The past year 2009, is the new century since the province's economic and social development is facing the most severe challenges of the year, but also we seize the opportunity to go against the trend, the development of the achievements of the year inspiring. People of all ethnic groups in the province under the strong leadership of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee of China ****, conscientiously implement the spirit of the 17th CPC National Congress and the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 17th CPC Central Committee, in-depth implementation of the Scientific Outlook on Development, the people of the province are united in their determination to overcome the difficulties of the international financial crisis, and actively respond to the international financial crisis, to protect the growth of people's livelihoods, and to protect the stability of the province, and achieve significant results, the comprehensive strength of the new enhancement of the new progress in structural adjustment, new breakthroughs in reform and opening up, the people's livelihoods, and the improvement of social harmony and stability. Improvement, social harmony and stability, and better accomplish the objectives and tasks set by the Second Session of the Eleventh Provincial People's Congress. We celebrate the 60th birthday of the new China, greatly inspired the people of the province's patriotic fervor and confidence in the rise.
Preliminary accounting, the province's GDP exceeded one trillion yuan, reaching 105.29 billion yuan, an increase of 12.9% over the previous year. Fiscal revenue of 155.12 billion yuan, an increase of 17%, of which local revenue 86.39 billion yuan, an increase of 19.2%. Total grain output of 61.4 billion pounds, another record high. The value added of industry above designated size was 398.79 billion yuan, up 22.6%. The investment in fixed assets of the whole society amounted to 926.32 billion yuan, an increase of 36.2%. Total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 352.78 billion yuan, an increase of 19%. Total import and export amounted to 15.64 billion U.S. dollars, down 22.5%, narrowing the decline by 10.4 percentage points compared with the first half of the year. The disposable income per capita of urban residents was 14,086 yuan, an increase of 8.4%. Farmers per capita net income of 4504 yuan, an increase of 7.2%. Consumer prices fell by 0.9%. New urban employment of 512,000 people, urban registered unemployment rate at 4% or less. The natural population growth rate will be controlled within 7.5 per thousand. Energy consumption per unit of GDP continued to decline, chemical oxygen demand emissions fell by 2%, sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 3.1%.
In the past year, we took the initiative to strengthen the response to the international financial crisis initiatives, and make every effort to maintain stable and rapid economic development. In the face of the severe and complex macroeconomic environment, we pay close attention to changes in the situation, actively track the policy direction, take the initiative to act, decisive decision-making, in-depth implementation of the central package, has introduced a series of policies and measures to protect growth, earlier to realize the economic upturn to good. Firmly grasp the policy opportunities of the national expansion of domestic demand, in the important areas of national economy and people's livelihood to start construction of a number of major projects, do a number of years we want to do but not the conditions to do the big things. Hebeng Passenger Dedicated Line, Hefei Railway, Anhui section, Jiuhuashan Airport, Xuanjie high-speed construction of a number of major projects have started, MaGang wheel expansion and transformation, Xinqiao International Airport and other major projects to promote a solid, JAC annual output of 200,000 passenger cars, Tongling Ruizhan engine, Guodian Bengbu Power Plant Unit 2 and other major projects completed and put into operation. After years of construction, a total investment of 18.34 billion yuan of 14 backbone projects to control the Huaihe River was fully completed, marking the middle reaches of the Huaihe River backbone flood control system is basically completed. The Six Submarine Expressway, Anhui section of the Six Wu Expressway, and the northern section of the Fuzhou Expressway have been completed and opened to traffic, adding 302 kilometers of expressway and a total mileage of more than 2,800 kilometers of traffic. Do everything possible to protect the enterprise, increase the efforts to help, introduced a number of initiatives to reduce the burden on enterprises and financial support for small businesses, the annual tax reduction, exemption and reprieve of 31.2 billion yuan, at a critical moment to boost business confidence, the growth rate of value added of industry above designated size to maintain the first in central China, the country's forefront. Conscientiously implement the policy measures to promote consumption, vigorously promote the home appliances to the countryside, trade-in work, sales of home appliances, automobiles, motorcycles, agricultural machinery, such as 2,315,000 units (cars), sales of 10.8 billion yuan, home appliances to the countryside sales