At the second quarter economic development dispatch meeting of the autonomous region in 2025, Chen Gang, the Party Secretary of the Autonomous region, emphasized that efforts should be made to take action, integrate, be strict and compare. We should concentrate our efforts on doing our own things well, learn from each other, catch up with each other and strive for development and implementation, to ensure the completion of the "double over half" target in the first half of the year and lay a solid foundation for achieving the economic and social development goals and tasks for the whole year.

Starting from today, our newspaper will launch a series of reports, focusing on four aspects: "get moving, integrate, be strict, and compare". We will highlight the spirit and specific actions of the entire city in responding promptly and implementing measures, and in working hard and striving for excellence on the track of high-quality development. This will further consolidate development consensus, stimulate development momentum, and form a development synergy. Please stay tuned.

In the first quarter of this year, the main engine of Wuzhou's industry was roaring, major projects were flourishing, and the consumer market was surging with a spring tide. The city's regional GDP increased by 6.8% year-on-year, delivering the "highest economic performance in the same period of the past four years", reflecting the diverse scenes of high-quality economic development in our city.

Facts have once again proved that only by planning and acting in a practical way can one achieve real results.

How can we take the initiative in our work in the face of challenges, strive to make a breakthrough in the second quarter, and ensure the "half-year double achievement" and support a "red all year round"?

At the second quarter of 2025 economic development dispatch meeting of the entire region, Chen Gang, the Party Secretary of the Autonomous region, emphasized that it is necessary to "get moving". Leading cadres at all levels, especially the Party secretaries of cities and counties, should take the lead in action, personally get involved, and command from the front. They should act as both "commanders" and "construction workers", turning statements into actions and goals into reality.

This is not only a task list provided by the autonomous region's Party committee, but also a methodology.

Wuzhou City has acted promptly. Leading cadres at all levels have adhered to the principle of prioritizing hard work and innovation, speaking with achievements and allowing the people to evaluate. They have implemented and refined the "1+1+3" mechanism for the city's economic work, actively gone out to attract investment, delved into project construction, and provided assistance to enterprises on the front lines to help them overcome difficulties. They have transformed one problem list after another into action guidelines. A campaign of "racing against time and taking practical actions" has been launched in areas such as project construction, investment promotion and industrial development.

Among the striding forward figures, Cheung Chau District stands out particularly. In April this year, the main Party and government leaders of Changzhou District led the enterprises in the park and relevant departments to Beijing, Tianjin, Guangdong and other places to carry out industrial connection around the stainless steel products industry. At the same time, they conducted chain-based investment promotion to help enterprises secure orders and expand markets. "At present, Changzhou District is in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity period for development. We must take 'racing against time' as the core tactic and turn the arrangements made at the dispatch meeting into concrete actions." " Tao Guoming, the secretary of the CPC Changzhou District Committee, said.

To continuously consolidate the stable and positive development trend in the first quarter, since the second quarter, the district has adhered to the principle of having the "top leader" lead investment promotion teams outside, actively explored the "artificial intelligence +" model, promoted the extension, supplementation and strengthening of the stainless steel industry chain, and implemented digital transformation and intelligent reform. Meanwhile, in order to seize and make good use of the opportunities presented by the existing policies of the state and the autonomous region as well as a package of new policies, all four leading groups of the district have gone to the project frontlines to promote projects, creating a strong atmosphere where "everyone is responsible for projects and everyone is promoting projects". They have also implemented a working mechanism for leading cadres to contact and serve key enterprises to stabilize growth, strengthening services and operational scheduling for leading enterprises such as Yongda, Jinhai, and Xinfeng. Committed to providing considerate "motherly service" for enterprises.

For the economy to develop, industry is the engine and investment promotion is the driving force. In the first quarter, the investment promotion work in our city achieved remarkable results: 29 new investment promotion projects were signed throughout the city, among which manufacturing projects accounted for 99.8%. The investment in the implemented projects reached 5.36 billion yuan, exceeding the first-quarter target.

Behind the figures lies the abundant fruits of the successive visits of leaders at all levels in our city to the forefront of the market and the front lines of the grassroots, quickly igniting the upsurge of the "Early Spring Action" for investment promotion.

At present, the field of investment promotion is experiencing a boom of innovative development. Luo Yanping, director of the Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, said that truly good and large-scale projects are scarce resources. If they are not frequently visited, not frequently negotiated, not frequently signed, and thus not many will be implemented. Projects will not come to you automatically. To better adapt to the changing situation, the Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau will continue to innovate investment promotion methods in the future, and coordinate the implementation of a combination of measures such as "top leader" investment promotion, dedicated team investment promotion, industrial chain investment promotion, and scene investment promotion. It will also implement the "four Lists" and the "Four Comparisons" work effectiveness assessment mechanism. Encourage the vast number of cadres to practice and grow in investment promotion work, promote project investment promotion and construction in a pragmatic and efficient manner, strive to gain new advantages in regional competition, and seize the commanding heights.

Attracting investment requires not only "bringing in" but also "settling down". In recent years, Wuzhou City has always regarded project construction as the "ballast stone" of economic development. It has seized the opportunity of a package of national incremental policies, established and improved the working mechanism for provincial-level leading cadres to contact and promote major projects and the "direct express to the secretary and Mayor" system, and formed a situation where cadres have projects in their hands and everyone has targets on their shoulders to jointly manage. In the first quarter, the city's total fixed asset investment reached 16.23 billion yuan, increasing by 7.3% year-on-year. Both the total investment volume and the investment completion rate remained among the top in the region. The construction of key projects in our city has also been accelerated.

The 1 million-ton high-end stainless steel products deep processing project of Hongyi New Materials, located in the High-tech Zone of the Guangdong-Guangxi Cooperation Special Pilot Zone, is under accelerated construction. Photo by Meng Minying, reporter

Recently, in the Guangdong-Guangxi Cooperation Special Pilot Zone, the construction of the Hongyi Metal New Materials Deep Processing Products Industrial Base Project has also been advancing at a rapid pace. About 800 workers are concentrating on the construction, accelerating the progress of infrastructure, equipment installation and other work, and setting off a new upsurge of the "summer offensive" for project construction. "At present, over 90% of the project's infrastructure construction has been completed and 20% of the equipment installation has been finished." " Wang Wenhui, the project leader of the Hongyi Metal New Materials Deep Processing Products Industrial Base, said that from the signing of the project to its implementation and construction, Wuzhou City has provided all-round service guarantees for the project construction, giving the enterprise a "peace of mind" for its development. Next, the enterprise will strengthen its confidence, fully promote the project construction, and strive to complete and put it into operation as soon as possible.

"Getting moving" means strengthening the construction of execution capacity. At present, Wuzhou is promoting Party members and cadres to turn their statements into actions with a sense of responsibility of "never letting go" and an execution ability of "never letting go of anything", tempering their sense of responsibility and working hard on the main battlefield of economic development.