2019 Ordos Municipal Government Report

The second plenary meeting of the fourth Ordos People’s Congress is held in Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Feb 27. Siqinbilige, mayor of Ordos, delivered the annual report on the work of the government for the year at the meeting. [Photo/ordosrd.gov.cn]

Work review in 2018

GDP: 376.3 billion yuan ($56.1 billion), up by 5 percent year-on-year

(Note: all the percentage change noted hereinafter are calculated as year-on-year growth rate)

Public budget revenue: 43.4 billion yuan, up by 21.5 percent

Added value for industries above designated scale: up by 5.3 percent

Per capita disposable income for urban residents:  46,834 yuan, up by 7.5 percent

Per capita disposable income for rural residents:  18,289 yuan, up by 9.3 percent

Blooming service industry, taking up 44.6 percent of the whole industry

Supporting the development of real economy and private economy, cutting tax by more than 15 billion yuan

Number of project worth more than 100 million yuan: 229, with a total investment of 44.6 billion yuan

86 percent days with air quality index rating of “good”

Ecological construction: 430,667 hectares

Fiscal investment in poverty reduction: 440 million yuan, with 1,181 residents out of poverty

Reimbursement rate of the medical expenses for poverty-stricken population: 90 percent

71 major tourism projects, receiving 14.5 million visitors, generating tourism revenue of 44.1 billion yuan

Construction on the Ordos Comprehensive Bonded Zone completed and the zone is expected to operate in March 2019

The entrance to the Ordos Comprehensive Bonded Zone [Photo/ordosnews.com]

New employment population: 29,000, controlling urban registered unemployment rate at 2.47 percent

18 newly-built primary and middle schools and 10 kindergartens

Criminal and public security cases falling by 8 percent and 13 percent respectively, rated as "China's safest city" for the sixth consecutive year

The highly urbanized Xuejiawan town, Juungar Banner, Ordos [Photo/VCG]