Peisu County Economic Comparative Advantage Huarong Speeds Up The Transformation To A Modern Industrial County

Huarong County, with two "heaven sent waters" of the Yangtze River and Dongting, is very rich in the agricultural economy era, and is a typical agricultural county and flood stricken county. In recent years, the county has continued to make up for the shortcomings of industrial development, continue to shape the comparative advantage of the county economy, accelerate the transformation from a traditional agricultural county to a modern industrial county, and the textile and clothing, food processing, equipment manufacturing, energy logistics and other industries are developing well.

Enter a new stage——

Break the "trapped by water" and speed up the "thriving by water"

Huarong used to be "trapped by water", and the conditions for industrial development were insufficient. The county has persevered in building the foundation for long-term benefits, strengthening the supporting environment, continuing to cultivate the advantages of resources and energy, transportation location, industrial supporting facilities, etc., and constantly improving the industrial carrying capacity.

Huarong is the first county where the Yangtze River flows into Hunan and the first station of Haoji Railway in Hunan. The coal transportation distance is short and the water transportation cost is low. Huarong Coal Hot Metal Combined Transport Storage and Distribution Base, which was built by Shaanxi Yulin Energy with an investment of 3.676 billion yuan, has a designed annual turnover of 50 million tons of coal, and is striving to launch the first ship of coal by the end of the year. As one of the coal distribution systems of Haoji Railway approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, the project can take advantage of the combined transportation advantages of Huarong Highway, Railway and Water to radiate high-quality coal to the whole province and become an important coal storage and distribution base in our province. Guoneng Yueyang Power Plant, invested 7.24 billion yuan by National Energy Group, is planned to be put into operation in October this year. It is expected that the annual average power generation of Phase I will exceed 8 billion kWh, becoming an important power supply support for North Hunan Power Grid. Relying on these two major energy projects, Huarong can provide the province with high-quality coal and power security from Shaanxi and other western regions, and become a "mobile coal mine" and "power energy base". At the same time, these projects have also laid the resource and energy foundation for the industrial development of the county, and have the conditions to develop energy based and water biased industries.

The flood control levee of Huarong first line is 325 kilometers long, accounting for about 1/10 of Hunan Province and 1/3 of Yueyang City. Influenced by Dongting Lake and the south-north support of the Yangtze River, Huarong has always been a flood ravaged place and a key area for flood control. Every year, it has to go through the "big test" for flood control, which consumes great energy of cadres and the masses. Since the "13th Five Year Plan", Huarong has put "water control" in a prominent position, invested more than 7 billion yuan, and has successively built a series of key water conservancy projects, such as the Liumen Gate waterlogging drainage project, the flood storage safety zone, and the northern water supply, which has greatly improved the county's flood control and security capabilities. In 2020, Huarong ushered in the flood with the longest duration and the largest amount of water since this century, and achieved a major victory of "no surprise and no risk".

Facing the surrounding areas across the water, it was once Huarong's "short board". The county has comprehensively promoted the construction of docks, roads and railways, and the traffic is gradually developing towards multimodal transport and speediness. At present, Hangzhou Ruili, Huachang, Yueyi "cross" high-speed and Haoji railway have all been put into operation, which can meet the requirements of highway, railway and water combined transportation by the end of the year. Changyue Jiulong High speed Railway has entered the 14th Five Year Plan for National Railway Development and the 14th Five Year Plan for the Development of Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River. The construction of Xiantao Jianli Section of Wuhan Guiyang High speed Railway has started, and the construction of Jingzhou Libu Yangtze River Bridge of Jingzhou Yuechang High speed Railway has started. Huarong is expected to become a cross shaped hub of high-speed railway.

The population of Huarong County has exceeded 200000, which can form a strong agglomeration effect of self accumulation and self circulation. The county regards education, medical care, etc. as both important livelihood facts and important supporting facilities for industrial development. A total of more than 2 billion yuan has been invested in the construction or expansion of 12 urban schools, the transformation of more than 80 rural schools, the construction of 5 urban hospitals, the transformation of more than 10 township health centers, the introduction of high-quality residential areas such as Country Garden, Jinke, and large urban complexes such as step by step, the housing price remains at a low level, and efforts have been made to create a social environment for living and working in peace and contentment. In addition, the county has also accelerated the transformation of government functions, established and improved "caring, face-to-face" shareholder service and other mechanisms, and strived to create a brand of business environment that is "elegant and thoughtful". Last year, Huarong's business environment assessment was rated as the sixth in the province and the first in Yueyang City, and was rewarded by the provincial government for its hard work. It is easy to go to school, convenient to get medical treatment, good life and near employment. It has become a reality in Huarong. In recent years, as the birth rate has generally declined, Huarong has added more than 5000 new students in urban areas and more than 1000 in rural areas every year. More and more people from other places choose to work and start businesses in the county.

