Delivered at the 1st Session of the 14th Zhejiang Provincial People’s Congress

on January 12, 2023

Wang Hao

Governor of the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province

Fellow Deputies,

On behalf of the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province, I will now report to you on the work of the government and ask for your deliberation and approval. I also ask members of Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the CPPCC and those who are present for their comments.

I. A Review of Main Work in 2022 and the Past Five Years

Last year the provincial government has adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era, fully implemented the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, the plenary sessions of the 19th CPC Central Committee and the 20th CPC National Congress, thoroughly implemented the spirit of the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on epidemic prevention, economic stability and secure development, and on Zhejiang’s responsibility as an important economic province. In accordance with the decision and deployment of the 15th Provincial Party Congress and the objectives and tasks defined at the sixth session of the 13th Provincial People's Congress. We have faithfully implemented the “Double Eight Development Strategy”, striving to create an “important window”. We have solidly promoted high-quality development and construction of the demonstration area for common prosperity, made overall plans to fight for epidemic prevention and control, and for steady progress and quality improvement, and withstood unexpected shocks and challenges. The province’s GDP is expected to increase by about 3%, and the per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents is expected to increase by 4.1% and 6.6% respectively. 

1. We have made overall plans for epidemic prevention and control to minimize the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development. Putting people’s life above all, we have dynamically optimized the epidemic prevention measures, and constantly improved our capacity for scientific and accurate prevention. Focusing on "prevention of severe diseases", we have planned ahead of time designated hospitals, sub designated hospitals and ICU beds, accurately implemented the 10th national anti-epidemic plan and the 10th diagnosis and treatment plan, and made every effort to treat people infected with COVID-19, making sure all those who should be treated are treated. We set up ten thousand groups in villages and communities to offer the distribution service, achieved orderly transition of the epidemic policies and passed the peak smoothly. We have fully implemented the "white list" system for key enterprises and the closed-loop production and management model, so as to achieve continuous production and logistics, stable production capacity and order.

2. We have made great efforts to win favorable policies, innovate policies and make good use of policies to help market players cope with shocks and enhance confidence. Aiming to issue exact and efficient policies as early as possible, we launched the "5+4" policy package at the beginning of the year to stabilize growth and improve quality, implemented the national policy package to stabilize economy at the first time, and issued 38 and 79 points of policy to stabilize the economy in our province, as well as the rescue policies for the difficult enterprises in the service industry, small and medium-sized enterprises, and individual businesses. We also improved the mechanism for direct access to policies. We increased efforts to reduce taxes and fees. We reduced the burden of market entities by more than 400 billion yuan, cashed out 108.8 billion yuan of government-related subsidies, and completed 223.3 billion yuan of value-added tax rebates. State-owned units reduced rent by 8.2 billion yuan, benefiting 3.02 million small and micro enterprises and individual businesses. We successfully held the 6th World Conference of Zhejiang Merchants, with 749,000 new entities entering the market, up 14.7%.

3. We have vigorously promoted the construction of major projects to promote the supporting role of investment in stabilizing economy and improving quality. Taking projects as the basis for development, we established the provincial leadership responsibility mechanism and on-site supervision mechanism for major projects, and strengthened the guarantee of major project construction elements. We issued 312.8 billion yuan of local government special bonds, an increase of 38%, and invested 65.4 billion yuan of policy-based development financial instruments, accounting for 8.8% of the national share; 10 major projects were approved to consume 37.38 million tons of standard coal; a total of 570,000 mu of state-owned construction land was supplied, and 171 projects were included in the scope of national land supply. The investment completion rate of 918 provincial major projects reached 121.1%, driving the growth of fixed asset investment by about 9%. A number of major projects, such as Liuheng Highway Bridge, Hangzhou Xixian Datang, Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway, Tongzhou-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Ningbo Railway, Ningbo West Hub, and Jiaxing Airport has been under construction. A number of major industrial projects have been completed and put into operation, such as Rich Core Semiconductor, Jinruihong Microelectronics, Jingke Solar Energy and Devokang Health Care. A number of major infrastructure projects, including Hangzhou West Railway Station, Hangzhou Airport Phase III, and Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taizhou High-speed Railway, were also completed and put into operation.

4. We have worked hard to promote the industrial recovery and stability, so as to make effective use of its role of "ballast stone" in stabilizing the economy. We successfully held the International Forum on Supply Chain Resilience and Stability, and General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter and gave important instructions. Aiming to promote adjustment with stability and optimization with adjustment, we launched a new round of industrial recovery campaign. The added value of enterprises above the designated size increased by about 4.3%, and the added value of manufacturing, high-tech and strategic emerging industries, the core industries of the digital economy, increased by 10.5%, 6% and 10% respectively. Hangzhou’s digital security, Ningbo’s magnetic materials and green petrochemical and Yueqing’s electric were included into the list of national advanced manufacturing clusters. 9 enterprises were listed in the top 500 of the world, with 1 new one, 107 listed in the top 500 of China's private enterprises, with 11 new ones. We have 79 companies newly listed at home and abroad, 40 national champion enterprises (products), and 601 "small giant" enterprises.

5. By stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment and promoting consumption, we have effectively stimulated economic growth. We issued 10 measures to stabilize foreign trade and foreign capital, successfully held the first Global Digital Trade Expo, and launched the action of "grabbing orders and attracting projects". We added 15 international routes, opened 86 commercial scheduled routes, and 29 commercial charter flights. It is estimated that the import and export will increase by 13%, of which the export will increase by 13.9%. The actual use of foreign capital increased by 3.6%. The cargo throughput of Ningbo Zhoushan Port reached 1.25 billion tons and the container throughput reached 33.35 million TEUs, ranking the first and third in the world respectively. The container traffic volume of the "Yiwu-Xinjiang-Europe" liner increased by 18.7%. More than 6 billion yuan of consumer bonds were issued, and the total retail sales of consumer goods increased by about 3.7%. We helped solve the difficulties in catering, retail, tourism, transportation, civil aviation and other service industries, and the added value of the service industry increased by about 2%.

6. We have fully promoted digital reform and technological innovation, and stimulated endogenous momentum. Driving systematic reform with digital reform, we made every effort to promote the construction of digital government, digital economy, digital society and digital culture. A total of 143 provincial-level applications have been put into operation, and a number of landmark applications have emerged, such as "Mutual Recognition of Zhejiang Health Care", "Intelligent Zhejiang Police", and "Intelligent Quick Handling of Minor Issues". With self-reliance in science and technology, the intensity of R&D investment in the whole society reached 3%. We have set up 11 new national key laboratories, 4 new provincial laboratories and 4 new provincial technology innovation centers. We have turned out 263 new products of localization substitution, set up 7,000 new high-tech enterprises and 12,000 high-tech SMEs, attracted 35 experts through "Kunpeng Action", and introduced more than 1500 new leading talents. Ningbo Graphene Innovation Center has become the first national manufacturing innovation center in our province.

7. We have strengthened efforts to coordinate regional development and constantly improve the level of coordinated development. In promoting the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, we took the lead in constructing the digital Yangtze River Delta, and deepened the regional cooperation and development of Xiaoyangshan between Zhejiang and Shanghai. We completed with high quality the delineation of the "three zones and three lines" and the preparation of the provincial land space planning, and launched the pilot project of comprehensive land remediation across towns. We promoted the coordinated development of Hangzhou and Ningbo, as well as the four major metropolitan areas and the central cities. We also promoted the organic renewal of cities and complete the transformation of 616 old residential areas. We supported Jingning and Shengsi to carry out pilot projects to explore new ways of high-quality development in mountainous island counties, and constructed 26 "industrial enclaves". The GDP growth of 26 counties in mountainous areas is higher than the provincial average. Aiming to become a strong marine province, we promoted the planning, policy formulation, project construction and industrial development. We did a good job in counterpart support, counterpart cooperation and cooperation between the East and the West.

8. Giving priority to agricultural and rural development, we have made new progress in rural revitalization. We successfully held the World Conference on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), and General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter and gave important instructions. We further implemented the action of "strengthening agriculture with science and machinery", renovated 633,000 mu of cultivated land and 986,000 mu of grain production areas, and distribute 2.52 billion yuan of grain production subsidies, planting 15.37 million mu of grains and harvested 12.42 billion jin. In the construction of beautiful villages in the new era, we built 14 beautiful rural demonstration counties and 22 demonstration belts. We promoted integrated reform to enrich the villages, and over 50% of the administrative villages had an annual operating income of more than 500,000 yuan in the collective economy.

9. Actively creating key cultural works, we have made new achievements in building a strong cultural province. "Chinese Traditional Tea Making Techniques and Related Customs" was successfully included into the list of representative works of human intangible cultural heritage, and the "Chinese Painting Series of All Dynasties" was successfully concluded. General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on the two works respectively. The Song Cultural Heritage project was further promoted, the Deshou Palace and the Southern Song Museum was completed and opened, and so was the Hangzhou National Archives of Publications and Culture. Fine works of literary and artistic creation have emerged one after another. Seven works, including reportage "The Way" and opera "Red Boat", won the 16th "Five One Project" award, and the Yue opera "Maple Leaves Are Like Flowers" won the 17th Wenhua Award. We solidly promoted the construction of "15-Minute Cultural Life Circle", and further polished the civilization card of "Zhejiang Courtesy". The preparatory work for the Hangzhou Asian Games was advanced with high quality, and 56 competition venues and 31 training venues were all completed and accepted. The 17th Provincial Games was successfully held.

