Economic data for the first quarter of 2024 has been released recently.
As President Xi Jinping emphasized when he met with foreign guests last month, China's development has gone through various difficulties and challenges to get to where it is today. It did not collapse because of the "China collapse theory" in the past, and it will not collapse now because of the "China peaking theory." peaked.
The whole year begins with spring. CCTV Network's "Lianbo Observation" will observe with you multiple scenarios of China's economy getting off to a good start in 2024 under the guidance of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought.
This year, the cultural tourism market started with a continuous "boiling".
During the New Year's Day holiday, "Erbin", which was frequently searched on social media, caught the "flooding wealth" and collected nearly 6 billion yuan in tourism revenue in three days, setting a record high.
In March, Tianshui, Gansu Province, which has become a top-notch city with a bowl of fragrant Malatang, received 4.64 million tourists and generated comprehensive tourism revenue of 2.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 64.8% and 67.2% respectively.
During the just past Tomb Sweeping Day holiday, there were 119 million domestic tourist trips in my country, and domestic tourists spent 53.95 billion yuan on travel, an increase of 11.5% and 12.7% respectively compared with the same period in 2019 on a comparable basis.
First quarter economic data shows that in the first three months of this year, travel, culture and tourism-related consumption performed outstandingly. The bustling travel consumption scene and macroeconomic data complement each other, releasing the warmth of accelerated recovery of China's economic endogenous energy, and also giving a good start to the consumption recovery in 2024.
Accelerating product upgrading is an important measure to promote high-quality development. At present, my country's consumer goods market is ushering in a peak period of upgrading.
In Shanghai, consumers who purchase 16 categories of first-class energy-efficiency home appliances such as computers and air purifiers can enjoy a one-time discount subsidy based on 10% of the transaction price, with a maximum discount of 1,000 yuan. According to statistics from the payment platform, on the first day of the implementation of the subsidy policy, the city’s transaction volume reached 12,000 orders, with sales of nearly 100 million yuan.
Looking across the country, many places and companies have taken action. In Kashgar, Xinjiang, home appliance trade-in activities will run throughout the year. In Chongqing, many home appliance companies have carried out various forms of trade-in promotions to benefit the people by sending home appliances to the countryside, providing old-for-new subsidies, and full discounts.
The nationwide trade-in of consumer goods such as automobiles, home appliances, home decoration, kitchen and bathroom, will help improve the quality of life for consumers, and mean huge market space for enterprises.
According to first quarter economic data, the total retail sales of consumer goods was 12,032.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.7%, and domestic demand contributed 85.5% to economic growth. It can be expected that the trade-in of old products for new ones will further activate consumption potential.
In Changle, Fuzhou, Fujian, nearly a thousand small and medium-sized enterprises have connected to the local public industrial Internet platform through digital and intelligent transformation, sharing production progress, product quality and other information, and uniformly allocating production capacity. At present, the average production efficiency of local small and medium-sized textile enterprises has increased by about 20%, and energy consumption has been reduced by about 20%.
About 200 kilometers southwest of Shenzhen, the first deep offshore well designed and implemented independently in my country was officially put into production, with a tested daily crude oil production of more than 700 tons.
In the first quarter of this year, investment in high-tech industries increased by 11.4% year-on-year. It is worth noting that investment in manufacturing technological transformation increased by 8.2% year-on-year. Some experts said that increasing investment in technological transformation of traditional industries has given birth to new vitality and created new advantages for traditional industries.
At the beginning of the year, as the “National Specialties Survey” sparked a discussion on the Internet, Guizhou matcha unexpectedly came out of the spotlight. In the first quarter, a factory located in Jiangkou, Guizhou Province received an influx of matcha orders.
Matcha originated in China and later flourished in Japan. Jiangkou's total matcha production and sales currently rank first in the country and second in the world. This small county with a population of less than 100,000 has not only made matcha a new specialty in China, but has also become a big industry with global sales.
Roses from Hotan, lavender from Ili, peony from Bozhou... At present, in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, many varieties of edible, medicinal, industrial flowers and ornamental seedlings are developing hand in hand. The flower planting area in Xinjiang has stabilized at about 400,000 acres. , with an annual output value of 600 million yuan, and the "flower economy" boosts rural revitalization.
When industry prospers, villages prosper. In today's China, various regions rely on the characteristic resources of agriculture and rural areas to benefit from the development of multiple agricultural functions, tap the diverse values of the countryside, and benefit from the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and strive to make "local specialties" good. Each prosperous scene merges into a new picture of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, and also adds a bright color to the economic report card.
In the first two months of this year, 7,160 foreign-invested enterprises were newly established across the country, a year-on-year increase of 34.9%. Many foreign-invested enterprises have cast a vote of confidence in the Chinese economy.
Entering April, at the first supply and demand matchmaking meeting of the 4th Consumer Expo held in Haikou, Hainan, 48 negotiation tables were filled with domestic and foreign exhibitors and purchasers, and 60 companies from 12 countries and regions around the world and More than 80 buyers held "one-on-one" and "one-to-many" negotiations and reached 92 cooperation intentions.
Hundreds of kilometers away in Guangzhou, Guangdong, the 135th Canton Fair embraced “new” trends. Many exhibitors brought new products, new technologies, and new processes to open up a broader international market with new quality productivity. 288 purchasing groups from international organizations and industrial and commercial institutions conducted "group purchases" on-site, with the number increasing by 21.5% compared with the same period last year.
A head of a British purchasing group said that looking around at the Canton Fair, there are business opportunities everywhere, and we are very happy to sign a contract here. Do business with Chinese companies and share the dividends of high-quality development.
(China Central Radio and Television Station CCTV Network)
