Jiaxing’s Tremendous Changes after the First Anniversary of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Inspection in Zhejiang
Time passes silently; Qianjiang Tide has been witnessing Jiaxing’s new progress.
From September 20 to 21, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Zhejiang for his sixth inspection in Zhejiang after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to guide the development of Zhejiang, which pointed out the development direction for Zhejiang, and provided the guidelines for the development of Jiaxing in different aspects.
Over the past year, Jiaxing has kept in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions, adhered to the Party building-led development, and made remarkable achievements in sci-tech innovation; a new pattern of urban-rural integrated development has been established and people’s happiness index is rising. Jiaxing has taken the lead in deepening reform, expanding opening up and optimizing business environment. Through promoting cultural development and prosperity to improve people’s life and urban prosperity, Jiaxing has made continuous efforts to improve the cultural brand “Welcome to Jiaxing, a City with the Best Ancient Towns in China”. Jiaxing, an ancient city, has radiated new cultural vitality, and made more solid progress in building an important central city of the city cluster of the Yangtze River Delta.
Jiaxing’s contributions to the wonderful launch of “Zhuque No.3”
Not long ago, a “new” force emerged again in Jiaxing.
At 12 o’clock on September 11, the reusable rocket “Zhuque No.3” developed by LandSpace Technology Co., Ltd. completed a 10-kilometer vertical takeoff-and-landing flight test at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. “The transformation and general assembly of this rocket were completed at the base located in Jiaxing Port Zone,” said Wang Zhijian, manager of General Assembly Department of Test and Launch Base of LandSpace.
This base has transformed the rocket to a greater degree to meet the test needs, such as adding a grid fin system and increasing the quantity of RCS attitude control nozzles to meet the needs of the guidance and attitude control, finally helping the rocket achieve a successful launch. This test is an advanced verification of key technologies of the vertical takeoff and landing, and recovery of large reusable liquid oxygen methane rocket after its successful 100-meter vertical takeoff-and-landing flight test this January, laying an important technical foundation for the “first flight” of “Zhuque No. 3” next year.
This is a milestone for “Zhuque No. 3”, and an epitome for Jiaxing to achieve new development advantages through sci-tech innovation.
Located in Haining City, Jinko Solar Co., Ltd., is marching toward a new direction in the solar industry. “Improving battery conversion efficiency and reducing LCOE is the eternal theme of our photovoltaic industry,” said a manager of the company. As the conversion efficiency of P-type batteries gradually reaches the limit, the N-type technology has stood out, proving Jinko has made a right choice before.
Since the company determined to research and develop the N-type batteries, the battery cells have become thinner and thinner, but their power generation efficiency has been increasing. In 2023, Jinko’s PV modules totaled 78.52GW, of which the N-type ones reached 48.41GW, accounting for more than 60% of the total. Now Jinko has become the global first large-scale photovoltaic company that has realized the mass production of the N-type batteries and established “TOPCon battery modules and string-based matrix systems”.
A glimpse of the part reveals the whole. Over the past year, Jiaxing’s enterprises have been actively engaged in innovation. Located in Economic Development Zone of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Goldlink Tech Co., Ltd. has produced chip test probe parts with a minimum diameter of 0.05 mm, making it the only professional manufacturer of semiconductor chip test probe parts in China and the third largest in the world. Located in Tongxiang, Freetech has accumulated more than eight-million-kilometer-mileage data of vehicles, and its self-developed tightly coupled closed-loop data platform - Fujia FUGA, can increase the algorithm iteration efficiency by over100 times ...
Over the past year, Jiaxing’s innovation platforms have achieved continuous progress. National Supercomputer Center in Wuzhen successfully passed the acceptance inspection made by Ministry of Science and Technology, becoming the first national-level supercomputer center in Zhejiang. Nanhu Laboratory has been upgraded to a national key laboratory, providing vigorous impetus for Jiaxing to enhance sci-tech innovation capabilities ...
Those achievements mirror the solid progress in sci-tech innovation in Jiaxing. This year, Jiaxing strives to make the total R&D expenditure up to 3.55% of its GDP, which will reach a new record high.
Tremendous progress in strengthening integrated development and common prosperity
It tends to be cold now, but Granary Culture Industry Park of Shendang is crowded with visitors although it was still deserted and desolated last year.
