BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Hohhot economic and technological development zone (HETDZ), one of the 230 national ETDZs approved by Chinese cabinet, the State Council, is spearheading the new development concept-led high quality development in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region currently, reported nm.people.com.cn on Saturday.
Established in 1992, the HETDZ attracted over the past three decades plenty of emerging industries programs including the foot-and mouth-disease vaccine production base, aseptic paper packaging base, mono-crystalline silicon wafer industrial base, etc.
Covering an area of 234.82 square kilometers, the HETDZ consists of four economic functional zones, the Shaerqin industrial zone, Ruyi headquarters base, national entrepreneurship park for returned overseas students and Baita airport logistics park.
In the HETDZ, new energy and new technology businesses can be seen everywhere. Huayao PV, a local solar PV R&D and manufacturing firm, is now cranking up innovation to grow its business.
In 2019, the company invested one billion yuan in a 3GW mono-crystalline silicon wafer production program and currently, its annual output capacity of mono-crystalline silicon wafers reaches about 600 million pieces, with annual sales revenue in 2021 at 2.5 billion yuan.
Now, the company is constructing the phase II project, which, after put into operation, can help it realize fully automated operation, said Liu Dangqi, assistant to general manager of Huayao PV.
Photo from nm.people.cn shows the mono-crystalline silicon wafer production workshop of Huayao PV.
By far, HETDZ has grown as a model zone driven by new industries, reform and opening up, innovation, pleasant business environment and green development in Hohhot and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Photo from nm.people.cn shows the construction site of an expressway linking with the new airport in Hohhot.
All of these are inseparable to efforts of the zone in boosting high-quality development. Since 2022, 40 investment promotion work groups have been founded by the zone to attract investors in biomedicine, equipment manufacturing, new energy and new materials industries to extend, complement and strengthen local industrial chains.
In the first half of 2022, HETDZ inked agreements for 55 programs involving a total investment of 90.9 billion yuan and by August 6, there were still 45 projects under negotiation, which are expected to bring about 105 billion yuan of investment. (Edited by Duan Jing with Xinhua Silk Road, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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