China County Economic Observation - "Zhaoqing City's main force in promoting new industrialization and municipal sub-central city" Sihui City
Original Guangdong Think Tank
September 04, 2024 18:00 Guangdong, China
"Sihui City, "Zhaoqing City's main force in promoting new industrialization and municipal sub-central city"
1. Overview of Sihui City
Sihui City is located in the west of central Guangdong Province, on the lower reaches of the West, North and Suisan Rivers. It borders Sanshui District of Foshan City to the east, Dinghu District of Zhaoqing City to the south, Guangning County to the northwest, and Qingxin District of Qingyuan City to the northeast. Belonging to the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, it is the east gate and economic central area of Zhaoqing City, the leading city of the Suijiang Economic Corridor, and the transportation hub from the Pearl River Delta to western Guangdong and Guangxi. The total area of Sihui (including Dawang Subdistrict) is 1,262.97 square kilometers.
Sihui City has good transportation advantages. Four expressways, two vertical and two horizontal, converge in Sihui. There are a total of 11 expressway entrances and exits, and every town has been connected to the expressway. The Guangzhou-Foshan-Zhaozhou intercity light rail, Guiyang-Guangzhou Railway, and Sanmao Railway pass through it. Relying on the two golden waterways of Xijiang and Beijiang, it can reach the river and the sea, and can directly sail to Hong Kong and Macao. Sihui City is about a 30-minute drive from Zhaoqing East Railway Station and about an hour's drive from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. It belongs to the Guangzhou-Foshan-Zhaozhou 1-hour traffic circle.
Sihui City has been ranked among the top 100 counties in China for county development potential, the top 100 counties and cities in the country for green development, the top 100 counties and cities in the country for investment potential, the top 100 counties and cities in the country for scientific and technological innovation, the top 100 counties and cities in the country for the quality of new urbanization, and the top 100 counties and cities nationwide for the quality of new urbanization. Honorary titles such as the city's top 100 e-commerce competitiveness samples.
At the end of 2023, Sihui City's permanent population was 653,500, including 472,300 urban permanent residents, and the urbanization rate of the permanent population was 72.28%. The per capita disposable income of residents was 40,495 yuan, an increase of 3.4% over the previous year. Looking at urban and rural areas, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 43,997 yuan, an increase of 3.0%; the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 31,801 yuan, an increase of 4.3%.
2. Overview of Sihui City’s Economic Development
1、GDP
In 2023, Sihui City will achieve a regional GDP of 75.915 billion yuan, an increase of 1.9% over the previous year. Among them, the added value of the primary industry was 7.365 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.8%; the added value of the secondary industry was 40.220 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 0.4%; the added value of the tertiary industry was 28.331 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.7%. The proportion of the three industrial structures is 9.7:53.0:37.3.
Figure 1 Sihui City’s GDP and growth rate from 2019 to 2023
Data source: Sihui City Statistical Bulletin, compiled by Guangdong Incubation Think Tank. (2022-2023 includes Dawang Street data)
Figure 2 The three major industrial structures of Sihui City’s regional GDP from 2019 to 2023
Data source: Sihui City Statistical Bulletin, compiled by Guangdong Incubation Think Tank. (2022-2023 includes Dawang Street data)
2、fiscal revenue and expenditure
In 2023, Sihui City's general public budget revenue was 4.864 billion yuan, an increase of 43.3% over the previous year; of which tax revenue was 2.841 billion yuan, an increase of 7.0%. The annual general public budget expenditure was 10.534 billion yuan, an increase of 35.9%. Expenditures on people's livelihood were 8.680 billion yuan, accounting for 82.4% of the general public budget expenditures.
Table 1 Main economic indicators in the fiscal field of Sihui City from 2021 to 2023
Data source: Sihui City Statistical Bulletin, compiled by Guangdong Incubation Think Tank. (2022-2023 includes Dawang Street data)
3、fixed asset investment
In 2023, Sihui City’s annual fixed asset investment dropped by 22.4% compared with the previous year. Among fixed asset investments, infrastructure investment increased by 11.0%, accounting for 30.0% of fixed asset investments; among them, investment in the production and supply of electricity, gas and water increased by 57.0%, and investment in road transportation increased by 32.9%. Private investment accounts for 66.4% of fixed asset investment, industrial investment accounts for 59.0% of fixed asset investment, high-tech manufacturing investment accounts for 4.6% of fixed asset investment, and advanced manufacturing investment accounts for 4.6% of fixed asset investment. 18.5%.
