Chinanews, Wuhan, April 8th, title: Wuhan restarts the first anniversary: rebirth from the ashes and start again
Reporter Zhang Qin Liang Ting
At the beginning of 2020, the sudden outbreak of new crown pneumonia caused Wuhan, a city with a population of tens of millions, to announce the unprecedented closure of the Lihan Channel.
At 0 o'clock on April 8th of the same year, Wuhan, which had been locked down for 76 days, awakened as the spring blossoms.
On April 7, the "Meet in Spring" anti-epidemic photo exhibition was on display at Chuhe Han Street in Wuhan, attracting citizens to visit Zhang Chang.
One year has passed, spring has arrived, and flowers are blooming again. With strong resilience and vigorous vitality, Wuhan has been hailed as a weather vane for post-epidemic recovery and has become a new window for the world to observe China.
On the evening of April 6, Wuhan Wansongyuan Food Street became more popular. Photo by Wu Yili
Spring is full of fireworks again
Tapping the bell hammer, Zeng Houyi chimes played a melodious and beautiful music.
On April 8, on the first anniversary of Wuhan’s restart, a chime concert with the theme of rebirth from the ashes was held at the Hubei Provincial Museum to pray for the rebirth of Wuhan.
Last year, the cherry blossoms in Wuhan were lonely and blooming; this spring, we will meet again under the cherry trees!
In March, Wuhan, with the highest courtesy, welcomed the anti-epidemic medical staff and their families from all over the country to the cherry blossom appointment.
Cherry blossom viewing in Wuhan was once a hot word on the Internet.
Nowadays, the new flower city Wuhan is ushering in the most beautiful season of the year, with cherry blossoms, azaleas, rape blossoms, and camellia blooming for the first time. The countryside and fields outline a poetic pastoral picture.
Not long ago, Hubei issued an invitation to meet cherry blossoms in the spring. With the cherry blossom viewing, hundreds of flower viewing spots were launched, hundreds of flower viewing routes were launched, and the cultural tourism market was stirred up.
During the Qingming holiday just past, Hubei received 11.703 million tourists, and scenic spots such as the Yellow Crane Tower ranked among the top ten popular scenic spots in Central China.
Wuhan, reborn from the ashes, is back to vigorous vitality.
Ascend to the Yellow Crane Tower, lean on a railing and look into the distance. There are heavy traffic on the bridge and cargo ships on the river.
As a city of universities, Wuhan has more than one million college students. After the epidemic, Wuhan has nurtured new opportunities, and the steamy workplace attracts more and more college students to study in Han.
In 2020, there will be a net increase of 1,842 high-tech enterprises in Wuhan, and high-tech and emerging industries will attract 68,000 college students, a record high.
Wuhan, reborn from the ashes, found the familiar fireworks.
Hubu Alley, Jiqing Street, Wansongyuan Neighborhoods passed each other prematurely, start a new day with a bowl of steaming hot and dry noodles; under the night, diners lined up to wait for their favorite gourmet restaurants. Bit.
At the roadside stalls, three or two friends toasted and chatted and had a good time; Jiangtan Plaza, where casual people danced square dances
On April 8, the 3rd World Health Expo opened in Wuhan. Photo by Zheng Ziyan
Build a strong public health safety barrier
On April 8, the third World Health Expo, a world-class event named after health, was held in Wuhan as scheduled, once again showing Wuhan's confidence and confidence.
Small wisdom governs things, great wisdom governs systems.
As the first city in China to be hit hard by the epidemic, from passive prevention and control to active response; from the completion of nucleic acid testing by tens of millions of residents to the free vaccination of all citizens, Wuhan will improve the construction and development of the public health system in the mirror of epidemic prevention and control. The big health industry is the top priority of urban development.
On April 7, the Hongshan District People’s Hospital (Yangchunhu District of Wuhan Central Hospital), located at the intersection of Shahugang North Road and Lihe Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan City, is in full swing. In the future, it will cooperate with Hubei Province People’s Hospital (Wuhan University People’s Hospital). (Hospital) Hongshan District, together, fill the gap of Wuhan City's last central urban area without a Class-A general hospital.
In Caidian District, Jiangxia District, Xinzhou District and Huangpi District of Wuhan City, 4 Class-A hospitals with a combination of peacetime and warfare have been built, and they will all be delivered in July this year.
At the same time, the National Major Public Health Event Medical Center of Tongji Hospital, the Proton Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Union Hospital, and the Heavy Ion Medical Center of Wuhan University are also being constructed simultaneously.
In the past year, in response to the problems and deficiencies exposed by the epidemic, Wuhan has focused on making up for shortcomings in public health and speeding up the deployment of medical resources.
According to the plan, before 2025, Wuhan will build a 10-minute first-aid circle in the central city and a 12-minute first-aid circle in the new city. By then, there will be at least 110 first-aid stations in the city.
Feng Zhanchun, dean of the School of Medicine and Health Management of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, believes that these projects are an important part of Wuhan's reshaping of the public health emergency management system and will greatly improve Wuhan's ability to respond to and treat major public health incidents.
At the same time, after the epidemic, Wuhan’s major health industry has accelerated. A number of new business formats and models such as online consultation, medical e-commerce, and Internet health management have continued to emerge. A number of well-known medical companies such as Mindray and Wenjian have settled in Wuhan. Help the local health industry to accelerate to the trillion level.
On the evening of March 23, a cherry blossom theme light show was staged on Jianghan Road Pedestrian Street in Wuhan. Photographed by Zhang Chang
After the epidemic, the economy is recovering continuously
From a cliff-like decline in the regional GDP in the first quarter of 2020, it counterattacked to the annual economic total exceeding 1.56 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below), returning to the top ten cities in the country.
In the past year, Wuhan has drawn a hard-won economic revival V-shaped curve.
With the support of the central government's package of support policies, Wuhan, which has restarted after the epidemic, still attracts investors' attention.
Statistics show that there were 186,500 new market entities in Wuhan last year. Since April 8, there have been more than 900 new market entities every day, and the actual funds in place for investment attraction exceeded 930 billion yuan.
Standing on the starting line of the 14th Five-Year Plan, Wuhan was ready to start the sprint: In the first quarter, 215 major projects were started in a concentrated manner, with a total investment of more than 330 billion yuan, setting a record for the city's single centralized start; 112 investment promotion projects The total contracted value was 346.2 billion yuan, the largest single investment promotion activity in Wuhan in the past; the total number of cross-border e-commerce imports and exports exceeded 10 million, exceeding the level of last year
Statistics show that from January to February this year, the added value of industries above designated size in Wuhan increased by 81.5% year-on-year, and investment in fixed assets increased by 256.3% year-on-year.
On March 13, anti-epidemic medical staff went to Wuhan University to make an appointment with Zhang Chang
Since the recovery from the epidemic, Wuhan has intensively introduced policies to encourage and support the development of new technologies, new products, new formats, and new models. 5G, Industrial Internet, Beidou, blockchain, digital, cloud and other related industrial chains and production factors have rapidly gathered.
In this regard, Zou Wei, a professor at the School of Economics and Management of Wuhan University, believes that Wuhan, at the intersection of the two major national strategies of the rise of central China and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, has long-accumulated advantages in location, transportation, science and education, talents, and industry will be under the new development pattern. More prominently, taking advantage of the opportunity to cultivate new kinetic energy and develop a new economy, there is a lot to be done in the future.
Wuhan, reborn from the ashes, regained its vitality, and set off again in the spring!
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