Since the beginning of this year, the main economic indicators of Weifang Binhai District have been improving and achieving a "good start". The growth rate of the two indicators of industrial added value above designated size and general public budget revenue ranked first in Weifang City, and the growth rate of regional GDP ranked second in Weifang City.

The layout of strategic emerging industries such as new medicine, new materials, and new energy has accelerated, and new projects have continued to make efforts, and new expansion projects have been significantly stimulated. In the first quarter, the added value of 215 industrial enterprises above designated size in Weifang Binhai District reached 5.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.9 percent, ranking first in Weifang City, and the operating income was 28.15 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.6 percent. Weifang Hongrun Petrochemical Technology Co., Ltd. has achieved a total industrial production output value of 7.32 billion yuan, and the project produces high value-added products such as xylene, high-end white oil, class III lubricant base oil, and high-purity tetraxylene, promoting the high-end of the enterprise value chain. "Our main products have the largest production capacity and market share in China, high-end white oil fills the gap in the domestic market, and products such as class III lubricants and m-xylene also effectively solve the problem of insufficient domestic production capacity. Liu Xinxing, the company's technical director, said.

Major foreign-funded and foreign trade enterprises have accelerated investment and accelerated production. In the first quarter, the actual use of foreign capital in Weifang Binhai District reached 35.53 million US dollars, accounting for 14% of the total in Weifang City, ranking third in Weifang City. Weifang Birla Carbon Materials Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aditya Birla Group in India, mainly producing high-purity carbon black, which is used in industrial products such as tires, sealing strips, hoses, conveyor belts, as well as for inks, coatings, plastics, etc., with a steady growth in market share and broad development prospects. In the first quarter, India's Aditya Birla Group made another additional investment to expand production. Han Peng, general manager of Weifang Birla Carbon Materials Co., Ltd., said: "Weifang Binhai's rich resources and good business environment have strengthened the confidence in investment and development, and the company has new investment every year to continuously expand the scale of production. ”

Weifang Binhai District encourages enterprises to "go global", supports enterprises to use domestic and foreign exhibitions, consolidates traditional markets, expands overseas emerging markets, and promotes 8 enterprises such as Jiayijia and Itaneng to participate in large-scale exhibitions such as the IPPE exhibition in Atlanta, USA, and the number of cross-border e-commerce platforms has reached 2, and the results of stabilizing exports and expanding imports have been obvious. The total import and export volume was 6.72 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.5%, ranking fourth in Weifang City.

The construction of large projects has been accelerated, and good projects have been rapidly gathered. Weifang Binhai District has firmly established the concept of "project is king", accelerated project construction with "6 lists", adhered to the "whole life cycle" personalized approval service, and greatly reduced the approval time of the whole process of industrial projects, speeding up by more than 50%. The construction of major provincial and municipal projects such as Zhenhua Petroleum Crude Oil Reserve Project and Weifang High-end Smart Supply Chain Industrial Park Project has been accelerated. Intensify efforts to attract investment, accelerate the implementation of industrial projects, and inject strong impetus into economic development. In the first quarter, 13 new projects were signed with an investment of 16.86 billion yuan, 17 new projects with an investment of more than 100 million yuan were approved with an investment of 6.8 billion yuan, 14 new Natong projects were approved with a total investment of 2.62 billion yuan, and 15 new projects were put into operation, with an additional output value of 3.46 billion yuan during the year. (Gao Hehang)