CCTV News: Taicang, Jiangsu has gathered more than 550 German investment companies. Since the beginning of this year, the local government has fully tapped the growth potential of foreign investment, continuously optimized the business environment with precise services, attracted enterprises to continue to expand their investment in the local area, and effectively consolidated the basic foreign investment.
When a reporter was interviewing in Taicang a few days ago, many companies were busy with the construction of new projects. In this world's leading filling system supply company, the reporter saw that the equipment waiting to be delivered from the factory was parked in full swing. At the same time, on the construction site 3 kilometers away, the company invested 200 million euros to build a new factory just started construction not long ago, and the area of the new factory will be more than twice that of the existing factory.
After 21 years of settlement in Taicang, this new factory has been the sixth phase of the company's investment and construction in the local area. The person in charge told reporters that more than 20 years ago, they brought advanced foreign production lines to China, and now the group's most advanced products are produced in China. Behind this is the huge opportunities brought by the rapid development of China's market and China's industrial chain.
During the investigation in Taicang, the reporter found that there are many cases of rooting in the local area and continuously increasing capital and expanding production. Just last month, the main building of the second phase of the environmental protection equipment manufacturing company was topped off, and the German company completed its third capital increase and production expansion in eight years.
Foreign investment is confident, and behind the repeated investments is the continuous improvement of local supporting policies and services. The company's head told reporters that it only took more than two months from making the capital increase decision to the start of the project, which made the project progress nearly half a year earlier than the company's original plan. In the Project Investment Section of the Economic Development Bureau of Taicang High-tech Zone, the reporter met Cheng Xinya, a "special person" who was connecting with the progress of the project. On her computer desktop, this timeline for each project timing progress attracted the attention of reporters.
The local government departments have changed the "series-connected" work process to "parallel" promotion, and handled it in parallel with multiple departments. They have also established a special project promotion group for the list of 59 problems raised by the enterprise, and jointly carried out service and guarantee work with relevant departments.
Not only that, since this year, Taicang has continuously improved its foreign cooperation services through innovative practices. In the newly launched foreign service center, "going into one door and doing everything" provides one-stop foreign-related services for foreigners; in terms of intellectual property protection, a combination of green channels, active consultation and other combination services are launched, and judicial service workstations for cooperation with Germany are established; the local government also learns from the German model to carry out "dual system" vocational education and training to tailor skilled talents for enterprises.
In the first quarter of this year, Taicang signed 32 new industrial projects with a total investment of more than 100 million yuan, an increase of 33.3% year-on-year, with a total investment of 11.08 billion yuan.
