Documentary of Developing County Economy in Yongxing
People asserted that because of the continuous influence of financial crisis in 2011, the extravert type economy of Yongxing would face a difficult situation.
But as a matter of fact, Yongxing County reached great achievements in 2011; for instance, the GDP hit 18.88 billion yuan, up 14.3%; total fiscal revenue amounted to 1.417 billion yuan, up 40.7%; the disposable income of urban residents and the average income of farmers reached 17,523 yuan and 8,174 yuan respectively, up 14.2% and 16.9%. All of these enabled Yongxing County to be one of the top ten counties in Hunan province.
How did Yongxing achieve that?
Keep exploring the potentiality of traditional advantageous industries.
As a silver town of China and coal town of China, Yongxing boasts of obvious advantages on gold, silver, coal and other metals. But all these metals are connected with international market condition closely, which makes Yongxing’s economy following the international trend.
On this point, innovation is the only way for Yongxing’s breakthrough of economy.
In 2011, Yongxing launched Hunan Southern Rare Metals Exchange project, which marked Yongxing’s transition from real economy to virtual economy. Meanwhile, Yongxing County allocated 9.923 billion yuan on 85 basic industries and technology renovation projects of smelt, coal and other advantageous industries to highly explore their potentiality.
All these efforts gained fruitful results in the following days. Refined processing enterprises reached 28 in Yongxing county, 16 of which were placed to operation with 5.08 billion yuan industrial total output value and 150 million yuan tax payment. Some industrial clusters like rare metal refined processing industrial clusters and electronic information industrial clusters were formed in Yongxing County. Furthermore, some high efficiency engineering smelting projects were put into production. More projects have installed and introduced the most advanced facilities to upgrade its production capacity.
24 enterprises were settled in comprehensive recycling zone of Yongxing national circular economy demonstration park, 22 of which were put into operation with 5.8 billion yuan annual output value and 110 million yuan tax payment. 2100tons of silver, 7.2tons of gold, and 170,000tons of other metals were produced in Yongxing County with an increase of 2.5%, 1.5%, and 45% separately. Furthermore, 10 thousand scale industrial added values gained 0.9tons of standard coal consumption with a decrease of 16.7% compared to 2010.
Keep developing the county scientifically to find new fulcrums for transformation development.
How to activate a real estate industry, enhance tourism industry and improve the people’s well-being index? Here is the Yongxing people’s answer: to build your own county.
Yongxing county launched 44 infrastructure projects with 9.406 billion yuan, focusing on promoting a series of county construction projects like the gas pipeline project, urban city road net project, and relocation project of south bus station, etc., building the highway interchange, boosting landscape belt along west road of the county, establishing “green town with millions of flowers and plants”, and upgrading main roads for the expansion of city.
Greening work is one of the key points for city upgrading. In 2011, 131,000mu afforestation was fulfilled in Yongxing County, and 411.8kms greening belts were completed on the sides of main roads with comprehensive greening of barren hills of visual range. The forest coverage rate of Yongxing County was up to 64.89%.
Besides a more beautiful city and happier residents, Yongxing’s real estate and tourism industries are improving rapidly. 197,000 square meters of commodity apartments were sold in Yongxing County in 2011, up 1.3%. Yongxing County was successfully on the establishment of “China’s best cultural tourism city”, “China’s excellent eco-tourism city” and “advanced unit of first phase of Hunan red tourism development”. 3.25 million tourists were received in Yongxing county with the comprehensive tourism income of 2.288 billion yuan, up 24.4%.
Keep focusing on the development of rural economy to reach an overall development of urban and rural areas.
Rural area is the root of economic development. Failing to reach the improvement of rural economy means a failure in the leapfrog development of county’s economy.
In 2011, Yongxing County invested more than 30 million yuan to start or continue the construction of 31 new rural demonstration villages above county levels. 199 fiscal award projects, 42 irrigation projects, and 30 rural decoration projects were implemented in Yongxing County, which helped to improve the environment treatment well. 10 million yuan were fulfilled on the urban two-way digital cable TV network, covering 15000 users; 14 million yuan was finished on rural wired and wireless digital TV project, developing 6000 users; all villages were facilitated with TV and 409 villages, with less than 20 families were powered with electricity. All these measures greatly helped to upgrade rural residents’ life quality.
In 2012, Yongxing County keeps the developing trend. From January to September, its industrial total output value hit 33.88 billion yuan, up 10.4%, among which 31.96 billion yuan were above-scale industrial output value with 10.15 billion yuan while its total fiscal revenue amounted to 1.29 billion yuan.
Yongxing County now is keeping moving forward.