A few days ago in Beijing, an investment agreement was signed between the Qinhuangdao Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee and Beijing WKW Automotive Parts Co., Ltd. to build Delong production base in Qinhuangdao with the annual capacity of 300 thousand new energy vehicles. Zhang Ruishu, mayor of QHD, Feng Zhiyong, vice mayor, and Li Jianyu, chairman of Beijing Wikawi Auto-parts Co., Ltd. were at the presence of the signing ceremony.
The intended project will cover an area of about 2284 mu with a total investment of about 16 billion yuan, including the electric vehicle production base with an annual capacity of 300 thousand electric cars, the production base of EIC system and range extenders, and the auto parts research institute.
The construction of the project is scheduled to commence in June 2018 and the production is expected to start in December 2020. After the completion of the project, the annual value of production is supposed to reach 100 billion RMB with the employment of nearly 4,500 people.
During the interview, Zhang Ruishu said that the successful signing of the Delong new energy vehicle project is not only a manifestation of the implementation of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy between Beijing and Qinhuangdao, but also another successful example of sincere cooperation between government and enterprises. The landing of the project in the development zone is of great significance for city’s promoting the industrial transformation and upgrading, realizing the transformation from the production of auto parts and components to the development and manufacture of the whole vehicle, forming a complete industrial chain of upstream and downstream linkage. Qinhuangdao will spare no effort to harmonize business environment, facilitate the project approval, land use, environmental assessment and other preliminary work in order to ensure that the project will start on schedule as well as be put into production and achieve efficiency as soon as possible.
Li said that Qinhuangdao, with a unique location, is well equipped with automotive facilities. The investment of nearly 18 billion yuan by the company to build auto parts production bases and new energy vehicle project in Qinhuangdao in the coming two years is not only because of the requirement of the strategic layout of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration but also because of the fact they are attracted by the efficient service and policy support of Qinhuangdao.
The project of an annual capacity of 300 thousand new energy vehicles brings in the technology from German Delong, its subsidiary abroad, and finally forms two major constituent parts of auto parts and new energy vehicles in China, which can help enterprises to achieve leapfrog development. It is believed that company and development zone will work together to achieve mutual benefits.
Over the years, the development zone has been attaching great importance to the development of auto parts industry, introducing CiTiC Dicastal Wheel Manufacturing Co., Ltd, SINOLION, WKW Automotive Parts Co.,Ltd., Asahi Glass Co.,Ltd, Feitian car door, TI Automotive, Kotai Casting and other large projects to boost the industry. By the end of 2017, the number of auto manufacturing enterprises above designated size had reached 14, with the main business income of 26.4 billion yuan, accounting for 35.1% of the total income of the industries above the designated size; of which, the added value of the industry was 6.42 billion yuan, an increase of 8.8 percent over the same period last year.
(Qinhuangdao Municipal Bureau of Commerce)