Seeking Progress while Stabilizing Every Month | Key Moments: Renewal of Power and Significant Economic Recovery with Positive Trends - Scanning and Upgrading of Economic and Social Development Across the Country in June | Economy | Across the Country

June coincides with the closing period of the first half of the year, and the Chinese economy is showing a clear trend of recovery and improvement. Faced with challenges such as weak endogenous driving force, insufficient demand, and new obstacles to economic transformation and upgrading, various regions have actively taken measures to promote the sustained recovery of consumption, focus on restoring and expanding domestic demand, deeply implement the innovation driven strategy, accelerate industrial upgrading, implement the work of ensuring people's livelihoods, and steadily promote high-quality economic development.

Unleashing new consumption potential and enhancing endogenous driving force for economic development

Ten miles on different days, traveling all four seasons in a day. On June 18th, the winding Duku Highway in the depths of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang officially resumed operation after nearly half a year of "cat winter". The magnificent scenery has amazed tourists from Henan, Guangdong, Sichuan and other places.

"Appreciating the beautiful scenery, dreams come true. After years of anticipation, it finally came true!" Liu Jianshe and three friends from Zhengzhou made an appointment to visit the Duku Highway, and he sighed as he looked at the steep mountain road.

On June 18, at the Duku Base Camp Square, Dushanzi District, Karamay City, riders rode motorcycles to prepare for the Duku Highway. Photo by Zhao Ge, journalist from Xinhua News Agency

The current summer season has begun, coupled with the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, and consumption in various regions has seen significant growth potential in June. Henan Province has launched the "2023 Henan Summer Consumption Season", Shandong Province has launched the "2023 Hospitality Shandong Camping Season", and Guangxi Province has launched a nationwide student tour of 18 scenic spots in southwestern Guangxi for 1 yuan

The "night economy" has lit up, and folk tourism, summer vacation, and study tours have become popular. Various regions are working hard to enrich the supply of cultural and tourism products, optimize consumption scenarios, welcome the summer consumption peak season, expand new consumption growth space, and accumulate energy to promote consumption and expand domestic demand.

According to data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, there were 106 million domestic tourism trips during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, a year-on-year increase of 32.3%; We achieved a domestic tourism revenue of 37.31 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 44.5%, and the cultural and tourism industry has shown strong recovery momentum.

The 618 shopping festival has also accelerated the recovery of the current consumer market. Various platforms have gradually disclosed their transcripts: nearly 50% of small and medium-sized merchants on JD.com have seen a growth of over 200% in transaction volume; Tmall 618 has been on sale for 4 hours, with over 30 brands in the mobile, digital, and home appliance categories achieving a turnover of over 100 million yuan; The order volume of Kwai e-commerce in the first three days of "618" increased by more than 70% year on year

Mr. Min Lu from Wanshi Village, Jiaji Town, Qionghai City, Hainan Province, southern China, purchased a new energy vehicle worth over 200000 yuan.

"I live in Jiaji Town and work in Tayang Town, which is about 10 kilometers away. Tramways have better operability than gasoline cars, and there are many charging stations arranged around," Mr. Lu said.

On June 16th, Wuxi, Jiangsu, Qionghai, Hainan, and Jingmen, Hubei simultaneously launched the 2023 New Energy Vehicle Campaign to the Countryside. Several cities and counties in Hainan Province have recently introduced incentive and subsidy policies, providing consumers of new energy vehicles who purchase and register locally with certain subsidies and discounts; Chongqing is developing green transportation consumption and promoting the application of new energy vehicles.

Consumption is an important engine of China's economic growth, and green and low-carbon consumption have become important growth points in the current market. Enterprises increase research and development, businesses innovate models, and promote the extension of green consumption to more scenarios; Relevant policy measures will provide support and better promote the green and low-carbon transformation and upgrading of consumption in various regions.

Innovation driven, stimulating new driving forces, and steadily advancing high-quality development

On June 28, the International Cooperation and Exchange Conference on Industrial Chain Supply Chain and the Entrepreneurs the Taihu Lake Forum was held in Suzhou, where 45 foreign-funded industrial projects with a total investment of 11.7 billion dollars were settled in Jiangsu, involving biomedicine, new energy, intelligent manufacturing and other fields.

Industry is the foundation of high-quality development and the pillar of modern economic system. Entering June, various regions are actively exploring ways to further stimulate the innovation vitality of enterprises, making greater efforts to promote transformation and upgrading, finding more ways, and devising better strategies.

Automatic obstacle avoidance, super cruising, precise station entry, automatic charging... In the factory area of Yutong Bus Co., Ltd. located in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, the intelligent connected bus "Xiaoyu 2.0" is driving steadily on the road.