Figure 3 Growth rate of fixed asset investment in Sihui City and Zhaoqing City from 2019 to 2023
Data source: Sihui City Statistical Bulletin, compiled by Guangdong Incubation Think Tank. (2022-2023 includes Dawang Street data)
4、Domestic trade
In 2023, the total retail sales of consumer goods in Sihui City was 45.157 billion yuan, an increase of 5.3% over the previous year.
Figure 4 Total retail sales and growth rate of consumer goods in Sihui City from 2019 to 2023
Data source: Sihui City Statistical Bulletin, compiled by Guangdong Incubation Think Tank. (2022-2023 includes Dawang Street data)
5、Foreign Economy
In 2023, the total import and export volume of Sihui City's foreign trade will be 22.179 billion yuan, an increase of 1.2% over the previous year. Among them, exports will be 15.604 billion yuan, an increase of 6.6%; imports will be 6.575 billion yuan, a decrease of 9.5%. The total cross-border e-commerce import and export volume will be 2.7 billion yuan, an increase of 134.1%. Figure 5 2019-2023 Sihui City's total import and export volume and growth rate data source: Sihui City Statistical Bulletin, Guangdong Incubation Think Tank. (2022-20223 includes Dawang Street data)
3. Characteristics of Sihui City's industrial development
Sihui City adheres to the concept of "industry first, manufacturing first" and implements the strategy of industrial strengthening in depth. Gather advantageous and characteristic industries such as copper and aluminum processing, fine chemicals, electronic information, green building materials, food and beverage pre-prepared dishes, vigorously develop strategic emerging industries such as new energy vehicles and auto parts, new energy storage, cutting-edge new materials, and high-end equipment manufacturing, actively introduce and cultivate future industries such as artificial intelligence and low-altitude economy, and use the jade industry to lead the integration of multiple formats and industries such as e-commerce live broadcasting and characteristic cultural tourism, and strive to be the main force in promoting new industrialization in Zhaoqing City.
1. Industrial added value
In 2023, the total industrial added value of Sihui City will increase by 0.5% over the previous year, and the added value of industries above designated size will increase by 1.2%.
Figure 6 Growth rate of industrial added value above designated size in Sihui City and Zhaoqing City from 2019 to 2023
Data source: Statistical Bulletin of Sihui City, compiled by Guangdong Incubation Think Tank. (Including Dawang Street data from 2022 to 2023)
2. Leading enterprises
In terms of leading enterprises, as of August 2024, Sihui City has 3 A-share listed companies, 9 provincial manufacturing single champions, 5 specialized and innovative small giants, and 130 specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.
Table 2 Situation of key enterprises (partial) in Sihui City
4. Industrial Development Plan of Sihui City
Sihui adheres to the principle of industry first and manufacturing first, implements the strategy of industrial strengthening, promotes the high-end, intelligent and green development of traditional industries, optimizes and upgrades the industrial chain, strives to build a high-quality modern industrial system that combines resource endowment and adapts to ecological functions, builds a new engine for the Zhaoqing Happiness Industrial Cluster and the main position of the Xijiang Advanced Manufacturing Corridor, and strives to build a solid foundation for the real economy.
1. Promote the optimization and upgrading of the industrial system
Accelerate the promotion of industrial chain and high quality, improve the elasticity and resilience of industrial development, and enhance the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the economy. Implement the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and high-standard investment promotion, promote the quality of industrial foundation and build industrial chains. Carry out quality improvement actions, promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of traditional industries such as metal processing, fine chemicals, and fishery farming, and promote integration with services. Scientifically design the industry chain, implement precise investment promotion strategies, promote the construction and optimization of the entire industrial chain, and build an industrial ecosystem. Create a new driving force engine for industrial development. Adhere to the priority development of manufacturing, the high-end development of advantageous industries, and the scale of characteristic industries, and focus on building a "1511" industrial system. Focusing on the service needs of the transformation and upgrading of agriculture and manufacturing, we will promote the extension of productive services to the high-end of the specialization and value chain such as R&D design, modern logistics, inspection and testing, accelerate the development of services such as health, elderly care, childcare, culture, tourism, sports, housekeeping, property, etc., and strengthen the supply of public welfare and basic services. Continue to implement agricultural structural reforms, promote the modernization, scale and greening of industries such as flowers, pigs, and fisheries, and create a number of demonstration parks for the integrated development of the three industries. Strengthen the guarantee and support of infrastructure such as information, transportation, water conservancy, and energy, promote the development of digitalization + industry, and upgrade the level of the industrial system.
