"The start is a decisive battle, and the first step is a sprint." This is a true portrayal of the pace of project construction advancement in Changling County since the beginning of the year.
In the height of summer, walking into the project construction sites in Changling County, one sees forests of tower cranes, roaring machinery, and workers moving among steel reinforcement scaffolds. Newly started projects are making full preparations, projects under construction are stepping up the pace, and completed projects have reached production and are in use, jointly playing the strongest note of high-quality development.
As of the end of May, the county had started or resumed construction on 43 construction projects with investment of over 50 million yuan, an increase of 16%, of which 25 were industrial projects, accounting for 58%, the best level in previous years. In particular, new energy and LNG comprehensive utilization projects accounted for 60% of industrial projects and 66% of investment. The county's economic development has further consolidated its stable momentum, momentum is gathering, and the structure is gradually upgrading.
　Precise planning: the "ballast stone" of effective investment
Grasping projects means grasping development, and planning projects means planning the future. In project planning, Changling County focuses on high-quality development, accurately grasps development trends, competitive conditions, and comparative advantages, closely follows national policy orientation, market direction, and capital investment direction, and has planned at multiple levels, in broad fields, and across the full cycle a number of leading and supporting major projects, and has reserved a number of good projects that strengthen the foundation, increase staying power, and benefit the long term, making every effort to promote project construction to start high and advance steadily with improved quality and efficiency, using the "progress" of projects to promote the "stability" of development.
Give full play to the role of special project teams and deeply plan various projects. In terms of industrial projects, the county focuses on 10 industrial chains such as grain production and processing, natural gas, and new energy, vigorously carries out construction to extend, supplement, and strengthen the chains, focuses on locational advantages, and plans 20 upstream and downstream industrial chain projects around industrial projects such as auto parts supporting facilities and comprehensive natural gas utilization. In terms of government investment projects, it focuses on investment directions such as ultra-long-term special government bonds and central budget investment, firmly seizes the "window period" of national support for infrastructure construction, and plans 55 projects around actual needs such as livelihood shortcomings and supporting infrastructure for industrial projects. At the same time, it organizes various departments to hire qualified third-party institutions in advance to do preliminary work such as project feasibility studies, improve maturity, and achieve "submit one, succeed one."
　　Building the nest to attract phoenixes: creating a "strong magnetic field" for high-quality development
High-quality precision investment attraction is the foundation for effective investment and key project construction. Changling County consistently treats investment attraction as the "No. 1 project," firmly establishes the concept that "investment attraction is the top priority, and project implementation is the evaluation standard," formulates the "Changling County 2024 Investment Attraction Implementation Plan," highlights precision investment attraction, business-led investment attraction, and industrial chain investment attraction, dynamically updates the "five lists" of "policies, projects, activities, platforms, and enterprises," improves the industrial maps of 7 investment attraction task forces, strengthens coordination with Songyuan's "Big Dipper Array" for outbound investment attraction and talent recruitment, and uses various platforms to lock in interested enterprises and major projects and carry out targeted investment attraction activities.
From January to May, the whole county took the initiative and actively sought opportunities, carrying out a total of 20 various investment attraction activities, connecting with 36 enterprises, and signing 21 projects. Among them, county-level leaders led investment attraction 20 times, and 24 county-level departments and townships all reported investment attraction results or intended negotiation projects. From January to May, 8.15 billion yuan of funds in place was achieved.
In the second half of the year, Changling County will actively carry out the "Special Campaign for Project Planning," and based on industrial advantages and functional shortcomings, plan another batch of major strategic projects and a batch of 1-billion-yuan and 10-billion-yuan projects that can invigorate and establish the county. At the same time, around Changling County's six major development platforms of "one zone, three parks, and two towns," it will plan a batch of high-quality projects in various fields, simultaneously carry out work such as seeking support from higher levels and investment attraction, and comprehensively improve project quality and efficiency.
Steady and rapid progress: pressing the "fast-forward button" on project construction
Starting, accelerating, running... Changling County's key projects are fully drawn and galloping forward, brimming with vitality and vigor everywhere, and the surging momentum of striving to be first is inspiring.
A good business environment is a lowland for investment and business development, and also fertile ground for advancing project construction. Changling has always treated optimizing the business environment as the "top-leader project" for safeguarding project construction. The county party committee and county government adhere to goal orientation, result orientation, and problem orientation, continue to implement working mechanisms such as "acceptance with missing materials, parallel approval, and assisted agency services," promptly resolve bottlenecks, pain points, and difficulties in project construction, and efficiently coordinate the advancement of project implementation, rapid investment and construction, and reaching production and effectiveness.
Provide hardcore services to guarantee project progress. Changling continuously improves the project Gantt chart, further implements and refines work responsibilities and advances problem resolution from aspects such as early-stage project advancement, factor guarantees, and supporting services, pressing the "fast-forward button" on project construction. According to the four stages of project approval, land use planning, engineering planning, and construction permits, it works backward to set schedules for each project, actively carries out parallel approval and approval with missing materials, accelerates preliminary work such as land acquisition and demolition, financing, and drawing review, promotes projects to complete construction permits as early as possible, and strives to promote the start and resumption of key projects to form more physical work volume. At the same time, it studies and establishes a checklist of conditions for clearing projects into the database, organizes development and reform and statistics departments to promote in parallel, implements database entry conditions project by project, and ensures that standards are met and timely guidance is provided for database entry.
Breaking the waves in midsummer, striving to be first and charging ahead on "projects." In Changling, more and more project potential is being transformed into development momentum, supporting the "four beams and eight pillars" of high-quality development and helping the county economy achieve high-quality development.