7 projects with a total investment of approximately 77.2 billion yuan broke ground in Qingdao West Coast New Area on July 20, marking the start of the construction of Qingdao Advanced Polymer and Metal Materials Industrial Park. With a large investment, high technical contents and strong driving effects, the park has injected tremendous impetus for Qingdao to strengthen the advanced polymer and metal materials industry chain and creating nationally advanced manufacturing clusters for global competition.

Qingdao Advanced Polymer and Metal Materials Industrial Park is one of the 10 emerging industrial parks planned by Qingdao. Located at Dongjiakou Economic Zone, with 17,200 mu of industrial land, West Coast New Area Park will focus on developing high-end downstream ethylene, propylene and butane products, and innovatively deploy the product chains of degradable materials, high-value chemicals produced with carbon dioxide and special steel. West Coast New Area Park has reserved leading new materials projects with a total investment of 155.8 billion yuan, and the total industrial scale of these projects will hit 180 billion yuan at full capacity.

Manufacturing is the economic lifeline of the country. To promote the preferential development of its manufacturing sector and strengthen its emerging industries, Qingdao has planned for the construction of 15 professional parks in 10 emerging industries, and four of them are in West Coast New Area. The construction of the integrated circuit industrial park and the new display industrial park has started; the construction of the hydrogen and energy storage industrial park is being accelerated; the advanced polymer and metal materials industrial park that has just broken ground will persist in high-end, intelligent and green development, to inject new impetus for West Coast New Area to build a national pilot area for the high-quality development of manufacturing and boost the building of Qingdao into a modern pilot industrial city.