As Xuzhou's opening-up demonstration zone, investment attraction gathering zone, investment environment demonstration zone, high-tech industry experimental zone and socialist market economy operation experimental zone, it has always followed the construction policy of high starting point, high standard, high speed and high efficiency for nine years, seized the good opportunity of current domestic and international economic development, and comprehensively promoted internal management, investment attraction and urbanization construction in accordance with international practices. As of June this year, there are more than 200 foreign-funded enterprises in the Development Zone, with investors from more than 10 countries and regions such as the United States, Germany, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan Province Province, including large multinational companies such as Caterpillar of the United States, Liebherr of Germany, Shanghuojia of the Philippines, Zheng Da of Thailand, and more than 50 large private enterprises such as Han Shi Group, Tiandi Group, Jiayuan Group and Sundiro Motorcycle. Through nine years of development and construction, the development zone has gradually formed its own development advantages, especially in the last year or two, they have made great efforts to improve the soft and hard investment environment, fully built an investment platform in line with international standards, and expanded various investment channels, and achieved remarkable results. In the first half of this year, the contracted foreign investment was 300 million US dollars, and some industrial "Big Mac" projects have entered the start-up stage.

The "three transformations" are inspiring, inspiring and inspiring.

In Pengcheng and Xuzhou in early spring, the first "Top Ten News Awards of the Year" attracted the enthusiastic participation of cadres and the masses. In 2005, Xuzhou won the title of "Civilized City in Jiangsu Province" and "National Garden City", with an industrial investment of 35.6 billion yuan, and the county economy rose rapidly. These three items have become the focus of attention of citizens and experts, ranking among the top 20 candidate news.

Why are the opinions of citizens and experts so concentrated? Xu Ming, secretary of Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee, told reporters that in recent years, it is another golden period of development in Xuzhou history. From the accelerated development of the city's economy and society, the people have personally felt that the county economy of Xuzhou has become stronger, the industrial structure has become new, and the city has become beautiful. As Secretary Xu Ming said, a news selection with the participation of the whole people made Xuzhou people focus on the three major and far-reaching changes that are taking place in Xuzhou.

One of the changes: the county economy has changed from weak to strong

County economy is the "soft rib" of Xuzhou's economic development. Among the three provincial cities in the province 13, Xuzhou's "strong city and weak county" is the most prominent. Four of the six counties (cities) used to be poverty-stricken counties in the province, and now there are three key poverty-alleviation counties in the province. In 2002, the land area and population of six counties (cities) accounted for 90% and 80% of the city respectively, but the GDP only accounted for 53% and the fiscal revenue accounted for 33%. What is more prominent is that the growth rate of Xuzhou county economy at that time has lagged behind the urban area, and the gap between the two is still widening.

In order to change the prominent situation of urban-rural dual structure, the Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government launched a series of new measures on the basis of in-depth investigation and study: put forward the idea of strengthening "strengthening Xuzhou by strengthening the county", unify thoughts, and form a * * * understanding in the whole city; Change the individual assessment of counties (cities) into comprehensive assessment, increase incentives and mobilize the enthusiasm of counties to accelerate development; For four years in a row, a conference attended by more than 200,000 people was held. In 2003, the activity of "inviting investment from cadres' associations and starting businesses by mass organizations" was put forward. In 2004, it was proposed to strive to achieve the "double transcendence" goal of GDP exceeding 1000 billion and fiscal revenue exceeding1000 billion. In 2005, it was put forward that the targets of the Tenth Five-Year Plan were fully exceeded, and in March this year, it was fully mobilized and deployed to build a new socialist countryside. These measures make the development goal of Xuzhou county economy clear, focused and powerful.

Xuzhou's county economy has risen rapidly. In September, 2004, the industrial growth rate above the county level in Xuzhou surpassed the urban area for the first time, and it has maintained a strong growth. In 2005, the GDP growth rate of Xuzhou County was 0.9 percentage points higher than that of the urban area, and the industrial growth rate was 13.8 percentage points, and the total investment accounted for 68.2% of the city. In the same year, the total fiscal revenue of Xuzhou County increased by 28.5%, the general budget revenue increased by 23.2%, and the income of farmers also achieved double-digit high growth for two consecutive years, showing a rare good situation for many years.

