en.Wedoany.com Report, On March 20, the Development and Reform Commission of Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, China, issued a public announcement soliciting opinions on the fair competition review for the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of the Green Chemical Industry in Cangzhou City (Draft for Comments)". Based on Cangzhou's industrial foundation and centered on two major petrochemical bases as core carriers, the draft proposes the implementation of a "1+2+3+N" development strategy. It sets clear development goals: achieving operating revenue of large-scale enterprises exceeding 240 billion yuan by 2026 and reaching 300 billion yuan by 2030. Specific incentives and safeguard measures are introduced across nine key areas: innovation platforms, scientific research achievements, green development, talent attraction and cultivation, approval services, park construction, investment promotion and cooperation, and financing channels, aiming to support the extension, complementation, and strengthening of the industrial chain.

Among these, the incentive policies in the green and low-carbon sector specify: up to 300,000 yuan for national-level energy efficiency leaders, and up to 200,000 yuan for water efficiency leaders; up to 300,000 yuan for national-level green factories and zero-carbon factories, and up to 200,000 yuan for provincial-level ones; up to 200,000 yuan for national green supply chain management enterprises; a reward of no less than 30% and up to 300,000 yuan for carbon trading volumes such as CCER; and up to 300,000 yuan for national green and low-carbon exemplary cases (waste-free enterprises).

The full text is as follows:

Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of the Green Chemical Industry in Cangzhou City

(Draft for Comments)

To accelerate the high-quality development of Cangzhou's green chemical industry, promote its advancement towards intelligent, green, and integrated development, construct a modern green chemical industry system, and build an important synthetic materials base in North China, these implementation opinions are formulated in accordance with the actual situation of Cangzhou City.

I. Guiding Ideology

Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and its successive plenary sessions. Adhere to the development direction of intelligent, green, and integrated transformation. Based on Cangzhou's industrial foundation in basic chemicals, fine chemicals, and synthetic materials, and with the two major petrochemical bases in Huanghua City, Bohai New Area and Renqiu City as core carriers, focus on extending, complementing, and strengthening the industrial chain, supported by major project construction and driven by technological innovation. Build a coordinated and coupled industrial ecosystem, promote the green chemical industry chain to ascend to the top of the value chain, and establish an important synthetic materials base in North China.

II. Development Positioning and Goals

During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Cangzhou's green chemical industry will be guided by the principles of "leading by key enterprises, cluster synergy, high-end breakthroughs, and green and low-carbon development". Vigorously implement the "1+2+3+N" development strategy. Centered on the strategic positioning of building an important synthetic materials base in North China, rely on two driving engines: the Yan-Zhao Green Chemical Laboratory and the Cangzhou Green Chemical Industry Development Research Institute. Advance three key industrial chain node projects—the Xin Hai Chemical New Materials Base, Xuyang Chemical's Caprolactam project, and Cangzhou Dahua's Polyurethane project—along with multiple clusters of high-end fine chemical projects. Gradually form an industrial development pattern where leading enterprises stand tall and numerous specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and innovative SMEs flourish. Strive to achieve operating revenue of large-scale green chemical enterprises exceeding 240 billion yuan by 2026; by 2030, steadily expand the industrial scale, significantly enhance comprehensive strength, and reach operating revenue of large-scale enterprises of 300 billion yuan.

III. Policy Measures

(1) Strengthening Innovation Platform Support

Focus on platform construction and industrial upgrading, promote the deep integration of green chemicals and artificial intelligence, encourage enterprises to build high-level R&D institutions, support resource sharing among enterprises, and comprehensively enhance the core competitiveness of the industry.

1. R&D Platform Rewards. Encourage enterprises and institutions to establish key laboratories, industrial technology research institutes, technological innovation centers, and other scientific and technological innovation platforms. Provide up to 5 million yuan in support for newly recognized national-level technological innovation platforms.

2. Launch the "AI+ Chemicals" Initiative. Build high-quality datasets for the green chemical industry, carry out pilot demonstrations of new technologies such as vertical large models, cultivate and promote intelligent benchmark cases, and continuously promote the construction of application scenarios for green chemical large models. For projects selected as national or provincial-level typical AI application scenarios or demonstration cases, provide rewards not exceeding 30% of the actual investment by the project construction entity, with a maximum of 3 million yuan per project. Encourage the promotion and sales of large model products with independent intellectual property rights owned by enterprises in Cangzhou City, providing rewards to the R&D enterprises not exceeding 30% of the sales revenue, up to a maximum of 3 million yuan.

