Since the beginning of this year, Huai'an has firmly grasped the "headline" of project construction. With the attitude of "starting work at the beginning of the year and being practical as soon as work starts," the city has adhered to goal-oriented and problem-oriented approaches, mustered up enthusiasm, and exerted pressure to promote the acceleration and efficiency enhancement of major project construction, successfully achieving a strong start in the first quarter.

Both the quantity and quality of project attraction have soared. To gain an advantage in investment attraction and emerging and excellent project introduction, the "Number One Investment Promotion Officer" at all levels in Huai'an, along with dedicated investment promotion officials, have conducted investment promotion negotiations in major cities and enterprises. Through methods such as business referral, on-site investment attraction, and entrusted investment attraction, they have persistently pursued smart and precise investment attraction, focusing on leading enterprises in the industrial chain and industry leaders and continuously seeking new breakthroughs in project attraction. In the first quarter, the city signed 334 projects with a contract value of over RMB 100 million, with an agreed investment amount of RMB 216.336 billion, including 16 projects with an investment of over RMB 5 billion and 4 projects with an investment of over RMB 10 billion. Among the newly attracted projects, the manufacturing industry accounted for 83.2%.

The project construction has progressed rapidly. In the first quarter, 17 out of 20 major provincial projects started construction, with an investment of RMB 9.132 billion completed, reaching 42.04% of the annual plan and exceeding the scheduled progress by 17.04 percentage points. Among the 8 key private investment projects in the province's priority industries, 5 started construction with an investment of RMB 812 million completed. In addition, 311 out of 365 major industrial projects in the city started construction, with an investment of RMB 45.182 billion completed, reaching 31.64% of the annual plan and exceeding the scheduled progress by 6.64 percentage points. A total of 286 projects have been completed or exceeded scheduled progress, accounting for 91.96% of the projects that have started construction.