Wuhan promotes resumption of production in key industries faster than expected and better than expected

(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Wuhan's promotion of key industries to resume work and resume production is faster than expected and better than expected

China News Agency, Wuhan, April 5th (Reporter Ma Furong) At a press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic in Hubei Province held on the 5th, Hu Yabo, member of the Standing Committee of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee and executive deputy mayor of the municipal government, said that in general, Wuhan's resumption of production and production is faster than expected and better than expected.

As of the 4th, Wuhan ’s “Four Shangs” and real estate development enterprises have resumed work with 10,897 companies, with a return rate of 93.6%. Among them, the rate of resumption of industrial enterprises is 97.2%, the rate of resumption of service enterprises is 93.2%; the rate of resumption of online batches of catering enterprises is 95.8%; the rate of resumption of construction enterprises above qualification is 84.7%; the rate of resumption of enterprises in real estate development and operation industry 92.4%.

According to Dang Zhen, the director of the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Economics and Information Technology, as of the 4th, Wuhan Gushang Industrial Enterprises had started 2853 households, with an operating rate of 97.2%, and 429,000 employees were employed, with an arrival rate of 60.5%. The electricity consumption of industrial enterprises has been restored to more than 80% of the same period last year.

Dang Zhen said that from the perspective of leading enterprises, all 25 industrial enterprises with a value of more than 5 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) have started construction. The key enterprises Dongfeng Honda, Wuhan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. and Hubei Zhongyan have recovered their capacity utilization rate to 100% or more than 100%. Industrial enterprises, including the two leading industries, automobile and parts, and optoelectronic information, have all started construction.

The service industry is the main support for Wuhan's economic development. In 2019, the value added of Wuhan's service industry accounted for 60.8% of GDP. According to Meng Wukang, director of the Wuhan Municipal Development and Reform Commission, as of the 4th, 2810 service companies have resumed work, with a return rate of 93.2%.

Wuhan focuses on key industries such as automobiles, information technology, biomedicine, and new infrastructure areas such as 5G urban power grids and rail transportation, and promotes the resumption of major projects with more than 100 million yuan to consolidate development potential. Meng Wukang revealed that as of the 4th, the city has resumed 1,006 major projects with a total investment of over 100 million yuan, a resumption rate of 75.9%, and a total investment of 2,395.52 billion yuan.

Meng Wukang said that the next step will be to strongly promote the resumption of the continued construction project, and strive to resume all projects of 1,326 billion yuan or more in mid-April. Centralized construction activities will be held in the near future. It is expected that 79 new projects with a total investment of over 100 million yuan will be started in the city, involving major industries, infrastructure and social undertakings. The total investment will reach 157.8 billion yuan.

Wuhan East Lake New Technology Development Zone is a national optoelectronic information industry base, a national biomedical industry base and a national memory base. As of the morning of the 5th, there were 11,000 enterprises that resumed production and resumed production. In Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, OEMs represented by Dongfeng Honda and Dongfeng Passenger Vehicles have resumed full production, synchronously driving more than 500 auto parts suppliers in the region to resume production; household appliances represented by Midea and Gree Enterprises are expected to reach full production in early April.

Hu Yabo said that during the epidemic, there were no clustered cross-infections in the 224 enterprises that were continuously produced in Wuhan and those that recently resumed production. (Finish)