Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan September 12 speech at Chongqing University, the disclosure of the city to convince HP to invest some of the details. The Chongqing Municipality has also been recruiting more than 300 laptops to the world’s major manufacturers of spare parts for nearly half of the settled, of which 60 have already signed settled a total investment of 16 billion yuan, another 74 have signed agreement of intent.
Comprehensive Bonded Zone of Chongqing West Wing on February 15 this year by the State Council approved a total area of 10.3 square kilometers of the Free Trade Zone, is the largest comprehensive Free Trade Zone. Chongqing Municipality has approved in less than a year ago Cuntan two bonded port area of Chongqing, a planned area of 8.37 square kilometers.
Mystery is that the Free Trade Zone, Chongqing is the “nest after the first, the chicken” – HP, Foxconn, Quanta, Inventec layout in Chongqing, the global market-oriented annual output of 80 million notebook computer production capacity, “machine” has been place, did not support the export processing “machine nest” – Free Trade Zone is not enough.
Notebook computer industry in Chongqing to do, thanks to Hewlett-Packard settled one to HP, a bunch of laptops to follow immediately from Foundry. It was also behind the Chongqing municipal government actively encouraged the president of Hewlett-Packard to Foxconn, Quanta, Inventec and other writing on behalf of factory owners, urging them to Fuyu investment, and even directly to them, “mentioned” to Chongqing, ask them not willing to willing to follow their own investment in Chongqing.
The global financial crisis in 2008, Chongqing City, carrying out economic research, we found that the global industry from raw materials to equipment, to general consumer electronics industry, the market shrank by almost 30% to 40%. But there is actually a product or a year of positive growth, is the laptop.
The reason is the unemployment rate had soared, many people are unemployed at home after playing computer, and Huang Qifan think this is a recession, “lipstick effect” – when the economic downturn, people will turn to buying cheap consumer goods, and lipstick, though not necessity, but the role of both cheap and cosmetic, to give consumers a psychological comfort.
“The World is Flat,” a book describing a level of processing trade division of the world, brands under a single, on behalf of the Assembly Commerce and Industry, the global supply of spare parts supply chain. Chongqing Municipality is prepared to do the opposite. Anticipation that the machine should be reasonable and logical integration of additional components, 70% to 80% locally made parts and components, logistics costs to zero.
Currently, the U.S. Hewlett-Packard has integrated Free Trade Zone in the West Wing set up a bonded logistics distribution center, from Taiwan’s Foxconn, Quanta, Inventec notebook foundries such as the Free Trade Zone has been established within the factory, the factory covers an area of 2 square kilometers, respectively, 1.5 square kilometers, 1 square kilometer. The three main notebook foundry plant project has been completed or nearing completion, will be officially put into operation this year.
The Chongqing Municipality has also been recruiting more than 300 laptops to the world’s major manufacturers of spare parts for nearly half of the settled, of which 60 have already signed settled a total investment of 16 billion yuan, another 74 have signed agreement of intent.
Honeywell, president of China and India Tedjarati September 26 on the “First Financial Daily” reporters, said the company will announce in a few weeks in Chongqing investment, including R & D, design, production and other projects, and to intervene in Chongqing Notebook computer parts industry.