The reporter learned from the Municipal Development and Reform Commission on July 21 that the provincial government’s July 17th Inspection Circular announced the results of the special assessment in the second quarter. The two special assessments of major project construction and business environment in the city ranked second in the province. After ranking the top three in the first quarter, major project construction continued to achieve good results in the second quarter, and was commended and rewarded by the provincial government, becoming the only place in the province that has ranked the forefront in the two consecutive quarters.

　　The provincial government regards stable investment as the top priority. Since the beginning of the year, it has held several investment and major project promotion meetings, and organized special groups to carry out special supervision every quarter, carried out a comprehensive assessment of fixed assets investment, "provincial three types" major project construction, progress of investment projects within the central budget, construction of "three reservoirs" of investment projects, technological transformation projects of "ten thousand enterprises and trillions of yuan", construction of manufacturing projects of more than 100 million yuan, high-quality development of ten key industries, investment attraction and other indicators. For the top three cities and states in the assessment, the provincial government leaders will reward the funds for major projects, and give preference to the arrangement of land use indicators. For the last three cities and states, the provincial government leaders will have serious talks with the local government leaders.

　　Since the beginning of this year, Yichang has unswervingly taken investment as the main starting point, taken project construction as the main battlefield, and focused on the "No. 1 Project" with "first strength" to boost the spirit of investment and enriched the "toolbox" of grasping projects, made a good combination of "centralized start & centralized signing" of major projects, and continuously strengthen the on-site supervision of start-up projects and the "bimonthly tour" of the built projects, and relied on the "great efforts" of project construction to win the acceleration of effective investment. Yichang's investment and project construction have achieved "double-half" in an all-round way. From January to June, Yichang's fixed assets investment increased by 11.6%, 0.8 percentage points higher than the provincial level, 0.6 percentage points higher than the planned target, and 3.2 percentage points higher than the same period last year. Compared with the target of the annual plan, the investment completion rate reached 60.4%, which was 10.4 percentage points higher than the time sequence rate. Private investment accounted for 70.6% of fixed assets investment, which was 1.7 percentage points higher than the same period last year. There are 200 major projects under construction of more than 500 million yuan in the city, an increase of 11 over the same period of last year, including 69 projects with investment of more than 1 billion yuan, an increase of 10 over the same period of last year.

　　Yichang’s efforts to stabilize the project’s investment have been recognized by all parties. On June 5, the National Development and Reform Commission sent a research team to Yichang to conduct a survey, fully affirming the policy measures and good results of the project and expansion of investment; At the beginning of June, Yichang was commended and rewarded by the provincial government in the security housing program because of the good implementation of the work, the high level, and no major problems during the inspection. On June 13, Yichang was listed on the Best Investment Cities for Zhejiang Businessmen (Outside Province) in 2019. Before that, Yichang has been awarded the title of China's Best Investment City, China's Most Suitable City to Open Factories, China's Top Ten Most Potential Cities. (Reporter: Zhang Liang; Correspondent: Liu Jiuguo)