I. Introduction
Lying in the northern part of Xiamen Island, Huli District stretches across two waters along eight mountains and is surrounded by three sea areas, looking across the sea from Jinmen Island. It covers a coverage area of 72.26 sq.km, or 48% of Xiamen Island, and has jurisdiction over 57 communities in 5 sub-districts with a total population of 1.039 million, including 660,000 migrants. In recent years, it has been awarded the honorary titles of China's Top 100 Industrial Districts, National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration Zone, National Demonstration Zone for Economical and Intensive Use of Homeland Resources, National Health Promotion Zone, Provincial Strong Education Zone, and Provincial Civilized Demonstration City District. In 2021, Huli District recorded a year-on-year rise of 7.2% to 153.94 billion yuan in GDP; 26 billion yuan in total fiscal revenue; 5.56 billion yuan in district-level fiscal revenue; 6.1% up in the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size; 1,145.44 billion yuan in wholesale and retail sales; 52.64 billion yuan in total retail sales of consumer goods; 5% up in the revenue of other for-profit services; 13.7% up in investment in fixed assets; 2.196 billion yuan in paid-in foreign investment; and 9.9% up to 66,200 yuan in per capita disposable income of urban residents.
Main advantages and features:
Firstly, Huli is the origin of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone. On October 7, 1980, the State Council approved the establishment of Xiamen Special Economic Zone within a 2.5-sq.km area in Huli. On October 15, 1981, the construction of Xiamen Special Economic Zone kicked off in Huli. On February 9, 1984, Deng Xiaoping wrote the slogan "Develop the special economic zone faster and better" in Huli during his inspection visit to Xiamen, and then the scope of Xiamen Special Economic Zone was expanded to Xiamen Island and further to the whole city in 2010. On November 21, 1987, Xi Jinping attended the first session of the First People's Congress of Huli District, where he emphasized the need to bear in mind the wishes of Comrade Xiaoping to build Huli District into a model-new district featuring economic prosperity, people's well-being and a high degree of economic and cultural progress. On September 6, 2010, Xi Jinping paid an inspection visit to the Jin'an community in Huli District, calling for building a more beautiful, affluent and prosperous home. Huli District has also kept firmly in mind its mission to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan, and now accommodates 795 Taiwan-funded enterprises, start-up enterprises by Taiwanese youth, and more than 11,000 Taiwanese residents and their relatives. It has several important platforms for exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan, such as the Xiamen-Jinmen sea route at the Wutong Terminal and the cross-strait financial center, the cross-strait tourism service center, and the Taiwan Fruit Sales and Distribution Center, one national cross-strait youth entrepreneurship base, and two provincial-level demonstration sites for grass-roots exchanges with Taiwan.
Secondly, Huli District is an important platform for international development. With a convenient three-dimensional transportation network by land, sea and air, it enjoys particularly developed seaports and airports. Dongdu Port, the 14th largest container port worldwide and the 7th largest nationwide, is an important port area of Xiamen Port, running 68 international sea routes with an annual container throughput of 2.3 million TEUs. Gaoqi Airport operates 187 domestic and international air routes and handles the 8th largest number of inbound and outbound passengers in China. Huli District also enjoys the superposition effect of multiple zones including the Pilot Free Trade Zone and the National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. Nearly half (19.37 sq.km) of the Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone is located in Huli District, making it one of the 10 import trade promotion innovation demonstration zones in China. This district has attracted intensive foreign investment, with more than 3,000 foreign-funded enterprises investing a total of 21 billion US dollars. There are 76 projects from 51 Fortune Global 500 enterprises that have settled in the district.
Thirdly, Huli District provides strong impetus for great enhancement on the island. With 63.46 sq.km of construction land, or 54.8% of the island, Huli District has strong spatial development advantages. There are 12 industrial functional areas planned, such as Wuyuan Bay Business Operation Center, Huli District Innovation Park, and Eastern Science and Technology Innovation Park, with a total area of 1,609 hectares. Recently, there are nearly 100 hectares of land available for transfer and 1.34 million sqm of stock building space for investment promotion. Also, the reconstruction of old industrial plants and old villages in the east and the relocation of the airport will release 12.4 sq.km of stock land available for secondary development and use, among which 6.7 sq.km of development space can be vacated from the reconstruction of old villages in the east, and 6,324 mu of land has been submitted.
