Total Investment Reached RMB11.28 Billion! Zigong Started the First 71 Major Projects This Year

On January 13, the centralized commencement ceremony of the first batch of 71 major projects and new energy intelligent integrated equipment projects in Zigong in 2021 was grandly held on the site of Wolun’s electric project. Secretary Fan Bo of the municipal Party committee, attended the ceremony and made an important speech there. He pointed out that the total investment of this batch of projects reached RMB 11.28 billion and the annual planned investment was RMB 5.37 billion. These 71 major projects cover all districts and counties of Zigong, involving new infrastructure, industrial development, infrastructure, people's livelihood, and social undertakings. Among them, there are 48 industrial development projects with a total investment of RMB 8.75 billion; 14 infrastructure projects with a total investment of RMB 1 billion; and 7 livelihood and social undertakings projects with a total investment of RMB 710 million. The commencement of these projects is the real action of Zigong to thoroughly implement the spirit of the Eighth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Provincial Party Committee and the working idea of "stabilizing agriculture, strengthening industry, promoting consumption, expanding domestic demand, grasping projects, emphasizing innovation, smooth circulation and improving quality" of the economic work meeting of the provincial Party committee. The commencement  fired the starting gun of the city's three-year action to tackle key projects and it will provide strong support for achieving a "good start" in the first quarter of this year.

As the project representative on the commencement ceremony, Wolun Electric's integrated new energy charging, distribution, and power storage equipment manufacturing project is also a key project of 2020. It has attracted much attention because of its demonstrating and driving role after it is put into operation. Luo Quan, President of Wolun Group and chairman of Wolun Electric, as the project representative, made a detailed report on the first new energy project introduced by Zigong. Covering an area of about 105 mu with a total investment of RMB 320 million, the project will be built in three phases. It will mainly build production lines such as intelligent standard workshop, R & D center and new energy vehicle charging pile, as well as industry-leading supporting facilities like thenational new energy charging and distribution, intelligent transmission and distribution R & D laboratory, quality testing center and dust-free workshop. It is expected that, after the project is fully completed, an annual output value of about RMB 1 billion, an annual profit of RMB 120 million, and a tax of RMB 30 million will be achieved, driving the upstream and downstream supporting industries to achieve an output value of about RMB 1.5 billion. Since the moment when this project was introduced in, Da'an District has established a promoting mechanism of "half-day work system, no overnight problems" to realize the "three synchronization" of construction mobilization, formalities handling and factors guaranteeing, which will promote the project to be put into operation in June of this year. This is only a microcosm of Zigong's industrial revival.

It is understood that in 2020, Zigong has carried out the policy of "investment plays the leading role" and started 338 projects in six batches, and invested RMB 90 billion in municipal major projects, 12 percentage points higher than the plan, making an important contribution to the "double victory" in epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development.