Previously, Anyang's GDP in 2021 has actually been announced, and the majority is 243.5 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 5%. In the past two days, with the release of economic indicators of other prefectures and cities, Anyang's position in the province has also been determined. Ranked 12th in the province, plus Jiyuan (demonstration area), ranked 12th among 18 prefectures and cities, ranked last in the second square, 25.9 billion yuan less than the 10th place Pingdingshan, 12.2 billion yuan less than the 11th place Kaifeng, 29.8 billion yuan more than the 13th place Jiaozuo, and 66.3 billion yuan more than the 14th place Puyang. Perhaps the rapid development in the next few years, can surpass Kaifeng, straight to the top of the mountain, and because JiaoZuo and Jiaozuo belong to the same brothers and sisters, it is unlikely to be surpassed by Jiaozuo in the short term. So, I think it can be said that we have basically established ourselves in this position.
Screenshot from: Anyang Municipal Bureau of Statistics official website
Of course, while we are developing ourselves, if we encounter some special circumstances in other cities, such as nuclear reduction, then it is also possible to rush to the eighth and ninth positions that have been wandering for a long time in the year, reaching the middle of the province, but I think it is not important, there is a saying that is good, "do not seek to be compared with others, but seek to surpass themselves", as early as 2018, Anyang's GDP before the adjustment has reached 239.22 billion yuan (after the reduction to 214 billion yuan), when many people thought that Anyang could break through the 250 billion yuan mark in 2019, the result was not a breakthrough in 2021, and there is currently a gap of 6.5 billion yuan from 250 billion yuan, a small goal, I hope we can break through 250 billion yuan in 2022.
This year, the growth rate set by the city is 7.5%, so the GDP target for 2022 should be 261.8 billion yuan, then this is a real goal. At the beginning of this year, we encountered the new crown epidemic, and the economy in January must have been affected to a certain extent, but after all, in previous years, this period of time was also in the key stage of air pollution control, and many factories were in the stage of stopping production or restricting production, so I think the impact of January is not a serious blow to us, and there are still 11 months to go, biting our teeth, racing against the clock, only racing against the clock, we have the strength to turn the tide.
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In addition, the era of relying on extensive production to accumulate GDP is gone, in fact, I mentioned transformation and development before, but now, I think it is really necessary to transform and develop. When I was a child, I watched a series of dramas, and there is a plot that I still remember vividly, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a weaving artist in the mainland compared the weaving process with foreign entrepreneurs, one of which was to see who made the cloth thin and light. The method of competition is to throw the cloth down from the upper floor to see whose cloth floats for a long time. Due to the experience of the industrial revolution abroad, the cloth is indeed very light, the floating time is very long, and we have done it very finely, but the helpless weaving process is relatively backward, the speed of falling is obviously faster, and the patriotic people will blow up together, and finally barely fight a draw.
So are we going to use the same methods as we are to continue to increase GDP? It is certainly not possible to go on like this all the time, and it is necessary to effectively "change the channel and change the way of play", and achieve an efficient and rapid volume through innovation and change.
Lying down will only be flat, will not win, even if a pie falls in the sky, you lie down and reach out and grab it.
But then again, in addition to paying attention to the real growth rate, we should pay more attention to the improvement of the living environment, the overall progress of society, the full affirmation of the masses, and the happiness and sense of gain of the people.