10. We have further constructed ecological civilization with firm steps towards green low-carbon development. We increased efforts to ensure the supply and price of energy, put the Baihetan UHV DC project into operation, and started the construction of 16 projects of clean thermal power, nuclear power, wind power and pumped-storage power. When all projects are completed, the installed capacity will reach 1.987 million kilowatts. We further promoted the Fresh Air Action and the construction of "zero direct sewage discharge zone" and "waste-free city". The rate of days of good air quality in districted cities reached 89.3%, the rate of good water quality in provincial control sections reached 97.6%, and the rate of urban and rural garbage recycling exceeded 60%. We strengthened the land greening operation, and the forest coverage rate reached 61.3%. We carried out rescue projects for rare and endangered wild animals and plants and for minor populations of wild plants. Huzhou City was awarded the demonstration area for international cooperation in ecological civilization.

11. We made great efforts to solve the people's urgent problems, and comprehensively accomplished the ten issues in people's livelihood. Adhering to the principle of "more, earlier, faster", we promoted the completion of 22,702 practical projects in 38 categories concerning people’s livelihood. We increased 1,156,000 new jobs in cities and towns, helped 128,000 people with difficulties to be employed, and brought down the unemployment rate to 4.7% in cities and towns. We increased 61,000 seats for infant nurseries, 51,000 seats for public kindergartens and 156,000 seats for public compulsory education. The proportion of students in private compulsory education dropped to 3.6%, the gross enrollment rate of higher education reached 66.3%, and 52 disciplines in 8 universities were rated as Class A disciplines. We added 7,154 beds of special care for cognitive impairment. The number of enterprise employees with basic endowment insurance increased by 598,000, and the number of long-term nursing insurance participants reached 16.6 million. 15 county-level tertiary hospitals were newly founded, and the medical insurance coverage rate of urban and rural residents reached 99.6%. We built 363,000 affordable rental housing units and renovated 3,778 kilometers of rural water supply networks.

12. We fought a resolute battle to eliminate risks and ensure social stability and order, and that the people live and work in peace and contentment. We accomplished various tasks with high quality to contribute to the success of the Twentieth CPC National Congress. We carried out special actions in safe production, group crime crackdown, social conflicts and disputes resolving, and the backlog of complaints. The number of production accidents and deaths decreased by 31.2% and 30% respectively, the number of five types of malignant cases decreased by 38.8%, and the number of cases of telecommunications network fraud decreased by 38.6%. With quick response to the super typhoon Hinnamnor and strong typhoon "Muifa", and achieved "less loss and zero death".

In the past year, we have made progress in national defense mobilization, civil defense and coastal defense, mutual support and the affairs of ex-servicemen, made achievements in ethnic affairs and religion, auditing and statistics, foreign and overseas Chinese affairs, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan affairs, historical records and archives, and meteorological and earthquake work, and seen progress in issues concerning the trade unions, women and children, youth, the elderly, the Red Cross, charity, and the disabled.

In the past year, we have strengthened the CPC construction in the government system, promoted the administration according to law, accepted the supervision of the People's Congress according to law and the democratic supervision of the CPPCC, handled the proposals of the deputies to the People's Congress and the members of the CPPCC, promoted the construction of an honest government, corrected the "four tendencies", and improved administrative efficiency and credibility.

Dear deputies! The term of office of the current provincial government has expired. Over the past five years, under the firm leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, we have conscientiously implemented the decisions and of the Provincial Party Committee, and worked together with the people of the province to promote the economic and social development of Zhejiang to a higher starting point.

We have made a solid start in high-quality development and construction of a demonstration zone for common prosperity. We have fully implemented the opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on supporting the high-quality development and construction of the common prosperity demonstration zone in Zhejiang, formulated and implemented the plans of our province, and effectively promoted the key work and reform in common prosperity. The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents continued to rank the first in all provinces and regions, and the income gap between urban and rural residents narrowed from 2.04 to 1.94.

We have significantly improved the quality of economic development. The regional GDP has passed the threshold of 6 trillion yuan and 7 trillion yuan, with an average annual growth of 5.8%. The added value of core industries in the digital economy has increased from 9.5% to 11.7% in the regional GDP, the added value of high-tech industries has increased from 40.1% to 62% in the added value of industries above the designated size, and the total number of market entities has increased from 5.93 million to 9.43 million. The average added value per mu and the average tax per mu of industries above the designated size increased by 59.1% and 35.3% respectively, and the energy consumption intensity of industries above the designated size decreased by 19.4%. The general public budget revenue rose from 659.8 billion yuan to 803.9 billion yuan, ranking third in the country.

We have achieved further success in reform and opening up. We have iteratively promoted key reforms concerning service procedures, government digital transformation, and digitalization. We have planned and implemented 39 key crucial reforms, and 316 items have been approved as national pilot reforms. We actively participated in "the Belt and Road" initiative, achieved the empowerment and expansion of the pilot free trade zone, and carried out 11 national pilots for opening up. We jumped to the third, fifth and second places in the country in the scale of import and export, foreign capital actually used and foreign direct investment, and Ningbo Zhoushan Port won the first China Quality Award in our province.

We greatly improved our ability in innovative development. The regional innovation capacity rose to the fourth place in the country, the intensity of R&D investment increased by 0.58%, and the contribution rate to scientific and technological progress reached 68%. 12 academicians and 73 experts of the "Kunpeng Action" were introduced. Zero breakthrough has been achieved in big scientific devices, the Zhijiang Laboratory has been incorporated into the national laboratory system, and the top 10 provincial laboratories and the top 10 technological innovation centers have been laid out. We won 60 national science and technology awards and every 10,000 people have 13.9 high-value invention patents.

We have founded the first ecological civilization demonstration area. We are the first ecological province in the country. The good water quality proportion in the provincial control section increased by 15.2%, the proportion of good days of air quality in the districted cities increased by 1.7%, the proportion of installed renewable energy increased by 10%, the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption increased by 4.7%, and the energy consumption, water consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of every 10,000 yuan of GDP continued to decline.

We have accelerated the pace of urban-rural integration. The urbanization rate of the permanent population has increased from 70% to about 73%, and the gap between urban and rural development and in the living standard of residents has continued to narrow. The quality of urban and rural settlements has been significantly improved, and the "Green Village" project has won the United Nations Earth Guardian Award. We have made expressways accessible to every county, added 601 kilometers of high-speed railway, and set up a national demonstration for "good rural roads".

The people's wellbeing has continued to improve. Great progress has been made in the construction of a strong province in education and health. In the past 15 years, the popularization rate of basic education has exceeded 99%, and the gross enrollment rate of higher education has increased by 8.1%. The number of beds per 1000 people in medical and health institutions increased to 5.65. The average life expectancy reached 82.3 years. We took the lead in achieving the same standard in the urban and rural minimum living standard at the municipal level, and all the 11 districted cities exceeded 1000 yuan/month.

The construction of cultural Zhejiang has yielded fruitful results. Liangzhu Ancient City Site was added to the list of the World Heritage, and 24 projects were included in the list of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage; the basic public cultural service facilities achieved full coverage at five levels; the establishment of a national civilized city and a national model city for mutual support achieved full coverage in in districted cities; the integrated development of culture and tourism was accelerated, and the coverage rates of scenic villages, towns and cities reached 57%, 57% and 70% respectively. The sports industry was booming, and the citizen’s fitness rate ranks second in the country. Zhejiang athletes achieved the best results in history at the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Xi'an National Games.

The construction of a peaceful Zhejiang and a law-based Zhejiang has reached a higher level. Focusing on "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, the grass-roots governance system has been increasingly improved, the number of criminal cases, production accidents and casualties has continued to decline, and we have been rated as excellent for three consecutive years in “Peaceful China” Operation assessment. The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress reviewed 38 local laws and regulations, and formulated and modified 51 government regulations. The success rate of developing a law-based government was the first in the country.

We have achieved high score in epidemic prevention and control. In the past three years, under the continuous attack of the COVID-19, we have comprehensively, accurately and resolutely implemented the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the decisions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. With scientific judgment and precise implementation of measures, we handled each outbreak within the shortest time, the smallest scope, and at the least cost, effectively curbed the spread of the epidemic, and protected people's life and health to the maximum extent. Coordinating epidemic prevention and economic development, we worked hard to stabilize people's livelihood and guaranteed the ongoing of production and daily life to the maximum extent. Our efforts for epidemic prevention and control have always been the most effective.