volume ranked first in the country, the rate of subsidy payments first in the country, more than 2 million farmers benefited, and at the same time, to encourage consumption of ordinary commercial housing, to carry out local product sales docking activities, and strongly promote the continued rapid growth of consumption. It also encourages the consumption of ordinary commodity housing and carries out activities such as the sales and docking of local products, vigorously promoting the continuous and rapid growth of consumption. Insisting on market preservation and share preservation as the focus of foreign trade work, we have effectively curbed the rapid decline in imports and exports by taking multiple measures. Grasping the guidance of macro policies, guiding financial institutions to innovate products and increase credit investment, new local and foreign currency loans of 240.6 billion yuan, an increase higher than the national average. Throughout the year, there were 7 new listed companies, raising 16.3 billion yuan from the capital market, issuing 23.4 billion yuan of corporate bonds, short-term financing bonds and medium-term notes***, and the Ministry of Finance issued 7.7 billion yuan of local government bonds on behalf of our province. Vigorously improve the local financial system, and actively introduce all kinds of financial institutions, which strongly support the economic and social development. Rural credit unions special note payment work is completed, the new formation and opening of 13 rural banks, 25 new guarantee institutions, approved to open 123 microfinance companies, policy-based agricultural insurance covering 17 cities, the Export-Import Bank of China, Minsheng Bank, HSBC and other 14 domestic and foreign banks to set up 23 new branches in our province.
The past year, we comprehensively accelerate the pace of independent innovation, vigorously promote economic restructuring and development mode change. Focusing on enhancing innovation capacity, focusing on the implementation of fiscal, financial, talent and technology research and development policies to support independent innovation, and accelerate the construction of enterprise-oriented technological innovation system, the province showed increased innovation vitality, innovation capacity enhancement, innovation talent concentration, the rapid development of innovative industries, a good momentum. The province was approved as one of the first three pilot provinces of national technology innovation project; the number of patent applications and authorizations reached 16,386 and 8,594 respectively, and the rank in the country increased by 2 and 6 respectively; 13 major scientific and technological achievements won the National Science and Technology Prize, of which 1 won the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award for the first time; there are 6 new national innovative enterprises and 10 pilot enterprises, the first in the country in terms of incremental quantity; new There are 4 state-level (key) laboratories and 4 state-level high-tech industrial bases; there are 2 new state-level quality inspection centers, totaling 9, ranking first in the central region; there are 4 new academicians of the two academies. Fully promote the construction of Hewu Mussels Autonomous Innovation Comprehensive Pilot Zone, focusing on the core area, core enterprises and core projects, pay close attention to the main body of enterprises, innovation carriers and industry-university-research integration, science and technology, industry, reforms and human resources to accelerate the emergence of results, the pilot area construction into the national level. Science and technology research and development to achieve new breakthroughs, built the world's first quantum communication network, Chery hybrid cars, KU Xunfei smooth language teaching products and other successful market. Innovative industries to accelerate the development of BOE LCD flat panel displays, Pule amorphous silicon solar cells and other major projects to promote a solid, high-tech field of 509 new industrial enterprises above designated size. The innovation of system and mechanism has been accelerated, the construction of Hefei innovation service platform has been launched, the provincial and Hewu Mussels three cities entrepreneurial venture capital guidance fund has been running smoothly, 10 venture capital institutions have been recruited, and more than 3 billion yuan of capital has been raised. Talent cultivation and introduction of new progress, signed a cooperation framework agreement with the State Administration of Foreign Expertise, the implementation of 237 projects to attract wisdom, the Chinese Association for Science and Technology "Hai Zhi Plan" work base settled in Hefei, the National Laboratory of Microscale in China University of Science and Technology and the Chery Company has become a national high-level overseas talent innovation and entrepreneurship base. Formulation and implementation of iron and steel, automobile and other 9 key industries adjustment and revitalization plan, the introduction of culture, modern logistics industry development plan, complete the key industries technical reform investment of 180 billion yuan, industrialization rate increased by 0.8 percentage points