With an area of 59.25 square kilometers and a population of 53,000 (including a permanent population of 33,000 and 20,000 “new residents”), Economic Development Zone of Baibu has 10 administrative villages and one residents’ committee under its jurisdiction. It is honored as a national-level major town, a health town and an ecological town and a provincial-level economic development zone, a culturally advanced town, a characteristic town and a pilot small city under construction. In 2022, its GDP totaled 4.108 billion yuan, tax revenue 466 million yuan, and its per capita disposable income of rural residents 51,239 yuan, 5.8% up year on year; it achieved an industrial added value of 10.005 billion yuan, 8.3% up year on year, and an added value of the enterprises above the designated size of 2.05 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.9%; the investment in the manufacturing sector totaled 1.204 billion yuan, an increase of 53.7% year on year.

Baibu is a town with a developed transport network and innovative vitality. Located in the center of the urban agglomeration of the Yangtze River Delta, it is about 100 kilometers away (one-hour drive) from Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Ningbo. Jiaxing-Shaoxing Expressway, National Highway No. 524 and provincial-level Hangzhou-Pinghu-Shanghai Waterway pass through the town, forming an extensive, fast and convenient land and water transportation network. As one of the youngest provincial-level economic development zones, it now boasts two listed enterprises, 20 enterprises each with an annual output value of 100 million, 93 enterprises above the designated size and many characteristic industries such as smart integrated furnishing, equipment manufacturing and new textile materials. As the source base of China’s integrated ceiling industries, Baibu is known as the first town of China’s integrated ceiling industry, and its integrated ceiling products account for more than 40% of the domestic markets, In the future, the town will continue to extend and complete the chain of the smart home decoration industry, upgrade “sweet potato economy” and magnify local characteristics and advantages to transform from the state that “one industry is thriving” to the state that “various industries are thriving together” In 2021, the town attracted a ten-billion-yuan COSMX power lithium battery project: On June 30, 2022, the first phase of the lithium-ion power battery project (with annual output of 10GW) of Zhejiang COSMX Battery Co., Ltd. started its construction. Now, the second phase has obtained the construction land, and relevant supporting projects are being prepared smoothly as scheduled such as power and heat supplies and the industrial neighborhood center. In August 2022, 1.6-square-kilometer “Industrial Enclave”-a Haiyan-Jingning Mountain-Ocean Collaboration project settled in Baibu, which will develop such industries as new energies and high-end equipment manufacturing in the future to strengthen new development momentum. Meanwhile, the town made innovation in cooperation models such as “minimum returns + investment returns, minimum returns + rent sharing, and minimum returns + tax sharing” to create an upgraded version of the Mountain-Ocean Collaboration project.

With splendid culture such as the 7,000-year-history Majiabang Culture, Baibu is an ideal region for people’s happy life and work. In this development zone, the 1,000-year-old painted pottery and a jade-inlaid ivory comb of the Songze Culture period (5,800-4,900 years from now ) were unearthed, the latter being unearthed for the first time in China. In 2022, various measures were made to deepen urban and industrial integration. Baibu is a new happy city suitable for living and starting new businesses. In Baibu there is a Grade 3A scenic spot, a province-level industrial tourism demonstration spot (Grammy) and good service facilities for business headquarters and tourism. Since 2022, Kindergarten of Economic Development Zone of Baibu and Village-based Elderly Care Service Center of Bailian have been put into operation. In 2022, the town began to expand the construction of Primary School of Baibu and plan the relocation of Hospital of Baibu The construction of beautiful countryside, rivers, lakes, factories and rural areas makes Baibu full of new vitality. In 2022 the town continued to strengthen the management of the source of public complaints, implement the working mechanism of the “public complaint supermarkets” and rid the barriers against public complaints to solve contradictions and problems from the source and at their “embryonic stages”. Now the backlog of public complaints at the provincial, municipal and county levels have been completely cleared. The town is promoting the innovative reform of “comprehensive and integrated administrative law enforcement to build a rapid response mechanism for the early discovery, assignment and settlement of problems based on the construction of “smart parks”.

Baibu is a leading town in the Party building. It has been intensifying efforts to consolidate the foundation of the Party organizations. In the enterprises each with over 50 members, a Party organization has been established and a “Party building-contact-guidance” working mechanism has been further improved. Monthly grassroots Party building meetings are held to enrich the life of grassroots Party organizations. In 2022, the construction of leading teams were further reinforced; seven middle-level cadres were promoted based on merit; new Party members totaled 11; 29 probationary Party members became card-carrying ones; the town organized such activities as Growth Camp of Young Cadres and Bellwethers, Forum for Party’s Chiefs of Villages and Communities, Forum for Cadres; Baibu Cloud Community was put into operation; Zhongda and Youbang, two Party building brands of new economic organizations and new social organizations, were further improved; the improvement of the Service Center for the Masses and Party Members of Zhongda Group started and its service areas were enlarged to 2,500 square meters from original 500 ones; the town established nine common prosperity workshops, including one county-level model workshop and two town-level model ones, created 340 short-term jobs, paid 4.67 million yuan, successfully constructed two grassroots Party building working groups (Characteristic Group of Serving the People, and Group of the Party Building of Characteristic Town); the town established a “One-Five-Three-Eight” Party building brand based on the Party building in eight villages (communities), non-public enterprises, government departments and public institutions, further improving the Party building of this characteristic town; the town explored the Party building-led grassroots governance characteristic of integrating “self governance, rule of law and rule of virtue” on the basis of “grid-based heart to heart services and group-based services” of the new era, and improved modern rural governance structures and systems based on the Party building-led rural revitalization so that the workshop “Experts in Grassroots Governance” received the attention and affirmation of the leaders of Jiaxing.