Ezhou City, Hubei Province

Ezhou Lianhua Mountain

Ezhou Lianhua Mountain

Ezhou Lianhua Mountain

Ezhou City It has jurisdiction over three county-level administrative districts of Echeng, Huarong and Liangzihu, two development zones of Gedian and Ezhou, and three directly managed sub-district offices of Fenghuang, Gulou and Xishan. The city has an area of ??1,596 square kilometers and a total population of 1.0979 million (registered population).

In 2013, Ezhou City achieved a gross product value (GDP) of 63.094 billion yuan, an increase of 10.5% over the previous year based on comparable prices. Among them, the primary industry realized 7.851 billion yuan, an increase of 4.9% over the previous year; the secondary industry realized 37.508 billion yuan, an increase of 12.2% over the previous year; the tertiary industry realized 17.735 billion yuan, an increase of 9% over the previous year. The three industrial structure ratios were adjusted from 12.3:60.1:27.6 in 2012 to 12.4:59.4:28.1. Calculated based on the permanent population, the city's per capita GDP reached 59,791 yuan, a net increase of 6,535 yuan over the previous year, an increase of 12.3%. In 2013, the total number of employees in the city reached 648,500, an increase of 1.22% over the previous year, of which 207,800 were engaged in the primary industry, 208,500 were engaged in the secondary industry, and 232,200 were engaged in the tertiary industry. The annual fixed asset investment was 56.719 billion yuan, an increase of 28.1% over the previous year; the added value of industries above designated size was 36.1 billion yuan, an increase of 13.2% over the previous year; the local government budget revenue was 3.843 billion yuan, an increase of 16.4% over the previous year; The total retail sales of consumer goods in society was 20.51 billion yuan, an increase of 13.1% over the previous year; the actual utilization of foreign investment was 162 million US dollars, an increase of 16.3% over the previous year; foreign trade exports were 176 million US dollars, an increase of 12% over the previous year; the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 20,878.16 yuan, An increase of 8.14% over the previous year. The per capita net income of rural residents was 10,209.72 yuan, an increase of 12.54% over the previous year. In 2013, the city's consumer prices increased by 2.7%, 0.2 percentage points lower than the previous year, of which food prices increased by 5%. Throughout the year, the retail price of goods increased by 1.9%, the ex-factory price of industrial producers fell by 0.6%, and the purchasing price of industrial producers fell by 2.4%. The city's main economic indicators have achieved expected targets, with growth rates faster than the provincial average.

The city’s total agricultural output value for the whole year was 13.85 billion yuan, an increase of 7.4% over the previous year. Among them, the output value of planting industry was 3.98 billion yuan, an increase of 4.6% over the previous year; the output value of animal husbandry was 3.42 billion yuan, an increase of 4.4% over the previous year; the output value of fishery was 6.2 billion yuan, an increase of 13.4% over the previous year. The city's agriculture achieved an added value of 7.16 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.1%. The annual grain output reached 355,100 tons, an increase of 2.94% over the previous year, achieving "ten consecutive increases"; the cotton output was 7,000 tons, a decrease of 5.75% over the previous year; the oil crop output was 60,800 tons, an increase of 2.1% over the previous year; vegetables The output was 969,900 tons, an increase of 2.4% over the previous year; the output of aquatic products was 428,000 tons, an increase of 7.94% over the previous year; 1.2 million pigs were slaughtered, an increase of 5.94% over the previous year; 15.5943 million poultry were released, an increase of 5.5% over the previous year. %. Throughout the year, 56 ecological agriculture demonstration bases were built, and 9 geographical indication trademarks were registered. The country's first organic agricultural product testing and certification center was settled in Ezhou. Changgang Dongshan New Community was listed as a national modern ecological agriculture innovation demonstration base, and Ezhou City was named Wuchang Fish Standardized Breeding Demonstration City and National "Food Security Project" Demonstration City. Agricultural industrialization is advancing rapidly, with 4 provincial-level leading enterprises, 113 farmer cooperatives, and 210 family farms newly established throughout the year. The output value of agricultural and sideline products processing reached 21.03 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31%; the ratio of the output value of agricultural and sideline products processing industry to the total agricultural output value increased from 1.27% of the previous year to 1.39%.

In 2013, Ezhou City launched the "Key Industries Doubling Plan" and introduced a series of measures to promote the steady growth of the industrial economy and support the development of market entities. It raised 1.02 billion yuan in fiscal intermittent funds and leveraged funds from all parties. Injection into the real economy has accelerated the pace of economic transformation and upgrading, the results of structural adjustment have gradually emerged, and the economic development situation has gradually improved. The city's industrial electricity consumption began to achieve positive growth in August, reversing 20 consecutive months of negative growth, and key industries and backbone enterprises began to come out of the trough.

