Yesterday afternoon, the municipal government held an executive meeting to specifically analyze the economic situation in the first half of year, listen to reports on the progress of the three “Top Priority Projects”, the “Ten Major Projects”, and the “Six New Huzhou” initiatives, and plan for the work in the second half of year. Hong Hupeng, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. The vice mayors respectively deployed the next steps of work.

At the meeting, Huzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission reported on the overall progress of the economic operation, the three “Top Priority Projects”, the “Ten Major Projects”, and the “Six New Huzhou” initiatives in the first half of year, and proposed recommendations for the next stage of work. The municipal leading departments reported on relevant situations respectively, while the district and county governments, the South Taihu New Area and Yangtze River Delta Huzhou Industrial Cooperation Zone Administrative Committee, reported on the economic performance in the first half of year and measures for thefuture work.

Hong Hupeng stressed that since the beginning of this year, our city has conscientiously carried out the decisions and plans of the Party Central Committee, the State Council, and the provincial party committee and government. It has continued to deepen the thematic practice of “Beautiful China, Dynamic Huzhou” and vigorously implemented the “Large-scale Investment Attraction, Talent Introduction, Cultivation, and Development” initiative, striving to stabilize growth, promote transformation, benefit the people, and prevent risks. In the first half of the year, the economic operation showed “steady progress, generally in line with expectations; orderly breakthroughs and establishments, with some areas still under pressure”. The entire city must conscientiously implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee into specific work, maintain confidence, overcome difficulties, strive for excellence through hard work, take grasping reforms and adding vitality as the key, prioritize stable growth and ensuring basic needs, take strengthening opening-up and promoting integration as the strategic orientation, regard attracting major investments and enhancing future potential as the fundamental strategy, and treat risk prevention and bottom-line adherence as the basic requirement. We must go all out to do a good job in the second half of the year to ensure the high-quality completion of annual objectives and tasks.