Historically, industrial civilization has flourished with water. Huarong's "water disaster" is becoming "water conservancy". Without energy, it has become an important energy base in China. The traffic is inconvenient, but it has become an important regional transportation hub. The development conditions of Huarong industry have gradually improved, and the foundation for transformation and development has been laid in an all-round way.

Cultivate new momentum——

Promote the upgrading of traditional industries such as food and textile with green and intelligent technology

Huarong adheres to industrial development measures such as investment promotion in the industrial chain, double the number of excellent enterprises, and clean up inefficient enterprises, speeds up the replacement of traditional industrial machines, digital empowerment, and intensive cultivation to promote industrial upgrading.

From August 7 to 9 this year, Huarong County held the "Snowflake Night" Huarong Beer Festival during the Dongting fishing and fire season, attracting more than 100000 tourists and consumers from local and surrounding areas, and the average daily beer sales increased by more than 50% compared with normal days. Good water produces good wine. CR Snow Beer is the first state-owned enterprise introduced by the county. Last year, the enterprise used canning technology to produce a "second child", and added a production line of 60000 cans per hour. It is expected that the tax revenue this year will exceed 100 million yuan. Through the holding of the Beer Festival, enterprises are planning to use new technologies to breed a "third child" and further expand production capacity.

Through continuous improvement of equipment, process and intelligent manufacturing level, Kechuang Textile has reduced the labor consumption per 10000 spindles from more than 200 people to more than 20 people. At the same time, it has developed roof photovoltaic technology, which can generate 9 million kilowatt hours of power independently every year, and save about 2500 tons of standard coal annually, becoming a well-known "green factory" and "unmanned workshop". As a famous cotton textile city in China, the textile industry is Huarong's first 10 billion yuan industry. However, the textile industry in this county is short of printing and dyeing. Huarong's choice is not to integrate vertically but horizontally, and to expand the industrial scale first. In 2017, Huarong set up the first county-level industry guidance fund in the province, invested 30 million yuan in Kechuang Textile and Kelika Textile respectively, guided enterprises to replace machines and digital empowerment, and made every effort to promote the transformation of the textile industry from labor-intensive to technology intensive. The two enterprises have completed Phase II and Phase III construction, and are planning to implement Phase IV construction. This year, the scale of Huarong spinning has increased to 1 million spindles, accounting for 1/4 of the province. The output of knitting yarn and denim yarn ranks first in the province.

Mustard is another card of Huarong. The county adheres to the industrial thinking and market approach, promotes the transformation of traditional crafts to modern processing technology, family businesses to modern corporate governance structure, popularity to reputation, and accelerates the march to 10 billion industries. Since 2022, the county has built 230000 cubic meters of standard pickling tanks, set up a mustard inspection and testing center, more than 20 mustard processing enterprises have access to the "transparent factory" and big data supervision platform, and 22 enterprises have accelerated the "machine replacement". Hualong Pickled Vegetable Co., Ltd. promotes the expansion of Huarong mustard industry chain to the catering industry, and plans to open 500 robot Pickled Vegetable Noodles nationwide this year. Pengsheng Food will rely on the Huarong Mustard R&D Center of Dongting Laboratory to develop new products, achieve an annual output value of more than 1 billion yuan, and accelerate the layout of prefabricated vegetable racetracks.

Dig the resource advantages to the extreme and turn them into development victories. Huarong vigorously excavates the resources of fellow villagers, establishes the industrial layout map, industrial association map, capacity expansion and quality improvement enterprise library, transformation and relocation enterprise library of fellow villagers, and precisely carries out planned investment attraction. Since 2016, the county has signed nearly 50 projects annually, attracting about 8 billion yuan of contract investment.

Recently, Huarong textile industry has been selected into the 2023 provincial county foreign trade characteristic industrial cluster and the 2023 industrial cluster competition winner list, and has been awarded the second batch of innovative counties (cities, districts) in the province. The total number of specialized and special new "little giant" enterprises in the county has reached 3 national level, 14 provincial level, and the total number of state-owned enterprises has reached 7, Seven private enterprises have entered the listing backup database... Behind the report card of Liangli, it is the reward of Huarong that has always maintained its astute transformation and determination.

Build a new pattern——

Strengthen equipment manufacturing, energy logistics and other emerging competitive industries with industrial chain thinking

Thinking determines the way out, and transformation will bring about a turnaround. During the "14th Five Year Plan" period, Huarong will strive to build an industrial belt from the county seat to the Yangtze River Terminal, build an energy logistics center around Dongting Lake and a trade and consumption center along the Hunan Hubei border, and embark on the journey of "five years as a framework" in accordance with the steps of "laying a foundation in three years, forming a framework in five years, and achieving transformation in ten years".

