I. Basic Profile
(I)Overview
Situated in the west side of Xiamen Island, Haicang stands at the protruding part of the Xiamen-hangzhou-Quanzhou Golden Triangle in Southern Fujian. Itis an important port for expanding trade by sea in southern Fujian. Haicang can serve as the "bridgehead" in deepening exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan, promoting the urban integration of Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and realizing cross-island development. It is an important area to transfer core functions of the island and to radiate southwest Fujian. Located to the west of Xiamen Island, Haicang has a coverage area of 184.72 sq.km, a current population of 620,000,and leads all districts outside Xiamen Island in urbanization rate.
(II)?History
"Haicang" is named after the Cang River. It became a seaside settlement called "Haikou" in the Tang Dynasty. It was renamed "Haicang" by using one Chinese Character respectively from Haikou and Cang River together during the Jiajing Period of the Ming Dynasty. Upon approval of the State Council in May 1989, Haicang became the largest national Taiwanese investment zone of the Chinese Mainland. Its advantages lie in ownership of "integrated six zones", i.e. special economic zone, Taiwanese investment zone, export processing zone, bonded port zone,pilot free trade zone and Comprehensive Bonded Zone.
(III)Development Goals
To build a high-caliber modern industrial cluster area, a high-level cross-island development benchmark area, a beautiful ecological civilization demonstration area, a high-leverage pilot area for deepening reform, and a high-quality livelihood and well-being model area.
(IV)?Economic Development Achievements
In 2024, the GDP of Haicang reached 107.89 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 6.4%,with industrial output value from above-designated-size enterprises reaching 206.86 billion yuan and industrial added value at 58.27 billion yuan. Fixed-asset investment totaled 36.44 billion yuan, district-level fiscal revenue stood at 4.18 billion yuan, and per capita disposable income for all residents reached 70,024 yuan.
Blueprint for spatial planning in Haicang District
?II. Industrial Orientation
?(I) Electronic Information Industry Cluster
The focus is on developing electronic components and parts, new display technologies, and intelligent consumer devices. The cluster has nurtured leading enterprises such as Hongfa Electrical Appliances, Faratronic, Silan Jike, Intretech, and Zettler. In 2024, the cluster achieved an output value of 26.35 billion yuan.
Investment Priorities：
New display industry, intelligent terminal industry, software and information services industry, and electronic components industry, etc.
(II)Machinery Equipment Industrial Cluster
Haicang has established a strong industrial foundation in power equipment, automotive parts, and high-end machinery and instruments.
Investment focus: Advanced equipment manufacturing and new energy vehicle components.
?(III)Commerce and Logistics Industrial Cluster
(I) Commerce sector:
The commerce sector in Haicang is characterized by its focus on bulk commodity trading, particularly petroleum, as well as retail industries such as automotive sales. In 2024, the total wholesale and retail trade volume of enterprises above a certain threshold reached 593.025 billion yuan, and retail sales amounted to 30.597 billion yuan. The district is home to 1,368 wholesale enterprises and 114 retail enterprises above a certain threshold.?
Investment Priorities：
①To enhance the capacity of specialized industrial platforms, efforts are underway to expand the scale of key initiatives such as the Petroleum Trading Center, Gold Jewelry Industrial Park, and Yunchuang Live Streaming Town;
②By leveraging the unique advantages of the free trade zone, Haicang Port, and Qianchang Logistics Park, Haicang aims to attract leading operators in port and logistics sectors, as well as cross-border e-commerce and supply chain enterprises.
(II) Logistics sector:
Haicang Port has become the core container transportation hub of Xiamen Port, handling approximately 75% of the port’s total container throughput. It plays a crucial role in supporting the city’s manufacturing sector while driving regional economic growth.
Investment Priorities：
①Building on the clustering advantages of the China-Europe Railway, Haicang is actively attracting projects and enterprises in bonded processing, international trade, and bonded logistics.
②Haicang introduces platform-based projects and enterprises integrating online-offline procurement, distribution, warehousing, delivery, settlement, finance, and R&D on supply-chain logistics foundations to upgrade local logistics industries.
(III) Three Strategic Emerging Industries
I.Biomedicine lndustry Services
The district has gathered 512 biopharmaceutical enterprises, achieving an industrial scale of 31.458 billion yuan and attracting 30,000 professionals.
National Torch Program Specialty Base for Biopharmaceuticals (2011)
National Pilot Zone for Strategic Emerging Industry Clusters (2014)
National-Level Technology Business Incubator (2014)
National Demonstration Base for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Small and Micro Enterprises (2017)
One of the First National Strategic Emerging Industry Clusters (2019)
National Demonstration Base for Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2020)
Innovative drug and medical device achievements account for over 70% of Fujian Province’s total.
Leading in specialized fields such as in vitro diagnostics, with four local listed enterprises: AmoyDx, Double Medical, Amoytop, and Kingdomway.
Double Medical has become a leading enterprise in China’s medical equipment industry chain.
