In the past five years, Jiangmen has made every effort to accelerate its economic development, and its comprehensive strength has been significantly enhanced. In 2020, the city's GDP reached 320.1 billion yuan, 96.1 billion yuan more than in 2015, with an average annual growth rate of 5.9% in five years. Investment in fixed assets had grown at an average annual rate of 11.4 percent, reaching 885.2 billion yuan over the past five years, roughly equal to the total from reform and opening up to the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan period.
The development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has been accelerated, seizing the major national development strategic opportunities. The construction of major platforms was launched, such as the Guangdong- Hong Kong- Macao Greater Bay Area (West of Pearl River) High-end Industry Cluster and Development Zone and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Jiangmen) High- quality AgriculturalCooperationand Development Platform. High- standard construction of Jiangmen Talent Island has cumulatively invested more than 8.5 billion Yuan. During the 13th Five- Year Plan period, the investment in transportation totaled 90.85 billion yuan,nearly three times that of the 12th Five- Year Plan period. Jiang- Zhanjiang Railway has been opened to traffic, and Jiangmen Station, a comprehensive transportation hub in the west of Pearl River, has been completed and put into operation. The city has been connected to the national high- speed railway network. In the province,Jiangmenhas taken the lead in realizing the remote offshore handling of business registration, foreign investment record registration and intelligent tax handling in Hong Kong and Macao, and realizing the cross-border handling of 125 government service items.
We haveaccelerated industrial transformation and upgrading, and made continuous progress in innovation and development. The industrial economy has reached a new level.Industrial investment totaled 348.7 billion yuan, and the added value of high- tech industries, advanced manufacturing and equipment manufacturing has been growing at an average annual rate of 15.9 percent, 7.5 percent and 7.5 percent, respectively. The "1+6"core parks have all been included in the national development zone development catalogue, the five major industrial parks with a total area of 10,000 mu have all been included in the policy support category of the provincial industrial parks, and the accumulated land area of 10,958 mu has been leveled. Jiangmen Industrial Transfer Park has won the provincial evaluation of excellent level for six consecutive years. The stock of high- tech enterprises has exceeded 1,800, which was 9 times that at the end of the 12th Five- Year Plan, and its annual growth rate ranked first in the province. There are 397 provincial- level engineering and technology research centers, four times the number at the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan, ranking fifth in the province.
The integration of urban core areas has been accelerated. The demonstration area of industrial and urban integration in the central urban area has successfully been selected into the provincial pilot list of urban- rural integration in Guangdong Province. Jiangmen Talent Island signed cooperation agreements with China Railway Construction Corporation,IBM Corporation, Provincial Academy of Sciences and Shenzhen Tencent Corporation.The quality of the new high- tech industrial city has been significantly improved, and the leading projects such as Dechang Electric Machinery and You MeiKe gradually release the"Magnetic Field Effect". In Hub New Town have been constructed the CIMC Think Tankand other municipal science and technology business incubators or mass innovation space. West Pearl River logistics center to accelerate the breakdown of the complex international logistics port is rising. The quality and efficiency of industrial parks will be improved, such as the five major industrial parks with a total area of 10,000 mu, and vigorously introduce high-quality projects. The construction of key platforms in the Greater
Guangzhou Bay Area has been accelerating. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater
Bay Area (West Pearl River), High-end Industry Cluster and Development Area has been written into the report of the plenary session of the CPC Provincial Committee and included into the key work points of the Central Greater Bay Area Office in 2020. The Binhai New Area of the SilverLake Bay has speeded up the construction of the first batch of infrastructure projects and eight major landscape projects with an investment of about 4 billion yuan.A number of key projects, such as the Blue Sea Silver Lake and Xin’ao Major Equipment Creative Industrial Park, have been vigorously promoted. Steady progress has been made in the construction of Guangzhou Bay, forming a development layout of "One Nuclear Power, Two Belts and Three Zones", and the LNG receiving station project has been initially included in the provincial energy "14th Five-Year Plan". The green advantages of ecological development zones have been gradually released. Rural Revitalization Work has won the first place in West Guangdong Region. The river chief system and the lake chief system and the high-grade farmland evaluation were inspected and encouraged by the State Council. Notable achievements have been made in the construction of modern agricultural industrial parks. The Measures for Jiangmen City to Promote the Development of All-region Tourism have been issued. Kaiping City has been rated as the second batch of provincial all- region tourism demonstration areas. Diaolou Cultural Tourism Zone in Kaipinghas successfully been established as a national 5A- level tourist attraction.The province took the lead in issuing compensation measures for urban watershed ecological protection, and issued the Plan for the Establishment of Jiangmen City as a National Demonstration City for Ecological Civilization Construction (2019-2030).
We have been working hard to ensure and improve people's wellbeing and significantly raise people's living standards. Spending on people's wellbeing has reached 130.6 billion yuan, an average annual increase of 12.6% . We have basically achieved universal health insurance. Subsidiaries for subsistence allowances, people living in extreme poverty, orphans, and people with (severely) disabilities were all raised by more than 50 percent from the levels at the end of the 12th Five- Year Plan period. We have carried out the "321" program for compulsory education, and built 29 new primary and secondary schools,with an additional 52,600 students of enrollment. Jiangmen Traditional Chinese Medicine Vocational College and Jiangmen Preschool Teachers' College (Phase I) have been completed and enrolled students and JiangmenPolytechnic has been built into a provincial model vocational college.