In the early spring season, all things compete to flourish, and the land of Si Ming is filled with a surge of spring tide. Yesterday, on the first day back to work after the Spring Festival holiday, our city held the grand Competitive Horse Racing for Progress Action Implementation Meeting. This high-profile meeting at the beginning of the new year issued an assembly order to start a new journey with drumbeats urging progress, and sounded the charge of high-quality development advancing with high spirits. This year marks the fourth year for our city's Competitive Horse Racing for Progress initiative, which has been upgraded from an action implementation campaign to an action implementation offensive. From action implementation to offensive, it stimulates the sense of urgency for progress among people throughout the city, ignites the momentum for striving ahead, and fuels the fighting spirit for strength. It demonstrates the determination of various regions and departments to take on heavy burdens and dare to chew through tough challenges. Only by accelerating breakthroughs with stronger determination and more practical measures can we fulfill the promises we made with great conviction and submit performance reports that stand the test of history and the people. At the meeting, Fu Guirong, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of Ningbo Municipal People's Congress and Secretary of Yuyao Municipal Party Committee, spoke with firmness and inspiration in his words. From grand visions to fine details, implementing with high standards and quality Looking back at 2024, our city insisted on putting work first and managed to hand in one outstanding report after another: The gross domestic product (GDP) reached 168 billion yuan with a growth rate of 5.9%, ranking second in Ningbo; We were honored as a national model county for integrated transportation between urban and rural areas and a key county for increasing grain production capacity by 1 billion metric tons; For the 15th time, we were ranked among the Cities with the Highest Sense of Happiness in China; We won the Zhejiang Manufacturing Tian Gong Ding for the first time, achieving an eighteen consecutive championships for provincial peace cities… Honors belong to the past, and the future lies in our journey. The meeting pointed out seven directions with big": In 2025, the whole city should seize strategic opportunities vigorously, compete fiercely in industrial economy, promote the tertiary industry vigorously, invest heavily in projects, improve urban quality significantly, make up for shortcomings in common prosperity, and strengthen party building. The goal is set, and what matters most is practical work. The key going forward is to implement with high standards and quality. Speaking with projects - The Development and Reform Bureau will anchor itself to the target of achieving a 6% annual GDP growth rate, earnestly taking on its coordinating responsibilities to ensure a good start and successful year. Mao Wenjie, Director and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Development and Reform Bureau, expressed his commitment: We will adhere to 'projects as king', deeply implement the 'investment offensive year' action, work diligently and strive for excellence. Through proactive efforts to secure national funding, advance project offensives, optimize investment structures, etc., we will contribute our development and reform efforts to creating a new situation of high-quality development in our city. Speaking with data - Aiming for an 8% increase in added value of industries above designated size, a 6% increase in digital economy core industry manufacturing added value; aiming for smart IoT and advanced new materials industries to reach 58 billion yuan and 35 billion yuan in output value respectively; aiming to complete digitization transformation of 150 enterprises and establish 15 digital benchmark projects. Wang Limin, Director and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Economic and Information Bureau, stated, Moving forward, we will pursue 'striving for excellence and being first-class' goals and demonstrate 'fighting hard throughout the year' actions. We will strive to fight three major battles for high-quality development of industrial economy. Speaking with details - Innovating models such as first stores + commercial circles and first stores + cultural creativity to create consumer hotspots; developing creative markets and lively streets as small yet beautiful consumption scenarios; arranging nighttime live streaming space carriers in characteristic blocks, commercial circles, etc. Zhou Jianming, Director and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Commerce Bureau said that the commerce department will strengthen policies such as double emphasis and double new to cultivate new consumption growth points around residents' daily needs such as food, clothing, and household goods. They will promote typical cases and continuously stimulate the vitality and potential of Yao City's consumer market. From routine promotion to extraordinary, unite hearts and minds to strengthen offensives The New Year's first meeting serves not only as an award ceremony and mobilization meeting but also as a service session and oath-taking ceremony. Everyone understands that each goal and task requires everyone to be brave in competition, good at performing their duties, put work first, ride the momentum upwards, transform offensive momentum into development advantage. Comprehensively carry out six major offensives: industrial capacity enhancement, improved investment quality, accelerated project progress, infrastructure quality improvement, enhanced reform effectiveness, and party building improvement. With a forceful momentum, continuously upgrade park levels, shoulder the responsibility of 'big platforms carrying big burdens' to add luster to the overall situation of the city. At the meeting, Zhu Yuebo, member of the leading group and deputy commander of Cino Ningbo Ecological Park Regional Development Construction Command Organization spoke passionately. In the new year, Cino Ningbo Ecological Park will adopt a state of decisive battle from the beginning and sprinting from the start to focus on large projects and key projects. It will focus on attracting industrialized projects in fields such as new energy vehicles and critical components, integrated circuits, biopharmaceuticals, general aviation, and future industries. It aims to sign 20 new projects.