II.Integrated Circuits
Haicang's semiconductor and integrated circuits industry focuses on specialty wafer manufacturing, advanced packaging and testing, and packaging substrates. The district has attracted over 60 projects, forming a distinctive regional industrial cluster for integrated circuits. Haicang Integrated Circuits Industrial Park has been recognized as one of "Top Ten Characteristic Parks for High-Quality Development of China's Integrated Circuits" for three consecutive years.
III.New Materials Industry&New Energy Industry
New Materials Industry
The industry has formed a robust industrial chain led by enterprises such as XTC, Xiashun, and Changsu, all of which hold significant influence in their respective sectors.
XTC New Energy is the global leader in the production and sales of lithium battery cathode materials.
Xiashun Aluminum Foil is one of the world's top three producers of ultra-thin aluminum foil.
Sinolong New Materials is known as the "King of Nylon Film" globally.
Hengkun is the first domestic company to achieve mass production of photoresist.
DaZheng Micro Nano Technology is a leader in flexible perovskite photovoltaic modules in China.
Investment Priorities：
New energy battery materials industry chain, tungsten and molybdenum industry chains, and other material-related industry chains.
New Energy Industry
The focus is on developing new energy vehicles, energy storage system integration, solar photovoltaics, and hydrogen energy. The district has nurtured industry-leading enterprises such as Golden Dragon Wagon Bus, HDK Electric Golf Carts, and XTC New Energy.
Investment Priorities：
New energy commercial vehicles; new power generation technologies such as perovskite and cadmium telluride; sodium-ion cells; new energy storage technologies; and hydrogen energy.
(IV) Four Future Industries
Haidian District has gathered leading enterprises including Silan Microelectronics, Silan Advanced Compound Semiconductor, Epiworld, and San’an Optoelectronics, forming a notable industrial clustering effect.
I. Third-Generation Compound Semiconductors
Representative enterprises: Shilan Jihong (invested 12 billion yuan in Haicang District for 8-inch SiC power chip production line); Silan Advanced Compound Semiconductor (a leading domestic manufacturer of compound semiconductors and optoelectronic semiconductors).
Investment Priorities：
(1) Silicon carbide (SiC): Substrate materials, device manufacturing
(2) Gallium nitride (GaN): Epitaxial wafers, power and radio frequency devices.
(3) Equipment and materials: Semiconductor equipment manufacturing, key materials.
II.Gene and Biotechnology
Haicang is actively pursuing breakthroughs in gene technology, synthetic biology, next-generation microbiome technology, etc.
Representative enterprises: Oamics, AmoyDx, Amoytop, Imunopharm, and Zaimiao Biotech, among a group of leading and representative enterprises.
Investment Priorities：
Innovative drugs: Cell and gene therapies, monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins.
Cutting-edge technologies: Cell and gene therapies, gene editing, etc.
Supporting Services: CRO, CMO, CDMO, pharmaceutical distribution, etc.
III. Low-Altitude Economy
Haicang is focusing on attracting enterprises in low-altitude infrastructure (e.g., base station enclosures, takeoff and landing points), key suppliers in the industrial chain (e.g., carbon fiber, PC glass, solid-state batteries), and leading engine component manufacturers, while seizing opportunities to attract major manufacturers.
Planning industrial demonstration base:?
The district plans to designate approximately 1,500 mu of industrial land in northern Maluan Bay with mountain-sea adjacency for a demonstration base integrating "low-altitude economy + emergency equipment." This base will specialize in emergency scenarios including disaster relief, aquatic search and rescue, fire emergency response, medical rescue, and flood/drought control. It will incorporate flight testing grounds, R&D laboratories, and inspection facilities, alongside integrated platforms for exhibition, demonstration, and sales to attract low-altitude economy enterprises to establish operations in Xiamen.
Establishing industrial research platforms: Haicang plans to establish a low-altitude economy research platform in collaboration with renowned universities and research institutes, such as Xiamen University, to attract expert think tanks, promote technological innovation, and cultivate high-level talent.
Creating industrial development funds: Haicang will co-establish a series of low-altitude economy funds with varying focuses, involving state-owned enterprises, investment funds, and financial institutions, to leverage capital and attract high-quality enterprises to the district.
IV.Hydrogen Energy and Energy Storage
Hydrogen energy:?
Established enterprises include Golden Dragon Wagon Bus (fuel cell commercial vehicles), Linde Gas (methanol-to-hydrogen, hydrogen storage and transportation), and XTC Hydrogen Energy (solid-state hydrogen storage), with introduced Amoycat (hydrogen energy catalysts).
Energy storage:?
Key enterprises include Turbo (sodium-ion battery cells, energy storage system integration), Aerotek (UPS, energy storage system integration), and EVADA (UPS, PCS, inverters).
Investment Priorities：
Hydrogen energy: Fuel cell systems and components, water electrolysis hydrogen production equipment and materials, solid-state hydrogen storage materials, etc.
