Yuanping Economic and Technological Development Zone has always insisted on opening up to the outside world at a high level to expand the road to internationalization. By continuously optimizing the business environment, it has effectively promoted enterprises in the zone to accelerate the expansion of the international market and achieved simultaneous improvements in the scale and quality of import and export.
In 2025, the total import and export volume of the Economic and Technological Development Zone reached 99.396 million yuan, a year-on-year surge of 168.1%, far exceeding the annual 12% growth rate task and the target value of 41.5225 million yuan. It achieved leapfrog growth compared with the import and export volume of 37.0737 million yuan in 2024. The solid performance demonstrated the strong momentum of the region’s high-level opening up to the outside world.
Leading companies lead the way
Impressive foreign trade performance
In the process of leapfrog growth in foreign trade in the Economic and Technological Development Zone, Shanxi Jiacheng Hydraulic Co., Ltd. has performed particularly well.
The company leads the region with a total import and export volume of 59.7412 million yuan, becoming the core engine of foreign trade growth in the Economic Development Zone.
As a provincial-level “little giant” enterprise specializing in new technologies, Jiacheng Hydraulics continues to deeply explore the international high-end market with the precise support of the Economic Development Zone.
The hydraulic cylinders it produces have successfully entered markets such as Mongolia and Australia due to their excellent quality. The export volume of a single company accounts for more than half of the region’s total foreign trade exports.
Relying on the optimized business environment and policy support of the park, the company has continuously improved the international competitiveness of its products and achieved a steady increase in foreign trade business.
At the same time, other foreign trade companies in the region have also worked together to form a multi-point support structure.
The stainless steel and various ultra-high-strength steel products produced by Shanxi Zhongying Wanwei are exported to developed countries such as the United States, Australia, and Belgium, with an export value of 31.2348 million yuan; Zhicheng hydroxypropyl methylcellulose products have newly opened the international market, with an export value of 6.2026 million yuan; Jinchuan Synthetic UV hardening material products actively explore the international market, exported to the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Vietnam, with an export value of 2.2174 million yuan; Jiacheng hydraulic imports reached 3.1433 million yuan.
Companies have seized a place in the global market with their specialty products.
Multi-dimensional initiatives to empower
Building a solid foundation for openness
Behind the outstanding achievements is Yuanping Economic Development Zone’s continuous efforts to promote development through openness and seek breakthroughs through innovation.
In order to promote the improvement of both the scale and quality of foreign trade, the park implements precise policies and multi-dimensional empowerment to protect enterprises in exploring the international market.
In terms of innovative development models, the park actively promotes enterprises in the zone to strengthen industry-university-research cooperation, builds bridges between enterprises and universities, and assists enterprises in recruiting three outstanding scientific and technological talents from universities to flexibly introduce them to key enterprises in the zone as “vice presidents of science and technology”. They are in charge of technological innovation work of enterprises, solve technological problems of enterprises, and continuously improve the innovation capabilities of enterprises.
Through matchmaking, the scientific research results of universities can be quickly transformed into key enterprises in the Economic Development Zone, and the intellectual innovation elements of talents can be guided to gather in the Economic Development Zone enterprises.
In order to accelerate the new model of innovative talent work, promote the new development of talent science and technology in Yuanping, and continue to deepen provincial-school cooperation, Jiacheng Hydraulics, Zhongying Wanwei and other companies have promoted in-depth and long-term cooperation with universities and colleges by building school-enterprise cooperation platforms.
In terms of optimizing the business environment, the park is actively exploring new investment models for green power parks, through large-scale development and application of green power direct connections, and strengthening the traceability of green certificate transactions, thereby better providing “green” empowerment for enterprises’ trade exports and attracting export-oriented manufacturing companies, foreign-invested projects and supply chain leaders to settle in the park.
At present, the Economic Development Zone has gathered four core foreign trade companies, forming a foreign trade industry ecology with distinctive characteristics and coordinated development.
Anchoring the future direction and broadening the path of opening up
Yuanping Economic Development Zone will continue to anchor high-level opening-up goals, continuously broaden foreign trade development channels, and promote regional foreign trade work to a new level.
First, we will continue to adhere to a high level of opening up to the outside world, continue to optimize the business environment, promote enterprises in the zone to accelerate the expansion of international markets, and achieve simultaneous improvements in the scale and quality of import and export; second, we will continue to in-depth explore new investment models in green power parks, through large-scale development and application of green power direct connections, and strengthen the traceability of green certificate transactions, so as to better facilitate the trade of enterprises.
Exports provide “green” empowerment; third, we will rely on the construction of dedicated railway lines and make good use of the China-Europe trains in Shanxi Province to promote more products of enterprises to enter the international market, accelerate “Yuanping manufacturing” to go abroad and go global, activate new momentum for foreign trade growth with a more open attitude and more pragmatic measures, and inject stronger open vitality into the high-quality economic development of Yuanping Economic Development Zone.
