Located in the throat fortress linking Dawan District and the southwest, Yunfu has always been the city with the weakest sense of existence in Guangdong.
In 1994, Yunfu City was formed by merging Yunfu, Luoding, Yunan and Xinxing, which were separated from Zhaoqing. It is also the youngest prefecture-level city in Guangdong. Because of its rich mineral resources, it is also known as "Sulfur Capital" and "Shixiang". 58 kinds of minerals are distributed in 7785 square kilometers of land, which has become the resource of Yunfu's industrial development. In the 29 years since the
founding of the city, Yunfu's performance has been tepid. Last year, Yunfu's GDP was 116.243 billion yuan, about 3 times that of Shenzhen.
However, Guangdong is determined to promote coordinated regional development, which gives Yunfu new opportunities for development. Under the background of regional coordinated development, the industries in the Pearl River Delta have been transferred to the east, west and north of Guangdong in an orderly manner. Yunfu is close to the Guangzhou metropolitan area and has become one of the preferred areas to undertake the industries in Guangzhou and Foshan.
Last year, the growth rate of Yunfu's local fiscal revenue ranked first in Guangdong Province, and the total amount ranked 14th in the province, realizing the "20 billion yuan" of local fiscal revenue and turning over to the central and provincial finance, setting a new record since the founding of Yunfu City. In addition, in 2022, Yunfu's total electricity consumption and industrial electricity consumption increased by 11.8% and 17.7% respectively, and the actual utilization of foreign capital increased by 120.
Yunfu has set a target of increasing GDP by more than 7%, local general public budget revenue by more than 6%, and industrial added value above scale by 8%. Under another wave of regional coordinated development and industrial transfer in
Guangdong, can Yunfu seize the opportunity of "Dongrong Bay Area" and achieve rapid development? Starting with mineral resources, how can underdeveloped mountainous cities change their thinking, upgrade their industries and break through? This is the core area of Yunfu New Area, with good ecology but few people.
In 2014, Yunfu New Area was officially established. Five years ago, it was the location of Foshan (Yunfu) Industrial Transfer Park, which introduced many Foshan counterpart industries to help Yunfu. Judging
from the pace of construction, Yunfu New Town is not fast. Originally, Yunfu started by relying on mineral resources and other resources, with a single industry and weak finance. It has shifted from building industrial parks to building new towns, introducing diversified industries, but people's livelihood support has not kept pace.
Boarding the taxi, passing through Jiuqu Ridge, Bijia Mountain and other mountains along the way, crossing the winding tunnel, and arriving at Yuncheng District of the old city, when the taxi drives into the urban area along 324 National Highway, the appearance of this "stone town" gradually emerges: on both sides of the road are stone shops, and the exhibition hall with the depth of the warehouse is placed with marble stones arranged and cut in pieces. It is quite spectacular, where there are more than 4000 stone manufacturers, whose products cover more than 1000 varieties.
Stone is a typical business card of Yunfu, a resource-based city. There are two famous small stone hills in Yunshi Ruins Park of Gaofeng Street
in Yuncheng District, which is the earliest and largest place to mine marble in Yunfu. The production codes are "401" and "402" marble slabs. The stone produced locally
in Yunfu had many brilliant moments: in 1959, the marble in Yunfu was used in the construction of Great Hall of People; after the reform and opening up, the first individual stone factory in Yunfu was established, earning the first pot of gold in the industry; by 1993, the number of stone enterprises in Yunfu City (county-level) had developed to nearly 4000. After the establishment of Yunfu City
in 1994, 324 National Highway was expanded and rebuilt, industrial parks were built on both sides of the road, and a large number of stone enterprises were stationed. "In the past, the price of industrial land near National Highway 324 was in the lead in the whole country, and many people went there to do stone business and became rich." Taxi drivers in Yunfu have heard about this.
After years of development, 324 National Highway from Yuncheng Yaogu to Luoding has become the industrial scenic line of Yunfu Stone, known as the "100-mile Stone Corridor".
However, nowadays, the stone sold is no longer local marble, but more foreign varieties such as Sha Anna and Ultraman. With the depletion of marble resources, Yunfu stone enterprises began to purchase raw materials from all over the world. Stone blocks from Iran, Italy, Brazil and other places were transported to Yunfu by railway and cargo ship, processed and then sold to all parts of the world, forming a situation of "buying the world and selling the world". Chen Yao, Vice President and Secretary-General of
China Regional Economic Association and researcher of Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told Southern Financial and Economic All-Media Reporters that for some resource areas in need of transformation, with the exhaustion and decline of resources, it is necessary to take precautions to transform, plan ahead of time to continue industries, and strive to achieve the goal. A common way is to extend the resource-based industry to the downstream of the industrial chain.
