The reporter recently learned from the Xiamen Municipal Construction Bureau that from January to July this year, departments at all levels in Xiamen intensified coordination efforts for municipal key projects, fully advanced project construction, and exceeded planned tasks for investment, land acquisition, and project starts and completions, delivering an impressive report card. The latest data show that from January to July, the city's 326 municipal key projects actually completed investment of 74.23 billion yuan, exceeding the investment target by 18.74 billion yuan, completing 133.8% of the scheduled progress plan and 63% of the annual plan.
　　As the locomotive driving Xiamen's urban and economic development, key project construction is an important support and source of momentum for Xiamen's development. The municipal Party committee and municipal government attach great importance to it, and departments at all levels are more willing to take responsibility, striving for excellence in engineering, rigorously scrutinizing details, and taking proactive action on projects. They have overcome multiple difficulties such as tight schedules, tight construction periods, and heavy tasks, and gone all out to advance key project construction.
　　Since the beginning of this year, the Municipal Construction Bureau and the Municipal Key Projects Office have further intensified coordination and supervision, taking the lead in carrying out supervision inspections and agent-construction evaluations for municipal key projects in the first and second quarters, and jointly with the municipal land and performance departments carried out special supervision on land and housing acquisition. They coordinated project issues, conducted in-depth inspections at construction frontlines, and actively promoted project starts, demolition and relocation, investment, and progress, driving Xiamen's key project construction to new achievements.
　　A batch of industrial projects is building momentum for the city's economic development——On August 15, the second-phase project of the Western (Haicang) Waste Incineration Power Plant officially began trial operation. The ABB Industrial Center project, NEG glass, and the Omega Natural Functional Chemicals Bioproject have already completed their annual investment targets ahead of schedule. Among them, the ABB Industrial Center project is planned to be fully completed and put into use in the third quarter, NEG glass has already begun operations, and the Omega Natural Functional Chemicals Bioproject is inspecting pipeline equipment and is expected to be completed and put into use by the end of this year.
　　Service industry projects under construction have repeatedly reported good news. The main structure of the G-bits Jimei Park project was capped recently, and acceptance of the basement structure has begun; the large-item sorting center in the west zone of the JD E-commerce Industrial Park is expected to be completed and put into use first in September; the Southeast International Shipping Center headquarters project is carrying out completion acceptance for Buildings A, B, E, and F, which will be put into use successively by the end of this year.
　　A series of social undertaking projects that benefit people's livelihoods and shore up weaknesses are also progressing steadily as planned. On August 9, construction started on the much-watched affordable housing Wujia Apartment, which will provide 4,520 public rental housing units after completion; Torch International School also started construction this month and is planned to be built as a school for children of foreign nationals with 1,000 places; in terms of hospitals, projects such as the Xiamen Cardiovascular Hospital of Xiamen University, the Phase III expansion of Xiamen Third Hospital, and Xiang'an Hospital will add about 4,000 beds and are planned to be completed and put into use before the end of the year.
　　[Data]
　　74.23 billion yuan
　　From January to July, the city's 326 municipal key projects actually completed investment of 74.23 billion yuan, exceeding the investment target by 18.74 billion yuan, completing 133.8% of the scheduled progress plan and 63% of the annual plan.
　　109%
　　This year, the city's key projects plan to start 64 projects and complete 63 projects. Among them, from January to July, 33 projects were planned to start, and 36 actually started, with a start rate of 109%; 12 were planned to be completed, and 12 actually were completed, with a completion rate of 100%.
　　122.5%
　　From January to July, 11,523.2 mu of land was planned for acquisition, and 13,116.3 mu was actually delivered, completing 113.7% of the scheduled progress; 721,000 square meters of housing was planned for acquisition, and 883,000 square meters was actually demolished, completing 122.5% of the scheduled progress, exceeding the planned acquisition task.