On July 23, the Semi-annual Economic Work Conference of Jingzhou & Promotion Meeting for Development of Town Economy was held in Songzi City. Wu Jin, secretary of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Party Committee, stressed that it is necessary to go all out to prevent risks, stabilize growth and benefit people's livelihood, work hard to achieve the goals set for the third quarter and the whole year, and promote the construction of a high-quality development demonstration zone in Jianghan Plain.

Before the meeting, Wu successively visited Chengdong Industrial Park, Lin’gang Industrial Park and Chendian Town, and inspected projects such as Sunrans, Leimeng Equipment, Runtian Chemical, Sainley Chemical, WINTRUE Holdings, Shiyu Building Materials, and seedling market, etc. The Party secretary was impressed by the strong atmosphere and work results of the development of town economy in Songzi City.

Wu pointed out, it is necessary to set benchmarks for work, and consciously keep in mind the direction and the path in the overall situation. It is necessary to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech made during his inspection in Hubei, resolutely undertake the mission and tasks assigned to Jingzhou at the 12th Hubei Provincial Party Congress, further clarify the target and positioning, and promote the inheritance and innovation of development strategies, and carry out benchmark-based optimization to realize breakthroughs and upgrades.

Wu demanded that it is necessary to promote the development of the town economy as part of the city’s economic work. It is necessary to strengthen industrial support, expand effective investment, seize the opportunities promptly, and go all out to win more policy support, projects and funds. It is necessary to clarify the functional positioning, adhere to differentiated and characteristic development, and speed up the construction of a number of new industrial strong towns, major commercial and logistics towns, ecological agriculture towns and famous cultural tourism towns according to their actual realities.

Wu stressed that it is necessary to work towards the goals and tasks, go all out to perform well in the second half of the year, and strive to achieve the goals set for the whole year. It is necessary to seize the opportunities in the layout of emerging industries, the rapid transformation of traditional industries, and the development of future industries, promote the advanced industrial foundation and the modernization of the industrial chain, and strive to become the backup system for the country's new round of major productivity layout and industrial security. It is necessary to build at a high level the two innovation source centers, namely, Jingzhou Science and Technology Innovation Corridor and Jingzhou (Wuhan) Offshore Science and Technology Innovation Center, and promote the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, policy chain, and talent chain. It is necessary to establish a modern circulation system and accelerate the pace of building a national-level circulation node city and a regional transportation and logistics center. It is necessary to speed up the promotion of local urbanization with county towns as an important carrier and the coordinated development of urban and rural areas with county as the unit, stabilize the overall development of agriculture, and comprehensively promote rural revitalization. It is necessary to carry out practical activities for Party members and cadres to go to the grassroots level, inspect people's living conditions and relieve their worries so as to better guarantee and improve people's livelihood in high-quality development. It is necessary to resolutely adhere to the "four bottom lines" of watershed security, ecological and food security, economic security, and social stability, do a good job in epidemic prevention and control, and promote economic stability and social harmony and stability.

Zhou Zhihong stressed that the 12th Hubei Provincial Party Congress has clarified the new positioning of Jingzhou in building a high-quality development demonstration zone in Jianghan Plain, and that to do a good job in the economic work in the second half of the year, it is necessary to stick to the goals and highlight the key points: keeping the bottom line of safe development and taking effective and urgent measures to stabilize operation, guarantee the stability in the overall situation, stabilize progress, achieve the goals, protect market entities and guarantee employment. It is necessary to actively integrate into the national unified market, take common prosperity as the direction, and strive to guarantee and improve people's livelihood so as to embrace the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with practical actions.