Untangling red tape in new park center
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From the national level down to the grassroots, today’s hot button topic in China is innovation. The Songjiang District government is not shirking the call.
In fact, it is boasting that it is a leader among outlying Shanghai suburbs. In an effort to reduce the red tape of commerce, the Songjiang branch of Caohejing High-Technology Park has become the first place in suburban Shanghai to open an administration center offering one-stop services for more than 10,000 companies.
An array of services
The center brings an array of government agencies under one umbrella, including food and drug safety, quality supervision, business registration and the tax department.
The idea is to reduce time and cost for companies so they can concentrate on innovative development.
“We used to take hours rushing from one bureau to another, then wait weeks to get government responses,”
Said a director from a cablemanufacturing company in the park. “But now we don’t even need leave the park. All the documentation we need we can get here within a few days. This will greatly improve the efficiency.”
Caohejing High-Tech Park, located in the Xuhui District, opened the Songjiang branch under Shanghai’s districtto- district industrial parks policy. That initiative was launched to address growing scarcity of inner city industrial parkland by fostering more cooperation among existing technology parks and outlying districts with some land to spare. In many cases,
The alliances benefit existing suburban industrial parks that aren’t thriving.
The 26.7-hectare first phase of the Songjiang branch is home to more than 300 technology enterprises, which are expected to generate tax revenue of 1 billion yuan (US$1,600 million) ) for the district by the end of this year.
“The park is a successful model of the district-to-district industrial parks policy,” said Songjiang General Party Secretary Sheng Yafei.
Win-win deal
He said the first version of an industrial park usually adopts a land-rental mode, while a more updated version tries to attract investment with standard factory buildings. In the third version, the park tries to attract premium companies in the technology field by providing efficient government services and professional marketing teams.
According to the Shanghai Municipal Commission of the Economy and Informatization, the city’s prime 1,000 square kilometers of land zoned for industrial parks has almost been used up, leaving many high-tech enterprises “homeless.”
At the same time, many suburban industrial parks have good sites but trouble attracting good projects. Bringing Xuhui and Songjiang together is a pilot project for optimizing use of land resources, attracting high-tech companies and integrating manufacturing and services industries.
In the second construction phase of the Songjiang park, which will involve 200 hectares, residential and retail amenities will be added. Songjiang plans to copy the success of this project to Xinqiao Town, where an older industrial park will be co-developed with Caohejing High-Tech Park.
Caohejing has started to seek expansion opportunities in several suburbs in the past two decades. It has established branch zones in 12 districts, including Minhang, Fengxian, Jinshan, Jiading and Pudong.
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