Baoji: Sub-Center City of Guanzhong Tianshui Economic Zone

1. City Characteristics and Development Orientation

Baoji is located in the west of the vast Qinchuan. It is a major crossroad of northwest and southwest China, and also the hometown of Yan Emperor who is the Chinese ancestor, and the birthplace of Zhou and Qin culture. Now it is an industrial city in western China, major equipment manufacturing base in China and new material R&D and production base with titanium as its representative.

Baoji City covers an area of 18,161.9 square kilometers with a permanent resident population of 3,320,000(2020). In 2020, Baoji achieved GDP of RMB 227.695 billion;

With the goal of creating the sub-center city of Guanzhong - Tianshui Economic Zone, Baoji is making every effort to construct the high-end equipment manufacturing base, national new material base with titanium as its representative, cultural tourist destination highlighting Chinese civilization and the megacity in adjacent areas of Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan and Ningxia.

2. Investment Promotion Overview and Investment Environment Features

Baoji is one of the first batch of national technical innovation demonstration cities, manufacturing informatization pilot cities, and urban informatization key technologies integration and application pilot cities. Half of the Spark Science and Technology Parks in Shaanxi Province are distributed long the Lanzhou - Lianyungang Railway.

Baoji has been striving to create a first-class development environment, facilitating project introduction by zero distance services and zero- interference in project construction, fully implementing “Forefront Measures” and “System of Working on the Spot” to effectively and timely solve actual problems and difficulties of investment enterprises.

In 2016, the city completed a total of 865 investment projects and actual available fund of RMB 95.4 billion, including 23 projects of more than RMB 1 billion. A total of RMB 66.4 billion has been invested for 350 municipal major projects and the amount invested for 212 projects such as aerospace industrial base and new energy vehicles has exceeded the quota.

3. Key Projects in 2017

(1) Equipment Manufacturing Industry: accelerating the construction of China Railway Electrification Bureau Baoji Science and Technology Industrial Park and development of key projects like high manganese steel frog production base and Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric capacity expansion project, to power high-end equipment manufacturing industry.

(2) Strategic Emerging Industry: facilitating the construction of parks concerning 7107 Factory Aerospace Industrial Base, fiber-optic gyroscope, autogyro, power battery cathode material, building energy conservation, PV and wind power generation, and industrial parks over fiberhome communication vehicle intelligent mechatronic, Phase II of Jintai District Big Data Industrial Park, Weibin District Internet Industrial Park, CNC machine tool intelligent production system, robot and intelligent manufacturing.

(3) New Materials: promoting the development of titanium alloy high-end application, titanium alloy orthopedic implants, nuclear grade zirconium production and the construction of Titanium Valley New Materials Testing Center to drive titanium products to a new height and applied in daily life.

(4) Tourism Industry: creating four brands (namely, Zhou and Qin culture birthplace, Famen Temple - the ancestor of pagoda temples in Guanzhong area, Qinling Mountains and Western-fu Folk Culture), building Western Zhou Dynasty Cultural Scenic Area and launching the construction of Zhouyuan Site Park to forge national Memory Project; implementing the Fufeng Damei Buddhism Bath Town Project to promote the construction of “World Buddhist Kingdom”.