Dear delegates! Looking back on the past five years, we are filled with emotions and gratitude. What makes us most grateful is the deep concern of General Secretary Xi Jinping to Zhejiang. He encouraged us to "work hard and never stop, go ahead for a new chapter, and ride the wave bravely ", and "strive to become an important window to comprehensively demonstrate the superiority of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics in the new era". He gave Zhejiang the glorious mission of high-quality development and common prosperity, and charted the future and the sailing course for Zhejiang, which has greatly stimulated our enthusiasm for our mission and increased our confidence to forge ahead. What moved us most was the courage, tenacity and commitment of the people of the province. Facing the unprecedented changes in the world, the huge impact of the epidemic and the turmoil external environment, the people of the whole province have joined hands and worked hard together, cracked one difficulty after another, overcome one problem after another, won one tough battle after another, and finally embarked on the new journey of the "two pioneer missions" with great pride.

The five years of hard work and fruitful achievement is the result of the wise leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the result of the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thoughts on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era, and the result of the Provincial Party Committee leading the people of the province forging ahead. Here, on behalf of the Provincial People's Government, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the people of the province, to the deputies to the National People's Congress, members of the CPPCC, all democratic parties, all people's organizations and people from all walks of life, to the Central Government units in Zhejiang, the People's Liberation Army in Zhejiang, the Armed Police Force, the police for public security, and the fire rescue teams, and to the compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao, Taiwan, overseas Chinese and friends at home and abroad who care about and support the development of Zhejiang!

While affirming the achievements, we are also soberly aware that there are still some problems and weaknesses against the demands of the "two-pioneer missions". The main problems are: our innovation and development capacity is insufficient, the integration of innovation and industry is not deep enough, and there is still a gap from the requirements of building a modern industrial system and achieving high-quality development; we still need to make continuous efforts to narrow the "three big gaps" and meet the people's needs for high-quality life; green low-carbon development, energy supply and price stability are still under great pressure, and there are still shortcomings in the construction of a national ecological civilization pilot zone; we still need to pin down the responsibilities of all parties to prevent and defuse risks in the fields of economy, finance and production, and we still have a long way to go in building a peaceful Zhejiang at a higher level; we still need to improve our ability to reform and innovate and our capacity for modernization. For these problems, we will further strengthen our efforts and continue to overcome difficulties.

II. Overall requirements, objectives and tasks for development in the next five years

The next five years will be a key period for our province to make great efforts to promote the "two-pioneer missions". The overall requirement is: to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thoughts on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and comprehensively implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress; further understand the decisive significance of "Two Establishments", strengthen "Four Points of Consciousness", "Four Aspects of Confidence", and "Two Upholdings"; completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, actively serve and integrate into the new development pattern; follow the decisions of the 15th Provincial Party Congress and the 2nd Plenary Session of the 15th Provincial Party Committee, faithfully implement the "Double Eight Strategy" and work hard to create an "important window"; take high-quality development as the primary task, narrowing the three major gaps as the main direction of effort, reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, and realizing the people's aspiration for a better life as a fundamental goal; construct a high-quality demonstration area for common prosperity, promote systematically Zhejiang practice of Chinese path to modernization, and achieve outstanding results in promoting common prosperity and provincial modernization.

According to the idea of "aiming for five years, planning for three years, and working hard for each year", on the basis of achieving the 2025 target set in the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" and the plan for the Common Prosperity Demonstration Zone, by 2027, the regional GDP will reach 12 trillion yuan, the per capita GDP will reach 170,000 yuan, the per capita disposable income of residents will reach 85,000 yuan, and the income difference between urban and rural residents will be reduced to less than 1.9. The R&D investment in the whole society will exceed 3.4%, the total labor productivity will reach 280,000 yuan/person, the added value of industries above the designated size will exceed 3 trillion yuan, and the added value of core industries in the digital economy will exceed 1.6 trillion yuan, which will lay a solid foundation for taking the lead in basically realizing common prosperity and provincial modernization.

To achieve the above goals, we must unswervingly implement the "Double Eight Strategy", adhere to integrity, innovation and systematic thinking, and find new carriers for implementing the strategy in the new era, so that the strategy will glow with more brilliant light of truth and achieve more fruitful practical results; we must unswervingly implement the people-centered development concept, always keep in mind the principle of "doing everything well and winning the hearts of the people", regard serving the people and benefiting the people as the most important political achievements, and make every effort to turn the people's yearning for a better life into reality, so that a happy life will be within reach; we must unswervingly carry out reform, innovation and opening up, optimize the policy supply through reform, expand the development space through opening up, and stimulate the endogenous power through innovation, so as to lay a solid foundation for the future development; we must unswervingly implement the "two unswerving principles", actively build a clean political and business relationship, create a first-class market-oriented and law-based international business environment, and make Zhejiang the most dynamic and creative province for development; we must "work hard and never stop, go ahead for a new chapter, and ride the wave bravely". With unity and hard work, with the spirit of seizing the moment, and with the fighting attitude against difficulties, we must spare no efforts in writing a brilliant Zhejiang chapter of the Chinese way of modernization.

1. Building a modern industrial system with Zhejiang characteristics and creating a high-quality economic development highland. We will accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, digital economy as the core, modern transportation and logistics system as the artery, and modern infrastructure as the support, a system featured by the deep integration of modern service industry with advanced manufacturing and modern agriculture, and the digital economy with the real economy. We will put the focus of economic development on the real economy, promote the construction of a strong province in quality, intellectual property, brands and standards, and firmly push the high-end, intelligent and green development of manufacturing industry. We will vigorously cultivate the "415X" advanced manufacturing clusters. We will create 4 trillion-level advanced industrial clusters in the following fields, namely, the new generation of information technology, high-end equipment, modern consumption and health, and green petrochemical and new materials; 15 hundred-billion-level characteristic industrial clusters, such as new energy vehicles and parts, intelligent photovoltaic, and intelligent electrical; and a number of ten-billion-level new star industrial clusters with technological leadership and international competitiveness, such as the third generation of semiconductor, genetic engineering, and cutting-edge new materials. Through this, we will lay out a number of future industries that will lead the development, and basically build a global advanced manufacturing base. We will optimize and expand the digital economy, vigorously implement the "No.1 Development Project" of the digital economy, and strengthen the research of core digital technologies. We will build strategic industries such as artificial intelligence, network communication, industrial internet, high-end software, integrated circuits, intelligent computing and  blockchain, cultivate a number of eco- enterprises which have control power over industrial chain, and promote the cluster development of core digital industries; we will accelerate the pace of digitalization in manufacturing, service, agriculture and other industries, and promote the digitalization of traditional industries, and small and medium-sized enterprises. We will promote the deep integration of modern service industry and advanced manufacturing industry, and build a digital trade center, high-tech innovation highland, shipping service center and emerging financial center with international influence. We will cultivate and expand the productive service industries such as business services, human resources, creative design, energy conservation, environmental protection, and testing, and promote the development of modern commerce, cultural tourism, health care and other life service industries, so as to shine the brand of "Zhejiang Service". We will improve modern infrastructure, optimize the layout, structure and function of infrastructure, complete the construction of a provincial water network pilot area, and basically turn Zhejiang into a world-class port and a high-level transportation province.

2. Promoting the construction of a strong province in education, science and technology, and talent, and foster new drivers of innovation and development. We will give priority to education, further popularize preschool education, and improve the quality and balanced development of compulsory education; we will support the construction of "double first-class" in provincial universities, support Zhejiang University to build a world-class university, and support new universities such as West Lake University to build small, sophisticated high-level research universities; we will deepen the reform of integrated talent training in higher vocational education and promote the deep integration of vocational education and industry. Focusing on the construction of the "315" innovation system, we will support Hangzhou to create a comprehensive national science center, support Zhijiang Laboratory to turn into a national laboratory, and guide the provincial laboratories such as West Lake, Yongjiang, Oujiang, East China Sea and other national key laboratories to strengthen basic research and applied basic research; we will optimize the innovation ecology, and support the leading enterprises, colleges and universities to establish provincial technology innovation centers and manufacturing innovation centers, so as to promote the deep integration of the innovation chain and the industry chain. Focusing on talent driving, we will further implement the "Kunpeng Action" and other talent plans, improve the whole chain mechanism of talent work, cultivate top innovative talents, and accelerate the building of an international talent center and innovation highland.

3. Vigorously promoting digital reform, creating a digital Zhejiang and a highland for digital transformation. We will develop a digital government, promote technology integration, business integration and data integration, break down barriers across levels, regions, systems, departments and businesses, optimize business processes, and innovate collaborative methods, so as to improve government performance and digital service. We will promote digital culture, strengthen the supply of high-quality online cultural products, support the development of digital culture, and improve the service capacity in digital culture. We will build a digital society, actively develop major applications that match supply and demand, and promote inclusive digital public services, accurate digital social governance, and intelligent digital life. We will build first-class digital infrastructure, strengthen the construction of integrated intelligent public data platforms and large data centers, build national computing hub nodes in the Yangtze River Delta, and accelerate the construction of "double gigabit" broadband cities. We will improve the digital governance system, establish the basic system of classified data protection, and improve the security system of key information infrastructure. We will continue to be a good host of the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference.

