2017, Chuzhou's total GDP was still 160.7 billion yuan, ranking fifth among the 16 cities in Anhui; Today, Chuzhou relies on the new energy track to develop advanced photovoltaics, new energy storage, power batteries, new energy vehicles, etc., and its GDP has become the third in Anhui.
According to the work report of Chuzhou City, in 2024, Chuzhou will anchor the goal of building "four places" and "seven strong cities" in the Yangtze River Delta, focusing on the "new three", competing for new tracks, and accelerating the construction of "one, two, three" cities in the province: the first city of advanced photovoltaic and new energy storage industry in Anhui Province, the second city of power battery industry, and the third city of new energy automobile industry.
The new energy track is changing the economic pattern of China's cities
Looking at the latest data from local statistical bureaus, the number of trillion-dollar GDP cities in Chinese mainland has expanded to 26 in 2023, and the GDP of Yantai in Shandong and Changzhou in Jiangsu Province has achieved a "historic leap", adding two more to China's GDP "trillion cities".
Taking Changzhou as an example, Changzhou's trillion-dollar GDP is inseparable from the development of the new energy industry. Changzhou is located in the core area of the Yangtze River Delta, and is the city with the smallest population and small geographical area among the existing "trillion cities" in China. Despite this, Changzhou has embarked on a new energy development path of its own. As early as 2013, Changzhou began to lay out the new energy industry, and has initially built a closed-loop of the whole chain of new energy "generation, storage, transmission, use and network".
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According to the latest data, in 2023, the output value of Changzhou's new energy industry will exceed 768 billion yuan, and the integrity of the industrial chain in the field of power batteries will reach 97%, ranking first in the country. According to the "2023 Hurun China New Energy Industry Concentration City List", Changzhou's new energy investment heat agglomeration index ranks first in the country.
Like Chuzhou's photovoltaic industry, Changzhou's upstream and downstream industrial chain has produced an agglomeration effect. More and more Changzhou-made electric passenger vehicles, lithium-ion batteries and solar batteries and other "new three" products are selling well overseas.
Nowadays, not only Chuzhou, Anhui and Changzhou, Jiangsu are seizing new outlets. More cities are also responding to the call to compete for the track, Jiangsu Suqian is actively laying out the energy storage industry, Sichuan Yibin is vigorously developing power batteries, and Jiangxi Yichun is also rising with the help of lithium battery industry ......China's urban economic landscape is being reshaped. Looking at the world, China is also leading the "outlet" of the new energy industry and changing the world economic pattern.
Tao Ye, a researcher at the Beijing News Zero Carbon Research Institute.
Edited by Xu Chao.
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