I. Basic Profile
(I)Overview
Situated in the west side of Xiamen Island, Haicang stands at the protruding part of the Xiamen-hangzhou-Quanzhou Golden Triangle in Southern Fujian. Itis an important port for expanding trade by sea in southern Fujian. Haicang can serve as the "bridgehead" in deepening exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan, promoting the urban integration of Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and realizing cross-island development. It is an important area to transfer core functions of the island and to radiate southwest Fujian. Located to the west of Xiamen Island, Haicang has a coverage area of 186.82 sq.km, a current population of 680,000.
(II) History
"Haicang" is named after the Cang River. It became a seaside settlement called "Haikou" in the Tang Dynasty. It was renamed "Haicang" by using one Chinese Character respectively from Haikou and Cang River together during the Jiajing Period of the Ming Dynasty. Upon approval of the State Council in May 1989, Haicang became the largest national Taiwanese investment zone of the Chinese Mainland. Its advantages lie in ownership of "integrated six zones", i.e. special economic zone, Taiwanese investment zone, export processing zone, bonded port zone,pilot free trade zone and Comprehensive Bonded Zone.
(III)Development Goals
To build a high-caliber modern industrial cluster area, a high-level cross-island development benchmark area, a beautiful ecological civilization demonstration area, a high-leverage pilot area for deepening reform, and a high-quality livelihood and well-being model area.
(IV) Economic Development Achievements
In 2023, 101.043 billion yuan in Haicang District's GDP; 23.288 billion yuan in total fiscal revenue; saw a year-on-year rise of 4.4% to 4.116 billion yuan in district-level fiscal revenue; 187.084 billion yuan in output value of industrial enterprises above designated size; 60.658 billion yuan in added value of industrial enterprises above designated size; 3.4% to 72,880 yuan in per capita disposable income of urban residents; and 5.8% to 34,206 yuan in per capita disposable income of rural residents.
Blueprint for spatial planning in Haicang District
II. Industrial Orientation
(I) Biomedicine and Health
Development goals: Strive to exceed 50 billion yuan in the scale of the integrated circuit industry by 2025.To build an internationally renowned biomedical industry cluster.
Development path: In 2023, Xiamen Biomedical Port took the 13th place in the comprehensive competitiveness list of national biomedical industrial parks released by China National Center for Biotechnology Development,It has been designated as one of the four specialized medical device parks and has been listed in the "2023 China Biomedical Technology Innovation Value List: Top 30 Most Promising Biomedical Parks" released by the National Biomedical Enterprise Platform. As of 2023, Haicang District is home to 475 biomedical companies, with an industry scale of 35.4 billion yuan.
(II) Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits(and its applications)
Development path: Have "talent+" as the development strategy, increase cooperation with the industrial platforms of key domestic cities and strengthen interfacing and merger with the IC industry of Taiwan in order to develop a domestically and even world-leading concentration zone of IC industry primarily comprising industries of design, packaging & testing and featured technology products.
Development goals: Strive to exceed 26 billion yuan in the scale of the integrated circuit industry by 2025, drive the scale of related industries to surpass 100 billion yuan, and become a major town with international influence in the integrated circuit industry.
Development Achievements: At the 2023 World Semiconductor Conference and Nanjing International Semiconductor Expo, Haicang Integrated Circuit Industrial Park was awarded the title of "2022-2023 China's Outstanding Integrated Circuit High-Quality Development Park,” marking the third consecutive year it has received this honor.
IC design: Focus on the critical chips in key sectors, including memory, 5G/4G, intelligent manufacturing, IoT, new-energy auto, network communication, safety monitoring , optical communication and Power Management and Consumer Electronics.
IC packaging and testing: Focused on supporting the research and mass production of advanced packaging technologies such as System-in-Package (SIP), Wafer-Level Packaging (WLP), Chip-Scale Packaging (CSP), Through-Silicon Via (TSV), Fan-Out Panel-Level Packaging (FOPLP), and high-density packaging substrates.
IC equipment and materials: Preferentially support domestic and international equipment and material enterprises to engage in R&D of FOPLP mass production technology; encourage them to set up R&D centers or engage in cooperative R&D in Haicang; develop research and production of special-purpose IC equipment.