In June, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that it will launch pilot projects for the access and road use of intelligent connected vehicles. At present, the testing road mileage of intelligent connected vehicles in China has exceeded 15000 kilometers, and multi scenario demonstration applications such as autonomous taxis, unmanned buses, autonomous valet parking, trunk logistics, and unmanned delivery are being carried out in an orderly manner.

Under complex circumstances, China continuously strengthens its leading role in innovation, strives to develop new industries and formats, and actively promotes technological self-reliance and self-improvement.

At the Fortune 500 and steel company Shagang Group, robots have reduced the production time of product testing samples from 30 minutes to 3 minutes, and the digital process simulation platform has shortened the product development cycle by 30%; The intelligent management system enables remote monitoring and diagnosis of nearly 40 production lines.

This is a recent photo taken of the cold-rolled silicon steel workshop at Shagang.

"Shagang Group's investment in intelligent manufacturing has no upper limit, and it has completed the process reengineering of production service management through new generation information technology, accelerating the pace of industrial transformation and upgrading," said Shen Bin, Party Secretary of Shagang Group.

At the APEC International Cooperation Forum on Small and Medium sized Enterprises held in Guangzhou recently, Liang Zhifeng, Director of the Small and Medium sized Enterprise Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that by 2025, efforts will be made to cultivate 1 million innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, 100000 specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises, and 10000 specialized and new "little giant" enterprises.

Expand new industries and activate new engines. On June 17th, the Shenghong Biodegradable Materials Project, a major project in Jiangsu Province, started construction with a first phase investment of approximately 6.5 billion yuan; On June 21st, the first phase of the Tangshan LNG project, the largest designed liquefied natural gas project in the Bohai Rim region, was officially put into operation; On June 30th, China's first 10000 ton photovoltaic hydrogen production project, the Sinopec Xinjiang Kuche Green Hydrogen Demonstration Project, was put into operation... Multiple strategic emerging industry projects are accelerating their implementation, accumulating momentum for high-quality development.

"With the deepening implementation of the innovation driven strategy, solid progress in industrial upgrading, and rapid growth of new driving forces, the support for industrial production will continue to strengthen," said Fu Linghui, spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics.

Welcoming the Peak and Summer Strong, Ensuring Livelihood and Implementing Practical Measures

Since June, many parts of the country have been hit by high temperatures, and the summer heat wave combined with economic recovery has led to electricity facing the "peak hour".

Southern Power Grid has completed the annual "physical examination" of 13 DC projects; State Grid of China has constructed 239 key power grid projects to meet peak summer demand this year, all of which will be completed by the end of June. Whether it is planning, construction, production and operation, supply guarantee, emergency dispatch, or ensuring safety production, all regions are prepared to meet peak summer demand.

Consolidate the foundation of people's livelihoods and focus on their needs. In June, the employment of college graduates entered a sprint stage.

As of June, the education system in Guangdong Province has launched over 800 recruitment activities for the 2023 graduating class of universities; Hainan launches a 100 day sprint for graduate employment; The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has launched the 2023 Hundred Day and Ten Million Recruitment Special Action... All parties will continue to work hard to promote the employment and entrepreneurship of college graduates.

Harvest wheat in the field and press the stubble for summer planting. In Taihe County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, contiguous farmland has changed from golden at the beginning of the month to green, with seedlings sprouting one after another. "Now for summer planting, we use methods such as increasing organic fertilizer to scientifically grow crops and strive for a good harvest in autumn," said Xu Congxiang, a major grain grower.

On June 16th, workers were sowing corn and soybeans in the fields of Xu Congxiang, a major grain grower. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Mu

Spring competes for the day, summer competes for the time. At present, Aksu City in Xinjiang adopts the method of "harvesting one piece, transporting one piece, and replanting one piece" to scientifically coordinate and dispatch agricultural machinery, and replanting corn is gradually being launched; Handan City, Hebei Province has invested more than 100000 agricultural machinery to ensure that all summer sowing should be done

According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, as of June 20th, the progress of harvesting winter wheat in 9 provinces including Sichuan, Henan, and Anhui has reached 99%, and large-scale machine harvesting in the Huang Huai Hai region has basically ended. At the same time, 72.3% of summer crops have been sown nationwide, with a year-on-year progress of 0.9 percentage points.

In the booming and scorching June, the whole country is taking a more proactive attitude, responding to challenges, seizing opportunities, and taking the initiative to lay a solid foundation and accumulate new and greater momentum for China's economic and social development in the second half of the year.

Unified manuscript participation in text and video