3. Encourage Intelligent Development. For smart factory projects, provide subsidies not exceeding 1 million yuan and 500,000 yuan respectively based on the awarded level (national, provincial). Support enterprises in participating in the construction of industry-specific "industrial brains" in the industrial sector through open solicitation. Enterprises that successfully undertake provincial-level industry brain projects and pass provincial evaluation and review will receive a construction subsidy of 500,000 yuan per project according to regulations.

4. Support the Construction of Shared Factories. To meet the demand for first-of-its-kind product manufacturing, non-standard product processing, and personalized customization, guide the green chemical industry to integrate manufacturing resources and build a number of shared factory benchmarks, gradually achieving full-process shared services including technology, procurement, equipment, warehousing, logistics, and after-sales. Guide core enterprises and industrial digitalization platforms to build shared manufacturing platforms, developing a shared manufacturing model of "platform order receiving, process decomposition, and multi-factory collaboration". For shared factories (carriers) recognized at the provincial level that lead their product (technology) segment or fill a market gap, have an R&D intensity of over 4% in the past two years, and had self-funded R&D investment exceeding 2 million yuan in the previous year, provide post-subsidies of 20% of the actual investment, with a maximum of 1 million yuan per enterprise.

(2) Scientific Research Achievement Reward Policies

Focus on enterprise technological innovation and achievement transformation. Introduce policies supporting technological transformation, rewarding scientific research achievements, cultivating high-quality enterprises, enhancing industrial design, and securing new material applications, further stimulating enterprise innovation and creativity.

1. Support Technological Transformation Project Construction. Support industrial enterprises, municipal centralized procurement platform enterprises, and technology-based enterprises in implementing technological transformation projects. Actively support eligible technological transformation projects in applying for national and provincial policies such as the issuance of "two bonds and one fund".

2. Rewards for Specialized, Sophisticated, Distinctive, and Innovative Enterprises and Single Champions. Provide a reward of 500,000 yuan to enterprises newly recognized as national-level specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and innovative "Little Giants"; a reward of 1 million yuan to enterprises newly recognized as national-level manufacturing single champions; and a reward of 100,000 yuan to enterprises newly recognized as provincial-level manufacturing single champions.

3. Matching Rewards for Science and Technology Awards. Provide up to 5 million yuan in support to individuals within Cangzhou who win the National Top Science and Technology Award; up to 1 million yuan in support to units within Cangzhou that win National Science and Technology Awards, and up to 500,000 yuan to cooperative units winning the People's Republic of China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award; up to 300,000 yuan in support to the first completion units of projects within Cangzhou that win Hebei Province Science and Technology Awards, and up to 100,000 yuan to cooperative units winning the Hebei Province Science and Technology Cooperation Award.

4. Industrial Design-Related Rewards. Provide a municipal financial reward of 3 million yuan to those recognized as national-level industrial design centers; provide a municipal financial reward of 500,000 yuan to those recognized as Hebei Province industrial design centers.

5. New Material Insurance Premium Compensation Policy. First-batch new material insurance is a risk protection mechanism introduced to address the difficulties of "first application and promotion" of new materials. Its core is to provide quality and liability risk coverage for domestically innovative new materials in their first applications. If product quality issues cause losses during application, insurance companies will compensate. The state finances eligible enterprises with premium subsidies on a "insurance first, subsidy later" basis. For green chemical manufacturing enterprises that pass the national first-batch new material insurance compensation qualification review and are within the valid period, provide subsidies not exceeding 80% of the actual premium paid and not exceeding the allocated premium subsidy amount.

(3) Green Development Incentive Policies

Promote green and low-carbon development. Introduce support policies for green honors, solid waste comprehensive utilization, carbon trading incentives, and green transformation. Guide green chemical enterprises in energy conservation, carbon reduction, and enhancing the industry's green competitiveness.

1. Green Honor Title Rewards. Provide maximum rewards of 300,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan respectively to enterprises newly recognized as national-level energy efficiency leaders and water efficiency leaders; maximum rewards of 300,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan respectively to enterprises newly recognized as national-level and provincial-level green factories; maximum rewards of 300,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan respectively to enterprises that establish and pass acceptance for national-level and provincial-level zero-carbon factories; a maximum reward of 200,000 yuan to enterprises newly recognized as national green supply chain management enterprises.