Huli District is now in an intensive study and implementation of the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee and the important spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter to the 40th anniversary of the establishment of Xiamen Special Economic Zone. Adhering to the above, Huli District will deepen the implementation of the strategy of "in-island advancement and cross-island development", base itself in a new stage of development, implement the new development philosophy and serve and integrate itself into the new development paradigm. Huli District will push forward the normalization of epidemic prevention and control and the development of economy and society, pace up the building of the modern economic system, and make every effort to build shape the Eastern New Town featuring industry-city-people integration inside the island. Huli District will also press ahead with the modernization of grassroots governance system and governance capacity, promote high-quality development beyond all aspects, and build a modern and international central urban area with high quality development and sound ecological conservation at a higher level.
II. Project Square
Huli District develops by relying on two national key zones, i.e. Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone and Xiamen Torch Development Zone for High Technology Industries.
It adheres to the strategy of "optimize the secondary industry and promote the tertiary industry" and "integrated development of the secondary and tertiary industries", while focusing on "5+1" industries, namely five key industries of advanced manufacturing, next-generation information technology, trade and logistics, emerging finance, tourism, culture and health, as well as the characteristic industry of construction.
(I) Two national zones
1.Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone
Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone has a total coverage area of 43.78 sq.km. It covers the core zone of Cross-strait Trading Center (19.37 sq.km) and the Haicang Port Zone of Southeast International Shipping Center (24.41 sq.km). It is also planned to cover key joint development areas, mainly including Xiamen Island, cross-strait emerging industries and modern service industry cooperation demonstration zone, Xiang’an Airport New Area, a new round of industrial clustering platforms (Xiang'an and Tong'an high-tech industrial base and modern service industrial base).
Priority is given to the implementation of the development goals proposed in the Implementation Plan: innovation in government management to create an international, market-oriented and law-based business environment; innovation in the concept of transformation and development to foster new business formats; innovation in cross-strait exchanges and cooperation mechanisms to form a new pattern of common development across the Taiwan Straits, and to build Fujian into a new demonstration zone with dynamic institutions, excellent industries, rich people, and beautiful ecology, so as to become a model urban pilot zone in building a beautiful China.
Development goals
To build the free trade zone into one featuring facilitated investment and trade, prominent financial innovation, a sound service system, efficient and convenient supervision, and a standardized legal environment.
Key industries
International trade, aviation maintenance, financial leasing, shipping logistics, high-end manufacturing, financial services, cultural creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, etc.
Innovation initiatives
Huli District is the first nationwide to implement the business system reform of "one code for one license", first to build a "single window" for international trade, which was rated as the "Best Practice Case" of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, and first to implement the customs clearance model featuring mutual exchange of information, mutual recognition of supervision, and mutual assistance in law enforcement.
It is also the first to implement the "integration of multiple plans", first to introduce the third-party credit rating, credit commitment system, joint credit disciplinary system and social co-governance system, and first to build national-level cross-strait youth entrepreneurship bases such as Cloud Valley.
Future direction
To build "three zones and one bridgehead": a comprehensive reform zone integrating openness and innovation in trade, investment, finance and science and technology; a risk pressure test zone for the open economic system; a pilot zone to accelerate the transformation of government functions and enhance governance capacity; and a bridgehead for enterprises to go global.
2. Xiamen Torch Development Zone for High Technology Industries
Huli District implements the development strategy of "multiple parks in one zone" and takes the lead in becoming the first development zone with an annual output value of over 100 billion yuan in Fujian Province. There are Torch Park, Entrepreneurship Park, Information Photo-electronic Park and PKU Biopark within Huli District. Efforts are made to facilitate the “two-zone connection” and concerted development of the Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone and the Pilot Free Trade Zone.
National Industrial Development and Incubation Platform
First batch of National High-tech Products Export Base
National Industrial Cluster Pilot Unit (Base) of Optoelectronic Displays
National Demonstration Zone of New Mode of Industrialization
National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base for Outstanding Overseas Talents
National Base of Technological Cooperation and Exchanges with Taiwan
National Demonstration Agency for Technology Transfer
Six key industries
Panel display, computer and communication equipment, power electric device, software and information service, microelectronics and integrated circuit, LED, etc.
Emerging characteristic industries
Biomedicine, new materials, new energy, cultural creativity, etc.
(II) 5+1 key industries
1. Advanced manufacturing
Priority is given to the development of computer and communication equipment, panel display and other leading industries, while highlighting the development of aviation industry, and continuing to develop intelligent hardware manufacturing industry.