4. Expanding investment, promoting consumption, encouraging high-level opening up, and promoting domestic and international double circulation. Making full use of investment to optimize the supply structure, we will focus on the needs of industrial transformation, infrastructure construction and improvement of people's livelihood to expand effective investment, optimize the investment structure and improve the investment efficiency, so as to support high-quality development with high-quality investment. We will improve consumption support policies, innovate consumption scenarios, optimize consumption environment, cultivate consumption hotspots, and promote the upgrading of physical consumption structure and the accelerated development of service consumption. We will create a higher-level opening up system to fully participate in "the Belt and Road" initiative, and promote the construction of opening channels such as the Yiwu-Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway and Jinhua- Wenzhou Railway. We will build free trade pilot zones and various development zones with high standards, and steadily expand the institutional openness in rules, regulations, management and standards. We will vigorously develop cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouse, market procurement and other new business forms, and accelerate the construction of a strong trade province. Adhering to the principle of attracting large investments and strong enterprises, we will further increase the attraction of major manufacturing foreign investment projects, and create high-quality foreign investment clusters.

5. Adhering to the "two unswerving principles” to stimulate the vitality of various market entities. We will carry out the "No. 1 Reform Project" to improve the business environment evaluation index system with Zhejiang characteristics, comprehensively optimize the government environment, legal environment, market environment, ecological environment, and human environment, and accelerate the construction of a province with the best business environment to cultivate world-class enterprises. We will strengthen the reform of state-owned assets and enterprises, promote the layout optimization, structural adjustment and industrial upgrading of the state-owned economy, steadily promote the reform of mixed ownership, and create a number of innovative leading enterprises. We will promote the high-quality development of the private economy, continue to improve the policies and measures to support them, and protect their property rights and the interests of entrepreneurs. We will continue to improve the innovation ability and core competitiveness of private enterprises, and further polish Zhejiang’s "golden card" of the private economy. We will vigorously carry forward the spirit of Zhejiang entrepreneurship in the new era, build a high-quality and innovative team of modern private economy, and encourage entrepreneurs to aim at innovation and excellence and create more "century-old stores".

6. Promoting efficient ecological agriculture and the "Green Village Project" to create a demonstration province for rural revitalization. We will promote the revitalization of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology and organizations, build a strong province of efficient ecological agriculture, and accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. We will strictly take the responsibility for food security and farmland protection, gradually turn all basic farmland into high-standard farmland, and ensure the stable supply of food and important agricultural products. We will vigorously develop agriculture with science and technology as well as machinery, strengthen the protection and utilization of local characteristic germplasm resources, strengthen agricultural innovation focusing on seed industry, deepen the integration of agricultural machinery development and promotion, and improve the equipment of agricultural facilities. We will comprehensively promote the construction of livable, business-friendly and beautiful villages, and pay equal attention to village prosperity, hardware construction, software upgrading, and the improvement of the living environment and public services. We will continue to improve the rural infrastructure, public services, and living environment, so that farmers can live a civilized life without leaving the village. We will further promote agricultural and rural reform, deal properly with the relationship between farmers and the land, and steadily promote the pilot reform of rural homestead system. We will solidly promote the reform of agricultural standard land, deepen the market entry pilot of rural collective operational construction land, and improve the distribution mechanism of value-added land income, so that farmers can share more reform results. 

7. Strengthening land-sea linkage and mountain-sea cooperation to promote coordinated regional development. We will optimize the layout of provincial productivity, strengthen the overall planning and guidance of the territorial space at the county level, highlight the core leading position of the Hangzhou Bay, and promote coordinated development between Hangzhou and Ningbo. We will improve the energy level of the four major metropolitan areas and central cities, promote urbanization with the county seat as an important carrier, and shape a spatial pattern of "one bay and four poles". We will promote the high-quality development of mountain and island counties, carry out a new round of "mountain-sea cooperation", strengthen the construction of new types of communities, and improve the quality and efficiency of the "industrial enclaves", "scientific enclaves" and "thin enclaves". We will accurately iterate the "one county, one policy" practice, and promote the mountain counties to strengthen their leading industry and island counties to improve their layout. We will vigorously develop the marine economy, and accelerate the construction of a strong marine province. We will further construct the Mingbo-Zhoushan and Wenzhou-Taizhou port industrial belt, build a number of marine industrial platforms, cultivate modern marine industries such as marine engineering equipment, marine biological medicine, marine new energy, and marine new materials. We will solidly promote the high-quality integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, strengthen the integrated innovation action and other six major actions, actively promote the construction of a digital Yangtze River Delta, and jointly build a high-quality demonstration zone for the eco-green integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. We will accelerate the construction of the Zhejiang-Shanghai Xiaoyangshan Project, a regional cooperation project, speed up the construction of railways to Shanghai, Jiangsu and Anhui and the intercity railways, and create a "Yangtze River Delta on the track".

8. Promoting the demonstration of ecological civilization and building a highland of ecological civilization. We will further implement the green development concept, jointly promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and growth, and create a national pilot zone of ecological civilization. We will further promote the control of environmental pollution, fight the battle to defend the blue sky, clear water and clean land, and strengthen the comprehensive treatment of key coastal areas. We will further fight against plastic pollution, continue to improve the quality of air and water, raise the utilization rate of contaminated cultivated land, and create "waste-free cities" in all districted cities. We will further promote green low-carbon development and energy price stability, build a coastal nuclear power base, East China pumped storage base, Yangtze River Delta offshore wind power base, and a national oil and gas storage and transportation base. We will promote the construction of new energy storage, coordinate the development of clean and efficient thermal power, and accelerate the construction of a pioneer province in new energy system. We will deepen the reform of the energy mechanism, improve the market system of electricity and natural gas, and promote industrial electricity prices to change within a reasonable range. We will steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutralization, accelerate the research, promotion and application of energy conservation and carbon reduction technologies, and promote green low-carbon development in industries, construction, transportation, agriculture, and residential life. We will strengthen ecological restoration and biodiversity protection, promote the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and seas, and improve the value realization mechanism of ecological products.

9. Promoting the construction of a strong cultural province and building a cultural highland in the new era. We will launch the "Cultural Gene Decoding Project" and the “Zhejiang Signs of Chinese Civilization” Action, carry forward the spirit of the Red Boat and the spirit of Zhejiang, and strengthen the protection of large sites of the source of civilization, such as Shangshan, Hemudu and Liangzhu. We will further study and excavate the significance of Zhejiang culture such as the Song Culture, Wang Yangming Culture, and Harmony Culture, and strengthen the protection and inheritance of traditional arts such as Yue Opera, Kunqu Opera, and Wu Opera. We will promote the great prosperity and development of culture, improve the public cultural service system, raise the quality of press and publication, radio, film and television, literature and art, and create a number of cultural landmarks and classic literary and artistic works. We will strengthen the protection and inheritance of historical and cultural relics, improve the protection mechanism of revolutionary cultural relics, and promote the activation and utilization of cultural relics and cultural heritage. We will promote the in-depth integration of cultural and tourism industries, strengthen the protection, inheritance and innovation of Chinese time-honored brands, and accelerate the construction of major cultural and tourism projects. We will continue to strengthen major platforms such as the Hengdian Film and Television Cultural Cluster, raise the energy level of the Zhijiang Cultural Belt, cultivate a number of cultural tourism clusters of Zhejiang characteristics and international influence, and further popularize the provincial brand of "Poetic and Picturesque Zhejiang". We will further carry out the construction of a strong province in sports, comprehensively develop mass sports and competitive sports, carry out nationwide fitness activities, and strengthen youth sports.

10. Doing everything possible to increase the income of the people and improve people’s living and well-being to build a highland of all-round social progress and all-round development of all the people. It is necessary to persist in doing our best and doing what we can to focus on solving the people’s urgent and difficult problems and enhance the balance and accessibility of public services. It is necessary to promote high-quality full employment, improve employment and entrepreneurship support policies for key groups, strengthen the cultivation of Zhejiang craftsmen in the new era, deepen vocational skills training, strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of workers in flexible employment and new forms of employment, and promote more low-income people to enter the ranks of middle-income groups. It is necessary to improve the level of public services for the whole population and the whole life cycle, improve the allocation of public service resources, optimize the spatial layout of public service facilities, promote the standardization of basic public services, implement a number of major public service projects, and accelerate the realization of “good cultivation in the kindergarten, excellent education in the school, income for the worker, good treatment of the sick, health care for the elderly, livable housing, and support for the weak.” It is necessary to improve the social security system, accelerate the improvement of the multi-level and multi-pillar endowment insurance system, promote the overall planning of basic medical insurance, unemployment insurance, and work-related injury insurance at the provincial level, develop commercial supplementary medical insurance that benefits the people, comprehensively establish a long-term care insurance system, improve the minimum living guarantee system, improve the hierarchical and categorical social assistance system, and improve the full-cycle disability prevention system and the social security system and care service system for the disabled.