(III) New materials and new energy
Development goals: Achieve a new-material industrial output of 20 billion Yuan by 2020 and 30 billion Yuan by 2025.Build an important new materials industry cluster in China.
Development achievements: In 2023, the industry achieved an output value of 42.32 billion yuan, fostering the development of enterprises such as Xiamen Tungsten, Xiashun, Changsu, Faratronic, Knano Graphene Technology, and Dawnsens. The Xiamen Tungsten Haijing Factory and the Golden Egret Cemented Carbide Industrial Park were successfully put into operation.Haicang has formed a cluster of new material varieties and enterprises with significant economic scale, emerging as leaders, single champions, and hidden champions in various subfields of new materials. It boasts internationally influential enterprises such as Xiamen Tungsten and Xiashun. Certain products, like tungsten-molybdenum materials, aluminum foil, and BOPA films, are well-known both domestically and internationally.
(IV)Smart home
Development achievements: Haicang District enjoys a favorable overall development trend of smart home, and has gathered a number of industry leading enterprises such as Solex, R&T, WDI, Intretech, and Spectrum. Haicang has nurtured a number of excellent local brands, including "Solux" and "R&T," while also serving as an OEM, ODM, and IDM for large international brands such as "TOTO" and "Kohler,” forming an industrial cluster in the water-saving sanitary ware field.In 2023, Haicang District achieved an output value of 10 billion yuan in the sanitary ware industry.
(V) Auto and spare parts
Development achievements: The nearly 3 decades of development has made Haicang a gathering of leading enterprises such as Golden Dragon, JTEKT, CST, Hongfa, Faratronic, Shye Fu Koyo, and Cascade. In 2023, the output value of Haicang District's auto and spare parts industry was 44.6 billion yuan.
Industrial advantages: A relatively complete industrial chain of auto and spare parts has been formed, featuring automobile assembly, heavy machinery manufacturing and chassis, connectors, automobile electronics, steering systems, automobile tires, rubber and plastics, and automobile fuses. Priority is given to the layout of new automobile products. The driverless quasi-L4 vehicle model of Golden Dragon was successfully tested in Israel, becoming the first Chinese driverless bus to go abroad for road test. Xiamen Yueba, China's first 5G micro-circulation ride-hailing bus, was launched in Xiamen. The development of Silan and Tongfu of the integrated circuit industry and other associated industries provides effective support for the advancement of smart vehicles under the 5G ecosystem.
(VI) Financial service
Industrial base: Haicang District currently houses 19 banks and 15 local financial institutions, and has gathered a number of key enterprises, such as Xiamen Asset Management Co., Ltd., Xiamen Yikun Pawn Co., Ltd., Xiamen Haicang Financing Guarantee Co., Ltd.
Development path: Haicang District is making efforts to forge a regionally distinctive financial gathering center to attract the presence of various financial industries and guide the cooperation between commercial banks and policy and development banks, so as to provide financial convenience and financial services for enterprises under its jurisdiction.
Investment promotion focus: Banks, securities, asset management, financial leasing and other financial enterprises.
(VII) Film, television and cultural creativity
Industrial base: In 2023, Haicang District is now home to 2,757 cultural enterprises, including 70 above designated size. Famous film and television artists such as Tang Guoqiang, Liu Jin, Song Yeming, Ma Xiaowei and Chen MinZheng have successively set up their studios in Haicang.Yaoda Film and Television Industrial Park has been put into operation and has attracted many film and television companies to settle in, including Teng Ying Culture and Xinxiya. Haicang Oil Painting Street is one of the three major commercial oil painting export bases in China, and the Dongpu Agate Village in Haicang is the largest agate production base and agate raw stone trading center in China.
(VIII) Modern tourism
Industrial base: With the “Xiamen Reception Hall” and the scenic “New Haicang of Mountains and Waters,” Haicang boasts outstanding ecological resources such as mountains, sea, lakes, and islands, earning the title of Fujian Provincial Ecotourism Demonstration Zone. Attractions include the picturesque Tianzhushan Mountain, Caijianweishan Mountain, Dapingshan Mountain, Haicang Lake, and Huoshaoyu Island, as well as cultural sites like Xin’an Red Brick Ancient Houses, Liantang Villas, Kaitai Cultural Park, Qingjiao Ciji Temple, and Shishi Chan Temple, all of which are imbued with the ancient charm of Minnan. Additionally, high-quality hot spring resources are found in Riyuegu and Tang’an.