There are 394 national high-tech enterprises, and the added value of high-tech enterprises above designated size accounts for about 80% of enterprises above designated size district-wide.
2. Next-generation information technology
Development priorities: software and information technology services and integrated circuit design industry.
Efforts are made to consolidate and promote the innovative development of digital content industries such as animation and games, and actively boost the growth of digital service industries such as smart cities, data services and Internet platforms. Efforts are also made to keep promoting integrated circuit design industry, upgrading chip design technology, and cultivating leading enterprises and industrial clusters.
Huli District has gathered 31 software and information service enterprises above designated size, represented by animation and game enterprises such as Gamewave Group, Leiting Network and Yongshi Network, as well as data service and cloud computing enterprises such as Herocheer and Tech Valley, with an annual revenue of 2.3 billion yuan. It has created a number of digital economy ecosystems such as the incubator of Cross-strait Tsinghua Research Institute, the Digital Economy Innovation Center of Strait New Seashore, and the Content Science and Technology Industrial Park of people.cn.
3. Commerce, trade and logistics
Commerce and trade
Priority is given to the development of supply chain, trade in bulk commodities, trade in high-tech products, cross-border e-commerce, transit trade, offshore trade, and trade in services, and the building of a national demonstration zone for the promotion of innovation in imported goods. The annual wholesale and retail sales totaled 857.1 billion yuan, of which the sales of wholesale and retail enterprises above designated size exceeded 780 billion yuan, showing a double-digit growth year-on-year. The monthly wholesale and retail sales surpassed 100-billion-yuan, accounting for half of the city's trade imports and nearly 1/3 of the province's trade imports. The total retail sales of consumer goods reached 47.3 billion yuan, higher than the average level of the province.
Logistics
With high-end innovative logistics as its development direction, Huli District focuses on developing cold chain logistics, cross-border e-commerce logistics, urban distribution logistics, maritime express, bonded logistics, etc.
4. Emerging finance
Huli District focuses on developing wealth management in the emerging financial field and accelerating the gathering of equity investment funds. It vigorously develops fintech, exerts efforts to expand characteristic finance, including supply chain finance, aviation and shipping finance, gold finance, green finance, film and television culture finance, nurtures local financial institutions and intermediaries, and pushes forward the listing of enterprises.
5. Tourism culture and health
Tourism culture
Priority is given to the development of tourism products such as urban leisure, ecological experience, cultural experience, religious pilgrimage, health care and elderly care, and the construction of four major tourism industry ecosystems, namely business exhibition shopping tourism, cultural leisure and study tour tourism, cultural industry film and television tourism, and night cultural travel consumption.
Under the guidance of "culture+" and "film+", Huli District seizes the opportunity of establishing Xiamen as the host city of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival to facilitate the in-depth integration of culture and film with other industries.
Health
Huli District concentrates on developing high-end medical services, with emphasis on individual treatment, third-party medical testing and digital health management.
It also focuses on developing intelligent diagnosis, smart medical care, health care, fashion medical care, aesthetic medicine, beauty makeup, etc.
Characteristic industries: construction
Priority is given to the development of excellent construction enterprises, the introduction of housing building and municipal construction enterprises with special and first-class qualifications, as well as Grade A-qualified design, survey, supervision and construction-related supporting service enterprises, and the building of a construction and installation enterprise industry chain centered on large general construction contracting enterprises. In recent years, it has introduced a number of industry leaders such as MCC Fujian, Fujian Construction Engineering and Tianmeng Construction, and 23 construction enterprises above designated size have qualifications of first-class general contractor or first-class professional contractor. In 2020, the total output value of construction and installation in the district was 79.7 billion yuan, exceeding one quarter of the city.
(III) Space for investment promotion
1. Cross-strait Financial Center area
Project overview
Located in the northeastern part of Xiamen Island in an area of 3 sq.km, it is a gathering place dominated by emerging financial industry with complete infrastructure and public facilities.
Target enterprises for investment promotion
Banking, securities, futures, funds and insurance industries, local financial organizations, trading venues, Internet finance, corporate headquarters of financial supporting service institutions
Phase I:
A total of 10 plots of land have been transferred, among which five projects have been completed and put into use, including ITG Financial Center, Haixi Financial Plaza, Dingfeng International Plaza, Yunxi Vanke Center, and Tiandi Financial Harbor.
