Jiangmen is located on the west bank of the Pearl River and set at the junction of the West River and the Peng River, its tributary. With Mount Penglai lying to its north and Mount Yandun to its south, the two peaks face each other in a gate-like formation, a geographical oddity that gave the city its name, with Jiangmen literally meaning “river gate”. Extending across a total area of 9,505 sq km, the city’s permanent population stood at 4.56 million as of 2017.
Major Development Areas
National level: Jiangmen High-Tech Industrial Development Zone
Provincial level: Xinhui Economic Development Zone, and Taishan Guanghai Bay Industrial Park
Positioning
Development of Jiangmen’s strategic emerging industries is rapid. The emerging industries include new energy, new lighting, new materials, high-end equipment manufacturing, and green household appliances. Jiangmen also has a fairly comprehensive industrial system, with motorcycles and auto parts manufacturing, textiles and garments, papermaking, shipbuilding, food, packaging materials, bathroom accessories and sanitary hardware, printing, and electro mechanics as pillar industries.
Core Competencies
Jiangmen has been associated with a variety of different industry sectors, including textiles and garments, food and beverages, furniture manufacturing, building materials, metal production, home appliances and paper making. In line with the city’s 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020), many of these sectors are to be substantially upgraded, with greater precision and a move towards intelligent development seen as the priorities.
In term of the city’s pillar industries, motorcycle manufacturing takes pride of place. In 2016, the city produced 2.55 million motorcycles, some 39% of the total number manufactured in the whole of Guangdong.
The new Five-Year Plan also prioritises the development of several major industrial clusters, including a rail transit cluster, which will see the city working in association with CRRC Rail Transit Equipment, the world’s largest supplier of such equipment. This will be complemented by the development of a number of additional clusters, including electric motorcycles; heavy trucks and commercial vehicles; new energy, new materials and equipment (including projects related to the Beidou Satellite Application); educational equipment; and health products (including health foods, cosmetics, medicine and medical equipment).
In the case of the city’s services sector, a fresh emphasis will be placed on the promotion of health services, including the introduction of health industry resources from Hong Kong, Macau and overseas, as well as the development of high-end elderly care services. In an additional move, the strategic development of innovative e-commerce formats for the manufacturing, agricultural and tourism sectors will also be prioritised. Integrating the development of the cultural/creative sectors, together with design services and a number of related industries is also high on the agenda.
Jiangmen is also committed to developing its logistics sector. This is in line with the long-term aim of establishing the city as West Guangdong’s key logistics hub. The proposed construction of a coastal logistics centre, serving the greater Guangdong Harbour Economic Zone, as well as a Heshan logistics hub, are also detailed in the Five-Year Plan.
Reduce the cost of manufacturing enterprises to support the implementation of the real economy
- Reducing corporate tax burden
- Reducing corporate land
- Reducing the burden of corporate social insurance
- Reducing the cost of electricity for businesses
- Reducing business transportation costs
- Reducing corporate finance costs
- Reducing institutional transaction costs
- Support industrial enterprises to revitalize land resources and improve utilization rate
- Supporting the cultivation of emerging pillar industries in manufacturing
- Support companies to carry out technological transformation