2. Promote high-quality development of the manufacturing industry
Cultivate the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. Implement the strategic deployment of the "4+4" manufacturing cluster industry in Zhaoqing, and vigorously cultivate advanced manufacturing industry clusters with Sihui characteristics. Implement the "pillar project" to expand and strengthen the leading industries such as copper processing, aluminum processing, fine chemicals, and electronic information, form industrial clusters with reasonable industrial layout and obvious regional characteristics, and create 100 billion copper processing, 50 billion aluminum processing, 10 billion fine chemicals, and 10 billion electronic information industry clusters. Vigorously cultivate key manufacturing enterprises. Establish a cultivation pool for key manufacturing enterprises, introduce support policies, guide key enterprises such as Dazheng Aluminum and Fushi Electronics to expand their scale, and implement policies to encourage enterprises to go public. Cultivate specialized, refined, and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and introduce and cultivate a group of specialized, refined, and innovative "little giant" enterprises and single champion enterprises. Vigorously carry out key core technology research. Implement the "Strong Nuclear Project" to promote various types of innovation entities to strengthen cutting-edge technology research, enhance the "four basic" capabilities of manufacturing enterprises, such as core basic parts (components), key basic materials, advanced basic processes, and industrial technology foundations, guide and support enterprises to participate in the national and provincial "one-stop" demonstration action plans, and promote coordinated development with complete machines, systems, and complete sets of equipment. Implement the "Quality Project", carry out the "Quality Benchmark" project, build an advanced standard system for manufacturing enterprises, and encourage enterprises to lead and participate in the formulation of international, national, industry, and group standards. Gradually establish a comprehensive quality management coordination mechanism with leading enterprises as the core, covering small and micro enterprises upstream and downstream of the supply chain. Cultivate a number of regional brands and domestic first-class industrial brands such as "Sihui Mutual Inductor" and "Yili Pharmaceutical", and gradually guide the establishment of regional brand awareness and protection and support mechanisms for traditional advantageous industrial clusters. Strive to achieve more than 30% of the added value of advanced manufacturing in the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size by 2025.
Implement the "Intelligent +" action. Strengthen the basic technology and industrial support capabilities of automation, digitalization and intelligence in the manufacturing industry. Implement the action plan for intelligent transformation. Deepen the pilot demonstration of intelligent manufacturing and promote the application of industrial robots in traditional pillar industries, social livelihood and agricultural production. Promote the application of robots in new energy vehicles, electronic information and other industries, and create intelligent manufacturing demonstration enterprises such as Jintian Copper, Donghan Machinery and Yucheng New Materials. Deepen the integration of manufacturing and the Internet. Encourage and support enterprises to carry out innovative applications of the industrial Internet, carry out technical transformation and upgrading of key links and weak links in production, and carry out equipment renewal and upgrading. Promote manufacturing enterprises to "go to the cloud and platform" and gradually realize the transformation of manufacturing industry clusters to comprehensive informatization and digitalization. Vigorously develop the big data industry, establish a big data trading center and a professional big data public service platform, accelerate the development of the "three networks and one car" industry, promote the construction of the "three networks and one car" intelligent network industrial park, and create a new model city for smart travel.
