At 10: 00 am of January 30th, the city held a press conference on the economic and social development of the city in 2017.

In 2017, in the face of the complicated economic situation, the whole city insisted on the overall tone of pursuing progress in a steady way, focusing on improving the quality and efficiency of development, and promoting supply-side structural reform as the main line, and vigorously implemented the strategies of "leading innovation, opening up" and "Industry leading, all-round way" to speed up the construction of the "five Chenzhou" and "new growth poles" in Hunan, showing steady progress, steady toward good, steady in the trend of optimization situation of the economy and society of the whole city. In 2017, the city realized a GDP of 233.773 billion yuan, an increase of 7.9 % (calculated at comparable prices, the same as below), of which, the added value of the primary industry was 22.566 billion yuan, an increase of 3.8%; the added value of the secondary industry was 114.025 billion yuan, an increase of 6.6%; the added value of the tertiary industry was 97.183 billion yuan, an increase of 10.7%.

Steady growth of agriculture
The added value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery industry in the whole city was 22.941 billion yuan, an increase of 3.9%.

Industrial enterprises recover steadily
The added value of industry above the city's scale increased by 7.1%, of which, the added value of state-owned enterprises increased by 6.0%, state-owned holding enterprises increased by 8.3 %, collective enterprises dropped by 12.1%, and non-public enterprises increased by 8.3%.

The service industry developed rapidly
The operating income of the service industry above the city's scale increased by 20.8%, of which the operating income of the other profit-making service industry increased by 31.2%, driving the city's GDP growth by 1.9%.

Investment steady and good
The investment in fixed assets in the whole city was 262.809 billion yuan, an increase of 12.9 %, of which 22.825 billion yuan was invested in the primary industry, an increase of 39.2%; 93.701 billion yuan was invested in the secondary industry, an increase of 2.9%; 146.284 billion yuan was invested in the tertiary industry, an increase of 16.7%.

Consumption was rising steadily
The total retail sales of consumer goods in the city amounted to 99.97 billion yuan, an increase of 10.5%, in which the urban retail sale was 69.831 billion yuan, an increase of 10.3%; the rural retail sale was 30.139 billion yuan, an increase of 10.8%. According to the consumption pattern, the retail sale was 85.842 billion yuan, an increase of 10.3%; the consumption of food and beverage was 14.128 billion yuan, an increase of 11.3%.

Expand opening up
The total import and export volume of the city was 3.887 billion dollars, an increase of 47.2%, of which the import growth was 77.4% and export growth was 28.8%.

Development quality improved
The proportion of tax revenue in fiscal revenue in the whole city reached 74.7%, an increase of 18.9%, and the proportion of local tax revenue in local fiscal revenue was 60.5%, an increase of 20%; the total profits of industrial enterprises above the city's scale increased by 9.7% from January to November, an increase of 9.6%.

Deepening reform
The "ground steel" and other illegal production capacity were completely banned and more than 120 "ten small" enterprises were shut down to integrate into 70 coal mine enterprises in the whole city.

People's livelihood continually improved
The people's livelihood projects in the whole city was invested 22.841 billion yuan , an increase of 18.3% , a total of 45 provincial and municipal key livelihood projects completed; realized 75389 new jobs in cities and towns, 3.47% of the urban registered unemployment rate, lower than the annual control target. The consumption price of residents grew 2.2%.