compared with the previous year. The development of cultural industry has made a new leap forward, with output value increasing by more than 30%, the successful listing of Wanxin Media, and the rapid development of digital publishing and other emerging cultural industries. Implementation and improvement of policies and measures to promote non-public economy, small and medium-sized enterprises and the development of county economy, the full implementation of the work of expanding economic and social management authority at the county level, selecting 150 stronger towns to carry out the pilot project of expanding the powers of towns, the county economic growth is higher than the average level of the province. Solidly promote the construction of the Hefei Economic Circle, the Wanjiang City Belt and the city clusters along the Huaihuai River, and further coordinate regional development. Continue to deepen the policy measures to accelerate the development of the northern Anhui region, the northern part of the Anhui region shows a promising situation of accelerated development, Hefei and other cities and counties with three cities and six counties in the northern part of the Anhui Province, the twinning of the smooth progress of cooperation. Effectively strengthen energy conservation, emission reduction and environmental protection, and promote the Huaihe River, Chaohu Lake and other key watershed environmental remediation, all cities and counties have built sewage treatment plants, the new daily sewage treatment capacity of 1.015 million tons, the new coal-fired unit desulphurization facilities of 4.96 million kilowatts, the "Eleventh Five-Year" sulfur dioxide emission reduction targets completed one year ahead of schedule.
In the past year, we continued to strengthen the "three rural" work, and constantly improve the level of new rural construction. Increase urban and rural integration efforts, efforts to solve the difficulties faced by the rural economic development, multi-channel promotion of employment and entrepreneurship of farmers, to achieve increased agricultural production and efficiency and farmers continue to increase income. It has actively implemented various policies to strengthen agriculture and benefit farmers, earnestly enforced the minimum purchase price for wheat and rice, and issued 12.07 billion yuan in agricultural subsidies of all kinds, an increase of 1.17 billion yuan over the previous year. In-depth promotion of the "three major actions" in grain production, overcame a natural disaster such as the 50-year drought in northern Anhui, and captured a bumper grain harvest. Solidly carry out the livestock upgrading program and aquaculture across the project, the proportion of large-scale animal husbandry aquaculture increased by 5 percentage points over the previous year. Vigorously implement the "532" upgrading action of agricultural industrialization, the output value of agricultural product processing industry reached 258.25 billion yuan, an increase of 29.7%, and the number of above-scale agricultural product processing enterprises reached 4,115, an increase of 744. New farmers professional cooperative organizations 3507, complete the training of new farmers 598,000 people. Successfully held the first Anhui (Hefei) Agricultural Industrialization Fair and the tenth Anhui famous agricultural products, green food (Shanghai) Fair. The pace of construction of modern rural circulation system accelerated, "new network project" network of 38,000 outlets, an increase of 3,296 over the previous year. Increase the construction of rural infrastructure, new construction and reconstruction of 16,708 kilometers of rural roads, the new renovation of drainage and irrigation pumping stations 118,000 kilowatts, the new improvement of irrigation area of 2.3 million acres, waterlogging area of 800,000 acres, invested 1.66 billion yuan, the construction of 430 new reservoirs to eliminate risk and reinforcement projects, the new forestation of 1.95 million acres, the addition of rural biogas users of nearly 100,000, to solve the problem of drinking water safety of 3.164 million rural people. It has also added nearly 100,000 rural biogas users and solved the problem of drinking water safety for 3.164 million rural people. It has actively and steadily carried out pilot projects to promote rural land improvement in the whole village and pilot projects to reconstruct dilapidated houses in rural areas, realizing the balance of arable land occupation and replenishment for 11 consecutive years, and making new progress in the "1,000 villages and 100 towns" demonstration project for the construction of new rural areas. We have continued to deepen the comprehensive rural reform, launched the pilot project of financial subsidies for the construction of village-level public welfare undertakings, achieved obvious results in the pilot project of the "Beneficial Direct Project", and basically completed the reform of the grass-roots agrotechnology promotion system and the veterinary management system. Expanding the provincial urban and rural integration comprehensive supporting reforms, actively explore the orderly transfer of rural land contract management rights, basically complete the task of collective forest rights and carry out supporting reforms pilot.