3. Cultivate and expand strategic emerging industries
Cultivate a new generation of strategic emerging industries such as electronic information, new materials, new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, life and health, and focus on key industrial chains, leading enterprises, and major investment projects. Strengthen factor guarantees, promote upstream and downstream, production, supply and marketing, and large, medium and small enterprises to cooperate, accelerate the promotion of high-quality development of strategic emerging industries, and cultivate and expand new momentum for economic development. Seize the opportunities of the Greater Bay Area to build an electronic information industry cluster and Shenzhen's industrial transfer, actively participate in the gradient layout of the electronic information industry, introduce a number of high-quality projects, and strengthen our city's electronic information industry. Seize the opportunity of the epidemic to spawn a new round of development of related industries such as biomedicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and medical equipment, and cultivate industries such as biomedicine, medical equipment, and protective equipment. Connect with Shenzhen Biomedicine Incubator to explore the "incubation + transformation" and "research and development + production" biomedicine industry cooperation model. The energy-saving and environmental protection industry focuses on introducing midstream equipment manufacturing such as high-efficiency energy-saving equipment and environmental protection equipment, as well as downstream environmental protection service industries such as R&D technology and resource recycling. Promote the agglomeration, intensive clustering and development of strategic emerging industries, and optimize the spatial layout of industries. Comprehensively promote the construction of Zhaoqing (Sihui) Electronic Information Industrial Park, accelerate transformation and upgrading, build Nanjiang New Materials Industrial Park, and promote the environmental protection industry, biopharmaceuticals and other industries to gather in the Sihui Industrial Park of Zhaoqing High-tech Zone.
4. Improve the modernization level of the industrial chain
Cultivate leading enterprises in the industrial chain
Promote enterprises to strengthen R&D, improve upstream and downstream supporting facilities, make up for the shortcomings of the industrial chain, and create a full industrial ecology. Focusing on key industries such as copper processing, aluminum processing, new energy vehicles and auto parts, electronic information, new materials, fine chemicals, and biomedicine, actively introduce leading enterprises in the industrial chain, support the development and growth of existing backbone enterprises, and form a group of "chain leader" enterprises in the industrial chain. Implement the cultivation and introduction plan for key supporting enterprises in the industrial chain, and focus on key industrial chains such as intelligent manufacturing equipment (robots), new energy vehicles and parts, new energy and energy-saving and environmental protection equipment. Cultivate a group of "specialized, excellent and special" backbone enterprises with core technologies and strong competitiveness in key areas.
Implement the coordinated development strategy of the industrial chain.
Adhere to the coordinated development strategy of the industrial chain, optimize the coordinated development of the industrial chain, promote the integration of metal processing with advanced equipment manufacturing and electronic information, support the extension of the industrial chain to the downstream manufacturing industry, and cultivate and develop key automotive parts, new energy vehicles, engines, electronic control systems and other key parts production. Accelerate the layout of service-oriented manufacturing and guide the integrated development of manufacturing and service industries. Build a circular economy industrial chain, promote the upgrading of industries such as fine chemicals and metal processing, achieve green and low-carbon circular development, and build a green coordinated development pattern for fine chemicals and metal processing industries. Increase support for enterprise technological transformation and support the research and development and industrialization of core products. Focus on the industrial chain investment promotion around the fine chemical industry, and gather to create a "leading project-industrial chain-industrial cluster" development model.
5. Optimize and improve modern service industry
Implement the action plan for improving the quality of modern service industry, vigorously cultivate new formats and new models, improve the level of modern service industry, and build modern service industry clusters. Focus on developing logistics economy, logistics finance, event economy, science and technology services, financial services, night economy, digital economy and cultural tourism and other service industries.
Cultivate new formats of diversified service industry.
