The reporter recently learned from the Municipal Bureau of Statistics that according to preliminary calculations, Jingzhou City achieved a regional gross domestic product of 315.149 billion yuan in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 6.4% at constant prices, with a growth rate 0.4 percentage points higher than the provincial average. It is the only city in the province, except for "one principal and two deputy", to exceed 300 billion yuan.

In 2023, from an industrial perspective, agriculture in Jingzhou City has comprehensively stabilized and increased production, with steady increases in grain, vegetable and other yields.  The added value of the primary industry was 60.697 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.2%;  The acceleration of industrial production has led to 27 new enterprises with an increase in output value exceeding 100 million yuan. Driven by leading enterprises, the added value of the secondary industry reached 108.429 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%;  The service industry is accelerating its recovery, and the successful hosting of the first Chu Culture Festival and other events has activated the recovery of the consumer market.  The added value of the tertiary industry has reached 146.022 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.3%.

The quality and efficiency of project construction have been improved, and the investment growth rate has been leading in the province for two consecutive years. In 2023, the city's fixed assets investment will increase by 10.1% year on year, 5.1 percentage points higher than the provincial average. Among them, industrial investment increased by 28.1% year-on-year, which is 18.0 percentage points higher than the total investment growth;  Infrastructure investment increased by 18.1% year-on-year, which is 8.0 percentage points higher than the total investment growth rate.

In recent years, Jingzhou City has continued to carry out the "four major battles", accumulating economic momentum and achieving significant results in transformation and upgrading. In 2023, there have been four new positive changes.

The development of new industries is accelerating. The city has achieved an added value of 55.328 billion yuan in high-tech industries, with a comparable growth rate of 11.6%, which is 3.1 percentage points higher than the provincial average level; There are 870 high-tech industrial units above designated size, accounting for 6.7% of the province, with a net increase of 216 units year-on-year, and the industrial scale continues to expand;

Investment in new fields is growing rapidly. The investment in high-tech manufacturing in the city increased by 30.5% year-on-year, an increase of 33.9 percentage points compared to the same period last year; The investment in high-tech service industry increased by 19.5% year-on-year, an increase of 30.3 percentage points compared to the same period last year, and 9.4 percentage points higher than the total investment growth rate;

New business formats are flourishing. The sales scale of local e-commerce enterprises continues to expand, and the community group buying market continues to be booming, promoting the continuous expansion of emerging retail formats; The retail sales achieved by units above the quota through public networks reached 3.02 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.1%, which is 7.8 percentage points higher than the growth rate of retail sales above the quota;

New enterprises are making strong efforts.  Throughout the year, 1159 new "four up" enterprises were added, bringing the total number of "four up" enterprises in the city to 5082. The addition of new enterprises has driven steady economic growth in the city. Among them, the output value of newly added large-scale industrial enterprises represented by Hualu Hengsheng and Yuntu New Energy Materials has reached 15.2% of the city's industrial output value.

In 2023, Jingzhou City continued to increase its investment in people's livelihood, with expenditure on people's livelihood reaching 45.538 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.4%, and consumer prices decreasing by 0.7%.

The income of residents has steadily increased, and the relative income gap between urban and rural residents continues to narrow. In 2023, the per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents in the city was 35044 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%.  Among them, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 43018 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.8%;  The per capita disposable income of rural residents was 24680 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.8%.