The idle factory buildings have turned luxuriously and become fertile ground for the development of high-end, sophisticated and cutting-edge enterprises. The first phase of the Zhongde Building has housed many enterprise research and development centers... The Beijing Zhongde Industrial Park, adjacent to Beijing Capital Airport, is becoming a "paradise" for German enterprises to develop in China. In less than two years since its opening in December 2021, 92 German funded enterprises have settled here, including not only Mercedes Benz, BMW, Bosch and other Fortune 500 enterprises, but also a large number of invisible champions.
As the first national level cooperation park with Germany under the theme of economic and technological cooperation approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, what kind of magic does Beijing Sino German Industrial Park have, attracting German enterprises to compete for the first place to come here?
"The secret of the increasing number of settled enterprises is that the government breaks through institutional and institutional constraints, introduces international and market-oriented operation teams, and governments and enterprises work together to create international park operation services." Shi Ruifeng, the general manager of the market-oriented professional operation company Qidi Technology Park Operation Management Co., Ltd. hired by Beijing Zhongde Industrial Park, put it bluntly. This operation service runs through the entire process from investment attraction to enterprise service.
The development of the park requires a thorough understanding of the background of Sino German economic and technological cooperation. In 2022, China and Germany ushered in the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. It was also in this year that China's actual use of foreign capital reached 1232.68 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3% according to comparable standards. Among them, Germany was the source of significant investment growth, an increase of 64.2%. Against this background, Shi Ruifeng found that the cooperation between China and Germany in manufacturing and technological innovation has shown a new trend:
First, Germany's invisible champion enterprises and small and medium-sized innovative enterprises are gathering significantly. Currently, large enterprises in Germany, represented by the world's top 500 enterprises, have basically completed their domestic layout. However, small and medium-sized enterprises, which account for a significant proportion of the German economy, still have a great interest in exploring the Chinese market. Some of them are family owned enterprises that have been deeply engaged in the industry for a century, and some are invisible champions with world leading advantages in specific technology fields. Many of these enterprises have entered the Chinese market for the first time, and these enterprises are key targets for attracting investment.
Second, investment focuses more on industrial chain and technical cooperation. Compared to the policy and financial support available, when making investment decisions, German enterprises not only pay close attention to the application scenarios of the market and products, but also pay attention to the synergistic effects of the industrial chain and technology, especially whether they can form cooperative relationships with leading Chinese and foreign enterprises and partners in the industrial chain.
Third, the trend of "strong alliance" and "mutual benefit and win-win" is more obvious. Currently, more and more German enterprises are no longer "fighting alone", but are increasingly willing to cooperate with local enterprises with production and R&D technology advantages to achieve win-win development.
The development of Haohan Haici Recycling Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. in the park is a clear evidence. The company is a German company committed to introducing German engineering technology and market knowledge into China's circular economy. It is optimistic about the Chinese market and hopes to lay out upstream and downstream industrial chains in the field of resource recovery, and introduce partners to come to China together.
Rafael Suchan, the chairman of the company, introduced: "In the process of conducting business, we actively participate in all aspects of the circular economy, and have introduced our company's unique and efficient resource recovery and treatment key technology in Germany to enter the Chinese market. We hope to better help domestic resource recovery and operation enterprises conduct more efficient and environmentally friendly resource recycling business. In the future, we will also introduce METYCLE, a company with many years of experience and strength in the field of international renewable metal trade, to the Chinese market." "China develops its business to provide high-quality recycled metal raw materials from around the world to Chinese customers."
"It is very important to establish an industrial ecology. The government and we have been studying leading enterprises in the development direction of key industries in the industrial park, creating a development pattern that focuses on chain owners and attracts upstream and downstream industries to gather." Shi Ruifeng introduced the new energy intelligent vehicle industry as an example, saying that the park fully utilizes the advantages of Mercedes Benz chain owners and cooperates with companies such as Ideal Automobile, BAIC SUV, and Hyundai Automobile, Focus on attracting the landing of upstream and downstream projects in the industrial chain, and construct a new energy intelligent vehicle industrial park in the park.
On this basis, it is necessary to improve the service system. Shi Ruifeng introduced, "Under the guidance and support of the government, the park has established a Sino German enterprise service center and a complete intellectual property protection system, providing one-stop services for enterprises to meet a series of services from company registration, finance, taxation, legal affairs, talent recruitment, policy application, industry finance docking, intellectual property rights, etc. The park also regularly holds a series of industry docking meetings, financing docking meetings, business exchange meetings, Sino German cultural and artistic exchanges, etc." "Activities to enhance the friendship between the park and landing enterprises, deepen cooperation with enterprises, and enable foreign-funded enterprises to better take root and develop."
In particular, in terms of living facilities, the Beijing Sino German Industrial Park has authentic German restaurants that allow German staff to taste such delicacies as German Royal HB Brewery Beer and German Big Elbow. In addition, there are also international talent communities, "dual system" education bases, and surrounding living and entertainment facilities such as international schools, international high-end medical clinics, central villa areas, Xiangyun Town, and Olympic Water Park.
In the government work report of this year's two sessions, "Greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign capital" was listed as one of the important work recommendations of this year, and a series of measures were proposed, such as "expanding market access", "implementing national treatment for foreign-funded enterprises", and "promoting the implementation and construction of landmark projects for foreign capital", which strengthened the confidence of German enterprises in China's development.
"Shunyi District recently issued the" Supporting Measures for Promoting the High Quality Development of High end Manufacturing Industry and Advanced Software Information Industry in Shunyi District ", which mentions that special policy support will be given to international cooperative investment projects represented by the Sino German Industrial Park. The state-owned investment platform under the government will participate in key project investment to help enterprises develop. We will also open up market application scenarios for enterprises entering the zone and promote upstream and downstream industrial cooperation." Speaking of the future operational development plan, Shi Ruifeng stated that the Beijing Sino German Industrial Park should be built into a national demonstration area for economic and technological cooperation with Germany. Tus will closely cooperate with the Beijing Municipal Government and the Shunyi District Government to create a preferred destination for German and European enterprises to invest in China, starting from cooperation with Germany and radiating across the entire region of Europe.