Support the diversified development of service industry, plan to build a batch of headquarters economy such as CIMC Zhigu, gather and build building economy, and promote a variety of new formats and new businesses such as fashionable urban residences, entrepreneurship centers, and financial buildings. Develop the event economy, actively hold jade, sports and other related competitions or activities, and drive the rapid development of tourism, finance, insurance, information technology, transportation, communications and other industries. Vigorously develop the sports industry, based on the Guangdong (Sihui) International Racecourse, introduce high-end sports product formats such as equestrian sports, ATV (off-road), and low-altitude flight, and create a comprehensive high-end sports base. Actively develop "large catering" and cultivate and develop branded, chain, and large-scale catering enterprises. Optimize and develop scientific and technological services, rely on the research and development, scientific and technological finance, monitoring and certification, technology transfer and scientific and technological consulting (environmental protection services) in the development of advantageous industries such as jade, flowers, and fine chemicals, and encourage regional financial institutions to cooperate with financial institutions in the Bay Area to provide scientific and technological financial services for our city. Vigorously develop the night economy, promote the "double upgrade" of industry and consumption, promote the accelerated development of street stall economy, small store economy, and Internet celebrity economy, effectively guide the reduction of physical store rents, and accelerate the integration of online and offline development. Promote the deep integration of AR (virtual reality) and VR (augmented reality) with the service industry, and enhance the high-quality development of modern service industries. Develop commercial services, build a spatial structure of commercial outlets with "one center, two axes, two belts and five districts", improve the network system of commercial outlets in the entire region, and promote the integrated development of physical business and e-commerce. Make the digital economy bigger and stronger, and support the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy. Develop the cultural tourism industry, take the opportunity of creating and deepening the provincial full-region tourism demonstration zone, integrate tourism resources such as "Native Hometown Lingnan", "Six Patriarch Becomes Buddha", "Citrus Hometown", "Jade City", "Ancient Papermaking Culture", "One River and Two Banks", promote the deep integration of cultural tourism industry, and build a number of rural tourism demonstration projects such as Fishing Bay Node and Zen Baolin around rural revitalization, continuously improve and enhance the level of various infrastructure and tourism service facilities, and integrate into the construction of "World-Class Tourism Zone in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area".
Promote the high-end development of the logistics industry.
Focusing on the spatial layout of logistics nodes in Zhaoqing's "one core and four centers with full coverage", accelerate the creation of our city's "hub + channel + network" logistics operation system. Improve the urban and rural logistics distribution system, vigorously develop new formats such as supply chain logistics, unmanned logistics, bonded logistics, cold chain logistics, enhance logistics distribution capabilities, and build a regional logistics hub center radiating the southwest. We will make every effort to promote the modern logistics industry, accelerate the planning and construction of the modern logistics park in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area based on Sihui Port, focus on high value-added modern logistics formats such as bonded logistics and supply chain management, focus on the construction of Zhaoqing Sihui Bonded Logistics Center (Type B), and vigorously develop the logistics economy; support the development of the express delivery industry, promote the extension of the express delivery industry to the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and promote the coordinated development of the express delivery industry with e-commerce, advanced manufacturing, modern agriculture, and finance. We will make full use of the new opportunities of Zhaoqing's approval as a comprehensive pilot zone for cross-border e-commerce, strive to enjoy convenient preferential policies such as tax exemption without invoices, tax assessment and collection, customs facilitation, and relaxation of import supervision, accelerate the development of supporting industries such as logistics warehousing, e-commerce platforms, financial guarantees, and third-party services in our city, comprehensively improve the level of cross-border e-commerce, and further guide the comprehensive development of cross-border e-commerce in our city.
Actively develop the happiness and health care industry.
Relying on the transportation advantages of Shantou-Zhanjiang Expressway and the good ecological and cultural resources in the northwest, we will fully integrate the cultural, ecological, sports, medical and other resources of Huangtian Town, Shigou Town, Zhenshan Street, Xiamao Town, Jianggu Town, Didou Town, Luoyuan Town, Weizheng Town and other places along the line, create distinctive health care industry nodes, develop a "health care +" industry belt based on nourishing the heart and body, promote the deep integration of health care with culture, ecology and sports, build a happy health care industry belt, and create a Nanyue Zen jade cultural tourism health care base. Relying on the Huangtian Youth Campus Football Training Base and the unique topography of Weizheng Qishi River, we will develop outdoor health products such as mountain sports, outdoor sports, outdoor hiking, and outdoor expansion sports, actively cooperate with associations at all levels to hold youth football matches, mountain bike open and other sports events, and develop sports health care industry. Deeply explore and promote Zen jade culture, national orchid culture, and red culture, connect to form a thousand-year cultural heritage and cultivate the mind and nature cultural health care corridor, and build Sihui Ancient Town Road. Accelerate the construction of forest towns, relying on the good ecological foundation of forest towns such as Didou Town in the northeast area and high-quality tourism resources such as Sakura Valley, Qingxin Yayuan, and Jianggu Reservoir, give full play to the good medical resource foundation of Jianggu Second People's Hospital, introduce and build a high-quality, comprehensive medical and health service system, and develop a new comprehensive elderly care industry for rehabilitation, travel and elderly care, and leisure and vacation. Build a health care manufacturing industry, with Yili Pharmaceutical, Jinfuyu Health Care and other companies as the leader, to drive the development of biopharmaceuticals, medical equipment and other industries. Introduce Guangzhou Marshal Biotechnology Co., Ltd. to invest in building a stem cell technology application platform, and cultivate a life and health industry that combines genetic testing, precision medicine, and elderly care.