Adhering to micro-renovation, fine improvement and sustainable development, Jiaxing first started the construction of model towns of characteristic landscapes in Zhejiang in 2023 to build modern beautiful model towns in an overall way through scientific planning, innovative management and quality improvement.
In the background of constructing model towns of characteristic landscapes and on the basis of remaining architectural features and cultural charm of old granaries, Shendang Granaries founded in 1955 has been upgraded to a business incubator and a cultural industrial park that benefits its surrounding regions and even the whole Jiaxing through “operating in advance”, which has attracted a number of high-quality projects and fashionable businesses to settle here.
“Come on. Let’s have a taste of the granary coffee produced according to local features,” said Gong Zhonghai, who is responsible for renovating the cafe and bookstore of the Shendang Granaries. Seeking inspirations from history, tradition and regional characteristics, he has launched a series of culturally creative products, which are favourite with young people.
“Our trip to the town described by the famous writer Yu Hua in his works and the most beautiful bookstore here is rewarding,” said Ms. Tu, a citizen. During the May Day holiday this year, more than 52,000 tourists visited the Shendang Granaries; and over 1,200 cups of coffee and 500 books were sold per day. Now the Shendang Granaries is planning to introduce B&B hotels, Maker Space, etc. to settle.
Additionally, the acceptance inspection results of the first six types of maker space projects in the towns of characteristic landscapes in 2024 were announced on September 12. 26 towns of characteristic landscapes of Jiaxing delivered their space renewal cases and 10 were identified as excellent ones, including Yongxing International Commercial Block, Wuzhen Opera FUN Park and Penglai Park (Phase II). They are all model examples deeply integrating culture and tourism to promote urban and rural common prosperity.
When a city begins to upgrade “increment-based development” to “stock-based” development, revitalizing stock assets becomes an effective way to improve urban, especially rural development. In improving its landscape and revitalizing its stock space, Dayun, a town of Jiashan, has created a “five-kilometer-long scenic area characteristic of a water town”, which attracted over 5,000 tourists during this May Day holiday. Pinghu City has transformed its Xinchang Granaries into a theater, an open cultural exhibition center and an independent artistic creation center. Now it is a new fashion landmark on the bank of Yanchuan River ...
In addition to the successful examples for rural revitalization cases mentioned above, Jiaxing has ranked first in Zhejiang even in the whole country over the past year for its high-quality, equal urban and rural basic public services. Jiaxing’s “public service circles within 15-minute walks” rank first in Zhejiang for they are high-quality, reasonably located and easily accessible.
At present, the residents of 84.14% of villages (communities) in Jiaxing can reach the surrounding children care facilities within the residents’ 15-minute walks, and those of 98.41% of villages (communities) can reach the sports facilities nearby within their 15-minute walks. The people are getting happier and happier.
Tremendous progress in improving business environment
Two days ago, the registered capital of US $30 million of Novartis Medical Technology (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. located in Haiyan was paid in, which further inspired the domestic first foreign-funded nuclear drug project, which indicates the business environment of Jiaxing has been further optimized.
On December 1, 2023, Novartis, a global pharmaceutical giant, signed a contract with the government of Haiyan to construct a radioactive drug production and sales base in Haiyan. Before the signing of the contract, Haiyan must settle 184 problems. To this day, Zhang Ying, then president and managing director of Novartis in China, still remembers them clearly.
“This project is a key step for Novartis’ global development. When it contacted us, it was negotiating with other four regions in China on cooperation,” said Zhang Ying. In early 2023 when Novartis’ representative came to Haiyan for the first visit, they received a list delivered by the government of Haiyan, which contained 35 problems and solutions that Novartis might encounter if it chose to settle in Haiyan.
Local governments were professional and dedicated, which was Zhang Ying’s first impression of Haiyan then. Actually, Haiyan was. It established a high-quality work team immediately to respond to 184 problems raised 17 times by Novartis. The team members constantly sought advice from professionals, integrated various resources, established a province-city-county coordination system, and finally gave Novartis a firm, clear and realistic written solution as scheduled.
“In order to solve the nuclear drug enterprise’s Grade-A radiation impact on environment, we adopted an ‘evaluation-certification integrated model’ in an innovative way, and passed the environment security assessment finally. It was the first successful case of Zhejiang then,” said an official of the government. Besides, the county has set up the first county-level radioactive drug supervision bureau to construct a flexible service station for pharmaceutical innovation, examination and approval, and opened up a green channel for the examination and approval of the production license and operation license of radioactive drugs enterprises.
