Yancheng's first-half economic data shows a regional GDP growth of 5.2% year-on-year, with the real economy providing a solid foundation. The agricultural sector remained stable, with total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries reaching 63.95 billion yuan, a comparable increase of 4.2%. The value-added output of industrial enterprises above a designated size grew by 5.3%, with lithium battery manufacturing and specialized equipment industries showing strong performances, as their output value increased by 34.6% and 8.5%, respectively. The service sector also demonstrated robust momentum, with a 6.1% increase in value-added output.
A recent meeting of the city's standing committee and financial committee emphasized the need to develop new productive forces tailored to local conditions, promoting the high-quality and efficient growth of the artificial intelligence industry, emerging industries, and modern services. This approach is essential for cultivating new drivers of growth. The core of enhancing the quality of the real economy lies in leveraging new momentum, with artificial intelligence currently being the most significant source of such momentum. Through its powerful computing and deep learning capabilities, AI is reshaping various industries and offering vast potential for expanding growth.
To further drive industrial upgrading and strengthen the real economy, it is crucial to use AI technology to assist in the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and to open up new tracks for strategic emerging industries and future industries. This requires a comprehensive and deep application of AI across the entire real economy. From the national to the local level, deployments around AI-empowered industrial development are being deepened. The State Council's opinion on implementing the "AI+" action clearly calls for accelerating the implementation of key "AI+" industrial development actions. At the provincial level, the "Jiangsu Province 'AI+' Action Plan" has been introduced, launching key actions for "AI+" industrial upgrading and "AI+" emerging industries. Yancheng has also formulated its own "Implementation Plan for Accelerating the 'AI+' Action" and other new industrial policies, specifying key content such as promoting AI to empower the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries.
Yancheng has the advantages and actions to leverage AI to strengthen its real economy foundation and gain a competitive edge in this "lane-changing race." Strengthening the real economy also requires a long-term perspective. Industrial development, technological breakthroughs, and cluster cultivation are not overnight affairs; they cannot be expected to yield immediate results. For example, the recent strong rise of Changxin Technology is backed not only by its own sustained efforts but also by long-term support from the city. Local governments should base their strategies on their own resource endowments and industrial foundations, patiently cultivating a number of distinctive and advantageous industries. This year, Yancheng has introduced a work plan to create 18 distinctive and advantageous industries with national and provincial influence. The key to strengthening these 18 industries lies in grasping the industrial development cycle, continuously optimizing the industrial ecosystem, and using time to nurture industrial growth, supporting steady expansion through long-term cultivation.
When the real economy thrives, the economy thrives; when the real economy is strong, development is stable. Looking ahead, we need both the innovative drive to dare to try and explore, as well as the patience and perseverance to persist over the long term. We must use new productive forces to guide the iterative upgrade of the real economy, continuously solidifying the foundation for high-quality development.
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