11. Accelerating the construction of a modern rule of law government with overall intelligent governance to promote social fairness and justice. It is necessary to deeply advance government legislation in key areas, make overall plans for the enactment, revision, repeal, and interpretation of government rules and regulations to strengthen legal safeguards in major strategies and key areas. It is necessary to deeply promote administration according to law, strictly implement major administrative decision-making procedures, deepen the reform of administrative law enforcement and administrative reconsideration system of “comprehensive integration,” and comprehensively promote the strict regulation of fair and civilized law enforcement. It is necessary to deeply advance judicial fairness, deepen the reform of mechanisms for the operation of law enforcement and judicial powers, strengthen the two-way connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, and strengthen the governance of the sources of administrative disputes. It is necessary to thoroughly implement plans for popularizing the law, comprehensively improve the level of public legal services, and strengthen the people’s concept of the rule of law.

12. Coordinating development and security to ensure a higher level of security in Zhejiang. It is necessary to prevent and resolve economic and financial risks, strengthen the monitoring, investigation, early warning and disposal of risks in the fields of the industrial chain, the supply chain, finance, and real estate, and improve food security and emergency material guarantee mechanisms. It is necessary to comprehensively strengthen work safety, deeply promote the special rectification of risks in key industries and key areas, and make every effort to curb major risks, reduce large ones, and decrease the total amount. It is necessary to improve the public health system, improve the capacity for early detection of major epidemics, and strengthen the system of prevention, control and treatment of major epidemics and emergency response capacity, to effectively curb the spread of major infectious diseases. It is necessary to strengthen food and drug safety supervision and strictly implement the “four strictest” requirements, to effectively ensure the “safety on the tip of the tongue” of the people. It is necessary to improve disaster prevention, mitigation and relief capabilities to strengthen the construction of grassroots flood prevention and typhoon prevention systems and scientifically and effectively prevent typhoons, floods and geological disasters. It is necessary to strengthen the overall prevention and control of public security, improve the mechanism for mediating and resolving conflicts and disputes at the grassroots level, promote the normalization of fighting against gangs and evil forces, and severely punish all kinds of illegal crimes about which the people strongly complain in accordance with the law, to continue to enhance the people’s sense of security.

To fully implement the above-mentioned major tasks, we need to pinpoint the foothold and breakthrough to accurately plan and implement the major projects that have a bearing on the overall situation and affect the whole society.

—Expanding effective investment in “1,000 trillion yuan” projects. It is necessary to focus on nine major areas, including advanced manufacturing bases, strong foundation of scientific and technological innovation, a strong transportation province, clean energy supply, water network safety improvement, urban organic renewal, priority development of agriculture and rural areas, integrated development of cultural and tourism industries, and improvement of people’s living, to promote about 1,000 major projects every year with an investment of more than 1 trillion yuan and more than 7 trillion yuan in major projects in five years. The provincial-level financial system needs to make an overall arrangement of special funds to support the construction of major projects in 9 major fields. It is necessary to make good use of various policies, such as special government bonds, policy-based development financial instruments, and industrial funds, and improve the precise docking mechanism of making and projects. The “1000 trillion yuan” major projects are given priority in terms of land utilization and energy supply: a total of more than 300,000 mu of construction land is guaranteed in the next five years, of which about 100,000 mu of land is guaranteed for major industrial projects in the province, and indicators, such as energy consumption increments, are well used by allowing energy consumption indicators to be used across years and regions.

— Implementing the “415X” advanced manufacturing cluster cultivation project. It is necessary to focus on the construction of a strong manufacturing province to build 4 trillion-yuan advanced industrial clusters, 15 100-billion-yuan characteristic industrial clusters, and a batch of 10-billion-yuanl new star industrial clusters. By 2027, the operating income of enterprises above the state-designated size in the “415X” advanced manufacturing clusters will exceed 12 trillion yuan, about 15 world-class enterprises will be cultivated, and the proportion of manufacturing added value to regional GDP will be stable at about 1/3. It is necessary to formulate and introduce a package of policies to support the construction of “415X” advanced manufacturing clusters, and support them with special funds arranged by the provincial-level finance system. It is necessary to set up 4 special funds for industrial clusters of new generation information technology, high-end equipment, modern consumption and health, and green petrochemicals and new materials, and source funds for “specialized, intensive, characteristic, and new” enterprises, with the scale of each fund being no less than 10 billion yuan. The proportion of industrial land to the province’s annual transfer of state-owned construction land is not less than 30%. It is necessary to strive for more industrial projects to be included in the national energy consumption list.

— Implementing the “315” science and technology innovation system construction project. It is necessary to focus on the three major scientific and technological innovation highlands and 15 strategic areas. By 2027, 1 national laboratory, 16 national key laboratories, 10 high-level provincial laboratories and 15 provincial technological innovation centers will be built, more than 2,000 provincial major science and technology projects will be implemented, the cumulative number of high-tech enterprises will exceed 50,000, and the number of high-value invention patents will exceed 120,000. The integrated policies focus on supporting the construction of major science and technology innovation platforms, key core technology research, the cultivation of science and technology enterprises and industrial upgrading, and the provincial finance arranges special funds every year to provide support. It is necessary to establish mechanisms for stable growth of financial investment in science and technology at the provincial, municipal and county levels, and ensure that the province’s financial investment in science and technology increases by an average of more than 15% per year. It is necessary to improve the science and technology innovation fund system, and plan to establish a provincial science and technology innovation fund. It is necessary to support Hangzhou and Jiaxing in promoting the construction of science and technology financial reform pilot zones.

— Implementing the “100 million yuan” project for the high-quality development of the service industry. It is necessary to focus on building a strong province in the modern service industry. By 2027, we will build about 100 high-level service industry platforms, achieve operating income of more than 6 trillion yuan, cultivate more than 10 flagship service enterprises of 100 billion yuan and more than 200 leading enterprises of 10 billion yuan, complete the investment of more than 1 trillion yuan in major projects in the service industry, cultivate 100,000 high-quality service industry technical personnel, and carry out employee training for 2 million people. Integrated policies need to support the development of modern service industries, and provincial finance makes overall arrangements for special funds to support them every year, to give priority to ensuring land for high-level service industry innovation development zones and major service industry projects.

— Implementing the project of constructing a world-class strong port and a province with strong transportation. Focusing on the construction of a world-class strong port, we will coordinate and promote the construction of port and shipping facilities, the construction of port collection and distribution systems, the cultivation of modern shipping service industries, the high-quality integration of the port, industries and cities, the linkage development inside and outside the port, the construction of strategic resource allocation centers and the reform of key areas of ports, to accelerate the construction of 10 landmark projects, such as 10-million-level container berth groups, Jinhua-Ningbo railway double-deck container demonstration line, Yangtze River Delta China-Europe train assembly center (Jinhua), and Jiaxing “road, railway, water and air” inter-modal transport hub. It is necessary to deepen the implementation of 10 traction reforms, including cultivating world-class port operation players, integrating customs and maritime supervision, reforming investment and financing of port collection and distribution projects, and iteratively upgrading the “four ports” cloud platform, to comprehensively enhance the core competitiveness, aggregation support, and radiation driving force of ports. It is necessary to strive to achieve container throughput of more than 40 million TEUs by 2027, double the scale of container sea-rail and river-sea combined transportation, and achieve promotion in the ranking of international shipping center index. It is necessary to focus on the construction of a strong transportation province to implement about 200 major transportation projects and complete an investment of 2 trillion yuan, to accelerate the construction of a “nine-vertical, nine-horizontal, five-ring, and five-channel, multi-link” highway network, a “five-vertical and five-horizontal” passenger railway network, a “four-vertical and four-horizontal, multi-link” freight railway network, and a “five-vertical, eight-horizontal, ten-trunk and ten-branch” inland waterway network, built an international airport gateway for hundreds of millions of passengers and a high-capacity hub system in urban areas, and built a modern transportation and logistics system. Support policies need to be introduced for the construction of a world-class strong port and a strong transportation province, and the provincial finance will make overall arrangements for special funds to support them every year. It is necessary to actively strive for central funds, special bonds, and policy-based financial instruments to broaden the sources of funds for the construction of major projects. It is necessary to ensure the construction land of the world-class strong port and major transportation projects.

— Implementing the project of improving the carrying capacity of counties and towns and deepening the “demonstration of 10000 villages and rectification of 10,000 villages.” It is necessary to focus on enhancing the counties’ industrial platform driving capacity, infrastructure support capacity, public service guarantee capacity, and ecological environment carrying capacity, support the counties to expand and strengthen leading industries with characteristics, improve transportation, water and electricity infrastructure, optimize the supply of public services, such as education, medical care, and pension, and improve the quality of the living environment. By 2027, the proportion of the county population in the county will increase by 0.8 percent per year, to strive to build a demonstration province for urbanization construction with the county as an important carrier. It is necessary to deepen the project of “demonstration of 1,000 villages and rectification of 10,000 village,” to accelerate the promotion of the overall improvement of rural appearance, the improvement of the quality and efficiency of rural industries, comprehensive reform for empowering villages and enriching the people of rural areas, the making up for the weakness and improvement of the capacities of infrastructure and public services, and the revitalization of rural cultures. By 2027, 1,000 harmonious and beautiful rural demonstration villages will be built, the per capita disposable income of rural residents will reach 55,000 yuan, the proportion of administrative villages with annual operating income of the collective economy will reach more than 60%, and the coverage rate of administrative villages with sewage treatment facilities and the quality of effluent water up to standard will reach 98%. The national standard compliance rate for the service capacity of township hospitals will reached 85%. The funds from the provincial-level financial support for urbanization construction are further tilted towards county construction, and policy banks are promoted to establish 100 billion-yuan credit funds to mainly support county urbanization.