Emerging industries such as new building materials, high-end equipment manufacturing, and biomedicine have developed steadily. The production industry represented by e-commerce has developed rapidly. The construction of an 18-square-kilometer e-commerce base has been smooth, and Amazon, GLP, Vipshop, and Dangdang have been successfully introduced. .com, Suning.com and other well-known e-commerce companies at home and abroad. Gedian Development Zone was approved as the first batch of e-commerce demonstration bases in the province. By the end of the year, the number of large-scale industrial enterprises in the city reached 487, a net increase of 45 over the previous year, an increase of 10.2%. The city's above-scale industries completed an added value of 36.1 billion yuan, an increase of 13.2% over the previous year. Among them, the added value of light industry was 7.282 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.79%; the added value of heavy industry was 28.818 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.78%. Throughout the year, the city produced 6.6543 million tons of iron ore, an increase of 12.36% over the previous year; 2.9697 million tons of pig iron, a decrease of 19.39% over the previous year; 4.5144 million tons of crude steel, a decrease of 2.63% over the previous year; and 4.6277 million tons of steel. , a decrease of 0.03% from the previous year; the production of steel castings was 169,800 tons, an increase of 45.93% from the previous year; the production of cement was 12.7826 million tons, an increase of 3.75% from the previous year; the production of clothing was 77.6612 million pieces, a decrease of 9.62% from the previous year; production Civilian steel ships totaled 181,200 deadweight tons, an increase of 8.99% over the previous year. The annual power generation was 8.929 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 1.45% over the previous year; industrial electricity consumption resumed growth, and the annual electricity consumption of industrial enterprises was 4.991 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 5.85% over the previous year. Industrial economic benefits have improved. Throughout the year, the industry above designated size achieved product sales revenue of 121.468 billion yuan, an increase of 16.3% over the previous year; a total profit of 4.203 billion yuan, an increase of 88.57% over the previous year; and a total profit and tax of 7.287 billion yuan, an increase of 63.67% over the previous year. Throughout the year, there were 7 new construction companies with qualifications or above in the city. The total output value of the construction industry for the whole year was 9.29 billion yuan, an increase of 17.3% over the previous year. Achieved main business income of 9.13 billion yuan, an increase of 26.8% over the previous year. The city's housing construction area was 8.555 million square meters, an increase of 2.885 million square meters or 50.9% over the previous year. Among them, the newly started housing area throughout the year was 5.436 million square meters, an increase of 54.9% over the previous year; the completed housing construction area was 4.175 million square meters. meters, an increase of 285,000 square meters over the previous year, an increase of 7.3%.

The city completed fixed asset investment (excluding farmers) of 56.719 billion yuan throughout the year, an increase of 28.1% over the previous year. From the perspective of three industrial investments, the city's primary industry completed an investment of 1.032 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 83.2%; the secondary industry completed an investment of 28.938 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 38.9%; the tertiary industry completed an investment of 26.749 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.9%. In 2013, the city's manufacturing industry completed an investment of 25.69 billion yuan, an increase of 36.3% over the previous year, accounting for 45.3% of the city's fixed asset investment. The investment in electric power was 530 million yuan, an increase of 81.6% over the previous year. The investment in transportation, warehousing and postal industries was 5.87 billion yuan, an increase of 29.7% over the previous year. The real estate industry completed investment of 1.628 billion yuan, an increase of 39.7% over the previous year. The commercial housing sales area was 685,200 square meters, an increase of 46.7% over the previous year.

In 2013, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 20.51 billion yuan, an increase of 13.1% over the previous year. Among them, the urban market achieved retail sales of 18.439 billion yuan, an increase of 14.2% over the previous year; the rural market achieved retail sales of 2.072 billion yuan, an increase of 3.85% over the previous year, and the urban market growth rate was 10.35 percentage points higher than the rural market growth rate. From an industry perspective, the wholesale and retail industry achieved retail sales of 18.42 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.27%; the accommodation and catering industry achieved retail sales of 2.09 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.77%. The city's total foreign trade import and export value for the whole year was US$490 million, an increase of 15.6% over the previous year. Among them, the total customs export value was US$176 million, a year-on-year increase of 12%; the total import value was US$314 million, a year-on-year increase of 17.7%. Throughout the year, the city received 4.6 million domestic and foreign tourists, an increase of 634,000 people (times) over the previous year, an increase of 16%; the total tourism revenue was 4.154 billion yuan, an increase of 23.4% over the previous year. By the end of the year, the city had 7 3A travel agencies and 4 five-star farmhouses.