2. Encourage Harmless and Resource-Based Solid Waste Treatment. Implement a value-added tax immediate refund policy for taxpayers selling eligible resource comprehensive utilization products or providing resource comprehensive utilization services according to regulations. Actively assist enterprises in implementing existing national tax preferential policies. Guide enterprises to legally enjoy the corporate income tax preference of including 90% of resource comprehensive utilization income in total revenue, for income derived from products produced using resources specified in the "Catalog of Corporate Income Tax Preferences for Resource Comprehensive Utilization" as main raw materials, provided the products are not nationally restricted or prohibited and comply with relevant national and industry standards. Support the construction of projects for renewable resource recycling and bulk solid waste comprehensive utilization, guide business entities to strengthen harmless disposal and recycling, and actively assist enterprises in seeking higher-level funds.

3. Support Carbon Trading. Provide a certain proportion of reward based on the current carbon trading volume to green chemical enterprises that achieve carbon emission reductions through their own energy-saving and emission-reduction measures and sell Certified Voluntary Emission Reductions (CCER) or other compliant carbon reduction credits in the carbon trading market. The reward proportion shall be no less than 30%, with a maximum of 300,000 yuan.

4. Green Transformation and Upgrading Rewards. Encourage existing green chemical enterprises to undergo green transformation and upgrading in technology, products, processes, equipment, and raw materials. Support enterprises in implementing green and low-carbon transformation and upgrading projects such as energy conservation and carbon reduction, water saving and pollution reduction, resource recycling, clean raw material substitution, and environmental equipment upgrades. For eligible projects, recommend applications for green credit support in accordance with the "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the General Office of the People's Bank of China on Utilizing Green Financial Policies to Support the Construction of Green Factories". Support enterprises in conducting green and low-carbon product certification and labeling. Provide rewards not exceeding 300,000 yuan to enterprises that pass the national industrial green and low-carbon exemplary case review (waste-free enterprise direction) and are announced.

(4) Accelerating Talent Introduction and Cultivation

Target the introduction and cultivation of high-end talents and teams in the green chemical industry, strengthening intellectual support for industrial development. Fully implement talent support policies, improve supporting policies, focus on introducing high-level and urgently needed talents in the green chemical field, effectively implement talent benefits, and deepen industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation.

1. Vigorously Introduce Top Talents. Provide up to 5 million yuan in support to domestic and foreign talents (teams) with key core technologies who are fully introduced in line with Cangzhou's major development strategies and achieve significant scientific research results converted into industrial projects. Support talent platform projects. For joint innovation institutions established in cooperation between domestic and foreign universities, research institutions, and Cangzhou City, with an academician serving as the legal representative and leading the construction, provide up to 2 million yuan in annual operating funds for 5 years based on R&D project progress and performance evaluation results, along with up to 50 million yuan in special research funding annually. Support various market entities in Cangzhou to establish R&D institutions, external incubators, and talent workstations outside the Cangzhou administrative region. Those recognized as "Talent Enclaves" will receive up to 300,000 yuan in municipal financial support.

2. Precisely Support Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talents. Concentrate efforts to introduce a group of technological leading talents urgently needed for Cangzhou's industrial development with significant leading and driving effects. Provide support through project-based methods. Eligible entrepreneurial leading talent projects, innovative leading talent long-term projects, and innovative leading talent short-term projects will receive maximum funding of 2 million yuan, 1 million yuan, and 500,000 yuan respectively. For technological innovation talents newly and fully introduced by high-tech enterprises in the city with an annual salary income exceeding 300,000 yuan, provide a reward of 20% of the portion exceeding 300,000 yuan, with a maximum annual reward per person not exceeding 100,000 yuan.

3. Actively Introduce Excellent Engineers. Support enterprises in introducing frontline technical talents such as engineers needed for Cangzhou's industrial development from outside the city. Provide enterprises with a one-time talent introduction subsidy according to the standards of 200,000 yuan per senior engineer (正高级) and 100,000 yuan per senior engineer (高级).