In the past year, we actively deepened reforms in key areas and further expanded opening up to the outside world. We have effectively implemented policies and measures to support the development of non-public economy, accelerated the development of non-public economy, and added 2,502 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) above designated size, an increase of 23.8 percent. Sectoral budget reforms were fully implemented, local tax reforms continued to deepen, reforms of refined oil prices and taxes were successfully completed, and government repayment of secondary road tolls were all canceled. After careful deployment and implementation, the issue of decoupling the market office and management of the industrial and commercial system was resolved in a stable manner. Deepen the cultural system reform, preparation for the formation of the provincial performing arts group, provincial radio and television media industry group, 172 operating cultural units to realize the enterprise. Actively promote the reform of the medical and health system, selecting 32 counties (cities, districts) to start the comprehensive reform of the grass-roots medical and health system pilot, this work is widely recognized, the people generally welcome. To promote the construction of the demonstration zone for undertaking industrial transfer in the Wanjiang City Belt, take the initiative to cooperate with the national ministries and commissions to prepare the planning of the demonstration zone, and make every effort to do a good job in the planning and construction of the demonstration zone while declaring and advancing, the planning of the demonstration zone has been approved by the State Council, and has become the first national-level strategic plan of the province, which provides an important strategic platform for accelerating the undertaking of domestic and international industrial transfer and further expanding opening up to the outside world. Substantial steps have been taken to participate in the regional division of labor and cooperation in the development of the Pan-Yangtze Delta, and new progress has been made in the cooperation in key areas such as transportation, energy, science and technology, finance, tourism and quality supervision. Actively plan and vigorously promote cooperation and development with the central enterprises to adjust the structure, in the new energy, advanced equipment manufacturing, modern services, infrastructure and other areas of the signing of the contract 77 projects, with a total investment of 184.08 billion yuan, has begun 35 projects, an investment of 97.51 billion yuan, creating a new situation of strategic cooperation with the central enterprises, and is of great significance in promoting the long-term sound and rapid development of the province. Actively participate in and take the initiative to dock the preparatory work for the Shanghai World Expo. Against the backdrop of a complicated and severe economic situation, the fourth Central China Investment and Trade Expo was successfully held, which achieved fruitful economic, trade and cooperation results, highlighted Anhui's advantages, expanded external influence and boosted confidence in the rise of the province. Huangshan air port and Maanshan, Chizhou water port opened to the outside world, the province's port opening pattern is further improved. Economic cooperation with Taiwan has been strengthened, with the opening of direct flights from Hefei to Taipei. For the whole year, the actual funds in place outside the province amounted to 464 billion yuan, an increase of 43.8%; the utilization of foreign direct investment amounted to 3.88 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 11.3%; and four new Fortune 500 enterprises were established. The number of inbound tourists reached 1.562 million, an increase of 18.2%. The turnover of foreign contracted projects and labor cooperation has increased by 33.4%, foreign investment has expanded to 44 countries and regions, and new steps have been taken in overseas resource development and exploration. The number of international friendship cities increased by 3 pairs to 69 pairs.
