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CHENGDU, China, Nov. 22, 2022 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

The Conference on Promoting the Construction of a Strong Manufacturing City was

held in Chengdu city on November 18. This megalopolis in southwestern China is

signaling to the world: Chengdu, renowned around the globe as home to the giant

pandas, parks, greenways, poetry and tea, is also emerging as a manufacturing

hub of China, according to Chengdu Municipal People's Government.

At the meeting, representative of Tongwei Group remarked that the promising

prospect of green and low-carbon industry in Chengdu further strengthens the

company's confidence in solidifying its presence in Chengdu and developing new

energy. At present, Tongwei is actively planning to build a 30GW

high-efficiency photovoltaic module manufacturing base with an estimated output

value of RMB 50 billion upon completion.

Based in Chengdu, the Chengdu CRP Robot Technology Co., Ltd. gears its target

towards the new track of the industry, and strives to achieve the goal of

becoming the "Chinese robot pioneer". In 2021, the company's shipments of

six-axis industrial robots under 20kg ranked in the top five among

manufacturers worldwide, and ranked first among China's domestic industrial

robot brands.

Siemens Chengdu Digital Factory is the first "digital enterprise" established

by the global electronics and electrical giant Siemens outside Germany. In the

next five years, it stands the chance to become the largest operating factory

of Siemens Digital Industries Group in the world, and it will advance with

Chengdu in a mutually beneficial manner.

Chengdu is one of the most powerful and attractive cities in western China, and

it has a permanent population of nearly 22 million. After years of cultivation

and development, Chengdu has established a relatively complete general

industrial system. The five industries of electronic information, automobile

manufacturing, foods and beverages, equipment manufacturing and biomedicine

account for 74% of the city's industrial economy. Meanwhile, Chengdu is also

accelerating the fostering of emerging industries such as artificial

intelligence and green hydrogen energy, while also laying the groundwork for

future industries such as block chain and 6G networks. Bloomberg noted in a

report that Chengdu is a manufacturing center in southwestern China and plays

an important role for a vast number of both Chinese and foreign companies.

Today, "Made in Chengdu" is shouldering the main responsibility of "Made in

China" in various fields. At BOE Chengdu factory, 110 pieces of flexible

displays for smartphone screens can be produced in one minute. The world's

fastest canned beverage production line introduced by COFCO Coca-Cola can

produce 120,000 canned beverages per hour, with an output value of RMB 1.3

billion.

Moreover, Chengdu is a key automobile production base of China. In the assembly

workshop of FAW-Volkswagen Chengdu, it takes merely 57 seconds for a vehicle to

be assembled and roll off the assembly line. Sinotruk Chengdu Wangpai

Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd. can produce one heavy truck every five minutes and

one light truck every three and a half minutes.

The solid manufacturing foundation in Chengdu increasingly attracts leading

enterprises and industrial resources to converge on the city, fueling the

transformation from "Made in Chengdu" to "Made intelligently in Chengdu".

On October 27, Chengdu High-tech Zone held a signing ceremony with General

Electric (GE) Healthcare, one of the Fortune Global 500 companies, announcing

the official establishment of the GE Healthcare China Precision Medicine

Industrialization Base project in Chengdu. The only national-level

ultra-high-definition video manufacturing innovation center was established in

Chengdu on November 7, because the city boasts China's most comprehensive UHD

video industry chain foundation.

Increasing changes affecting world manufacturing will take place in southwest

China. Chengdu has devised a development blueprint for the next five years to

transform the city into a high-end, intelligent and green manufacturing hub, to

develop a number of influential leading industries and industrial clusters in

the world, and to position Chengdu as an emerging manufacturing powerhouse with

global influence.

Source: Chengdu Municipal People's Government