Giant cranes strain to move heavy offshore wind power equipment at the Xiaoyangkou wind power homeport in Rudong county. [Photo/WeChat account: rudongfb]

Yangkou town – where the Rudong Coastal Economic Development Zone is located – has committed itself to pioneering coastal development in Rudong county, which is administered by Nantong city in East China's Jiangsu province.

Last year, Yangkou generated 15.06 billion yuan ($2.23 billion) in regional GDP. The industrial and services taxable sales above a designated size in the same period hit 46.8 billion yuan and 25.5 billion yuan, respectively. The ownership of patents per 10,000 people in the town reached 40.4.

Under the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), Yangkou will aim to develop industrial clusters of chemicals new materials, high-end special chemicals, wind power and related equipment manufacturing with an annual output value of hundreds of billions of yuan, according to Li Jian, Party secretary of the town.

Resident company Jiangsu Youjia Crop Protection Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Syngenta (China) Group, which is a Global 500 company, specializes in producing herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and plant growth regulators.

The company switched on four production lines in its fourth phase in January. At present, it is pushing for the reconstruction of a workshop with five production lines.

"Over the past few years, we have overcome the impact brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and laid equal emphasis on sci-tech innovation and project construction," said general manager Kong Yong.

"In the first quarter of this year, we generated taxable sales of 1.73 billion yuan, up 32 percent year-on-year and tax payments reached 93 million yuan, up 177 percent on the same period last year," Kong added.

Yangkou town is home to the Xiaoyangkou wind power homeport. The port aims to support the entire wind power industrial chain by providing services such as raw materials supplies, warehousing, transportation, operations and maintenance of finished equipment.

At present, a slew of equipment manufacturers in the wind power sector have invested there, contributing to its rise as China's largest wind power equipment production area.