– Creation of ‘Tianfu New Area’ and ‘Eastern New Area’ in the south and east of Chengdu City –
– China, which has grown through the creation of new and old areas, is also expected to develop into strategic nurturing bases –
State-level special administrative unit in China
After the first appearance of new districts such as Pudong New District in Shanghai and Binhai New District in Tianjin in the 1990s, state-level special administrative units with various industrial functions have been established in order to solve various socio-economic and political challenges raised along with internal and external environmental changes. has been designated As of the end of 2020, there are a total of 19 national-level new districts in China, of which 8 are located in the East, 2 in the Central, 6 in the West, and 3 in the Northeast.
China's state-level new zones are special zones in charge of strategic tasks for national development and reform and opening up, and are approved by the State Council, the central government. In this state-level strategy, the overall economic development goals and status are uniformly planned by the State Council, and related preferential policies (tax, finance, land, etc.) and administrative authority are also directly granted by the State Council.
In Sichuan Province, Chengdu City's Tianfu New District was established on October 2014, 2, after the Liangjiang New District in Chongqing, the second in the west to receive approval from the State Council. Tianfu New District covers an area of about 8 square meters, including eight cities (counties and districts) including Chengdu and Meishan.
Distribution status of national new and old districts in China
National Tianfu New Area
Among them, a total of 7 administrative districts (districts, prefectures and cities) around Chengdu City and Meishan City in Tenbu New District, located in the south of Chengdu City, are located in the six key industries (electronic information, automobile manufacturing, new energy). , new materials, biopharmaceuticals, finance) and is striving for balanced urban development. Northeast Qingbaijiang (International Train Cargo Terminal), North Xindu (New Capital, Wholesale Logistics Base), Northwest Pidu (Manufacturing Cluster), West Lianjiang (温江, Agricultural Biocluster), Southwest Shuangliu (双流, Aviation) Logistics base) and the East Longqiyi (Culture, Tourism and Recreation) area, it is positioned as a strategic urban development engine responsible for the next 6 years of Chengdu.
Current status of administrative districts outside Chengdu
In particular, Chengdu Hi-Tech Development Zone (高新区), located on the border between Chengdu city center and Tenpu New District, has about 500 of the top 250 global companies such as IBM, NEC, GE, New Machine, Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent, WIPRO, DHL, and H Financial. Large IT companies are located in the southwestern region of China. Sichuan Banking Supervision Bureau, Sichuan Insurance Supervision Bureau, Chengdu Financial Board, and Export-Import Bank of China Chengdu Branch. It is known as a complex IT financial complex in Chengdu, where the national financial supervisory authority is also located.
In addition, world-famous automobile industry leaders such as Volkswagen, Volvo, Toyota, and Geely are gathered in the Rongqi direction east of Tenpu New Area, and a new energy industrial base in the west direction of Tenpu New Area. The western part of the city and the biopharmaceutical industrial complex are actively attracting foreign companies such as Germany's Bayer. We are designing a new future city development plan to expand economic infrastructure by connecting the city center and Tenpu New District to the outer cities, such as opening two international airports within a single city.
Concept map of development in connection with the city center and Tenpu New Ward
In fact, over the past three years, the digital valley of the high-tech development zone in the southern part of the city, which connects the city center and Tenpu New District, has been occupied by IT, game, and cultural content companies utilizing infrastructure such as excellent IT manpower. The commuting structure is changing from the existing outskirts->city center to outskirts->south, and Korea's famous content platform companies are also established early, forming office districts like Gangnam-Yeoksam-Seolneung Digital Valley in Seoul.
Provincial-level Eastern New District
Following the state-level "Tianfu New District" ratified by the State Council, the Sichuan Provincial People's Government approved the eastern provincial-level "Eastern New District" in April 2020 for balanced development in the southeast of Chengdu, which is relatively underdeveloped.
These are East-development, South-pioneering, West-stabilization, North-development, City center-upgrade, set by Chengdu City at the 2017th Party Congress in 13. The Chengdu-Chongqing Common Economic Zone, fully supported by the central government, and the Chengdu satellite city Deyang, The role of the Eastern New District as it means the future value to grow into a core economic zone for western inland development through the 'Chengde Maze (成-德-眉-资) urban integration' that connects Meishan and Ziyang cities. Also important.
