2024 is a crucial year for the implementation of the 14th Five-Year Plan. Focusing on how to do a good job in this year's economic work, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made important arrangements many times.
From December 11 to 12, 2023, the Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing. General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. The meeting stressed the need to "consolidate and strengthen the upward trend of the economy, continue to promote the economy to achieve qualitative and effective improvement and reasonable quantitative growth, and improve people's livelihood and well-being". On the eve of the New Year, President Xi Jinping once again emphasized in his New Year's message that "we should consolidate and strengthen the positive momentum of economic recovery and achieve stable and long-term economic development".
Now, Laba has passed, the New Year is approaching, and the development of various fields on the mainland is making steady progress and making a hot start in accordance with the direction guided by the general secretary.
Lens 1: "Fancy" takes over the baton to create a "strange fate" of ice and snow economy
The "fire in winter" ignited by "Erbin" has crossed the north and south of the river, triggering "fancy" baton and active drainage across the country, creating its own ice and snow economic "strange fate".
The popularity of "ice and snow +" consumption scenarios such as ice and snow sports and ice and snow tourism is rising, and industries such as ice and snow equipment are also full of vitality. In the past few days, in Ninghai County, Ningbo, Zhejiang, there has been a busy scene in the workshops of many ice and snow equipment manufacturers.
Among them, in a company in Shenyong Town, Ninghai County, workers are working the assembly line running at full capacity, assembling four different types of ski pole products. At present, the company's orders for snow sports equipment such as snowboards, ski poles, and non-slip shoe covers are saturated, and it can produce 8,000 to 12,000 poles and 2,000 to 3,000 pairs of snowboards per day.
From one small clue one can see what is coming. In Ninghai alone, the ice and snow equipment industry, which is dominated by sports poles, has formed a production scale with an annual output value of more than 920 million yuan, and Shenyong Town has become one of the largest sports pole production bases in China.
Lens 2: The "fireworks" of catering consumption are rising
Since the New Year, catering consumption in mainland China has continued to be hot, and catering markets around the country have ushered in a "good start". Restaurant reservations are hot, there are long queues in stores, and takeaway orders are skyrocketing, which is everyone's intuitive feeling.
According to the "2024 New Year's Day Holiday Catering Industry Business Survey" conducted by the China Cuisine Association, 54.5% of the surveyed catering enterprises achieved an increase in operating income during the 2024 New Year's Day holiday, the operating income of the interviewed catering enterprises increased by 24.1% compared with the same period in 2023, the passenger flow increased by 45.3% compared with the same period in 2023, and the sales volume of takeaway delivery increased by 12.4% compared with the same period in 2023.
With the Spring Festival approaching, the reservations for reunion banquets and Chinese New Year's EveChinese New Year's Eve meals in many restaurants are approaching saturation, and the gift boxes of New Year's dishes carefully prepared by catering companies are also ushering in big sales.
"Focus on expanding domestic demand" is a key task of this year's economic work, and the rising "fireworks" of catering consumption have released more positive signals than the food itself, reflecting the continuous heating up of the consumer market and highlighting the huge potential of domestic demand.
Lens 3 Major projects and projects are frequently reported
Since the beginning of the year, all parts of the country have gone all out to grasp projects and promote production, and a number of major projects and projects have been reported frequently.
On New Year's Day, the world's largest wind power project in ultra-high altitude areas, Tibet Nagqu Ouma Tingga Wind Farm, was officially put into operation, which plays an important demonstration role in the research and development and application of high-altitude wind turbines in mainland China and the large-scale development of high-altitude wind power projects.
As a wind farm built at an average altitude of 4,650 meters, Ouma Tingga Wind Farm has 25 wind turbines with a single capacity of 4.0 MW and a total installed capacity of 100 MW, which is the largest single wind turbine completed and put into operation in the ultra-high altitude area of the mainland and the first 100 MW wind power project in Tibet Autonomous Region.
After the full capacity is put into operation, the Ouma Tingga Wind Farm can provide about 200 million kWh of clean electricity to Nagqu City a year, meet the electricity demand of 230,000 people a year, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 200,000 tons.
Just as the Omatinga Wind Farm has been put into operation, many places are refreshing the "progress bar" of key projects and stepping up the start of major projects to provide more support for the "good start" of the economy and high-quality development throughout the year.
