Building the Three Global Centers, Famous German Enterprise's "Biggest Investment in History" Landing in Shanghai for Growth | Enterprises | Global

Release time:Apr 14, 2024 11:26 AM

On July 28th, the famous German enterprise Prominent Shanghai headquarters and research base project started construction in the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. The total investment of the project is 47 million euros, with a built-up area of 36000 square meters. It is planned to be completed and put into operation by the end of 2024, and reach production by 2028, creating a global supply chain management center, manufacturing center, and research and development center for the group.

Prominent Group is renowned worldwide for its research and manufacturing in the field of fluid metering and water treatment equipment. Currently, it has subsidiaries in 50 countries and 11 factories worldwide. It is reported that this project is also the largest investment in the history of Prominent Group. Duan Yingze, Chairman of Prominent, stated that Prominent is full of confidence in the Chinese market. The base is positioned as "rooted in China and serving the world", and its production capacity is expected to account for 15% of Prominent's global production capacity. "In the future, this is not only the cornerstone of Prominent's sustained high-speed growth in the Chinese market, but also a key pivot for Prominent's global business growth."

Duan Yingze told reporters that the project only took 5 working days from land picking to construction, which is "unbelievable. The business environment in the Lingang New Area has made us feel the magic." It is understood that in order to further support infrastructure construction and industrial project landing, accelerate the speed of construction and production, the Lingang New Area has focused on issues such as multiple approval items, complex procedures, and long time consumption for engineering construction projects, explored and implemented a number of breakthrough and leading reform measures, and took the lead in proposing the "three complete, three extreme, and three most" system integration reform of the entire chain, extremely fast approval, extremely accurate supervision, and excellent services. For key areas with strong demands from market entities, innovative pilot projects have been carried out, and enterprises in the area have taken the lead from establishment to excellent services. Provide comprehensive convenience from land acquisition and construction to completion and daily operation.

The Prominent project is located in Nicheng Town, Lingang New Area. The reporter learned from Nicheng Town that in the first half of this year, various economic indicators in Nicheng Town achieved leapfrog growth: tax revenue reached 2.163 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 114.6%; Local revenue reached 658 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 156.8%; Fixed assets investment of the whole society reached 12.7 billion yuan, up 94.42% year on year; The total industrial output value was 28.101 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.80%.

Qiu Feng, Deputy Mayor of Nicheng Town, introduced that there is still about 1 billion yuan in the total industrial output value, which belongs to the regulated industry. Among them, there are many large enterprises and cutting-edge industrial enterprises that have started production in the past year. The future output value is expected to leap from tens of millions to billions, bringing strong follow-up growth momentum to the industrial output value of Nicheng Town and Lingang New Area.

In addition, with the unveiling and establishment of the Lingang New Area, the industrial layout of Nicheng Town has also been optimized from simple "industry+agriculture" in recent years. The town has begun to see office buildings and emerging industrial parks densely populated by "2.5 industries" such as research and development bases. Nicheng Town has stated that it will rely on chain leading enterprises such as Tesla and SAIC to carry out chain based investment promotion, expand its "circle of friends", position itself as the main body in the automotive and component supporting industry, cooperate with new energy vehicles, high-end equipment manufacturing, integrated circuits, modern new service industries and other formats, and proactively layout and cultivate development to promote industrial transformation and upgrading.

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