Departing from Guangzhou and traveling westward along the Guangzhou-Foshan-Zhaoqing Expressway for about 45 minutes brings you to Leping Town in Sanshui District, Foshan City.
In just a few short years, Bangpu Recycling—a subsidiary of CATL—has invested in three phases of projects here, encompassing a manufacturing base and a headquarters building, bringing significant attention to Leping Town.
With high-end equipment manufacturing, automobiles, and auto parts leading the way, Leping Town is building a strong industrial backbone.
Recently, GuChuan United signed a cooperation agreement with Leping Town. The two parties will collaborate on investment promotion focused on advanced manufacturing to drive the industrial economy toward new heights and achieve further success.
A Town with a Trillion-Yuan Economy Soars Like a Rainbow
First-Quarter Investment Exceeds 10 Billion, Setting a New Course
While attention across the country remains focused on the competition among “100-billion-yuan counties,” the era of “100-billion-yuan towns” has already quietly arrived.
Connecting cities above and driving rural areas below, town-level economies serve as the nerve endings of urbanization and act as industrial levers with immense potential, playing a pivotal role.
Of the four “100-billion-yuan towns” nationwide, Foshan accounts for two.
Of course, the remarkably robust Foshan has many more “billion-yuan seeds” that are racing toward the goal of becoming “billion-yuan towns.”
Leping Town is one of them.
In 2012, Leping Town launched a management system reform for the Sanshui Industrial Park, leveraging the benefits of reform to strengthen its teams for investment promotion and enterprise services.
Over the past decade, leading enterprises such as Haier, Rifeng Pipe, BAIC Foton, and Henglitai have successively established operations there, unleashing a powerful industrial chain aggregation effect.
Currently, Leping Town is mobilizing its full resources to advance the construction of the Leping section of the Foshan Northern Strategic Emerging Industries Park, continuously expanding its strategic emerging industry clusters, and boldly taking on the role of a new engine for Foshan’s high-quality development.
In the first quarter of 2023, Leping Town signed six investment projects with a total investment of 11.3 billion yuan, covering sectors such as new energy vehicles, medical devices, and smart manufacturing.
Driven by innovation, the technological content of existing enterprises continues to rise:
Baode Technology was listed as a 2022 National "Specialized, Refined, Unique, and Innovative" (SRUI) "Little Giant" enterprise; Hengjie Sanitary Ware was selected as a 2022 Provincial Manufacturing Single-Champion enterprise.
The emergence of a cohort of “high-end, cutting-edge” enterprises is inseparable from Leping Town’s decade-long commitment to cultivating an innovation-friendly environment.
From the nationally registered "Lanyue No. 1" maker space to the national-level technology enterprise incubator Sanshui High-Tech Entrepreneurship Center, and further to the Guangdong Sanshui Hefei University of Technology Research Institute—a new-type R&D institution in Guangdong Province—as well as the "Zhaoxinglou" incubator, Leping Town has established a comprehensive innovation ecosystem.
Partnering with Guchuan Lianxing
Strengthening and Optimizing the Manufacturing Foundation
Having been deeply involved in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area for many years, Guchuan United has been deeply impressed by the vibrant town and street economies of Foshan. We are both witnesses and participants.
Guicheng, Shishan, Zumu, Daliang, Beijiao…
A number of towns and sub-districts continue to redefine public perceptions and have become the solid foundation driving Foshan toward the trillion-yuan GDP milestone.
2022 Foshan “Town Power” Ranking: Overall List:
2022 Foshan “Town Energy” Ranking: Economic Momentum Index:
It is worth noting that many of the towns and sub-districts ranking at the top of the “Energy List” maintain cooperative relationships with GuChuan United.
For example, Guchuan United successfully facilitated the 1 billion yuan Taijishan Machinery Equipment Production Base project, the $100 million Hanqingda Technology Smart Manufacturing Base project, and the 1 billion yuan Osma Intelligent Equipment Base project—all of which have now established operations in Hecheng Subdistrict, Gaoming District.
The 2-billion-yuan baked goods production base project facilitated by Guchuan United was established in Xinan Subdistrict, Sanshui District.
Yanghe Town, which hosted the 500-million-yuan Baoke Precision Intelligent Manufacturing Base project, also ranks among the top towns and sub-districts in Foshan’s local economy.
Today, Leping Town’s industrial output value from enterprises above designated size has surpassed 150 billion yuan, with industrial added value nearing 30 billion yuan. Its economic vitality continues to rise, and industrial development is surging forward with great momentum.
To advance from a high starting point and secure a strategic advantage in this competitive landscape, Leping Town must take investment promotion to the next level.
Partnering with GuChuan United is an excellent choice made by Leping Town in pursuit of its high-quality development goals.
With 14 years of deep expertise in the investment promotion sector, Guchuan United has provided site selection and investment consulting services to over 960,000 enterprises, successfully facilitating the establishment of more than 7,300 projects.
As the main industrial hub of Sanshui and a sub-center of northern Foshan, Leping Town has leveraged the construction of the Northern Foshan Strategic Emerging Industries Park as a key driver. Seizing the opportunities presented by the development of the Leping section of the Foshan New Energy Vehicle Industrial Park and the Datong Lake Science and Technology Industrial Park in the Foshan High-Tech Zone, the town has become a haven for investment and entrepreneurship, a magnet for project clusters, and a high ground for reform and opening-up, setting sail to seize the opportunities of the times.
Guchuan Lianxing will target the automotive vehicle and parts sector, high-end equipment manufacturing, and new energy and new materials industries. By focusing on major industrial projects, we will conduct targeted investment promotion to fill gaps, strengthen, and extend industrial chains, thereby enhancing the internal driving force of Leping Town’s economic development.
Twenty Years of Steady Accumulation
Building a Third-Generation Industrial Park from a High Starting Point
At the Fourth Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Sanshui District Committee held on December 30, Sanshui proposed for the first time the goal of building a third-generation industrial park characterized by an eco-friendly environment, livable and shared communities, intelligent manufacturing, and a high degree of integration between industry and urban development.
Building a third-generation industrial park represents a major innovation for Sanshui District and a significant mission for Leping Town.
In fact, the Sanshui Industrial Park traces its origins to the Sanshui Leping Industrial Park established in March 2003. This industrial park, initiated primarily by the town and its sub-districts, successfully boarded the fast track of industrialization.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the industrial park’s establishment in Leping Town. The industrial park has transformed from a town-level industrial park with an initial development area of only about 2 square kilometers into the Sanshui Park of the Foshan National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, giving rise to a state-level industrial park with a scale of over 100 billion yuan.
In 2022, Leping Town was also selected by the AHK (Association of German Chambers of Commerce Abroad) as one of the first 27 locations in its China Industrial Park Directory. It is not only the only town-level entity nationwide but also the sole representative in South China.
After two decades of steady accumulation, the trailblazers set out once more.
As the main battleground of Sanshui’s industry, Leping Manufacturing has repeatedly set new records in its journey from humble beginnings to becoming a leading force.
As a partner of Leping Town, Guchuan United will fully leverage its market-oriented investment promotion strengths to attract high-quality manufacturing projects to Leping Town, accelerating the formation of a new growth pole to support the next 100-billion-yuan industrial park.