4. Accelerate Independent Cultivation of Skilled Talents. Improve the school-enterprise joint training mechanism. Encourage and guide enterprises in Cangzhou to cooperate with universities in joint talent cultivation. For newly established order-based classes, named classes, etc., the municipal finance will provide a class establishment subsidy of 30,000 yuan per class to the relevant enterprises. Provide a reward of 10,000 yuan to private enterprise employees who newly obtain a doctoral degree or senior professional title. Provide municipal financial rewards of 200,000 yuan, 80,000 yuan, 50,000 yuan, and 20,000 yuan per person respectively to individuals recommended by Cangzhou who win the titles of "China Skills Award", "National Technical Expert", "Hebei Province Outstanding Contribution Technician", and "Hebei Province Technical Expert". Provide municipal financial rewards of up to 150,000 yuan to contestants representing Cangzhou who win top three places in world, national, provincial, and municipal vocational skills competitions.

5. Implement "Industrial Star" Talent Rewards. Select a group of technological innovation or management talents capable of leading enterprises to grow into "unicorn" enterprises, "gazelle" enterprises, specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and innovative "Little Giant" enterprises, and national-level manufacturing single champion enterprises. After successful enterprise recognition, provide hierarchical rewards to the talents, up to 150,000 yuan.

6. School-Enterprise Collaborative Support. Encourage enterprise technical backbones to teach part-time at schools. Enterprise technical backbones who are filed with competent authorities, demonstrate significant training results, and whose trained talents achieve stable employment will be recommended as "Cangzhou Skill Masters" according to regulations.

(5) Optimizing Approval Processes and Efficiently Promoting Project Implementation

Strengthen inter-departmental coordination, continuously advance the "standard land" model, optimize approval services, and accelerate project implementation and construction.

1. Promote the "Standard Land" Model. Continuously advance the "standard land" transfer model for industrial land. Before land transfer, the local government organizes the completion of regional environmental impact assessments, mineral resource coverage assessments, geological hazard assessments, water resource argumentation, soil and water conservation assessments, cultural relic protection assessments, seismic safety assessments, climate feasibility assessments, and other evaluation items. It also clarifies control indicators such as fixed asset investment intensity, floor area ratio, energy consumption standards, and environmental protection standards. Through these pre-services and standardized settings, enterprises can quickly complete relevant procedures after acquiring the land, significantly compressing pre-construction preparation time and achieving "commencement upon land acquisition".

2. Implement "One-Stop Service" for Chemical Project Approvals. Sort out chemical project approval items and create a full-cycle approval flowchart covering project preliminary, construction, completion, and operation phases. For municipal-level approval procedures involved in green chemical projects, implement "one-stop service" at the Municipal Government Service Center; for county-level approval procedures, promote "one-stop service" at county (city, district) government service halls. Promote "parallel processing and time-limited completion" of approval items to enhance approval efficiency and service experience.

(6) Park Construction and Factor Supply

Promote the coupled development of the "Greater Port Area" chemical parks, and increase support in factor guarantee, infrastructure, and resource utilization for the green chemical industry.

1. Accelerate the Coupled Development of the "Greater Port Area" Parks. Integrate the five chemical parks in Huanghua City, Bohai New Area, achieving mechanism integration, facility connectivity, unified planning, and coordinated industrial layout. Encourage raw material supply and by-product recycling among enterprises, promote industrial chain synergy and supporting, reduce operating costs, and accelerate the construction of cross-park facilities such as public pipe corridors, shared storage tank areas, and hazardous chemical vehicle dispatch centers. Build a multimodal transport system of "port-railway-pipe corridor". Support the Yan-Zhao Green Chemical Laboratory in providing pilot-scale services and testing verification to enterprises within the "Greater Port Area", promoting cross-park transformation of R&D achievements. Guide each park to conduct precise investment promotion and differentiated development based on functional positioning, avoid homogeneous competition, and enhance regional overall competitiveness.

2. Strengthen Project Access and Indicator Guarantee. For projects meeting access requirements such as industrial orientation, investment intensity, output per mu, and green and low-carbon standards, provide coordinated guarantees for land, energy consumption, pollutant discharge, and other factor indicators according to laws and regulations. For energy consumption and pollutant discharge indicators, guide enterprises to actively seek alternative indicators, explore emission reduction potential through energy-saving and emission-reduction upgrades, orderly elimination of "zombie enterprises" according to law, pollution source substitution, etc., effectively guaranteeing the needs of new projects and facilitating their smooth implementation.

