Tongchuan: City of Industrial Transformation and Green Development

1. City Characteristics and Development Orientation

Located at the junction of the Guanzhong Plain and the Northern Shaanxi Plateau, Tongchuan boasts profound cultural heritage. It is the hometown of Sun Simiao, the King of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the capital of Yaozhou Kiln celadon, and home to Yuhua Palace, a renowned imperial summer resort of the Tang Dynasty. It flourished as an "Energy Capital" relying on coal resources after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and now evolves into a national important base for new aluminum-based materials, modern energy and green building materials. As the birthplace of Zhaojin Revolutionary Base, it is also a vital part of the Xi'an Metropolitan Circle.

Covering an administrative area of 3,882 square kilometers, Tongchuan recorded a permanent resident population of 689,100 at the end of 2025. Its regional GDP hit RMB 607.15 billion in 2025, growing by 6.1% year-on-year.

Taking building a National Demonstration City for Western Industrial Transformation as its core goal, Tongchuan focuses on seven competitive industrial chains: aluminum new materials, optoelectronics, aerospace equipment, Yaozhou porcelain, green energy & building materials, TCM health industry and characteristic green food. It accelerates the transformation of resource-exhausted cities, and has been awarded National Sanitary City and listed among China's Top Cities for Green Development in recent years.

2. Investment Promotion Overview and Investment Environment Features

Tongchuan has built 8 standardized industrial parks with targeted preferential policies covering land use, financing and tax incentives. It has streamlined administrative procedures and launched a full-cycle integrated one-stop service platform for enterprises. A large number of central SOEs, provincial key groups, private leading enterprises and foreign-funded companies have settled in the city.

In 2024, Tongchuan further optimized its investment attraction mechanism through chain-based targeted investment. It signed 225 investment projects with total contracted investment of RMB 210.7 billion; 137 contractual projects kicked off construction with a startup rate of 83.9%, realizing RMB 13.911 billion in actual paid-in domestic capital.

3. Current Key Industrial Investment Directions

(1) Aluminum-Magnesium Deep Processing & High-end Equipment Manufacturing 

Introduce complete industrial chain projects including automotive aluminum wheels, aerospace precision alloy components, 300,000-ton aluminum-magnesium alloy production lines, EV rear axles, new energy vehicle complete vehicle assembly, intelligent industrial robots and precision CNC equipment. Build Shaanxi's core production base for lightweight automotive aluminum parts.

(2) Green Energy & New Energy Storage 

Attract large-scale PV power plants, wind power capacity expansion, coal-bed methane comprehensive utilization, geothermal energy and compressed air energy storage projects. Support the upgrading of clean coal chemical industry and the distribution of new energy demonstration parks.

(3) Cultural Tourism & Characteristic Creative Industry 

Develop the Silk Road Intelligent Valley Industrial Park, Yaozhou Kiln cultural and creative tourism, red revolutionary tourism centered on Zhaojin, and TCM health resort clusters. Host the World Cabin Expo to build a well-known national health and cultural tourism destination.

(4) Modern Characteristic Agriculture 

Take Zhouling Modern Agricultural Sci-Tech Demonstration Park and Haisheng Agricultural Industrial Park as benchmarks. Introduce and cultivate 3–5 large-scale modern agricultural demonstration parks integrating fruit planting, deep processing, rural tourism and e-commerce, focusing on apple, Chinese medicinal herb and organic livestock industrial chains.