— Carrying out comprehensive land rectification projects across townships. It is necessary to coordinate and promote the rectification of agricultural land, villages, low-efficiency industrial land and urban low-efficiency land, and ecological protection and restoration, to implement 500 comprehensive land rectification projects, complete the redevelopment of 250,000 mu of low-efficiency land, and revitalize the stock of 500,000 mu of construction land. It is necessary to increase fiscal and financial support to support the exploration and development of cross-township permanent basic farmland adjustment and urban and rural construction land increase and decrease linkage and separation management in pilot rectification areas.

— Implementing the project of in-depth integration of culture and tourism. It is necessary to focus on the construction of cultural tourism destinations well-known at home and abroad, implement the “double hundred” project plan for cultural and tourism investment, promote 100 major projects under construction and 100 planned, attracted projects, and complete cultural and tourism investment of more than 1 trillion yuan. The added value of the cultural and tourism industry will reach 1.2 trillion yuan by 2027. It is necessary to guarantee the land and funding needs of major cultural and tourism projects.

—Implementing the projects of green and low-carbon development and security of the supply and stable price of energy. It is necessary to focus on the green and low-carbon transformation of energy, the security and reliability of energy supply, and the steady reduction of energy costs for enterprises, to promote 87 major projects of modern energy infrastructure, such as power supply, power grids, energy storage, and natural gas pipeline networks and complete more than 600 billion yuan of investment in the energy field. By 2027, the total installed power capacity will reach 168 million kilowatts, of which renewable energy will account for more than 43%, the download capacity of the national trunk line of natural gas will reach about 35 billion cubic meters, and the LNG receiving transit capacity will reach about 40 million tons per year. The provincial finance will arrange special funds to support the construction of renewable energy projects, such as offshore wind power and new power system demonstration projects.

—Implementing the “Seven Privileges” project for public services. It is necessary to promote “good nurseries for the infants,” to promote inclusive childcare into basic public services by providing 5.5 childcare places for infants under the age of 3 per 1,000 people. It is necessary to promote “excellent education in the kindergarten and school,” to make inclusive kindergartens account for more than 95% of all kindergartens, the average expected number of years of education for children reach 15.6 years, the coverage rate of counties with high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education reach 75%, the gross enrolment rate in tertiary education reach 72 per cent, and about 60 subjects become the top 10% subjects in the country. It is necessary to promote “income for any work,” to improve the reasonable wage growth mechanism, allow the highest level of the minimum wage standard to increase by about 7% per year, establish a lifelong vocational skills training mechanism, and take the lead in forming a high-quality employment and entrepreneurship system guaranteeing that “everyone has a job, and every family has income.” It is necessary to promote “good treatment of patients,” to accelerate the modernization of health care, build a provincial public health clinical center, build more than 1 national medical center and about 5 research-oriented hospitals, achieve full coverage of tertiary hospitals at the county level, promote the inheritance and innovative development of traditional Chinese medicine, and allow the average life expectancy to exceed 82.7 years. It is necessary to promote “health care for the elderly,” to promote the full coverage of long-term care insurance and basic old-age services for all the elderly, fully implement the “loving card” system for old-age services, allow the coverage rate of meal delivery villages (communities) to reach 85%, allow the palliative care ward to be established in at least one county-level hospital in each county (city and district), and allow the coverage rate of health care consortium in townships and sub-districts to reach 100%, so as to building a convenient, diversified and intelligent old-age service system combining home-based care and institutional care. It is necessary to promote “livable housing,” to support rigid and improved housing demand, standardize the order of the housing rental market, build and collect 1.2 million sets (rooms) of affordable rental housing, reach 350,000 households with public rental housing guarantees, develop 30,000 sets of co-ownership housing, and allow the coverage rate of urban housing security benefits to exceed 25%. It is necessary to promote “assistance for the financially-disadvantaged” to secure the basic living of financially-disadvantaged people. The minimum subsistence guarantee standard will be raised to 15,000 yuan per capita per year, the personal burden rate of medical expenses for the needy people will be controlled within 15%, the county-level social assistance service consortium will achieve full coverage, and the coverage rate of “homes for the disabled” will exceed 92%.

III  Development objectives and priorities for 2023

2023 is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the “Double Eighth Development Strategy,” and the beginning of the new government, so it is significant to secure good performance in every work. The main expected goals of economic and social development in 2023 are: the regional GDP growth will achieve more than 5%, the general public budget revenue and urban and rural residents’ income will keep up with economic growth, the increase in consumer price index will be controlled within 3%, and the surveyed unemployment rate in urban areas will be controlled within 5%.

12 tasks to focus on：

1. Accurately and efficiently implementing the “8+4” economic policy system to promote stable economic progress and quality improvement. It is necessary to adhere to integration, optimization and improvement to concentrate financial resources to deal with major matters, to better play the role of policy guidance, guarantee and support. It is necessary to strengthen policy integration to form “8 major policy packages,” such as expanding effective investment, promoting scientific and technological innovation, cultivating “415X” advanced manufacturing clusters, promoting high-quality development of modern service industry, constructing a world-class strong port and a province with strong transportation, expanding domestic demand and opening up, rural revitalization and urban-rural integrated development, and ensuring and improving people’s living, and “4 element lists,” such as finance, natural resources, energy, and talents. It is necessary to actively strive for and make good use of national policies, enable local government special bonds to account for more than 6% of the national share and policy-based development financial instruments to account for more than 8% of the national share, enable 100 projects to be included in the scope of national land protection, and allow more projects to be included in the national energy consumption list. It is necessary to strengthen and improve financial services and deeply implement the project of smooth financing to ensure that the growth rate of inclusive small and micro enterprise loans is not lower than the average growth rate of various loans, add more than 250 billion yuan of medium and long-term loans for the manufacturing industry, achieve more than 165 billion yuan of balances of government financing guarantees to support agricultural development and small enterprises, and promote the steady reduction of comprehensive financing costs of enterprises. It is necessary to optimize the development environment of enterprises, timely and fully implement the national and provincial policies of reducing costs and burdens to benefit enterprises, and strive to reduce the burden of market entities by more than 250 billion yuan throughout the year. It is necessary to deepen the action of “reducing certificates and facilitating the people” to strive to achieve the “integration of multiple reports” in the annual reports of enterprises, such as the market supervision report, the taxation report, the economy and information report, the commerce report, and the finance report. It is necessary to eliminate market access barriers to standardize market access administrative licensing and administrative filing. It is necessary to implement a joint law enforcement mechanism of “one comprehensive investigation.” It is necessary to deepen the construction of a conservation-oriented government to continue to reduce general expenditure, rationally arrange new financial resources, and use more financial funds to help enterprises, develop industries, improve people’s living, and ensure the construction of major projects.

2. Setting off a new round of construction of major projects to continue to expand effective investment. According to the annual plan of the “thousand trillion-yuan” projects, about 1,000 major provincial projects will be arranged, and the annual investment of more than 1 trillion yuan will be completed, driving the investment in fixed assets to increase by more than 6%. It is necessary to secure the planning of major projects, take the initiative to dock with the 102 major projects and major productivity layouts of the national “14th Five-Year Plan,” plan and implement a number of strategic, supportive and leading major projects, and promote more projects to enter the national planning. It is necessary to accelerate the construction of major industrial projects, arrange 611 major manufacturing projects with an investment of more than 1 billion yuan, and complete the annual investment of 175 billion yuan, to drive the increase of manufacturing investment by 12% and high-tech industry investment by more than 15%. It is necessary to make overall plans to promote the construction of major infrastructure projects by focusing on transportation, energy, water conservancy, science and technology, urban construction, agriculture and rural areas, and accelerate the implementation of a number of major projects with excellent structure and make up for the aspects of weakness. It is necessary to innovate investment and financing mechanisms to encourage financial institutions to innovate products, tools and service models, encourage and attract private capital to participate in infrastructure construction, effectively guarantee the source of construction funds, improve the efficiency of project construction, and stimulate the rapid growth of private investment. It is necessary to fully implement the three-level supervision and service mechanism at the provincial, municipal and county levels to continue to implement the provincial, municipal and county mayor projects to effectively solve the problems of major project construction, to ensure that the start rate of new projects in major provincial projects will reach 30% in the first quarter, 60% in the second quarter, and more than 85% in the third quarter.

