Two Xiamen districts to be rated as national demonstration areas

 Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China has released the Announcement on the Proposed List of the Fifth Batch of Demonstration Areas for National Ecological Civilization Construction and the "Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains Are Invaluable Assets" Practice and Innovation Bases. Huli District and Jimei District are on the list. In recent years, Huli District has been devoted to combining the action plan for building a stunning Xiamen with the action plan for improving infrastructure on the island. Efforts were made to develop a blueprint of good-looking, well-civilized, modernized, and internationalized central city areas. The ecological civilization construction will boost Xiamen, as one of the first Special Economic Zones, to become a core and benchmark whilst beautiful area. In recent years, Jimei District has deepened its efforts to promote ecological development, intensified the measures for protecting natural resources, and continuously driven ecological restoration. Actual deeds were taken to further embody the national program of ecological civilization construction and buckle down for building a most beautiful and well-civilized cross-island city area.

Xiamen ranks No.1 in China City Convenience Store Development Index

 On September 28, the China City Convenience Store Development Index was released and Xiamen topped the list with a total score of 92 and a growth rate of 7.14%. Convenience stores in Xiamen see a saturability of 3443 people per store, indicating a high development and convenience level in the industry, ranking No.7 throughout the nation in terms of saturability. The saturability is a key indicator for evaluating the development of city convenience stores. Also, Xiamen takes the fourth position in business environment rating. According to the head of Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Xiamen will build a batch of "15-minute convenience circle" pilot sites before 2025 at a rate of at least 10 sites constructed each year, which will play roles in providing livelihood opportunities, promoting consumption upgrade, and boosting the city's economic micro-circulation. Next year, the China Convenience Store Convention with a participation of 5000 people.

Xiamen releases a development plan for strategic emerging industries

 Xiamen has recently released its development plan for strategic emerging industries as a part of the Fourteenth Five-year Plan. In the plan, proposals are made to fully boost the development of "5+X" key sectors, foster the next-generation information technology industry as a backbone; strengthen two emerging leading industries, i.e. the biomedicine & health industry and the new material & new energy industry; develop digital innovation and marine high-tech industries as two characteristic landmark industries. Also, advanced arrangements have been made for several sectors, including flexible electronics, third-generation semiconductors, aeronautics and astronautics, intelligent manufacturing equipment, precision medicine, and green low-carbon technologies. The goal of Xiamen before 2025 is to achieve a total volume of strategic emerging industries exceeding RMB 1000 billion, which accounts for one fourth of gross regional product and with industrial added value exceeding RMB 250 billion. The added value of high-tech industries above the designated scale is expected to account for 45 percent of that of all industries. The ratio between R&D expense and GDP is expected to hit 3.5 percent, and the amount of national-level high-tech enterprises is supposed to reach 3500.

Xiamen takes the lead to launch business environment improvement schemes

 By taking the lead in China to study and enact the Special Inclusive Scheme of Xiamen for Improvement and Implementation of Innovation, Xiamen will incorporate "creating a world-leading business environment" as one of its critical steps for advancing the construction of an international modern metropolis of high caliber and stunning looks. Featuring 58 specific measures in terms of key element allocation, industrial ecosystem, urban space, public services, and law system environment, the Scheme aims to facilitate high-quality development and overall transcendence, greatly improve Xiamen's image as a livable and business-friendly city, and optimize a market-based, law-governed international business environment.

Xiamen enterprises made the list of national pilot and demonstration projects

 Recently, the MIIT released the list of pilot and demonstration projects for big data industry development of 2021, which accommodates 204 projects of 10 disciplines in 4 sectors (industrial big data application, business big data application, key data products, data management and service). Three Xiamen enterprises are enrolled on the list. These companies are Xiamen Meiya Pico Information Co., Ltd., Xiamen Fuyun Information Technology Co., Ltd., and Faxin Notarization Cloud (Xiamen) Technology Co., Ltd. Their projects were respectively rated as the Pilot and Demonstration Project of Big Data in Analysis and Mining, Pilot and Demonstration Project of Big Data in Security Protection, and Pilot and Demonstration Project of Big Data in Storage Management.

Xiamen submits an eye-catching transcript in entrepreneurship and innovation

 On October 19, the Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week 2021 (the Week for short) kicked off. For the Week, Xiamen has solicited more than 150 supporting events and more than 50 intensively displayed projects from around the country, three of which have been selected as national key theme projects to be displayed. At the launching ceremony of the Xiamen venue, four national "entrepreneurship and innovation" demonstration bases were granted plaques, including Torch High-tech Zone, Haicang Biomedicine Bay, Cross-Straits Youth Employment and Startup Base, and Xiamen University. In recent years, Xiamen has intensified its efforts into the construction of the "entrepreneurship and innovation" platform, the introduction of young entrepreneurs, and the protection of intellectual property rights. In 2020, Xiamen had 132,000 newly added commercial subjects, witnessing a growth of 8.8%. All 18 indicators related to business environment were rated as "national benchmark".

Xiamen ranks 7th among China's top 100 cities in foreign trade

 On October 20, China Customs released the 2020 China's List of Top 100 Cities in Foreign Trade, in which Xiamen ranks the 7th, marking the best in Fujian. In 2020, Xiamen registered an import and export volume of RMB 691.58 billion, up by 7.8%, which was 5.9 and 2.3 percentage points higher than the national and provincial growth rate respectively. The export volume was RMB 357.29 billion, up by 1.2%, while the import volume was RMB 334.29 billion, up by 16%. In the first three quarters this year, Xiamen saw an import and export volume of RMB 657.02 billion in foreign trade, and has maintained a monthly foreign trade volume exceeding RMB 80 billion for three consecutive months since July.