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Hefei high-tech zone strives for FTZ construction

Updated: 2020-10-16

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The High-tech Zone section of Hefei Area in China (Anhui) Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ) launched a series of innovative measures on FTZ reform on Sept 30, 2020, marking the official start of the section's construction.

The measures include the FTZ's special service window, the application of new economy and a comprehensive service platform for talents.

The State Council, the nation's Cabinet, released plans for three new pilot zones in Beijing and Hunan and Anhui provinces on Sept 21, increasing the number of FTZs in the country to 21. The Anhui pilot FTZ consists of three parts - Hefei, Wuhu and Bengbu.

Covering an area of 31.43 square kilometers, the High-tech Zone section of Hefei Area will focus on the "One-body and Two-wings" strategy. "One body", comprised of three areas, plays a vital role in driving innovation. The original innovation core area will be home to comprehensive national science centers while the high-end technology development and research area is intended for gathering platforms of collaborative innovation and high-tech companies. The incubation area of New Economy industries aims to promote the New Economy industrial cluster related to integrated circuit, Internet information security and photovoltaic energy.

"Two wings" refer to two industrial clusters, with a northern area for the high-end auto and component industry. This area will attract key auto companies and those specialized in developing auto and key components, Internet-connected smart vehicles and modern logistics. The southern area, on the other hand, is geared toward smart appliance and related industries that will boost the integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern service.

The Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone is currently working on the construction plan of the High-tech Zone section in Anhui FTZ to highlight three distinctive features and six further breakthroughs.

The three distinctive features will cover the business environment, a hotbed for innovation and an industrial cluster. The High-tech Zone aims to take the lead in business environment among national high-tech zones in the next three to five years by pushing forward the commercial system reform, building an "Internet + business environment monitoring system" and offering full-process foreign investment services.

In addition to the goal of forming an artificial intelligence industrial cluster worth 300-500 billion yuan ($44.58-74.3 billion) and 50-billion-yuan IC, bio-medicine, Internet security and smart wear industrial clusters in the next five years, the zone will also attempt to transform itself into a hotbed for innovation by speeding up the construction of the Hefei national science center and platforms of collaborative innovation, deepening collaboration with famous universities, institutes and enterprises, striving for breakthrough in core technologies of quantum information, brain science and genetic diagnosis and treatment, as well as promoting the settlement, production and industrialization of key innovative achievements.

Meanwhile, the zone will ramp up efforts to seek further breakthroughs in propelling the integrated and high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta, facilitating the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, accelerating the innovation of sci-tech finance, promoting the quality development of service trade, stimulating the innovative vitality of talents and innovating the management mechanism.

The measures will include advancing cooperation with high-tech zones and industrial parks in the Yangtze River Delta region, joining the construction of an innovative community in the Yangtze River Delta area, attracting projects from Yangtze River Delta, as well as building international industrial parks and carrying out international cooperation projects.

The zone will place equal emphasis on optimizing the sci-tech finance service system, supporting financial innovation, building ecosystem for sci-tech finance, fostering industrial cluster of digital service trade and improving the international trade service.

Efforts will also be made to optimize services for high talents, launch a management and working mechanism with high efficiency and clearly-defined responsibility and build a high-quality cadre team.