The 2025 Sustainable Development (ESG) Report of Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area（Chapter III. Innovative Initiatives Sets Benchmark for High-Efficiency Growth）

Integrated Government Services

The TEDA Business Welcome Center Unveiled as China’s 1st Multi-stakeholder Integrated Service Complex for Investors.

 With an aim to welcomes investors, build on investment environment and achieve win-win results, the Center uplifted and enriched our whole-life-cycle service functions for investors, integrated various service resources, and created unified online and offline one-stop service.

Guidelines for Full-Cycle Government Services for Petrochemical and Chemical Projects in TEDA Released

Consisted of seven special chapters such as introduction to Nangang Industrial Zone, industry policies, construction guidelines, energy  guarantee, reform and innovation, and business environment, the Guidelines covers over 100 items relevant to the whole life cycle of petrochemical and chemical projects. For the convenience of investors, the full text of Guidelines was made into a QR code to provide a one-click policy and service access, effectively promoting the efficiency of project construction.

Efficiency of Drug Supervision Technology Service Improved

Drug inspection and management capabilities in TEDA saw constant improvement. Inspection time for imported bio-products was further shortened from the original 39 working days to 24 working days on average.

Investment Service Cloud Platform Upgraded

The TEDA Investment Service Cloud Platform has added user SMS reminders, WeChat push, among other new functions. With refined column settings and expanded column contents, the platform worked with the TEDA Administrative Service Office to formulate a rapid response mechanism for all investment-related services. Up to now, 14,383 companies have been registered on the Investment Service Cloud Platform, 2,112 policies issued, 1,495 problems of investors solved, and 245 activities released. More than 10,999 products of local enterprises was recorded on the platform, with more than 3 million views.

Investment Service Upgraded

Innovation in International Shipping Management Measures

TEDA issued the Management Measures (Trial) on Pilot Projects of Bonded LNG Bunkering for International Navigation Ships in the China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone as a policy support for bonded LNG bunkering in Tianjin. CNOOC Tianjin New Energy Co., Ltd. of TEDA has obtained pilot qualification for bonded liquefied natural gas bunkering for international navigation ships.

China-Australia Industry-Finance Connection Event Held

The event provided a chance for discussion over in-depth investment and financing cooperation between Chinese and Australian businesses, highlighted by the unveiling ceremony of the Service Platform for Enterprise Going to Australia of the Tianjin Free Trade Zone Cross-Border Investment and Financing Comprehensive Service Center, lifting China-Australia industry-finance connection and cooperation to a new height.

Innovative Financial Services

Fruitful Financial Services for Enterprises 

At TEDA Fund Town, 45 activities were held, including listing promotion, financing matchmaking, and road show training for a total of 867 companies. Through point-to-point services, we successfully found financing channels for 19 companies, involving 1.733 billion yuan. We provided coaching on finance, share reform, marketing, legal affairs, etc. to seed companies which fit into the criteria as companies of new, specialized and emerging sectors, and cumulatively served 40 companies for pre-listing preparation on the TEDA Listing Preparatory Board.

Innovative “Stock Options + Banks” Financial Services

We have come up with a new “stock options + banks” financial cooperation model, and proactively connected industrial parks, banking institutions, and venture capital institutions. The invested enterprises receive financial support by transferring options, and securing financial guarantee for the commercialization of their scientific research findings.

More Flexible and Convenient Cross-border Funding

Through the newly established Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone Cross-Border Investment and Financing Comprehensive Service Center, we fostered a “government + bank + intermediary agency” joint service matrix which made cross-border comprehensive services such as approval services, structure setting-up, tax-related consultation and due diligence more smoothly linked. A full-life- cycle service of pre-registration guidance, in-process coaching, and post-registration supervision ensures regular and one-stop cross-border investment and financing service for enterprises.

Tianjin’s 1st AIC Equity Investment Fund 

An Assets Investment Corporation (AIC) equity investment fund has settled down in Tianjin Binhai-Zhongguancun Science Park with a target investment scale of 1 billion yuan and mainly focused on strategic emerging industries and future industries. Based in the Tianjin Binhai New Area, it aimed to foster new productive forces.

Successful Issuance of Tianjin’s 1st Public REITs

In August 2024, TEDA Industry Development Group successfully issued a public REITs, raising a total of 1.199 billion yuan with capital appreciation rate of 36%, achieving a double premium in the capital market, revitalizing existing assets and innovating investment and financing mechanisms for the Economic Development Zone, broadening rights and interests.

