Comprehensive planning and strategic mission

China Daily | Updated: 2017-02-13 08:32

Changchun New Area reveals an overall plan for its development. There is an excerption of the plan.

Changchun New Area has three-step strategies.

The first step is to establish a national-level new area with an open and innovative industry system.The second step is to apply to be a pilot free trade area to play a major role in the world economy. The third step is to comprehensively build Changchun New Area into China's new window to the world by exploring economic rules and policies that meet the needs of the pilot free trade zone.

Responsibility and mission

An important platform for the implementation of China's Belt and Road Initiative and other national strategies

It is necessary to speed up the construction of land and maritime transport channels to make cities of Changchun, Jilin and the Tumen River area well integrated into the Belt and Road Initiative.

With the pilot free trade area as a center to gather resources from larger areas, it is also necessary to bring in more value-added activities to make China a stronger driving force in the global value chain, and also to explore the rules under the new world economic pattern that could help China to be more open.

It is especially important to integrate resources in Northeast Asia, explore the development of innovation-driven industries and international cooperation models that could add more trade value.

Changchun New Area's missions also include promoting economic, social, cultural and ecological cooperation in Northeast Asia, establishing an open industrial system that is well connected with the global value chain and playing a pioneering and exploratory role as requested by national strategies.

Changchun is considered a key city in the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor of the county's Belt and Road Initiative.

The construction of the new area could help to build up a main transport channel between China and Europe to enable Jilin province to integrate into the northern part of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Changchun New Area to build three corridors in accordance with the Belt and Road Initiative

With the construction of the land transport corridor between Europe and Northeast Asia, it also will be connected with Europe through a high-speed railway.

An impetus for the further rejuvenation of Northeast China's old industrial base

Located in the center of the economic corridor in Northeast China, the new area will make full use of its location to gather talents, technology and funds to broaden its economic scale, upgrade its industrial structure and further promote the region's rejuvenation.

With Changchun New Area and Harbin New Area as key development spaces, the Harbin-Changchun urban agglomeration will be constructed into an area that will have key competitiveness and influence in Northeast Asia by complementing each other's advantages and cooperating for innovation and industrial support.

The need to implement the Changchun-Jilin-Tumen River corridor's opening-up and development strategy

To implement the Changchun-Jilin-Tumen River corridor's opening-up and development strategy, Jilin province will build one corridor and three areas.

By developing the international transport channels that cross China to Mongolia and Russia, the Changchun-Jilin-Tumen River strategy will be stretched to eastern Mongolia and the far east of Russia, forming an international cooperation corridor that connects six Northeast Asian countries and three international cooperation zones.

A key international cooperation zone in Northeast Asia will thus be established with Changchun New Area as its core.

The strategy to make Changchun into a key city in Northeast Asia

It's an important responsibility and mission of Changchun New Area to upgrade and transform urban areas. Changchun has set a goal of transforming itself into a key city in Northeast Asia.

It needs the new area to further enhance its functions in international services for changing itself from a key regional city into a key international city.

It must also participate more in the international specialization of industry, trade and services and promote its international influence to make itself an important platform serving the country's economic transition.

An area that could lead regional economic growth

Echoing the national strategy, Changchun New Area must shoulder the responsibility of leading regional development.

To this end, it needs to improve its competitiveness in Northeast China and even in Northeast Asia by establishing an open and innovative industrial system, a strategic platform that could serve the whole region and an international transport channel.

Two centers, two industrial clusters and several industries with an output of 100 billion yuan ($14.5 billion)

China's intelligent equipment manufacturing center: priority will be given to key spare parts, intelligent control systems and numerical control machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment, which are key parts of intelligent equipment manufacturing, to promote regional industrial competitiveness.

This will help to form several intelligent equipment industry clusters with output of several hundred billion yuan.

A green consumption center in Northeast Asia: Based on the area's excellent ecological environment and superior resources, all the industry chains of modern agriculture, sports, and health and pensions will be well integrated to establish a sustainable mechanism for green consumption.

With industry clusters in health-related food, manufacturing and services, there will be several industries with output of several hundred billion yuan, including top-rate food and biological medicine.

Scientific arrangement

Changchun High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Changchun Beihu Scientific and Technological Development Zone, Changchun Airport Economic Development Zone and Changde Economic Development Zone are key forces in implementing the national strategy in Changchun New Area.

They are also modern urban areas that feature economic development, green ecology, and diversified cultural and intelligence management. Changchun New Area also aims to build itself into a green and healthy city that boasts a spirit of diversified culture and innovation.

Changchun High-tech Industrial Development Zone

Positioning: Attaching importance to new and high technology industries, the zone will promote industry upgrading and transition of urban areas, developing itself into a livable ecological new area that can demonstrate integrated development of the city and its industries.

Scale: With a construction of 48 square kilometers, it will have capacity to hold 500,000 people.

Space distribution: Importance will be attached to an innovation and software industrial park, animation and comics, optoelectronics information, biological medicine, and auto and spare parts. There will also be two business and trade centers in the zone.

Changchun Airport Economic Development Zone

Positioning: With importance given to international cooperation and aviation logistics, the zone will be a key area in regional opening-up and cooperation as an intelligent city in Northeast China for demonstration.

Scale: With a construction area of 79 sq km, it will have a capacity to hold 400,000 people.

Space distribution: Importance will be given to the aviation related industry, health and pensions, international education and information, winter sports and aviation logistics. There will be a Northeast Asia International Exhibition Center, Northeast Asia International Conference Center, Northeast Asia Cultural Exchange Center and an exhibition hall to display Changchun New Area's planning.

Changchun Beihu Scientific and Technological Development Zone

Positioning: With priority given to strategic emerging industry, high-end production and life services, the zone will be an international, modern ecological tourism and entertainment zone.

Scale: With a construction area of 87 sq km, it will be able to hold 550,000 people.

Space distribution: Importance will be attached to high-end equipment, opto-electronics information and biological medicine. It will build the Northeast Asia Land Port, Longxiang International Business Area, an Olympic Sports Center and a cultural park.

Changde Economic Development Zone

Positioning: With priority given to advanced equipment manufacturing and modern agriculture, it will be an innovative and livable new urban area.

Scale: With construction land of 62 sq km, it will have a capacity to hold 400,000 people.

Space distribution: Importance will be given to general aviation, advanced equipment, top-rate food and engineering machinery. It will build Changbaishan Food Industrial Park and an auto industrial cluster for automotive industries.

The eco-system in cold areas: An objective system for building a cold regional ecological city in Northeast China

Learning from the advanced construction experience of overseas ecological cities such as Canada's Vancouver, and Germany's Freeburg, which are located at a similar latitude to Changchun, and with the aim of building an ecological city in China's cold northern regions, the overall plan will carry out 13 action programs.

These will focus on constructing an ecological pattern that is safe and stable, forming a livable environment and building a green, low-carbon residential living space.

It will build Changchun New Area into an efficient, green and ecological place which not only has natural scenery but also enjoys an excellent environment.