Source: Qinhuangdao Daily Reporter: Meng Xiaodong
On September 26th, Yuan Tongli, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and executive deputy governor, acted on behalf of the governor Xu Qin to chair the meeting by Leading Group for Advancing Beidaihe Life & Health Industry Innovation Demonstration Area. He listened to the working reports, studies and helped settle problems, and gave instruction for future works.
Yuan pointed out that the building of the Demonstration Area is a move to put the Healthy China Strategy into practice, and a strategic measure to foster new competitive advantages of Hebei Province. Since September in 2016 when the construction began, the city government and all the departments concerned under the direct leadership of provincial government have followed the requirements of the provincial government and the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee, planned in a scientific way and organized with extreme care and precaution, and achieved a first-stage success. We must keep Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a new era in mind, follow the standards for high-quality development, and to plan, build, and develop the Demonstration Area in a better way, making it into a top-level Life & Health industrial cluster.
Yuan identified a few aspects of work to be enhanced in future: we should follow the high standard and proceed on higher starting point to step up drafting general guidelines, detailed controlling plans, specialized plans, and plans for developing the industry, and make a scientific blueprint for Health Service Industry, Health Manufacturing and Healthy Agriculture. We will attract enterprises and investments from the outside, deepen our cooperation with famous medical institutions, and invite advanced Medicare and research institutes to settle in this area. We should take the initiatives to take the first step in trials, report to national departments on regular basis, so as to win supporting policies for new pilot programs. We should also improve the environment for development by bring out some tough measures on setting up new enterprises and investing for projects so as to attract more entities to have a congregated development in the area. Moreover, the organization and leading work should be further strengthened with the municipal government of Qinhuangdao take the major responsibility and departments directly under the provincial Party committee give policy support, thus making joint efforts in building the area.
During the meeting, Xue Yongchun reported, on behalf of the city government, the progresses, problems and future developing plans for Beidaihe Life & Health Industry Innovation Demonstration Area. The provincial Development and Reform Committee reported the Leading Group Office’s work on advancing the area. Delegates from provincial Department of Finance, Department of Education, and the Department of Science and Technology have briefed on their practice under the guidance of 2018 Work Focus for Beidaihe Life & Health Industry Innovation Demonstration Area, and discussed issues that needs the support from provincial departments.
In last two years, under the care and support from both national and provincial departments, the city has been devoting all strengths within its power in the building of the Demonstration Area, making itself the first city in the country to develop Life & Health industry. The area takes the projects as the center to build a five-in-one, modern, high-level and international industrial cluster, including medical, pharmaceutical, nursing, health care and tourism. So far we have signed 34 programs with total investment of 35.3 billion RMB.
As it is prescribed in the overall plan, the Demonstration Area sets two-step development goals, that is : by the year 2020 when the added value of the Health industry reaches 7 billion RMB, the Area serves as the model of industrial innovation for the industry across the province or even the whole nation; by the year of 2030 when the added value of the Health industry reaches 100 billion RMB, the Area becomes a international, high-end, and modern industrial cluster for Life & Health Industry and completes all missions of building.