The cities of Wuxi, Xuzhou, Nantong and Lianyungang have pledged to make unremitting efforts to boost their growth momentum in 2021 as they are about to kick off their annual sessions of the legislative and advisory bodies.
In 2020, Wuxi is expecting an annual regional GDP of 1.237 trillion yuan with its per capita GDP remaining at the forefront of Chinese cities.
In the next five years, Wuxi will accelerate the construction of a modern economic system with unique advantages, promote the Taihu Bay technological innovation belt, and become an important central city in the world-class city cluster in the Yangtze River Delta so as to mark the "Taihu Lake" in the historical process of national development.
In 2021, Wuxi’s regional GDP will increase by 7%, and the income growth of urban and rural residents will basically synchronize with economic growth. By 2035, on the basis of 2020, the per capita GDP will double, and the per capita income of residents will more than double, becoming a pilot demonstration zone for socialist modernization in the new era.
In 2020, Xuzhou is expecting an annual regional GDP of 740 billion yuan, up 3.5% year on year.
In the next five years, Xuzhou will strive to support the real economy with more adequate industrial development, further consolidate its status as the capital of construction machinery in China, and significantly improve the ecological environment so as to build the city into a landscape garden city with a reputation in China, and significantly increased the primacy of being the central city in the Huaihai Economic Zone.
In 2021, the GDP of Xuzhou is expected to increase by about 6.5%, and the per capita disposable income of residents is expected to increase by more than 6.5%. By the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the regional GDP will have exceeded RMB 1 trillion, and the per capita disposable income of all residents will have exceeded RMB 40 thousand.
In 2020, Nantong recorded 1.004 trillion yuan of GDP, making it the fourth city in Jiangsu in the trillion-yuan echelon.
The city has launched 183 new investment projects with individual investment of 1 billion yuan. Progress is being stepped up in the 16 major investment projects with individual investment of 10 billion yuan.
In 2021, Nantong expects that the regional GDP will grow by more than 6.5%, fixed asset investment will grow by more than 6%, and more than 110 thousand new jobs will be created so that the quality of the ecological environment will continue to improve. In the next five years, Nantong will become a strong fulcrum city in the core triangle of Shanghai-Suzhou Nantong in the Yangtze River Delta.
In 2020, Lianyungang completed an industrial investment of 145 billion yuan, the free trade zone was approved for construction, the comprehensive bonded zone was closed for operation, the functions of the China-Kazakhstan base were improved, and multimodal transport became a ministerial demonstration. Its world-class petrochemical industry base is advancing by leaps and bounds, and the "China Pharmaceutical Port" is changing with each passing day. The biomedical industry has been included in the national advanced manufacturing cluster, and its comprehensive strength has risen sharply.
In 2021, Lianyungang’s regional GDP will grow by more than 7%, and general public budget revenue will grow by more than 5%.
