PROVINCE LAYS OUT THE PATH AHEAD
Northeast China’s Jilin province has set ambitious goals for 2019. Before the year is out, provincial leaders aim to promote industrial upgrading, stimulate market vitality and improve the business environment to stabilize economic growth. It also aims to build an environmentally-friendly, more convenient and harmonious society for its people.
As a gateway to the rest of northeastern China, as well as Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Jilin will be a pioneer in further opening-up, focusing on its rich resources in winter recreation, agriculture and automobile manufacturing. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of People’s Republic of China, Jilin is working to make its contribution to the revitalization of Northeast China through high-quality development.
Here are the highlights of the province’s major plans in 2019, as released in its government work report.
Jilin is a traditional manufacturing base in Northeast China. Automobiles, petrochemical engineering, agricultural product processing, aeronautics and astronautics and other real economy-related industries play an important role in supporting its economy.
In 2019, Jilin’s industrial output growth is expected to reach 6 percent, 1 percentage point higher than 2018.
To achieve the goal, the local government plans to conduct 400 key projects, involving industrial manufacturing, infrastructural construction and ecological protection.
The Cuican Industrial Park in Changchun New Area in the provincial capital, currently under construction, is expected to incubate precision instrument and equipment startups, including semiconductor chips, semi display, lightning, high-end medical equipment and photoelectric analysis and detection devices. The project aims to enhance Jilin’s competitiveness in a new round of technological revolution.
Songyuan city is building an integrated refining and chemical production base on Jilin Oilfield, the sixth largest land-based oilfield in China. The new production mode can help to make full use of oil resources, reduce energy consumption and costs, as well as producing more diversified products, to gain a stronger capability to face market risks.
The base, with a total investment up to 70 billion yuan ($10.4 billion), is expected to bring in 150 billion yuan in annual sales and 3,000 job opportunities.
Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture cooperated with Ningbo, Zhejiang province, to build a new energy vehicle production plant last year, with an estimated annual production of 5,000 new energy passenger cars and 5,000 electric logistic vehicles.
When put into operation in August this year, sales of the plant are expected to reach 4.8 billion yuan every year, according to Song Desheng, executive deputy general manager of the major contractor Yanbian Guotai New Energy Vehicles Co Ltd.
A transportation network is key to economic development. The province is building 15 new expressways to link its cities. The four airports, including the Changbaishan International Airport and Yanji Airport, are being renovated to adopt a larger passenger throughput. The third phase of subway construction in Changchun will further facilitate public transportation in Jilin’s capital.
In addition, local companies in Jilin have been working to build metros in countries, including Australia, Singapore and the United States.
Jilin also promotes infrastructural construction for its 5G network, which will be faster and more efficient than 4G, and will increase network penetration in rural areas.
The province’s many ecological projects are helping to build a green and harmonious environment. Jilin will accelerate the treatment of water pollution in Liaohe River, and enhance ecological protection in Chagan Lake and the water, forests, lakes and grasslands near Changbai Mountain.
It supports clean energy projects, such as biomass power generation. For example, Songyuan city is extracting chemical components from straws to produce fuel.
Jilin province is promoting the construction of intelligent connected vehicles at its major local auto enterprise FAW. It will build two roads for the testing of self-driving cars, an experience center for ICV, a big data platform to link automobiles, communications and transportation, to build an intelligent traffic system across Changchun.
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Jilin plans to renovate shantytowns and develop modern agriculture to improve people’s livelihoods in rural areas. It supports villages in the use of digital tools to improve efficiency and optimize operation.
It aims to lift 60,000 people out of poverty in 2019 and to make sure there are no remaining poor villages and counties, by developing rural tourism, rural e-commerce and other suitable industries.
Stock farming, rice, grain, black fungus and ginseng are some of the unique agricultural products of Jilin. The province will promote brand building and massive production of such goods.
It will also work to optimize waste treatment, renovate old roads and carry out ecological protection to create a better environment for rural people.
On Monday, Bayinchaolu, Party chief of Jilin, shared his thoughts after attending the two sessions, annual meetings of China’s top legislature and top political advisory body earlier this month.
He said it is an important event in a year that marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and a critical stage of realizing the country’s first Centenary Goal — building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by the time the Communist Party of China celebrates its centenary in 2021.
He said Jilin will focus on stable progress and high-quality development, strive for balance and coordination, and prevent major risks. This will promote sustainable social and economic development of Jilin and realize overall revitalization.