In the face of the ever-more complex international landscape and the profound transformation of the shipping market, shipbuilding companies in Jingjiang city in East China's Jiangsu province have seized the opportunities for development – maintaining their lead position in the country.
As the largest privately owned shipbuilding base with the most complete support facilities in China, Jingjiang aims to be a world-class shipbuilding hub – and it is actively promoting the development of a high-tech shipbuilding industrial cluster.
From January to June this year, the city completed the construction of 47 ships with a total carrying capacity of 5.09 million deadweight tons, a year-on-year increase of 38.9 percent.
Work continues at New Times Shipbuilding's production site in Jingjiang on a giant LNG tank. [Photo by Sheng Yi/zhjjwx.jsjjw.cn]
Currently, Jingjiang is home to 16 shipbuilding, repairing and dismantling enterprises led by New Times Shipbuilding and Yangzijiang Shipbuilding, as well as over 200 suppliers.
It has formed a complete industrial supply chain, with shipbuilding, ship repair and ship dismantling as the core areas of business.
They're followed up by the support industries – producing ship's propellers, power systems, anchor chains, pumps, valves, cables, decoration materials, paints, ventilation and pipelines.
A Jingjiang bureau of industry and information technology official said that in the future, the city would continue to focus on the development of the shipbuilding cluster, further improve its support services and strive to build a high-tech shipbuilding industry base with a global influence.