In the last ten-day of December 2011, Zhao Zhengyong, the provincial governor then, and other directors of relevant departments in Shaanxi Province and Xi’an City paid a visit to Samsung Electronics in South Korea for the first time, which officially unveiled the prelude that the high-end memory chip project of Samsung Electronics under Samsung Group of South Korea (one of the Fortune Global 500 companies) settled in Shaanxi Province. Through the thorough survey as long as 1 year, Samsung Electronics finally chose Xi’an City of Shaanxi Province as its long-term cooperator and invested USD7 billion for the Phase I of its ambitious high-end memory chip project of the most advanced technology in the world (“Samsung Project” for short) in Xi’an High-tech Zone. On April 10 of last year, the agreement for the Samsung Project was signed officially. The Samsung Project is the biggest foreign investment project introduced by our province since the reforming and opening up, and also the biggest foreign-invested high-tech industrial project of electronics in China. The project applied the most advanced technology in the world, with production volume of 100,000 chips every month. The investment for the first stage of Phase I reached USD7 billion. It is predicted that after the delivery of production invested by Phase I, the annual sales revenue will reach RMB66 billion. More than 160 supporting enterprises will gather here and nearly 10,000 people will be employed here.
The Samsung Project is the integrate circuit industry project of leading technology in the world, and also the strategic emerging industry high-tech project, which is encouraged by China. Seen from the national aspect, the settlement of this project is the important result of China positive efforts to undertake the transfer of high-end industries and expand the opening up, and offers a key opportunity for China to speed up the development of Chinese integrate circuit industry and promote the introduction, digestion, absorption, and re-innovation of the industry. Besides, it is also the significant achievement for China to promote the coordinated development of all regions and implement the new-round of China Western Development. Seen from the aspect of Shaanxi Province, it is the significant symbol that Shaanxi speeds up the adjustment of industrial structure, transforms development mode, and realizes “overtaking on curve”, which is of important and profound realistic significance for future development of Shaanxi Province. Seen from the aspect of Xi’an, it avails Xi’an to enhance the cultivation of talents in semi-conductor industry, promote the development of Xi’an Information Technology Industry Base, speed up the new industrialization development process in Xi’an, and accelerate the step of developing Xi’an into an international metropolis.
Currently, 79 constructing units join hand to carry out the construction work at the same time in the plant of Samsung Project, with more than 13,200 constructors and more than 200 construction machineries involved. Up to now, the plant construction of Samsung Project has completed 95.2% of the overall schedule. To be specific, the main body of the plant and the internal cleaning project have been already completed, while the installation of the production machineries has started, completing 96.6% of the corresponding schedule; the indoor project of the auxiliary buildings runs through the final stage, completing 99.8% of the corresponding schedule; and the installation of power pipe is going on for the internal sewage disposal plant, which completes 96.6% of the corresponding schedule. Up on the schedule, the installation of the production machineries will be completed before the end of the year and the trial production will be started. It is predicted that the mass production will be realized in April of the next year and the normal production volume be realized in July 2015.
Along with the settlement and construction of the Samsung Project, our province has increasingly frequent economic exchanges with South Korea. Especially, in the end of June, Park Geun-hye, President of South Korea, paid a special visit to Xi’an during her stay in China, which fully demonstrated the importance of relationship between Shaanxi Province and South Korea. Now, Xi’an has already become a hot city for economic exchanges with South Korea. Since the launch of Samsung Project, a number of South Korea-style service facilities including restaurants, supermarkets, and logistics have gathered surrounding the project day by day and tend to form the scale operation. According to the statistics of South Korean Consulate General in Xi’an, permanent Koreans in Xi’an have witnessed a quick increase from about 1,000 to more than 3,000. Increasing enterprises from South Korea have made investments in or paid visits to Xi’an. All kinds of South Korean enterprise resources are now gathering in Xi’an.
When speeding up the construction of the Samsung Project, Xi’an High-tech Zone also positively explores project information about other companies subordinated to Samsung Group and pursues the cooperation with Samsung Group at a higher level. In the last ten-day of July 2013, Samsung Data R&D Center and Samsung Electronics R&D Center successfully settled in the high-tech zone (the R&D personnel will reach 1,500 in future). Now, the two centers have already started their businesses officially. On September 12, the Samsung Memory Chip Package Test Project with a total investment of USD500 million settled in Xi’an High-tech Zone successfully. Besides, other projects of Samsung are also in negotiation.
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