The wheels of time roll forward, recording one high-quality development mark after another.

Lishui Airport successfully verified the test flight, and the “aviation dream” of the people in mountainous areas is about to come true. The “aviation era” is just around the corner; the Southwest Zhejiang Science and Technology Innovation Industrial Park with a total investment of 2.7 billion yuan was officially opened, and the first batch of 40 partner projects were recruited and landed; the “Lijiuwei” regional public brand was released, and the branding strategy of the traditional Chinese medicine health industry took a key step. 329,700 mu of traditional Chinese medicinal materials broadened the channels for farmers to increase their income...

Since this year, Lishui has taken solid steps on the road of leapfrog high-quality development. Data shows that in the first quarter, the city achieved a gross domestic product of 52.84 billion yuan, an increase of 6.7% year-on-year, and the growth rate was higher than that of the whole country and the whole province. It continued the good momentum of more than 6.5% for eight consecutive quarters in the past two years, and strived to achieve the development speed to maintain the first front of the province.

Under the strong leadership of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, Lishui, an old revolutionary city, strives to enter the main battlefield of high-quality development and build a common prosperity demonstration area, closely follow the key points, overcome difficulties, take the initiative to fight with the responsibility of the main army, and play the strongest tone of “striving with diligence, take charge and strive for excellence” in an all-round way.

Everything competes and bursts with vitality. At present, Lishui is firmly and consciously shouldering the historical mission of leapfrog high-quality development and the three strategic tasks of creating a new growth pole, promoting common prosperity, and building a large garden. It has opened up a new world of development with three-year breakthrough actions, and strived to build a nationally renowned benchmark for green development and a vibrant city of beautiful mountains and beautiful water.

Grow towards “new”

In the mountainous areas of southwestern Zhejiang with thousands of mountains, the low-altitude economy can also “fly high” with its wings.

Not long ago, Zhejiang Rongqi Technology Co., Ltd., located in Lishui Jingkai District, was listed as a “typical case of 2025 low-altitude economy” with the project of “Drone Helps Qianjiangyuan - Intelligent Management and Emergency Rescue of Baishanzu National Park”. This is another “national character” honor added by the company after winning the first prize of the national “Productivity Promotion Award”.

40 million yuan, 60 million yuan, 120 million yuan... In the past four years, Rongqi Technology has been introduced from Shenzhen and settled in Lishui Economic and Kaikai District. With the advantages of intelligent, platform-based and tool-based low-altitude digital intelligent system applications and products, the output value has grown rapidly year after year, and it has been among the top industrial-grade UAV enterprises in the country. Related technologies are at the international leading level in the same type of industries.

Mountainous areas can also engage in innovation, and to accelerate development, it is even more necessary to engage in innovation. In Lishui, scientific and technological innovation and industrial development are running in both directions and steady.

Go to “new” and transform into beauty. Not long ago, in the first batch of advanced lists of “new quality productivity” for the development of healthy and beautiful industries, Nais Group won awards such as “Science and Technology Innovation Enterprise”, “Science and Technology Innovation Advanced Individual”, “Science and Technology Innovation Product of the Year” and “Good Product of the Year”.

As a leading enterprise in China’s daily chemical industry, Nais Group occupies one-fifth of the market share. In the process of ecological industry transformation, the group put forward the principle of “four infinitys” with the core concepts of ecological positioning, science and technology-driven and innovation model, that is, breaking the fence of region, industry, business form and institutional mechanism, and promoting globalization and all-round integration and development.

On the morning of April 9, at the Lishui venue for the start-up of major projects in the second quarter of 2025 in the province, the ecological Nais intelligent factory and the ecological industry core area projects attracted much attention. The total investment of the project is 3.336 billion yuan, mainly building plant extraction, high-end personal care products, cleaning products, pet health food production plants, as well as supporting facilities such as biotechnology research and development, ecological science and technology innovation base, international ecological cooperation research and experience center, etc., to accelerate the investment in “beautiful economy ” and “big health” production. Business.

With innovation to break the situation, Lishui promotes the work of teachers and science people “all around the industry, everything around the industry”, develop new productive forces according to local conditions, forge the core engine of the development of mountainous areas, and strive to build an innovative and dynamic city with distinctive characteristics in the Yangtze River Delta.

In the first quarter of this year, the added value of the city’s strategic emerging industries, equipment manufacturing industries, high-tech industries and core industries of the digital economy all achieved double-digit growth. Among them, the growth rate of investment in high-tech industries ranks first in the province.

