Xiangcheng District: Major Project Construction "Spurs On with Added Force"
　　Spring is the first of the year, and action comes before all else. On February 27, at the Xiangcheng Economic Development Zone, the construction site of Phase III of the Huazhong Pharmaceutical Industrial Park was roaring with machinery and bustling with intensified construction. Within the park, the phosphogypsum comprehensive utilization project of Zedong Chemical Group was also running at full capacity to boost production and accelerate progress, presenting a busy scene everywhere and sounding the new spring anthem of Xiangcheng's all-out effort to boost the economy and strive for a "good start."
　　In 2023, Xiangcheng, based on its locational characteristics, resource endowments, and industrial foundation, promoted the optimization and upgrading of its industrial structure by implementing a batch of large and good projects, cultivated new breakthrough points for economic growth, and translated the goals and tasks of high-quality development into tangible high-quality projects. A total of 12 industrial enterprises in the district made the city's top 100 industrial enterprises by tax payment, ranking second in the city in total number, and the district's local tax revenue from industry grew by 14.4% year on year.
　　According to a relevant official of Xiangcheng District, this year Xiangcheng will adhere to the principle of "everything revolving around projects, all efforts focused on projects," and around key industrial projects, urban construction projects, modern service industry projects, agriculture and rural affairs projects, and livelihood projects, vigorously promote investment attraction and project construction, strive by all means to promote signing, commencement, production, and inclusion in statistical scope, and firmly and effectively advance major project construction. In January, the district focused on its industrial development positioning and carefully studied, reserved, and rolled out a batch of high-quality large and good projects: the commercial center project of the Panggong Ecological Technology and Financial Industrial Park is undergoing orderly bidding work; the Dongfeng Hongtai project with an annual output of 50,000 tons of lithium iron phosphate cathode materials and power battery recycling, which settled in Xiangcheng at the beginning of the year, has entered the final confirmation stage of process design and is about to begin construction. In addition, a number of major projects that boost high-quality development and have officially signed and settled in Xiangcheng, such as the Hanjiang Investment Headquarters project of Hubei Port Group, the Yunsheng High-Speed Rail Freight System Production Base project, the Hydrogen Energy Rail Engineering Vehicle Manufacturing Demonstration Base project of Kegong Equipment, and the Xiangyang Gengdu Town project of Hubei Tourism Investment,engineering projectsare even more highly anticipated.
　　The principal official of Xiangcheng District stated that the district will treat project construction as a "training ground" and "racecourse" for tempering fine work style and solid skills, continue to transform work style, create first-class performance, and take the lead, continuously deepen and innovate service guarantee measures, and strive by all means to create the best government environment, market environment, social environment, and rule-of-law environment for enterprises and projects, concentrate resources and efforts to boost major project construction to "accelerate," constantly refresh the "Xiangcheng Speed," and use solid work to help high-quality economic and social development.

　　Gucheng County: Launching the "Hundred-Day Campaign" for Investment Attraction
　　"We will judge heroes by investment attraction and judge success or failure by project construction, and concentrate efforts to promote high-quality development of the county economy." On February 28, it was learned from Gucheng County that this year the county will continue to carry out the "Hundred-Day Campaign" for investment attraction, vigorously grasp investment attraction and industry development, and ensure that the annual contracted investment amount for investment attraction and actually received funds both grow by more than 12% year on year.
　　In the first quarter, Gucheng County aims to achieve a contracted investment amount of 35 billion yuan for signed projects, introduce more than 10 industrial projects with investment of 500 million yuan each and 1 industrial project with investment of 10 billion yuan; achieve a newly started investment amount of 23.2 billion yuan for investment attraction projects of 100 million yuan or more, and a newly included statistical investment amount of 5.6 billion yuan for investment attraction projects of 100 million yuan or more; and achieve actually received funds of 12 billion yuan.
