China News Service, Ningde, November 11 (Reporters: Lv Qiaoqin and Ye Mao) The sea breeze swept over the Sanduao Port area, with tower cranes standing tall and giant ships berthing; the production lines in the lithium battery factory were running at high speed, and cutting-edge technology iterative breakthroughs were made in the laboratories... Ningde City, Fujian Province, once a "coastal underdeveloped area", has become a "new growth pole" for Fujian's development.
Official data shows that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Ningde's total economic output crossed two hundred billion levels and jumped to the 400 billion yuan mark, ranking fifth in Fujian Province and advancing into the top 100 in the country. From January to September this year, Ningde's GDP increased by 6.2% year-on-year, and its seven major economic indicators ranked among the top three in the province. It has sufficient confidence and momentum for high-quality development.
Behind this heavy answer sheet is the triple force of reform, technology empowerment, and industry gathering momentum.
Reform breaks the situation
To achieve breakthroughs in development, reform is the key. The Ningde Municipal Development and Reform Commission focuses on top-level planning, industrial upgrading, institutional reform and people's livelihood protection, and breaks development bottlenecks with a series of reforms in key areas.
Strengthen policy quality and effectiveness. Ningde Municipal Development and Reform Commission is the first in the province to include various economic and non-economic policies, existing policies and incremental policies into the consistency assessment of macro policy orientation, grasp the timing, intensity and rhythm of policy introduction and implementation, enhance the consistency and effectiveness of macro policy orientation, and achieve the synergy effect and overall effectiveness of "1+1>2".
Projects are the lifeblood of development. The Ningde Municipal Development and Reform Commission established a full life cycle management model and took the lead in improving the municipal project reserve library. It has planned and reserved nearly 4,000 projects with a total investment of more than 2 trillion yuan. It solved project problems through ten-day consultation, monthly supervision, and quarterly disclosure mechanisms, and promoted the start of 1,751 projects and the completion and production of 1,494 projects.
Facing market entities, Ningde has built a "Benefiting Enterprise Ningde" service platform, established a closed-loop resolution mechanism for corporate complaints, and carried out "Benefiting Enterprise Ningde" visit activities, accumulatively resolving over 7,000 complaints of various types by enterprises. It has implemented a series of cost reduction and relief measures, and a total of 200,000 market operating entities have been added. To promote the construction of "zero-carbon Ningde", Fuding Industrial Park was selected into the list of national-level zero-carbon parks; the city's installed clean energy capacity reached 10.164 million kilowatts, accounting for 79.6%.
The dividends of reform continue to extend to people's livelihood, shortcomings in public service supply continue to be filled, and coordinated regional development continues to advance. The average annual growth rate of per capita disposable income of rural residents ranks first in Fujian Province, and development results benefit thousands of households.
Technology innovation empowerment
Automated production lines work day and night, and power batteries move from smart workshops to the global market; in precision smelting workshops, "hand-shredded steel" and "pen tip steel" are accurately rolled, breaking foreign technology monopoly; in the deep sea breeding area, intelligent systems monitor the breeding environment in real time, and technology empowers blue granaries... Over the past five years, Ningde has adhered to the innovation drive, promoted the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and built a global innovation pattern with leading leaders, platform gathering, and talent pooling.
Focusing on the four leading industries, Ningde has built a "1+2+N" innovation platform system, launched Fujian's first national key laboratory for marine aquaculture biological breeding, and promoted the "one county, one platform, one industry, one platform" global layout. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, 98 new science and technology innovation platforms at all levels were added. Promoting the "double growth" action of high-tech enterprises, the number of high-tech enterprises in the city increased from 104 to 305.
Relying on the "unveiling the list" and joint industry-university-research mechanism to tackle key problems, Ningde promoted a batch of technology research and development to achieve industrialization; it iteratively upgraded the "Sandu'ao Talent Plan" and built a full-chain talent policy system, and a large number of high-level talents rushed to Fujian; science and technology commissioners took root in Mt. In the wild, 131 science and technology commissioner workstations at the county and township levels have been built to empower the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas with science and technology; science and technology and finance have worked together to build a "finance + technology + finance" full-cycle enterprise innovation support system, and a total of 2.16 billion yuan of "technology loans" have been invested.
According to data from the Ningde Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Ningde's total social R&D investment increased from 5.2 billion yuan to 14.8 billion yuan, with R&D intensity reaching 3.81%, leading the province for three consecutive years; the number of PCT international patent applications ranked first in the province for five consecutive years.
Industry gathering momentum
Keeping in mind the earnest instructions of “getting more big projects and holding more ‘golden dolls’”, Ningde insists on seizing the leader, forging chains, and building clusters to promote leading industries, traditional industries, and future industries to go hand in hand, so as to improve the quality and expand the industrial economy.
Leading industries will be cultivated and expanded. The four major industrial clusters of lithium battery new energy, new energy vehicles, stainless steel new materials, and copper materials have accelerated their rise: the shipments of energy storage batteries, power batteries, and consumer batteries have ranked first in the world for 5 consecutive years, 9 years, and 14 years respectively; stainless steel crude steel production has ranked first in the world for 10 consecutive years; SAIC Ningde base has the largest automobile assembly workshop in Asia; Southeast Copper ranks the first in the world in single-system copper smelting production scale. In 2025, the total output value of industrial enterprises above designated size will exceed 700 billion yuan.
Traditional industries are revitalized and developed. Fu'an was selected as a model county for new industrialization and was awarded the title of "China Massage and Health Care Equipment Production/Export Base". Gutian was selected as a pilot county for key industrial chains in the province's counties. Zhe was awarded the title of "China's Knife and Scissors Industry Highland". Fu'an Electrical and Electrical Equipment and Gutian Edible Fungi were rated as provincial-level small and medium-sized enterprise characteristic industry clusters.
The future industry is ready to set sail. Ningde has launched an "artificial intelligence +" three-year action plan to lay out the development of emerging and future industries such as low-altitude economy, bio-manufacturing, and new energy storage. It has carried out regular supply and demand docking of "artificial intelligence +", collected more than 100 demands for artificial intelligence scenarios, and created 5 provincial-level typical application scenarios. The output value of industrial strategic emerging industries has remained stable at more than 40% of the industrial output value above the designated size.
The Ningde Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology stated that facing the new era, the city's industry and information technology system will anchor the development goal of one trillion yuan in industrial output value, continue to deepen the in-depth integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, promote new industrialization in depth, accelerate the construction of a nationally renowned new energy and new materials industry core area, and strive to create new breakthroughs in industrial development.
