In 2023, we continued to struggle and forge ahead, experienced ups and downs, saw beautiful scenery, and achieved heavy harvests. Everyone has remembered the difficulty of the past year and is full of confidence in the future.
——On New Year’s Eve, President Xi Jinping delivered the 2024 New Year’s message
2023 is the first year for fully implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and the year for economic recovery and development after three years of COVID-19 prevention and control.
In 2023, looking around the world, the economic recovery is sluggish; looking around at home, cyclical structural contradictions are intertwined... Economic development faces a complex and severe external environment and multiple difficulties and challenges. People of all ethnic groups across the country have withstood external pressure and overcome internal difficulties. my country's economy has rebounded and has made solid progress in high-quality development.
The same is true in Hubei. For Hubei, 2023 starts in 2020.
It recovered after the epidemic in 2020, recovered and tied in 2021, returned to the track in 2022, and recovered and improved in 2023. Hubei, which has experienced a cliff-like economic decline, has been resilient and determined step by step after going through hardships. In 2023, Hubei's GDP will reach 5,580.3 billion yuan, an increase of 6%, which is 0.8 percentage points higher than that of the country. It ranks first among major economic provinces and first in the central region.
Keep your instructions in mind and work hard first. In recent years, Hubei has firmly grasped the primary task of high-quality development and accelerated the construction of a national pioneer area for building a new development pattern. A new picture of Jingchu with Chinese-style modernization is being drawn at an accelerated pace.
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The Yangtze River Economic Belt should embark on a new path of ecological priority and green development.
——On April 26, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted a symposium on in-depth promotion of the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Wuhan.
Hubei has many water systems, and the Yangtze River coastline exceeds 1,000 kilometers. It shoulders the important political responsibility of "one river of clean water flowing eastward" and "one reservoir of clean water flowing northward." Water is Hubei's greatest resource advantage, and it is also a difficult and blocking point in Hubei's ecological environment management. To treat Jingchu, we must first control water.
Recently, a group of long-lost elves - Yangtze finless porpoises - appeared in the construction section of the Shuangliu Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan. Why do finless porpoises, which are extremely sensitive to the environment, “settle down” near the construction site? Who is guarding them?
Chen Cheng, chief engineer of the Shuangliu Yangtze River Bridge Project Department of CCCC Second Harbor Engineering Company, said: "As the widest steel box girder suspension bridge on the Yangtze River, the Shuangliu Yangtze River Bridge chooses to "cross the river in one span" to avoid construction in the water. Infrastructure construction also avoids During peak periods of aquatic animal activity, the flushing of construction waste into the river is minimized.
With playful finless porpoises on one side and bustling construction sites on the other, high-quality development and high-level protection complement each other.
At the beginning of 2023, the "Hubei Province Watershed Comprehensive Management and Coordinated Development Plan" was released, becoming the latest guideline for the province to coordinate high-quality development and high-level protection. Taking comprehensive watershed management as the starting point, we will create a development space where humans and nature can coexist harmoniously.
Hubei regards it as a key point, focus point and breakthrough point in building a pioneer area for building a new development pattern nationwide, and explores an effective path to promote Chinese-style modernization.
Xujiachong Village in Yichang, located in the core area of the Three Gorges Ecological Barrier, has stepped up the overall management of domestic sewage and garbage. Taking advantage of the change of seasons between autumn and winter, the village is renovating the viewing platform and opening up new tourist attractions.
Huayang Chemical is a local company located in the Yidu Chemical Industry Park on the bank of the Yangtze River. In response to the call for Yangtze River protection, after relocating within 1 kilometer along the Yangtze River, it implemented technical transformation and upgrades on its production lines, eliminated outdated production capacity, and became a leader in the segment. By.
There is also the Yellowstone National Mine Park, where "stones will bloom". There has been large-scale mining, and local mineral resources have gradually depleted. After ecological restoration, ecological reclamation forests were planted on the rocky hills formed by the excavation of the mines, creating the miracle of planting trees on the rocks and blooming on them.
To shoulder the responsibility of protecting the Yangtze River, Beautiful Hubei coordinates the simultaneous development of the four modernizations through comprehensive river basin management, which not only makes Beautiful Hubei "beautiful and moving", but also allows the "beautiful economy" to grow.
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Reform and opening up is a key move that determines the fate of contemporary China, and it is also a key move that determines the success or failure of Chinese-style modernization.
——General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening ceremony of the seminar on studying and implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on February 7, 2023
As an inland province, Hubei has relatively insufficient export-oriented economic development compared with developed coastal areas. Without being close to the sea or border, how can we move from the "back team" of coastal opening up to the "front team" of inland opening up in the new era?
As the "airport to the sea" in inland areas, Hubei Ezhou Huahu Airport connects the whole country and radiates around the world. It plays an important mission in Hubei's accelerating the construction of a pioneer area for the country's new development pattern.
