Yulin City, Guangxi seizes the opportunity of Pinglu Canal to create a new growth pole for the seaward economy

China News Service, Nanning, September 29 (Huang Yanmei, Yang Zhixiong) Suo Shenjing, acting mayor of Yulin City, Guangxi, said in Nanning on the 29th that Yulin City will seize the opportunity of the navigation of the Pinglu Canal, vigorously develop the new canal economy, build a new western land-sea corridor, Guangxi's "Eastern Corridor", and create a new growth pole for the high-quality development of Guangxi's seaward economy.

The Information Office of the People's Government of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region held a press conference in Nanning that day on "Accelerating the construction of 'three cities and one pole' and striving to create a new situation in Yulin's modernization construction".

Yulin is the largest hometown of overseas Chinese in Guangxi. Suo Shenjing introduced at the meeting that Yulin City will promote the agglomeration and upgrading of industries to the sea, and promote the city's seven counties (districts and cities) to jointly build and share the Longtan Lingang Economic and Technological Development Zone through the "enclave park" model to create a high-energy seaside industry platform.

Yulin City will vigorously develop port-side industries, strengthen six modern port-side industrial clusters including new energy materials, new nonferrous metal (copper-based) materials, new stainless steel materials, new green chemical materials, high-end papermaking, and circular economy. It will accelerate the completion and commissioning of a number of major industrial projects such as Huatai Green Marine Chemical New Materials Industrial Park and Guitong 320,000 tons of copper, and strive to have the output value of port-side industries exceed 200 billion yuan by 2030.

In recent years, Yulin City has built the Yulin Seaport Terminal through "borrowing land to build a port", opening up access to the sea and realizing a historic transformation from an inland hinterland to an open frontier.

Suo Shenjing said that Yulin will focus on the three major events of "connecting canals, weaving water networks, and building hubs" to coordinate and promote the interconnection projects of ports, waterways, railways, and highways, improve the access efficiency of Yulin seaport terminals, accelerate the construction of two 200,000-ton berths on the east coast railway branch line from Shahe to Tieshang Port, and the Shawei operation area, and continue to improve the level of interconnection and interoperability.

Yulin will rely on the combined advantages of seaport and high-speed rail to accelerate the construction of the Yulin Collaborative Development Zone of the China (Guangxi) Free Trade Pilot Zone, vigorously develop cross-border e-commerce, and promote more "jade merchants, jade enterprises, and jade products to go overseas." The city will actively undertake the transfer of industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, deepen the coordinated linkage of the Beibu Gulf urban agglomeration, continue to activate the vitality of economic development towards the sea, and accelerate the construction of a core city in the Pinglu Canal Economic Belt.