Railway Vehicle Pantographs and Coupler Buffer Systems Production Railway Vehicle Pantographs and Coupler Buffer Systems Production Project of Changchun City 1.Introduction to the Project 1.1 Project Background 1.1.1 Product Introduction The railway vehicle pantograph and coupler buffer system are the important matching equipment for the normal operation and the main parts of the power transmission and traction connection for running of the train. There are the multiple varieties of manufacturing technologies and materials, which can meet the different demands of various types of railway vehicle equipment after some deep machining and adjustment such as mill finishing, coating, water resistance, dirt resistance, static resistance and wear resistance, etc. 1.1.2 Market Prospects In some countries with the developed railway vehicle industry such as the US, Germany and Japan, etc., their research on the pantographs and coupler buffer systems for railway vehicles have become very deep and the industrialized production technology has also been very advanced. However, the research on and production of the materials for railway vehicles were started very late in China and it has still been in the primary phase. At present, the domestic materials for railway vehicles cannot meet the demand for rapid development of railway vehicles, the demand in the market is big, and especially the materials for high-speed trains with some special performances such as flame resistance, heat insulation, water resistance, dirt resistance, sound absorption, humid absorption and static resistance, etc. should be imported from foreign countries. In the future, with the rapid development of the railway vehicle industry of our country, the market demand for the railway vehicle pantographs and coupler buffer systems will grow more rapidly; therefore, the market prospects of the project are very good. 1.1.3 Technical Analysis In recent years, great progress has been made in the production flow, production efficiency and technical updating speed of the railway vehicle pantographs and coupler buffer systems. The introduction, absorption and re-innovation of the advanced equipment have fully improved the technical level of the industry as a whole; the inputs of some backbone enterprises in the research and development have been increased year by year and the innovative capacity of the industry has been gradually strengthened; the adoption of the trans-field engineering integrated innovative technology and equipment has become the common understanding of the manufacturers of railway vehicle pantographs and coupler buffer systems. With the application of the high-end functional rigid composite materials for railway vehicles in the pantographs and coupler buffer systems, the materials will be further applied in some fields such as aviation and ships, so the market scale is extremely big. 1.1.4 Advantageous Conditions of Project Construction (1) Obvious location advantages This project is located in Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone, which is 3km from downtown, 10 minutes driving from Harbin-Dalian rapid transit railway passenger station, and 30 minutes driving from ChangchunLongjiaInternationalAirport. Ring expressway and Changchun-Baicheng Highway, Changchun-Nong’an Highway and other national and provincial highways as well as the Fourth Ring Road of ChangchunCity traverse in the area, and the area has special railway line, developed road network and convenient traffic, belonging to the traffic hinge in the northwest of ChangchunCity, so the location advantages are obvious. (2) Complete infrastructure This project is located in Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone, which has invested a total of 1 billion yuan and completed infrastructure construction including road, communication, electricity supply, heat supply, gas supply, water supply and drainage, the area of Nine Accesses and One Leveling can reach 10km2, the area of standardized industrial plant is 50,000m2, and the reserved development area for railway vehicles supporting enterprises is 4km2. Land formalities have been settled, infrastructure has been completely put into place, and the enterprises can construct as soon as they enter. (3) Solid scientific and technological resources Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone where this project is located in has established long-term cooperative relationship with 23 colleges, universities and institutes including Jilin University, Northeast Normal University, Changchun Vocational Institute of Technology, Changchun Institute of Biological Products of Ministry of Health and Changchun Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Furthermore, as the national manufacturing base of moving machinery, ChangchunCity has solid foundation and distinct features in automobile, railway vehicles and other relevant industries, as well as the advantaged strength in moving machinery's industrial development atmosphere, humanity environment, technical support and talent reserve, thus providing strong scientific and technological support for the development of this project. (4) Privilege of governmental support Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone where this project is located in offers the enterprises a series of preferential policies including "having priority in meeting land utilization demand and arranging interest subsidies or interest-free loans", "the enterprises enter the park can enjoy expenditure subsidy of technological research and development, support of project land as well as infrastructure construction including water, electricity and heat, preferential income tax of high and new technology enterprises, and deduction of investment in business establishment investment. (5) Strong technical support With the help of its market, information, talents, network and other aspects of advantageous resources, China CNR Corporation assists Changchun City Government to introduce core technology enterprises and key part production enterprises into Luyuan Development Zone, provide technical support for the part supporting enterprises that have entered into the Development Zone, properly ensuring the technical level of the production of railway vehicles decorative materials. (6) Fast and convenient support As early as in August 2008, CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Group Co., Ltd. was settled in this Development Zone, which has registered capital 480 million yuan, mainly produces and export CRH, urban rail transit, metro, railway vehicle, etc. After this project construction is completed, aluminium section production enterprises and Railway Vehicles Group will be settled in the same Development Zone, they can very conveniently keep supporting cooperation each other to save logistics transportation costs and order receiving and dispatching time. (7) Excellent service environment Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone can provide this project with full tracking service from negotiation, site selection, procedures handling to construction, production and operation. In addition, the Development Zone plans 14km2 of living service area, which can meet the production and living demand of enterprises, build good service environment for enterprises and provide convenience for the project's future development. 