In 2013, Ezhou City seized the opportunities of domestic and foreign industrial transfer and introduced a series of incentive and preferential policies to comprehensively promote investment promotion. It has successively introduced a number of major projects such as Nanshan Group's Gedian Lingang New City, East Lake High-tech Wutong Lake Information Industry Base, and Nandu New Energy to settle in the city, enhancing its development potential. Throughout the year, 105 new projects of over 100 million yuan were signed, with a total investment of 36.1 billion yuan, an increase of 41% over the previous year; the actual utilization of foreign capital was US$162 million, an increase of 16.3% over the previous year. The "Project Construction Year" activity was carried out to lay a solid foundation for development through project construction. Projects under construction in the city exceeding 100 million yuan increased by 38% year-on-year; 124 technical transformation projects were implemented, with an investment of 4.26 billion yuan completed, a year-on-year increase of 37%. The third phase project of Ezhou Power Plant with a total investment of 7.4 billion yuan has made significant progress, and construction of two 1 million kilowatt ultra-supercritical units is about to begin. 52 key industrial projects, including Gudi Headquarters and Ball Asia Pacific Phase III, were completed and put into operation.

In 2013, Ezhou City’s transportation, warehousing and postal industries completed an added value of 3.072 billion yuan, an increase of 8.5% over the previous year. The cargo turnover volume completed throughout the year was 3.829 billion ton-kilometers, an increase of 15.5% over the previous year; the passenger turnover volume was 1.449 billion person-kilometers, an increase of 15% over the previous year. The annual port cargo throughput reached 18.94 million tons, an increase of 5.2% over the previous year. In 2013, the city's highway mileage reached 3,237 kilometers, an increase of 4.5% over the previous year. Among them, 2,774 kilometers are graded highways. At the end of the year, the number of civilian vehicles nationwide reached 33,934, of which the number of private cars reached 26,339, a net increase of 4,086 vehicles over the previous year. The city has 323 public operating vehicles, and 100 new taxis were added throughout the year, bringing the total number of taxis to 499, easing the difficulty of "taxi" in the urban area. The total business volume completed by the postal and telecommunications industry throughout the year was 919 million yuan, an increase of 4% over the previous year. Among them, the total volume of telecommunications business was 717 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 0.3%, and the total postal business volume was 202 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.4%. At the end of the year, the number of mobile phone users in the city reached 950,000, and the number of Internet broadband access users reached 161,600, an increase of 20,900 over the previous year, an increase of 14.9%.

In 2013, the city’s total fiscal revenue was 5.401 billion yuan, an increase of 6.7% over the previous year. Among them, local government budget revenue reached 3.843 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.4%. Among the local public government budget revenue, local tax revenue was 2.79 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.7%, and tax revenue accounted for 72.6% of local public government budget revenue. The general budget expenditure for the whole year was 7.085 billion yuan, an increase of 13% over the previous year. Among them, social security and employment, urban and rural community affairs and other people's livelihood expenditures reached 851 million yuan and 597 million yuan respectively, an increase of 21.2% and 57.4% respectively over the previous year. At the end of the year, the deposit balance of the city's financial institutions was 39.782 billion yuan, an increase of 5.039 billion yuan from the beginning of the year. Among them, the balance of personal deposits was 23.675 billion yuan, an increase of 3.862 billion yuan from the beginning of the year. At the end of the year, the loan balance of the city's financial institutions was 27.099 billion yuan, an increase of 4.568 billion yuan from the beginning of the year. Among them, the short-term loan balance was 14.783 billion yuan, an increase of 2.558 billion yuan from the beginning of the year; the medium and long-term loan balance was 10.799 billion yuan, an increase of 1.438 billion yuan from the beginning of the year. . The incremental loan-to-deposit ratio of the city's banks reached 125%, ranking first in the province. Ezhou City and three districts won the title of "Provincial Financial Credit City and District". The city's insurance institutions' premium income for the whole year was 949 million yuan, an increase of 24.3% over the previous year, of which property insurance premium income was 206 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.5%; personal insurance premium income was 743 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.2%. Various compensation and benefit expenses were 252 million yuan, an increase of 53.2% over the previous year, of which the property insurance business compensation expenses were 119 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.7%; the personal insurance business claims and benefits were 133 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 126.3%.

