Pingxiang City is an important industrial city in Jiangxi Province. It has formed a relatively complete industrial system with coal, machinery, metallurgy, chemicals, building materials, ceramics, etc. Products such as steel, electric porcelain, industrial porcelain, fireworks and firecrackers are best-selling domestically. foreign market. At present, coal production accounts for 40% of the province's total; steel accounts for more than 30% of the province's production and sales; chemical filler production and sales account for 70% of the country's total; electric porcelain production occupies an important position in the country, low-voltage electric porcelain accounts for more than 60% of the national market share, and electric porcelain exports account for the province's 85. PC electric porcelain is a well-known trademark in the country; the building materials industry has developed rapidly and has become an important building materials production base in the province, with an annual cement production capacity of more than 5 million tons; the output of float glass in 2001 reached 5.55 million weight boxes, ranking eighth in the country; "Anyuan brand" buses sell well all over the country. Anyuan Co., Ltd. was grandly listed on July 2, 2002, becoming the first listed company in our city. Private enterprises are booming, and "Tengfei" plastic products produced by Tengfei Plastic General Factory and waterproof materials, refined camellia oil and "Hong Anyuan" liquor produced by Wuguan Group are selling well in the domestic market. The food industry focusing on agricultural product processing is developing rapidly, and Chinese Eucommia tea, "Tiantian Shang", "Wugong Mountain", "Yuechi" mineral water, etc. are becoming increasingly popular in the market.
Light industrial products have won more than 300 famous and excellent product awards (times), including 15 national awards. Won more than 100 new product achievement awards (times), among which the "UFO" trademark of the "UFO" electric fan was awarded the famous trademark of Jiangxi Province, the "Queen's Towel" of the Municipal Towel Factory was awarded an inspection-free export product, and the "UFO" of the Municipal Huahai Rainproof Clothing Factory was awarded The "Qijia" brand breathable rainproof clothing won the "National Patented Product Gold Award in 1998" and the "Biggest Science and Technology Gold Award in 1994". Five varieties of fireworks produced by Shangli Export Fireworks including "China-Western Friendship Waterfall" and "Combined Fireworks Bomb" were sold in Spain Won the collective second prize at the 24th International Fireworks Grand Prix.
Since the reform and opening up, Pingxiang’s economy has been developing at an unprecedented speed. From 1978 to 2001, GDP growth averaged 10.2 per year. The economic structure has been continuously optimized. The proportion of the added value of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in the GDP has changed from 33.3:43.8:22.9 in 1978 to 13.6:54.8:31.6 in 2001, and the economic strength continues to increase.
In recent years, Pingxiang has unswervingly promoted industrialization, implemented the strategy of "strengthening the city through industry", and strived to increase the total industrial economy. We should simultaneously transform traditional industries and develop emerging industries, accelerate the adjustment of industrial structure, accelerate the construction of industrial parks, build a carrier for industrial development, deepen enterprise reform, and accelerate the establishment of a modern enterprise system. The Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government attach great importance to optimizing the environment, improving the investment environment, comprehensively implementing the strategy of opening up, further improving concept innovation and institutional innovation, and carrying out all-round investment promotion. During the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, Pingxiang's industrial economy will surely achieve leapfrog development and make outstanding contributions to building Pingxiang into a veritable pearl of western Ganxi.
Business and Trade Economy
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Pingxiang is an important industrial town in western Jiangxi. With the rapid development of industry, the tertiary industry has also gradually developed and expanded. Especially after the reform and opening up, the tertiary industry in Pingxiang City has developed vigorously. The proportion of the added value of the tertiary industry in the GDP increased from 22.9 in 1978 to 31.6 in 2001. At the end of 2001, there were 185,500 workers in the tertiary industry. people, accounting for 21% of the annual social workers, completing an added value of 3.42 billion yuan.
Pingxiang's transportation industry has developed rapidly, and the city has formed a relatively complete road transportation system. More than ten bus lines have been opened in the urban area, and eight car rental companies have more than 600 rental cars. In 2001, the highway passenger turnover volume in the whole society was 760 million person-kilometers, and the highway cargo turnover volume was 380 million ton-kilometers. The Pingxiang car container transfer station has been put into operation use.
Pingxiang's modern service industries such as finance, communications, insurance, and intermediary services are in the ascendant. The market behavior of social intermediary agencies continues to be standardized, and the level of socialized services continues to improve.
In 2001, the city had a total capacity of 250,000 program-controlled switching systems, more than 200,000 fixed-line telephone users, 158,000 mobile phone users, and a total postal and telecommunications business volume of 350 million yuan; the year-end deposit balance of the city's financial institutions was 7.161 billion yuan. The balance of various loans is 6.283 billion yuan; the domestic insurance amount is 5.185 billion yuan, and the premium income is 57 million yuan.
The tourism industry in Pingxiang has accelerated its development in recent years. With the "Anyuan" brand and "Wugong" brand as the focus, it has accelerated the development of Wugong Mountain, Anyuan, Autumn Harvest Uprising Square, Yangqishan, Nielong Cave, The development of natural scenery resources and cultural landscape resources such as Nuo culture will build a Shaoshan-Anyuan-Jinggangshan tourism hotline. In 2001, the number of tourists in Pingxiang reached 1.05 million, and tourism revenue was 580 million yuan.
Pingxiang has always been a commodity distribution center in western Jiangxi. Historically, Pingxiang's business has been relatively prosperous due to the convenient water transportation and modern railway and highway transportation. There are many commercial buildings in the urban area, forming three main central business districts: Main Street, Yuejin Road and Bayi Street. Various wholesale markets have emerged, and thousands of individual traders and boutique stores have made urban commerce booming. Clothing, cloth, furniture, shoes and hats, and daily necessities in Pingxiang Mall; fine clothing and philatelic coin collections in Changsheng Building; audio-video, books, and plastic products in Yongchang Temple; decorative materials in Anyuan Building Materials Market; Zhangjia Dayu Fruit Wholesale Market Each has formed its own characteristics, and the newly built urban bright project "Golden Triangle Food City" has also entered the operation stage. In 2001, the city's total retail sales of consumer goods reached 3.832 billion yuan, and urban retail sales of consumer goods reached 2.916 billion yuan.
With the continuous acceleration of urbanization and the continuous adjustment of industrial structure, the tertiary industry will develop by leaps and bounds. During the "10th Five-Year Plan" period, Pingxiang will speed up the construction of commodity markets focusing on professional wholesale markets and further develop the commerce industry; focus on building tourism infrastructure, speed up the development of tourism products, improve service systems, and promote the development of tourism; actively develop Community services and intermediary service industries; strive to accelerate the development of the information industry. We will strive to achieve a ratio of 34% of the tertiary industry in the tertiary industry by the end of 2005 to further optimize the economic structure.