Lens 4 Technological innovation injects surging momentum into development
The Central Economic Work Conference systematically deploys the key tasks of economic work in 2024, among which "leading the construction of a modern industrial system with scientific and technological innovation" ranks first. All parts of the country are injecting surging momentum into development with scientific and technological innovation.
As one of the basins with the greatest potential for onshore oil and gas reserves and production in mainland China, the oil and gas resources buried in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang at depths of 6,000 meters to 10,000 meters account for 83.2% and 63.9% of the total oil and gas reserves in the deep and ultra-deep oil and gas resources of the mainland, respectively.
Not long ago, a well drilled in the Tarim Basin was drilled to a depth of nearly 10,000 meters, far exceeding the height of Mount Everest. It is with the help of domestic drilling rigs that the mainland continues to advance to the "underground Mount Everest" through scientific and technological innovation.
In the 10,000-meter-deep underground to explore treasures, the diamond drill bit is the "artifact" that knocks open the hard formation. A company in Wuhan has the largest digital production line of diamond drill bits in China, and the ultra-high pressure composite sheet developed by it is not only high strength and wear resistance, but also high toughness and impact resistance, which has become a vivid portrayal of scientific and technological innovation to drive economic transformation and upgrading and enhance economic vitality.
On January 9, the National Energy Administration released data showing that the national crude oil production in 2023 will reach 208 million tons, a year-on-year increase of more than 3 million tons, a significant increase of nearly 19 million tons compared with 2018, and the basic market of long-term stable production of 200 million tons of domestic crude oil will be further consolidated.
Lens 5 New energy vehicles accelerate "going to sea"
As the "jewel in the crown of modern industry", the automobile is the culmination of modern industrial technology and is also recognized as one of the important symbols that can best reflect the country's manufacturing strength.
At present, mainland China is already the world's largest automobile producer and consumer, and the automobile industry has also been included in the "Made in China 2025" new strategic key breakthrough areas. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, after years of continuous efforts, Continental has established a complete and organically coordinated new energy vehicle industry chain supply chain system.
On January 12, the pure electric vehicle of a Chinese car company rolled off the assembly line at the Thai factory, becoming the first locally manufactured mass-produced electric vehicle in the history of the Thai automobile industry, completing the gorgeous turn from the former "market for technology" to the "reverse joint venture" of Sino-foreign cooperation, and launching a new cooperation model between Chinese and foreign car companies.
Today, the core technology of China's new energy vehicles and the leading advantages of the industrial chain are helping China's "intelligently made" vehicles to accelerate to the world, opening a new stage of global competition, and making Chinese automobiles among the global automotive industry.
Shot 6: Thousands of miles away to China to increase capital
Since the beginning of the New Year, many multinational companies have started their annual planning, and some executives of multinational companies have traveled thousands of miles to China.
As the global head of the electrical business of a Fortune 500 company, Ma Teng's first stop on a business trip in 2024 is China. In 2023, the multinational company led by Ma Teng ranked second in the world in terms of turnover, and China has also become an important strategic market for the foreign company to lead digital innovation and energy transition.
Ma Teng said in an interview with CCTV that in 2024, he will increase his capital by 100 million US dollars in China and continue to invest in China, so as to grasp the initiative of development in China, and it is necessary to start early in order to maintain the leading rhythm.
For him, multinationals should go where the "voice of opportunity" rings, and China is the fastest-growing, most promising and most imaginative megamarket.
Ma Teng's choice is a vivid portrayal of the continuous implementation of major foreign-funded projects in the mainland. Experts believe that the mainland has achieved positive results in expanding high-level opening up to the outside world and making high-quality use of foreign capital, and at the same time, the mainland is still one of the most important destinations for global multinational companies due to its outstanding attraction to high-quality multinational investment in the world.
At the beginning of the new year, the mainland's economic and social development hotspots have appeared frequently and are full of enthusiasm. These six lenses are just a microcosm of them, which not only demonstrate the strong resilience and vigor of the mainland's economy, but also send a strong signal to the world that China's economy is "coming early".
Director丨Luo Hongbing, Wei Qihu
Producer丨Wang Jingdong
Editor-in-Chief丨Li Xuan
Editor丨Lu Yang
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(Source: CCTV Network)