Recently, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link officially opened to traffic, accelerating the integrated development of the east and west banks of the Pearl River Estuary.
　　Major projects are the "accelerators" and "ballast stones" of high-quality economic and social development. Entering the second half of the year, on the bustling land of Guangdong, the "progress bars" of major engineering construction continue to update.
　　At the same time, industrial projects are also seizing opportunities to start construction intensively, riding the east wind of the accelerated integrated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to seize the initiative.
　　Major projects launched one after another
　　On July 9, Guangdong Transportation Group announced that after 33 hours of continuous pouring, the last batch of concrete for the anchor block base slab of the Shiziyang Bridge, the controlling project of the Shiziyang Channel project, was completed at 20:00 on July 8, marking the safe completion of the foundation of the world's largest anchor block foundation pit, which will next move into the core-filling construction stage.
　　The Shiziyang Channel is another super project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area following the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link. It is an east-west trunk channel that horizontally connects the three major metropolitan circles of the Greater Bay Area and radiates to the east and west wings. It is an important component of the national coastal trunk corridor and the ** double-deck river-crossing channel at the Pearl River Estuary. Once completed, it will achieve another leap in China's bridge construction in terms of span and scale.
　　The Shenzhen-Jiangmen Railway is also refreshing its "progress bar." Recently, as a 32.6-meter-long, 12.2-meter-wide, 710-ton prefabricated double-track box girder was steadily erected on the piers of the Henglan Station bridge section in Zhongshan, the first box girder erection—a key node in the construction of the Shenzhen-Jiangmen Railway—was completed, and the project entered the full-line girder erection construction stage. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2027, and upon opening to traffic it will further open up the coastal corridor.
　　"The Xili High-speed Railway Hub is expected to start construction in the third quarter of this year." On July 2, Zheng Tiejun, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the Shenzhen Municipal Development and Reform Commission, disclosed.
　　According to previous information on the official website of Guangzhou Railway Group, the newly built Xili Station in the Shenzhen hub is designed with a scale of 13 platforms and 25 lines, which will exceed the current largest high-speed railway station in Shenzhen—Shenzhen North Station.
　　There is also new progress in the construction of the Guangzhou Nansha hub. The Nansha Industrial Park Administration stated that the supporting project for the Nansha Station station building has been officially approved, and the first phase of Nansha Station is about to start construction.
　　It is understood that Nansha Station is located in the southern section of Nansha, with a total area of 120,000 square meters. The station yard is planned in the long term with 14 platforms and 29 lines, a scale that will exceed the current largest railway station in Asia, Baiyun Station (11 platforms and 24 lines).
　　Industrial projects start construction intensively
　　The opening and operation of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link not only realizes the physical connectivity of the east and west banks of the Pearl River, but also opens up new opportunities for the integrated development of the Pearl River Estuary.
　　"The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link will further shorten the distance between Zhongshan and surrounding core cities such as Shenzhen, greatly promoting close cooperation and business exchanges between the company and cities in the Greater Bay Area," said Ni Liangzheng, chairman of Sunon. Sunon will make full use of technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to promote the intelligentization of the furniture industry, build a new industrial cluster integrating product interconnection, manufacturing IoT, and ecological connectivity, deeply integrate with the local industrial chain, and jointly promote the transformation and upgrading of the furniture industry chain.
　　On June 28, the foundation stone was laid for Sunon's AIOT Smart Office IoT South China Regional Headquarters Base, with a total investment of 3 billion yuan, expected to be completed and put into production in the summer of 2025.
　　Guangzhou Nansha, adjacent to Zhongshan, is also taking active action. Earlier, the supporting "vibrant atmosphere" project of the Wanqingsha Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Industrial Park officially started. According to reports, the industrial park plans to host more than 40 enterprises and has gathered and introduced industry-leading enterprises such as CanSemi, SiCarrier, and Jinko Electronics.
　　"A large number of design, manufacturing, equipment, packaging and testing, and materials enterprises have settled in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and an integrated circuit full-industry-chain ecosystem integrating chip design, wafer manufacturing, packaging and testing, terminal applications, and industrial investment has initially taken shape," said Chen Wei, president of the Guangdong Integrated Circuit Industry Association.
　　"BYD's Shenshan Phase III project has a total investment of 6.5 billion yuan and an annual output value of over 10 billion yuan." On July 8, at the 2024 Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone Industrial Investment Promotion Conference, BYD completed the signing of the BYD Automobile Industrial Park Phase III project with the Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone to build a battery pack line and a factory for core components of new energy vehicles.
　　On the same day, 19 projects including the integrated circuit advanced packaging materials production base of the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Electronic Materials International Innovation Research Institute and the Changsheng high-performance carbon fiber project were signed, with a total investment of over 10 billion yuan. At the same time, a batch of industrial projects such as the BYD Phase II Yangwang U9 workshop were announced to be put into production, and a batch of new projects such as the Shenshan Hub and supporting projects of the High-end Electronic Chemicals Industrial Park started construction.
　　"We are firmly optimistic about Shenshan and are布局 Shenshan, and we will accelerate the promotion of projects to full production, continue to lead the new energy vehicle industry projects in the cooperation zone to form chains and clusters, and continuously consolidate the foundation of Shenshan as the core carrying area for building Shenzhen into a new-generation world-class automobile city," said He Long, senior vice president of BYD Group and chairman and CEO of FinDreams Battery Co., Ltd.
　　Upgrading of investment promotion model
　　Investment promotion brings in current investment, promotes tomorrow's development, and cultivates future strength.
　　On June 28, Guangzhou iterated its investment promotion model—newly establishing the "Guangzhou Investment Development Committee Office." This is a major innovation in Guangzhou's urban investment promotion system reform, which will change the previous situation of each fighting its own battle and promote the follow-up and landing of major projects. On the same day, the Guangzhou Investment Development Committee Office began coordination with relevant state-owned enterprises to advance key projects in a coordinated manner. Subsequently, multiple teams boarded flights for outbound investment promotion and began itineraries to visit multinational enterprises.
　　Guangzhou also released the same day the "Work Opinions on Promoting High-quality Development of Investment Promotion in the New Era," proposing to build a "1+3+3" joint investment promotion mechanism, namely: the Investment Development Committee "takes overall charge," promoting the resolution of major issues in the project landing process; the Municipal Investment Development Committee Office, various districts, and state-owned enterprise investment promotion platforms—three major investment promotion entities—are the "main force" of investment promotion; municipal industry authorities, various investment entities, and investment promotion intermediaries—three types of collaborative entities—"link up" to form a new pattern of integrated investment promotion across the city.
　　Zhang Haibo, deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau, introduced that Guangzhou will focus mainly on two distinctive state-owned enterprises with investment promotion and investment functions—Guangzhou Industrial Investment and Guangzhou Financial Holdings—to strengthen government-enterprise coordination and realize investment-driven attraction and linkage between attraction and investment. On this basis, combined with industrial characteristics, it will mobilize the enthusiasm of more than 40 municipal state-owned enterprises with investment promotion functions across the city to build an investment promotion cooperation matrix.