BEIJING, March 18th (ABP) – Under the guidance of the leaders and members of China International Press Communication Center (CIPCC), intern journalists from across the world paid a visit, on Friday March 15, 2024, to Shunyi district located in the northeast of Beijing, as part of seeing with their own eyes China’s achievements in automobile, aviation, pharmacy and art sectors.
Further information is that Shunyi borders the Beijing districts of Pinggu to the east, Tongzhou to the south, Chaoyang to the southwest, Changping to the west, Huairou to the north, and Miyun to the northeast, as well as Hebei province to the southeast.
At the Automobile Industry Research and Development Base of Beijing, journalists witnessed modern cars of various brands, made in China. The communication officers described each car with its unique features both within and outside the car. For instance, Mu Sa is one of the representative products of Beijing Hyundai, with handsome appearance, excellent functions, advanced intelligence and reliable quality. It has exclusive rear suspension seats, which can be said to be the comfortable “luxury alternative” to million-dollar luxury cars. The rear seat posture is comfortable, and the rear entertainment ecology is rich and interesting. Mu Sa has the most driving modes in its class, including comfort mode, economy mode, sport mode, smart mode, snow traction, mud traction, and sand traction.
In the same district, the intern journalists went to the Beijing China-Germany Economic and Technological Cooperation Demonstration Zone which is developed based on Beijing China-Germany Industrial Park. Covering 20 square kilometers in total, it comprises the South Area and the North Area. Located in the vicinity of the Beijing Capital International Airport, China International Exhibition Center, Central Villa Zone, Shine Hills, and a cohort of living and production facilities, the Industrial Park enjoys coordinated industrial development, spatial interconnectivity, and city-industry integration.
Beijing China-Germany Industrial Park is the main carrier of Beijing China-Germany Economic and Technological Cooperation Demonstration Zone as the first national-level German cooperation park under the theme of “economic and technological” cooperation. It undertakes national-level German exchange activities, builds a national-level German cooperation platform, serves national-level German cooperation projects, and connects resources for national German cooperation.
As a China-Germany cooperation center park, Beijing China-Germany Industrial Park joins hands with local governments, industry associations, universities, research institutes, and companies from both China and Germany to explore and implement new paths of China-Germany economic and technological cooperation with “joint innovation and integrated development”, jointly composing a new future for China-Germany cooperation.
As for future outlook, it is specified through a brochure that an open, dynamic Beijing China-Germany Industrial Park will continue on the main path of high-quality development driven by high-level opening-up, with equality, mutual benefit and pragmatic cooperation as the core, prioritizing national position, joint innovation, integrated development and industrial promotion, in its pursuit of creating an innovative model of China-Germany economic and technological cooperation.
As far as the Airport Economic Zone of Beijing Capital International Airport is concerned, the latter took inception in the 1900s. It is the birthplace and source of China economy, the carrying area and demonstration area of international and domestic airport industries, and the pioneering place and vanguard to promote the development of capital’s open economy.
Through the brochure guiding the visitors to know more about this airport economic zone, it has been mentioned that this airport economic zone of capital airport has developed into the airport economic zone with largest scale, the largest number of aviation service enterprises, the best level of openness and the highest degree of internationalization in China. In addition, its position of large-scale international aviation hub is stable, the whole aviation industry ecological chain is relatively complete, the foundation of airport industrial system is solid, the city functions are gradually improved, the comprehensive competitiveness ranks first in the country, and it has a unique development advantage.
The visit continued to the Sinopharm-FTZ Logististics Co., Ltd (Sinopharm-FTZ), a member enterprise of China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation. Located in the Beijing Capital Airport Economic Zone, it started functioning in 2014 and covers an area of 80 acres and has a total construction area of 26,000 square meters. It is a pharmaceutical bonded distribution center that meets the requirements of GSP (Good Safety Practice) specifications. Over the years, Sinopharm Bonded has provided complete supply chain services to many world-renowned pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis Pharmaceuticals, and is committed to becoming an industry-leading international pharmaceutical supply chain service provider.
The Sinopharm-FTZ has the Sinopharm bonded automated three-dimensional warehouse, which uses the world’s most advanced intelligent warehousing system to achieve fully automated operations. The company leader pointed out that Sinopharm-FTZ is geared towards the pharmaceutical and health industries, providing customers with personalized, innovative and diversified one-stop supply chain solutions including import bonding, customs clearance, drug inspection, commodity inspection, warehousing and logistics.
At present, it was reported, Sinopharm-FTZ mainly supplies internationally renowned pharmaceutical companies such as Switzerland-based Novartis Pharmaceuticals with integrated pharmaceutical third-party logistics services for the import of finished preparations in China. It has passed the quality audits of more than ten multinational pharmaceutical companies including Novartis, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Takeda, Jetbelin, and Lundbeck Pharmaceuticals.
Over the years, with the support of the Administrative Committee, Customs, Food and Drug Administration and other relevant units, Sinopharm-FTZ has enjoyed a number of preferential policies, including intelligent checkpoints, centralized declaration of distribution, cargo location supervision, single customs clearance and multiple customs declarations, efficient drug testing, to name but a few. These policies are crucial to the company’s operations, significantly improving business efficiency, shortening operating time, and significantly reducing operating costs.
Finally, multinational journalists along with CIPCC leaders and members headed to Luo Hong Art Museum to contemplate the beauty of nature. The owner of the museum by the name of Luo Hong, is an internationally renowned photographer, environmentalist, and founder of the bakery brand Holiland. The Luo Hong Art Museum collects and displays his photographic works that depict and celebrate the panoramic beauty of nature.
Over the past 20 years, he has taken countless aerial photographs of natural landscapes and wildlife, tens of thousands of them during his 48 trips to Africa, two journeys to the Antarctic, four forays to the Arctic, and four trips to Latin America. He hopes that the art museum can be a place that offers rest and comfort for every soul, and will also be his priceless legacy to younger generations, hence it is permanently open and free of charge to teenagers under 15 years of age.
Thanks to his valuable work, Luo Hong was honored as ” United Nations Environment Programme ” in 2009 and received the ” Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear ” from the former president of Kenya Mwai Kibaki in 2011.
In nutshell, as one of the most livable cities in the world, Beijing provides fertile ground for global enterprises to invest and develop, thanks to the integration of high-end factors, sound business environment and numerous investment opportunities. It is home to over 45,000 foreign-invested enterprises from more than 165 countries and regions, and 35,000 permanent offices of foreign countries.