There are two 4A-level scenic spots, i.e. Riyuegu Hotsprings Resort and Tianzhu Mountain National Forest Park, and seven high-end hotels that form the hotel cluster in the south of Haicang Bay. Also, Haicang has successively held cultural tourism festivals and events such as the Cross-Straits (Xiamen Haicang) Baosheng Ciji Cultural Tourism Festival, China Women's Open Golf Tournament, Xiamen (Haicang) International Half Marathon, and Tianzhu Mountain Hiking Competition.
(IX) Commerce and trade services
Industrial base: The auto sales industry has gradually grown into a shining name card of Haicang’s trade and commerce industry, and Haicang has become the largest regional auto sales center outside Xiamen Island and radiates to southwest Fujian.Through several years of clustering, Haicang International Automobile City, an automobile business circle consisting of auto 4S stores mainly on Maqing Road and parallel imported car sales showrooms in the Free Trade Zone, has initially formed. It has currently gathered 72 auto sales enterprises, including over 50 auto brands that basically cover all mainstream brands.In 2023, Haicang achieved a year-on-year rise of 5.73% to 153.58 billion yuan in the cumulative sales of wholesale and retail.
(X) Centrally-administered SOEs and headquarters
Industrial base: Haicang District is home to a number of centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (and their subsidiaries), including CNPC, COSCO, Sinotrans, CNOOC, China Communications Construction Group, COFCO and Sinograin, involving industries such as petroleum, transportation and grain.Construction of Xiamen Biopharmaceutical Headquarters Base. It has also attracted a group of headquarters enterprises to settle in, including Huaxia International Power Development, Kingdomway, CST, Tongda, Double Medical, Intretech, Zhonggu Shipping, and BlueFocus.
(XI) Construction industry
Industrial base: There are 202 construction enterprises in Haicang District, producing an output value of 37.44 billion yuan from 2023. Enterprises with large output value include China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, Zhuxin Construction, China Communications Construction Shanghai Dredging, Haitou Engineering, etc.
(XII) Port logistics industry
Development path: Haicang will actively integrate into the building of strategic pivot cities of the Maritime Silk Road, strengthen the operation and development of China-Europe Train and trains to Central Asia, and exert the strategic role of the new national logistics channel. Moreover, Haicang will optimize the layout of ports, make better integration of resources, scientifically map out industrial space, and develop port industries such as modern logistics, shipping headquarters, port services and port manufacturing.
Development goal: Strive to exceed 10 million TEU of container throughput in Haicang Port by 2025, with the utilization rate of shoreline and rear land area reaching the level of international first-class ports.
(XIII) Urban modern agriculture
Industrial base: Haicang vigorously develops urban modern agriculture, particularly promoting high-end seed industry and leisure agriculture in the Tianzhushan and Guishan areas. The Tianzhushan area has initially formed an industrial cluster for flowers and seedlings in western Xiamen, with small chrysanthemum exports ranking first in the country and herbaceous flower production accounting for more than half of the province's total. Haicang has cultivated national agricultural leading enterprises like Anjoy Food and introduced world-renowned breeding companies (such as Germany's Benary) to establish joint ventures like Benary China Breeding Center, which focuses on new varieties of herbaceous flowers, aiming to become the largest flower seedling production base in South China. By integrating land consolidation and arable land restoration, Haicang plans to consolidate 1,000 mu of agricultural land to build an urban-rural integrated complex featuring "flower viewing, stream listening, rice fragrance, and fish playing," promoting high-quality, high-value, and high-added-value suburban modern agriculture.
(XIV) Platform economy
Development path：Leveraging internet technology, Haicang is developing the digital economy to empower industrial upgrades.
Investment promotion focus: human resources service, marketing consulting enterprises, internet mobile platform enterprises.
III. Investment elements
(I) Biopharma
4 professional parks have been founded as the carriers, including Xiamen Biopharmaceutical Incubator, Xiamen Biopharmaceutical Pilot Production Base and Xiamen Biopharmaceutical Industrial Park; the self-constructed area for as many as 100 enterprises have also been completed. The professional park carriers and self-built areas by enterprises cover nearly 600,000 square meters. Thus an industrial development system has come into being that covers "R&D and innovation - incubation – pilot plant test - industrialization".
