Background of the Establishment of Jingjiang Park of Jiangyin Economic Development Zone in Jiangsu Province

The background of the establishment of the park is the linkage development of Jiangyin and Jingjiang. on February 15, 2003, the cities of Jingjiang and Jiangyin signed the Agreement on the Establishment of Jiangyin Economic Development Zone Jingjiang Park. This marks the substantial progress in the implementation of the linkage development of Jingjiang and Jiangyin on both sides of the river, taking the first step to break the boundaries of administrative divisions within the Yangtze River Delta, seeking *** with the development of the first step of great innovative significance.

The great river, naturally delineated the southern Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu two geographic concepts, but also become a watershed of the two cultural regions, economic regions. Southern Jiangsu inherited the affluence of the civilization of Wuyue and beautiful, in the reform and opening up to develop a market economy today is really a step ahead of the others, technology, while most of the northern Jiangsu Province is due to the backwardness of the foundation, geographic remoteness and the concept of lagging behind with the southern Jiangsu Province, there is a large gap. In this regard, although located in the north of Jiangsu Province, but with the south of Jiangsu Province has a thousand links Jingjiang people, it is inevitable that a complex mood to cast their eyes to the south of Jiangsu Province again and again. Historical records show that Jingjiang has been under the jurisdiction of Jiangyin almost all the time before the county was established; after the county was established in 1471, until the end of the 1920s, it still belonged to Changzhou Prefecture together with Jiangyin. Most of the dialects and customs of the Jingjiang area are similar to those of Jiangyin, so it can be said that "the geographic proximity and humanities", and the people of the two places have a very strong cultural identity.

Jiangyin Bridge was completed and opened to traffic in 1999, which not only stimulated the "Southern Jiangsu complex" of Jingjiang people, but also renewed the ambition of Jingjiang people to "catch up with Southern Jiangsu and run for prosperity". According to the grand urban development plan, the party and government leaders of Jingjiang led the people of the city to accelerate the construction of "one city, one district and one belt". In just over two years, Jingjiang basically completed the standardized construction of the 100-mile river embankment, widened and hardened the riverfront highway, initially started the development zone along the river roads, wharves, warehousing projects for the development of economic zones along the river has laid a certain foundation. Limited to financial resources, Jingjiang 100 miles of Yangtze River shoreline, there are 40 kilometers to be developed.

And a river away from Jiangyin, after years of development along the river, has long been a national class of open ports on the Yangtze River Jiangyin Yangtze River banks are full of wharves, enterprises are densely populated, a total of 35 kilometers of the Yangtze River shoreline resources are almost exhausted. Not only that, Jiangyin City in 2002 to achieve GDP 36.5 billion yuan, five times more than Jingjiang, and for three consecutive years, the fiscal revenue in Jiangsu Province. The city has 79 industrial enterprises with profits and taxes exceeding 10 million yuan and 10 listed companies.

Jiangyin has the desire to expand outward, Jingjiang has the thirst for investment. The surging tide of regional economic development impacted the old system, calling for innovation in thinking, the powerful gravitational pull of the market economy pulling the rational allocation of market factors and flow. The economic development of the gap and the utilization of the shoreline of the contrast between the two sides of the cross-river cooperation is undoubtedly pushed on the important agenda of the leadership of the two places. Historical origin and cultural identity, and make many people in Jingjiang optimistic. 2001 December 15, Jingjiang, Jiangyin two cities took the initiative to break the administrative boundaries, set up "along the river to promote the development of the Association", in the north of the river along the coast of the planning of the 10 square kilometers of "along the river new material Industrial Park", reached a specific intention of joint development. The then Secretary of Jiangsu Province, Hui Liangyu after hearing instructions that this move "to break the regional division, administrative division, the formation of interest as a bond *** with the development and prosperity is a good attempt." Appreciate this is "smart, enlightened move, itself is a major innovation."

