[Celebrating 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up] Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone： Continuing to start a business on the saline-alkali beach

　　In the past 34 years, TEDA Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone with a built-up area of 34 square kilometers has grown from a saline-alkali wasteland. Established with the approval of the State Council on December 6th, 1984, TEDA is one of the first national development zones in China. Today, TEDA has become one of the national development zones with large economic scale, high export-oriented degree and excellent comprehensive investment environment.

　　Not long ago, the Ministry of Commerce completed a comprehensive assessment of 219 national economic and technological development zones for the first time, and made a comprehensive quantitative evaluation from the aspects of industrial base, scientific and technological innovation, regional driving, ecological and environmental protection, and administrative efficiency. Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone ranks first in industrial base and utilization of foreign capital, second in comprehensive development level, third in foreign trade and sixth in scientific and technological innovation.

　　Opening to the outside world, the door is getting bigger and bigger.

　　How difficult is it to start a business? An "old development" recalled that because it was located in a saline-alkali wasteland, at that time, some land in the development zone had just laid the foundation, and salt water could be seen outside. "Gai Lou is a problem."

　　It is under a pile of "problems" that TEDA people began their entrepreneurial journey. The reporter found a form 34 years ago, which was the first batch of foreign investment projects of TEDA, ranging from lighters and sweaters to bicycles and ship repair. The investment amount ranges from $120,000 to $5 million, with different scales. "It can be seen that the initial stage of the development zone is mainly passive acceptance of external industrial transfer. The industries of 20 enterprises are scattered and generally small in scale, mostly at the low end of the industrial chain. " Tian Guiming, former deputy director of the Development Zone Management Committee, recalled.

　　The factory of FAW-Volkswagen North China Base, with a total investment of 19.5 billion yuan, has passed the green building design certification. In addition to four workshops for vehicle manufacturing, it also reserves plug-in hybrid and pure electric production capacity. After it is put into production this year, it is planned to produce 300,000 vehicles annually. Of the nine new cars put into production by FAW-Volkswagen this year, two will be rolled off the assembly line here. Jochem Heizmann, President and CEO of audi ag (China), bluntly said that the two key projects, Volkswagen Transmission and FAW-Volkswagen North China Base, were settled in Tianjin Development Zone, which were inseparable from perfect industrial facilities and superior investment services.

　　From "one machine" (pager) and "one bowl of noodles" (instant noodles) in the 1990s to the five pillar industries of automobile, electronics, petrochemical, medicine and health, equipment manufacturing and modern service industry, the industrial format of TEDA has taken on a new look. The automobile industry represented by FAW Toyota, FAW Volkswagen and Great Wall Motor, the electronics industry represented by Samsung Group, NXP and Hongfujin, and the petrochemical industry represented by Zhongsha Petrochemical, Sinopec LNG and Shell all have an annual output value of more than 100 billion yuan, and the annual output value of equipment manufacturing, medicine and health exceeds 50 billion yuan.

　　In the past 34 years, Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone has introduced a total of 5,663 foreign investment projects, with a total actually used foreign investment of 55.9 billion US dollars, including 1,415 projects with a total investment of more than 10 million US dollars, and 117 Fortune 500 companies have invested in 390 projects in the development zone. "What is most worth summarizing is to always adhere to the opening up to the outside world and to benefit from deepening reform and developing to high quality." Zheng Weiming, director of the Development Zone Management Committee, said that the course of Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone’s persistence in opening to the outside world has become a vivid example of China’s "opening wider and wider".

　　Innovation leads and condenses endogenous motivation.

　　"A bowl of noodles" (instant noodles) was once the spokesperson of Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone. Enter the workshop of Master Kong instant noodles, and start from mixing noodles, calendering, shredding, cooking, pouring juice, cutting, whole noodles, frying … … There are almost no workers in the whole process.

　　What remains unchanged is the bowl of noodles, but what has changed is to make noodles "people" "The original production line required forty or fifty workers to produce 240 pieces of bread per minute. Now with industrial robots, only 16 workers are left in a production line, producing 500 cakes per minute. " The person in charge of the factory told reporters.

　　With the continuous expansion of opening to the outside world, the business environment, talent structure and even social support of Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone have been improved accordingly, which has condensed the endogenous power of high-quality development. The good business environment and high level of opening to the outside world have changed Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone from its initial development mainly relying on funds, resources and cheap labor to being driven mainly by talents, intellectual resources, knowledge and innovation. The investment structure has also changed from the absolute dominant position of foreign capital to the pattern of paying equal attention to both domestic and foreign capital.

