On August 29, 2022, the centralized construction of key projects in Conghua District of Guangzhou in the third quarter of 2022 and the construction of Unilever South China production and marketing base project were held in Pearl Industrial Park, Conghua Economic Development Zone, Guangdong.

It is understood that in the third quarter, 9 key projects will be started, with a total investment of over 10.5 billion yuan and an estimated annual output value of over 22.9 billion yuan. Among them, the Unilever South China production and marketing base project with an investment of 1.6 billion yuan officially started construction, which will build Unilever's first full-category production and marketing base in China.

It is understood that in the third quarter, 9 key projects will be started, with a total investment of over 10.5 billion yuan and an estimated annual output value of over 22.9 billion yuan. Strengthening the chain and supplementing the chain, specializing in new products, intelligent manufacturing, and rural revitalization are the biggest features of this signing activity project.

On the same day, with the successful implementation of Unilever's first all-category production and marketing base project in China, the Unilever Greater Bay Area assembly and supply chain base project, which provides supply chain support for the project, also officially settled in Conghua. At the same time, a number of new infrastructure projects, such as the technological transformation project of Jusailong’s third-phase production base in South China, Zhongyu Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology Industrial Park, Yunda South China E-commerce Guangzhou Industrial Park Base, and Guangzhou Pearl River Cable Co., Ltd. High-quality projects for digital economy, new energy and new materials were launched and started simultaneously.

Conghua has been striving to build a rural revitalization demonstration area in the province and even the whole country. Industrial prosperity is the most important support for rural revitalization. The Conghua 10,000-mu Longmei Chinese herbal medicine planting base project will promote the transformation of Conghua's own rich ecological resource endowments into economic advantages, promote the prosperity of modern agriculture and cultural tourism industries, and help rural revitalization and construction.

Unilever's South China production and marketing base project city started a major key project that day. The project, with an investment of 1.6 billion yuan, is the largest investment project of Unilever Group, a Fortune 500 company, in China in recent years. It will build Unilever's first full-category production and marketing base in China. After the project is completed, it will be responsible for the production of Unilever's personal care products, food, ice cream and other full-category products, and will be constructed in accordance with the requirements of Unilever's global headquarters lighthouse factory and the requirements of gradually achieving the goals of "carbon neutrality" and "carbon peaking". operation. The project plans to complete the commissioning of the personal care factory in 2023, the food factory in 2024, and the ice cream factory in 2025. It is estimated that the annual output value will be about 10 billion yuan.

"Conghua is blessed with unique ecological resources, which is a necessary condition for making fast-moving consumer goods, and the concept of sustainable development in Conghua is highly compatible with our development. After a comprehensive multi-party investigation, the final project site selection landed in Conghua." Unilever China Public Affairs President Zeng Xi Wenzheng said in an interview with reporters.

He introduced that the project will take international digital manufacturing and globalization 4.0 as the standard, vigorously promote intelligent digital production, build an E2E intelligent supply chain in all links of production, warehousing, delivery, etc., and strive to build a supply chain that radiates the RCEP region and faces the world. Base and world-class lighthouse factory benchmark projects, and make full use of Conghua high-quality photovoltaic, hydraulic and other renewable energy for green energy replacement, vigorously develop circular economy such as plastics not falling, build carbon neutral industrial parks with high standards, and gradually achieve carbon neutrality , carbon peak target.

The relevant person in charge of Conghua District said that Conghua District will cooperate with Unilever in depth to carry out research on the "Lighthouse Factory", explore the path of intelligent digital upgrading and transformation of traditional industries and new measures to promote high-quality development, and is committed to helping traditional industry production lines Realize digital and intelligent transformation.Editor/He Yuting