In 2013, Ezhou City’s general higher education enrolled 4,863 students, with 13,092 students and 4,155 graduates. Various types of secondary vocational education have enrolled 1,384 students, with 4,901 students and 2,282 graduates. The general middle school enrollment is 16,346, with 48,571 students and 17,741 graduates. The general primary school enrollment is 12,724, with 67,157 students and 10,168 graduates. There are 15,969 children in kindergarten.

It raised nearly 200 million yuan throughout the year, completed the standardized construction of 60 compulsory education schools, and took the lead in completing the pilot tasks of the balanced development reform of compulsory education in the province. In 2013, the city's high-tech industries achieved a total output value of 31.746 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.93%, and an added value of 9.02 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.9%. There are 12 new high-tech enterprises in the city, 34 companies have been included in the reserve enterprise database, and 16 high-tech product registration companies have been registered. Throughout the year, we organized the application for 103 science and technology plan projects of various types, and implemented 45 science and technology plan projects at or above the provincial level. 12 projects of 9 companies won national and provincial major science and technology innovation plan awards, and 4 people were awarded provincial science and technology entrepreneurship leading talents. 13 scientific and technological achievements were registered throughout the year, 2 of which won provincial science and technology awards; 68 technology contracts were registered, with a technology transaction volume of 320 million yuan. The number of invention patent applications in the city was 317, an increase of 23% over the previous year.

In 2013, Ezhou City continued to implement cultural projects to benefit the people, and mass cultural activities such as "Zhou Zhou Le" became increasingly colorful. 54 "Zhou Zhou Le" square cultural activities were held successively, with more than 700 performances and an audience of 200,000. New progress has been made in the construction of a basic public cultural service system, and a new municipal museum has been completed and opened to the public. Created a new brand of mass culture for the Grand Theater called "Weekly Performances". More than 120 performances of plays and 10,000 books have been sent to the countryside. 28 sessions of “Wudu Forum” activities were carried out. By the end of the year, the city's libraries had more than 10,000 books in their collections. We are the first in the province to achieve full coverage of digital farmhouses at the village level. The protection work of Wuwangcheng ruins was carried out. Throughout the year, the city's literary and artistic creations produced fruitful results. The large-scale dance poem "Fenghua of Wu Du" won the Qu Yuan Prize for Literature and Art, the song "Lotus Picking Boat Song" won the Golden Bell Works Award, and the modern Peking opera "The Harlequin" won the Bronze Award at the National Drama Culture Festival. In 2013, the city's comprehensive radio coverage rate reached 98.47%, and the comprehensive television coverage rate reached 98.62%. In 2013, Ezhou athletes won 8 gold medals, 9 silver medals and 4 bronze medals in various provincial competitions. In the National Health Qigong Exchange Competition, the Ezhou team won the collective first prize. It has successively held the "Launching Ceremony of the 11th Ezhou National Fitness Games and the 7th Sports Dance Competition in 2013", "2013 Southeast Hubei Mass Dance Competition", and the "Wahaha" Kaili Cup National "Three to Three" (Ezhou Competition area) football matches and other competition activities have improved the health quality of citizens. By the end of 2013, the city had 187 health institutions. Among them, there are 17 hospitals, 26 township health centers, 1 maternal and child health hospital, and 1 Center for Disease Control and Prevention; there are 4,976 health technicians. Among the health professional and technical personnel, there are 1,704 practicing (assistant) physicians and 2,113 registered nurses. The number of beds in health institutions in the city reached 4,410, and the number of beds per 1,000 people in the city was 4.17. The comprehensive reform of urban community health service institutions has been basically completed, and 265 village clinics have achieved the "four modernizations" standards, completing provincial tasks two years ahead of schedule.

At the end of 2013, Ezhou City had a population of 1.0979 million people registered with public security households, including 1.057 million permanent residents and 664,000 urban residents. There were 11,284 births throughout the year, with a birth rate of 10.69‰; 5,794 deaths, a mortality rate of 5.49‰, and the natural population growth rate was 5.2‰. In 2013, Ezhou City insisted on giving priority to people's livelihood, and the public finance was tilted towards the field of people's livelihood. The annual expenditure on various types of people's livelihood was 3.32 billion yuan, accounting for 72% of the public fiscal expenditure. We conscientiously handled the "Ten Practical Matters" and solved a number of practical problems closely related to people's lives. The per capita disposable income of urban residents in the city was 20,878.16 yuan, an increase of 8.14% over the previous year. The per capita net income of rural residents was 10,209.72 yuan, an increase of 12.54% over the previous year. The income gap between urban and rural residents narrowed from 2.13:1 in the previous year to 2.05:1. The social security and assistance system has been further improved. In 2013, Ezhou City made every effort to promote entrepreneurship and employment, issuing 110 million yuan in small fiscal discount loans, registering 11,000 new market entities of various types, 618 new small and micro enterprises, and 18,437 new urban jobs, including resettling laid-off and unemployed people. 5,197 people were re-employed. At the end of the year, the city's registered urban unemployment rate was 3.32%, 1.18 percentage points lower than the provincial control target. Throughout the year, the city's five major social insurances expanded their coverage by 25,500 people, of which 227,900 people participated in the basic pension insurance for urban employees, an increase of 3,000 people from the end of the previous year.