In the past year, we focused on safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods, and comprehensively developed various social undertakings. Adhering to the people's livelihood as the first goal, in the case of increasing pressure on fiscal revenue and expenditure, continue to increase the promotion of livelihood projects, the implementation of the project from the previous year's 18 to 28, the investment from 17.6 billion yuan to 25.4 billion yuan, benefiting more than 60 million urban and rural residents. In response to the severe employment situation, we have implemented a more active employment policy, focusing on the employment of college graduates, rural migrant workers and urban groups in difficulty, with the employment rate of college graduates reaching 90.1%, 253 rural migrant worker entrepreneurship parks built and under construction, training of 528,000 rural migrant workers, and 98% of the returned rural migrant workers returning to the city for employment, so that the employment situation in the province has basically stabilized. The coverage of the social security system has been expanding, with the number of participants in basic pension, basic medical care and unemployment insurance reaching 6.268 million, 14.47 million and 3.778 million, respectively; the pilot work of the new type of rural social pension insurance has been launched; the minimum subsistence guarantee for urban and rural residents has basically been realized; and 125,000 low-income urban families with housing difficulties have enjoyed the protection of low-rent housing. The first batch of emergency projects for relocating villages in coal mining subsidence zones progressed smoothly. New poverty-alleviation standards have been implemented, and efforts to alleviate poverty have continued to increase. The government has pushed forward the reform of the compulsory education funding guarantee mechanism, implemented the performance pay system for compulsory education schools and the special post program for rural teachers, accelerated the construction of a large province of vocational education, and made new progress in the "Double Hundred Project" and quality project for higher education. In accordance with the standard of earthquake-proofing for key defenses, comprehensively inspect and appraise primary and secondary school buildings, formulate and implement a three-year work program to eliminate hidden safety hazards, complete the annual task of strengthening and renovation, and strive to build primary and secondary schools into the safest places with the highest quality and the most reassuring places for parents. Accelerate the development of cultural undertakings, radio and television village through, cultural information resources **** enjoy, townships and townships comprehensive cultural stations, farm bookstores and other cultural projects to benefit the people to advance in a solid manner. Drama "fundamental for all ages", Huangmei opera "thunderstorm" and a number of masterpieces won national awards, the successful holding of the second China International Animation Creative Industry Fair, the second China Farmers' Song Festival, the Fifth China Huangmei Opera Festival, Huizhou cultural and ecological protection project won the third Ministry of Culture Science and Technology Innovation Award the only Grand Prize. Strengthening public **** health services, free implementation of the expanded national immunization program, premarital medical examination and rural maternal health care, start the construction of Chinese medicine clinical research base, influenza A H1N1, hand, foot and mouth disease and other key infectious diseases and endemic disease prevention and control has achieved significant results. The coverage rate of urban community health care has reached 89%, and the quality of the operation of the new rural cooperative medical care is leading the nation. The theme of "National Fitness and Healthy Anhui" has been vigorously carried out, and the province's athletes have achieved the best results in history with 13 gold, 12.5 silver and 9 bronze medals in the National Games. The construction of spiritual civilization achieved new results, and Maanshan City won the title of the only national civilized city in the central region. Broadcasting, film and television, news and publication, literature and art, philosophy and social science further prospered, foreign affairs, overseas Chinese affairs, Hong Kong and Macao, statistics, cultural relics, archives, local history, councillors, literature and history continued to be strengthened, earthquake, meteorology, geology, surveying and mapping, disaster prevention and mitigation work was solidly promoted, and new progress was made in the cause of women, children, the elderly, people with disabilities and the Red Cross. The Party's ethnic and religious policies have been conscientiously implemented, and the situation of ethnic unity and religious harmony continues to be consolidated.
