In the depths of winter, across the land of eastern Qin, from bustling construction sites to production workshops humming with machinery, from blueprint plans bearing hope to the reality of factory buildings standing in rows, project construction is being accelerated at full speed, enterprises are moving in one after another, and production lines are being completed and put into operation. Industrial parks change with each passing day, workshops are busy and orderly, and the entire Weinan municipality is surging with activity—a magnificent picture of a thousand sails racing and a hundred boats contending is unfolding before our eyes.
Looking back at 2023, Weinan City, from top to bottom, adhered to the guidance of the "Three Years" activities, took the construction of key projects as the engine, mustered all its energy and fought hard to overcome difficulties, grasped project planning to high standards, promoted project implementation with high efficiency, and advanced project commissioning with high quality. The construction of key projects maintained its heat without cooling, its intensity without slackening, and its speed without slowing, constantly refreshing the "progress bar" of project construction, running out the "acceleration" of project construction, supporting the "stability" of high-quality development with the "advance" of project construction, consolidating the "ballast stone" of high-quality development, and accumulating momentum and empowering Weinan's high-quality economic development.

　　Making Every Effort to Plan Projects and Attract Investment
　　Projects originate from planning. In 2023, in accordance with the deployment of the "Weinan City High-Quality Project Promotion Year Implementation Plan," Weinan City further optimized and improved the dynamic project management mechanism of "plan a batch, reserve a batch, start a batch, and commission a batch," persisted in implementing high-quality requirements in every link and the entire process of project construction, strengthened project attraction around industries, kept a close eye on policies to optimize project reserves, focused on expanding total volume, optimizing existing stock, and improving quality, and cultivated and planned a batch of new and good projects with strong leadership and growth potential.
　　Based on leading industries and leading enterprises, Weinan City highlighted the planning, attraction, and reservation of industrial projects, aimed at industrial structure adjustment and upgrading, persisted in industrial leadership and driving, and around the 353 industrial clusters and 15 industrial chains, invited experts and scholars from universities such as Xi'an Jiaotong University and Northwestern Polytechnical University, formed 8 special research teams for industrial cluster planning, and planned and packaged 541 major industrial projects with a total investment of 260 billion yuan. Around infrastructure projects to shore up weak links such as new urbanization, public services, and ecological environment construction, it adopted methods such as special training, rolling training, and going deep into counties (cities, districts) to deliver policies and services, comprehensively improving and perfecting 1,402 reserved projects with an estimated investment of 271.23 billion yuan.
　　Weinan City vigorously grasped investment attraction, persisted in the working mechanism of city and county "top leaders" holding discussions with entrepreneurs, leading teams to knock on doors to attract investment, and regularly holding breakfast meetings to promote projects, established a 1 billion yuan high-end manufacturing industry fund, completed the investment attraction tasks of industrial projects of over 1 billion yuan in all counties (cities, districts), signed and landed 465 major projects such as the Aviation Components Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park, with funds in place of 169 billion yuan; carefully planned, reserved, screened, and declared projects, secured 7.72 billion yuan of investment in central and provincial budget projects, issued 14.65 billion yuan of investment in government bond projects, and screened and reserved 115.5 billion yuan of investment in national bond projects.

