Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday inspected northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, which has made marked progress in economic development and ecological protection in recent years.
During the inspection, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited a residential community in Ningxia's regional capital Yinchuan to learn about how community services had been provided to facilitate people's daily life and cultural activities. Underscoring the key role of communities in serving residents, Xi stressed strengthening primary-level Party organizations and maintaining a stable team of warm-hearted community workers.
Covering an area of 66,400 square kilometers with a permanent population of more than 7.29 million, Ningxia has made remarkable achievements in economic development in the past year.
In 2023, Ningxia's regional GDP was 531.495 billion yuan (73.2 billion U.S. dollars), up 6.6 percent over the previous year. In the first quarter of this year, the regional GDP grew by 5.8 percent. The growth rate in total value added for industrial enterprises above the designated size ranked first nationwide, a historical high.
Ningxia also performed outstandingly in green development and ecological protection.
As China's first comprehensive new energy demonstration zone, Ningxia's new energy utilization rate has exceeded 97 percent for five consecutive years, and the output of coal-to-liquids has exceeded 4 million tons for three consecutive years, ranking first in the country. The green power generated in Ningxia has been widely used in the eastern and central Chinese regions.
Ningxia is the only provincial-level administrative region in China that is entirely located in the Yellow River Basin, with a complete ecological system of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and deserts. It is also accelerating the development of agricultural specialty industries and scientifically building a modern rural industrial system.
Ningxia is also deepening and expanding its cooperation with east China's Fujian Province to promote the coordinated development of urban and rural areas, and consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation.
In terms of sci-tech development, Ningxia seized the strategic opportunity of channeling more computing resources from the eastern areas to the less developed western regions. It is making every effort to build "China's Computing Capital", so as to give full play to the superposition and multiplication effect of digital technology.
Ningxia makes marked progress in economic, ecological development
