Over the past five years, Gongzhuling City has firmly pursued a path of high-quality development, precisely targeting the expansion, reinforcement, and strengthening of its three pillar industries: automotive components, deep processing of agricultural products, and modern logistics. By simultaneously advancing the intelligent transformation of traditional industries and cultivating new growth drivers, the city's industrial clustering effect continues to intensify, steadily marching toward a new stage of enhanced efficiency and elevated capacity in its high-quality development journey.

Deep Processing of Agricultural Products: Consolidating Foundations for Distinctive Agriculture

During this period, Gongzhuling has deeply integrated agricultural industry resources, using project construction and technological upgrades as key leverage points to push the agricultural product processing sector toward greater refinement, depth, and higher value-added output. The city has cultivated 18 large-scale agricultural product processing enterprises, while successfully incubating a batch of specialized, sophisticated, and innovative enterprises in niche fields.

Leveraging its robust industrial base and superior product quality, the brand influence of the city's specialty agricultural products has grown steadily, polishing its distinctive local industry credentials and fully unlocking the development potential and growth vitality of the agricultural product deep processing sector. Sun Chunli, Board Secretary of Jilin Qiankelai Technology Group Co., Ltd, shared his insights on this progress: "In recent years, building on the cluster advantages of Gongzhuling's agricultural product processing industry, we have vigorously promoted technological transformation and product upgrades, focusing on the R&D and production of new types of biological feed, which further extends the agricultural and livestock deep processing chain. Moving forward, we will continue to drive iterative upgrades of traditional agricultural and sideline processing industries through technological empowerment and quality enhancement, contributing actively to the city's agricultural industry development."

Modern Logistics: Activating New Engines for Circulation

Capitalizing on its geographical proximity and transportation advantages adjacent to Changchun, Gongzhuling has strategically established an industrial framework of "two bases and one center." The Fanjiatun living-oriented logistics base, the Daling automotive logistics base, and the economic development zone's production-oriented logistics center now work in synergy. Major logistics projects from companies including ZTO, Yunda, and STO Express have successively been launched and put into operation, with total logistics revenue surpassing 13 billion yuan in 2025.

Liang Wei, Operations Management Manager at ZTO Smart Logistics Industrial Park, elaborated: "As a key regional logistics hub, the ZTO Smart Logistics Industrial Park actively connects with the development needs of the two local pillar industries. On one hand, leveraging our intelligent sorting, warehousing, and distribution capabilities, we provide efficient circulation services for local automotive parts enterprises, helping the automotive industry cluster reduce costs and increase efficiency. On the other hand, we are opening up channels for agricultural products to move upstream, assisting local specialty agricultural products and their deep-processed goods in reaching markets across the country. Next, we will continue to improve warehousing, deepen collaboration with local industries, and help build a new landscape of industrial cluster development, empowering the transformation of old growth drivers into new ones through modern logistics to better serve local high-quality economic growth."

Automotive Components: Driving Transformation and Breakthroughs

Over the past five years, Gongzhuling has seized the opportunities presented by the new energy vehicle boom, reversing its previous reliance on traditional fuel vehicle suppliers. Many enterprises have pivoted toward new energy component production. The city established the first county-level automotive parts industry group in the province, enabling resource sharing and collective development, achieving a breakthrough with orders from outside the region's OEMs. By 2025, the output value of regulated automotive parts enterprises reached 9.84 billion yuan.

Zhang Xuejing, Operations Director at Jilin Hongze Automotive Parts Co., Ltd, stated: "Our company keeps pace with the city's industrial development steps, staying focused on our core tracks of seat components, precision stamping, and fasteners. We continuously optimize production processes and advance intelligent upgrades. By leveraging the resource-sharing advantages of the city's automotive parts industry group, we achieve shared resources and group-based market expansion, effectively reducing production costs and enhancing order response speed. In the future, we will continue to deepen our presence in the high-end automotive supporting sector, reinforcing, extending, and strengthening the chain to fully empower the city's automotive industry."

Riding the waves of opportunity, Gongzhuling is at a pivotal moment of vigorous advancement. The city's three pillar industries have now formed a comprehensive and mutually reinforcing development structure, deeply integrated and poised for a new leap. Standing at this new starting point, Gongzhuling will continue to strengthen its industrial groups, consolidate platform foundations, and optimize the industrial ecosystem. It will persistently drive the industrial system toward high-end, intelligent, and green development, using the progress of its pillar industries to sustain the stability of its county economy, continuously invigorating new momentum for high-quality development, and striving to compose a new chapter of industrial upgrading and revitalization breakthroughs.