　　In the workshop of Feixuan Technology, a batch of high-power magnetic levitation blowers to be exported are being tested. Hu Zhiqiang, the company’s sales director, has never stopped calling, and his face can’t hide his pride: "We are the only supplier in the world that can meet the requirements of this customer." At the beginning of this year, this magnetic levitation blower independently researched and developed for 11 years was exported overseas, which was also the first time that China magnetic levitation blower was sold abroad. As the first high-tech enterprise engaged in the research and application of magnetic bearing technology in China, Feixuan Technology has hundreds of core patents. "We started in Beijing in 2006. In 2012, we moved our headquarters and R&D team to the development zone." Chairman Hong Shenping told the reporter that the development zone provided enterprises with more than 1,000 square meters of office buildings, and reduced the rent and various expenses for three years. Enterprises went into battle lightly and used all their funds for research and development.

　　Zero krypton technology is even better. As the first enterprise in the field of medical big data and artificial intelligence in China with a valuation of more than 1 billion US dollars, Zero Krypton Technology has established the world’s largest cancer queue data operation and follow-up center in Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone with data flow and large-scale services. The team of 500 people processes 450,000 pages of patient medical records and serves 600,000 cancer patients every day, and the core data engine team will also move from Beijing in the future. "In the first half of the year, the penetration rate of tumor single disease on the big data platform has reached 60%, which has reduced the clinical trial cost of tumor drugs by 30%, and greatly improved the speed of new drug research and development and drug consistency and safety evaluation after listing." Zhang Tianze, founder of Zero Krypton Technology, said.

　　At present, Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone has 15 incubators and 11 dual-creation spaces, and is making every effort to build Tianjin’s first carrier for incubating and cultivating new technology enterprises with a valuation of more than $1 billion. Twelve new technology enterprises with a valuation of more than $1 billion, such as Didi Chuxing and iQiyi, have settled here.

　　Deepen reform and move towards a higher level.

　　The reduction of preferential policies, the weakening of institutional advantages, the underdevelopment of the tertiary industry and the limited development space … … At the same time of rapid development, Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone is also facing growing pains.

　　With the gradual growth of residents’ population and financial income, the development zone has also undertaken a large number of social functions such as medical care, education and social governance, laying a hidden danger of "out of focus" for the main business that should focus on economic development and investment services. The industrial development of the development zone and the adjacent central business district has many intersections, but it is far from forming an agglomeration effect: a Xingang No.4 Road divides the two functional areas geographically, and the modern trolley buses in the development zone only serve the region, and even the vegetable prices in the development zone are more expensive.

　　As a national comprehensive reform pilot zone, in early 2018, Tianjin Binhai New Area once again held high the banner of reform and completely unloaded the burden on the functional areas: all the powers of the functional areas could be decentralized, and the social management, public services and market supervision functions of the functional areas were managed by the new district government. Strengthen economic functions, divest social functions, set up TEDA Street by listing, and merge the central business district into the development zone; The management Committee of the new team’s working Committee operates in an integrated manner, forming a streamlined and efficient organizational structure that closely follows economic functions; Complete institutional adjustment and cadre competition for posts, and establish a cadre personnel system with full employment and promotion. "To create a flexible and efficient management system and employment mechanism, cadres will be employed for three years, and they will not take inaction, and even three years will be difficult to sit still." Zheng Weiming said.

　　On the one hand, it creates a streamlined and efficient organizational structure, on the other hand, it constantly breaks through and innovates in the "soft environment" of government management and service. The government service platform of Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone is the first government website in China to open up government services and administrative examination and approval, and it is also the first government website in China to fully integrate offline business, citizen service, administrative examination and approval, and policy fulfillment with online. The mode of chief examination and approval officer is implemented for ordinary matters, and the most professional matters are run once, and the active door-to-door service is implemented for complex matters. "Break the traditional compartmentalization of administrative institutions and set up inertial thinking corresponding to institutions with higher levels." Zhang Qing, deputy secretary of the Working Committee of the Development Zone, told the reporter that in order to improve investment attraction and enterprise services, the Development Zone has set up seven investment promotion bureaus, including the Bureau of Commerce, the Investment Promotion Bureau, the Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Promotion Bureau, the New Economy Promotion Bureau and the Trade Promotion Bureau, to highlight the new economy, new industries and new kinetic energy, and the reform direction of industrial transformation, structural optimization and high-quality development.

　　"Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Zone Working Committee Management Committee has a total of 31 institutions, which is 7 fewer than before the integration. The institutions are more streamlined and the services are more efficient. Put the large-scale system, economic development function and operational efficiency in a prominent position. " Liang Jun, director of the Development and Reform Bureau, said.

　　"Reform is not only a superposition of functions, but also a superposition of policies. The policies of the dual-innovation demonstration base, the free trade zone, the entire industrial base and the manufacturing base of the development zone can be better combined to form the effect of integration of production and city, strong alliance, complementary advantages and 1+1 > 2." Zheng Weiming is full of confidence. "A new round of reform will become ‘ Teda ’ A new starting point for starting again. "