From mining to processing, there are 6175 stone market entities in Yunfu, and the stone processing industry chain has gradually developed. By the end of last year, there were 20 projects in the stone industry chain, with a planned investment amount of 438
. Yunfu anchors the development direction of "park, digitalization, branding, clustering and greening", and builds a 100 billion-grade green building materials industry cluster, involving high-end plate (natural stone, artificial stone, handicraft), intelligent machinery, green building materials, accessories and other upstream and downstream industries. In May
this year, the "Measures for Supporting the High-quality Development of Stone Industry in Yunfu City (Trial Implementation)" was issued, which calls for high-standard planning and construction of Yunfu International Stone Industrial Park and Green New Building Material Industrial Park, supporting the development and agglomeration of stone enterprises, and focusing on cultivating and introducing a number of stone chain owners with industry voice and brand influence.
Cities should classify resources specifically, some of them do not necessarily need to be transformed, and some important resources should be rationally exploited and utilized. Chen Yao believes that extensive development in the case of insufficient technology and capital strength will cause waste of resources and environmental damage, while the introduction of large enterprises with strong capital and technological support is conducive to the upgrading of resource development.
Developing ecological economy
is the most urgent task of Yunfu, but Yunfu does not want to follow the old road of "pollution first, treatment later", but to explore the direction of circular economy and "waste-free city". The idea of developing and utilizing mineral resources
in Yunfu has changed, and the construction of circular economy industrial chain has been explored. Last year, China Electric Power Construction Group won the mining right of Guanyinshan Mining Area in Duyang Town, Yun'an District for 6.1 billion yuan, and will build a "building aggregate granary" in Dawan District in the future.
In Guanyin Mountain, Yun'an District, the green development project of mineral resources is under way. The mines here will adopt green mining methods, develop green circular economy, and build advanced building materials manufacturing and production bases. This is only a case of Yunfu's 100 billion green building materials industry cluster, coordinating the development of related industries such as mines, aggregates, machine-made sand, concrete and prefabricated parts. You Weixin, secretary and director of the Party Group of Yunan District Bureau of Industry and Information Technology
of Yunfu City, introduced to the Southern Financial and Economic All-Media Reporter that Yunan District will also build a green building materials industrial park, including sand and gravel aggregate processing base, logistics and transportation corridor and related industrial parks, "Our development ideas are very clear, focusing on circular economy and" waste-free city ". Useful resources will be developed centrally, and other resources will be renovated and restored to green.
In Duyang Town, Yun'an District, eight of the 11 small old mines originally exploited extensively have been shut down, and the following three mines will be shut down after their expiration for "mine greening". The core of
circular economy and "waste-free city" lies in the sustainable management of resources from materials, production to product recycling, and the solid waste and wastewater produced can be effectively treated to achieve the green life cycle. In Yunfu Circular Economy Industrial Park in
Yun'an District, the circular economy model of "waste gas power generation, waste residue value-added, waste water recycling" is being implemented. Yun'an District has the largest output of pyrite in China, and currently has four sulfuric acid plants, but slag treatment is a difficult problem. In addition to the "small cycle" within the enterprise, Yun'an District is also contacting Suzhou Non-metallic Mineral Industry Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd. to systematically plan waste treatment of the whole city. Chen Shaoqing, a professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of
Sun Yat-sen University, said in an interview with the media that Yunfu should skip the industrial pollution in the middle, avoid the old road of traditional resource destruction, and develop a new resource economy with higher quality and green. "It's important to plan well in advance, and make a sign of green and sustainable operation."
Yunfu clearly put forward that we should build a new highland for ecological development in northern Guangdong and build an industrial system with "ecological agriculture, green industry and ecological tourism" as the main body.
At present, Yunfu has formed eight characteristic industries, including green building materials, metal intelligent manufacturing, chemical industry, biomedical industry, computer and electronic equipment manufacturing, light industry and textile, food industry and automobile manufacturing.
Although the city has been built for a short time, the counties and districts under the jurisdiction of Yunfu have their own industrial development foundation. The stainless steel products industry in Xinxing County started in 1984, and now it has become one of the local pillar industries, forming a modern industrial chain. Lingfeng Group and MasterCard Group are the two main chain enterprises.
MasterCard Group has set up a stainless steel research Institute, specializing in the research and development of new materials, intelligent technology and automation equipment, and has also connected the intelligent production line with the museum built by the enterprise itself to create a line that can not only introduce the culture of the kitchenware industry, but also experience the development of modern kitchenware production and intelligent manufacturing. In the future, it will also develop more integration projects with the tourism resources of the hometown of the Six Ancestors.
Lingfeng Group is the first enterprise engaged in automation and digitalization in the stainless steel kitchen industry. In recent years, it has also focused on the development of green industry. Photovoltaic panels have been placed in the production workshop, and waste water and heat energy have been recycled. In the future, intelligent warehousing will be built to further improve quality, efficiency and reduce consumption.
