China's western region to promote industrial upgrading to deal with the financial crisis

The negative impact of the financial crisis has spread from abroad to China, from the east to the west. In the recently concluded thirteenth China Eastern and Western Trade Fair in Xi'an, Western governments are actively seeking to deal with the prescription, promote industrial upgrading is one of the important drugs.

Relative to the East, the economic structure of China's western region is more single and fragile, and the traditional economy is more vulnerable to the financial crisis. In Shaanxi Province, for example, the province's contribution to the province's industrial production of resources and traditional manufacturing industries as high as 80%. But since the fourth quarter of last year, the province's industrial growth fell sharply. The traditional manufacturing enterprises in order to reduce, the leading enterprises in the province of Shaanxi Fashite group company in the amount of orders was higher than normal month fell more than 80% in 2008, the Baoji petroleum machinery and equipment manufacturing industry in the second half did not export orders from abroad. At the same time, resource prices fell sharply, the number of enterprises in Shaanxi cut production, Fengxiang titanium titanium Co., Fengxian, lead and zinc mineral Dongling lead and zinc smelting company and Hanzhoung City Han steel, steel, zinc etc. 81 slightly three major metallurgical enterprises are once in the cut-off semi shutdown state.

Traditional industries in the face of the financial crisis, struggling to promote industrial upgrading, emerging industries to find new economic growth point, it has become the common aspiration of governments across the west.

Shaanxi provincial government clearly put forward the day before, the semiconductor lighting industry as an important measure of industrial upgrading in Shaanxi Province, in response to the financial crisis at the same time, high-profile announced the establishment of semiconductor lighting industrial park in Xi'an national aerospace base.

Zhao Hongzhuan, director of Xi'an's national space base, told reporters: as a new high-tech industry in the recent 10 years, the semiconductor lighting industry will become one of the most growth in the next few decades, one of the sunrise industry. Shaanxi will focus on the industry as a new economic growth point of support, and strive to make the province's semiconductor lighting industry output value reached 100 billion yuan in the next three years.

Sichuan province is the solar photovoltaic industry as the focus of future development of new industries. Sichuan City, Leshan Province, will put the existing solar photovoltaic industry, the annual production capacity of raw material polysilicon, from 4560 tons in 2008, up to nearly 10 thousand tons this year, to build a world-renowned Silicon Valley".

Gansu and Xinjiang provinces and two provinces with the Hexi Corridor and the strong wind in the region of Hami, the development of wind power as a new energy industry focused on cultivating new industries. Northwest wind power research center, deputy director of Zhu Minyi, told reporters: the state has agreed to approve the establishment of a 10 million kilowatts of wind power base in Gansu Hexi, Xinjiang. These two areas of wind energy resources accounted for about 1 / 3 of the country, after the completion of the establishment of the Three Gorges land to achieve the grand goal. Currently only Gansu Hexi region, there are 19 power companies in the construction of wind power generation companies. "

Industrial upgrading of China's western region is a process of economic transformation, but also the only way to enhance their competitiveness in a region, but the financial crisis is a catalyst for the progress of the process. In this process, will inevitably encounter great difficulties, experience the pain of growth, for all this, the Western governments are full of confidence.

Vice president of Shaanxi Academy of Social Sciences, said quartz, industrial upgrading, the West will be more full of vitality, full of vitality, ushered in a faster development period. "