Five-pronged efforts towards stronger provincial capital

Guiyang will vigorously implement the five-year campaign of building a stronger provincial capital by centering on five aspects, so as to continuously enhance the city's influence, catalytic role and regional competitiveness. It strives to become, by 2025, a provincial capital with increased primacy, a central city with greater influence, a functional city that is even more environment-friendly, and an ideal city for people to start up business.

Promote big data-powered innovation and implement innovation-driven strategy

The six key tasks in this aspect include enhancing regional technological innovation capacity, fostering technological innovators, innovating the personnel project interaction mechanism, attracting and training innovative personnel, building up the digital economy, and promoting the integration of the digital economy and the real economy. Through these measures, we strive to achieve the following goals by 2025: making breakthroughs in more than 30 key technologies; having more than 2,000 high-tech enterprises; the highly-skilled personnel accounting for 35% of the skilled workforce; the number of research personnel in the city exceeding 200,000; and the competent personnel totaling 1.5 million.

Promote integrated development of Guiyang and Guian, and enhance urban development

The nine key tasks in this aspect include fostering the headquarters economy, accelerating new industrialization, accelerating new urbanization, accelerating agricultural modernization, stepping up industrialization of tourism, vigorously developing the modern service industry, improving the quality and efficiency of industrial parks, improving the urban functions and enhancing the carrying capacity of cities. Through these measures, we strive to achieve the following goals by 2025: achieving a total industrial output of over RMB 700 billion; having 2,000 industrial enterprises above the designated size; the built-up areas covering more than 600 square kilometers; the per capita urban road area reaching more than 15 square meters; and completing the renovation of shantytowns and old residential areas in central urban areas.

Adhere to green development and promote ecological progress

The three key tasks in this aspect include advancing intensive and economical use of resources, strengthening the improvement of the environment, and vigorously developing the green economy. Through these measures, we strive to achieve the following goals by 2025: the treatment rate of urban domestic sewage will be kept above 98%; all centralized drinking water sources will be up to the standard; the excellent air quality rate will be kept above 95%; the floor area of prefabricated buildings will account for 40% of the total area of the new buildings; and the added value of the green economy will account for 50% of GDP.

Integrate into the domestic and international dual circulations, and promote high-quality opening-up

The six key tasks in this aspect include building the Guiyang-Guian-Anshun-Qiannan economic zone, increasing effective investment, expanding and improving consumption, advancing high-level opening to the outside world, accelerating the development of modern logistics and attracting businesses in a targeted manner. Through these measures, we strive to achieve the following goals by 2025: the average annual growth rate of fixed asset investment will be 2 percentage points higher than the provincial level; the average annual growth rate of total retail sales of consumer goods will reach about 8.5%; the city will be made a regional consumption center; 40 international and 10 intercontinental air routes will be operated; the logistics industry's added value will account for more than 10% of GDP and the available funds for newly introduced industrial projects will grow by 18% annually.

Make every effort to improve people's wellbeing

The five key tasks in this aspect include promoting full employment, increasing the supply of quality education, building a healthy Guiyang and Guian, improving the multi-tiered social security system, and promoting the building of a culturally competitive city. Through these measures, we strive to achieve the following goals by 2025: offering human resources services for over one million people; achieving high-quality and balanced compulsory education in more than two counties and districts; having one or two more national and provincial demonstration secondary vocational schools and high-level vocational colleges; setting up at least one comprehensive old-age care service center under each sub-district office; and ensuring the proportion of nursing beds in the city's old-age care institutions will reach 55%.