On January 21, a Boeing 757 aircraft operated by Russia's Yelofey Airlines took off from Moscow and landed at Huahu Airport. Huahu Airport's first international cargo route to Eastern Europe was officially opened. At present, the import and export cargo and mail volume of Huahu Airport has exceeded 47,000 tons, and the cargo flight volume has ranked second in the country in only 7 months.
On the bank of the surging Yangtze River, red gantry cranes stand tall, containers of various colors are stacked, and container trucks shuttle among them in an orderly manner. Wuhan Yangluo Port Terminal has currently opened 42 multimodal transport channels, and the radiation area extends to the northwest and southwest inland areas and the hinterland of Europe, achieving "connection to the river and the sea."
In 2023, Hubei insists on "making good use of the key strategy of reform and opening up". The endogenous power of economic development continues, and the dividends of reform and opening up continue to be released: the business environment has entered the first square in the country for the first time, and the province's total import and export value has reached a record high. Ranked first in Central China in terms of actual use of foreign capital...
Hubei is moving from the "back team" of coastal opening up to the "front team" of inland development in the new era, accelerating the creation of a new highland for inland opening up, and Hubei is making vigorous steps.
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Hubei Wuhan East Lake New Technology Development Zone is unique in the field of optoelectronic information industry.
——On June 28, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Wuhan Huagong Laser Engineering Co., Ltd.
Optics Valley is not only a business card of Hubei, but also the Optics Valley of China.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has come here three times and put forward requirements for strengthening independent innovation in science and technology.
Focusing on the country's major strategic needs, the growth of every leading company in Optics Valley and the independent control of every core technology are almost always accompanied by the breakthrough of the "stuck neck" problem.
China Information Technology Group has developed China's first silicon-based coherent optical transceiver chip exceeding 1 terabits/second; Huagong Laser has manufactured my country's first high-end wafer laser cutting equipment with 100% localization of core components... At present, Optics Valley Science and Technology The scale of the optoelectronic information industry in the Grand Corridor is close to 800 billion yuan, and it is accelerating towards the trillion-yuan scale.
The light of Optics Valley reflects Hubei’s solid steps to accelerate the construction of a pioneer area for a new development pattern across the country and strive to write a new chapter of high-quality development.
In 2023, the comprehensive scientific and technological innovation level of Hubei's innovation-driven development region ranked 7th in the country, the highest ranking in the past five years.
In 2023, Hubei was approved for 6 national innovative industrial clusters, ranking first in the country in terms of the number of new ones and third in total.
Vivid data mark Hubei's rising scientific and technological innovation capabilities. In the future, Hubei will take the construction of Wuhan Science and Technology Innovation Center as a guide, make greater efforts to aggregate innovation resources, seize the innovation track, stimulate innovation vitality, and strive to build a national science and technology innovation highland. .
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Our goal is both ambitious and simple. In the final analysis, it is to let the people live a better life.
——On New Year’s Eve, President Xi Jinping delivered the 2024 New Year’s message
A beautiful environment is what everyone yearns for; a happy life is what everyone pursues.
Hubei is a multi-ethnic province with 56 ethnic groups, and the ethnic minority population shows a distribution pattern of large dispersion and small settlements. Residents in a community or village may have different nationalities, but their demands in life overlap a lot.
In 2022, Hubei issued a call to mobilize party members and cadres to go to the grassroots, monitor people's sentiments, resolve people's concerns, warm people's hearts, and advocate the use of "co-creation" values and methodology to do practical things and solve problems.
Bailinsi Village, Qiliping Town, Hong'an County, Huanggang City, takes practical and small things to improve the living environment in front and behind the houses of the people as the starting point, and mobilizes the villagers to raise funds, make their own choices, and plant their own crops to build small vegetable gardens, small medicine gardens, and small Orchards, small gardens, small playgrounds. The small mountain village that used to be poor after sunset is now completely new.
Qianhe Community, Yingshan Street, Guangshui City, Suizhou, once had some residential areas without property management and scattered areas. The community deepened the "1+4" management model of 1 party organization + 4 work teams, and explored the governance model of urban communities without property management. Let every resident subtly become a partner in community governance.
Macheng City builds an online and offline discussion platform; Zhijiang City innovates the points system for rural governance and the village-bay joint household head system; "Yang Xiaoyi" in Hanyang District, Wuhan City serves outdoor workers...
For more than a year, "co-creation" moistened things silently and blossomed flowers. The environment in Hubei is more beautiful, there is more happiness, and the relationship between party members and cadres and the people is closer.
On the way forward, wind and rain are the norm.
On the new journey, Hubei kept in mind the instructions, was not afraid of wind and rain, knew the heavy burden and faced difficulties. We must resolutely implement the important instructions and instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech on work in Hubei, accelerate the construction of a national pioneer area for building a new development pattern, and strive to write a Jingchu chapter in the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.
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(Yangtze River Cloud News)