Stainless steel industry is a sector of Yunfu's 100 billion metal intelligent manufacturing industry cluster. In addition, Yunfu also has aluminum products industry, automotive parts industry, etc. Based on the cooperation with Foshan in the field of hydrogen energy vehicles, it has successively introduced automotive parts projects such as Gaoqiu Liuhe, Edex, Guangdong Yikangtong and Guangqi automotive wiring harness. This year, the output value of Yunfu's metal intelligent manufacturing industry will exceed 30 billion yuan, breaking through the 100 billion mark by 2026. Wang Yuyun, director and professor of the CPC History Teaching and Research Department of the Party School of
the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and an expert of the new think tank of Yunfu City, believes that the problems in development should be solved by development, and that Yunfu must strengthen its fiscal revenue by expanding industrial parks and developing characteristic industries.
"For economically underdeveloped areas, the first thing is to improve finance, and industrial growth is the foundation.". Therefore, when introducing industries, we are actively introducing enterprises that conform to the direction of industrial development in our region and can bring output value and employment under the basic conditions of strictly abiding by the standards of ecological environmental protection, energy consumption and emission standards. You Weixin said.
On May 24, more than a dozen leading green building materials enterprises in Yun'an District went to Foshan for face-to-face talks with local enterprises to explore more opportunities for cooperation. The communication
between Yunfu and Foshan has been very close. Foshan's counterpart assistance to Yunfu began in 2013, and now the two sides have jointly built six industrial transfer parks, gathering hydrogen energy, intelligent light industrial appliances, new materials and other industrial zones. Guangdong Guohong Hydrogen Energy Technology is a unicorn enterprise born in Foyun cooperation, and is sprinting for IPO.
"Dongrong Bay Area" is a key opportunity for Yunfu to reshape its endogenous power. From the location point of view, Yunfu City is 140 kilometers away from Guangzhou, and the waterway is 170 nautical miles away from Hong Kong, linking up the Dawan District and radiating the southwest.
This year, Guangdong Province issued "Several Measures on Promoting Orderly Industrial Transfer and Promoting Regional Coordinated Development", which opened a new round of provincial counterpart assistance and cooperation.
Yunfu ushered in two opportunities, one is to undertake industrial transfer in the Pearl River Delta, the other is to speed up the construction of transportation infrastructure, "Rongwan" progress, directly facing the vast market of Dawan District. Lu Rongchun, Secretary of
the Yunfu Municipal Party Committee and director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, has previously publicly stated that he will fully implement the strategy of "Dongrong Bay Area", provide good services based on the needs of the Bay Area, improve the quality of resources in the Bay Area, and "change from" mountain thinking "to" Bay Area thinking ".
How to change development thinking?
In Chen Yao's view, Yunfu, as an underdeveloped area, actively docking the Pearl River Delta is an appropriate development path, especially docking Foshan and other cities on the West Bank of the Pearl River, "but the advantages of industrial clusters in the Pearl River Delta can only spread out after reaching a certain scale, Yunfu can actively dock the Pearl River Delta and seize the favorable period to dock specific industries." One of the advantages
of Yunfu's current development is that more space is waiting for planning to land and enterprises to enter, and there is more space to extend on the basis of the original industry. In the future, we need to improve the business environment, attract talents, capital and technology, and cultivate our own endogenous power.
Lu Rongchun said that Yunfu boldly renewed the concept of attracting investment, abandoned the traditional attraction method of "reducing land prices", targeted the Pearl River Delta and stimulated Yunfu's "four advantages", aimed at leading enterprises with comparative advantages and in line with local reality, and made every effort to attract and cultivate a number of "chain-owner enterprises".
From this point of view, China Building Materials Group Co., Ltd. and other enterprises choose to invest in Yunfu, but also value the future market of Dawan District.
From Yunfu to Foshan, it only takes more than half an hour to take Nanshen high-speed rail, and it only takes more than one hour to drive through Guanfo Expressway and Guangkun Expressway. In the future, with the completion and opening of Guangzhan high-speed rail, Yunfu is expected to accelerate the "Dongrong Bay Area".
"Channel economy can further attract industries from the Pearl River Delta to transfer to Yunfu." Chen Yao said.
Another advantage is water transportation. Yunfu has a 107-kilometer waterway on the main stream of the Xijiang River. Before the city was built, it was a Class III waterway. By the end of 2017, it completed the transformation of a 3000-ton waterway, and the transport level has been greatly improved. In the future, with the completion of the Pinglu Canal, the waterway level of the Xijiang River will be further upgraded. Yunfu will open up a waterway connecting the river to the sea. Ships in the upper and middle reaches of the Xijiang River shipping trunk line can go to sea from Qinzhou Port through the Pinglu Canal and to ASEAN countries through the Beibu Gulf.
Another problem that needs to be solved is talent. In Chen Yao's view, the problem of "talent siphon" in Yunfu in the Pearl River Delta is not easy to solve in the short term, so we can try to build "talent enclave" and build Yunfu R & D centers in Guangzhou, Dongguan, Foshan and other places to provide scientific and technological support and services.
With the improvement of land transportation and the optimization of water transportation conditions, Yunfu's "Dongrong Bay Area" began to speed up. Yunfu tries to find a new way of ecological development, synchronize ecological protection and economic development, upgrade scattered resource industries, promote industrial economic transformation, and seek greater opportunities for regional synergy.
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