3. Focusing on the construction of “415X” advanced manufacturing clusters to promote the steady operation and structural optimization of the manufacturing industry. It is necessary to make every effort to stabilize the basic situation of the industrial economy to continue to consolidate the good trend of the industrial economy and strive to increase the industrial added value by 5.5%. It is necessary to vigorously promote digital industrialization and industrial digitalization to cultivate 40 digital enterprises exceeding 10 billion yuan, add 150 new smart factories and digital workshops, and strive to increase the added value of core industries in the digital economy by 10%. It is necessary to resolutely promote the initiative of “emptying the cages for new birds and promoting the transformation of enterprises” to eliminate and rectify 5,000 high-consumption and low-efficiency enterprises and free up 50,000 mu of land and 1.2 million tons of standard coal. It is necessary to cultivate and expand the echelon of enterprises to implement a new round of “eagle” and “young eagle” actions to add 20 “eagle” enterprises, 1 Fortune Global 500 enterprise, 50 domestic and foreign listed companies, 100 specialized and special new “little giant” enterprises, and 20 single champion enterprises. It is necessary to promote the integrated development of the service industry and the manufacturing industry to cultivate more than 60 provincial-level service-oriented manufacturing enterprises and add more than 50 provincial-level industrial design centers and creative design parks.

4. Expanding the market, grabbing orders, and attracting foreign investment to further expand the advantages of open economic development. It is necessary to try every means to promote the steady growth of foreign trade to continue to promote the “circulation of goods made in Zhejiang going global,” carefully organize thousands of enterprises to “go out” to expand the market to grab orders, and ensure that exports will account for about 14.5% of the national share. It is necessary to promote the construction of national import trade promotion and innovation demonstration zones to expand the import of advanced technology, important equipment, key components and energy resources. It is necessary to strengthen foreign investment attraction services to ensure the attraction of major foreign-funded projects with extraordinary strength and measures and strive to exceed 20 billion US dollars in actual use of foreign capital and 27% of foreign capital used in manufacturing industry. It is necessary to improve the capacity level of major open platforms to promote the coordinated development of the four major areas of the pilot free trade zone to ensure the realization of digital trade volume of 470 billion yuan, cross-border RMB settlement volume of more than 900 billion yuan, a cargo throughput of 1.26 billion tons and a container throughput of 33.6 million TEUs at Ningbo Zhoushan Port, and more than 2,200 “Yiwu-Xinjiang-Europe” trains.

5. Giving top priority to activating and expanding consumption to further enhance traditional consumption and cultivate new consumption. It is necessary to promote the recovery of consumption, encourage innovation in consumption patterns, consumption formats and consumption scenarios, and launch the “Consumption in Zhejiang” brand, to strive to increase the total retail sales of social consumer goods by about 4.5%. It is necessary to support the high-quality development of the platform economy by accurately formulating support policies, establishing professional service mechanisms, encouraging platform enterprises to strengthen cutting-edge technology research and development and application promotion, and supporting platform enterprises to play an important role in leading development, creating jobs and international competition. It is necessary to promote the stable and sound development of the real estate market by adhering to the principle of “housing instead of speculation,” supporting rigid and improved housing demand, and solving housing problems of new citizens and young people. It is necessary to ensure the handover of housing, the security of people’s living and stability.

6. Striving to implement the strategy of empowering the province with scientific and technological innovation and talents to strengthen the basic strategic backup roles of education, science and technology, and talents. It is necessary to accelerate the high-quality development of higher education to promote a new round of first-class discipline construction projects and promote breakthroughs in the construction of new universities, such as West Lake University. It is necessary to vigorously develop vocational education by expanding the scale of enrollment in long-term and undergraduate-level vocational education. It is necessary to strengthen the strength of scientific and technological innovation by promoting the construction of major scientific and technological facilities, such as the second phase of the Hangzhou Medical Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the high-end innovation platform of new materials in Ningbo, China, encouraging 10 provincial laboratories, new research and development institutions, provincial technological innovation centers and manufacturing innovation centers to carry out original and leading scientific and technological research, and deploying and implementing more than 400 provincial major scientific and technological projects, to achieve more than 100 major scientific research achievements. It is necessary to promote in-depth implementation of the “double growth” plan for science and technology enterprises and the “little giant” cultivation plan for science and technology to add 4,000 high-tech enterprises, 8,000 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, 100 science and technology “little giant” enterprises, and form 10 innovation consortiums. It is necessary to add 9,000 new high-value invention patents. It is necessary to vigorously attract and cultivate talents by introducing about 40 experts in the “Kunpeng Action” and introducing and cultivating 500 leading talents and 500 outstanding young talents.

7. Taking the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the project of “Cooperation between Mountainous Areas and Costal Areas” and the project of “Demonstration of One Thousand Villages and Rectification of Ten Thousand Villages” as a new starting point to continue to improve the level of regional coordinated development of urban and rural areas. It is necessary to focus on improving the carrying capacity of counties, guide counties (cities) to make 3-year to 5-year action plans, select a number of counties (cities) to carry out provincial-level pilots, and take the lead in forming a number of replicable experience and practices in the areas of urbanization of agricultural transfer population, market-oriented allocation of factors, innovation of investment and financing mechanisms, and reform of strengthening townships and expanding their powers. It is necessary to promote the high-quality development of mountainous and island counties and the equalization of basic public services, optimize the classification and grading method of fiscal transfer payments, and improve the financial support mechanism and the ecological protection compensation system. It is necessary to deepen the action of “empowering agriculture with science and technology and machinery to continue to promote the revitalization of the seed industry, accelerate the popularization of applicable agricultural machinery and agricultural mechanization technology, and implement the strictest arable land protection system, to ensure that the sown area of grain will reach more than 15.2 million mu and the total grain output will reach more than 12.4 billion grams. It is necessary to deepen the project of “Demonstration of One Thousand Villages and Rectification of Ten Thousand Villages” to reshape rural space and rural functions and create 10 harmonious and beautiful rural demonstration counties and 22 demonstration belts. It is necessary to develop and expand the new rural collective economy to allow administrative villages with an annual income of more than 300,000 yuan and an operating income of more than 150,000 yuan to account for more than 90%. It is necessary to orderly promote comprehensive land rectification across townships to complete 100 rectification projects, build and upgrade more than 600,000 mu of high-standard farmland, and complete the development of more than 50,000 mu of low-efficiency land. It is necessary to take the initiative to serve the overall situation of the whole country by continuing to do a good job in counterpart support, counterpart cooperation and east-west cooperation.

8. Taking the promotion of the in-depth integration of culture and tourism as the starting point to further highlight the charm of cultural Zhejiang. It is necessary to promote the prosperous development of cultural undertakings by ensuring in-depth implementation of the project of inheriting the culture of the Song dynasty, launching the project of comprehensively conserving the site of the Imperial City of the Southern Song dynasty, and promoting the Shangshan cultural heritage to apply for world culture heritage. It is necessary to promote the improvement and expansion of public cultural services by carrying out more than 3,000 performances entitled “Spreading Beauty with Literary and Artistic Sparks” and holding Chinese opera festivals. It is necessary to accelerate the in-depth integration of culture and tourism to complete the annual investment of more than 300 billion yuan in cultural and tourism projects, promote the beading of cultural and tourism resources into chains, the upgrading of cultural and tourism products, and the enrichment and diversification of cultural and tourism business formats, cultivate 30 core scenic spots that will receive an accumulative number of 10 million visitors, and add 10 demonstration scenic townships and 50 golden 3A scenic villages.

9. Deepening the construction of beautiful Zhejiang to accelerate the green transformation of development methods. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of green power projects to approve the start of 10 projects, accelerate the construction of 22 projects, complete and put into operation 5 projects, and add 2 million kilowatts of connected-grid clean coal power installation and 4 million kilowatts of wind and photovoltaic power installation. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of clean power projects invested by enterprises from other provinces to put into full capacity operation the project of transferring UHVDC electricity from Baihetan to Zhejiang and strive to approve the start of the project of transferring UHVDC electricity generated by Gansu Power to Zhejiang. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of LNG receiving stations and oil and gas pipeline networks to add more than 3 million tons of receiving capacity per year, add more than 60 kilometers of long-distance oil and gas pipelines, and increase the download capacity of national natural gas trunk lines by more than 3 billion cubic meters. It is necessary to strengthen the treatment of environmental pollution to ensure that the average concentration of PM2.5 in prefecture cities will maintain less than 26 micrograms, the proportion of days with good air quality is higher than 92%, and the proportion of excellent water quality in provincial-controlled sections is higher than 94%. It is necessary to strengthen the treatment of plastic pollution, carry out the treatment of new pollutants, and strengthen the classification and resource utilization of garbage. It is necessary to improve the level of ecological protection and restoration by implementing blue bay rectification actions and build 4 beautiful bays. It is necessary to allow forests, rivers, lakes and wetlands to follow their own course, implement pilot demonstration projects for biodiversity conservation, and strengthen biosecurity management. It is necessary to actively join in the Yangtze River Economic Belt to jointly ensure conservation.