Biopharmaceutical Incubator 101,400 sqm (2006)
Biopharmaceutical Pilot Production Base 47,700 sqm (2008-2012)
Biopharmaceutical Industrial Park 225,300 sqm (2012-2018)
The fifth phase of the Biopharmaceutical Port's general factory buildings, currently under construction, will add 168,400 square meters (2022-2024).
The Biopharmaceutical R&D Innovation Park covers about 450 mu (under planning).
(II) Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits(and its applications)
IC Manufacturing Industrial Park: The Park has a total coverage area of 8 sqkm with a core zone covering an area of 3.22 sqkm. It is a modern IC industrial park with highly integration of industrial and living infrastructures.
IC Design Industrial Park: Xiamen Center (7-30/F of Block E, 42,000 sqm)
National IC Design Shenzhen Industrial Base - Haicang Base
Haicang Semiconductor Science and Technology Park (Prepared): Construction will be conducted of two 11-floor office buildings for research and development purposes, six 6 to 8-floor pilot plants with high standards with a construction area of about 137,600 sqm.
(III)Maluan Bay New Town
Maluan Bay Area is located in the west of Xiamen and north of Haicang District. It borders Zhangzhou Taiwanese Investment Zone (Jiaomei) on the west, Jimei District on the east, Tianzhu Mountain on the north and Caijianwei Mountain on the south with a planned area of about 45 sqkm. Focus is placed on the development of four industries, i.e. biopharmaceutical, Life and healt industry, intelligent science and technology, tourism industry and Modern Logistics.
New Materials
Maluan Bay Area is located in the west of Xiamen and north of Haicang District. It borders Zhangzhou Taiwanese Investment Zone (Jiaomei) on the west, Jimei District on the east, Tianzhu Mountain on the north and Caijianwei Mountain on the south with a planned area of about 45 sqkm. Focus is placed on the development of four industries, i.e. biopharmaceutical, Life and healt industry, intelligent science and technology, tourism industry and Modern Logistics.
(IV)Haicang Sub-area, Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone and Port of Haicang
Haicang Subarea has a coverage area of 24.41 sq.km, or 55.76% of the total area of Xiamen Area. It has world-class deep-water container port facilities and accessory facilities and has become a modern industrial concentration zone which relies on port logistics, is characterized by bonded warehousing, focuses on high-end processing value-added and service outsourcing industries.
Haicang Port Zone is planned to have a 11,396m-long terminal shoreline with a water depth of -17m, which can accommodate 200,000-ton container vessels. Now 29 berths for 10,000 ton-class or larger ships have been built.
Haicang District has a remaining available logistics plot of about 72 hectares.
(V) Petroleum Trading Center
In the context of China's petroleum system reform, and following the instructions of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce for active exploration of the petroleum trading system and the Overall Program of Comprehensive Reform in Xiamen approved by the State Council, Xiamen Petroleum Trading Center (hereinafter referred to as "Trading Center"), upon approval by the Xiamen Municipal Government, was initiated and established by Tadee Holding Group Co., Ltd., the president unit of China Chamber of Commerce for Petroleum Industry, relying on the policy of trials in Haixi. Since its inception, the Trading Center has recorded a cumulative spot turnover of about 1126.8 billion yuan, with 291.6 billion yuan of spot transactions completed in 2023.
(VI) Strait Gold and Jewelry Industrial Park
It is a regional gold industry and market center integrating gold refining and processing, cultural and creative design, trading and commercial transaction, experience consumption and financial services, etc., which is expected to become a window for China's gold market to enter the Taiwanese market and the countries and regions along the Maritime Silk Road.
(VII)Southeast Edible Bird Nest Capital
This platform is built centering on the core idea of building a new ecosystem of edible bird's nest with a whole industry chain, with a total investment of 730 million yuan. It has now become a comprehensive edible bird's nest themed industrial park that integrates "global traceable bird's nest distribution center, global traceable bird's nest raw material processing center, traceable instant bird's nest sharing factory, and bird's nest themed industrial tourism base", forming the bird's nest industrial clustering effect. In 2023, the park achieved an output value of 1.008 billion yuan, with an import of 29.03 tons of raw swallow nests, accounting for 76.8% of the national import volume.