3. Reduce Production Factor Costs. Actively promote the construction of clean energy projects such as wind and solar power, promote the direct green electricity connection model, encourage enterprises to consume green electricity, and reduce comprehensive electricity costs. Promote market-oriented reform in the steam sector, strongly support the application and promotion of new energy industrial steam technologies like "geothermal+" and "biomass+", guide large steam users to cluster in parks with abundant steam supply, promote optimization and transformation of heating networks, and reduce heating system operating costs and steam prices. Encourage wastewater treatment enterprises in parks to upgrade standards, promote water reuse technologies like "future water plants", and reduce water costs.

(7) Enhancing Investment Promotion Quality and Deepening Open Cooperation

Improve the quality and effectiveness of investment promotion and deepen open cooperation by optimizing the investment promotion working mechanism and strengthening guidance on international market expansion. Comprehensively enhance the visibility and influence of "Cangzhou Green Chemicals" and accelerate the introduction of green chemical projects.

1. Optimize the Investment Promotion Working Mechanism. Implement precise investment promotion layout, focus on key nodes for extending, complementing, and strengthening the green chemical industry chain, map the industrial landscape, compile a target enterprise database, closely follow leading enterprises to conduct industrial chain investment promotion and business-led investment promotion, and introduce flagship projects. Innovate investment promotion methods, centrally showcase park development, policy interpretation, enterprise introductions, factor support, and other investment highlights through informatization means to enhance investment promotion service efficiency. Establish a standardized investment promotion process covering enterprise background checks, demand exploration, and targeted对接 to improve the pertinence and effectiveness of investment attraction and promote the implementation and effectiveness of major projects.

2. International Market Expansion Guidance. Strengthen guidance and services for enterprises expanding into international markets, broaden cross-border economic and trade cooperation channels, promote the export of green chemical products, and enhance international competitiveness. Rely on promotion platforms such as the Cangzhou Central and Eastern European SME Forum, "Hebei Goods Going Global to Expand Markets", and the Northern (Cangzhou) Cross-Border E-commerce Logistics Base to conduct precise industrial对接 and business cooperation.

(8) Broaden Financing Channels and Reduce Financing Costs

Focus on industrial fund equity investment, seeking higher-level funding support, and issuing technological innovation bonds as key measures to alleviate enterprise financing pressure and reduce comprehensive financing costs.

1. Industrial Fund Equity Investment. Relying on the Cangzhou Green Chemical Venture Investment Fund, focus on conducting equity investment in projects for extending, complementing, and strengthening the green chemical industry chain and industrialization projects of high-tech enterprises, assisting high-quality projects in implementation, construction, and transformation/upgrading. State-owned enterprises such as the Municipal Financial Holding Company follow market-oriented and professional principles to conduct equity investment in eligible green chemical industry projects through industrial funds. In principle, the cumulative investment in a single enterprise shall not exceed 20% of the total fund size, and the equity stake in the invested enterprise shall not exceed 30%.

2. Actively Seek Funding Support. Focus on the intelligent, green, and integrated development direction of the green chemical industry. Guide enterprises to actively对接 national technological transformation policies, plan and reserve high-quality projects around equipment updates and digital transformation. Simultaneously, guide enterprises to jointly transform scientific and technological achievements with research institutes, actively apply for support such as loan interest discounts and financial rewards/subsidies to enhance motivation for expansion and upgrading.

3. Support Issuing Technological Innovation Bonds. Technology-based enterprises in the green chemical field can issue technological innovation bonds, with raised funds used for product design, R&D investment, project construction, operation, mergers and acquisitions, etc., in the technological innovation field. Support the issuance and investment trading of technological innovation bonds, encourage the establishment of risk compensation funds or the introduction of other preferential policy measures to provide support measures such as interest discounts and government financing guarantees for technological innovation bonds.

(9) Reward and Subsidy Fund Guarantee

The various policy funds supporting the development of the green chemical industry listed in these implementation opinions shall be included in the relevant fiscal budgets, subject to total amount control. The specific application processes and performance evaluation standards shall be separately formulated by the Municipal Finance Bureau in coordination with relevant units. The policy measures will be implemented on a trial basis for one year and will be adjusted upon expiration based on implementation effectiveness.