Based on the greatest advantage of ecology, Lishui accelerates the reshaping of the modern ecological economic system with local characteristics, and promotes the development of the leading industrial clusters of the five major ecological industries, including semiconductors, precision manufacturing, health medicine, fashion industry and digital economy. Last year, a total of 187.22 billion yuan of standard output was achieved, an increase of 16.1%.

Focusing on the development of new quality productivity layout industrial chain, Lishui, through the establishment of a “chain length + chain owner + expert team” collaborative mechanism, the city-level integration and overall construction of the ecological industry “1315” characteristic industrial chain, focusing on high-end equipment manufacturing, artificial intelligence, low-altitude economy, new energy and new materials and other fields to cultivate and develop future industries.

Gathering valleys into peaks, everything is new. The recently opened Southwest Zhejiang Science and Technology Innovation Industrial Park is full of high-rise buildings, innovative service complex, new research and development institutions, enterprise R&D center headquarters, sports square, talent apartments, professional incubators, scientific research and testing service institutions, etc. have been newly launched. A number of leading enterprises and high-growth enterprises jointly participate in park planning and share scenario resources to accelerate the coexistence and sharing of the “ecosystem” between science and technology innovation parks and innovative enterprises. At present, 40 partner projects have been attracted, involving low-altitude economy, CAE simulation, synthetic leather intelligent detection technology and other fields.

As the first innovative partner to sign a contract to land in the Southwest Zhejiang Science and Technology Innovation Industrial Park, Yu Yanwen, deputy general manager of Zhejiang Wole Technology Co., Ltd., said that with the support and cultivation of the park, the company has independently built a smart operation and maintenance center that combines digital twins, intelligent perception, NB-IOT Internet of Things and AI models to accelerate the collaborative innovation and development of the empowering industry chain.

Leading industries are gathering and gaining momentum, and innovative vitality is surging! With the joint implementation of important measures such as the strategy of strengthening the city of talent science and education, the strategic pilot project of “double recruitment and double introduction” and the construction of a youth development-oriented city, the former old revolutionary area has become a hot new development area for young people to start a business and talent innovation, and has stepped on the “acceleration” of high-quality development.

Stepping towards “rich”

New opportunities in the old area, revitalizing is the right time.

As the only key city in the province in the national old revolutionary area, the establishment of the common prosperity pilot demonstration zone of the old revolutionary area is an important mission established by Lishui based on the “two general situations” of Chinese-style modernization and the revitalization and development of the old revolutionary areas in the new era.

Narrowing the “three major gaps” is the key difficulty in promoting the common prosperity of the old areas, and it is also the main direction of Lishui’s creation of the common prosperity demonstration zone in the old revolutionary areas.

Due to the dispersion of the layout of productive forces in mountainous areas, the limited development space and other factors, the gap between urban and rural areas is large and the degree of integration is not high, which has become a difficult problem on the road to common prosperity in Lishui.

How to crack it? Take the “ten million project” as the traction and the “one game of chess” to coordinate.

To this end, Lishui will focus on the goal of “rich people” by strengthening the cross-mountain coordination of the city and the linkage of cities and counties, coordinate the three articles of “strong cities”, “developing villages” and “integration”, build a strong development axis of “county-central town-key villages”, promote the high-quality development of urban-rural integration, and make every effort to narrow the “three major gaps”.

A small county is a big city, and a strong city has a way. In view of the fact that there are many mountains and few lands, few villages, small counties and relatively large urban development space, Yunhe has deeply implemented the development strategy of “small counties and large cities”, cultivated and developed the county as the growth pole of the county, accelerated the new urbanization process, and promoted the overall coordination of urban and rural areas.

Through continuous comprehensive policies, we will continue to guide the population and industrial factors to gather in the county and central towns, help the mountainous masses to realize “take power into the city and settle down”, greatly improve the living environment and production conditions of the masses, and realize the gathering, enriching and convenient people, and becoming a typical development of the national mountainous gathering.

As an important settlement for down-the-mountain immigrants, Daping Community has received more than 7,000 residents from all townships (streets) in the county. Nowadays, relying on new employment platforms such as bonsai “Common Wealth Workshop” and wood play “Common Wealth Workshop”, more and more people down the mountain have found jobs at the “doorstep” and “seamlessly connected” into urban life from the field.

“In the morning, pick mulberries in the silkworm mulberry garden of Shiuli Village, and visit the ancient village in Shanxiayang Village in the afternoon. It is very convenient to eat, stay and travel!” Recently, the “two-day pastoral health tour” route in the ancient town of Songyang County has been popular with tourists as soon as it was launched.

