In a spacious and bright factory, over ten workers, assisted by intelligent equipment, swiftly and precisely complete the installation and debugging of servers one after another... Relocating from Beijing to Sanhe, this server manufacturing enterprise has multiplied its production capacity several times over in just a little more than two years, achieving a historic breakthrough of an annual output of ten thousand units, with sales exceeding 2 billion yuan in 2025.
The Chaobai River flows through the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, passing through Tongzhou in eastern Beijing and continuing eastward, connecting Beijing with Hebei. Traffic flows across the newly constructed Chaobai River Bridge, linking Beijing's Tongzhou district with the three northern counties of Langfang, creating a fertile ground for development with superior environment and ample space. A decade of planning and construction for the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center, along with the integrated development of Tongzhou and the three northern counties, has transformed the blueprint for coordinated Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei development into a vibrant industrial reality.
The Chaobai River Bridge on the Changtong Road connects Beijing's Tongzhou with the three northern counties of Langfang.
**A City of Economic Leap, Planning Guides Industrial Transformation**
As early as 2012, Beijing first proposed developing Tongzhou into a "fully functional municipal administrative center." In 2016, the construction of the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center accelerated. By 2025, over the span of a decade, Tongzhou district's economic output doubled, with its regional GDP increasing from 650 billion yuan in 2016 to 1.6388 trillion yuan in 2025.
Behind this rapid economic development lies a shift in Tongzhou district's industrial development model. The industrial development of the municipal administrative center is not merely about承接 industrial relocation from central Beijing. From the outset, it charted a path for modern industrial development, leveraging next-generation infrastructure support capabilities, a material environment suited for an ecological civilization era, and improved public service levels to attract new enterprises or foster the growth of nascent ones.
The "Beijing Municipal Administrative Center Regulations" issued in 2026明确 stated that the center would focus on developing six major industries: digital economy, modern finance, advanced manufacturing, business services, culture and tourism, and modern seed industry. In fact, this precisely reflects the results of the past decade's continuous exploration into new industrial development at the municipal administrative center.
Data from Tongzhou district shows that by 2025, the market entities in the municipal administrative center achieved both quantitative growth and qualitative improvement. The total number of enterprises in the district reached 207,000, with an average annual increase of 12,500 over ten years. There were 17 listed companies, 1,484 high-tech enterprises (2.6 times the number in 2016), 177 municipal-level and above innovation platforms, 47 nationally recognized "Little Giant" enterprises, and 751 municipal-level "Specialized, Refined, Distinctive, and Innovative" enterprises. Meanwhile, advanced manufacturing, represented by advantageous industries like intelligent connected vehicles, biomedicine, and integrated circuits, showed strong growth momentum. The financial sector continued to expand, with its share of value-added and tax revenue both increasing from around 5% to approximately 10%. Culture and tourism leaped to become pillar industries, with the value-added share of the cultural, sports, and娱乐业 increasing 10.7 times over the decade.
**A City of Technological Innovation, the Bridgehead for Coordinated Development**
The Beijing Municipal Administrative Center, linking with Tianjin and Hebei, possesses inherent developmental advantages. Over the past decade, with the development of modern industries, the integrated development of Tongzhou and the three northern counties of Langfang—Sanhe, Dachang, and Xianghe—has accelerated rapidly, continuously提升产业协同水平.
In 2022, the Yanjiao Center of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei National Technological Innovation Center was officially launched. Located in Sanhe County, this innovation center serves as a comprehensive collaborative innovation platform and the sole industrial linkage platform of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei National Technological Innovation Center. It focuses on布局 six major industries: advanced manufacturing, electronic information, biomedicine, new energy, medical devices and scientific instruments, and environmental protection, undertaking the testing, scaling up, and trial production of achievements from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei National Technological Innovation Center.
In the same year, Beijing-based Lantai Cluster Co., Ltd. began planning the establishment of a production facility in Sanhe. Company executives noted that their original production line in Beijing had very limited capacity, unable to meet the demands of the company's development. However, in Tongzhou and the three northern counties, they found vast development space and prospects. The company directly accessed services like policy consultation, talent recruitment, and financing对接, and became operational within just one year. In 2024, the company's sales reached 40 million yuan, soaring to 200 million yuan in 2025.
