Hubei Daily News (reporter Ai Hongxia) reporter learned from the Provincial Water Conservancy Department that since 1992 to carry out counterpart support for the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, Shanghai Municipality, Heilongjiang Province, and Qingdao City have helped Yichang Yiling District, aiding the construction of 752 various projects and nearly 800 million yuan in aid funds, making great contributions to the high-quality development of Yiling.
A steady stream of project funds to help, Shanghai aid to build a mark all over the Yiling land - the Three Gorges Migrant Employment Base, standardized factory, employment service center, has become an important depression to absorb migrant employment; the introduction of JuneYao, Attenborough Elevator and other projects have become the main cornerstone of the development of Yiling industry; 21 high-standard tea gardens, orange orchards and tea processing plants, so that the migrant people's wallets "bulge up"; Jingyi School, Dongcheng Primary School and other 29 schools, to help Yiling District build a national compulsory education development of basically balanced counties (cities, districts) 37 party and mass centers and cultural centers such as Xujiachong and Yingpan Community in the new village of immigrants, 8 relocation and resettlement sites such as LotteXi Town, 57 water plants, and safe drinking water projects have played an extremely important role in Yiling's comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty. Up to now, Shanghai has provided assistance of 656 million yuan and 513 aid projects.
Heilongjiang Province free aid Yiling District funds and materials of 21.9844 million yuan, 62 projects, focusing on Yiling District Baku District migrant living environment improvement and old-age security, has aided the construction of Sandouping Town, Wuduhe Town, Dengcun Township and other welfare institute projects, Sandouping Town Gaojiachong Village Safe Drinking Water and Cultural Square, Baiguodai Village Safe Drinking Water, Xiaoxita Street Fengjiawan Community Migration Community Transformation and other infrastructure projects, as well as Sandouping Town Migrant Employment Center, Shipai Village Cultural Center, Lotte Creek Town Liantuo Village Convenience Service Center, Xiaoxi Tower Street Yingpan Entrepreneurship and Employment Service Center and other projects.
Qingdao City has provided a total of 86.881 million yuan of free funds to Yiling District, 177 projects, to help Yiling Yaqueling Town to build a 464-hectare Qingyi Comprehensive Industrial Park, in 2020 the park to achieve a scale industrial output value of 2.3 billion yuan; to help build Xiao's Tea Industry Science and Technology Park, the new tea leaf cleaning automation production line, the development of ecological tea gardens 700 acres; supporting the Three Gorges People's Home, three gorges waterfall and other major tourist attractions in Yiling, road, environmental improvement, etc., for Yiling District to create the first batch of national full-scale tourism demonstration areas to lay a solid foundation Through the matchmaking of counterpart support, a number of high-quality enterprises such as Shandong Jiayuan Food settled in Yiling to promote the development of citrus deep processing.
According to reports, in 2020, the comprehensive strength of Yiling District ranked in the top 5 counties (cities, districts) of the first class of county economic assessment and commendation in Hubei County, and was commended as a "outstanding unit of county economic work achievements" in Hubei Province for 16 consecutive years.