On June 11, Yancheng held a special press conference themed “Emarking on the 15th Five-Year Plan”, releasing the Outline of Yancheng’s 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and key tasks for the kick-off year. Yan Hanping, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Yancheng Municipal Committee and Mayor of Yancheng Municipal People’s Government, delivered keynote remarks and answered journalists’ questions.

Yan Hanping noted that the 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical stage for consolidating foundations and advancing all-out efforts to basically realize socialist modernization in China, as well as a key window period for Yancheng to seize strategic opportunities, accelerate transformation and pursue common prosperity. In the next five years, Yancheng will focus on five core priorities: boosting new driving forces for modernization via innovation-driven development and industrial support; fostering new strengths for modernization through carbon peaking, carbon neutrality goals and green transformation; building a new pattern for modernization based on land-sea coordinated development and opening-up empowerment; sharing new fruits of modernization via urban-rural integration and common prosperity; consolidating new cornerstones for modernization through safe development and risk prevention. We will strive to build a new Yancheng with stronger comprehensive strength, fuller innovation vitality, better ecological environment and higher residents’ happiness index.

At the press conference, Yan Hanping, together with Wang Lianchun, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Yancheng Municipal Committee and Vice Mayor of Yancheng Municipal People’s Government, and principal officials from Yancheng Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Municipal Development and Reform Commission, responded to media questions covering multiple fields, including sustaining sound economic growth, accelerating low-carbon green transformation, building a high-level agricultural strong city, constructing modern industrial system, promoting high-quality marine economic development, balancing high-quality development and high-level ecological protection, expanding opening-up, building an “AI+” innovation and application highland, and ensuring and improving people’s livelihood.