The machines roar and vehicles shuttle back and forth. Walking into the construction site of the ecological co-production project of Shandong Guyu Biotechnology Co., Ltd., the steel structures of the liquid functional sugar, crystalline glucose, and maltodextrin workshops are being installed and constructed, and 70% of the engineering work has been completed.
"Our project has progressed very quickly, mainly because the local government provided a lot of help from planning to implementation, saving us a lot of time and energy," said Guan Yanchun, general manager of Shandong Guyu Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
The project mainly produces corn deep-processing products such as maltodextrin, sorbitol, and glucose. Since construction began in February 2024, three workshops have been under construction simultaneously, striving to be put into operation and achieve results by October. After all are completed and put into operation, the annual output value can reach 14.2 billion yuan, which will provide strong support for the local area to build a 50-billion-yuan biopharmaceutical industry cluster.
The construction of major projects is the ballast that stabilizes economic operation. Zhucheng has established and improved a full-life-cycle management and service mechanism for projects, innovatively launched the "one-time good start" themed package-style approval service, and integrated and optimized matters related to engineering planning, construction permits, and municipal facility approvals. Approval efficiency has increased by nearly 70%. In 2024, the "one-time good start" service has been implemented for 17 key projects. Seven key projects, including Guyu Biotechnology Phase II and Youyue Rubber, achieved "five certificates issued simultaneously," demonstrating the "Zhucheng speed" of project construction.
It is not an isolated case. At the construction site of the project of Shandong Youyue Rubber Technology Co., Ltd. with an annual output of 12 million sets of ultra-high-performance environmentally friendly passenger vehicle tires and an annual output of 3 million sets of green intelligent truck tires, there is also a bustling scene of construction. The project has a total investment of 5.16 billion yuan and will build new production workshops and supporting facilities for mixing, extrusion, and molding. After completion, the project can achieve an annual output value of 10 billion yuan. The project clearly supplements and extends Zhucheng's automobile industry chain and is an important part of the local effort to build a national auto parts industrial park.
While strengthening advantageous industries, Zhucheng is also actively attracting new business formats and fostering new development advantages. At present, the Sino-German International Pet Economy Industrial Park project, with a total investment of 1 billion yuan, has reached intentions to enter the park with more than ten well-known leading enterprises such as JD Jingzao, aiming directly at a 10-billion-yuan pet economy industry cluster. At present, 24 standardized factory buildings in the area have been opened, of which 15 have completed the main body acceptance and are undergoing decoration work such as doors and windows and exterior wall insulation.
To create a first-class development environment, Zhucheng adheres to a problem-oriented approach, upholds the concepts of "user thinking" and "customer first," promotes "start construction upon land acquisition," and ensures that "as soon as a project is negotiated, factors are prepared; as soon as a project lands, factors are in place." It practices the clear orientation of "support whoever develops" with practical actions. Zhucheng concentrates resources and factors to serve enterprises, fully implements the mechanism for cadres to take responsibility for serving enterprises, implements the "Zhucheng standards" for investment promotion services, establishes a special task force for project construction responsibility services, and closely monitors factor guarantees such as project construction land, water, electricity, and approvals. It actively creates conditions for enterprises to settle in and projects to land, ensures that project construction does not stop and progress does not slow down, and advances project construction at full speed, laying a solid foundation for the high-quality economic development of Zhucheng.
A good business environment has also led foreign investors to cast a "vote of confidence," injecting new momentum into enterprises. Earlier, Hong Kong Otto Pike Company inspected projects in Zhucheng High-tech Zone many times, and this year it fully launched cooperation with Xiaokang Machinery Co., Ltd., planning to invest 680 million yuan to build an intelligent automated packaging equipment production line project. After production, it can add an output value of 1.69 billion yuan.
Since 2024, Zhucheng has deepened the activity of "finding orders for our enterprises," established two lists of advantageous product supply for 103 enterprises and raw material demand for 101 enterprises, held five point-to-point special sessions of "finding orders for our enterprises," and the mutual procurement amount of 20 key enterprises reached 1.07 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5%. It held briefing sessions on the demand for implementing the relending policy, organized more than 300 enterprises and financial institutions to carry out government-bank-enterprise financing demand matchmaking meetings on digital transformation and intelligent upgrading and supply chain loans, and facilitated 19 bank-enterprise matchmaking deals worth more than 100 million yuan.
In recent years, Zhucheng has deeply implemented the strategy of "strengthening the city through industry and giving priority to industry," attracted and built large projects and good projects, treated project sites as examination rooms and project progress as a yardstick, made every effort to serve project construction, followed up closely to solve difficult problems, and went all out to promote key projects to start early, be built quickly, and be put into production early.