What is more gratifying is that the development of counties and districts in Xuzhou has formed a competitive situation of "you chase after me". Tongshan aims at Dongtai, Yancheng, with one saying that northern Jiangsu is the first and the other saying that northern Jiangsu is leading; Pizhou fought bravely to become a dark horse in the development of the whole northern Jiangsu county; Xinyi, with Pizhou as the focus, wants to win the first place in the economic development of East Longhai Line. Other counties are not willing to lag behind and compete for development.

Today, almost all six counties and cities in Xuzhou have their own laurels of economic development: Tongshan has re-entered the top 100 counties in China for two consecutive years, while the county area has been greatly reduced; Pizhou ranks 69th among the top 100 small and medium-sized cities in China and is rated as the best investment city for Zhejiang businessmen. Xinyi was rated as the county with the most investment value in the Yangtze River Delta region ... and that "laurel" witnessed the development of Xuzhou county economy from weak to strong.

The second change: the emergence of high-tech industries.

Baili Coal Sea is synonymous with Xuzhou in the eyes of many foreigners. Xuzhou is indeed an energy heavy industry base represented by coal, and its industries are mostly resource-consuming coal, cement, steel and machinery. This makes Xuzhou one of the provinces with the highest comprehensive energy consumption per 10,000 yuan GDP. However, Xuzhou's coal resources are gradually approaching exhaustion, and there will be no coal recoverable in 30 years. To achieve sustained and rapid development, Xuzhou must speed up the pace of structural adjustment and take a new road of industrialization. Although there is a long way to go, Xuzhou has begun to take solid steps to transform traditional industries and establish its own high-tech industrial group.

Through attracting investment, a large number of high-tech projects have settled in Xuzhou: the automotive electronic sensor project with domestic advanced technology was completed and put into operation last year; The Atacarin project, a national first-class new drug that fills the gap in China, has started civil construction; The internationally leading recombinant human insulin project has entered the stage of equipment debugging; The project with an annual output of 2.2 million pairs of LCD monitors is under construction. ...

While attracting foreign high-tech enterprises, Xuzhou does not forget to build local high-tech enterprises. To this end, Xuzhou has established Huaihai Economic Zone and the largest science and technology pioneer park in northern Jiangsu, and the construction area of the first phase of the project1.2000 square meters has been basically completed. In 2005, the technology of 16 products incubated and developed by Science and Technology Pioneer Park was in the leading position at home and abroad, and 60 incubating enterprises settled in Xuzhou Science and Technology Pioneer Park, including the achievement transformation base of National Key Laboratory of Millimeter Wave of Southeast University, the achievement transformation base of National Laboratory of Electric Power of Shanghai Jiaotong University, the achievement transformation base of China University of Mining and Technology, and many high-tech enterprises founded by returned overseas students.

In 2004, the output value of high-tech industries in Xuzhou increased by 105.7% year-on-year, ranking first in the province. In 2005, the output value of high-tech industries in Xuzhou increased by 68%, achieving another leap. While the proportion of high-tech industries is rising, the "status" of Xuzhou coal industry has begun to decline. The added value of coal accounted for 24.4 1% of Xuzhou's total industrial output value, and decreased to 18.96% in 2005. The output value of coal accounts for 13. 16% of Xuzhou's total industrial output value, and fell to.

The third change is that the city has a new look.

Nowadays, Xuzhou citizens feel that the most obvious change around them is that the sky in Xuzhou city has turned blue, the green space has increased, the roads are clean and tidy, and in a word, the living environment has improved. In 2005, Xuzhou was named "National Garden City" by the Ministry of Construction, and was awarded "Civilized City of Jiangsu Province" with the first total score, and began to bid farewell to the image of "Coal City" in the past.

