Original comment: How did Changzhou get the ticket to the "trillion club"?
The "trillion club" has added a new member.
On January 15, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, announced that its gross domestic product (GDP) will exceed 1 trillion yuan in 2023. This means that Changzhou has become the fifth city in Jiangsu Province to enter the "trillion club" after Suzhou, Nanjing, Wuxi and Nantong. So far, the number of cities with trillions of GDP in the country has reached 25, and Jiangsu has also become the province with the most trillion cities.
How did Changzhou get the ticket to the "trillion club"? Behind the improvement of the city's strength is the strong industrial support and the industrial layout and accumulation over the past few decades. After understanding Changzhou's economic development road, we can find that in terms of the conversion of old and new kinetic energy, Changzhou can always seize the domestic and even global outlets and take the lead.
In the mid-80s of the 20th century, Changzhou formed industrial clusters such as textiles, agricultural machinery, and electronics around the advantageous industries. At the beginning of the 21st century, Changzhou's photovoltaic industry started, around 2010 began to try power batteries, in 2011, Changzhou New Energy Vehicle Research Institute was established, and in the following 10 years, it has embarked on an innovative road from a traditional industrial city to a "power battery capital" through continuous scientific research breakthroughs.
After years of hard work, Changzhou's industrial transformation of old and new kinetic energy has achieved remarkable results, and the industrial development is moving towards high-end, intelligent and green, and finally in 2023, the regional GDP will exceed one trillion yuan. The latest data shows that in 2023, Changzhou's new energy industry will be among the top three in the country, the integrity of the power battery industry chain will be as high as 97%, and the output value of the new energy industry will reach 750 billion yuan. One out of every 10 new energy vehicles in the world is equipped with a Changzhou-made battery.
Changzhou's success in the conversion of old and new kinetic energy is not only reflected in the quantity of GDP, but also in the quality of GDP. Promote the modernization and upgrading of the "southern Jiangsu model", and rectify a total of 7,247 enterprises with "dangerous pollution, scattered and low"; the Changzhou section of the Yangtze River, which used to be "surrounded by chemical industry", has achieved the "zero" of all chemical production enterprises within 1 kilometer along the river; while the scale of the industrial economy continues to reach a new level, the province has taken the lead in reducing carbon emission intensity. In 2023, Changzhou will not only be among the "trillion club", but also hand over a high-score answer sheet for ecological civilization construction: it has won the national ecological civilization construction demonstration zone and the national low-carbon city pilot excellent city. Changzhou's development history has once again confirmed that high-quality development and high-level protection are complementary and mutually reinforcing.
Nowadays, more and more members of the "trillion club" will focus on improving the gold content of economic development. On the one hand, it is to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and let old trees sprout new branches, and on the other hand, it is to accelerate the layout of emerging industries and let new sprouts become big trees. It is hoped that more and more cities will realize that ecological protection and economic development go hand in hand, and that ecological value and development value will be integrated and promoted.
