According to Yichang Municipal Analysis and Summary Meeting for Six-month Business and Investment Attracting on July 13th, Yichang has newly signed 627 projects, from January to June, with over 50 million yuan and the agreement investment of 322.85 billion yuan. All of these accounts 62% of the whole-year target of 1008 projects with over 50 million yuan, and the current agreement investment reaches more than half than expected. Compared with the same period of last year, the number of newly signed projects with more than 50 million yuan has nearly doubled, and the number of projects with more than 100 million yuan has increased by 111%.

　　 In this year, all the business attracting departments in Yichang focused on attracting great business and investment in accordance with the "First Project", achieving great improvement in both quantity and quality of attracting business and investment.

　　 (1) Breakthrough has been made in attracting industry. With industry chain as the focus, the High-tech Zone always has always been aiming at attracting great projects for breakthrough, and leading projects for with supporting ones. . For instance, the transference of OTOT'S Group’s headquarters, and its research, development and manufacturing base has attracted over 30 supply-chain projects coming together to Yichang for investigations and negotiations, which highlights the magnetic field effect of leading enterprises.

　　 (2) More field offices have been set up for attracting business and investment. Yidu has set up four field offices, respectively in the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, Central China and the area around Bohai Sea, so as to achieve effective overall planning and efficient connection of regional resources. While, Yuan’an has divided the mainland into five regions for attracting business, the central China, East China, South China, North China and so on, establishing liaison offices to promote normalization of attracting business and investment in key regions.

　　 (3) Active participation of government investment and financing platforms. The High-tech Zone makes full use of the guidance of government investment and financing platforms, like, Yichang Hi-tech Industry Investment Holding Group Co.,Ltd and Yichang State-owned Investment Group, actively participating in project investigation and argumentation, giving full play to advantage of capital, taking part in project investment and cooperation and promoting signing and implementation of negotiating projects. With the equity investment of Jinrunyuan Group, Zhijiang attracts Hubei Xinxingyuan Chemical Co.,Ltd to make full use of its advantages in chemical products and cooperate with technical team of Central South University to invest 1.8 billion yuan in the project of ternary lithium battery, whose annual output value will exceed 8 billion yuan.

　　 In addition, great progress has been made in the revitalization of stock and attracting great business and investment. From January to June, the number of transformation, new products and expansion projects invested by old enterprises in Yichang accounted for 31% of the total number of newly signed projects.

　　 In the second half of this year, the "First Project" will further strengthen the dominance of industry, improving the project quality, aiming at the introduction of new high-tech industries, searching information and resources in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Hokkien Golden Triangle, the area around Bohai Sea, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as well as node cities of “Belt and Road Initiative”, attracting targeted business and investment. (Reporter, Xiong Donghua)