(1) Dingfeng International Plaza
With a coverage area of 12,000 sqm and a planned gross floor area of about 115,000 sqm, the project consists of one 34-storey Grade A office building and one 5-storey commercial shopping center.
(2) Haixi Financial Plaza
Invested and established by Xiamen Baocheng Zhonghua Real Estate Co., Ltd., this project has a coverage area of 10,700 sqm and a planned gross floor area of about 116,000 sqm, and is positioned for Grade A office building and high-end commercial facilities.
(3) ITG Financial Center
With a coverage area of 24,300 sqm and a planned gross floor area of about 250,000 sqm, the project consists of two towers and one podium building, positioned for Grade A office building and high-end commercial facilities.
(4) Yunxi Vanke Center
With a coverage area of 18,000 sqm and a planned gross floor area of about 200,000 sqm, the project consists of 6A Grade A office building, MOBO office building, commercial consulate, corporate buildings and high-end commercial facilities.
(5) Tiandi Financial Harbor
With a coverage area of 10,800 sqm and a planned gross floor area of about 83,000 sqm, the project consists of one Grade A office building and one commercial podium building.
Phase II:
In an area of about 0.6 sq km, construction is being pushed forward with all efforts. Jinyuan Group, Yinglan Center, Xiamen Bank, and Yango Longking have been introduced. It is planned to introduce high-quality financial and similar financial enterprises and financial innovation projects to contribute to the formation of financial clustering effects and benefits in the area.
Yinglan Center
As one of the first batch of projects settled in the core area of Wutong Financial and Commercial Zone, this project covers a coverage area of about 37,000 sqm and a gross floor area of 320,000 sqm, and is proposed to be built into a landmark financial building in Xiamen that integrates high-end office building, luxury hotel, serviced apartment and shopping center.
Phase III (including Gateway of Xiamen):
Located to the east of East Huandao Road and south of Xiang'an Tunnel, the project has a coverage area of about 200,000 sqm. It is planned to build a seven-star platinum hotel and an international cultural and art exchange center, which will become the new name card of Xiamen.
2. Eastern science and innovation industrial park series
(1) Zhonglun Science and Technology Innovation Industrial Park
Project overview
Located on the west side of the lakeside reservoir and on the north side of the Zhonglun Park PKU Biopark, the project is a new industrial park centered on service of cultivating science and innovation industries, which integrates science and technology R&D and innovation and entrepreneurship functions. It has a total coverage area of about 4.4 hectares and a gross floor area of 175,000 sqm.
Target enterprises for investment promotion
Science and technology enterprises.
(2) Lakeside Reservoir East Science and Technology Innovation Park
There are 6 pieces of industrial land available for development, with a total coverage area of 8.1 hectares and a gross floor area of 323,000 sqm.
(3) Malian Science and Technology Innovation Park
There are 6 pieces of industrial land available for development, with a total coverage area of about 10 hectares and a gross floor area of 450,000 sqm.
3. Xiamen International Cruise Ship Home Port
Project overview
The project has a coverage area of 47.1 hectares and a floor area of 1 million sqm. The Western Bay Cruise City is the initial project of Xiamen International Cruise City. With a total coverage area of 163,300 sqm and a floor area of 794,000 sqm, it was jointly developed by the century-old China Merchants Group and Xiamen Port Holding Group and comprises office buildings, commercial facilities, five-star hotels, apartment-style hotels, cultural facilities, terminal buildings, etc.
Target enterprises for investment promotion
The introduction of high-end hotel cluster, cruise center, high-end commercial center, cruise economy and port-related industries, financial service, modern logistics, corporate headquarters, etc.
4. Huli Advanced Manufacturing Base
名称 | 湖里老工业区 | 航空工业园 | 湖里创新园 | 火炬园 | 火炬创业园 | 信息光电园 |
用地 | 140公顷 | 80公顷 | 170公顷 | 120公顷 | 7公顷 | 90公顷 |
5. Huli Innovation Park
It is located in Wuyuan Bay Area, north of Xiamen Island, with a total planned coverage area of 180 hectares and a gross floor area of about 2.6 million sqm. There are currently over 5,800 enterprises and 60,000 employees in the park.
Target enterprises for investment promotion
Mobile Internet, Internet of Things, e-commerce, creative design, artificial intelligence, big data R&D settlement and other innovative enterprises
The park has three main features:
First, a collection of innovative enterprises: The park has now gathered 5,896 enterprises of various types, including 16 listed enterprises and 1,910 mobile Internet enterprises.
