The Yuzhong District of Chongqing has outlined its ambitious development roadmap for the next five-year plan period, targeting significant economic and quality-of-life benchmarks. A press conference themed "Kicking Off the 15th Five-Year Plan, Building a Modern New Chongqing" was held to detail the district's vision and responsibilities as the city's historic core. Key officials, including District Party Secretary and District Governor Xie Dong, presented the district's achievements and future path, emphasizing a development strategy centered on technological innovation, industrial renewal, opening up and fostering new growth, urban renewal, and governance innovation to comprehensively drive regional progress and paint a new blueprint for building a model modern international metropolis.
Yuzhong District Sets 2030 Economic Targets
At the conference, building on past strengths, Xie Dong clarified the new development positioning and quantitative goals for the 15th Five-Year Plan period. He stated that while Yuzhong's current development momentum is stable and positive, the next five years represent a critical period for the district to consolidate new advantages and achieve iterative leaps. By 2030, Yuzhong District aims to achieve a GDP per unit area exceeding 10 billion yuan per square kilometer, a per capita GDP of 380,000 yuan, and a cumulative total of fixed asset investment reaching 110 billion yuan. The district also plans to fully realize a "15-minute high-quality living service circle" coverage across its entire area. The district will coordinate all efforts through five key drivers—technological innovation, industrial renewal, opening up and fostering new growth, urban renewal, and governance innovation—to fully build a model modern international metropolis and shoulder the responsibility as the foundational core of the new Chongqing.
Focus on the Service Sector to Achieve Dual Trillion-Yuan Industry Scale
The service industry is the core pillar supporting Yuzhong District's establishment, strength, prosperity, and urban vitality, representing its key industrial advantage compared to other districts and counties.
Xie Dong explained that as the city's core hub for modern services, Yuzhong District boasts prominent industrial clustering advantages. Currently, the service sector accounts for nearly 95% of the district's GDP, with producer services making up 53.5% of GDP. Both core indicators rank first among all districts and counties in Chongqing, with high concentrations of high-end formats, leading enterprises, and professional talent, laying a solid foundation for industrial iteration and upgrading.
Facing the new development cycle of the 15th Five-Year Plan, Yuzhong will promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, iteratively upgrading its modern service system. The district has set clear, firm industrial development targets: by the end of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the added value of both producer services and consumer services will each exceed 100 billion yuan, achieving a leapfrog development of a "dual trillion-yuan" service industry. Xie Dong stated that the district will use industrial iteration to elevate the city's development capacity and use high-quality industries to ensure public prosperity, allowing all those who start businesses, live, and strive in Yuzhong to tangibly share in the dividends of urban development.
Leveraging Three-Dimensional Mountain City Resources to Shape a New Benchmark for International Characteristic Consumption
District official Deng Guanghuai provided a specialized interpretation of the three-dimensional consumption system construction plan at the press conference.
Deng Guanghuai stated that the city's integrated spatial structure comprising cloud-level (high-rise), mid-mountain, and underground areas is Yuzhong's unique and irreplicable core resource. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Yuzhong will comprehensively revitalize its landscape ecology, historical streets and alleys, and underground space resources. It plans to connect a 19-kilometer riverside shoreline, 3.87 million square meters of park green islands, and 115 kilometers of urban slow-traffic pathways, with plans to add 50 new characteristic consumption scenes. This aims to transform the advantages of the mountain city's three-dimensional space into consumption advantages, creating a nationally top-tier three-dimensional consumption benchmark.
Simultaneously, Yuzhong will continue to upgrade its international consumption capacity, shifting its development mindset from "transit check-in" China Travel to "stay and deepen" Chongqing Stay, striving to build a premier inland destination for inbound tourism.
Refining Urban Renewal and Governance to Create an All-Ages-Friendly, Smart, and Livable Peninsula
In the field of urban renewal, Yuzhong District adheres to the concept of "attracting those from afar and delighting those nearby, being the first in excellence and the first to enjoy," coordinating the promotion of refined renovation for 2.7 million square meters of old residential areas. It will implement "one building, one strategy" revitalization and upgrading for inefficient and idle buildings, enhance the quality of the 19.1-kilometer beautiful riverside shoreline, continuously optimize the urban living environment, and create a livable peninsula where residents can "see greenery by opening the window and enter a park when stepping out."
Public service配套设施 will be simultaneously improved for quality and efficiency. The district will continue to perfect the全域15-minute high-quality living service circle, upgrade smart education, smart healthcare, and age-friendly便民设施, and construct an all-ages-friendly城区 suitable for children's growth, youth entrepreneurship, and elderly安居, ensuring the fruits of urban development precisely benefit all citizens and visiting tourists.
At the level of refined governance for a megacity, Xie Dong proposed the construction goal of a "resilient city, smart peninsula."