In Tongzhou and the three northern counties, there are many similar stories of leapfrog development. In 2023, the High-Quality Integrated Development Demonstration Zone of Tongzhou District and the Three Northern Counties was officially inaugurated, propelling industrial coordination between Tongzhou and the three northern counties onto a fast track. In Tongzhou, multiple new policies have attracted numerous startups and R&D personnel, forming a wave of scientific research and innovation. In Sanhe, platforms for成果转化 and product pilot testing enable the initial落地 of research. Similarly, in Dachang and Xianghe, distinctive industrial clusters have been established. A chain of "R&D in Tongzhou, production落地 in the three northern counties" has fully taken shape and, starting from here, is gradually influencing broader areas within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
At a Beijing-based high-tech enterprise that has set up operations in Sanhe, workers are on the job.
**A City of Ecological Development, Green Industries Gather and Grow**
The Canal Business District, characteristic towns, intelligent manufacturing corridors... Over ten years of construction, the municipal administrative center has gradually acquired numerous foundations for modern industrial development. For instance, the Canal Business District has reserved 4.7 million square meters of high-quality industrial space, becoming a core carrier for industrial agglomeration.
The convergence of the Grand Canal and Chaobai River basins, with abundant water resources, has created Tongzhou district's优美的生态环境. Industrial development同样 adheres to the concept of green ecology. For example, in the municipal administrative center, the financial sector's value-added accounts for a stable around 10% of GDP. The value-added share of the cultural, sports, and entertainment industry, represented by the Beijing Universal Resort, increased 10.7 times over the decade. Green industries have become a powerful支撑 for the economic development of the administrative center.
Simultaneously, the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Development of the Intelligent Construction Industry in the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center (Tongzhou District) (2024–2026)" released in 2024明确提出 that prefabricated buildings will be comprehensively promoted in new projects with government investment or led by the government,推广基于BIM的组装式、模块化设计. Leveraging typical scenarios like green buildings and low-carbon buildings, an intelligent construction simulation analysis service platform will be established to guide the extension of BIM data from the construction phase to the operation and maintenance phase, fostering and expanding the application market for digital simulation technology.
More green industries are落地 within the 155 square kilometers of the municipal administrative center and beyond. In terms of infrastructure, the center focuses on building industrial internet platforms in the field of intelligent construction, promoting data "going to the cloud" and services "going online," shaping new business models for the construction industry. In energy, the municipal administrative center took the lead nationally in researching, formulating, and implementing the first local standard for a new power system.
**A City of Future Industries, Forward-Looking布局 for Three Major Industries**
With a foundation built by six major industrial clusters—digital economy, modern finance, advanced manufacturing, business services, culture and tourism, and modern seed industry—and the future charted by three future industries (future information, future health, future energy), the development landscape for new industries in the municipal administrative center is already very clear.
The "Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center (Tongzhou District)" proposes that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the municipal administrative center will continue to advance advantageous industries such as automobile manufacturing, electronic information and material manufacturing, and the digital economy,提升 the construction of a green finance and sustainable finance center.同时, leveraging application scenarios like biomedicine, autonomous driving, cultural tourism consumption, and financial transactions, it will focus on developing细分 industries such as general artificial intelligence, sixth-generation mobile通信 (6G), and quantum information, accelerating the formation of an industrial chain layout from AI large models to intelligent terminals, and from technological innovation to scenario application. Efforts will be made to cultivate the embodied intelligence industry,打造 Beijing's highland for embodied intelligence industry development.
The future vision is becoming reality at an even faster pace, with nearer targets continuously being achieved. The "Implementation Plan for the 'Ten-Hundred-Thousand' Industrial Cluster Cultivation Project of the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center (Tongzhou District)" proposes that by 2027, the municipal administrative center will form four 100-billion-yuan industrial clusters支柱 by advanced manufacturing, digital economy, construction industry, and modern finance. It will梯度培育 eleven 10-billion-yuan characteristic industrial clusters in areas like business services and culture and tourism, and布局形成一批十亿级 future industrial clusters. This will构建 an industrial ecosystem with advanced manufacturing as the core, the digital economy as the engine, urban construction scenarios as the driver, modern finance, culture and tourism, and business services as支撑, biological breeding as a特色, and future industries like new energy storage, new-generation AI, and intelligent robots flourishing vibrantly. This will form a梯次发展新格局 of industrial chains and clusters with "十亿壮大, 百亿跨越, 千亿突破."
Comments