These changes benefited from the "Four Cities Together" activity in Xuzhou. In 2004, Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government made up their minds to concentrate the wisdom of millions of citizens and strive for "national garden city", "provincial civilized city", "national environmental protection model city" and "national health city". Starting from itself, the Municipal Party Committee took the lead in establishing civilized units in municipal organs, and then extended to enterprises, institutions and communities, setting off a wave of creation.

In order to achieve the first goal of building a provincial civilized city and a national garden city, Xuzhou invested 5.2 billion yuan to build 32 municipal key projects, making last year the year with the largest investment in urban construction and the biggest change in urban appearance. Through BOT and public-private partnership, a number of urban and rural sewage treatment plants have been built and transformed, with a daily sewage treatment capacity of 295,000 tons in urban areas, ranking first in Huaihai Economic Zone. Eliminate all domestic lime pulping production lines and close 2 1 paper enterprises; Close the largest Xuzhou cement plant in the urban area and close or relocate 33 other cement enterprises; 224 coal-fired facilities were demolished, and all coal-fired boilers without heating network in urban areas were switched to clean energy.

In just a few years, Xuzhou has taken on a new look. The sky is blue, the ground is green and the water is beginning to clear. The number of days when urban air quality reached Grade II or above increased from 56 days in 2002 to more than 300 days in 2005. The urban greening coverage rate reached 36.86%, and the per capita public green space reached 7.82 square meters, reaching the national garden city standard; Seven of the nine state-controlled sections in Huaihe River Basin meet the national assessment standards. The sanitary condition of residential areas has improved obviously, and Pengcheng Square in the city center has been renovated. The newly-built Hu Xiaonan Scenic Area and the Han Dynasty Cultural Scenic Area have become good places for citizens to relax and entertain. The development of the city began to go hand in hand with the civilization of the citizens, and people's hearts and cities became better together.

1. Many netizens have also made many contributions to promoting Xuzhou and expanding their influence. Let me have a look. In addition to the growing influence of official websites, some websites created by netizens themselves, such as "Ancient and Modern Pengcheng Xuzhou", are also fascinating through the combination of video and text; There are also a large number of beautiful pictures uploaded by netizens reflecting Xuzhou's human history and scenic spots, which have also had an impact on the Internet. Of course, what's more, some netizens posted them on Baidu, Sina, Xici and other web pages in time, which also increased the amplification effect of external publicity. I think the most effective way is to show the charming city of CCTV, and broadcast the Xuzhou album "Seven Days of National Day Music" in this year's National Day Golden Week. I hope to publicize more in the future.

2. In 2006, Xuzhou added many new business cards: it just passed the acceptance of the national environmental protection model city, and the living environment is getting better and better; It was awarded the Best Investment City of Zheshang in 2006 and the Best Business Investment City of Forbes China, and was shortlisted among the top 20 charming cities in China in CCTV2006. The growth rate of foreign trade exports continues to be the first in the province ... Xuzhou is indeed more beautiful and stronger every day!

3. People's change is the most important thing: after Xu Ming came to Xuzhou to take office, he saw the root of the lack of humanistic spirit in Xuzhou. From "looking at Xuzhou from the outside" and "looking at Xuzhou from the development environment" to "looking at Xuzhou from the humanistic spirit", Xu Jishu's call for "being a affectionate Xuzhou person" and "making people's hearts and cities beautiful together" has shocked 9 million children in Pengcheng, brainstorming and cultivating Xuzhou spirit in the new era, especially Yi Zhongtian. I think Xu's good intentions to change the character defects of Xuzhou people are commendable. The "Warm Xuzhou" campaign that has been launched now has warmed people's hearts, complied with public opinion, prompted people to change, and attracted the attention of the whole city. The media played a guiding role. "Warm offensive" from newspapers to radio and television, from online polls to mobile phone text messages, I admire the leadership and organization ability of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee and the specific planning level of various media.