In the past year, we attached great importance to maintaining social stability and strived to create a stable and harmonious social environment. We conscientiously implemented the first responsibility for stability, carried out in-depth activities to create peace, improved the social security prevention and control system, attached great importance to national security work, and successfully completed the security tasks for the 60th anniversary of the National Day, so as to stabilize the overall situation of social security in the province, and further enhance the sense of security of the people. We have strengthened innovation in the work of letters and visits, established a system for receiving visits from downstream, providing assistance to special hardship cases, and handling feedback from netizens, and strengthened the resolution of backlogged cases, so that the total number of letters and visits has been steadily declining. We have carried out in-depth activities for the "Year of Quality and Safety", strengthened special rectification of production safety in key industries and fields, and solidly promoted product quality and food and drug safety supervision, with the overall situation of production safety stable. A sound emergency response mechanism has been established, and a system of emergency plans covering all types of emergencies has basically been formed. Strengthening legal education and publicity, and implementing the government's responsibility for legal aid, the province has built 123 legal aid centers and 2,060 legal aid workstations. Counterpart support for post-disaster reconstruction in Songpan County has been accelerated, with 37 projects completed and under construction, accounting for 80.5% of the total number of projects, and widely praised by the people in the affected areas. New progress has been made in national defense mobilization, people's air defense and double embrace and preferential treatment, and the troops in Anhui and the majority of militia reservists have made important contributions to disaster relief, maintenance of social stability and support for local economic construction.
The past year was also a year in which the government's self-construction was strengthened and the level of governance was continuously improved. We seriously carry out in-depth study and practice the scientific concept of development activities, emancipate the mind, reform and innovation, focus on solving the outstanding problems in development, and constantly enhance the capacity and level of scientific development. We insist on administration according to law, strictly in accordance with the legal authority and procedures for the exercise of power and performance of duties, in-depth promotion of the transformation of government functions, and basically complete the reform of provincial, municipal and county government institutions. Consciously accept the legal supervision of the National People's Congress (NPC) and the democratic supervision of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and further close contact with trade unions, **** Youth League, Women's Federation and other people's organizations, and seriously listen to the views and suggestions of all parties, to promote the scientific and democratic decision-making, and deal with the NPC deputies 745 pieces of advice, CPPCC members 815 pieces of proposals. It has strengthened the government's legal system, improved legislative work, enhanced the quality of legislation and standardized law enforcement, submitting 12 pieces of local legislation to the Standing Committee of the provincial People's Congress for consideration, and formulating and issuing 8 pieces of provincial government regulations. The government has further promoted the openness of government affairs, launched the implementation of new scientific and technological achievements, investment projects and the release of employment and labor information, and continued to deepen the "one-stop" service. Conscientiously implement the eight requirements of the central government on party and government organs to practise economy, and expenditures on official trips abroad (in the country) and on the purchase and operation of official vehicles decreased by 37.5% and 20.6% respectively compared with the average of the previous three years, and the governance of "small treasury" achieved milestone results. Strengthening administrative supervision and audit oversight, diligence and clean government construction has new results.
While fully recognizing the achievements, we are also soberly aware that the province's economic and social development is still facing many difficulties and problems, the government's work and the people's expectations there is still a gap. Mainly: the foundation of economic recovery is not solid, some industries and enterprises are still difficult to produce and operate, private investment will not be strong, the lack of momentum of residents' consumption, foreign trade decline has not yet been fundamentally reversed. Some long-term constraints on the province's development of deep-rooted contradictions and problems also further highlighted, the agricultural base is still weak, the core competitiveness of enterprises is not strong, the urbanization process is lagging behind, the lower level of development of the service industry, energy saving and emission reduction is a daunting task, the structural adjustment and transformation of the development mode of difficulty, the employment situation is still grim, the life of some of the masses is more difficult, social security, education, medical care and other aspects there are still some There are still some problems in social security, education and medical care that need to be solved urgently. The transformation of government functions and the requirements of scientific development is not fully adapted to the public **** service capacity needs to be enhanced, administrative efficiency needs to be further improved, some departments are not enough emancipation of ideas, innovation consciousness is not strong, the work style is not real, not efficient, formalism, bureaucracy and waste phenomenon still exists to varying degrees, and a very small number of people and even the use of power for personal gain, corruption. In this regard, we must attach great importance to the practical solution, and will never fail to meet the expectations and trust of the people of the province.