Breaking a new road into the midstream through 7.3% to see the "acceleration" of Inner Mongolia's development

In 2023, Inner Mongolia's GDP will be 2,462.7 billion yuan, an increase of 7.3% over the previous year, ranking third in the country. This rare report card has contributed to the resilient growth of China's economy. As a major province in terms of resources and energy, where is the gold content of the 7.3 percent growth rate? What new track has Inner Mongolia opened up? What new changes have been made in the industrial structure? This reporter conducted an interview.

The three industries are synergistic, and the development is stable and progressive

Counting nine cold days, the land of northern Xinjiang is a "busy winter" scene.

Tuquan County of the Xing'an League has grasped the slack season to carry out high-standard farmland construction to lay the foundation for grain production in the new year. In the Zhunger Economic Development Zone of Ordos City, workers debug equipment in the lithium-ion battery anode material workshop to make the final sprint for the project to be put into production. Two intensive processing projects of agricultural and livestock products with a total investment of 1.3 billion yuan in Alu Horqin Banner, Chifeng City, were successfully signed at the Winter Investment Promotion Signing Conference. Hulunbuir, the main venue of the "Fourteenth Winter", ice and snow Naadam ignited the passion of winter tourism......

Sun Shaocheng, secretary of the party committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has repeatedly proposed that "we must achieve the level of the middle reaches of the national economic aggregate", "establish the ambition of catching up with and surpassing the first", "strengthen the awareness of results, accounting, and handing in the papers, and produce results quickly and well in everything", "rush through the pass with the tenacity of enduring hardships and standing hard work, the indomitable momentum, and the ruthlessness of never giving up until the goal is achieved", releasing a clear signal of "grasping development quickly".

Behind the "busy winter" is the "busy year". In the past year, Inner Mongolia has carried forward the "Mongolian horse spirit", and the pace of progress has not stopped, and the three industries have made concerted efforts to promote the continuous recovery of the economy.

As an important national energy and strategic resource base and an important production base for agricultural and livestock products, Inner Mongolia resolutely shoulders the important task of ensuring national energy security and food security. In 2023, Inner Mongolia will rank among the top in the country in terms of the output of a number of major energy products, with a coal output of 1.22 billion tons, ranking second in the country, completing the task of ensuring the supply of 945 million tons of coal, accounting for 36% of the country's tasks, ranking first in the country, and ranking first in the country in terms of power generation above designated size and coal and electricity delivered.

Inner Mongolia's "meat warehouse" and "milk tank" are famous all over the country, but in fact, it is still a granary outside the plug. The grain sowing area of Inner Mongolia has been maintained at more than 100 million mu for 8 consecutive years, and in 2023, Inner Mongolia's grain output will achieve "20 consecutive harvests", reaching 79.16 billion catties, remaining above 70 billion catties for 6 consecutive years, ranking 6th in the country for 3 consecutive years.

To optimize the primary industry, strengthen the secondary industry, and expand the tertiary industry, Inner Mongolia will unswervingly promote the development of the three industries in synergy. In 2023, the added value of the primary industry will be 273.7 billion yuan, an increase of 5.5 percent over the previous year, the added value of the secondary industry will be 1,170.4 billion yuan, an increase of 8.1 percent, and the added value of the tertiary industry will reach 1,018.6 billion yuan, an increase of 7.0 percent. In 2023, the added value of industries above designated size in Inner Mongolia will increase by 7.4% over the previous year, ranking 7th in the country, and the role of industrial "ballast" is prominent.

"The growth of 7.4% is achieved in the face of insufficient demand, weak expectations and low prices of commodities such as energy, and it is not easy to achieve growth on the basis of the high growth rate of 8.1% in 2022. Cao Siyang, director of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics, said.

Ignite the "engine" and optimize the investment structure

Stripping, transporting, palletizing...... In the electrolysis workshop of Jintong Copper Industry in Dongshan Industrial Park, Chifeng High-tech Zone, pieces of cathode copper plates are skillfully transported to the finished product area by manipulators. This electrolytic robot can peel off 500 pieces of electrolytic copper plates per hour, which is equivalent to the work efficiency of at least 20 workers, which greatly reduces labor costs.

Chifeng City, known as the "hometown of China's non-ferrous metals", adheres to innovation-driven and technology-empowered, expands investment projects, scales, and promotes the industrial economy from small to large and from weak to strong. The 300,000-ton copper smelting system of the second phase of Chifeng Jintong Copper Project is expected to be completed and put into operation in October 2025, with an annual output of 560,000 tons of copper cathode and 2 million tons of sulfuric acid, with an output value of more than 40 billion yuan. At that time, Chifeng City will become the largest copper smelting production and processing base in northern China.