　　Going All Out to Grasp Implementation and Promote Development
　　One project is a new growth point, and a batch of projects is a new growth pole. In 2023, the city's 500 municipal-level key construction projects completed investment exceeding the expected target by 2.8 percentage points, and 173 projects such as the Fuping liquid milk production line were completed and put into operation.
　　The results of industrial cultivation and transformation and upgrading were obvious. The completed investment of 166 industrial projects increased by 9.3% year on year. Sixty-one projects such as the rooftop photovoltaic project in Dali County, the Fuyan light steel structure industrial park, and the mechanized primary material yard of Longgang Company in Hancheng City were put into operation. The Datang Dali 200 MW agricultural-photovoltaic complementary power generation project, the Pucheng Telaijing C3099 production project, and the Baishui County Xigu Coal Industry capacity improvement construction project were completed and put into operation and entered the statistics database in the same year. A batch of projects such as the COFCO Grain and Oil 900,000-ton-per-year wheat processing project in Weinan High-tech Zone and the industrialized demonstration production line of new metal composite materials in Weinan High-tech Zone progressed smoothly.
　　Urban renewal and infrastructure construction changed with each passing day. The 154 urban renewal and infrastructure projects progressed smoothly overall, sponge city construction was fully launched, and projects such as the reconstruction and expansion of the Beijing-Kunming Expressway from Pucheng to Laoyu were completed and put into use; projects such as the supporting pipeline network of the natural gas storage depot of Weinan Chengtou Energy Company were accelerated; 23 green squares and 8,000 square meters of underground parking lots were built in the central urban area, 13 "dead-end roads" were opened up, and 16 urban roads were completed. Modern agriculture advanced rapidly. The completed investment of 45 modern agriculture projects increased by 6.4% year on year. Twenty-five projects such as the relocation of the Huayin City Changsheng Pig Slaughterhouse and the pig breeding construction project of Dali County Muyuan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. were completed, and four major industries including dairy products and apples were included in the national advantageous and characteristic industrial clusters; 430,000 mu of high-standard farmland was built citywide, and the Weibei farmland drainage (alkali) restoration and protection project completed the dredging and renovation of 295.7 kilometers of main and branch canals.
　　Commercial services were full of highlights. Among the 37 modern service industry projects, 8 projects including the e-commerce mall operation center in Weinan High-tech Zone, the new business model experience store for furniture (household goods) in Mocun Market of Huazhou District, the Chengcheng E-commerce Industrial Park, the Zhongchuang High-tech Industrial Park, and the cold-chain logistics facilities for agricultural products in Baishui County were partially completed and put into use, and a batch of cultural and tourism projects such as the capacity expansion of the cableway (south line cableway) in Shaohua Mountain National Forest Park were implemented in an orderly manner.
　　Social and livelihood projects achieved remarkable results. The completed investment of 98 social and livelihood projects increased by 3.6% year on year, and the "Two Halls and One Center" in the medical and health field was actively promoted; 13 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens were newly built, renovated, or expanded citywide, adding 12,560 school seats; 17 high-quality sports events were organized, the creation of a national model city for national fitness was solidly advanced, 212 rural sports and fitness projects were completed, and the main structure of the municipal elderly care demonstration service center was completed.
　　Sets of precise data record the progress and results of project construction, and each landed project clearly outlines the context of urban development. Every investment, every innovation, and every breakthrough have left a deep mark on this hot land, pushing the city's economic and social development to take more solid steps on the new journey.

Persevering in Optimizing the Environment and Enhancing Vitality
　　Today's projects are tomorrow's productivity, and optimizing the business environment is liberating productivity and enhancing competitiveness. In 2023, Weinan City solidly advanced the "Business Environment Breakthrough Year" activity, persisted in implementing high-quality development requirements in every link and the entire process of project approval, enterprise registration, and serving the masses, comprehensively implemented the model of "tolerance of missing materials + commitment system + parallel approval + full-process assistance and agency service," opened a "green channel" for land and environmental impact assessment approval of municipal-level key projects, and achieved the goal of completing all municipal-level procedures for municipal-level key projects within the city for three consecutive years in the first quarter.
　　In 2023, Weinan City continued to make efforts in improving project service guarantees, deeply advanced the joint reform of "standard land + commitment system," and achieved 100% full coverage of "standard land." The completion of the Weinan City Internet Plus Real Estate Registration Platform realized "one-network handling" of online transactions, tax payment, and certificate processing. Experiences such as the 12345 business environment "Enterprise Hopes Weinan Comes" hotline providing enterprises with a service model of "handling by phone, handling online, and handling at all times" were replicated and promoted throughout the province. At the same time, Weinan City issued the "Weinan City Evaluation and Incentive Measures for Financial Institutions Supporting Local Economic Development" and the "Weinan City High-Quality Project Financing Service Work Plan," actively carried out capital market service docking, promoted the institutionalization, normalization, and precision of high-quality project financing services, successfully secured 13.82 billion yuan of policy loan funds, and reached cooperation intentions with 42 enterprises with credit lines of nearly 20 billion yuan. The Weinan City Enterprise Full Life Cycle Service Platform was completed, covering service functions such as financing guarantees, technological innovation, talent services, market development, demand acceptance, and digital empowerment, and pushed 387 toolkits and policy packages and 749 enterprise-related hot topics to enterprises in batches, of which 48 policies can be declared online, and 495 enterprises have completed online declarations. The vitality of market entities throughout the city continued to burst forth, the sense of gain and satisfaction of enterprises and the masses continued to improve, and the city's economic resilience and development potential were significantly enhanced.
　　Those who share the same desire from top to bottom win, and those who stand together through wind and rain prosper. Every project is a leaping note, together playing the sonorous melody of Weinan's high-quality development. In 2024, Weinan City will firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, promote the implementation and effectiveness of key project construction with greater efforts and more practical measures, promote the optimization and upgrading of the economic structure, strive to achieve effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth, and strive to write a new chapter of Weinan in the construction of Chinese-style modernization.