On December 29, the Jingzhou Municipal People's Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Sinopec Hubei. Zhou Zhihong, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee and Mayor of the Jingzhou Municipal Government; and Yu Haiping, Party Secretary of Sinopec Hubei attended and addressed the signing ceremony.

On behalf of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee and the Jingzhou Municipal People's Government, Zhou extended heartfelt thanks to Sinopec Hubei for its attention and support to Jingzhou's economic and social development. The signing of this agreement marks a new start for the deeper cooperation and win-win cooperation between the two sides, and will definitely inject new impetus for improving Jingzhou's industrial levels and building Jingzhou into a regional center city, she said, hoping that Sinopec Hubei would continue to operate in Jingzhou, conduct overall planning and deployment according to Jingzhou's "fourteenth five-year" plan, promote energy supply and consumption transformation, and keep optimizing the energy structure and expanding the energy industry. The CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee and the Jingzhou Municipal People's Government will endeavor to create the best development environment, provide the best government services, and speed up efforts to deepen and expand the strategic cooperation between the two sides, thereby complementing each other's advantages and achieving win-win.

Sinopec Hubei will initiatively integrate itself into the new development pattern of Jingzhou, and step up efforts to build Jingzhou into a regional center city in terms of project investment, quality brand cultivation and the development of the hydrogen energy industry, Yu said, hoping that Jingzhou would continue to support the company in network construction, accelerate the development of the municipal cloud platform for integrated supervision over oil products, and further optimize the order of the oil product market, thereby promoting the green and sound development of the city.