On February 14, 2019, the opening activities of key industrial projects in Yichang High-tech Zone and Yichang's major projects in February were held in Baiyang Industrial Park. Yichang High-tech Zone, and 13 key industrial projects with a total investment of 20.8 billion yuan were to kick off. Zhou Ji, the secretary of the municipal party committee, announced the important moment. Zhang Jiasheng, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor, delivered a speech.

　　On the spot, Zhou Ji listened to 13 project reports one by one. Knowing that many of these projects with high technology and good market prospects were introduced from Shenzhen, Dongguan and etc, Zhou Wei expressed his compliment and exchanged his ideas with those entrepreneurs, and he wished all a good start. He said that Yichang, as an important node city in the Yangtze River Economic Zone, is an important transportation hub linking East and West, and is facing important opportunities such as the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Zone and Free Trade Zone. He welcomes all entrepreneurs to invest in Yichang and share opportunities for the development of Yichang. He hopes that we will set higher standards, strictly implement safety and environmental protection measures, and introduce more projects which are high-qualified, new and more environmental-friendly here to promote the further development of Yichang.

　　In his speech, Zhang Jiasheng said that high-quality investment contributes to high-quality development, and project construction is the "No. 1 Project" that needs unswerving efforts. The relevant departments of Yichang High-tech Zone and municipal Government should actively create a business environment with the lowest cost, the highest efficiency and the best service, fully implement the policy of "20 Articles" to support the development of private economy, continue to carry out the activities of "centralized start-up + centralized signing" of major projects, striving to promote a number of newly contracted, newly started and newly launched projects to promote the high quality of economic development with new achievements in project construction.

　　Wang Yuancheng, Director of the Management Committee of Yichang High-tech Zone, said that they would focus on the construction objectives of the “369” project which means we have to complete three projects, start six projects and sign 9 projects per month. They will comprehensively focus on projects, strive for the introduction of projects with all the staff, complete the projects with all efforts, and serve the projects heartedly to accelerate the cultivation of three hundred billion industries of industrial economy, logistics economy and platform economy. In the end we will achieve "three leading roles" in economic development, project construction and reform and innovation.

　　Liu Siqing, chairman of Yichang Jiangfa Industrial Park Management Co., Ltd., Xiao Jianhua, chairman of Hubei Shengtou Eco-food Development Co., Ltd. and Hubei Digital Lighting Co., Ltd., made speeches , making every endeavor to complete the project construction with the fastest speed, the highest quality and the best results to provide a satisfactory answer for the people of the city.

　　It is understood that 13 newly-launched projects are as follows: an assembly-type construction production base, a high-end food production base, a lighting equipment production base, Xinda Industrial Park, a high-end precision seamless steel pipe manufacturing base, a dual-purpose lighting appliances of military and civil, distribution transformer production base, Baiyang New City Science and Technology Park, Yiyunshuian, Light Curing New Material Industrial Park, a fluorine-containing green new high-efficiency and low-toxic pesticide production base, a photo initiator production base, and Dazong Agricultural Material Logistics Industrial Park, covering smart equipment manufacturing, ecological food, new materials, biomedicine and other fields.

　　Among them, the largest investor, the project of light-curing new materials Industrial Park, with total investment of 8 billion yuan, develops with the joint investment from Shenzhen Youwei Chemical and Yihua Group. The Industrial Park is to build the world's largest light-cured new material industrial park covering a series of photo-initiator materials, functional new materials, acrylic ester and acrylamide monomer materials, water-borne light-curing coatings and ink products. After the completion of the production, it is estimated that annual sales revenue of 10.5 billion yuan and annual tax payment of 1.2 billion yuan can be realized.

　　City leaders Yuan Weidong, Liu Xuefu, Liu Jianxin, Wang Yinghua and Zhou Zhengying participated in the activities.(Reporter Lei Pengcheng)