At the invitation of the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, from March 27th to 31st, a Hong Kong and Macao media Hebei Coastal Tour interview team consisting of journalists from 11 Hong Kong and Macao media outlets, including Hong Kong Business Daily, Hong Kong China News Agency, and Hong Kong Cable TV, conducted a 5-day visit to the coastal areas of our province. They personally experienced the new achievements in the economic development of Hebei's coastal areas through the eyes of media professionals, and their on-site reports created a favorable public opinion atmosphere for the upcoming Hong Kong (Hebei) Investment and Trade Fair, as well as building a bridge for cooperation and development among the three regions of Hebei, Hong Kong, and Macao.

Industrial agglomeration has become an important support for the development of coastal economy

With the development plan of Hebei's coastal areas rising to a national strategy, the horn of a new round of opening up, development, and construction is sounding in the coastal areas of our province.

For Bohai New Area, I can express my inner feelings in four words: inspiring people to strive forward. Most of these are big projects of 'national' brands and multinational companies. On March 28th, Yan Ansheng, the leader of the Hong Kong and Macao media's Hebei Coastal Tour interview team and deputy editor in chief of Hong Kong Business Daily, couldn't hide his excitement after visiting and inspecting the site.

The major projects that moved him include the nickel iron project at Zhonggang Binhai Base. The 80000 ton nickel iron project of Zhonggang Binhai Base with an investment of 1.8 billion yuan introduces the pyrometallurgical process of laterite nickel ore, which is a blank in the domestic nickel iron production field. The Zhonggang Binhai Base will start with an 80000 ton nickel iron project and gradually expand to a production scale of 400000 tons of nickel iron, becoming the largest nickel iron base in China.

Liu Lizhu, Deputy Secretary of the Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Cangzhou Bohai New Area, introduced that in terms of industrial development, a large number of "national" enterprises such as Air Liquide, Cargill Grain and Oil from the United States, China Resources Thermal Power from Hong Kong, China First Heavy Duty Cold Rolled Plate, 400000 vehicles from BAIC Group, Guohua Electric Power, AVIC CBD, and China Power Investment Corporation's green circular industry cluster, as well as projects from the top 500 companies in China and even the world, have landed one after another. In the future, Bohai New Area will focus on building a chemical industry base in northern China and a pipeline equipment manufacturing base in China. During the interview, Hong Kong and Macao journalists praised our province's approach of promoting better, faster, and greater development in coastal areas by highlighting industries, saying, "Grasping projects is grasping development, and grasping large projects is grasping great development. On March 30th, at the construction site of the Beidaihe New Area Tourism Resort Center project, Xu Xiang, Deputy Editor in Chief of the Overseas Edition of Xingdao Daily, pointed to the sea and asked, "Why do we still need to develop such a beautiful scenery.

Zhang Xiaohui, Deputy Director of the Tourism Resort Center Project, said that the project is invested and constructed by Beijing Guohua Real Estate Co., Ltd., focusing on the construction of five hotels, yacht clubs, leisure sports parks, cultural commercial streets, entrepreneurial bases, etc. It is a demonstration project in Beidaihe New Area, which will not only greatly enrich Beidaihe's tourism business format, but also extend Beidaihe's golden vacation time.

Li Xuemin, Secretary of the Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of Beidaihe New Area, said that Beidaihe New Area will adhere to the three bottom lines of planning, ecology, and industrial positioning, and develop emerging industries mainly based on tourism and modern service industries

(Continued from the previous version) Make every effort to build a leisure tourism destination and a modern service industry demonstration zone. At present, 14 tourism projects with a total investment of 100 billion yuan, including the Gold Coast Seaview Sports Park and the Nandaihe Forest Sports Club, are about to be implemented. Brand commercial and cultural industry projects such as outlet discount stores and animation industry parks have been implemented.

Circular economy drives coastal scientific development

"It is hard to imagine that a modern power plant can rise on the vast mudflat, and it is even harder to imagine that the sea water can be converted into fresh water." At 14:00 on March 28, standing under the 86 meter high seawater desalination device of Hebei Guohua Cangdong Power Generation Co., Ltd., reporters from the interview group sighed.

According to Liu Zhe, the deputy chief engineer of the company, the production and domestic water supply of the power plant and Huanghua Port currently rely on seawater desalination. Through three seawater desalination units with a total capacity of 32500 tons, Cangdian not only meets the daily production water demand, but also supplies surrounding enterprises such as China Steel and China Railway, and provides domestic water to tens of thousands of nearby residents. The concentrated seawater extracted by seawater desalination equipment can be used to extract potassium through ion screening method, which can alleviate the current shortage of potassium. Electrodialysis can also be used to produce salt. China Salt Group will establish a sub station here to extract concentrated salt water.

