The opening ceremony and exhibition hall opening event of Qingdao Pingdu Wanyang Makerspace were successfully held.

On April 9, 2021, the groundbreaking ceremony and exhibition hall opening ceremony of Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City were grandly held.

Xia Zhengqi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Qingdao Municipal Government; Shi Fenglong, Deputy Director of the Qingdao Private Enterprise Development Bureau; Xie Zhao cun, Secretary of the Pingdu Municipal Party Committee; Mao Junxiang, Deputy Secretary of the Pingdu Municipal Party Committee; Xia Yingping, Standing Committee Member of the Pingdu Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Municipal Party Committee Office; Dong Yuling, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Pingdu Municipal People's Congress and Director of the Park Office; Wu Jianming, President of Wanyong Group; Song Suqin, Vice President of Wanyong Group; Li Zhe, General Manager of Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City project; and representatives from relevant departments of Pingdu City, banks, enterprises, chambers of commerce, and media jointly participated in the groundbreaking ceremony and exhibition hall opening ceremony. Image | Groundbreaking ceremony scene

The groundbreaking ceremony was presided over by Wang Lei, Secretary of the Nancun Town Party Committee of Pingdu City. Xia Zhengqi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Qingdao Municipal Government, announced the commencement of the project. Mao Junxiang, Deputy Secretary of the Pingdu Municipal Party Committee, and Wu Jianming, President of Wanyong Group, delivered speeches respectively. In addition, a bank credit ceremony, an industry association cooperation agreement signing ceremony, and an intended resident enterprise signing ceremony were also held during the ceremony.

Image | Rendering of Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City

Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City is located in the Pingdu Airport Economic Zone of Qingdao. The project covers a planned area of approximately 1,500 mu (approximately 100 hectares), with a planned investment of approximately 6.6 billion yuan and a construction area of 2.5 million square meters. In the future, Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City will follow the development concept of "people—technology—industry" integration. Relying on the advantages of Pingdu in terms of location, policies, costs, and space, and combined with supporting industries such as Haier, Hisense, Trid, and Aokema, it will create a modern new manufacturing industry agglomeration platform integrating the entire industrial chain of smart home appliances, electronic components, and equipment manufacturing.

Image | Wu Jianming, President of Wanyong Group, accompanies visiting leaders to visit the investment promotion center of Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City Image | Mao Junxiang, Deputy Secretary of the Pingdu Municipal Party Committee, delivers a speech

Mao Junxiang, Deputy Secretary of the Pingdu Municipal Party Committee, expressed his heartfelt congratulations on behalf of the Pingdu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government for the commencement of Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City. Mao Junxiang stated that Wanyong Group's choice to build Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City in Pingdu is in line with the group's strategic deployment of expanding investment and also highly consistent with the overall trend of Pingdu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government's efforts to break through the development of Nancun. Pingdu City will take this groundbreaking ceremony as a starting point and make every effort to provide sufficient sunlight, air, and rain for the healthy and vigorous development of enterprises in Pingdu, and to provide comprehensive, full-process, and all-weather high-quality and efficient services for project construction. He looks forward to the smooth construction of Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City project, adding new impetus to Pingdu's investment attraction and industrial upgrading development, and also sincerely hopes that Wanyong Group will give full play to its strong industry network resources to attract and drive more investment partners to come to Pingdu, understand Pingdu, invest in Pingdu, and develop industries in Pingdu!

Image | Wu Jianming, President of Wanyong Group, delivers a speech

Wu Jianming, President of Wanyong Group, expressed his sincere welcome to the leaders and people from all walks of life. Wu Jianming stated: In the rapid advancement of Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City, we have truly felt the efficient and pragmatic work style of all levels of government, which is the best business environment in a region. We will make every effort to promote the construction of the project and repay Pingdu City's trust and support with practical actions and a hard-working spirit.

The main target for investment attraction and service group of Wanyong Innovation City are small and medium-sized enterprise owners. For small and medium-sized enterprises, "difficulty in financing and high financing costs" are among the most significant difficulties encountered in their production and operation. At the bank credit ceremony, Pingdu branches of Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, Construction Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Hengfeng Bank Qingdao Development Zone branch, and Zhejiang Merchants Bank Qingdao branch provided a total of 6 billion yuan in intended credit for Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City, connecting small and medium-sized enterprises to financial channels, injecting financial vitality into the real economy, and effectively solving the problems of difficulty in financing and high financing costs for enterprises.

A signing ceremony was also held at the groundbreaking ceremony site, where Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City signed letters of intent for cooperation with the Qingdao Furniture Association and the Jimo SME Association. At the same time, companies including Qingdao Yonghongyuan Beer Co., Ltd. and Qingdao Best Brewing Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. signed letters of intent for entry.

As Xia Zhengqi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Qingdao Municipal Government, announced the official start of construction of Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City, the leaders on stage simultaneously pushed the lever. Amidst the sound of drums and cannons and the honking of engineering vehicles, the guests witnessed this glorious moment—the official launch of Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City, full of blessings and expectations!

The successful holding of this groundbreaking ceremony and exhibition hall opening ceremony marks a key step in the construction of the Qingdao Pingdu Wanyong Innovation City project. In the future, Qingdao Wanyong Innovation City will surely become a new landmark of Qingdao Pingdu City!