– Expanding productive investment and boosting high-quality economic growth. In the past year, Inner Mongolia has maintained double-digit growth in the funds in place for investment projects of more than 5 million yuan, and large and good projects have continued to "blossom", promoting the investment in fixed assets above designated size to further progress on the basis of the high growth rate of 17.6% in 2022, and achieving a rapid growth of 19.8% in 2023, ranking second in the country. Gong Mingzhu, director of the Development and Reform Commission of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, introduced that Inner Mongolia has issued a three-year action plan for investment promotion, focusing on key industrial chains and industrial clusters to carry out precise investment promotion, which has effectively promoted the rapid growth of fixed asset investment. In 2023, there will be 5,588 new fixed asset investment projects, an increase of 602 over the previous year, and a total planned investment of 1,057.4 billion yuan, an increase of 40.6%.

"The rapid growth of investment in fixed assets is based on the high-quality construction of major projects. Gong Mingzhu said that large projects play an obvious role in stimulating economic development, Inner Mongolia promotes the construction of major projects with high quality and high efficiency, and large projects of more than 100 million yuan represented by Baofeng coal-based new material project, Runyang Yueda photovoltaic equipment manufacturing project, and LONGi silicon material project are "soaring". In 2023, Inner Mongolia plans to invest a total of 2,709 construction projects with a total investment of more than 100 million yuan, an increase of 285 over the previous year, and the completed investment will increase by 25.9% over the previous year, accounting for 72.9% of the total investment, and the contribution rate to the total investment will be as high as 90.6%.

Behind the high growth of investment is the continuous optimization of investment structure. Social investment accounts for 85 percent of all investment in fixed assets above designated size, and the reduction of government-scale investment is conducive to controlling debts to an appropriate scale, better handling the relationship between security and development, seizing opportunities to defuse risks, optimizing the economic structure, and nurturing new economic momentum.

Huolin Gol is a city built on coal in eastern Inner Mongolia. For more than 40 years, the development of Huolin Gol City has been closely linked to coal resources. Today, coal is no longer just a fuel for power generation, but a driving force and bridge for industrial transformation.

What are the uses of coal? 40 years ago, Huolin Gol people can only think of power generation and heating, now Huolin Gol City uses coal to generate electricity, use electricity to smelt aluminum, and use aluminum for deep processing, forming a "coal power grid aluminum +" whole industrial chain, double zero foil, aluminum silver paste, battery foil, auto parts and other products gradually occupy a dominant position in the industry market, the scale of industrial clusters is close to 100 billion, and the construction of a national industrial base for green and low-carbon aluminum-based new materials is being accelerated.

-- Reshaping the "chain thinking" and creating a new engine for economic development. Inner Mongolia focuses on 8 major industrial clusters and 16 key industrial chains, including new energy equipment manufacturing, new chemicals, new materials, and biomedicine, and makes efforts on the "chain" and tackles tough problems on the "chain", so as to promote the extension of the industrial chain to the downstream and the value chain to the middle and high-end. In 2023, with the signing and commissioning of 100 billion-level projects such as Canadian Solar and Rongsheng New Energy, Inner Mongolia's high-tech manufacturing industry will continue to grow, and the investment in high-tech industries will achieve a high growth rate of 84.5% on the basis of the high growth rate of 49.2% in the previous year, making great strides on the road of high-quality development leading the optimization of industrial structure with high-quality project investment.

With the optimization and greening of traditional industries, the cultivation and development of emerging industries, and the pursuit of major projects, the industrial economy of Inner Mongolia is no longer "one coal dominates", but "all industries are blooming". Tian Xinru, director of the Office of the Leading Group for the Fifth National Economic Census, said that in 2023, the added value of Inner Mongolia's non-coal industries will increase by 12.1% over the previous year, accounting for 60.7% of the above-scale industries, and the added value of industrial strategic emerging industries will increase by 13.5%, which will continue to be faster than the growth rate of industries above the designated size.

"At present, Inner Mongolia has a good momentum of promoting high-quality development and a rare opportunity. Wang Lixia, chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said that under the care of the Party Central Committee, the development train of Inner Mongolia has run out of "acceleration" in the past two years, and the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region has encouraged cadres to take on the formation of a strong atmosphere of catching up and surpassing the competition and grasping the development quickly.

