The Conference on Promoting the Construction of a Strong Manufacturing City was 
held in Chengdu city on November 18. This megalopolis in southwestern China is 
signaling to the world: Chengdu, renowned around the globe as home to the giant 
pandas, parks, greenways, poetry and tea, is also emerging as a manufacturing 
hub of China, according to Chengdu Municipal People's Government.

At the meeting, representative of Tongwei Group remarked that the promising 
prospect of green and low-carbon industry in Chengdu further strengthens the 
company's confidence in solidifying its presence in Chengdu and developing new 
energy. At present, Tongwei is actively planning to build a 30GW 
high-efficiency photovoltaic module manufacturing base with an estimated output 
value of RMB 50 billion upon completion.

Based in Chengdu, the Chengdu CRP Robot Technology Co., Ltd. gears its target 
towards the new track of the industry, and strives to achieve the goal of 
becoming the "Chinese robot pioneer". In 2021, the company's shipments of 
six-axis industrial robots under 20kg ranked in the top five among 
manufacturers worldwide, and ranked first among China's domestic industrial 
robot brands.

Siemens Chengdu Digital Factory is the first "digital enterprise" established 
by the global electronics and electrical giant Siemens outside Germany. In the 
next five years, it stands the chance to become the largest operating factory 
of Siemens Digital Industries Group in the world, and it will advance with 
Chengdu in a mutually beneficial manner.

Chengdu is one of the most powerful and attractive cities in western China, and 
it has a permanent population of nearly 22 million. After years of cultivation 
and development, Chengdu has established a relatively complete general 
industrial system. The five industries of electronic information, automobile 
manufacturing, foods and beverages, equipment manufacturing and biomedicine 
account for 74% of the city's industrial economy. Meanwhile, Chengdu is also 
accelerating the fostering of emerging industries such as artificial 
intelligence and green hydrogen energy, while also laying the groundwork for 
future industries such as block chain and 6G networks. Bloomberg noted in a 
report that Chengdu is a manufacturing center in southwestern China and plays 
an important role for a vast number of both Chinese and foreign companies.

Today, "Made in Chengdu" is shouldering the main responsibility of "Made in 
China" in various fields. At BOE Chengdu factory, 110 pieces of flexible 
displays for smartphone screens can be produced in one minute. The world's 
fastest canned beverage production line introduced by COFCO Coca-Cola can 
produce 120,000 canned beverages per hour, with an output value of RMB 1.3 
billion.

Moreover, Chengdu is a key automobile production base of China. In the assembly 
workshop of FAW-Volkswagen Chengdu, it takes merely 57 seconds for a vehicle to 
be assembled and roll off the assembly line. Sinotruk Chengdu Wangpai 
Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd. can produce one heavy truck every five minutes and 
one light truck every three and a half minutes.

The solid manufacturing foundation in Chengdu increasingly attracts leading 
enterprises and industrial resources to converge on the city, fueling the 
transformation from "Made in Chengdu" to "Made intelligently in Chengdu".

On October 27, Chengdu High-tech Zone held a signing ceremony with General 
Electric (GE) Healthcare, one of the Fortune Global 500 companies, announcing 
the official establishment of the GE Healthcare China Precision Medicine 
Industrialization Base project in Chengdu. The only national-level 
ultra-high-definition video manufacturing innovation center was established in 
Chengdu on November 7, because the city boasts China's most comprehensive UHD 
video industry chain foundation.

Increasing changes affecting world manufacturing will take place in southwest 
China. Chengdu has devised a development blueprint for the next five years to 
transform the city into a high-end, intelligent and green manufacturing hub, to 
develop a number of influential leading industries and industrial clusters in 
the world, and to position Chengdu as an emerging manufacturing powerhouse with 
global influence.

Source: Chengdu Municipal People's Government