Huarong High tech Zone will be upgraded to a provincial high-tech industrial development zone in 2021, with a total area of 1027.88 hectares, forming a "one zone and three parks" pattern of Sanfeng Industrial Park, Shifu Industrial Park (including Yangjiaqiao Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park) and Hongshantou Industrial Park. According to the industrial development, Huarong is further clarifying the functional division of the park. Each park highlights a leading industry, develops textile and clothing, equipment manufacturing, and energy logistics industries, and constantly improves the load-bearing framework of the park.

Huarong accelerated the improvement of its industrial development framework. Strengthen chain thinking, adhere to the industrial chain investment attraction, the fission of leading enterprises, and constantly improve the local supporting rate.

Huichuan Technology is a leader in industrial automation control and drive technology, founded by Zhu Xingming, a fellow villager of Huarong. In 2021, Huichuan Technology will invest in the construction of Huichuan servo motor production and sales base in Yueyang. Huarong uses its agglomeration effect to cooperate with Lingang New Area to build supporting industrial parks and vigorously introduce associated enterprises. At present, Huarong Huichuan Supporting Industrial Park has settled 13 affiliated enterprises with a total investment of 2.623 billion yuan.

Qinfeng Robot Company, founded by Huarong Xiangyou in Guangdong, was still a small and micro enterprise in 2016. Huarong sees the technological advantages of the enterprise and introduces fellow villagers to return to their hometown to start their own businesses. After returning to Huarong, the county supported the introduction of 8 upstream and downstream enterprises to form an industrial alliance. At the same time, it provided itself with supporting facilities to expand the profit link and space. The profits of enterprises far exceeded the profits of the original assembly industry in Guangdong. At present, a swing arm stamping robot produced by the enterprise accounts for about 70% of the domestic market share.

At the same time, Huarong also uses its resource advantages to embed the existing industries into the surrounding industrial layout, and expand and extend the industrial chain. For example, seize the opportunity of northern coal power entering Hunan, strive for the landing of power plant phase II and coal "entering the river from the sea", and build a comprehensive energy base for solar thermal power generation, storage and transmission in Dongting Lake region and the whole province; Actively strive for the implementation of coal chemical industrial park, efficiently use thermal power by-products, and develop thermal power related industries; Explore ways to undertake downstream chemical industry, develop chemical fiber textile, engineering plastics and other industries, and embed Yueyang petrochemical industry layout; Explore the integrated development of equipment manufacturing, food processing, textile and clothing, and improve the relevance of local industries.

Huarong accelerates the construction of platform framework. Not long ago, Huarong High tech Zone was awarded the Hunan Pilot Free Trade Zone Coordination Zone, which can share the policy dividends of the free trade zone, the comprehensive bonded zone and the China Africa Industrial and Trade Park. This is the policy platform carefully built by Huarong. The industry guidance fund is a fund platform, which takes the government's support for enterprises as market-oriented investment, so that the government can increase credit for enterprises and form a leverage effect. The science and technology platform has built a mustard inspection and testing center and a Huarong mustard research and development center of Dongting Laboratory (food engineering). It is applying for the Yueyang Food Engineering Technician College, striving for a scientific and technological incubator, helping to break through the breakpoints and blockages in the industrial chain, and improving the local conversion rate of research and development achievements.

On the road of transformation, Huarong pays more attention to improving the framework of urban and rural integration. The county insists on developing agriculture with industrialized thinking, building rural areas with urban operation methods, and organizing farmers with a large collective mechanism, so as to realize the simultaneous promotion of economic development and social governance. The county has built 6 beautiful towns, 35 beautiful rural demonstration villages, and 12 "forest towns" and "green villages". Baling Village and Nanzhu Village in Yushan Town have been respectively rated as the national "one village, one product" demonstration village, and China's beautiful leisure village. Lianhuayan Village in Sanfengsi Town has been selected as a typical case of the national village level "civilized township style construction", Tuhuhuan Village in Wanyu Town has recently been recommended as a national model village for rural governance.

At present, Huarong is seizing the opportunity to accelerate the construction of the flood storage safety zone, making innovative use of the "land ticket" system, striving for the trading policy of cultivated land indicators and carbon indicators, establishing a modern agricultural zone in the area adjacent to Dongting Lake, realizing mechanization and large-scale functional zoning, promoting "becoming stronger towards water", and building a new spatial pattern for Huarong's development.

The Jianghu is beautiful and beautiful!

Strive for a new journey and show new achievements. In 2025, Huarong will strive to achieve three industries with an output value of more than 10 billion yuan, cultivate more than 10 enterprises with an output value of more than 1 billion yuan, cultivate more than one local listed company, and break through 1 billion yuan in industrial tax revenue, making new and greater contributions to building Yueyang into a provincial sub central city and realizing the beautiful blueprint of "three high and four new".