Catch up and open up a "new track" for transformation

A month ago, China's first 10,000-ton green electricity hydrogen production demonstration project, the 400,000 kilowatt photovoltaic green power production demonstration project in Narisong, Zhungerqi, was successfully connected to the grid. Narisong photovoltaic hydrogen production project is the first batch of approved hydrogen production projects in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the first to start construction and the first hydrogen production integration demonstration project of wind and solar hydrogen production, and the first 10,000-ton new energy hydrogen production project in China and even in the world.

The project will efficiently and deeply couple the two clean energy sources of solar energy and hydrogen energy, and solve the core problem of power consumption with a high proportion of renewable energy grid-connected by exploring a new model of green electricity hydrogen production without pollution and zero emissions, and continue to add vivid footnotes from the grassroots to the article of modern energy economy.

"To do a good job in the modern energy economy", Inner Mongolia should do it quickly, time is not waiting, and accelerate the pace of green and low-carbon energy transformation.

By the end of 2023, the installed capacity of new energy in Inner Mongolia exceeded 90 million kilowatts, reaching 93.226 million kilowatts, an increase of 50.8% over the end of the previous year, accounting for 43.2% of the total installed power capacity, and the power generation capacity of new energy above designated size was 149.53 billion kilowatt hours, an increase of 21.1% over the previous year, accounting for 20.1% of the total power generation. Inner Mongolia's installed capacity and power generation of new energy rank first in the country.

"New energy injects new vitality into the development of the industry, and the new energy industry in Inner Mongolia extends from the investment structure with power generation as the main body to the whole industrial chain of new energy equipment manufacturing. Huang Zhiqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and executive vice chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said.

In 2023, the added value of the new energy equipment manufacturing industry will increase by 11.4%, and the investment in the new energy manufacturing industry will increase by 1.5 times compared with the previous year. The production capacity of wind turbines in Inner Mongolia has increased from 1,000 to 4,000 units, and the production capacity of photovoltaic modules has increased from 7 million kilowatts to 23 million kilowatts.

Inner Mongolia proposes to create an "industrial Inner Mongolia" in the field of new energy. Nowadays, Inner Mongolia is focusing on the development and construction of new energy on the one hand, and the development of related supporting industries such as equipment manufacturing and operation and maintenance services on the other, driving new industries with new energy, striving to form agglomeration effects and scale effects, and never simply "generating electricity and selling electricity".

In October 2023, the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Inner Mongolia and Striving to Write a New Chapter of Chinese-style Modernization" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), and more than 20 ministries and commissions have issued or are in the process of issuing supporting policy documents, and the care of the Party Central Committee has once again materialized into a historical opportunity for the development of Inner Mongolia.

"At present, the central government has provided unprecedented major support policies to Inner Mongolia, and the key to the implementation of the policy is to do a good job in organizing the construction to bear fruit. Li Li, secretary of the Ordos Municipal Party Committee, said.

Inner Mongolia rewards "fast horses", whips "slow cows", and promotes the majority of cadres to speed up and improve efficiency to do a good job. "No matter how late it is today, it will be early, and no matter how early it is tomorrow, it will be late", many grassroots party members and cadres have kept such a sentence in their hearts. In Inner Mongolia, which is in a hurry, the most obvious change is that it is "fast", and the implementation of the work strives to "not overnight if it can not be overnight". The Chahar right-wing front flag has designated every Tuesday and Thursday as "no meeting days", and the flag committee and government are not allowed to hold meetings except in special circumstances. "The weather is cold, and we can't shut ourselves in a warm room and think about problems, but leave more time for cadres to go to the grassroots level to investigate and solve practical problems. Ji Hong, secretary of the flag committee, thinks.

With the acceleration of the implementation of the "Opinions" of the State Council and the superposition of the stock policy and the incremental policy, the foundation of Inner Mongolia's economic development will be more solid and solid, and the upward momentum of the economy will continue to consolidate and strengthen. The sons and daughters of northern Xinjiang are eager to get busy and run in this land full of hope and great promise!

A new chapter of cohesion and forging ahead is the right time. Inner Mongolia proposes that in 2024, the regional GDP will increase by more than 6%, the general public budget revenue will increase by about 5.5% at the same time, and more than 180,000 new urban jobs will be created. Inner Mongolia is anchored to do two major things, break new roads into the middle reaches, accumulate small victories for big victories, accumulate steps to thousands of miles, strive to write a new chapter of Chinese-style modernization in Inner Mongolia, and build the northern border scenery of the motherland more beautiful.