February 21, 2024.

It is an ordinary day in Huzhou: Faint yellow is fading, light green is emerging, people are keeping busy paces, and the city is full of vitality in early spring and passion for hard work.ǔ

It is also an extraordinary day since the New Year Symposium for Citizens of the Happiest Cities was held, which touched our hearts.

Everyone yearns for happiness! Over 2 months ago, the list of “2023 China's Happiest Cities” was announced, and Huzhou was successfully selected for the second consecutive year.

What is it like to live in Felicity Huzhou? As a representative of the rated city, the main person in charge of the municipal party committee responded proudly with “eight senses” in the keynote speech of the 2023 China Happy City Forum, which are the sense of glory of “thanksgiving and forge ahead”, the sense of delicacy of “each with its own beauty”, the sense of respect of “enterprise is precious”, the sense of belongings of “openness and inclusiveness”, the sense of gain of “balanced and inclusive”, the sense of security of “efficient governance”, the sense of achievement of “everyone's endeavour” and the sense of self-confidence of “the future's arrival”.

Felicity does not come without foundation and happy days are created through diligence.

This new year symposium reminds us of the “Four Seasons to See Changes” work at the landmark points of the districts and counties, the government-enterprise meeting of intimacy and innocence on Wednesday, and the “Seeing” Citizen Observation Group and so on. Looking back at the thematic practice of “Beautiful China, Dynamic Huzhou” for more than one year, the majority of cadres, entrepreneurs and the masses have integrated their “small selves” into the “big self” of the city’s reform and development.

It is the mutual effort between people and the city that converges a strong synergy to promote the vision of happiness to be transformed step by step into a vivid reality that can be seen, touching and exciting.

Mutual effort makes the city more wonderful. The successful hosting of the first National Ecology Day, the income gap between urban and rural residents was narrowed to 1.57:1, the comprehensive evaluation of business environment and enterprise satisfaction ranked the 13th among the 130 prefecture-level cities, the high-quality completion of the municipal government’s ten practical projects on people’s livelihood and the fluent accomplishment of the Hangzhou Asian Games in Huzhou competition area... Along the way in 2023, the city of Huzhou is shining, and the light comes from new and old Huzhou people who treat the city matter as a family one. The glimmer of mortals converge into a galaxy, reflecting the footprints of endeavor.