Energy storage: New energy storage (sodium batteries, flow batteries, other electrochemical storage; compressed air, flywheel energy storage, other physical storage), PCS, inverters, etc.
V. Investment elements
(I)Biopharma
4 professional parks have been founded as the carriers, including Xiamen Biopharmaceutical Incubator, Xiamen Biopharmaceutical Pilot Production Base and Xiamen Biopharmaceutical Industrial Park; the self-constructed area for as many as 100 enterprises have also been completed. The professional park carriers and self-built areas by enterprises cover nearly 600,000 square meters. Thus an industrial development system has come into being that covers "R&D and innovation - incubation – pilot plant test - industrialization".
Biopharmaceutical Incubator 101,400 sqm (2006)
Biopharmaceutical Pilot Production Base 47,700 sqm (2008-2012)
Biopharmaceutical Industrial Park 225,300 sqm (2012-2018)
The fifth phase of the Biopharmaceutical Port's general factory buildings, currently under construction, will add 168,400 square meters (2022-2024).?
The Biopharmaceutical R&D Innovation Park covers about 450 mu (under planning).
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(II) Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits(and its applications)
IC Manufacturing Industrial Park:?The Park has a total coverage area of 8 sqkm with a core zone covering an area of 3.22 sqkm. It is a modern IC industrial park with highly integration of industrial and living infrastructures.
IC Design Industrial Park:?Xiamen Center (7-30/F of Block E, 42,000 sqm)
National IC Design Shenzhen Industrial Base - Haicang Base
Haicang Semiconductor Science and Technology Park (Prepared):?Construction will be conducted of two 11-floor office buildings for research and development purposes, six 6 to 8-floor pilot plants with high standards with a construction area of about 137,600 sqm.
(III)Maluan Bay New Town
Maluan Bay Area is located in the west of Xiamen and north of Haicang District. It borders Zhangzhou Taiwanese Investment Zone (Jiaomei) on the west, Jimei District on the east, Tianzhu Mountain on the north and Caijianwei Mountain on the south with a planned area of about 45 sqkm. Focus is placed on the development of four industries, i.e. biopharmaceutical, Life and healt industry, intelligent science and technology, tourism industry and Modern Logistics.
New Materials
Maluan Bay Area is located in the west of Xiamen and north of Haicang District. It borders Zhangzhou Taiwanese Investment Zone (Jiaomei) on the west, Jimei District on the east, Tianzhu Mountain on the north and Caijianwei Mountain on the south with a planned area of about 45 sqkm. Focus is placed on the development of four industries, i.e. biopharmaceutical, Life and healt industry, intelligent science and technology, tourism industry and Modern Logistics.
(IV)Haicang Sub-area, Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone and Port of Haicang
Haicang Subarea has a coverage area of 24.41 sq.km, or 55.76% of the total area of Xiamen Area. It has world-class deep-water container port facilities and accessory facilities and has become a modern industrial concentration zone which relies on port logistics, is characterized by bonded warehousing, focuses on high-end processing value-added and service outsourcing industries.
Haicang Port Zone is planned to have a 11,396m-long terminal shoreline with a water depth of -17m, which can accommodate 200,000-ton container vessels. Now 29 berths for 10,000 ton-class or larger ships have been built.
Haicang District has a remaining available logistics plot of about 72 hectares.
(V)?Petroleum Trading Center
In the context of China's petroleum system reform, and following the instructions of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce for active exploration of the petroleum trading system and the Overall Program of Comprehensive Reform in Xiamen?approved by the State Council, Xiamen Petroleum Trading Center (hereinafter referred to as "Trading Center"), upon approval by the Xiamen Municipal Government, was initiated and established by Tadee Holding Group Co., Ltd., the president unit of China Chamber of Commerce for Petroleum Industry, relying on the policy of trials in Haixi. Since its inception, the Trading Center has recorded a cumulative spot turnover of about 1126.8 billion yuan, with 291.6 billion yuan of spot transactions completed in 2023.
(VI)?Strait Gold and Jewelry Industrial Park
It is a regional gold industry and market center integrating gold refining and processing, cultural and creative design, trading and commercial transaction, experience consumption and financial services, etc., which is expected to become a window for China's gold market to enter the Taiwanese market and the countries and regions along the Maritime Silk Road.
(VII)Southeast Edible Bird Nest Capital
This platform is built centering on the core idea of building a new ecosystem of edible bird's nest with a whole industry chain, with a total investment of 730 million yuan. It has now become a comprehensive edible bird's nest themed industrial park that integrates "global traceable bird's nest distribution center, global traceable bird's nest raw material processing center, traceable instant bird's nest sharing factory, and bird's nest themed industrial tourism base", forming the bird's nest industrial clustering effect.?In 2023, the park achieved an output value of 1.008 billion yuan, with an import of 29.03 tons of raw swallow nests, accounting for 76.8% of the national import volume.