Chengdu City Cross City Development Plan
The Chengdu-Chongqing Common Economic Zone and the 'Chengde Maze Urban Integration'
Tianfu New Area has Shuangliu International Airport, while Eastern New Area has Chengdu's second-largest international airport, Tianfu International Airport. With Tianfu International Airport officially starting service on June 2, 2021, Chengdu has become the third international city in China to have two international airports in one city, following Beijing and Shanghai. Tianfu International Airport is the first in the world to provide a seamless connection between high-speed rail and airport terminals with a speed of 6 km/h.
Aerial view of Tianpu International Airport
From Tianpu International Airport (天府国际机场) in the Eastern New District, take the high-speed rail to Jingjinji (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei), Yangtze River Delta (Shanghai-South Jiangsu-North Zhejiang), and Yuegang粤港澳大湾区, Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macau, etc.) is within 6-8 hours, and you can reach central and western cities such as Xi'an, Zhengzhou and Wuhan in 3-4 hours. It is a daily living area of 3-4 hours.
The development of this transportation system in the Dongbu New Area is a basic work for the development goal of the Dongbu New Area from 2025 to 2035. interpreted as one
In fact, the resident population of Chengdu City increased from about 2010 million in 1,512 to 2020 million in 2,094, increasing by about 582 million, occupying the third place in China in terms of resident population expansion. The size and increase of the resident population of a city is a key keyword that can approach a global city. Currently, Chengdu is on the same level as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou in terms of resident population, so the development of satellite cities outside Chengdu is very important. .
Top 10 cities with increasing resident population in China over the past 10 years
For the next 10 years, Dongbu New Zone will focus on revitalizing the economy around the airport using Tenpu International Airport, designing industrial complexes, and building infrastructure linked to surrounding cities, and will create huge green spaces such as Sanchahu and Longmahu Park. and Tianpu International Airport duty-free shops, 5-star hotels, large shopping malls, museums, libraries, gyms, etc. gradually acquire.
implication
Although Tianfu New Area and Eastern New Area are not on the same level, they are both development models for Chengdu in the next 10 years. Tianfu New Zone, designated in 2014, has been developing rapidly in various fields such as industry, culture, and housing to match the state-level new zone, and the Eastern New Zone has become a new economic growth engine for Chengdu, a global city in the western inland, after the Sichuan government approval in 2020. Drawing a bright blueprint to catch.
Accordingly, the Chengdu Municipal Government prioritizes urban infrastructure development to Tenpu New District and Eastern New District, lowering corporate income tax for investment companies in the region, and implementing policies and regional policies to foster key strategic industries such as equipment manufacturing, electronic information, and medical biotechnology. It is pouring out support policies to stimulate the economy and consumption, and subsidy policies to attract high-quality manpower.
Chengdu City Exhibition Bureau (Trade Promotion Commission-CCPIT) Director of International Cooperation, Cao Min (高敏) said, “For the past five years, Chengdu has been actively involved in the central government’s efforts to become an upgraded global city rather than the image of a central city in the western inland. The city development plan has been proposed and supported.” “The Korea-Japan-China Summit (Chengdu) at the end of December 5 left a strong impression on the world. After that, the 2019st Korea-Japan-China Economic and Trade Innovation Forum will be held in October 2020 for the transformation from a city of history-culture-tourism to a global business city, and the second competition is being prepared in 1. In the future, we will spare no effort in global cooperation so that the potential of Chengdu City for the next 2021 years can be felt more deeply, with the Tenpu New Area in the south and the Eastern New Area in the east as the center for the officials, institutions and companies of foreign embassies in China.”
For the next 10 years, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, has a new era western development policy (20 years, the State Council), Chengdu-Chongqing joint economic zone (two times in 20 years), a strategy to unify surrounding cities linking Tenpu New District and Eastern New District, international exhibition conventions and culture - It seems that there will be no difficulties in obtaining the nickname 'Shanghai of the West Inland' through efforts to upgrade to a sports-tourism city. In the post-corona era, Korean companies that want to enter the western inland are given a task to continuously pay attention to the trends in the local market.
Source: 知乎 (www.zhifu.com), Tenfu Donghyang, Chengdu Management Committee, Sichuan Tenfu New Area, Chengdu Eastern New Area Management Committee Comprehensive summary of Chengdu Trade Center, Chengdu Chiljin Data, Baidu, and KOTRA