□ Nanjing Daily/Zijinshan News reporter Zhang Tiantian
Look at the city through the list and the development through the numbers.
Over the past few days, the list of Fortune 500 in China in 2024, Top 100 Cities in China in 2024, Top 100 Online Retailing in China in 2024, Top 100 Hurun China New Materials Enterprises in 2024, and Top 50 Pioneers of ESG Listed Companies in China in the Yangtze River Delta (2024) have been released one after another.
Through the list, we can find that in the first half of this year, while achieving a reasonable growth in quantity, Nanjing’s economic development ushered in an effective improvement in quality and took new steps in high-quality development.
Up: "physique" is stronger.
On July 25th, the "2024 Fortune China Top 500 List" was released. Many familiar "Nanjing faces" can be found on the list of Nanjing Bank Co., Ltd., Huitongda Network Co., Ltd., Nanjing Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Suning.cn Group Co., Ltd. and Nanjing Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
On August 6th, China Chain Store & Franchise Association cooperated with Deloitte to release "Top100 Online Retailing in China in 2024", and Huitong and Suning.cn joined king of the children Children’s Products Co., Ltd., JD.COM Wuxing Electric Appliance Group Co., Ltd., Jinhong Fashion Group Co., Ltd. and many other new productivity enterprises to make the list. Among them, Suning.cn and Huitong ranked fourth and fifth respectively after JD.COM, Alibaba and Vipshop.
The number of listed companies and their positions on the list directly reflect the position of Nanjing’s economic development in China’s economic map. From the cornerstone of manufacturing industry to the rising star of Internet technology, from the innovation of financial services to the exploration of green energy … Counting the list, we can see that the development of Nanjing enterprises in many fields has entered a new stage of increasing their physique from long stature, and the role of many fields has changed from "followers" to "leaders", forming and demonstrating a strong driving force and support for high-quality development.
"By placing an order to buy a mobile phone through the online shopping platform, we can deliver it to your door within 10 kilometers." Boss Cheng of Nanjing Liuhe District said, "In 2023, store sales increased by more than 50%." Through the digital empowerment of small shops in towns and villages, Huitongda has made a "big business": in 2023, Huitongda achieved an operating income of 82.433 billion yuan and a net profit of 697 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25%.
According to the relevant person in charge of king of the children, while the "AI parenting consultant model" KidsGPT was launched online, the company also independently developed a full-link digital system for instant retail in the same city, and successively launched products such as one-hour delivery, city delivery and half-day delivery. The timely fulfillment rate of orders reached 99%, greatly improving the convenience of users’ shopping.
Xiangxin: "Footsteps" are lighter
In March of this year, Nanjing issued the "Key Points of Industry Strong City Action 2024", proposing to speed up the revitalization and upgrading of the four pillar industries and build two "national teams" with high standards.
Nowadays, as one of the four pillar industries, steel has accelerated the formation of new quality productivity through deep transformation and upgrading. As one of the two state-level advanced manufacturing clusters in our city, in 2023, the new power (smart grid) cluster will achieve revenue exceeding 360 billion yuan.
Nangang and Guodian Nanrui, which were on the list of the eighth batch of single manufacturing champion enterprises of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in March this year, met again at the peak after a lapse of five months, respectively, by virtue of "9 nickel steel for cryogenic vessels", "ultra-high-strength wear-resistant steel plate" and "smart grid main distribution network dispatching and monitoring automation system". At the ESG China Yangtze River Delta Corporate Social Responsibility Conference held on August 7th, Nanjing enterprises such as Nangang and Guodian Nanrui were selected into the list of "China ESG Listed Companies in the Yangtze River Delta Pioneer 50(2024)", and the industrial development was "green rise".
Strolling along the bank of the Yangtze River, birds and flowers are singing in the factory area of Nangang, an old steel enterprise. Tourists enjoy the rippling blue waves by the Kowloon Lake and reminisce about the glorious years in the steel museum.
The "green" of appearance is the representation, and the "green" of kernel is the key. The "baking soda" desulfurization process was pioneered in the treatment of coke oven flue gas. Four fully enclosed, environmentally friendly and intelligent material sheds with a total area of 100,000 square meters were built, 24 "coal silos" and 39 "coke silos" were built, and all the belt corridors were closed and reformed … Nangang became the first "long-process steel" enterprise in Jiangsu Province with a grade A environmental performance, and really grew from "Iron Man" to "Green".
The upgrade of new materials is also helping the automobile industry to "run" quickly. On the "2024 Hurun China Top 100 New Materials Enterprises List" released in August, Nanjing enterprises such as Baowu Magnesium and Hanrui Cobalt were listed. Lose 2.5 kg-7 kg! This is the "weight reduction achievement" of a magnesium alloy lightweight electric drive assembly jointly released by Baowu Magnesium and Suzhou Huichuan United Power System Co., Ltd. According to "Research on Key Technologies for Lightweight of New Energy Vehicles", a 10% reduction in the weight of new energy vehicles will increase their endurance by 6%-8%.
To the future: the goal is more firm.
The reporter noted that while many enterprises are on the list, the cities that gave birth to these enterprises are also on the list.
On July 30th, 2024, the list of the top 100 cities in China was released, which was the tenth consecutive year that Wharton Economic Research Institute organized the compilation of the annual list of the top 100 cities in China. Cities at or above the prefecture level, which rank the top 115th in the annual GDP above the list, are considered as the shortlisted cities. They are sorted according to their comprehensive scores of hard economic indicators (GDP, savings and finance) and soft economic indicators (environment, science and education, culture and health), and the top 100 cities are selected as the top 100 cities of the year. Nanjing ranks sixth on the list.
Behind this ranking is that Nanjing has been accumulating strength for high-quality development.
Last year, the number of high-tech enterprises in Nanjing exceeded 10,000, and the evaluation of national innovative cities ranked fourth in the country. It was awarded "Top Ten Provincial Capital and Sub-provincial Cities" and "Top Ten Provincial Capital and Sub-provincial Cities with the Best Word of Mouth" for the business environment of 10,000 private enterprises in 2023. This year, Nanjing took the initiative to jump out of the "comfort zone" and "frame of reference" of domestic standards and fully aligned itself with the "world-class" benchmark: in January, "Several Measures for Promoting the Development and Growth of Private Economy (Draft for Comment)" was released, including 6 parts and 26 measures; In February, the first batch of innovative application scenarios for optimizing the business environment in 2024 were released, and 15 small incision "scenarios" involved many fields; In April, the Leading Group for Optimizing the Business Environment in Nanjing issued and implemented the Key Points for Optimizing the Business Environment in Nanjing in 2024, which is the sixth consecutive document for optimizing the business environment in Nanjing, with 26 measures put forward.
Planning for the next step: Not long ago, the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee held a meeting and proposed that we should go all out to grab the third quarter, do a solid job in implementing policies such as "two-fold" and "double innovation", strengthen economic operation scheduling, strengthen project construction and attract investment, focus on expanding domestic demand to promote consumption, stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, boost the confidence and vitality of business entities, accelerate the cultivation of new quality productivity, and unswervingly achieve the annual economic and social development goals.