On the morning of Jul. 26, the Information Office of the Yichang Municipal Government organized the person in charge of the Investment Promotion Department to hold the first session of the news conference with the theme of “Fostering new growth drivers to promote high-quality development”to implement the decision of the plenary session and depicta new chapter of Yichang’s high-quality development in a new era. Measures like attracting advantage and strong projects tofoster new growth drivers and promote high-quality development were introduced in the conference.

　　It was learned that from January to June, 430 key industrial projects were signed in the city with an investment of more than 50 million RMB and agreed investment of 89.73 billion RMB. Compared with the same period last year, the number of projects and investment amount increased 78 and 10.15 billion RMB respectively. The city’s actual investment in attracting investment reached 76.235 billion RMB, with an increase of 5.44% over the same period last year. Among them, the actual investment of industrial projects reached 55.108 billion RMB, accounting for 72.29% of the actual attract investment funds. 203 new attract investment projects with a total investment of more than 100 million RMB were launched, accounting for 50.75% of the annual plan.

　　In the first half of the year, 19 auto parts projects, 21 bio-medicine projects, five military-civilian integration projects and 70 new materials projects were signed in Yichang.

　　In the second half of the year, the city will take the “Five Major Relationships” as the fundamental principles for the development of the Yangtze River economic zone. According to the basic requirements of “Four Efforts” and “Four Practicals” in Hube’s reform and development, it will strive to achieve breakthroughs in attracting investment in state-owned enterprises (central enterprises) and the top 500 enterprises, so as to realizenew growth of these 1 billion RMB projects. (Journalist Mu Ran, Correspondent Chen Jian)