Later, all those problems were settled. Haiyan, just a county, came from behind and won this contract, which fully showed the whole Jiaxing has cooperated closely and effectively to optimize business environment.
Over the past year, Jiaxing has worked hard to extend the industrial chain with “135N” advanced manufacturing clusters as the center, improve government affairs services with “governments’ full efforts to settle enterprises’ problems” as the principle, and constantly issued pro-enterprise policies according to “ ‘No.1 Reform Project’ Implementation Scheme on Improving Business Environment of Jiaxing”.
Xiuzhou District has pooled enterprises’ difficulties through the platform “Heart-to-heart Government-enterprise Talks” to ensure that each problem is settled or responded in time. Nanhu District has striven to standardize government affairs services to ensure that enterprises can enjoy the same standard and high-quality services in any government affairs service hall ...
Over the past year, 14 projects of Jiaxing have been included into the “micro-reform” project database of Zhejiang, ranked first with Hangzhou in Zhejiang; five reform cases have been included into the “Best Business Environment Practice Cases” of Zhejiang; the non-intrusive supervisions of public resource transactions in Jiaxing have continuously ranked first in Zhejiang.
If another proof is needed, it is the amount of the actually utilized foreign capital. In face of complex and changeable global economy, that amount of Jiaxing reached USD 1.988 billion in the first half of this year, ranked third both in total amount and growth rate in Zhejiang. The proportion of the actually utilized foreign capital of Jiaxing in the whole Zhejiang increased by 2 percentage points in comparison with the same period of last year, and Jiaxing ranked second in Zhejiang in reaching the annual target in terms of the actually utilized foreign capital.
Tremendous progress in enriching people’s “cultural life”
One year ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that efforts should be made to tap, protect and inherit the Grand Canal culture to make the ancient Canal take on a new look with modern characteristics. His instructions guide the future cultural development direction of Jiaxing.
The Canal runs through Jiaxing and prospers the ancient towns along it. Jiaxing has linked the cultural and tourist resources along the Canal, integrated the development and protection of ancient towns and improved the brand “Welcome to Jiaxing, a City with the Best Ancient Towns in China”. A number of culturally prosperous, fashionable and characteristic ancient towns now serve as the witnesses to and inheritors of local history and culture, just as the Grand Canal does.
As an ancient town and an international Internet town, Wuzhen is showing the world what is digital life; Puyuan is an ancient town taking a unique development road combining classical and fashionable features; Yanguan is an ancient town famous for its tide and music; Chang’an is an ancient town with ancient and modern features and now is building a new city to integrate into Hangzhou. The future of Jiaxing’s ancients is more promising.
During his inspection in Zhejiang, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that efforts should be made to boost and develop cultural undertakings and industries, standardize and equalize urban and rural public cultural services, strengthen people’ morals and build a favorable reading environment. Bearing in mind those instructions, Jiaxing has made noticeable progress.
Over the past year, Jiaxing has built a number of rural museums, which has removed the last barrier for museums to offer public cultural services and created conditions for people in remote rural areas to enjoy quality cultural life.
In the “National Defense Science Popularization Culture Museum of Jiaxing” located in Wangdian Town, such weapons are waiting for visitors as tanks, bombers and armored vehicles; in the Light and Shadow Story Hall of Zhouquan Town, there is a film culture-centered wall, a film equipment exhibition zone, and a nostalgic screening hall, reminding the visitors of open-air movies... Up to now, Jiaxing has constructed 61 provincial-level rural museums, each of which has its own charm and all have gradually become beautiful landscapes.
Based on its smart studies, cultural auditorium libraries and automobile-based libraries across the city, Jiaxing has constructed urban-rural integrated public library service systems and achieved the target that every 10,000 resident enjoys a library over the past year.
The bus loaded with books drives to Xiangjiadang Nursing Center of Qixing Sun-district early every morning. More than 4,000 books are displayed in the interior of 20 square meters. This “mobile library” attracts many residents nearby. “It is convenient for the elderly readers like me to come to read or listen to crosstalk, radio dramas,” said Wu Yanxia. Reading here is the happiest hours for the citizens nearby.
Standing at a new historical starting point, the people of Jiaxing will always bear in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions, adhere to the guidelines of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, work harder to start a new journey and march towards the promising future.