Macau magazine editor Chen Siguo is very interested in this "news point". He believes that the industrial chain of power generation, seawater desalination, and chemical industry can be called the * of circular economy.

In Caofeidian, circular economy permeates every corner. Power plants are the foundation for building a circular economy industry chain and the Caofeidian Circular Economy Demonstration Zone. On March 31st, at China Resources Power (Tangshan Caofeidian) Co., Ltd., Assistant General Manager Sun Zhigang introduced that China Resources Power uses seawater direct current cooling to construct supercritical units, which can save 25 million tons of fresh water and about 220000 tons of standard coal annually. The production of power plants forms a cogeneration system with seawater desalination, concentrated seawater salt production, and salt chemical enterprises to achieve comprehensive utilization of resources.

Liu Shuxiang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Caofeidian New Area, who accompanied the interview, added that circular economy is the "soul" of Caofeidian New Area. In terms of industrial planning and project planning, it runs through the development, construction, and growth of Caofeidian New Area. Caofeidian Industrial Zone has identified three circular economy industrial chains, namely the circular economy industrial chain based on high-quality steel projects, the circular economy industrial chain based on large-scale integrated petroleum refining facilities, and the circular economy industrial chain based on seawater cooled thermal power projects. According to the three major industrial chains, five industrial parks have been established, including port logistics, steel and electricity, chemical industry, equipment manufacturing, and high-tech. These parks serve as carriers for implementing a circular economy, digesting waste gas, wastewater, and waste residue to eliminate pollution.

Dagangkou drives the economic development of the hinterland

On the morning of March 31st, the 250000 ton ore terminal in Caofeidian was busy, with six unloaders nervously and orderly unloading iron ore from cargo ships. The huge unloader's grab bucket flips up and down, unloading the ore from the 10000 ton cargo ship arriving at the port into the funnel at the fastest speed possible, and then delivering it to the ore yard through the conveyor belt; The ore yard is wrapped in windproof nets, and spray guns are constantly wiping out the smoke and dust... "This will definitely become a highlight of the Chinese economy. Hong Kong relies on the port to develop into a metropolis," said Zhang Xiangyang, director of Hong Kong TV. With the port, Caofeidian will build a new pattern of complementary and mutually beneficial development between coastal and hinterland advantages in the future.

According to the plan, more than 260 port berths are planned to be built on the available coastline of more than 60 kilometers in Caofeidian Port Area. By the end of the 12th Five Year Plan, the port throughput capacity will reach 500 million tons, becoming a large-scale trading center and port logistics center for important commodities such as steel, coal, and ore.

The linkage effect between the hinterland and the coast is emerging in Caofeidian. The 40 square kilometer Inner Mongolia Lingang Industrial Park located in Caofeidian is progressing in an orderly manner. The construction of the Mongolian Hebei Railway not only provides convenience for the export of coal, chemical products, and ores from Inner Mongolia, but also solves the problem of Inner Mongolia's lack of sea access. For Hebei, Inner Mongolia, as the hinterland and rear area of Caofeidian Port Area and Jingtang Port Area, will play a strong supporting role in the development of ports and local economy due to the large inflow and outflow of logistics and industrial development.

The driving effect of Huanghua Port on its hinterland is becoming stronger and stronger. Its hinterland has covered provinces such as Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia, mainly carrying iron ore, steel, coal, fertilizers, grains, salt, cement, stone materials, and other miscellaneous goods. Next, we will cooperate with Hebei Iron and Steel Group, Hebei Port Group, and others to jointly build four 200000 ton specialized ore terminals. At the same time, we plan to construct oil and chemical terminals, as well as coal terminals. Strive to build the Huanghua Port Comprehensive Port Area into a comprehensive port with large throughput capacity, strong comprehensive functions, and wide radiation range along the Bohai Sea by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan, better undertake the functions of inland material transfer, port industrial development, and logistics services, and create a powerful engine to drive regional economic development. Along the coast of Hebei, I have seen unexpected beauty - the beauty of development and progress. When the planning goals are finally achieved, this beauty will be fully displayed. ”When bidding farewell, Yan Ansheng repeatedly described the economic development along the coast of Hebei as "unimaginable beauty" and was full of expectations for the future of the coastal areas of Hebei.