Baiyun lays out economic growth plan for Q1

Baiyun district in Guiyang city. [Photo/gywb.cn]

In Guiyang, the capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province, Baiyun district held a meeting on Jan 23 to plan its economic operation in the first quarter of 2021.

The district will take six measures to ensure it gets off to a running start for the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025).

The leading role of fixed-asset investment should be adhered to, according to the plan. The district will speed up project construction, increase land reserve transfers, focus on improving new industrialization and optimize its investment structure.

It will focus on industrial growth, increasing the construction of standard workshops, tackling the problem of a lack of space in enterprises' workers' dormitories and upgrading old industrial parks.

The district will boost and upgrade consumption, preparing festive promotional activities during the Spring Festival to stimulate the consumer market and promoting the consumption of commodities such as housing.

The plan also calls for the core role of innovation to be highlighted. The district will implement big data strategic actions to promote digital industrialization and industrial digitization. It will accelerate the construction of the Guiyang software base and digital content industry base projects, as well as accelerate the introduction and cultivation of leading big data enterprises.

The district will apply a series of policies to encourage the resumption of work and production, continuously improve financial services in the real economy, and continue to optimize the business environment.

In addition, it will strengthen supervision, tackling crucial and challenging problems in economic operation.

Officials also discussed work plans regarding wage guarantees for migrant workers, normalized COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control, and production safety at the meeting.