On July 13, a press conference on the development of "Two Zones" (the Integrated National Demonstration Zone for Opening up the Services Sector and China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone) was held in Shunyi District. 23 key projects have been launched in the Beijing Sino-German International Cooperation Industrial Park, including Bosch Industry 4.0 Innovation Center, the second global headquarters of Wilo Group, and ARJES. Additional 38 key projects are well under negotiation, proceeding from the stage of planning and designing to development and implementation.

The Beijing Sino-German International Cooperation Industrial Park is the first and only Sino-German industrial park featuring "economic and technical cooperation" in China. It is also an important platform for promoting international industrial innovation and cooperation. The industrial park has a planning area of 20 square kilometers. With the starting area and the expansion area as the core, and Beijing Capital International Airport, China International Exhibition Center (Tianzhu New Hall), central villa area, Shine Hills and Airport Industrial Zone B as the supporting service area, the park aims to achieve coordination between different sectors, interaction of various areas and city-industry integration. In the future, it is planned to stimulate the development of the entire 100 square kilometers of Beijing Innovation Industry Cluster Demonstration Zone (Shunyi). The main focus of the park is new energy vehicles, intelligent equipment, industrial Internet, technology services, business conferences and exhibitions, and digital trade.

According to Lan Xiongjing, director of Shunyi District Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, the bureau had successively held the Sino-German Summit Forum on Intelligent Manufacturing, Sino-German Hidden Champion Innovation and Development Summit, HICOOL Global Entrepreneurs Summit (Germany) and other events, and built effective cooperation mechanisms with more than 30 professional organizations including the German Embassy in China, Germany Chamber of Commerce in China, German Center, German-Chinese Business Association (DCW), and German Association of the Automotive Industry to promote the sharing of high-quality resources. Three liaison offices in Germany have overcome the impact of COVID-19, and organized a total of 53 online promotion activities, contacted a number of innovative projects, and continuously expanded the channels of local project resources in Germany. With the focus of strengthening the top-down plan and design, infrastructure capacity, urban governance, German-style service supply, and space resource supply of the Sino-German Park, the bureau has also formulated the work plan and list of projects of the industrial park infrastructure construction, which specified 5 aspects, 16 key tasks, and 44 concrete projects with a total investment of approximately 6.7 billion yuan. At the same time, to advance the development of "Two Zones", the bureau, together with China Center for International Economic Exchanges, a national think tank, and Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Association, carried out research on the development strategy of Beijing's Sino-German Pilot Demonstration Zone for Economic and Technological Cooperation in the context of China-EU Investment Agreement. Besides, the bureau has collected 11 pieces of policy demands such as setting separate tax numbers for Ameco aviation components and general civilian industrial products, exemption of value-added tax on the service exchange of Heidenhain, and the cross-border flow of corporate data. We are working to include these demands into the "Two Zones" list for further implementation. Meanwhile, we will speed up the study and formulation of special policies for the demonstration zone, and provide key support on procedures such as payable foreign capital, intellectual property rights, capital increase and production expansion, as well as transformation of technological achievements.

The industrial park is positioned as a gathering place for the German advanced manufacturing industry, a strategic cluster for the development of hidden champions in China and Germany, and an important window for Sino-German exchanges, opening-up and innovation. It will focus on key areas such as new energy vehicles, intelligent devices, industrial internet, technology services, business conferences and exhibitions, and digital trade. With industrial chains as the core, it aims at high-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, R&D innovation, and integrated applications to attract hidden champion companies in Germany and Europe and jointly boost the industry. It will explore and help create a more open system and innovative environment with international competitiveness, promote all-round and in-depth cooperation around industrial development, technological innovation, talent flow, and information exchange, and create an international gateway for China to connect with Germany and Europe.

(Reporter: Wang Kexin)