1.2 Content and Scale of Project Construction 1.2.1 Product Scheme and Scale Annual output of 10000 railway vehicle pantographs and coupler buffer systems 1.2.2 Construction Content The total planned area of the project is 2 hectares, the construction of the production area, office and living area and power warehouse area will be completed in 2 phases in 2 years and some production, testing and test equipment will be purchased. 1.3 Forecast of Economic and Social Benefits 1.3.1 Major Indexes for Forecast of Economic Benefits (details as per Table 1) Table 1: List of Major Indexes for Forecast of Economic Benefits No. Name Unit Indicator Remarks 1 Operating income RMB10,000/a 20000.00 Normal year 2 Total profit RMB10,000/a 3260 Normal year 3 Taxes RMB10,000/a 1475 Normal year 4 FIRR of all investment % 21.8 After income tax 5 FNPV (Ic=10%) RMB10,000 9188.78 After income tax 6 Period for recovery of all investment (after the tax) a 5.5 Including 2 years of construction period 7 Investment profit rate % 24.45 Normal year Note: "10,000 yuan" in the table refers to RMB 1.3.2 Analysis of Social Benefits The putting into production of the railway vehicle pantographs and coupler buffer systems project can create a large amount of taxes for the local area every year and promote the local economic development; the operation of the project will be sure to employ the local labor force, resolve the employment problem of surplus labor force and bring benefits to the common people around it; the settlement of the pantograph and coupler buffer system manufacturers can further perfect the railway vehicle industry chain in the park and promote the industrial upgrading of the park; the adoption of a great number of advanced processes has reduced the dependence on the imported materials and decreased the costs. In addition, the advanced technology has improved the safety coefficient and reduced the environmental pollution, so the social benefits are very big. 1.4 Total Investment and Funds Raising of the Project 1.4.1 Total Investment of the Project (see Table 2 for details) The total investment of the project is 0.1 billion yuan RMB. Table 2: Summary Table of the Total Investment of the Project Unit: 10 thousand yuan No. Expense Name Amount of Investment Proportion in the Total Amount of Remarks Investment% 1 Construction investment 8500 85 2 Interest in the construction period 3 Current funds 1500 15 Total investment of the project(1+2+3) 10000 100 Temporarily not considered ject of Changchun CityNote: “10 thousand yuan” in the table refers to RMB.1.4.2 Funds Raising It is planned to raise the funds of 0.1 billion yuan RMB and no debot fund or interest is taken into account. 1.5 Cooperative Ways of the Project Sole investment, joint venture, cooperation or other methods can be discussed in person. 1.6 What to be Invested by Foreign Party Sole investment, joint venture or other methods 1.7 Construction Site of the Project 3km, Changchun-Baicheng Highway, Changchun City. 1.8 The On-going Condition of Project Planning, land and other preliminary work and Nine Accesses and One Leveling infrastructure supporting construction have been completed. 2. Introduction to Partner 2.1 Basic Conditions Name of project undertaker: Changchun Luyuan Economic Development Zone Legal address: 3km, Changchun-Baicheng Highway, Changchun City Legal representative: Hou Wei Corporate ownership form: State-owned 2.2 Overview of Project Undertaker Changchun Luyuan Economic Development Zone is a provincial development zone established by getting the approval of Jilin Provincial Government on June 30, 2003, which enjoys the preferential policy of provincial development zone and has four functional areas of advanced manufacturing, logistics trade, food and medicine and railway vehicles. The development zone is adjacent to Changchun downtown, the traffic is convenient and fast, Beijing-Harbin, Changchun-Baicheng Railways and Changchun-Baicheng, ChangchunZhengzhou provincial high-speed highways cross through the border. Changchun Ring Expressway has two exits within the border. It takes 40 minutes driving from ChangchunLongjiaInternationalAirport to the Development Zone. Changchun, Southern Changchun and Datun Railway Freight Depots are less than 10km from the Development Zone. At present, the Industrial Development Zone has 17 main plant's supporting enterprises including schoolrun welding and riveting factory of Changchun Passenger Car Plant, Changchun Hexin Boiler Manufacture Co., Ltd., Railway Vehicle Accessory Plant of Changchun Hexin Boiler Manufacture Co., Ltd. and Changchun Yan'ao Electric Company. The railway vehicles functional division (Changchun Rail Transit Equipment Industrial Development Zone) in Luyuan Economic Development Zone has planning area of 51km2, including finished automobile assembly area 5km2, detection maintenance area 3km2, industrial supporting area 29km2, and living service supporting area 14km2. After construction of this division is completed, annual production capacity of 1,000 CRHs, 1,200 urban rail passenger cars and 500 railway vehicles as well as annual production value of 50 billion yuan will be realized, it will become one high-speed transit and urban rail vehicle manufacturing, export and maintenance base that tops in production capacity, product level, test detection capacity and maintenance capacity in the world. 2.3 Contact Method Postal Code: 130113 Contact Person: Ma Mingxing Tel: 0431-87886789 Contact Person of the City (Prefecture) of the Project: Lou Huimin Tel: 0431-82715338 Fax: 0431-82715338 E-mail: cc82715338@126.com Website: www.ccmbc.com