Baiyun announces next five-year development goals

The Tenth CPC Baiyun District Congress is held on Oct 23-26. [Photo/Guiyang news network]

The Tenth CPC Baiyun District Congress was held in Baiyun district in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, on Oct 23-26.

The congress summarized major work since the Ninth CPC Baiyun District Congress and put forward the goals and main tasks for the next five years.

In the following five years, Baiyun district plans to explore a "12345" path.

"1" means "overall goal". By the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), Baiyun district will be built into a new center of the provincial capital of Guiyang.

"2" represents "two basic requirements". Baiyun district will keep the two bottom lines of development and ecology, and make overall plans for development and safety.

"3" is "three main lines of work", namely strengthening the real economy, enhancing comprehensive strength, expanding the scale of the city, improving the function of the city, optimizing the development environment, and improving people's living standards.

"4" refers to building Baiyun district into a new center of Guiyang that strives to build a win-win situation for economic development and environmental improvement, industry-city integration and urban-rural integration, improvement of scale structure, quality and efficiency, and for people who want a higher quality of life.

"5" means the construction of a modern industry-city integration demonstration zone, a modern new urban area, a strong area for high-quality modern education, a modern innovation zone for social governance, and a regional open development hub area.

Over this period, the regional GDP of Baiyun district should exceed 42.7 billion yuan ($6.41 billion), with an average annual growth rate of about 12.5 percent, and it strives to account for more than 6 percent of the city's total GDP.

The average annual growth of the added value of the industrial enterprises above designated size in Baiyun district should be about 20 percent.

The total retail sales of consumer goods should increase at an average annual rate of about 11 percent, and strategic emerging industries are expected to account for 30 percent of all industries.

Additionally, the average annual growth of general public finance budget revenue should be about 2 percent.