In early April, the Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Reform of Investment Promotion in Jilin Province was issued, marking the full launch of the "New Investment Promotion" reform initiative. As major engines of the province's economic growth, the Jilin Gongzhuling Economic Development Zone, Changchun Economic and Technological Development Zone, and Changchun Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone quickly responded to the plan by adopting innovative models, targeted measures, and optimized services to improve the quality and efficiency of investment promotion and inject fresh momentum into the province's high-quality development.

 

Jilin Gongzhuling Economic Development Zone: Innovating Investment Promotion Models and Activating Industrial Engines

 

Focusing on its three leading industries—automobiles, modern logistics, and new materials—the Jilin Gongzhuling Economic Development Zone is building a full-chain investment promotion ecosystem centered on "revitalizing existing resources and expanding new ones". In response to limited land resources, the zone has innovatively carried out "investment promotion through idle resource integration", with plans to complete 25 such projects in 2025, totaling RMB 2.34 billion in investment, including key projects such as the mobile straw pelletizer by Shanghai Shenergy Group. Currently, the 1.28-billion-yuan new energy battery material industrial park project by Qingdao LVTS is in advanced negotiations, aiming to establish a complete industrial chain covering anode and cathode materials, separators, and electrolytes.

 

At the same time, the zone is intensifying efforts to attract "land-purchasing projects". Nineteen key projects, including the energy storage battery assembly and recycling project by Anhui Xunying Group and the auto parts service base by Beijing GOLD COMMON, are progressing rapidly, with total investment reaching RMB 12.1 billion. Through a dual approach of "business-led and industry-chain-based" investment promotion, the zone has attracted 285 enterprises, achieving an annual output value of over RMB 9 billion and creating 12,000 jobs. The upcoming new energy battery material industrial park will further enhance industrial agglomeration and solidify the foundation for high-quality regional economic growth.

 

Changchun Economic and Technological Development Zone: Focusing on Key Industry Chains and Building a Big Investment Promotion Landscape

 

Guided by the provincial reform plan, the Changchun Economic and Technological Development Zone has pioneered a targeted investment promotion model with multi-party collaboration. According to Du Ping, Director of the zone's Bureau of Commerce, the zone has implemented its "Two Belts, One Port, Two Valleys, and Ten Parks" development strategy since the beginning of the year, and established an integrated operational mechanism involving the management committee, industry regulators, parks, sub-districts and towns, and companies to deepen investment attraction reform. Dedicated to promoting investment through services and securing investment with services, the zone has developed a full life-cycle service ecosystem and multi-scenario service brand, as well as a service mechanism featuring "leadership responsibility and dedicated enterprise liaisons", continuously elevating its investment promotion efforts. Additionally, focusing on key sectors like automobiles, optoelectronics, and pharmaceuticals, it has created key industrial chain maps and plans to host at least four thematic investment promotion events in the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and other regions in 2025.

 

To attract foreign investment, the zone has proactively engaged with over 10 international platforms, including the German Chamber of Commerce in China, to facilitate the capital increase and production expansion of Vitesco Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Schaeffler Group. Having operated in Changchun for 30 years and with over 2,000 employees, the company is now a benchmark in the industry, integrating R&D, manufacturing, and sales. Jilin Province's 35 measures for high-level opening-up provide systematic support from intelligent manufacturing and digital transformation to new energy transformation, accelerating the company's upgrade to "intelligent manufacturing".

 

Looking ahead, the zone will deepen new investment promotion models such as scenario-based, technology-driven, and capital-based approaches. It will also organize "going global" activities to channel resources into strategic emerging industries.

 

Changchun Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone: Aiming for Global Excellence and Building a Robust Automotive Ecosystem

 

As the core area of Jilin's automobile industry cluster, the Changchun Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone is committed to fostering new quality productive forces by establishing a system of "whole-zone investment attraction and full-chain service enhancement". In support of FAW Group's goal to become a world-class enterprise, the zone prioritizes cutting-edge fields such as smart cockpits, solid-state batteries, and flying cars, while advancing projects like a 5-billion-yuan smart agricultural machinery industrial park and a 3-billion-yuan life science center.

 

"From manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing, services must lead the way," said Li Guohui, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the zone. Under the innovative "Five Zones and One Center" development framework, the zone has developed a science and technology innovation cluster, a new quality productive force cultivation area, and so on. Through reforms like "one-stop online processing" and "instant approvals", business change procedures can now be completed entirely online, reducing approval times by over 60%. Major projects such as the new energy battery plant of FAW-FinDreams and CRRC's intelligent connected vehicles have been put into production, driving the cluster development of upstream and downstream enterprises.

 

In the future, the zone will leverage its strengths as a national-level automobile industry cluster to speed up the construction of a digital and intelligent agricultural product hub and an aftermarket automotive service base. It will strive to expand the output value of the automobile industry to over RMB 500 billion within three years and contribute to Jilin Province's revitalization and breakthrough.