10. Effectively preventing and resolving major risks to resolutely guard the bottom line of secure development. It is necessary to make every effort to ensure epidemic prevention and control to highlight health care and prevent serious symptoms, improve medical treatment capabilities, medical material support capabilities, and the provision of key groups and key places, and increase vaccination rates and the effectiveness of science popularization, to maximize the protection of people’s lives and health. It is necessary to ensure public safety by carrying out comprehensive management actions for work safety on a regular basis, maintaining the high-pressure situation of “cracking down on illegal activities,” and promoting the continuous improvement of work safety indicators. It is necessary to ensure the prevention and control of floods, typhoons and droughts, forest fire, and disasters. It is necessary to strengthen the closed-loop supervision of the whole food and drug chain. It is necessary to handle the risks of corporate debts and private equity investment funds in an orderly manner in accordance with the law to severely crack down on illegal financial activities, such as illegal fundraising. It is necessary to weave a dense grassroots social security network by adhering to and developing the “Fengqiao Experience” in the new era, enhancing the function of “"one center, four platforms and one grid” in grassroots governance, strengthening and improving the work of public complaints and proposals, promoting the “integration of the four governance” of autonomy, rule of law, rule of ethics, and intelligent governance, and deepening the “three-source governance” of litigation, police and complaint and proposal. It is necessary to strengthen the overall public security by strictly cracking down on illegal crimes, such as telecommunications network fraud, “prostituting, gambling and drugs,” and "food and drug rings” in accordance with the law.

11. Implementing the concept of “simplicity, security and excellence” to pool the whole province’s efforts to ensure the successful holding of the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Asian Para Games. It is necessary to earnestly implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instruction of “believing that Hangzhou has the ability to hold a successful Asian Games” to promote Hangzhou and the five co-host cities to work together to offer the world an excellent sports and cultural event of Chinese characteristics, Zhejiang style and Hangzhou flavor and strive to make the Hangzhou Asian Games the most recognizable major characteristic results in the creation of Zhejiang into an “important window,” to present General Secretary Xi Jinping, the Party Central Committee, and the people of the country a satisfactory result. It is necessary to amplify the effect of holding the Asian Games to enhance a city through holding a successful sports event.

12. Focusing on securing people’s living by making people satisfied with the government. It is necessary to always bear in mind the teaching of General Secretary Xi Jinping that “people’s concerns are what I bear in mind, and people’s expectations are what I will do” to attach great importance to employment, education, social security, health care, old age care and other major livelihood issues that the masses are concerned about and deal successfully with key small mattes that people can get a keen sense of. It is particularly necessary to continue to successfully handle the ten practical matters concerning people’s living by revolving around implementing the project of “Seven Privileges” in public services to strive to do a good job that satisfies people.

1) Education support. 100 public primary and secondary schools will be newly renovated and expanded, and 80,000 new positions will be added for potential students. 58 schools will join in one-to-one counterpart assistance. All children eligible for compulsory education who migrate with their parents will enroll in the local schools in their permanent residence, and 85% of them will attend public schools. Orthopedic screening will be carried out for 3 million students in compulsory education. 100,000 adults will complete junior and senior high school education, 300,000 adults will complete college and above education. 1.5 million times of vocational education training will be carried out. More than 90% of townships (sub-districts) will have senior citizen universities, and 60 model schools for senior citizen education will be cultivated.

2) Medical and health care. We will start to construct the National Medical Center and the Provincial Public Health Clinical Center. We will add 3,000 new ICU beds. We will renovate and expand 500 new standardized village health offices (community health service stations). The number people covered by long-term care insurance and inclusive supplementary medical insurance will reach 17.5 million and 25 million, respectively, and the payout rate of inclusive supplementary medical insurance will reach 75%. 1.3 million elderly people will be vaccinated against influenza for free, and 1.1 million high-risk groups will be screened for colorectal cancer.

3) Old age care and assistance of the disadvantaged groups. We will equip 1,000 village and community home care centers with intelligent service terminals. We will add 8,000 beds in cognitive impairment care areas and 6,000 licensed nursing staff. We will complete the barrier-free renovations of 1,000 important public service places. We will build 800 “sunshine kitchens” for nursing houses. We will help 4,500 autistic children rehabilitate. 4,000 people with disabilities will be stably employed.

4) Infant and toddler care. We will add 100 new nurseries and 20,000 new child care places, including 12,000 inclusive child care places.

5) Employment and entrepreneurship. We will carry out vocational skills training for more than 1.1 million people, add 400,000 skilled personnel, including 200,000 highly skilled personnel. We will build 200 odd jobs markets.

6) Urban and rural livability. We will newly build and collect 250,000 sets (rooms) of security rental housing. We will start renovating 600 old housing estates and 7,500 buildings. We will build 80 model urban and rural areas. We will newly reconstruct 200 urban parks. We will newly reconstruct 3,000 rural domestic sewage treatment facilities. We will build 1,000 provincial-level high-standard garbage classification demonstration communities.

7) Traffic and travel. We will start the construction of more than 150 kilometers of railway in Phase IV of Hangzhou Metro and complete the construction of more than 80 kilometers of railway in Wenzhou. We will start the construction of Yiwu-Longquan-Qingyuan high-speed and Qingtian-Wencheng high-speed. We will reconstruct 1,000 kilometers of rural road and complete the maintenance of 5,000 kilometers. We will renovate 60 rural bus lines. We will open 50 integrated lines of urban-rural passenger, cargo and mail transportation and add 220 new comprehensive service sites. We will upgrade 110 land-island quay berths, waiting facilities and public transport ferry wharves.

8) Culture, sports and tourism. We will build the Provincial Zhijiang Cultural Center and accelerate the construction of the Provincial Fitness Center. We will add 3,000 “15-minute-walk quality cultural life circles,” 200 city studies, 200 rural museums, and 100 cultural stations. We will build 500 new five-star cultural halls. We will build 1,000 new provincial grassroots sports venues and facilities and 2,500 kilometers of “ring pedestrian trail around Zhejiang.”

9) Convenience services. 50% of the counties (cities and districts) will promote “photos taken at one window applicable in all regions” for entry and exit cards, ID cards and driving licenses. 500 hospitals will provide direct settlement of cross-provincial outpatient expenses for chronic and special diseases treatment, and the direct settlement rate of inpatient expenses will reach 60%. 300 urban and rural farmers’ markets will be built. 150 new livelihood medicine service stations will be added. 1,000 sunshine food workshop will be added in 26 mountainous counties and rural areas. The rate of “the maximum of one personal presence” for notary services will reach 60%, and 80% of notary matters will be dealt with across the province. 100% of legal aid cases will be handled within each city.

10) Risk elimination and security. We will construct Hangzhou West Pond for Risk Elimination and the follow-up western channel of Hangzhou-Jiaxing-Huzhou Southern Drainage. We will start the construction of 110 kilometers of sea ponds. We will update and renovate 1,500 irrigation facilities. We will rectify 450 dangerous ponds and 200 dangerous reservoirs. We will construct 400 geological disaster monitoring and early warning experimental sites.

All of the above livelihood projects will bee included in the government digital platforms tailored management. We will ensure the assumption of responsibilities, strengthen supervision, conduct closed-loop management, and ensure the timely completion of each project that meets the quality and quantity standards.

IV  Effectively enhancing the building of capacities of the government

To advance on a new journey and make achievements in the new era, we must always stay true to our original aspirations and bear in mind our missions to strive to enhance the building of capacities of the government to build a government that satisfies the people.

We will build a government that takes a clear political stance. We will firmly defend the “Two Establishes” and resolutely achieve the “Two Upholds” to constantly improve our judgment, comprehension, and implementation in terms of political affairs, so as to resolutely implement the spirit of the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the policies and guidelines of the CPC Central Committee by effectively seeing that “Zhejiang will immediately take action once the General Secretary gives an order and the CPC Central Committee makes a deployment.”

We will build a government that serves and benefits the people. We will always bear in mind that the people’s government is of the people, by the people and for the people, so that it will put people in the first place by keeping informed of people’s living, people’s concerns, and people’s affairs. By doing so, we will make the results of reform and development beneficial to the people of the whole province in a better and fairer manner.

We will build a down-to-earth government that is always striving to make achievements. We will never evade difficulties and responsibilities, but wok hard in a down-to-earth manner to overcome difficulties, to always stand up to problems, brave challenges at crunches, and get ready to risk anything at critical junctures.

We will build a government of the rule of law that performs its duties according to law. We will firmly establish the concept of the rule of law, respect for the authority of the Constitution, and effectively see that “duties specified in the laws must be fulfilled, and those unspecified in the laws must not be performed.” We will accept the supervision of the Provincial People’s Congress in accordance with the law, earnestly accept the democratic supervision of the Provincial People’s Political Consultative Conference, take the initiative to accept the supervision of inspection, legal supervision, social supervision, and the supervision of public opinions, and strengthen audit supervision and statistical supervision, to ensure that the work of the government is always running efficiently on the track of the rule of law.

We will build a clean, integral government that serves the needs of the people. We will strictly fulfill the main responsibility of the overall strict governance of the Party, persevere in strictly complying with the eight-point decision on improving work conduct made by the CPC Central Committee, keep up our efforts to tackle pointless formalities, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance, and continue to deepen the building of the Party’s integrity, so that the clean use of power by clean officials who are ready to make achievements can become prevalent work conduct in the government system to shape clean officials, government, political ecology and society.

Fellow deputies! We are taking great responsibilities and fulfilling glorious missions to promote the “Two Pioneering Drives.” We must rally more closely around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core and follow the strong leadership of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee to make down-to-earth efforts, walk in the forefront, and brave challenges to write a more excellent chapter with Zhejiang characteristics in the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country on the new journey!