(Infographic) China News Service reporter Zhang Yushe
China news agency, Beijing, May 8 (Reporter Wang Enbo) The economic report cards of China in the first quarter were announced one after another. Behind the good start of the national economy as a whole, many places are tapping the growth potential with high-quality development.
In the first quarter of this year, China’s GDP increased by 6.4% year-on-year, which was the same as that in the fourth quarter of last year. At the local level, except Tibet and Xinjiang, up to now, 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have released the first quarter GDP data. Among them, the GDP growth rate of 16 places "outperformed" the whole country, and the growth rate of Beijing and Guangxi was the same as that of the whole country.
Specifically, Yunnan, Guizhou and Jiangxi ranked among the top three in terms of GDP growth rate in the first quarter, increasing by 9.7%, 9.2% and 8.6% respectively. At the other end of the list, Jilin, Tianjin and Heilongjiang ranked the last three temporarily, with growth rates of 2.4%, 4.5% and 5.3% respectively.
It is worth mentioning that the northeast economy, which had been in a downturn before, showed warmth. In the first quarter, Liaoning’s GDP increased by 6.1%, ranking first among the three northeastern provinces. Wang Hongqi, deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Bureau of Statistics, said that the province’s GDP growth rate has been above 5% for five consecutive quarters, and the economic operation in the first quarter of this year has also achieved a "good start", continuing the good trend of steady progress and progress since 2017.
From the perspective of economic aggregate, many places crossed or approached the important integer mark in the first quarter. In the first quarter, the total GDP of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang and Henan provinces all exceeded one trillion yuan (RMB, the same below), among which Guangdong, Jiangsu and Shandong provinces entered the "2 trillion club". In addition, the total GDP of Sichuan and Hubei provinces in the first quarter exceeded 900 billion yuan, only one step away from the trillion mark.
The steady operation of local economies in China in the first quarter is inseparable from the change of development ideas. As early as the beginning of the year, when setting goals, all localities gradually put down the "burden" of GDP and focused on high-quality development.
Take Shandong as an example. Since 2000, the annual GDP growth rate of this province has been higher than the national level. In the first quarter of this year, Shandong’s GDP was among the best, but the growth rate of 5.5% was 0.9 percentage points lower than the national level, ranking lower in 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.
In this regard, Guan Zhaoquan, deputy director of the Shandong Provincial Development and Reform Commission, pointed out that the province actively eliminated a number of backward excess production capacity, and last year alone reduced the production capacity of crude steel by 3.55 million tons, pig iron by 600,000 tons and coal by 4.95 million tons, but the cultivation and growth of emerging industries still need a process. This "empty cage period" of kinetic energy conversion is in line with expectations and is an inevitable "pain" to achieve high-quality economic development.
High-quality development has also led to great strides in economic growth in some areas. In recent years, Guizhou, an inland province in southwest China, has made great efforts to cultivate new industries, new formats and new business models, especially in the fields of cloud computing and big data.
Peng Long, deputy director of Guizhou Provincial Bureau of Statistics, said that the integration of big data and real economy in Guizhou Province is accelerating. In January and February, the operating income of Internet and related service enterprises in Guizhou Province increased by 134.5% over the same period of last year, and the operating income of software and information technology service enterprises increased by 27.7%.
Some areas where economic growth has declined before are also accumulating rebound momentum with high-quality development. Although Tianjin’s GDP growth rate of 4.5% in the first quarter is still the second lowest in the country for the time being, it is 2.6 and 0.9 percentage points faster than the same period of last year and the whole year of last year respectively, and the economic trend has been obvious since the first quarter of last year.
Chu Liping, deputy director of Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Statistics, said that Tianjin adheres to the new development concept and actively adjusts the economic and industrial structure. Although this has an impact on the current GDP and fiscal revenue rate, the economic structure is more optimized, the gold content in operation is higher, and the foundation for sustainable development is stronger. "After two years of adjustment, we are now on the track of high-quality development, and the effect of the previous adjustment is gradually emerging." (End)
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