The ancient town is a provincial central town, with the reputation of “the beginning of Lishui and the root of the state”. The town takes project construction as the starting point, explores the group development mode of rural areas, and organizes administrative villages such as Shanxiayang Village, Sikou Village, Shili Village, Shanghe Village and Gangxia Village into a “area common prosperity complex”. In the past three years, the total collective economic income of five villages in Shanxiayang District alone has increased from 5.82 million yuan to 9.19 million yuan, with an average annual growth of 25.6%.

The Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently announced the list of the first batch of provincial key villages (Haidao County in the mountainous area) in 2025. A total of 110 villages in the province were selected. 33 villages were on the list, including Dagangtou Village, Dagangtou Town, Liandu District, Lishui, Gaizhu Village, Zhuyan Township, Longquan City, Guiqi Village, Guiqi Township, Qingtian County, Xiaoshun Village, Shitang Town, Yunhe County, and Jushui Village, Pingdu Street, Qingyuan County.

At present, Lishui is actively exploring the group development mechanism through the models of “bringing the weak with the strong” and “joint villages to build together”, driving the coordinated development of the group with key villages, and focusing on realizing the butterfly change from “single village beauty” to “area beauty” and from “individual wealth” to “common wealth”. It is planned that by 2027, the city will build 90 key village groups.

With operation as a link, the “golden chain” of urban and rural element flow is strung together. The city’s rural operation partner recruitment conference held on May 20, through the promotion of high-quality rural resources, built a broad cooperation platform for treasure villages with foundation and advantages and partners with ideals and ambitions, and gathered more advantageous resources to help the development of the village.

Previously, Lishui has released two phases of “I have a village in Zhejiang Lishui” rural revitalization partner recruitment plan. 530 partners have brought projects and popularity to the countryside, and joined hands to help common prosperity. With the release of the third recruitment order, it will continue to attract more talents to the countryside for development.

Innovating the rural development model and operation mechanism with market-oriented thinking, Lishui explores the reform of “strong village company + cooperative + ‘common wealth workshop’” to join farmers and bring wealth. Through the implementation of actions to promote the sustainable and stable growth of farmers’ income, it strengthens the “strong link” mechanism between economic development and farmers’ income increase, and strives to achieve strong villages and people’s wealth.

At the same time, Lishui will reshape the system and mechanism of urban-rural integration and development, carry out urban-rural planning and infrastructure integration and improvement actions with people as the core, coordinate and promote the integration of basic public services in the whole area, cross-mountain coordination of rich people’s safe housing, urbanization of agricultural transfer population, youth development and other reforms, and promote the complementarity of urban and rural functions and the smooth flow of resource factors.

The achievements of development are precipitated in the facts that the masses can feel, and the results of common wealth overflow in the smiling faces of the people’s increased income. Last year, the growth rate of per capita disposable income of rural residents in Lishui ranked first in the province, achieving the “16 consecutive championships” in the province.

This year, on the basis of completing the goals of the 14th Five-Year Plan, Lishui will strive to reduce the income gap between urban and rural residents to within 1.86. The income of urban and rural residents will remain at the top of the key cities in the old revolutionary areas, and the per capita GDP and the urbanization rate of the resident population will be at the forefront of the key cities in the old revolutionary areas.

Go towards “beauty”

The quality of air and water environment ranks in the “double top ten” in the country. The ecological environment condition index has led the province for 20 consecutive years, and the public satisfaction of the ecological environment has been at the top of the province for 17 consecutive years...

Behind the bright data is the “afft family background” of the most beautiful core area of Zhejiang Grand Garden of Lishui Construction Poetry and Painting.

Ecology is the greatest resource and the greatest advantage of Lishui. We should not only take good care of the “natural beauty” of beautiful mountains and rivers, but also promote the “governance and quality improvement” scientifically and pragmatically, so that the beautiful ecology and the beautiful home can shine together, prosper individually and collectively.

Qianjiangyuan - Baishanzu National Park Candidate Area Baishanzu Park is an important ecological safety barrier in East China and the Yangtze River Delta region, and one of the 17 key areas for biodiversity protection of global significance in China. The planned total area of the park is about 505 square kilometers. How to manage and protect such a vast natural ecological area scientifically and effectively?

To this end, Lishui has established an integrated monitoring and protection system of “Tiandi and Sky”. Through the platform of “Number of Wisdom and Hundred Mountains”, it integrates human-vehicle control, biodiversity monitoring, three-member management, “cloud duty” and other application scenarios. Combined with high-altitude remote sensing image data, it provides an all-round escort of ecological environment and species resource safety, so as to reduce the investment in law enforcement by 80% and expand the coverage of inspection to 90%.

