"Three double" is the outcome for the implementation of "Back-strengthening Project" for three years given out by Jingzhou City.
- The total amount of investment in fixed assets doubled in three years. In the first three quarters of this year, investment in fixed assets of 115.06 billion yuan, which is 2.14 times over the same period in 2011, was completed.
- The sales revenue of industrial enterprises above designated size doubled in three years. In the first three quarters of this year, industrial enterprises above designated size achieved sales revenue of 140.07 billion yuan, which was 1.92 times over the same period in 2011. It is expected to reach more than 200 billion yuan, more than doubled in three years basically.
- Local public budget revenue doubled in three years. In the first three quarters of this year, local public budget revenue was 6.34 billion yuan, which was 1.9 times over the same period in 2011. It’s expected by the end of this year to reach about 9 billion yuan, doubling than in 2011.
With the implementation of "Back-strengthening Project" for three years, since the Yangtze River Economic Belt was promoted to the national strategy, the value of this project is increasingly prominent. A strong Jingzhou can promote the development of western Hubei eco-tourism circle in linkage in the west, and boost Wuhan city circle in the east. Jingzhou has become the strategic key for the rising in central Hubei and the construction of Yangtze River economic belt. "With the national and provincial strategic overlay, Jingzhou ushered in the golden opportunity for development."
The "Bloodline" of Smooth Traffic Came First in the "Back-strengthening Project"
In the past three years, the city completed a total investment of 25.1 billion yuan in transportation construction, which was 2.2 times of the total investment in transportation construction during the "Eleventh Five-Year".
Wuhan-Yichang Railway opened to traffic, so than the bullet train and high-speed rails can be taken from Jingzhou to all the places of the country; the River South high-speed, Qianjiang-Shishou high-speed, Dongjuan high-speed, Erlianhot-guangzhou high-speed, Honghu-Jianli high-speed has started construction successively, bringing out a Jingzhou high-speed network extending in all directions.
In August of this year, the Water Transfer Project from Yangtze River to Hanjiang River realized water navigation, so a new kiloton channel between middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the middle reaches of Han River was formed.
With the construction of a number of modern docks such as Zhujiawan integrated terminal, Jingzhou Gangyanka multipurpose terminal, and Jiangling petrochemical docks, the annual handling capacity of Jingzhou port increased from 35 million tons to 70.7 million tons, and the annual container handling capacity increased from 250,000 standard containers to 430,000 standard containers. The pattern of standardization, large scale and specialization capacity in shipping was formed quickly.
Jingzhou is currently accelerating the multimodal transport of highway, railway and waterway, so as to make Jingzhou gradually become an important integrated transport hub in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.
Industrial Back-strengthening Builds up Economy "Bones"
In the past three years, Jingzhou seized the construction opportunity of carrying on the national industry transfer demonstration area, with one billion yuan of major industrial development fund in provincial party committee and provincial government support as a lever, to promote the accelerated rising of competitive industrial clusters, by introducing extend the industrial chain, to achieve the electronic information. As a result, it realized "arising from nothing", “growing from small to large”, and “accumulating the scattered to become a strong one” in the electronic information, new energy, new materials, environmental protection and biotechnology industry and other strategic emerging industries.
HuBei Weite Electronics Co., Ltd, Hubei Changjiang LCD Technology Co., Ltd., NAIDE and other electronics companies came to Jingzhou, making Jingzhou electronic information industry gradually form an industrial chain with the integration of storage, transmission, intelligent terminal and software development.
Jingzhou also optimized the industrial structure from the sources of investments and investment promotion, so that intelligent manufacturing, e-commerce, creative industries, bio-medicine, new materials, circular economy and other green industry spread throughout the various development zones of Jingzhou. In food processing, textiles and clothing, white household appliances and other traditional competitive industries, by promoting the technology, products and markets upgrade, the government helps companies "strengthen bones" and become bigger and stronger.
The implementation of "Back-strengthening Project" for three years results in abundant achievements, but the seven strategic opportunities, i.e., Yangtze River Economic Belt, the City Group in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake Ecological Economic Zone, the transformation of old industrial bases in the country, Jinan ecological cultural tourism zone, Jianghan canal eco-cultural tourism town zone, Mongolia - China railway construction, will provide more space for Jingzhou back-strengthening.