From January to November 2025, Huai'an signed 687 new industrial capital increase and production capacity expansion projects worth more than RMB 100 million, with 360 newly commenced and 230 newly completed. The number of ongoing industrial projects valued at over RMB 3 billion reached 53. Capital increase and production capacity expansion have become the "core engine" for the expansion and quality improvement of Huai'an's industrial economy.

Huai'an has broken barriers through proactive services. The city has built an all-around service system by establishing "Huai'an Entrepreneur Day," regularly holding "Party-Government-Business Meetings," implementing a reporting system for "disapproved" administrative matters, and creating a business environment service specialist system alongside an "enterprise whistleblowing, department response" mechanism. In 2025, 222 business environment service specialists from 41 municipal authorities solved nearly 700 problems for enterprises. In terms of factor guarantees, the city innovatively implemented a system of "advance reserve, centralized coordination, and tiered guarantees," reducing the average land cost per mu (approximately 0.067 hectares) for new industrial projects by RMB 700,000.

Huai'an has empowered transformation through innovation. The city promotes capital increase and production capacity expansion based on the requirements of new industrialization. In 2025, 490 new scientific and technological projects were introduced, marking a year-on-year increase of 25.6%; more than 1,400 "intelligent upgrading, digital transformation, and networked connectivity" projects were implemented; from January to November, 385 "technological transformation in thousands of enterprises" projects were newly started, with 210 completed and put into operation. Focusing on traditional industries such as chemicals and steel, 36 energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation projects were implemented with a total investment of more than RMB 7 billion to accelerate the transformation of the industrial structure towards "higher-end, newer, and greener" models.

Huai'an has pooled strength for mechanism innovation. Taking Lianshui County as a pilot, the city broke the development model of "village-to-village initiation," gathered town-level and subdistrict-level investment projects into county-level industrial parks, clarified the fixed tax revenue sharing model of "10% for the county, 30% for the development zone, and 60% for the town/sub-district," and fully recognized the contribution of town-level and subdistrict-level investment promotion, thereby activating the endogenous power of grassroots investment promotion. In the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the city started 758 new capital increase and production capacity expansion projects with a total planned investment of RMB 309.48 billion. These projects account for 43.2% and 44.4% of all new projects worth over RMB 100 million in terms of number and investment value, respectively, offering continuously strengthened support.