6. Deeply build jade culture characteristic industries
Build a jade culture industry ecosystem.
Promote the deep integration of jade with the Internet, finance, exhibitions, tourism, etc., and create a high-quality jade industry ecosystem. Make every effort to build a jade cultural town and make the jade industry the largest happy industry in Zhaoqing. Strengthen the upgrading of the jade industry, support the development of the entire jade industry chain, optimize the jade processing industry, strengthen the collaborative innovation of production, learning and research with universities such as Zhaoqing College, promote the industry to extend to upstream R&D design and downstream derivatives, and consolidate and optimize the jade R&D design, production and processing, and jade culture experience industry chain. Promote the integrated development of the jade industry with youth groups, cultural creativity, etc., and open up a jade consumer group dominated by young people. Gradually cultivate and form local jade cultural symbols and create jade-exclusive cultural and creative products. Actively carry out jade cultural activities, regularly carry out "jade public auctions", and hold a series of activities such as jade culture festivals and jade product exhibitions. Strengthen the docking and interaction between the jade industry and state-owned enterprises such as Sihui Guangbao Trading Center. Promote the integration of the jade industry and the financial industry, introduce various financial institutions to provide financing services such as guarantees and mortgages for jade enterprises, and develop customized financial insurance services for the trade of high-end jade products.
Improve scientific and effective management systems.
Strengthen the management of the jade professional market, and further standardize the jade professional market, live broadcast economy, and industry management mechanisms. Establish and improve the jade live broadcast management mechanism, introduce standards and mechanisms for the live broadcast bases of e-commerce cooperation platforms such as Taobao and JD.com to settle in Sihui jade physical stores, formulate e-commerce management systems and industry norms for each store, establish and improve preferential policies to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in the jade industry, and optimize and upgrade innovation and entrepreneurship bases such as the Sihui Jade Industry Youth Entrepreneurship Incubation Base. Encourage the cultivation and development of local e-commerce service platforms. Standardize various industry associations, strengthen the functions of the jewelry and jade industry association, and provide the jewelry and jade industry with all-round services such as learning exchanges, employment training, consumer dispute management, and market operations. Strengthen the awareness of intellectual property protection, and promote the application and protection of patents for jade crafts, jade carvings, etc.
Cultivate and expand the jade professional talent team.
Improve the entire education chain of the jade industry, promote the formation of a talent cultivation chain of "second classrooms" in primary and secondary schools, vocational and technical education, and scientific research incubation in colleges and universities, guide Sihui Technical Secondary School to offer vocational education such as e-commerce and live broadcast planning, and build a number of jade scientific research and innovation talent cultivation bases such as Guangdong Huashang College. Increase efforts to cultivate and protect local jade carving masters, formulate reward policies, encourage jade carving masters to pursue further studies, train apprentices, participate in professional title upgrades, etc., cultivate more provincial and national masters, and polish the golden signboard of "Lingnan Jade School Cultural and Art Inheritance Site". Optimize the talent development environment and introduce preferential policies for jade industry practitioners to settle down, educate their children, and finance.
7. Make modern agriculture better and stronger
Firmly establish and implement the concept of green development, adhere to the quality of agriculture, take the quality and safety of agricultural products as an important task to promote the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, build modern agriculture and healthy Sihui, and effectively ensure the healthy development of Sihui's agricultural industry and the public's "safety on the tip of the tongue".
Optimize the layout of agricultural industries.
Based on the "One Belt and Four Districts", highlight the advantageous industries such as branded fruits, flowers and seedlings, ecological tourism, and healthy aquatic products, and focus on creating a variety of agricultural development platforms such as characteristic industrial cultural theme agricultural parks, agricultural industrial parks, and rural complexes. Take the transformation of modern urban agricultural development methods as a starting point to promote the optimization and integrated development of industrial structure and achieve coordinated and rapid development of the three major industries. Develop the characteristic agricultural industry of "one village, one product, one town, one industry", and create a number of distinctive new agricultural professional characteristic villages, towns (streets). Develop precision agriculture, promote the development of facility agriculture, and optimize and simplify the approval process for facility agricultural land. Develop agricultural tourism, focus on developing rural leisure and sightseeing agricultural bases represented by experiential agriculture and ecological vacations, plan leisure agriculture and ecological rural tourism industries, and accelerate the construction of leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration projects such as Sihui Jianggu Country Garden.
