Annual work report unveils Ordos' development highlights

The city of Ordos in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region released its government work report for 2023 at the third session of the fifth Ordos municipal people's congress on Jan 17, outlining the following highlights.

In 2023, the city's GDP grew by 6.3 percent, with its general public budget revenue increasing by 8 percent, surpassing 90 billion yuan ($12.33 billion) for the first time.

The city's per capita disposable income for urban and rural residents increased by 5 percent and 7 percent, respectively. And its fixed asset investment grew by 27 percent, leading the region in growth. Ordos has maintained a fixed asset growth rate of over 25 percent for 25 consecutive months.

Also, the city's total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 9 percent, the highest in 11 years.

The city created 33,000 new urban jobs in 2023, and its grain production exceeded 4.3 billion kilograms.

The city's key development targets for 2024 include a GDP growth of over 6 percent, synchronized growth of residents' income with economic growth, and a 5.5 percent increase in industrial added-value output. Other goals are a 15 percent or more increase in fixed asset investment, a 7 percent increase in total retail sales of consumer goods, and a registered urban unemployment rate of no more than 4 percent.

Some key tasks for the year include:

Investment projects: Implementing 404 key projects, with investments exceeding 170 billion yuan.

Private economy: Supporting more private enterprises to enter the top 500 nationally, and increasing support for technology innovation, green transformation, and small and micro-sized enterprises.

Energy supply: Continuously releasing high-quality coal production capacity, adding over 10 million kilowatts of new energy installations, and implementing a series of high-end transformation projects for coal-based new materials.

Environmental protection: Implementing 1,307 pollution control tasks, initiating a national carbon peak pilot project, and focusing on pilot projects for "zero waste cities", underground water pollution control, and noise pollution control.