Tianjin’s 1st Enterprise Green Code-linked Loan Issued

The Binhai Branch of the Bank of Tianjin issued a 10-million-yuan innovative working capital loan to Tianjin TEDA Filters, a TEDA-based enterprise, based on the Enterprise Green Code which was issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as identification of the development level of green factories in accordance with the General Rules for Evaluation of Green Plants. This is an encouraging signal for traditional manufacturing enterprises in their green and low-carbon transition.

China’s 1st Loan for Transition Finance 

Bohai Bank provided Tianjin Bohai Chemical with the country's first transition finance loan with preferential interest rates. The loan will be used to support the enterprise to reduce carbon dioxide emission by 3,738 tons per year.

Expanding Intellectual Property-backed Financing Channels

We helped enterprises connect financial institutions, guided them in evaluation and pledge of data intellectual property rights so as to realize data intellectual property rights pledge financing. We have helped 11 companies including CAS Iristar, IDTE Opto-electronics, and ROFS to carry out patent pledge financing, receiving a total funding of 50 million yuan through the pledging of 107 patents.

High-tech Related Services

IPR Services

Strengthened IPR Services

TEDA officially launched an IPR operation center to strengthen a whole-process professional service system for IPR creation, protection, and utilization as well as protection of trade secrets for local enterprises.

By the end of 2024, TEDA completed 541 IPR support policy payment applications, involving 17.971 million yuan in total.

Protection of Trade Secrets

Trade Secret Dispute Mediation Center Launched

The TEDA Trade Secret Dispute Mediation Center started operation. Giving full play to the advantages of administrative and judicial mediation with a balance between protection and prevention, it can mediate trade secret disputes in a centralized and efficient way, and provide more accurate and considerate services for the protection of trade secrets.

Precise Protection of Trade Secrets for Key Industries

TEDA has set up 6 trade secret protection service stations and helped 16 enterprises to be recognized as trade secret protection demo examples. Together with TEDA Notary Office, TEDA jointly promoted a trade secret protection and evidence preservation system. We compiled 6 model texts including the Enterprise Trade Secret Management System. We also set up a three-dimensional network for trade secret protection.

Helping Enterprises Improve Trade Secret Protection Capabilities

We issued 3 trade secret protection guidelines, namely, the Guidelines for Administrative Law Enforcement of Trade Secrets, the Guidelines for Enterprise Self-Protection of Trade Secrets and the Guidelines for Enterprises’ Rights Claim Concerning Trade Secrets. We built up an online platform for comprehensive protection of trade secrets and the cloud platform for self-inspection for enterprises’ trade secret protection to assist enterprises to better protect their trade secrets.

Financial Information Disclosure 

We formulated the Interim Measures for Departmental Budget Management in TEDA with an aim to continuously standardize departmental budget management. 

Environmental Information Disclosure 

As of the end of December, 2024, our independent information disclosure platform of third-party environmental service organizations has registered a total of 207 third-party environmental service organizations, an increase of 16 ones compared with 2023. A regional environmental communique was issued, and 157 companies regularly disclosed environmental information. 

Digital Urban Management

The TEDA Sub-district Digital Urban Management system was put into operation in 2008. It now covers 54.14 square kilometers. The annual number of closed-loop cases reporting exceeds 400,000, with disposal rate at around 90%. It mainly includes three categories of information: hardware resources, software platform and geographical data census.

Emergency Management

Emergency Information Supportability

Nangang Industrial Zone has deployed multi-level terminal sensing equipment to form a geographical information data center for a “major emergency + all-disaster” monitoring and early warning network, expecting to realize unified map + network for safety management, monitoring and early warning, and emergency command. As of the end of 2024, it has realize data interconnection with 33 key enterprise, accessing 5,017 routes of enterprise sensor data and 622 routes of video data.

Water Environment Safety Network in Nangang

The Nangang Industrial Zone has set up a three-level prevention and control system for accident wastewater. It guided enterprises within the zone to improve relevant infrastructure, carry out joint prevention and control as well as mutual assistance to improve emergency response capacity for water environmental emergencies. 

Work Safety 

Strengthening Safety Education and Training

Safety education and training programs for enterprises were carried out, covering 25,500 executives and 337,300 employees, and the criteria for determining major accident hazards were publicized and interpreted 1759 times. Through the Safety TEDA APP platform, 350,000 people from various enterprises finished online learning.

Disaster Prevention and Mitigation 

Coordinated Disaster Prevention 

TEDA revised its Flood Control Emergency Plan. We set up a  16-point extreme heavy rainfall response mechanisms, a list of three types of workforce responsible for three first-level flood discharge channels and two tide prevention projects, and a list of 182 sunken spaces. We set up four new mechanisms, including the flood in-zone control mechanism, the emergency response force pre-emptive mechanism, the joint on-duty and consultancy mechanism, and the immediate response mechanism.