吴江区基本情况
吴江是江苏省的“南大门”，东邻上海，西濒太湖，南连浙江，北依苏州主城区，地处江浙沪两省一市交汇的长江三角洲中心腹地。全区总面积1176平方公里，常住人口130.98万，户籍人口84万，包括1个国家级开发区、2个省级高新区、1个省级旅游度假区，是苏州城区最大的板块和城市发展的重要纵深所在。
吴江是人文之区。公元909年建县，1992年撤县设市，2012年撤市设区，是享誉全国的“鱼米之乡”“丝绸之府”。悠长久远的历史和勤勉诚信的民风，孕育了包括爱国诗人柳亚子、社会学家费孝通、“两弹一星”功勋科学家程开甲等一大批社会英才。江南民居风貌独特，造就了同里、黎里、震泽三个中国历史文化名镇。继同里退思园之后，大运河吴江段和吴江运河古纤道分别作为河道遗产和重要遗产点也列入《世界文化遗产名录》。
吴江是实力之区。上半年，完成地区生产总值987.1亿元,同比增长6.8%；一般公共预算收入118.2亿元，同比增长9.3%；完成工业总产值2265亿元，同比增长0.8%；完成全社会固定资产投资319.6亿元，同比增长10.2%。丝绸纺织、电子信息、光电通信、装备制造四大主导产业稳步发展，新一代信息技术、新型半导体、生物医药等新兴产业和现代服务业发展迅速。民营经济发达， 4家企业入围中国企业500强， 5家企业入围中国民企500强，恒力跻身世界500强企业，位列181位。工业企业资源集约利用信息系统全省首创，智能工业领跑全省县市区。
吴江是活力之区。既有中心城区的功能优势，又有县域经济的活力优势。拥有国家级科创园4家，国家级众创空间4家，国家级企业技术中心10家；拥有国家千人计划55人，国家级企业博士后科研工作站46家。累计上市企业16家，“新三板”挂牌企业54家。2019年5月30日，中共中央、国务院印发《长江三角洲区域一体化发展规划纲要》，提出以上海青浦、江苏吴江、浙江嘉善为“长三角生态绿色一体化发展示范区”，示范引领长三角地区更高质量一体化发展，吴江迎来重大历史发展机遇。
吴江是绿色之区。水域面积占全区面积23%，列入省保护湖泊名录达56个（含太湖），占全省的40%。自然湿地保护率达72.6%，林木覆盖率达19.8%。太湖岸线47公里，是整个太湖水质最好、空气最好的区域之一。拥有国家湿地公园建设试点单位同里湿地公园、省级森林公园桃源森林公园。水环境、大气环境质量在“三治”、“263”专项行动等综合工程实施下明显改善。
吴江是乐居之区。新城建设加速崛起，太湖新城完成投资1600亿元，其中政府性投入500亿元左右，产城融合发展得到扎实推进。教育、医疗设施布局合理，苏州大学未来校区成功落户，苏州九院、苏州京东方国际医院即将竣工投用，是一座学有优教、劳有丰酬、病有良医、老有颐养、行有通衢、住有适所、天蓝水清的乐居之城。
About Wujiang
Wujiang is the "South Gate" of Jiangsu, facing Shanghai in the east, Taihu Lake in the west, Zhejiang in the south, and the main city in Suzhou in the north. County built in 909, in 1992 set up the city withdrawal, in 2012 to withdraw the city after the district became Suzhou's largest city. Wujiang area of 1176 square kilometers, is a typical water network in southern Yangtze River, seven points to three points of water, is known throughout the country, "Yumizhixiang", "Silk House." Wujiang under the jurisdiction of 8 districts and towns, including a national development zone, two provincial high-tech zones, a provincial tourist resort.
Policy Support
The Wujiang district government is committed to offering a cordial, secure and profitable environment for investors and providing businesses with high-quality, efficient and convenient services.
Economic Sectors
This column is about the Wujiang economic aspects of the various sections, there is a corresponding detail.
Industry Characteristics
The overall introduction of Wujiang investment environment.The overall introduction of Wujiang
Why Wujiang
Distinct locational advantages:
Wujiang is located at the junction between Shanghai and the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and at the center of the Yangtze River Delta. With the Changtai (Changzhou-Taizhou), Huyu (Shanghai-Chongqing) and Changjia (Changhzou-Jiaxing) expressways crisscrossing, the district is so conveniently connected with surrounding large cities that it is only a 1-hour drive to Shanghai and a 1.5-hour drive to Hangzhou. Meanwhile, the high-speed transportation network of subways, expressways and elevated highways renders it possible to get to railway stations within 30 minutes, airports within 40 minutes and ports within two hours.
Convenient transportation:
Wujiang is going to build an intensive and high-level transportation network of high-speed railways, rail transit lines, elevated highways, freeways and expressways during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020).
The Husuhu (Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou) high-speed railway running east-west through Wujiang will begin construction soon and the Tongsujia (Nantong-Suzhou-Jiaxing) high-speed railway running north-south through it has been included in the 13th Five-Year Plan. Suzhou Rail Transit Line 4, running south to Tongli Station in Wujiang, has been put into operation and in the near future, the rail transit system of Wujiang will be completely integrated into that of Suzhou and will be connected with those of neighboring cities like Shanghai and Jiaxing.