　　To achieve the established goals, the whole county will firmly grasp the "No. 1 Project" of investment attraction without wavering, take chain-based investment attraction, stationed investment attraction, and business-led investment attraction as breakthrough points, clarify time nodes, and advance the work of the "Hundred-Day Campaign" in a multi-dimensional and closed-loop manner. In May, the "results" will be released, and the second "Hundred-Day Campaign" will be advanced in sequence, repeating cyclically, with the overall situation incorporated into the year-end comprehensive target assessment and rewards and punishments fulfilled.
　　All localities and departments throughout the county will divide into tracks to carry out investment attraction work competitions, and make good and flexible use of relevant investment attraction preferential measures and reward measures. Townships (development zones) will carry out investment attraction activities in key regions no fewer than 10 times throughout the year, and other responsible departments will carry out investment attraction activities in key regions no fewer than 5 times throughout the year.
　　Led by the leaders of the "Four Major Bodies" of Gucheng County, investment attraction teams have been established and dispatched to the Greater Bay Area, Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and Fujian Triangle regions, targeting influential industry associations and enterprise groups at home and abroad to carry out group-based and cluster-based investment attraction. The goal is to undertake 80 advanced manufacturing enterprises from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and 50 industrial transfer enterprises from the Bohai Rim, Yangtze River Delta, and other regions throughout the year. Emphasis will be placed on incremental investment attraction in strategic emerging industries, striving to introduce more than 100 emerging industry projects of 100 million yuan or more located in the mid-to-high end of the industrial chain with strong driving force throughout the year.

　　Municipal Administrative Approval Bureau: Continued Efforts to "Efficiently Handle One Matter at a Time"
　　On February 28, it was learned from the Municipal Administrative Approval Bureau that the bureau will firmly establish the development concept of "projects first," serve as the "main attacker" for key project construction and the "main force" for optimizing the business environment, and with extraordinary boldness, drive, competitiveness, vigor, and tenacity, grasp project construction, environment optimization, and efficient service, ensuring the successful completion of the "Project Construction Year" target tasks.
　　The Municipal Administrative Approval Bureau will fully leverage its departmental functions and make every effort to serve key project construction. Highlighting the orientation of investment attraction, based on Xiangyang's local resource advantages, it will formulate point-to-point high-standard investment plans and scientifically guide enterprises that meet industrial agglomeration requirements to settle. Regarding difficulties and bottlenecks in the advancement of investment projects, it will strengthen communication and coordination, enhance city-district linkage, and provide full-chain, full-life-cycle services for project construction from investment negotiation, project landing, commencement of construction, and talent attraction to service development, promoting rapid implementation of project construction. It will accelerate project advancement and transformation, promote enterprises to enter statistical scope, advance the construction of already attracted projects, closely track signed informationization projects invested in Xiangyang, and promote projects to be completed and put into production as soon as possible.
　　In terms of optimizing the business environment, the Municipal Administrative Approval Bureau will benchmark against first-class advanced cities in business environment nationwide, make every effort to advance the pilot reform of integrating online and offline government services and extending them to the grassroots level, continue to intensify efforts in "efficiently handling one matter at a time," improve the efficiency of offline "entering only one door," consolidate the support of online "handling everything on one network," and smooth the channel of "one-line response" for demands; continue to deepen the reform of the engineering construction project approval system, further expand the application of regional unified evaluation results, deepen the "enjoy without application" of enterprise-benefiting policies, and strive to create a business environment with the fewest approval items, highest handling efficiency, best investment environment, and strongest sense of gain for enterprises, continuously stimulating market vitality and endogenous driving force.
　　The Municipal Administrative Approval Bureau will earnestly practice the "Four Downs to the Grassroots" working method, deeply carry out activities such as "A Thousand Cadres Enter a Thousand Enterprises," go deep into the project frontline, understand what enterprises are thinking, what they want, and what they hope for, provide precise and nanny-style services, strive by all means to help solve the difficulties, pain points, and bottlenecks in enterprise development, and serve as gold-medal "shop assistants" in serving enterprises, allowing investors to fully feel the speed, warmth, and enthusiasm of government departments and continuously enhancing enterprises' sense of gain. The bureau will, with the vigorous and energetic posture of struggle and full vigor, rouse the drive to sprint at the start and win the whole year, raise the momentum of vigorously grasping projects and investment, and strive to advance the city's project construction to achieve new results and new breakthroughs.

