Highlights of 2025 Hubei provincial government work report

The third session of the 14th Hubei Provincial People’s Congress opened in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei Province, on January 16, 2025.

Secretary of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee Wang Zhonglin chaired the conference and Li Dianxun, governor of Hubei Province, delivered the report on the work of Hubei Provincial People's Government.

The report gives a comprehensive review of Hubei’ssocial and economic achievements in 2024, and lists the government's work and main targets in 2025. The following are the highlights of the report.

Review of work in 2024

Economy

- Hubei’s gross domestic product (GDP) was expected toexceed 5.9 trillion yuan.

- Industrial added value increased by 7.7 percent.

- Investment in fixed assetsgrew by 6.5 percent.

- Total retail sales of consumer goodsroseby 5.1 percent.

- Grain production reached55.7 billion jin (equal to 27.85 billion kg).

Sci-tech innovation

- Hubei won 19 national science and technology awards, ranking second inChina.

- Hubei boasted19 industries worthover one hundred billion yuan.

- Three major industries of optoelectronic information, automobile manufacturing, and health surpassed one-trillion threshold.

- Added value of high-tech manufacturing industry increased by 22.7percent, and its contribution rate to industrial growth reached 35.1percent.

- Added value of digital economyaccounted for more than 50percent.

- Hubei embraced30,000 high-tech enterprises and 45,000 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises.

Infrastructure

- Two new international airports,namelyEzhou Huahu International Airport and Yichang Sanxia International Airport,were added.

- Container throughput of Wuhan Port reached 3.5 million TEUs, ranking first in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

- Jingmen-Jingzhou high-speed railwaywas put into operation.

- A total of15,700 projects worth over 100 million yuanwere built, with a total investment of 10.8 trillion yuan.

- Wuhanenjoyed a high growth rate among sub-provincial cities.

- Economic aggregate of Xiangyang and Yichang exceeded 600 billion yuan.

- Xiaogan and Huanggang surpassed a scale of 300 billion yuan after Jingzhou.

Reform and opening-up

- Revenue of Hubei’s provincialenterprisesincreased by 26.2percent.

- Six state-owned enterpriseswere listed among China's top 500 enterprises.

- More than one million business entities have been annually added for four consecutive years.

- Scale of social financing has exceeded one trillion yuan annually for four consecutive years.

- Ezhou Huahu International Airport launched 91 domesticandinternational cargo routes, with cargo and mail throughput of 1.28 million tonnes, ranking fifth in China.

- Hubei’s import and export volumesurpassed 700 billion yuan.

People's well-being

- More than900,000 new urban jobs have been created for four consecutive years.

- Hubei has attractedover 400,000 college graduates for employment and entrepreneurship for three consecutive years.

- 86percent of countiesin Hubei built tertiary hospitals.

- Urban 12-minute emergency circleand rural 30-minute medical circlewere initially formed.

- Rural areas achieved full coverage of delivery logistics, charging stations, 5G networks, and high-quality rural roads.

Work for 2025

Main targets for 2025

- GDP growth of around 6 percent

- A surveyed urban unemployment rate of about 5.5 percent

- More than 700,000 new urban jobs

- CPI increase of around2 percent

- Personal income rising in tandem with economic growth

- Grain output of over 50 billion jin (equal to 25 billion kg)

- Energy consumption per unit of GDP to complete the national assessment target forthe 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025)

Main tasks for2025

- Boosting domestic demand, and maintaining stable and sound momentum of economic development.

- Promoting sci-tech innovation and industrial innovation, and cultivating new productive forces.

- Comprehensively deepening reform and facilitating high-level opening up, and expanding new space for high-quality development.

- Striving for integrated urban-rural development and rural revitalization, andbolsteringregional common prosperity of urban and rural areas.

- Strengthening the protection of cultural resources, promoting cultural innovation and development, and building a strong province inculture and tourism.

- Leading the way in spurring green, low-carbon and circular development to paint a new picture of Hubei.

- Improving people's livelihoods, and enabling the people to have a stronger sense of benefit.

- Coordinating development and security, and achieving dynamic balance of multiple goals.