Second, a galaxy of innovative talents: There are 60,000 people employed in the park, including 17 talents of "Double-Hundred Talent Plan" and 53 high-level talents, making it a focus area for talent entrepreneurship in Huli District. The park also provides 1,068 suites of talent housing and public rental housing as the first batch.
Third, an active innovation economy: The park has shown a sustained sound growth in its economy in recent years, with the main revenue of 48.96 billion yuan and tax revenue of 1.183 billion yuan from January to December 2020.
There are 4 pieces of industrial land available for development, with a total coverage area of 3.7 hectares and a gross floor area of 114,000 sqm.
6. Wuyuan Bay Operation Center
Project overview
Located on the east side of the island trunk road and the west side of Suiding North Road, the project provides operations of corporate headquarters, financial offices and comprehensive business.
Target enterprises for investment promotion
Introduction of financial services, corporate headquarters, etc.
7. Characteristic industrial cluster
(1) Smart Transportation Industrial Park
Project overview
The project is located at No. 5-11 Huatai Road, Huli District, with a coverage area of 25,418 sqm and a gross floor area of 40,738.83 sqm (plant buildings 13#-16#). The project plans to introduce enterprises in the fields of car-hailing service, online freight, driverless, smart transportation and industry-related flexible employment platforms in the park, and deepen cooperation in the segments of 5G and smart city, smart transportation and Internet of Vehicles, and build smart roads and vehicle-road coordination operation platform. Moreover, it will promote technological innovation, product R&D and application promotion in Xiamen, and facilitate the clustering of the 5G intelligent networked automobile industry in Xiamen. It will be built into a pilot demonstration zone for national strength in transportation, pioneering in the country to build an intelligent transportation industrial park featuring a whole chain and integrated development.
Target enterprises for investment promotion
Platform projects of car-hailing service, online freight, driverless and smart transportation.
(2) Cross-strait IC Industrial Park
Project overview
The project is located within Jinmei Yuantong Storage and Logistics Park in the north of the airport and has a usable area of about 80,000 sqm. The park is designed with six major sectors, i.e. Xiamen IC product bonded trading center, Xiamen IC R&D, Design and Test Center, Cross-strait (Xiamen) Micronano Electronic Research Institute, Xiamen IC Crowd Innovation Space, Xiamen Free Trade Zone IC Design Enterprise Incubator and Xiamen IC Industrial Talent Training Center, with an aim to develop the IC "Silicon Valley of Xiamen".
Target enterprises for investment promotion
To attract IC product R&D and design, high-end manufacturing, packaging and test, transaction settlement, talent training and other IC-related enterprises that satisfy the access conditions.
(3) Goodstone Fund Town
Project overview
The project is located in the lakeside reservoir area in a total gross floor area of about 60,000 sqm, and is equipped with complete commercial and living supporting facilities. As of the first half of 2021, the fund town has attracted 127 investment enterprises to settle in, with a registered capital of 11.742 billion yuan. There are 26 fund managers and other investment institutions that have actually settled in, and another 26 institutions are handling the procedures.
Target enterprises for investment promotion
Equity investment companies
(4) Platform Economy Industrial Park
Project overview
Located at No. 98 Hetongli, Huli District and with a project area of 11,468.33 sqm, the project is jointly built by Huli District and the Free Trade Zone Commission. The industrial Park is committed to building a one-stop service platform for platform digital economy, comprising government service and regulatory digital platform, enterprise operation digital platform, third-party digital service platform, etc. It has now attracted 7 platform enterprises to settle in, including DFJ, New Solar Technology, BRICS Cloud, Xinpayroll Technology, Jincai Tengyun and Yidalai.
Target enterprises for investment promotion
Platform enterprises and third-party service agencies
8. Community development land
Project overview
Efforts are made to promote the development and construction of land reserved for the collective development of "village to residence" communities, mainly to build commercial, office, hotel and supporting apartments.
Spatial distribution of community development land (total coverage area: 850,000 sqm)
9. Area along Huli Rail Transit
Project overview
Huli District has 23 metro stations along Metro Lines #1, #2, and #3, with a total line length of about 32 km, making it the district with the largest number of stations, the longest lines, and the highest metro infrastructure density among all districts in Xiamen. By sorting out the existing public buildings and transportation in the wave of rail development and construction, priority will be given to building new business districts and increasing supporting public buildings in combination with the rail network.
Spatial distribution of superstructures on rail (total coverage area: 620,000 sqm)
