July 29th news, Lanzhou, China. On July 28th, the reporter learned from Lanzhou Development and Reform Commission that in the first half of this year, Lanzhou's population agglomeration effect appeared, its fiscal revenue and expenditure grew rapidly, its financial operation was generally stable, its pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, strategic emerging industries above designated size and high-tech industries grew rapidly, its business environment continued to be optimized, its credit system continued to improve, and its investment attraction achieved remarkable results. The quality and efficiency of the city's development improved steadily.
Population agglomeration effect appears
According to the seventh National Population Census, the permanent population of The city is 4.3594 million, accounting for 17.42% of the province, which is 7446 thousand more than the sixth National population census, with an average annual growth of 1.89%. Among them, the urban population was 3.6225 million, accounting for 83.1%, and the rural population was 736,900, accounting for 16.9%. The population aged 0-14 was 618,700, accounting for 14.19%; The population aged 15-59 was 3018,600, accounting for 69.24%; The population aged 60 and above was 722,100, accounting for 16.56%; Among them, the population aged 65 and above was 5100 thousand, accounting for 11.70%. The number of people with college education (college education or above) was 1.2461 million; The number of people with high school education (including technical secondary school education) was 816,000; The number of people with junior high school education was 118,200; The number of people with primary school education was 724,200.
Fiscal revenue and expenditure increased rapidly
In the first half of this year, the city's general public budget revenue reached 13.327 billion yuan, up 17.8%. Tax revenue reached 9.846 billion yuan, up 22.1%, of which VAT, enterprise income tax, urban maintenance and construction tax and deed tax contributed 39.83%, 10.77%, 11.91% and 21.71% respectively. Non-tax revenue was 3.481 billion yuan, an increase of 7.0%. Expenditure in the general public budget is 23.371 billion yuan, up 18.5%.
The financial sector was stable on the whole
In the first half of this year, Lanzhou carried out activities such as "The Year of Unimpeded and Accelerated financing" and "One hundred presidents entering one thousand enterprises", issuing loans for characteristic industries of 32.955 billion yuan and direct financing of 11.743 billion yuan. To give full play to the role of insurance protection, 24 agricultural insurance varieties were implemented, and a compensation of 44.9552 million yuan was paid. At the end of June, the balance of local and foreign currency deposits in financial institutions of the city was 974.078 billion yuan (accounting for 43.4% of the province), up 0.6%; The balance of local and foreign currency loans of financial institutions reached 1,397.757 billion yuan (accounting for 59.4% of the province), up 8.6%.
The pharmaceutical and regulatory industries are growing rapidly
In the first half of this year, the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, strategic emerging industries above designated scale and high-tech industries in Lanzhou witnessed rapid growth. In accordance with the Implementation of lanzhou City's Implementation Plan for Revitalizing manufacturing Industry (2019-2025), the enterprise innovation consortium established was selected into the first batch of enterprise innovation consortium in Gansu Province, and 7 new products entered the provincial new product registration and recording process. In the first half of this year, the city's pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, strategic emerging industries above designated scale and high-tech industries increased by 52.1%, 84.7% and 54.0% respectively.
The business environment continued to improve
Lanzhou performed well in the 2020 National Assessment of business environment, with a comprehensive score of 70.59 for the ease of doing business, up 27.65 points from 2019. Formulated the Special Action Plan of Lanzhou City to Comprehensively Improve and Optimize the Business Environment, launched the work of Lanzhou City to build a national practice sample city for optimizing the business environment, and selected 9 first-level indicators as the practice sample indicators. Lanzhou held a special training session on business environment evaluation, and signed the "Lanzhou Sample City Responsibility For Building a National Practice of Optimizing Business Environment" with 18 responsible units. By the end of June, the municipal market regulatory departments at all levels had registered a total of 354,700 market entities of various types, with 22,800 new market entities, an average of 151 new entities per day. A total of 206,400 business licenses have been issued.
The credit system has been continuously improved
Lanzhou city has formulated the Implementation Plan on Accelerating the Construction of social Credit System and Building a New Credit-based Supervision Mechanism, and opened and operated the "Lanzhou Credit Easy Loan" platform to alleviate the problems of difficult and expensive financing for enterprises. At present, 225 enterprises have entered the platform, issued 109 financing needs, and applied for a total of 170 million yuan of loans. Twenty-six banking institutions have settled in, with a total loan of 74.03 million yuan. Seven batches of 115 small, medium and micro enterprises with financing needs have been recommended to the national "Credit easy Lending" platform.
Significant results have been achieved in attracting investment
Lanzhou city adheres to the concept of "two true and four good" in attracting investment, carries out the activity of "Breakthrough year in Attracting investment", and formulates "Compilation of Policies for Attracting Investment of Lanzhou City". At the 27th China Investment and Trade Fair, Lanzhou city signed 143 contract projects with a total of 99.423 billion yuan. Among them, 32 projects of more than 1 billion yuan were signed, with a total of 79.234 billion yuan, accounting for 79.69% of the total signed amount. "Three top 500" and industry leading enterprises invested in 34 projects, the total contract amount of 44.140 billion yuan, accounting for 44.39% of the total contract amount.
(Zhang Wanhong, Lanzhou Daily All-media reporter)