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Both Dalian people and Hunan people can enjoy the walnuts, oranges and tangerines produced at Xingshan, Yichang at their dinner table, which are distributed from Dalian Shuangxing Market and Hunan Xingxiang Comprehensive Trade Market. In Xingshan, Dalian Road and Hunan Road are crowded with trucks.
Before the National Day, the Three Gorges Tourism Promotion was held in Shanghai by Yiling District, attracting groups of Shanghai tourists.
Yan Xiaohui, the chicken raising farmer in Zigui County, is in cooperation with the Chicken Processing Project set up by Yu Run Group of Jiangsu in Zigui, providing 200,000 chickens per year with annual revenue of over 300,000 RMB, which is a lucrative business. Additionally, Wuhan City offers both small and large valuable trees for free to green Phoenix Mountain in Zigui County.
On October 9, the officers of Provincial and Municipal Governments and entrepreneurs who give partner assistance to the Three Gorges Reservoir Area came to Yichang to plan a new circle of partner supports.
Assisting Three Gorges Reservoir Area to Attract Investment
Sun Guobiao, Deputy Director of Cooperation and Exchange Office of Shanghai Municipal Government
Over the past two decades, Shanghai has carried out the partner assistance through the multi-level and wide-range cooperation and exchange, and has given partner assistance to the Three Gorges Reservoir Area in terms of the project introduction, product development, technical exchange, personnel training and district-city cooperation, which has brought about good results to enhance the hematopoietic function of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, facilitate the development and promote the stability of migrants. Sun Guobiao says that Shanghai has assisted the Three Gorges Reservoir Area to build numerous standard factory buildings in order to attract more enterprises to Yichang.
The relatively large-scale farmer product markets of Shanghai have agriculture products with characteristics of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area. "Shanghai People are fond of these safe, ecological and distinctive agricultural by-products." Sun Guobiao introduces that Shanghai specially unveils the incentive policies of fixed assets investment subsidies to promote Shanghai enterprises to develop in Yichang, hold such promotions as the Three Gorges Tourism Promotion and Agriculture Products Promotion and Investment Conferences, and organize Shanghai entrepreneurs to develop in Yichang and enterprises to participate in the National Business Fair for Partner Assistance to Hubei Three Gorges Reservoir Area in Yichang. Until now, more than 30 enterprises, including Jun Yao, Yue Hai and Ordro, have investment in Yichang.
Delivering Advantages of Jiangsu Province to Zigui
Wang Zhizhong, Deputy Secretary-general of Jiangsu Provincial Government
Such famous enterprises of Jiangsu as WeiWei and AB are ubiquitous in Jiuli Industrial Park of Zigui. "In accordance with the National Support Plan, Jiangsu particularly emphasizes on the sustainable development of Zigui. Besides free supports, Jiangsu organizes a batch of key enterprises to combine with the resource advantage of Zigui, giving full play of the strength of Jiangsu in management, technology, industry and talents, to make obvious achievements in industrial and economic cooperation. Jiuli Industrial Park has been established and the accumulation of 10 economic cooperation projects have been completed with the final project capital of 1 billion RMB." Wang Zhizhong says.
Wang says that Jiangsu greatly emphasizes on the new circle of five-year planning unveiled through holding the new circle of Partner Assistance Meeting by the State Council and is determined to sign new partner assistance agreements with Zigui. Moreover, besides the implementation of free capital of partner assistance, Jiangsu will ensure that its dynamic free assistance can be reinforced by the increase of 8 percent per year, making full play to advantages of Jiangsu and expanding the economic cooperation scope with more opportunities in industrial cooperation which leads to more cooperation in agriculture, tourism as well as industry, for more profound achievments.
Xie Haizhen, Deputy Director of Economic Cooperation Office of Hunan Province
"Since the offer of partner assistance to Xingshan County by Hunan Province in 1994, both Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Government have paid much attention and supports to the construction and development of Xingshan County." Xie tells that in recent two decades, the accumulated free assistance capital has been amounted to 88.25 million RMB, providing over 5,000 employment messages and over 6,000 jobs.
The partner assistance from Hunan Province has penetrated into every aspect of Xingshan people, such as the Power Plant of Zhifang River, the Waterworks, the Xingxiang Gas Station, Zhaojun Bridge, Hunan Road in the new county and the Passenger Transport Center of Zhaojun Town. In the process of partner assistance, Hunan takes advantage of resources of minerals, hydropower and tourism to carry out 56 cooperative projects with the total investment of 0.14 billion RMB.
