Fujian Putian: Platform Leads, Digital Economy Surges New Momentum

    In recent years, Putian City, Licheng District, continued to promote the platform economy to help strengthen the project, the full implementation of the "Putian City to promote the platform economy to regulate the healthy and sustainable development of the seven measures" and the platform of the economic enterprise whitelisting policy, based on the key enterprises and advanced manufacturing industry, the introduction of upstream and downstream supply chain enterprises as well as supporting the production of service enterprises, to build the industry industry industry chain platform, to "flow" economy into "retained" economy to inject strong momentum for the development of digital economy. The "flow" economy is transformed into the "retention" economy, injecting strong kinetic energy for the development of digital economy.

    Data show that in the first quarter of this year, the existing 21 platforms in Lycheng District added more than 1.1 billion yuan in turnover, becoming a major growth pole of the region's digital economy.

    Investment, multi-point blossoming

    Recently, the reporter saw in the Douxun Cloud Computing Intelligence Center project site, the data center, application center, R & D center 3 buildings have all been topped out, is in the masonry construction and interior and exterior wall bottoming decoration class. "It is expected to be accepted within the year, and put into production early next year." Peng Weizheng, the person in charge of the project site, said that this is a key project in Fujian Province, and the only one in the province that can reach the national A-class standard data center invested by private enterprises to build their own.

    Douxun Cloud Computing Smart Computing Center project is located in Xitianwei Town, Licheng District, Putian City, under Fujian Douxun Technology Co. The project started construction in November 2022, the first phase covers an area of 40 acres, with a total construction area of about 95,000 square meters, which can accommodate nearly 6,000 standard racks and 10% liquid-cooled racks, and carry about 20,000P arithmetic scale and smart computing center.

    "Right now, we have begun to layout AI and other smart computing industries, relying on the data center foundation base under construction, planning to introduce automotive self-driving arithmetic clusters to provide AI arithmetic leasing business for China's regional automotive industry customers." Zheng Lihuang, president of Putian Digital Economy Industry Association and chairman of Fujian Douxun Technology Co Ltd, believes that the project will further improve Putian's big data industry layout, accelerate the construction of the upstream and downstream industrial chain of data centers, and provide strong support for the high-quality development of the digital economy.

    In 2018, as a local key investment object, the headquarters of Fujian Douxun Technology Co. successfully settled in Li Cheng District. The company uses cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies, independent development of online platforms, to provide enterprises with comprehensive solutions for digital welfare, has become a head of the enterprise, and has twice been uated as a "unicorn" enterprise in the core industry of the digital economy in Fujian Province.

    Licheng is one of the main urban areas of Putian, the core of the distribution of many business buildings, for the platform enterprise "no land investment" to create good conditions. "Digging deep into the building resources, relying on dozens of office buildings as well as other office space, vigorously carry out investment work." Xu Yilong, director of Licheng District Business Bureau, said that 19 platform headquarters projects signed and registered in 2023 are being dynamically tracked and serviced to accelerate the efficiency of output value transformation.

    In order to play the role of the demonstration and leadership of the head enterprise, Licheng screened out five platforms from the whole region and recommended them to be included in the municipal key tracking service objects, and the flexible employment service platform created by Fujian Shuohe Talent Storage Information Technology Co. "Mainly for the domestic big cities flexible employment groups and demand merchants to build a supply and demand platform, to facilitate them to reach cooperation within the legal and compliant channels." Lin Jinliang, head of Shuohe Talent Storage, said, "We are in contact with a company in Putian and will focus on the local market in the future as well." In 2022, the platform's turnover exceeded 1 billion yuan, and this year is expected to reach 1.2 billion yuan.

    At present, Licheng District has initially formed a platform matrix, showing a multi-point blossoming development pattern, covering e-commerce, life home services, digital integrated services and other segments.In 2023, the region's platform turnover exceeded 7.5 billion yuan.

    Linking industry, empowering development

    Walking into the Licheng cross-border e-commerce cloud industrial park selection center, you can only see a wide range of shoes and clothing, oil paintings and other products. "I chose to move in here because I can find the same type of products and improve my supply capacity, while shipping locally to reduce logistics costs." Wu Zhuangqing, founder of Putian Yuanzhou E-commerce Co Ltd, said, "The company specializes in foreign trade business and sells small items to the European and American markets through the Amazon e-commerce platform."

    Licheng cross-border e-commerce cloud industrial park by the Fujian Putian City Investment Enterprises (Huafu) is responsible for the operation of the company, mainly relying on the local footwear, oil painting, wood products and other industrial zones, the depth of the integration of supply chain resources, to create offline cross-border e-commerce supply chain selection center and cross-border integrated service center, improve the set of logistics, warehousing, customs clearance and other functions in one of the integrated service system on the line, to provide the whole process for the enterprise! "One-stop" cross-border e-commerce services for enterprises.

    Putian City, Fujian Province, investment enterprises (Huafu) company general manager Yan Yongqin introduction, Licheng cross-border e-commerce cloud industrial park integrated service platform has been built, March 2023 to facilitate the first cross-border e-commerce "9810" trial run customs clearance, can be in Xiamen, Shenzhen, Ningbo, Guangzhou, Fuzhou and other ports of entry for physical customs clearance. According to statistics, there are 58 cross-border e-commerce enterprises in the Licheng cross-border e-commerce cloud industrial park to complete the registration of the online platform, another 41 supply chain enterprises stationed in the online product selection center.

    "Nowadays, local enterprises can declare customs at their doorsteps, which not only reduces the cost of freight transportation, but also enjoys the dividends of tax policies." Putian cross-border e-commerce association president Dai Guangrong explained, "9810" for the customs supervision code, belongs to the cross-border e-commerce B2B a way of customs clearance, that is, China's domestic enterprises first exported the goods to overseas warehouses, and then in the cross-border e-commerce platform to realize the transaction, and then send the object to the hands of the buyer. Compared with other methods, the overseas warehouse front-loaded stocking can improve the delivery time efficiency by more than 70%.

    After the platform takes root, how can it grow into a big tree? In the view of Cai Jianyuan, director of the Development and Reform Bureau of Licheng District, the development of the platform should be based on local resource endowments and industrial base, and continue to explore the "industry + Internet" model, innovative business channels, and develop the consumer market. In particular, the traditional manufacturing industry is in a critical period of transformation and upgrading, and is in urgent need of the platform's digital empowerment.

    Cai Minghuan, chairman of Fujian Shake Six Technology Group Co., Ltd. is aiming at the hometown of "good quality products", to build a live base in Licheng District. "We have established cooperative relationships with major domestic Jitterbug service providers, through a number of different e-commerce platforms for live content distribution." Cai Minghuan said that the company is committed to integrating the talent anchors and e-commerce supply chain resources across the country, innovating business models, and empowering the digital transformation of corporate clients.

    "We also have an e-commerce platform, but after all, the resources are limited, and we need to link more platform channels to sell well-known Putian agricultural products, such as dried longan, across the country, and to make our own brand." Wu Zhengfeng, president of Putian Gui Yuan Industry Association and general manager of Tian Gui (Fujian) Food Co. said, "Initial cooperation has been reached with Shake Six Technology Group, and the benefits of the platform are emerging."