Dynamic Xi'an aims to become a city that is particularly strong in advanced manufacturing. [Photo/Xi'an municipal government's WeChat account]
Over the past decade, the advanced manufacturing industry has grown rapidly in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province.
Xi'an has focused on developing an advanced manufacturing system. As a result, the advanced manufacturing industry – with the six pillar industries at the city's core, including automobile production and electronic information manufacturing – has achieved rapid development.
Since 2012, except for the food and biomedicine sectors, the scale of the other five pillar industries has exceeded 100 billion yuan ($14.06 billion).
A technician examines a monitor, at the workshop of Shaanxi Fast Auto Drive Group Co in Xi'an. [Photo/Xi'an municipal government's WeChat account]
In 2021, the output value of the city's advanced manufacturing increased by 21 percent year-on-year, 4.3 percentage points higher than the average growth rate of Xi'an's industries above a designated size.
Throughout the year, the city's equipment manufacturing sector generated a total industrial output value of 554.44 billion yuan, accounting for 74 percent of its industries above a designated size.
A worker adjusts an engine, on the assembly line of Shaanxi Auto Group Co in Xi'an. [Photo/Xi'an municipal government's WeChat account]
In April 2012, as the largest foreign investment project in the domestic electronics information industry, Samsung (China) Semiconductor Co settled in Xi'an.
At the end of 2021, Samsung (China) Semiconductor Co's Phase I and Phase II projects achieved full-load mass production and the output value is expected to top 100 billion yuan in 2022. Xi'an's position in the world's semiconductor production map is also much more important these days than it was a decade ago.
Over the past 10 years, the development of Xi'an's electronics information industry has also shown a rapid growth trend. In 2021, its output value above a designated size reached 173.12 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.2 percent and 5.58 times the level in 2012.