What kind of city is Panzhihua?

The "2022 China Happy City Forum" co-sponsored by Outlook Oriental Weekly and Outlook Think Tank was held in Hangzhou, and the list of "the happiest cities in China in 2022" was released on the spot. Panzhihua was awarded the title of "the happiest city in China" and became the only prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province. This year's survey and selection activities are based on the theme of "extraordinary decade, pay tribute to struggle".

Panzhihua, once rated as "202 1 China's happiest city", was once again on the list. What is a "life password"?

"Three Bowls" to Create Characteristic Industries

Panzhihua gives full play to the traditional advantages of iron and steel industry.

Panzhihua's characteristic industries are vividly called "three bowls": "iron rice bowl", "titanium vanadium bowl" and "golden rice bowl".

In recent years, Panzhihua has given full play to the traditional advantages of the steel industry, promoted high-end intelligent green transformation, consolidated the advantages of existing products such as high-speed heavy rail steel, vigorously developed advanced new steel materials, and devoted itself to building a national vanadium-titanium low-micro alloy steel manufacturing base and a steel material manufacturing service base in Southwest China. It is planned that the scale of steel industry will reach 60 billion yuan by 2035.

"Titanium Vanadium Bowl" is Panzhihua's vanadium and titanium industry. According to the relevant person in charge of Panzhihua V-Ti High-tech Zone, Panzhihua is making every effort to tackle key technical problems and transform achievements in the field of V-Ti, consolidate the dominant position of materials such as sponge titanium, titanium ingots and V-N alloys, accelerate the development of advanced V-Ti materials industries such as V-Ti-based composite metals and high-precision titanium alloys, build a world-class V-Ti industrial base, and strive to reach 654.38+050 billion yuan by 2035.

Photo by Panzhihua Mango Wang Dong

How to create a "golden rice bowl"? Panzhihua City makes use of the unique golden sunshine resources, continues to do a good job of "sunshine articles" and vigorously develops modern agriculture, clean energy and sunshine tourism and holiday industries. Panzhihua will strive to build China late-ripening mango industrial city, regional agricultural products intensive processing center and trade logistics center, an important clean energy industrial base in China, and a sunshine leisure and holiday destination with international high-level experience by 2035.

Constructing international railway logistics pattern

Panzhihua has entered the "bullet train era". Photo by Wang Dong

Panzhihua is a national comprehensive transportation hub and a production-oriented national logistics hub. Civil aviation has opened flights to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi and other central cities. The skeleton of the "One Ring and Six Shooting" expressway has initially taken shape, and chengdu-kunming railway will be fully open to traffic before the end of this year.

At present, Panzhihua is actively building a Panzhihua international logistics port with "one master and three auxiliaries", building an international railway logistics pattern with "Qingbaijiang in the north and Panzhihua in the south", striving for the early opening of China-Laos Railway trains, vigorously promoting the coordinated development of Panzhihua City, Jinsha River Basin, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guizhou and Kunming, speeding up the construction of a modern regional central city, and building Sichuan into a "gateway city" open to South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Wang Dong took a photo of Panzhihua City at night.

In terms of business environment, Panzhihua pioneered the "self-announcement" system for small and micro enterprises in China, which was commended by the State Council and selected as one of the top 100 cities in business environment in China. In the first three quarters of this year, Panzhihua signed 399 new projects with an agreed investment of nearly 654.38 billion yuan. A series of policies and measures such as "seven new policies for talents" and "sixteen policies for promoting human resources agglomeration" were introduced to provide a stage for managers, a platform for entrepreneurs, services for innovators and courtesy for all kinds of workers. In the past three years, Panzhihua has introduced more than 5,000 high-level talents, and the comprehensive level index of scientific and technological innovation ranks in the forefront of Sichuan, and the net inflow of population is second only to Chengdu, Sichuan.

Take the lead in building a pilot zone for common prosperity in the province

The excellent and good rate of air quality is stable above 97.5%. Photo by Liu Jiacheng

Panzhihua once again won the title of "the happiest city in China", which is inseparable from its green transformation. Panzhihua is the only national pilot city for green industrial transformation and development in southwest China, and it has successfully established a national forest city and a national garden city. The excellent and good rate of ambient air quality is stable above 97.5%, and the surface water quality ranks among the top 30 cities in China, among the top ten cities in the national respiratory environment, and becomes a national sunshine health and wellness demonstration city. Every year, more than 200,000 people come to rock climbing for health preservation, and it is hard to find a bed for health preservation in winter and spring.

Panzhihua is the first in the country to provide childcare subsidies for two or three children. Photo by Wang Dong

In addition, Panzhihua invests more than 65% of the total financial expenditure in the people's livelihood every year, and strives to build a happy city suitable for all ages with excellent preschool education, education, income from work, medical care and old age. It is the first in the country to issue child-rearing subsidies for two children and three children. The per capita disposable income of residents ranks first in Sichuan prefecture-level cities, leading the supply of public services such as education, medical care, culture and old-age care, and becoming the first batch of national pilot cities and countries that combine medical care with nursing care.

Recently, the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee decided to support the high-quality development of Panzhihua and take the lead in building a pilot zone for common prosperity in the province.