Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, January 30 (Reporter Liu Kang, Lu Huadong) On the 30th, the reporter learned from the Changzhou Municipal Bureau of Statistics in Jiangsu Province that the GDP of Changzhou City will achieve a "historic leap" in 2023, reaching 10,116400 million yuan (RMB, the same below), calculated at the same **, a year-on-year increase of 68%。China's GDP "trillion city" has added a new member.
Since Shanghai's GDP exceeded one trillion yuan for the first time in 2006, 26 cities in Chinese mainland have exceeded one trillion yuan in terms of GDP, and Jiangsu has become the only province with five "trillion cities".
Workers at Li Auto's Changzhou base ramp up production (photo taken on February 15, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Lei.
Located in the core area of the Yangtze River Delta, Changzhou is the city with the smallest population and a small geographical area among the "trillion cities" in China. In the early days of reform and opening up, relying on the vigorous development of manufacturing, "small and medium-sized cities learn from Changzhou" was all the rage. However, a period of extensive development has also accumulated a lot of "ecological debts".
Thanks to economic transformation and upgrading, Changzhou has embarked on a new path of high-quality development. Sheng Lei, mayor of Changzhou, said that in 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".
According to the 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.
Workers produce batteries in the workshop of SAIC Power Battery Systems in Liyang, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province (photo taken on February 16, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Bo.
More and more Changzhou-made electric manned vehicles, lithium-ion batteries and solar batteries and other "new three" products are sold overseas, contributing to global green development. Headquartered in Changzhou, China Innovation Airlines is a world-renowned power battery company, and its number of international customers and revenue from international customers increased by multiple year-on-year last year.
"The voice of Changzhou" is echoing on the international stage. In December 2023, the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicked off in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. As the only city in the country to be invited to speak offline, Changzhou shared its green and low-carbon development practices to build a "new energy city".
In recent years, Changzhou has also invited more than 80 CEOs of multinational companies to visit and promote cooperation. "China is leading the 'outlet' of the new energy industry. Jörg Heinemann, CEO of Enervenue in the United States, said that the company decided to set up a factory in Changzhou last year because of its optimism about the foundation of Changzhou's new energy industry.
It is reported that by 2025, the output value of Changzhou's new energy field will strive to exceed one trillion yuan, and build a new energy industry highland that represents Jiangsu's high-quality development level and has international competitiveness.