Build a modern agricultural industry platform.
Promote the development of modern agricultural boutiques, focus on the construction of the provincial modern agricultural industrial park of tangerine, promote the transformation of scientific and technological innovation results, increase the added value of tangerine products, and drive the development of the city's agricultural industry. Build a national agricultural park, promote the creation of provincial modern agricultural industrial parks for flowers, famous aquatic products, and meat geese, and fully promote the construction of provincial agricultural science and technology parks. Focus on planning projects such as the Sihui Zhicheng Agricultural Forestry Characteristic Ecological Industrial Park, and create an agricultural forestry characteristic ecological industrial park with green forest ecology as the core, integrating planting, breeding, tourism, health care, and vacation. Solidly promote the construction of Weizheng Town's high-quality vegetable production base and Shigou Town's orchid science and technology industrial park.
Cultivate the "vegetable basket" project in the Greater Bay Area.
Accelerate the construction of a "front-store and back-field" urban agricultural market system with central cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Foshan, promote the agglomeration and development of e-commerce network platforms, commodity professional markets, and logistics companies, and promote high-quality agricultural products and green agricultural products to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Continue to expand and improve green and high-quality agricultural and sideline products such as Qingyutang high-quality aquatic products, Chengpin vegetables, and Zhengli waterfowl, create a number of "vegetable basket" project enterprises in the Greater Bay Area, and establish a green agricultural product supply base for Hong Kong and Macao. Participate in the construction of Zhaoqing (Huaiji) Green Agricultural and Sideline Products Distribution Base, give full play to the location advantages, and build our city into an important node in the green agricultural and sideline products distribution and circulation industry chain.
Strengthen agricultural product quality and safety and brand building.
Taking the opportunity of creating a national agricultural product quality and safety county, vigorously promote standardized production, green development, large-scale operation, brand creation, and legal supervision. Establish an agricultural product quality and safety testing system, build a traceability standard system, establish a traceability linkage mechanism, promote the application of the national traceability platform, and carry out agricultural product quality and safety supervision, monitoring, law enforcement, and traceability business applications. Strengthen agricultural brand building, promote modern seed industry projects, promote standardized breeding, strengthen the certification of "three products and one standard" such as pollution-free agricultural products, green food, organic agricultural products and agricultural product geographical indications, and strive to create provincial famous brand products and famous, special and new agricultural products.
Strengthen the agricultural support and guarantee system.
Strengthen the promotion and application of agricultural science and technology, and strengthen the demonstration and promotion of new agricultural machinery and equipment in the main production links of key industries such as rice, fruit, and animal husbandry. Develop digital agriculture, promote the construction of the "5G+Smart Agriculture" system, and accelerate the application of modern information technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, blockchain, artificial intelligence, 5G, and smart meteorology in the agricultural field. Improve the comprehensive grain production capacity, ensure food security and the effective supply of important agricultural products, and establish and improve the food security guarantee system. Establish agricultural industry development support funds, establish a loan investment and risk compensation mechanism for new rural production and operation projects, and support new agricultural operators to develop characteristic industries. Strengthen agricultural financial services, implement tax incentives for small loans for farmers, expand financing channels for agricultural enterprises and family farms, accelerate the promotion of mortgage financing for greenhouses, breeding pens, large agricultural machinery, and land management rights in accordance with laws and regulations, actively explore local specialty insurance products, and expand the scope of agricultural insurance services.
Promote the modernization of animal husbandry.
Accelerate the restoration of animal husbandry production and management dominated by pigs, and vigorously develop large-scale green breeding of livestock and poultry. Introduce agricultural group companies such as New Hope, Wen's, and Haida to promote park-based, standardized, and industrialized breeding. Promote the agricultural product processing industry, improve the processing technology of specialty agricultural products, create agricultural product processing brands, and support the development of agricultural product processing parks.
Figure 7 Modern Industrial System of Sihui City
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