County level characteristic industrial cluster: a billion dollar industry that has been dismantled

How to deal with scrapped cars? Is there still any reuse value? In Fengyang County, Chuzhou City, there is a park that starts with dismantling scrapped cars, turning these seemingly useless junk into treasure and dismantling them into a billion yuan industry.

In the Circular Economy Industrial Park of Fengyang County, this enterprise's dismantling workshop is performing the magic of "turning waste into treasure" through the precise process of industrialization. About 150 scrapped cars embark on a journey of rebirth here every day, which are broken down into various recyclable materials through processes such as dismantling, crushing, and sorting.

Chen Yan, Deputy General Manager of Chuzhou Hongwu Scrap Car Recycling, Dismantling and Utilization Co., Ltd
We directly hand over non-ferrous metals such as scrap copper and aluminum on car bodies to non-ferrous recycling and processing enterprises; We hand over waste plastics, glass, and other materials to downstream waste recycling companies for recycling and reuse.

As the "chain owner" enterprise of the circular economy in the park, Hongwu Company has not only established a full process system for automobile dismantling, but also attracted more than 20 upstream and downstream enterprises to gather and develop. Let retired automotive parts shine with new vitality in the precise integration of the industrial chain.

He Renguo, Chairman of Chuzhou Hongwu Scrap Car Recycling, Dismantling and Utilization Co., Ltd
There is a glass processing enterprise not far from us, and the glass we remove can be sent to it to turn into beautiful handicrafts; There are also those nearby who produce recycled aluminum, which can be used to recycle aluminum components. It can be said that in this park, it is possible to "eat dry and squeeze out" a scrapped car.

However, this garden style industrial park in front of us also caused serious environmental problems in the 1990s due to manual dismantling and non-standard operation methods.

Hu Zongjia, a resident of Liufu Town, Fengyang County, Chuzhou City
Before, when walking on the road, one could smell the pungent smell of gasoline. Some people had made money, but the environment was getting worse and worse.

Fengyang County, which has learned from its past mistakes, is determined to promote industrial restructuring with the determination of a brave warrior: it has shut down and banned more than 150 scattered and polluting enterprises, and invested over 2 billion yuan to build standardized industrial parks. Introduce an IoT monitoring system to implement full traceability of hazardous waste. When traditional workshops are upgraded to smart factories, black oil pollution turns into clear water and blue sky. This once negative environmental asset has become the only "national mineral" demonstration base in China that uses scrapped cars as a carrier.

Xu Huaidong, Deputy Director of Fengyang Economic Development Zone Management Committee, Chuzhou City
The previous development model was traditional and extensive, resulting in high consumption of resources and energy, and high pollution of the ecological environment. Green transformation is imperative, with "recycling, dismantling, and resource utilization of scrapped cars" as the main focus, to develop a green circular economy.

On the track of circular economy, Fengyang's exploration continues to deepen. By establishing new formats such as new energy vehicle dismantling centers and photovoltaic module recycling bases, the park is building a full industry chain of "renewable resources deep processing high-end manufacturing". Tuomeiwei Group, which relocated from Changzhou as a whole, was attracted by the complete industrial chain. Enterprises melt and refine scrap copper into electronic grade copper foil, which is used in 5G base stations and new energy batteries.

Ge Jibing, General Manager of Anhui Tuomeiwei Copper Industry Group Co., Ltd
This park has a complete green and circular industrial chain, with excellent policy support and government services. The company's investment of 5 billion yuan in the third phase of the project is accelerating, and after the project reaches production capacity, it can achieve an output value of over 30 billion yuan and solve the employment problem for 1000 people.

Nowadays, this "waste eating and gold spitting" park has gradually formed a development trend of six circular industrial chains that complement each other, including black metal, non-ferrous metal, non-metal, equipment manufacturing, remanufacturing, and supporting industries. In 2024, the industrial output value of the park will reach 17.438 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.03%.

Historical Study Army of Circular Economy Industry Chain in Fengyang County, Chuzhou City

Continuously adhering to the concept of green and high-quality development, we will focus on connecting with leading enterprises in the industrial chain such as deep processing of non-ferrous metals, dismantling of new energy vehicles, and recycling of photovoltaic modules. We will promote the extension of the industrial chain to the middle and lower reaches and the derivation of the value chain to the middle and high ends, striving to achieve a total operating income of over 60 billion yuan by 2025.