Subsequently, Jingjiang, Jiangyin, the two places to establish a regular exchange and consultation system, Jingjiang sent two batches of 10 cadres above the level of deputy section to Jiangyin training; Jiangyin city government officials have introduced Korean businessmen, Taiwan businessmen, Hong Kong businessmen and Jiangyin eight listed companies responsible for the field trip to Jingjiang. In order to respond to and converge with Jiangyin's development planning along the river, Jingjiang compiled and revised the "Jingjiang City along the river development plan", planned along the river storage terminal area, bridge tourism area, new materials industrial park, heavy chemical industrial park, and Jiangyin a reasonable division of labor, staggered development; April 2002, the two cities and signed the "port opening cooperation agreement", the Jingjiang port into the scope of management of the Jiangyin port in order to make full use of the port opening resources approved Jiangyin. approved port opening resources. Ltd. also decided to invest 7 city buses specifically for cross-strait passenger transportation to facilitate the interaction and communication between the people of the two places. on August 8, 2002, Jiangyin and Jingjiang shook hands again and signed a memorandum on the joint development of the Jingjiang Park in the Jiangyin Economic Development Zone, which provided a consultation on the site planning, industrial layout, and the form of development of the park.

In the two governments actively work at the same time, some entrepreneurs in Jiangyin is to grasp the favorable opportunity to cast an eager eye on the opposite bank of the Jingjiang. March 3, 2002, covers an area of 120 acres, an investment of 120 million of Jiangsu in fuel oil storage and transportation limited company of 30,000 tons of oil transport terminal construction; Jiangsu Changbo Investment Co. Ltd. decided to shift the focus of development to Jingjiang comprehensively, within five years to complete the acquisition and integration of Jingjiang Jiuwei steam ferry, the construction of 10,000-ton ship platforms, logistics terminals, and so on, is expected to reach a total investment of 300 million yuan; Jiangsu Shuangliang Group in the purchase of 100 acres of land in Jingjiang, ready to be used for the development of along the river; Yangtzijiang Shipyard, Jiangsu Sumida Shipbuilding Engineering Company Limited and other enterprises are also investing in one after another across the river. The joint development of the two places makes the enterprise's development enthusiasm unprecedentedly high. As of the end of 2002, Jiangyin in Jingjiang along the river area investment has amounted to more than 300 million yuan. In the ascendant cross-river "hand in hand" action, Jingjiang has undoubtedly been benefited!

February 15, 2003, "on the establishment of Jiangyin Economic Development Zone, Jingjiang Park Agreement" was formally signed. Agreement clearly: Jiangyin Economic Development Zone Jingjiang Park is located in the town of eight Wei, west to the next four Wei port, east to the old ten Wei port, the overall planning of 60 square kilometers or so, the first phase of implementation of 8.6 square kilometers. Park in accordance with the "unified planning, step-by-step implementation, government-driven, market operation, closed operation, rolling development" principle, economic affairs by the Jiangyin Economic Development Zone is responsible for social affairs by the Jingjiang entrusted to the park management. In the agreement, Jiangyin Municipal People's Government promises that it will not take investment income from the park within ten years, and that the income of the investment company will be retained with tax revenue, and all of it will be left in the rolling development of the park. The people's government of Jingjiang promised not to collect any fees from the park within ten years.

532 years ago, Jingjiang Jiangyin once **** with living in a "big family"; 532 years later, the signing of Jingjiang Park and Jingjiang, Jiangyin tightly linked together. Jingjiang, Jiangyin two cities in the province took the lead in the signing of the cross-river linkage development agreement, this pioneering move, is conducive to the two sides of the integration of resources, complementary advantages, *** with the development, is conducive to the development of Jingjiang leverage, staggered development, innovation and development, is Jingjiang seize the opportunity to accelerate the development of the historical choice. It will undoubtedly greatly promote the development of Jingjiang along the river, the city's southern shift and economic development, the early realization of the Jingjiang people's "Jiangnan dream".

After the signing of the contract, a Jingjiang leader recited a poem filled out by the poet Zhu Genxun, "The Song of Water - He Jiangyin and Jingjiang Linkage Development Launch":

"*** Drinking water from the Yangtze River, the words of all the Wu. Look at the mountains at hand north and south, the opposite bank of a reed sail. Both road and bridge connection, but also see the short and long complement each other, the development of the domain without boundaries, won the 10,000 homes, lights reflecting the two rivers. Old dreams, today's thinking, now a good prescription. Thousands of years of sleep fertile ground, the advantages are being promoted, should believe that the intelligent masters, dare to come up with a strange plan, a cannon shock hillock, look beyond the clouds and sky, the benefit is not unusual."