From January to June this year, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone completed fixed asset investment growth of 6.1%, of which industrial investment grew by 55.1%, accounting for 38.6%; manufacturing investment grew by 47.9%, accounting for 34.5%; and high-tech investment grew by 72%, achieving the goal of completing more than half of both the time and task targets.
　　Project construction achieves "acceleration"
　　Prosperous projects bring prosperous industries, and strong projects make a strong economy. In 2024, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone arranged 214 key projects each with investment of over 50 million yuan, with a total investment of 220.88 billion yuan. In the first half of the year, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone started construction on a total of 25 new key projects each with investment of over 50 million yuan, completing 67.6% of the annual plan. From the data, it can be seen that in the first half of 2024, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone tightened its "spring," pressed the "fast-forward button" on project development, and went full speed ahead to achieve "acceleration" in project construction.
　　Project construction is the main lever for accelerating development, and key projects are the "ballast stone" of economic development. Since the beginning of this year, the Party Committee and Management Committee of Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone have attached great importance to effective investment work, focused on attracting physical projects and servicing key projects, set up dedicated work teams, and pragmatically promoted project construction with remarkable results. The Air Liquide Hydrogen Energy Base, Haite Aircraft Phase III, Andawell Aviation Equipment R&D and Production Base, International Machinery Large Valve Digital Heavy-Duty Production Workshop... construction sites are bustling with activity. In recent days, each key project in Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone has seized the construction schedule, the "progress bar" of construction has been constantly refreshed, and a number of major engineering projects and livelihood projects have reached new milestones.
　　Construction sites in full swing
　　With machinery roaring and welding sparks flying, at the construction site of the Airbus Tianjin A320 Family Aircraft Second Final Assembly Line project (hereinafter referred to as the "Second Line Project") located in Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone, all construction work is in full swing. As of now, the Second Line Project, with a total investment of 5.5 billion yuan, completed an investment of 1.22 billion yuan in the first half of the year. After the second final assembly line is put into operation, Airbus will form an overall layout in Tianjin of two single-aisle aircraft production lines and one wide-body aircraft production line, strongly supporting Airbus in increasing its global production capacity.
　　At the Tianjin Offshore Engineering Equipment Manufacturing Base construction project located in the Lingang area of Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone, a large area of brand-new buildings stands out prominently. This is the supporting wharf of China**'s high-end intelligent base for offshore oil and gas equipment, with a total investment of 3.98 billion yuan. After the project is completed, it will unleash the efficiency of digital management based on a plant-wide control system, achieve comprehensive digital transformation of business processes, basically realize digital twins of equipment, workshops, and factories, build a green workshop featuring intelligent, digital, and 3D-visualized lean management and control via the MES system, and further drive China's offshore equipment manufacturing from a traditional "labor factory" toward a modern "smart factory."
　　By the shores of Bohai Bay, pile drivers roar. In the Lingang Bohua Park, which faces the Tianjin Offshore Engineering Equipment Manufacturing Base construction project from afar, the Octanol Optimization and Safety Improvement Project started construction in May. With a total investment of 1.79 billion yuan, the project carries the accumulation of more than a decade of process technology optimization by Bohua Yongli and marks a brand-new beginning for deeply advancing the development of new quality productive forces. It has far-reaching significance for advancing the construction of Tianjin's chemical industry, promoting the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, supply chain, capital chain, and talent chain, and accelerating the building of a modern industrial system supported by the real economy.
　　Andawell is a leading enterprise in China's aerospace field engaged in high-end equipment manufacturing. In June 2024, the Andawell Tianjin Aviation Equipment R&D and Production Base project, with a total investment of 430 million yuan, fully started construction. It has now entered the pile foundation construction stage and is expected to be put into use before the end of 2025. In the future, Andawell will take Beijing as its headquarters and R&D center and sales center, and the Tianjin base as the R&D, production, sales, and delivery center for its civil aviation business division and intelligent business division and new products, forming an overall layout of integrated Beijing-Tianjin operations with complementary businesses.
　　Continue to implement the project-driven strategy
　　Only when project construction "takes root and blossoms" can it gather momentum for development. In recent years, the project quality and structure of Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone have continued to improve. It has done substantial work in optimizing the project scheduling mechanism and strengthening the guarantee of factor resources to help projects go into production and reach design capacity as early as possible.
　　One major project and good project after another, like solid piles, are supporting the bright future of high-quality development in Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone. Practice has proven that advancing project construction and investment attraction is an effective measure for strengthening the real economy, optimizing the industrial structure, and achieving high-quality development.
　　According to reports, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone will continue to implement the project-driven strategy, constantly innovate ideas and methods, and continue to set off an upsurge in the construction of major and good projects.