In the first half of the year, the GDP of Suqian surpassed that of Lianyungang, which ranked bottom in Jiangsu's total economic output last year
1. Last year, Lianyungang, which ranked bottom in Jiangsu's total economic output, surpassed Suqian in GDP in the first half of the year
On July 31st, all economic data for the first half of 2023 in 13 prefecture level cities in Jiangsu Province were released. Specifically, the gross domestic product of Suzhou City is 1145.84 billion yuan, Nanjing City is 831.692 billion yuan, Wuxi City is 710.567 billion yuan, Nantong City is 603.24 billion yuan, Changzhou City is 452.54 billion yuan, Xuzhou City is 400.909 billion yuan, Yangzhou City is 341.736 billion yuan, Yancheng City is 341.341 billion yuan, Taizhou City is 320.878 billion yuan, Zhenjiang City is 263.511 billion yuan, Huai'an City is 243.208 billion yuan, Lianyungang City is 195.59 billion yuan, and Suqian City is 192.57 billion yuan.
Among them, the gross domestic product of Lianyungang was 195.59 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.9%, ranking first in the province. During the same period, Suqian achieved a regional gross domestic product of 192.057 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.1%, second only to Lianyungang in terms of growth rate.
Last year, Lianyungang, which ranked bottom in Jiangsu's total economic output, surpassed Suqian's GDP in the first half of the year.
2. Zhejiang Province requires: Hangzhou urban area to lift restrictions on household registration quotas
Recently, the General Office of Zhejiang Provincial Government issued the Notice on Promoting the Reform of registered residence System with High Quality. The Notice clearly states that Zhejiang has fully liberalized and relaxed the restrictions on settlement in urban areas, liberalized the settlement of talents, relaxed the settlement of people who seek refuge, and implemented the cumulative mutual recognition of the number of years of access to registered residence. It is also mentioned that the urban area of Hangzhou will lift the restrictions on household registration quotas, streamline the points program, and ensure that the scores of years of residence and years of social insurance payment account for the main proportion of points. In other urban areas, the requirement for length of residence should be reduced and procedures simplified.
3. This railway is officially named Yongjin Railway
According to relevant document notifications, the Jinhua Ningbo Railway has been renamed as the Yongjin Railway, and the stations along the railway have been named as Yunlong, Fenghua, Xikou Xinchang North, Shengzhou Xinchang, Shengzhou Xidongyangbei, Suxi, and Yiwu.
The Yongjin Railway starts from Yunlong Station on the Yongtaiwen Railway in the east, passes through Ningbo City and Shaoxing City, and ends at Yiwu Station in Jinhua City on the Shanghai Kunming Railway in the west. The newly built main line has a total length of about 188.3 kilometers, with 9 stations including Yunlong, Fenghua, Xikou, Xinchang North, Shengzhou Xinchang, Shengzhou West, Dongyangbei, Suxi, and Yiwu. The designed speed is 160 kilometers per hour, with a reserved speed of 200 kilometers per hour. It is a Class I electrified railway with dual track passenger and freight.
The Yongjin Railway is the first pilot route for double decker high container transportation in China and a convenient strategic dredging channel for Ningbo Zhoushan Port. After completion and operation, it will achieve interconnection and interoperability between the world's small commodity capital and the world's largest port, effectively meeting the passenger and freight transportation needs of the areas along the line.