On March 5, the Shandong delegation of the Second Session of the 12th National People's Congress held a plenary meeting to consider the government work report. Shen Changyou, National People's Congress, Dongying municipal party committee secretary, spoke at the meeting. He said, in order to prevent such a resource-based city like Dongying "dies along with the depletion of oil", the government need to actively cultivate emerging leading industries. At the same time, the development of transportation career should be further speed up also the reform of fiscal and taxation system should be promoted.
To avoid "city dies along with the depletion of oil", he proposed to increase efforts to promote the transformation of Dongying and other resource-based cities.
To avoid "city dies along with the depletion of oil", Shen Changyou proposed to increase efforts to promote the transformation of Dongying and other resource-based cities. In 2013, according to the State Council introduced "National Resource-Based City Sustainable Development Plan", Dongying was considered as a mature resource city. Shen suggested that the country should start the pilot project of sustainable development of resource-based cities and include Dongying in the first batch of pilot cities to support the reform, innovation, transformation and upgrading.
Shen Changyou said, to promote the transformation of resource-based cities, the central and provincial always attach importance to the subject. Dongying as a petroleum resource-based city, the dual task of urban transformation and economic upgrading is more urgent and arduous under the impact of the continuous downturn in international oil prices. "We have done our best in maintain strength, and pushing hard precisely to promote the development of the transformation in such significant progress." Shen Changyou introduced the advantages of Dongying from four aspects, the local economic strength, the advantages of industry, key enterprises, the rise of the development trend.
Dongying focus on enhancing local economic strength. In 2016, Dongying GDP reached 347.966 billion yuan, an increase of 7%; public revenue of 22.187 billion yuan, with main economic indicators grew better than similar oil-based cities. Accounted for the city's economy, local economy increased to 89.3%. Dongying focus on creating a number of dominant leading industries. Industrial transformation is the key to the transformation of resource-based cities. In the past, 70% of Dongying GDP, industry and revenue were all from oil. After years of efforts, Dongying cultivated four major industrial clusters including the petrochemical and salt chemical industry, rubber tires and auto parts, nonferrous metals and oil equipment.
Shen Changyou gave such a set of data: Dongying’s oil refining capacity can reach 69 million tons, which is the country's largest refining capacity of the prefecture-level city; the production capacity of radial tire is 168 million, which accounting for a quarter of the country; oil equipment manufacturing output can reach 67.88 billion yuan, which accounting for one-third of the country. More than 80% of the leading industries’ technology and equipment can reach the domestic advanced level, and 30% of the technical equipment reach the international advanced level. The high-tech industry output value accounted for 35.47% of industrial output value. Dongying carries out chemical industry special rectification. The 679 chemical production enterprises had participated in the "three rating and one evaluation (safety rating, environmental rating, energy rating, comprehensive evaluation)". The 175 companies that marked as “unqualified” were shut down. About the rubber tire industry, Dongying focused on creating our own brands by enhancing the core competitiveness. Till now, seven tire companies are listed in 75 global tires.
In addition, Dongying cultivated a number of key enterprises. 32 of them reached sales income of over 10 billion, 13 companies were listed in Chinese enterprises 500, 17 companies were listed in China's top 500 private enterprises.
Shen Changyou said Dongying formed a breakthrough in the rise of the development trend. Dongying has foundation and room for development and has the condition to be built as a new economic growth in the Bohai Sea region. Dongying has more than 400 million mu of unused land. It has the largest area of reserve land resources, and largest potential of development at eastern coastal. Dongying has Dongying Economic and Technological Development district, the Yellow River Delta Agricultural High-tech district, Dongying Comprehensive Bonded district and three state-level platforms and seven provincial economic development districts (high-tech zones). In particular, the Yellow River Delta Agricultural High-tech district is the second state-level agricultural high-tech district after Shaanxi Yangling. The provincial government set up a high-profile construction steering committee and a strong leadership team, to make it work at a high starting. Dongying, as an agricultural science and technology eco-city, was included in the governmental cooperation between China Israel. Dongying set up a modern agricultural research institute with Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China Agricultural University, for the implementation of deep processing of agricultural products pilot incubator base, and saline land improvement & utilization technology innovation center and other projects. Dongying is improving the innovation platform, and implementing high-end projects, to create "Agricultural Silicon Valley".
Promoting the Strategic Position of Development and Accelerate the Construction of High Speed Railways in the East Coast
The government has set up several goals to accomplish, like building the Dongying Port into 100 million tons of port during the "Thirteen Five Years Plan", constructing the Shengli Airport into the regional center airport. As an important junction of coastal high-speed rail and Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail second line, Dongying has been incorporated into the national railway network planning. The modern 3-dimensional transport system will enhance the strategic position of Dongying in the future.
"The National long-term railway network planning (2016-2025) plans 'eight vertical and eight horizontal' high-speed rail channel. The coastal and Beijing-Shanghai channel can ease the existing Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail transport pressure. The new channel can form a national high-speed rail along the coast, which can close the connection among Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Shandong Peninsula, Yangtze River Delta and other economic districts." Shen Changyou said so. China Railway Corporation has inducted ‘Tianjin - Dongying - Weifang section of high-speed rail’into the "Thirteen Five Years Plan". Shen suggest that the state should give support, as soon as possible to start construction.