The number of people participating in the basic pension insurance for urban residents was 423,900, an increase of 12,100 over the previous year. The number of people participating in basic medical insurance was 107,600, an increase of 2,000 over the previous year. The number of people participating in unemployment insurance was 80,200, the same as the previous year. The number of people participating in work-related injury insurance was 80,700, an increase of 5,200 over the previous year. The number of people participating in maternity insurance was 28,400, an increase of 3,200 over the previous year. A pilot project on employment and social security for land-expropriated farmers was carried out, and old-age allowances were issued to all elderly people over 80 years old in the city. The urban and rural subsistence allowance levels and the support standards for "three noes" objects were increased by 23.7% and 140% respectively. Full coverage of serious illness insurance for urban and rural residents has been achieved, and secondary reimbursement for serious illnesses has been implemented for insured persons. Explore the development of community elderly care services and build 103 community mutual aid elderly care service centers. Throughout the year, 4,611 sets of affordable housing of various types were built, and rental subsidies were provided to 1,115 needy households. Provided fund loans of 390 million yuan were issued. Issues left over from the history of demolition and resettlement have been properly resolved, and most of the relocated households have moved into new homes. In 2013, the number of urban residents enjoying the minimum living security in the city reached 15,900, and the number of rural residents enjoying the minimum living security reached 29,200. The number of beds in rural social welfare units in the city reached 2,632, an increase of 605 over the previous year.

The city’s total energy consumption throughout the year was 7.1323 million tons of standard coal, an increase of 6.16% over the previous year. Among them, the total energy consumption of industrial enterprises was 6.0142 million tons of standard coal, a year-on-year increase of 4.81%. Energy consumption per unit of GDP decreased by 3.96% compared with the previous year. At the end of 2013, the city's commonly used cultivated land area was 566,800 acres, and its forest land area was 458,100 acres. The city's forest coverage rate reached 20.25%, an increase of 0.88 percentage points from the previous year. The city's urban domestic sewage treatment rate reaches 88.69%, and the harmless treatment rate of domestic waste reaches 100%; the per capita public green space area in cities and towns is 15.42 square meters, and the green coverage rate in built-up areas reaches 37.02%. There were 293 days throughout the year when the ambient air in the central urban area met or exceeded the national secondary standard. Sulfur dioxide 0.03 mg/cubic meter, respirable particulate matter 0.076 mg/cubic meter, nitrogen dioxide 0.035 mg/cubic meter. In 2013, 72 production safety accidents of various types occurred in the city, 18 fewer than the previous year, or 20%. There were 39 deaths, 2 fewer than the previous year, a decrease of 4.9%. The direct economic loss was 3.616 million yuan, a decrease of 39.9% from the previous year. The city's annual production safety accident mortality rate per 100 million yuan of GDP was 6.18%, a decrease of 1.14 percentage points from the previous year.

In March 2021, Ezhou City ranked 202nd in the 2021 China City Comprehensive Strength Ranking List.

In January 2021, the "2020 China City Science and Technology Innovation Development Index Ranking" was released, and Ezhou City ranked 189th.

In January 2021, the list of China’s “100 Most Efficient Cities” in 2020 was released, with Ezhou City ranked 25th.

In December 2020, the 2020 China City Business Environment Ranking was released, and Ezhou City ranked 162nd.

In November 2020, the Central Civilization Office released the list of cities selected for the 6th National Civilized City, and Ezhou City was rated as the 6th National Civilized City.

In October 2020, the "2020 China Blue Sky Top 100 Cities List" was released, and Ezhou City ranked 63rd.

In 2020, the GDP ranking of cities in Hubei Province in 2019 was released, and Ezhou City ranked 13th with 1140.07.

In 2019, Ezhou City was selected into the Top 100 Chinese Cities with Development Potential in 2019, ranking 70th.

In December 2016, the National Tourism Administration Office identified Ezhou City as the third batch of national tourism standardization demonstration units.

In February 2010, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development named Ezhou City the 2009 National Garden City.