Under the scientific and effective protection, Baishanzu fir, which is listed as one of the 12 most endangered plants in the world, has successfully cultivated 83 biological trees with mother seeds, more than 600 seedlings naturally sprouted under the mother tree, built 82 mu of wild population base, and returned to planting 4,000 plants.

Lishui protects the beautiful ecology of the large garden with the top standard, takes the lead in establishing the municipal ecological civilization committee in the province, systematically promotes the construction of the most beautiful core area of the large garden of poetry and painting in Zhejiang and a series of reforms in the field of ecological civilization, coordinates and promotes gas control, water control, soil control, waste control and plastic control, and promotes the continuous improvement of ecosystem quality and stability.

In terms of improving the “appearance”, in accordance with the policy of “clean, neat, natural and landscape”, we will thoroughly implement the special action to improve the quality of the beautiful garden, focusing on the shortcomings of the “three area” on the periphery of the scenic spot, the surrounding traffic trunk line, and the urban-rural junction, and rectify a total of 31,000 points. The city plans to build ten landmark projects, and 163 projects have been completed with an investment of 5.317 billion yuan.

Yunhe Terrace appeared at the United Nations General Assembly as a typical case of “China’s Landscape Project”. Longquan Xitou Village was selected as the world’s “Best Tourist Village”, Xidu Line was rated as one of the top ten most beautiful rural roads in the country, and Jingning’s “Sheyun Tea Culture Tour” was selected as one of the top ten most beautiful tea town tour routes in the country... Strolling in the big garden, presenting a new atmosphere of being brilliant on the spot, online scenery, and beautiful in the whole area.

How can “ecological appearance” be transformed into “economic value”? The key is to broaden the path of industrialization of the value of ecological products, and to promote economic development and realize the prosperity of the people.

Qingtian Xiaozhou Mountain Township sold 3 million yuan of good mountains, good water and good services at an “ecological high price”; Yunhe sold the first “ecological land” in the country, and a plot of 493.62 square meters obtained 97,500 yuan of ecological value added; GEP in Dajun Township, Jingning increased by 5.64% at comparable prices, obtaining a government ecological incentive fund of 1.88 million yuan. The village collective also “shares” in the research industry with ecological assets and directly participated in the distribution of operating profits...

Lishui innovates the development and operation mechanism of ecological products, cultivates new subjects such as Liangshan cooperatives and strong village companies, and launches characteristic public brands such as “Lishui Shangeng”, “Lishui Sahnju” and “Lishui Shanquan”, which drives the flourishing of ecological characteristic industries. Last year, the sales of agricultural products of “Lishui Shangeng” exceeded 6 billion yuan, and the sales of “Lishui Shanquan” exceeded 40 million yuan. The villagers joked, “You can hear the sound of money flowing through the stone!”

Draw “Landscape Painting” well, recite “Mountain Character Sutra” well, and write “Water Sutra Notes” well. Rooted in the endowment of ecological and humanistic characteristic resources, the five pillar industries of rich and strong cities, such as quality agriculture, cultural industry, tourism industry, forestry industry and water economy, are expected to exceed 200 billion yuan this year.

In order to solve the problem that green water and green mountains have no market, and “package and list” scattered ecological resources, Lishui specially established the first ecological product trading platform in the province - Zhejiang (Lishui) Ecological Product Trading Center. At present, more than 2,900 transactions have been completed, with a transaction amount of more than 10 billion yuan.

Twisting the core of “value realization” and focusing on the focus of “development and operation”, Lishui has launched the 2.0 version of the ecological product value realization mechanism, promoted the development of ecological product projects in specific geographical units, created characteristic single products such as forest economy and agricultural heritage products, promoted the second leap of brands such as “Lishui Mountain Cultivation”, broadened the realization path of industrialization, marketization and projectization, and let the ecological “treasure collection basin” continuously produce “real money and silver”.

Green is development, and development must be green. Lishui will also focus on planning to build a green energy base in East China, promote the integrated development of “beautiful water storage”, accelerate the creation of carbon neutral pioneer areas, explore new scenarios and new models of green low-carbon production and life, and truly make green the most moving color of Lishui's development.

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On the new journey, Lishui will vigorously carry forward the style of “six trunks”, strive to carry out the “Lishui’s trunk”, concentrate firepower to promote a number of “key things” that can be seen immediately in those years, break through a number of “key things” that support to catch up and leapfrog, and deeply grasp a number of “long-term things” related to the overall development, and strive to write the answer to Lishui in the high-quality development and common prosperity demonstration area with the responsibility of the main battlefield.