Yantai: “1+1+10” Builds New Momentum and Advantages for Green, Low-Carbon, High-Quality Development

This year marks the final year of the 14th Five-Year Plan and is a crucial year for Yantai to accelerate its efforts in building a demonstration city for green, low-carbon, and high-quality development. On February 6, the Yantai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government convened a Citywide Conference on Advancing the Construction of a High-Quality Development Demonstration City, signaling the start of efforts to fully build Yantai into a green, low-carbon, and high-quality development demonstration city. To accelerate the development, the Yantai Development and Reform Commission has been formulating A Raft of Policies and Measures to Strengthen New Drivers and Advantages for Green, Low-Carbon, High-Quality Development since last year. After being reviewed and approved by the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, the press conference was convened officially to announce the policy on ?February 8th.

A Raft of Policies and Measures specifically includes ?one division of responsibilities, ?one policy, and ?ten task measures. The one division of responsibilities refers to Yantai Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Comprehensive Green Transformation of Economic and Social Development by Building a Green, Low-Carbon, High-Quality Development Demonstration City; The one policy refers to Yantai 2025 Policy Measures List for Promoting Steady Economic Improvement and Quality Enhancement; The ten task measures include the documents of Yantai 2025 Key Projects List for Green, Low-Carbon, High-Quality Development, Yantai 2025 Promotion Plan for Whole-Industry Incremental Projects, Yantai 2025 “Seven Networks” Infrastructure Development Action Plan, Yantai Breakthrough Initiatives for Producer Services (Second Batch), Yantai Work Ledger for “Two Tables and Three Lists” in Future Industry Pilot Zone Construction, Yantai 2025 Key Tasks for Petrochemical Industry Restructuring and Upgrading, Yantai 2025 Key Tasks for Green, Low-Carbon, High-Quality Development Industrial Parks, Yantai 2025 Key Work Points for Promoting High-Quality Development of County-Level Economies, Yantai 2025 Key Construction Tasks in Social Sectors, and Yantai Pilot Reform Plan for Direct and Rapid Access to Enterprise-Friendly Policies.

According to Wang Songjie, Vice Chairman of the Yantai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Party Secretary and Director of the Yantai Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the drafting of A Raft of Policies and Measures focused on practical measures with structured items, digitalization, and operability. It also adhered to four key principles: comprehensively implementing higher-level directives by closely aligning with the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and the decisions of the provincial Party committee, provincial government, municipal Party committee, and municipal government, highlighting consistency and effectiveness to ensure pragmatic policies that strongly support the achievement of goals. It firmly centered on the green and low-carbon principle by balancing development dynamics with energy transition, stabilizing through progress while establishing new frameworks before phasing out old ones, proposing targeted measures in projects, industries, capital, talent, and other areas to tailor the city’s role as a demonstration model. The A Raft of Policies and Measures also aligns with economic growth patterns, establishing long-term objectives that guide development throughout the year, while incorporating short-term measures to ensure a strong first-quarter performance. It focuses on enhancing quality and ensuring rational growth in scale, ensuring that policy implementation effectively drives sustained economic progress. Additionally, the policy framework was aimed at enhancing systematic policy integration, focusing on improving expectations and boosting confidence. It also integrated the completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the formulation of the 15th Five-Year Plan, ensuring seamless alignment between green, low-carbon strategies, and policy coordination. The plan would integrate new and existing policies and systematically review all relevant policies to create a cohesive and synergized framework for maximum impact.

Wang Songjie stated, “For example, Yantai 2025 Promotion Plan for Whole-Industry Incremental Projects identifies 202 expansion projects, such as the Yulong Island Refining and Petrochemical Integration Project (Phase I) and Wanhua Ethylene Phase II Project, which have already begun production but require capacity expansion. Additionally, 530 new-output projects are planned for completion, all of which are expected to generate significant industrial output. The plan will ensure coordinated scheduling and management to support these initiatives. In terms of infrastructure development, Yantai has already launched key projects, such as the Shanhai Expressway, Derun Expressway, and the Weiyan High-Speed Railway, greatly improving urban mobility and connectivity. To further enhance comprehensive and systematic infrastructure, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission has formulated the Yantai 2025 “Seven Networks” Infrastructure Development Action Plan, covering 135 major projects, such as the Longyan Railway Urbanization Upgrade and the G228 Dandong Line of Yantai Ring Road Reconstruction, with a total investment of RMB 354 billion. Once completed, these projects will further optimize urban living and working conditions. Regarding future industries, the Commission developed the Yantai Work Ledger for “Two Tables and Three Lists” in Future Industry Pilot Zone Construction to define tasks of technological breakthroughs and commercialization in pilot zones, provincial support policies for division of labor, key initiatives for 70 enterprises, 100 major future industry projects with a total investment of ?RMB 45 billion, and 30 key innovation platforms. By 2030, the framework is expected to achieve an estimated future industry output of RMB 130 billion, with over 30 major technological breakthroughs.

Reported by YMG All-Media Journalist Sun Changbo