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Intelligent appliance industry in Ningxiang EDZ

By | nxiang.net| Updated:  May 24,2021 L M S
Ningxiang EDZ has introduced benchmarking enterprises in smart manufacturing like GREE and Sunwoda, and signed more than 10 industrial chain projects with an annual turnover of more than 100 million yuan, and the contracted investment of nearly 10 billion yuan. It strives to give full play to the national strategies such as “The Yangtze River Economic Belt” and “Made in China 2025” by combining intelligent appliance with the construction of characteristic towns and focuses on building Changsha Lanyuegu Intelligent Appliance Industrial Town into a new platform featuring high-quality development and market orientation, with an annual turnover of more than 100 billion yuan.

The advanced equipment manufacturing industry, led by Gree Electric Appliances, Hisense Electric, Haier Wireless, Chutian Science and Technology, China Feny Limited Co and other enterprises, focuses on the development of intelligent household appliances, construction machinery and pharmaceutical machinery manufacturing. The zone is the only characteristic industrial park for household appliances in Hunan province.
 

Gree (Changsha) HVAC Equipment Co., Ltd. (CAC) in the park [Photo/nxiang.net]
 

Located in Changsha, an important node city of the Belt and Road and the central city along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the town has a strategic position as the core manufacturing area of Changsha as well as a gateway of Xiangjiang New District, the experimental zone of building two types society in Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan cities and Dongting Lake Economic Zone.

It enjoys a convenient transportation, just 30 minutes away from Changsha by high-speed train, 40 minutes to the Xiangning Port and 1 hour to Changsha Huanghua International Airport. It tries to break the traditions and adheres to make plans at high level with high-standard construction with a planning area of 12 hectares. Based on the principle of integrating production, ecology and life and guided by the coexistence of smart manufacturing zone, supporting services zone and ecological conservation zone, tremendous efforts will be made to build “one center and three parks” and a platform for the  factors of production of the entire industrial chain in smart appliances.

Changsha Blue Moon Valley Intelligent Home Appliances Industrial Town
 
Changsha Blue Moon Valley Intelligent Home Appliances Industrial Town is a high-quality development platform planned and built by Ningxiang National Economic and Technological Development Zone in accordance with the principle of harmonious coexistence of ecology, production and life amid its implementation of new development philosophy.

The industrial town is designed to optimize the strengths of industrial chains for intelligent home appliances jointly formed by Gree Electric Appliances Inc, Hisense Group, Sunwoda Electronic Co Ltd and more than 40 supporting firms. It will align with the national strategies of "Yangtze River Protection" and "Made in China 2025" and work with State policy-related banks like China Development Bank and the Agricultural Development Bank of China to promote its coordinated development with intelligent home appliances.

Covering an area of 12.1 square kilometers, the industrial town comprises three functional sections connected with intelligent manufacturing, supporting services and ecological conservation. Its core area focuses on the building of “One Center and Three Industrial Parks,” which are Blue Moon Valley Incubation Center of Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Intelligent Home Appliances Industrial Park, Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park and Intelligent Accessories for Home Appliances Industrial Park. Its goal is to further promote the settlement of intelligent home appliances firms in the upstream and downstream industrial chains and elevate the home appliances industry to a higher level.

With an investment of 350 million yuan (about $54 million), Blue Moon Valley Incubation Center of Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation covers an area of 52 mu (roughly 3.5 hectares) and has a floor space of 104,000 square meters. It consists of 16 buildings in four groups. The D5 Building is reserved for white collar workers. The rest of the buildings are mainly used for incubation and research affairs, which are expected to provide local firms with research, examination, incubation and office services.

Blue Moon Valley Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park covers an area of 223.6 mu and its floor space is about 236,500 square meters. With an investment of 700 million yuan, it comprises 11 standard workshops, one e-commerce building, relevant supporting facilities and a public canteen. So far, nine firms like Euro Standard (Hunan) Cosmetics and Hunan Trumjin Technology have settled there. The industrial park will focus on the settlement of small and medium-sized enterprises related to the internet and home appliances.

Blue Moon Valley Intelligent Home Appliances Industrial Park covers an area of 270 mu (180,000 square meters) and has a floor space of 265,000 square meters. With an investment of 1.24 billion yuan, it is composed of eight standard workshops, one comprehensive building, an underground parking lot and other supporting facilities. It aims to develop into a comprehensive production system that integrates production, office venues and supporting services. It was brought into operation in September 2020 and is expected to become home to famous home appliances firms. CEC Industrial Internet, a Global Fortune 500 company, has set up a branch in the industrial park. Meanwhile, the industrial park is currently working on the settlement of other high-tech firms.

With an investment of 501 million yuan, Blue Moon Valley Intelligent Accessories for Home Appliances Industrial Park occupies an area of 221 mu and boasts a floor space of 127,800 square meters. It is expected to be a major platform for the development of supporting firms connected with industrial chains for intelligent home appliances. Construction on the facility began in June 2020 and it was expected to begin operations at the beginning of 2021. It will give priority to the settlement of major firms in the home appliances supply chain, specifically companies specializing in SMT, molded plastic, metal plates and wiring harnesses.

Talent Apartment:

Changsha Blue Moon Valley Intelligent Home Appliances Industrial Town is now taking tenant applicants for 10 residential buildings, which comprise 1,197 apartments with 8,377 beds, in phase three of Wangning New Village and B-section of E-commerce Building of Blue Moon Valley Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park. The apartments associated with the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th buildings in phase three of Wangning New Village have been already put into service. The rest were expected to open in 2021.

The industrial town is built and managed by Changsha Blue Moon Valley Intelligent Town Investment Development Limited Company, which was formally registered by Ningxiang National Economic and Technological Development Zone Construction and Development Corporation on May 23, 2019.

As the professional operator of theindustrial town, the firm closely adheres to its development position, which stresses full engagement in relevant industries, services to enterprises and the management of industrial parks. Its main businesses cover financial investment, capital management and resources operation. It aims to become a listed and advanced operator of industrial towns in Central China, an example in the market-oriented reform of State-owned enterprises and new engine for the high-quality growth of industrial parks.