The Jinpu New Area’s tax revenue in 2021 hit 59.84 billion yuan ($19.23 billion). [Photo/IC]
The Jinpu New Area’s tax revenue in 2021 hit 59.84 billion yuan ($19.23 billion), while its general public budget revenue reached 21.03 billion yuan, both an indication that the area’s economy has performed well last year.
In 2021, Jinpu has continued to promote industrial transformation and upgrading. The five leading industries of petrochemical engineering, equipment manufacturing, electronic information, whole vehicles and auto parts, and biomedicine have achieved a combined output value of 284.8 billion yuan, accounting for 79.8 percent of the area’s gross industrial output. The scale of the auto parts industry ranked second in the country. The new area also advanced the digital economy, introducing the Huawei Supercomputing Center and a big data center for the Dalian Commodity Exchange.
Jinpu also contributed to scientific and technological innovation and invested 6.37 billion yuan in research and development. In the whole year, 270 new high-tech enterprises were established, and the annual turnover of technology contracts exceeded 8 billion yuan. Kede Numerical Control was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The area has also achieved remarkable progress in its opening up, especially in terms of economic and trade cooperation with Japan. The actual use of foreign capital accounted for 46.6 percent of all the capital investment in the new area last year.
