Changchun New Area Looking Forward

The "two" represents modern agriculture’s two emerging industries, refined foods and urban agriculture.

Advanced manufacturing in Jilin province has developed quickly in recent years along with the national strategy for reviving Northeast China, an old industrial center.

Changchun New Area plans to grow into a smart equipment manufacturing center in China, focusing on three key fields: crucial parts, intelligent control systems and machinery and basic manufacturing equipment.

The area also aims to become the Silicon Valley of China’s auto sector, paying close attention to trends in transnational corporations’ automotive technology.

The area will be able to produce both finished automobiles and auto parts.

Local officials said Jilin has solid industrial foundations in fields such as new energy vehicles, lithium batteries and battery materials.

They said Changchun New Area will build a whole industrial chain for new energy automobiles, focusing on blade electric vehicles and plugin hybrid electric vehicles, and promote research and development as well as the manufacturing of key components such as high-power batteries.

The area will, based on Chang Guang Satellite Technology, develop the space industry and become a nationally influential center for satellite application demonstration, R&D and manufacturing.

It also hopes to attract leading companies such as Guangdong Longhao Aviation Group Co Ltd to help it to become an important general aviation industrial center in northeastern China.

The area plans to use the snow and ice resources of Jilin by dedicating resources to the development and manufacturing of ice and snow equipment.

It has attracted a high-end ice and snow equipment manufacturing project from Shandong Taishan Sports Industry Group, which it hopes will make the area an important production center for such equipment.

Changchun New Area also hopes to house the largest biological medicine industrial park in Asia.

Related organizations in the area can already produce 24 kinds of vaccines, which the area hopes will drive the development of a large biological vaccine industrial cluster.

The area is home to GeneScience Pharmaceuticals, a large genetic engineering pharmaceutical enterprise, and will use the company’s needs and experiences to develop a related industrial chain.

A staff member at the Changchun GeneScience Pharmaceuticals. Liu Ruifeng / For China Daily

New materials and energy technology production is expected to depend heavily on research organizations and universities such as the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Jilin University.

The field will prioritize development of new materials, new energy automobiles and biomass energy technologies and related products.