Recently, the Watching New Development in Lingang, 2022 China Mainstream Media 
Tour took place in Lingang District, Weihai City, Shandong Province. Nearly 30 
journalists joined the event and toured Lingang District where they discovered 
the area's many achievements and felt its vitality as a result of the 
completion of several real estate projects, the addition of new cultural and 
leisure venues and the roll out of policies to support further opening up to 
the outside world.

During the tour, the group visited Weihai Modern Agricultural Industry College 
(Hengxing), Weihai Gaosai Huayun Automobile Refitting, Weihai Taiji Intelligent 
Technology, SF Intelligent Sorting and Distribution Center, Sino-Japanese 
(Weihai) Cooperation Industrial Park and other companies where they interviewed 
several of the executives and employees working there. The combination of 
articles, photos and video shots put together by the journalists and made 
available online tell Lingang's story: the district has developed into one 
which is a perfect blend of high-end industries and a beautifully constructed 
city noted for its own unique charm.

Three industry clusters now call Lingang home: new materials, high-end 
equipment manufacturing and pharmaceuticals/medical devices. The presence of 
the clusters has accelerated the creation of a modern industrial ecosystem with 
local characteristics.

By embracing policies that support opening up, the district's government 
focused on bringing in quality investment and speeding up the construction of a 
strong industrial development platform. In 2018, the district received the 
approval to build the Sino-Europe (Weihai) SME Cooperation Zone. In 2021, the 
district took the lead in building the Sino-Japanese (Weihai) Cooperation 
Industrial Park, a move that quickly led to collaborations with foreign 
companies to build production capacity for both domestic and international 
markets and to create industry clusters supported by foreign investment.

In terms of scientific and technological innovation, Lingang District is home 
to more than 50 national- and provincial-level innovation platforms. For 2022, 
the district has set as a goal the raising of 8.7 million yuan (approx. US$1.5 
million) to support development in the new materials, electronic information 
and biomedicine sectors and the bringing in of 46 million yuan (approx. US6.7 
million) in R&D investment from the private sector.

SOURCE  CRI Online