Xie says that besides the assistance fund, Hunan will carry out such projects as rural energy, ecological citrus base of high efficiency, ecological walnut base, balanced urban-rural development pilot to support the economic and social development of Xingshan.
To Earn the Three Gorges Tourism a Worldwide Reputation
Wang Liying, Deputy Secretary-general of Dalian Municipal Government
"Many-year cooperation has created a relation of kinsfolk between us." Wang says that since the partner assistance from Dalian City to Xingshan County decided by the Party Central Committee and State Council, its accumulated assistance capital has amounted to 83.06 million RMB with 79 projects and over 5,000 jobs.
Dalian is considering to provide some long-term strategic support to transform the assistance into sustainable development, among which one is to help such prime agricultural products of Xingshan as oranges, tangerines and tea to enter Dalian markets, and then into Northeast China through Dalian; the other is to combine the tourism resources of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and Xingshan with those of Dalian, enabling the Three Gorges and Xingshan go worldwide through online ticket-booking of the Dalian Wisdom Tourism Website.
This time, Dalian enterprises of argricultural industrialization will sign agreements with Yichang. "We have a lot of insights into the future cooperation which will be implemented step by step." Wang Liying resumes that only when Xingshan people enjoy the real benefits, can the partner assistance be effective.
Helping Agricultural Products Increase Value
Li Zuoqing, Deputy Secretary-general of Wuhan Municipal Government
"It\'s a bounden duty for Wuhan City to support the Three Gorges Reservoir Area. " Li introduces that from 1992 to now, the accumulated projects launched by Wuhan City to the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, especially Zigui County, Xingshan County, Wufeng County, have been amounted to 229 with the total investment of more than 8.65 billion RMB and free assistance of 66.47 RMB.
Li says that Yichang\'s agricultural products have a huge market in Wuhan. The agricultural products purchased in Yichang by Wuhan enterprises was more than 2 billion in the year beforelast year, near 5 billion last year, and 10 billion this year. It is intended to introduce more agricultural products to Wuhan and then from Wuhan to the whole country.
Li says that Wuhan Government will further enhance the assistance to each county and city, appropriate the actual compensation funds in time, utilize advantages of Wuhan to launch projects for the cooperative counties and cities and strengthen the hematopoietic function, to make people’s life better. Additionally, Wuhan Government will also greatly help the reservoir area to launch the deep processing project of agricultural products and environment-friendly industrial projects of high additional value.
Creat Yichang\'s Own Cultural Zone
Wang Junehao, President of Shanghai JuneYao Co., Ltd
Jinjiang International Hotel, the first listed five-star hotel in Yichang, rises opposite to Yilin Square, which is also one of Yichang\'s symbolic buildings. Wang Junehao, President of Shanghai JuneYao Co., Ltd, told the reporter that JuneYao Group would participate in the transformation of the South Huancheng Road area into a street of local culture.
The area of the South Huancheng Road is the site of the old Yichang City. It is known that an Antique Folk Culture Street will be built to show architectural elements of Er\'ya Platform, Moon Platform, Inkstone Washing Pool, Mochi Academy.
"My friends know that I\'m fond of Chinese culture." Wang Junhao says that the picture of the area of the South Huancheng Road in his mind resembles Chengdu\'s Wide and Narrow Alleys and Shanghai Xintiandi but not a simple imitation.
Zigui Will Manufacture Beidou Satellite Navigation Products
Wan Changfan, General Manager of Beidou National Science & Technology Co. Ltd
"The Operation Center of \'Beidou\' will be set up in Zigui in the future." Wan Changfan, General Manager of Beidou National Science & Technology Co. Ltd, says that Beidou will build an industrial park of research and development, manufacturing, operation and service in Zigui.
Wan says that Beidou has a close relationship with the daily life, and an example of which is that the calling time of people’s cell phone is calculated by Beidou. At present, one project of Beidou in Zigui has been registered and the initial chip packaging has been in progress, and the product assembling of the whole machine is expected to start at the beginning of next year.
In terms of the future development of Beidou, Wan is full of confidence, "The transportation needs GPS. At least 20 million cars are produced per year, so the market potential cannot be ignored. I hope I can get enough support from people in Yichang."
(Reporter Zhang Yuanyuan; Correspondents Yang Xuanying, Xia Jiagang, Wei Xiaolu)