Yongtai County
Economic and Social Overview
The county’s GDP for the year was 3.301 billion yuan, an increase of 10.4%. Total fiscal revenue was 155.8 million yuan, an increase of 22.1%, of which local-level fiscal revenue was 82 million yuan, an increase of 20.6%. The total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery was 2.269 billion yuan, an increase of 5.1%. The total industrial output value was 1.63 billion yuan, an increase of 17.3%, of which the total industrial output value above designated size was 1.074 billion yuan, an increase of 27.7%. The fixed asset investment of the whole society was 679 million yuan, an increase of 22.2%. The total retail sales of consumer goods reached 1.204 billion yuan, an increase of 9.1%. At the end of the year, the county's registered population was 352,400.
Industrial economy. The supporting role of key enterprises was obvious. The number of enterprises with more than 10 million yuan increased to 21, achieving an output value of 924 million yuan, accounting for 86% of the industrial output value above designated size, an increase of 43.1%. The agglomeration effect of industrial concentration areas has emerged. "Two districts and one corridor" have gathered 20 industrial enterprises above designated size, achieving an output value of 637 million yuan, an increase of 62%. Five industries, including clothing and shoes and hats, grilled eels, handicrafts, textiles, and electricity, have become key industries that promote the rapid growth of large-scale industries, with a cumulative industrial output value of 572 million yuan, an increase of 80.8%. The hydropower industry continues to develop, with an investment of 92 million yuan in hydropower construction, 7 new power stations put into operation, and an additional installed capacity of 4,290 kilowatts; the annual power generation volume was 490 million kilowatt hours, and the power generation output value was 98 million yuan.
Tourism and commerce industry. Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area has been rated as a "National Water Conservancy Scenic Area" and listed as a provincial agricultural tourism demonstration site; Qianjiangyue Leisure Farm has been included in the top ten rural tourism routes in the province; Chibi Scenic Area has begun to apply for a national 4A-level tourist area. The creation of "China's Excellent Tourism County" has been fully launched, a census of tourism resources in the county has been carried out, and the construction of tourist attractions has been continuously improved. The Qingyun Mountain Royal Hot Spring Hotel is open to the public; some scenic spots in the Dazhangxi Leisure Resort have begun trial operations; the construction of the Sakura Spring and Cixin Garden projects has been officially launched. The county received more than 700,000 tourists throughout the year, creating an output value of 136 million yuan, an increase of 6.2% and 16.2% respectively.
New rural construction. The "Yongtai County New Socialist Rural Planning Outline from 2006 to 2010" was compiled and the planning of 41 "Double Hundred Project Villages" was completed. Four standardized production projects, including organic plum, betel nut taro, hibiscus plum, and white enoki mushroom, were included in the first batch of 16 municipal agricultural standardization comprehensive demonstration zone projects. 11 leading municipal-level industrialization enterprises achieved an output value of 110 million yuan. The grain planting area is 23,000 hectares, of which 92% is high-quality rice planting area, and the grain output reaches 131,700 tons. The structure of fruit varieties has been optimized, with 233.33 hectares of newly planted famous and high-quality fruits such as "Millennium Red" nectarines and "Chunmi No. 1" peach, basically forming a new production pattern of "mainly plums, with famous and high-quality products". The development of specialty industries has accelerated, and the planting area of ??oolong tea such as Tieguanyin and Taiwan Tea No. 2 has been expanded to 100 hectares, making it the tea production county with the largest planting area and the fastest development in the city. The off-season vegetable production situation is good. 12 new vegetable bases have been built, and an off-season vegetable production base with one village, one product, and one township and one industry has initially been formed in the high mountain areas. The afforestation area completed is 2,700 hectares. Completed 215 kilometers of roads leading to organized villages, repaired 40 water conservancy facilities; completed water supply projects for 25 administrative villages, and built 650 rural household biogas pools. The construction of the pilot project for flash flood disaster prevention in the Changqing River Basin was completed, and the ability of rural areas to defend against natural disasters was strengthened.
Reform and opening up. The reform of state-owned and collectively-owned enterprises is advancing steadily. The county and township enterprise bureaus were dissolved and the restructuring of the county construction engineering company was successfully launched. The reform of the collective forest rights system and its supporting reforms have been deepened, the forest ecological benefit compensation fund management measures have been fully implemented, and the ecological public welfare forest management and protection mechanism has been innovated. The reform of the employment system for public institutions was smoothly advanced, the reform of rural credit cooperatives was successfully completed, and the county credit cooperatives were established. Two newly signed foreign-funded enterprises, Fenggao Green Food Co., Ltd. and Fuzhou Crafts Co., Ltd., have a contract value of US$2.85 million. The actual utilization of foreign capital achieved new breakthroughs, reaching US$3.45 million, an increase of 202.6%; the total export value was US$3.3 million, an increase of 63.4%.
People’s lives. The income of urban and rural residents continued to grow. The disposable income of urban residents was 8,568 yuan, an increase of 9.4%; the per capita net income of farmers was 4,110 yuan, an increase of 6.9%; the balance of savings deposits of urban and rural residents was 1.71 billion yuan, an increase of 16.0%.
New progress has been made in employment and reemployment. The registered urban unemployment rate is 3.6%. There are 3,030 new jobs in the county, and 263 laid-off and unemployed people have been reemployed. 5,016 rural surplus laborers have been transferred, and 800 people have received free vocational skills training. We increased social assistance to help those in need, and issued more than 2.1 million yuan in various types of disaster relief funds. The social security system has been further improved, with 14,868 people in urban areas participating in basic pension insurance and 11,700 people participating in basic medical insurance.
Social undertakings. Completed 44 second-phase dangerous renovation projects; invested 5.271 million yuan to complete the construction of distance education projects for 131 rural primary and secondary schools. The County Radio, Film and Television Bureau was rated as an advanced unit in the province’s “Village Access” work. Implemented 3 provincial-level science and technology projects and 5 municipal-level projects, 3 of which passed inspection and acceptance; recommended a patent and won the third prize of the Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award, and "Yongtai Furong Plum" won the first national geographical indication certification trademark in Fuzhou City. The team participated in the 13th Provincial Games and won the best results in history with 14 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 7 bronze medals. Three health center outpatient buildings in Dayang, Tong'an and Geling were built. Direct distribution of medicines in rural areas in townships and towns reaches 100%, and at the village level it reaches 95%.
Source: "2007 Fujian Yearbook"