Fujian's Progress in 2020 and the 13th Five-Year Plan Period

2020 was a most extraordinary year, a year of overcoming the difficulties in solidarity. Facing the sudden onslaught of Covid-19, Fujian has all along put the life and health of people first, and scored a major strategic achievement in controlling the coronavirus. We brought local cases down to zero within 46 days after the first confirmed case was identified. We sent 1,393 health care workers in 12 groups to Wuhan and Yichang, and two medical expert teams to Italy and the Philippines to help with the fight. Our medical testing team pitched in with nucleic acid testing in Hong Kong. All these have contributed to the overall fight against the pandemic.

This year also witnessed Fujian’s decisive victory in the battle against poverty. 452,000 registered rural people living below the current poverty line were lifted out of poverty. 2,201 registered poor villages and 23 counties designated in the provincial poverty alleviation program eliminated poverty.

To cushion the shock of the pandemic, we took solid steps to ensure sound economic development:

• ŸStabilize the six fronts (employment, finance, foreign trade, inbound investment, domestic investment, and market expectations);
• Guarantee the six priorities (jobs, daily living needs, food and energy, industrial and supply chains, the interests of market players, and the smooth functioning of grassroots government); and
• ŸImplemented the eight initiatives (the initiatives to improve industrial capacity and efficiency, to help hard-hit industries and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, to promote technological upgrading of enterprises, to stabilize industrial and supply chains, to develop new infrastructures and upgrade old ones, to expand consumption, to attract investment, and to ensure the basic livelihoods of people) .
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According to preliminary statistics, Fujian’s GDP last year registered 4.3903 trillion yuan, up by 3.3%. Per capita disposable incomes of urban and rural residents reached 47,160 yuan and 20,990 yuan, up by 3.4% and 6.7% respectively. All energy conservation and emissions reduction tasks were completed.

2020 was the concluding year for the implementation of the 13th Five-Year Plan. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, Fujian’s GDP passed the 3 trillion yuan and 4 trillion yuan marks successively, and per capita GDP approached 110,000 yuan.

Over the past five years, focusing on building a new Fujian featuring dynamic mechanisms, upgraded industries, better-off lives and beautiful environment, we have:

• ŸDeepened reform and opening-up, and unleashed the vitality and potential of development to the fullest;
• ŸPursued industrial transformation and upgrading, and accelerated the establishment of modern industrial systems;
• ŸAddressed inadequacies concerning people’s wellbeing and significantly improved their lives; and
• ŸPromoted harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and maintained Fujian’s lead in eco-conservation in the nation.