CCTV News: At the beginning of the New Year, all regions have anchored their goals and made every effort to seek development, making a good start for high-quality development.

Key projects should be promoted quickly

Key projects should be promoted quickly. The construction site of the second and third lines of the Xinjiang West-East Gas Pipeline is busy. In 2025, Xinjiang will build a national energy resource strategic guarantee base with emerging industry clusters such as oil and gas production and processing, and clean and efficient coal utilization.

The Zhejiang Yiwu (Suxi) International Hub Port Project is being accelerated, and the first phase of the project is expected to be officially put into use in June 2025. In the new year, Zhejiang will focus on accelerating the promotion of 22 projects under construction, including the East China International Transport Port and the Jinhua Railway Hub expansion and renovation and upgrading project, and start 18 projects including the renovation and expansion of Yiwu Airport, ensuring a comprehensive transportation investment of 350 billion yuan.

Strive to cultivate and strengthen new quality productivity. Tianjin's automobile supporting projects with an investment of 1.153 billion yuan have started construction, with an annual output value exceeding 3 billion yuan after reaching full production. This year, Tianjin has focused on key industrial chains such as new energy vehicles, high-end equipment, aerospace, etc., and built an industrial ecosystem with a group of chains. This high-generation substrate glass production line in Xianyang, Shaanxi is being expanded, and the first phase of the project is planned to be completed within the year. This year, Shaanxi will take the construction of Xi'an Regional Science and Technology Innovation Center as the driving force, deploy 100 major key core technology research projects and cultivate 100 leading science and technology enterprises.

Accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. Heilongjiang vigorously promotes the construction of industrial projects and will implement 1,000 key industrial projects this year, of which strategic emerging industrial projects account for more than 60%. At the same time, we strive to cultivate 40 national green factories and more than 50 provincial smart factories and digital workshops. This year, Shandong has clearly formulated 10 key reform tasks, including the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, the transformation and reform of financing platforms and urban investment companies, and the reform of local small and medium-sized financial institutions, and sorted out 92 reform tasks to be completed within the year, and shaped new advantages of Shandong's high-quality development through landmark reform and innovation.

Industrial enterprises are accelerating the start of production and resumption of production

Industrial enterprises in many places are also speeding up the start of production and resumption of production after the holiday. The reporter learned that at present, more than 80% of industrial enterprises have started production in Hubei Province, and are making every effort to sprint for a "good start" in the first quarter.

In this high-end equipment manufacturing company located in Gedian Economic and Technological Development Zone, Ezhou, Hubei, a batch of equipment that has just been produced after the resumption of work during the Spring Festival is undergoing final debugging and will be sent overseas soon.

Since the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the company's factories have resumed production one after another. At present, nearly a thousand employees have arrived, with a full production capacity and a return rate of 100%.

This fiber optic cable manufacturing company located in Wuhan, Hubei is currently the world's largest fiber prefabricated rod, fiber and optical cable manufacturer. At present, the factory here is running at full capacity and producing at full capacity. The company's head told reporters that at present, some of their product orders have been scheduled for May this year.

The reporter learned from the Hubei Provincial Department of Economic and Information Technology that during the Spring Festival in Hubei Province, 51.6% of industrial enterprises above the designated size worked overtime, an increase of 8.8 percentage points compared with the same period last year. Among them, there were 1,980 continuous production enterprises, accounting for 9.9%, an increase of 3.4 percentage points from the same period last year.

At the end of January, the scale of my country's foreign exchange reserves was US$3209 billion

The latest data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange showed that at the end of January 2025, the scale of my country's foreign exchange reserves was US$3209 billion, an increase of US$6.7 billion from the end of December 2024, an increase of 0.21%. The long-term positive support conditions and basic trend of my country's economy have not changed, which will provide support for the basic stability of the scale of foreign exchange reserves.

The scale of my country's cold chain logistics market continues to expand

The reporter learned from the China Federation of Logistics and Procurement that in 2024, the total demand for my country's cold chain logistics was 365 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 4.3%. Driven by the development of the catering industry and fresh food e-commerce, the recovery growth momentum of cold chain logistics has been significantly enhanced.