The south extensions of Suzhou’s west ring and east ring elevated highways have been opened to traffic and two highway tunnels under the Taihu Lake are under construction, which will help form a complete highway loop and further promote the integration of Wujiang into Suzhou. The Wujiang section of Changjia (Changshu-Jiaxing) Expressway is now in use, facilitating the development of east Wujiang, especially Fenhu New & High-tech Industrial Development Zone.
Natural ecological splendor: There are over 300 lakes of different sizes in Wujiang, 56 of which are protected at the provincial level taking up about a half of the total in Jiangsu. In these years, with its habitable advantages of lakeside natural scenic areas stretching over a hundred miles, the lakes and first-level air and second-level water, Wujiang has integrated the concept of ecological civilization into the new-type urbanization planning. Over 3 billion RMB (about 0.435 billion USD) has been granted for the construction of a series of distinctive wetland parks, including East Taihu Lake Ecologic Tourism Resort, Ludanghu Lake Ecological Park and Shengdi Ecological Park, and over 4 billion RMB (about 0.624 billion USD) for the comprehensive improvement of the East Taihu Lake. All of the efforts have brought the beautiful scenes of the Taihu Lake and Suzhou Bay back to people’s eyes. Wujiang was awarded China Human Settlements and Environment Award and honored on the list of the National Ecological Cities and of Pilot Cities for the Construction of Ecological Advancement.
A sound economy and a firm industrial foundation:
In 2018, Wujiang achieved a gross production value of 192.503 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7%; a general public budget revenue of 20.29 billion yuan, an increase of 10.6%; a fixed asset investment of 57.422 billion yuan, a 6.7% increase; and an import-export volume of 22.893 billion US dollars, an increase of 6.7%. The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents grew by 8.3%. The total number of private enterprises in the district has exceeded 66,000 and the total registered capital is over 360 billion yuan.
There are 16 listed companies and 54 companies listed on the National Equities Exchange and Quotation (NEEQ) system, known as the “new third board”. Besides, 4 enterprises were listed in China’s Top 500 Enterprises and 5 in China’s Top 500 Private Enterprises. Hengli Group ranks the 235th among the world’s top 500 companies.
Under the new normal of China’s economic growth, Wujiang’s economy maintains a steady and rapid growth. The district holds a lead in Suzhou in the regional economic competitiveness and the competitiveness of local industries or enterprises.
Apart from the traditional silk industry, Wujiang has developed several new pillar industries including the chemical fiber industry, the optical fiber and cable industry, and the elevator industry, whose production accounts for one tenth, one third and one sixth of the total national output respectively.
Wujiang has formed a complete industrial chain for the electronics and information industry, with an upstream and downstream matching rate of over 95%. The district is a leading producer of optoelectronic products, electronic components and network data machines. It ranks among the top in Jiangsu province in smart manufacturing, with an investment of over 39.6 billion yuan. It has 79 provincial-level demonstration intelligent workshops, accounting for 30.2% of Suzhou’s total and ranking first among all counties (districts) in Jiangsu province.
Efficient services provided by the People’s Government of Wujiang District. The government, always being open to serve people, has focused on the improvement of service efficiency. The number of administrative items for examination and approval has been reduced to 201, which is the smallest compared to that of any district or county in Suzhou. Especially since 2016, there have been reforms in serving the people and enterprises, namely “an official seal for examination and approval procedures” and “a phone number for service”. The policy of “an official seal for examination and approval procedures” created a new pattern of handling official works by investigating and making reply in one office window and one system, which obviously simplifies the procedures and increased some 50% of working efficiency compared with the legal time limits of the state. And the policy of “a phone number for service” has integrated all kinds of convenience service hotlines and achieved the result of handling the complaints, consultations and works of the masses by one number. Meanwhile, we have boosted the reform of commercial institutions and actively explored the simulative approval procedure and the agency system of services for enterprises. We also promoted the policy of “integrating licenses into one”, so as to simplify the registering and canceling procedures and make altogether efforts to “free” the innovative enterprises. At present, the online preliminary reviewing rate of the new-founded enterprises’ online registration reaches 98%, and the foreign-funded enterprises’, 100%. The approval procedure is continuously optimized and condensed, with a focus on the target of “3550” reform (completing the procedure of founding a new enterprise within 3 working days, the registration of real estate within 5 working days, and approving the construction permission of industrial construction projects within 50 working days).
Great policy support from the People’s Government of Wujiang District. Focusing on the construction of an innovation ecosystem, the People’s Government of Wujiang District has continuously improved the enforcement of the Industrial Support Policy of Wujiang District (Trial) and the category of supported projects, and made accurate efforts concentrating on the procedures and criterion of the supporting policy. The government works hard to improve subsidy policies for the enterprise which has gained its first successful entrepreneurship and for entrepreneurship-driven employment. The government strives to ensure the leading role of the fund of funds (FOF) of industrial investment to form a superimposed effect with state-owned funds such as venture capital guiding fund and innovation fund of science and technology. Meanwhile, the government also gives more financial support to create new financing products and service patterns in ways that direct more capital into the real economy.
