In the first quarter, the industrial added value of enterprises above a designated size in Yichang increased by 13.1% year-on-year, 5 percentage points higher than the provincial average, with the newly added industrial output value exceeding 10 billion yuan. The output value of the green chemical industry and the new energy and new materials sector grew by 18.35% and 49.5% year on year, respectively. Among these, the new-generation power and energy storage battery industry contributed 35.9% of Yichang’s newly added output value. Yichang is transforming its traditional advantages in phosphorus chemicals into core competitiveness in new energy, forming a complete industrial chain from phosphate ore to power batteries and driving high-quality industrial development with new quality productive forces. (Sanxia Daily: Reporter/Gong Changjun, Correspondents/Wang Yinghong and Xie Xue’e)