　　Municipal Rural Revitalization Bureau: Over 60% of Connecting Funds Used for Development Projects
　　Industrial revitalization is the top priority of rural revitalization. On February 26, it was learned from the Municipal Rural Revitalization Bureau that the bureau will closely focus on the target tasks of the "Project Construction Year," take the implementation of the Strong County Project as the starting point, use more than 65% of connecting funds for development projects, create no fewer than 7 rural revitalization demonstration areas, and drive increased farmer income and growth and strengthening of village collective economies.
　　Anchoring "firm defense," with consolidating poverty alleviation achievements as the starting point to ensure bottom-line safety. Strictly implement the "12361" working mechanism, organize counties, towns, and villages every month to carry out regular monitoring, compare and verify early warning information from industry departments, hold a scheduling meeting on monitoring for preventing return to poverty once every quarter, and carry out a centralized investigation once every six months, ensuring that all who should be included are included. Continue to grasp the implementation of the "Two No Worries and Three Guarantees" and the policy of guaranteed drinking water safety, and consolidate and expand poverty alleviation achievements. For those at risk of returning to poverty or becoming impoverished due to disasters, accidents, and other reasons, a "green channel" may be opened in accordance with policy provisions, providing assistance first and inclusion afterward, ensuring that all who should be helped are helped.
　　Anchoring "innovation," with the implementation of the Strong County Project as the carrier to improve the quality and effectiveness of assistance. Innovate agricultural industry development platforms, explore the creation of a batch of "rural industry incubation parks," guide each county (city, district) to rely on rural tourism demonstration villages and villages with a certain industrial foundation such as small handicrafts and small workshops within rural revitalization demonstration areas and centralized resettlement sites for relocated households, use existing idle collective assets (primary schools, etc.) and vacant rural houses, introduce and cultivate a batch of market entities, and advance rural industry development in an intensive manner. Strengthen funding guarantees, use more than 65% of connecting funds for developing industries, support all localities in cultivating leading industries according to local conditions based on resource endowments, build a piece of grain "field" (high-quality agricultural product production base), sow a grain of scientific and technological "seed" (promote improved varieties and techniques), raise a flock of leading "sheep" (cultivate and strengthen agricultural production enterprises), build a piece of industrial "park" (industrial processing park), make good use of a barrel of agriculture-supporting "gold" (special funds, integrated funds), bring back a group of new agricultural "people" (rural sages and capable people), and play a good brand "card" (the "Xiang Piao Tian Xia" full-category brand of Xiangyang agricultural products), advancing the upgrading of rural industry development.
　　Anchoring "development," empowering rural revitalization with the "Project Construction Year" activity. Revitalize existing rural resources, advance the "four batches" classified measures for assistance industries—consolidate a batch, upgrade a batch, revitalize a batch, and adjust a batch—formulate project disposal measures one by one, strengthen operation and management, and effectively improve the benefits of assistance industry projects; grasp rural investment attraction, mobilize village-based work teams at all levels to actively carry out investment attraction and talent attraction, mobilize capable people and rural sages to return home to invest and start businesses, revitalize idle rural resources, and drive farmers to find employment and start businesses; create a rural revitalization "scenic line," learn and apply the development concepts, working methods, and advancement mechanisms contained in the "Ten Million Project," consolidate the achievements of rural revitalization demonstration area creation in 2023, implement citywide overall packaging and planning of projects, unified organization of review, and centralized commencement of construction, and in 2024 build 7 rural revitalization demonstration areas to high standards, connecting 43 administrative villages and constructing 109 projects, including 58 industrial projects and 51 rural construction projects, promoting comprehensive rural revitalization from point to area and achieving momentum and results.