The year 2025 marked the last year of China's 14th Five-Year Plan period. Over the past year, Beijing recorded a regional GDP of 5.2 trillion yuan, representing a growth rate of 5.4 percent — 0.4 percentage points higher than the national average. The city's general public budget revenue increased by 4.8 percent, its surveyed unemployment rate in urban areas stood at 4.1 percent, and its residents' per capita disposable income saw a real growth of 4.4 percent. These are just part of the positive data in Beijing's government work report which evidences that the city largely fulfilled its targets set for the previous year.
• The transaction value of contracts for delivering technologies from Beijing to Tianjin and Hebei reached 99.6 billion yuan, marking an increase of 18.1 percent.
• Breakthroughs were achieved in 36 critical bottlenecks in the biopharmaceutical and other key industry chains.
• Permanent zones of three national laboratories became operational, and three interdisciplinary research platforms commenced trial operations.
• Breakthroughs were achieved in a total of 210 core technologies.
• Beijing ranked first globally for nine consecutive years in the Nature Index Science Cities.
• The integrated circuit industry grew by over 20 percent, and the annual number of new energy vehicles produced reached nearly 700,000.
• The number of national high-tech enterprises in the city surpassed 30,000.
• The added value of the digital economy increased by 8.7 percent.
• The Beijing Stock Exchange listed 288 companies, with a total market capitalization exceeding 860 billion yuan.
• A total of 35 national-level major funds were launched, and eight municipal-level funds for high-end, sophisticated and cutting-edge industries attracted over 100 billion yuan in social investment.
• A total of 119 key "All-in-One-Go" government services were introduced, reducing average processing time by 58 percent and required documents by 52 percent.
• The tasks (phase 2.0) for expanding the opening up of the services sector were largely completed, with Beijing ranking first in the national comprehensive evaluation for four consecutive years.
• The number of newly established foreign-invested enterprises grew by 19.5 percent, and the total export value from Beijing reached a record high.
• The number of inbound tourists increased by 39 percent, with both the number of tourist trips and the tourism revenue hitting new historical highs.
• Service consumption rose by 5 percent.
• The number of new energy vehicles in use exceeded 1.3 million, and green electricity accounted for 36 percent of total power consumed.
• The proportion of days with good/moderate air quality exceeded 80 percent for the first time, while the average annual concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) was 27 micrograms per cubic meter, indicating a decrease of 11.5 percent.
• The proportion of Beijing's water body cross-sections rated as good/excellent in the national surface water assessment remained stable at over 90 percent.
• An additional 1,000 kilometers of greenways were constructed.
• Three new subway lines were opened, adding 30 kilometers of operational length. The total length of Beijing's rail transit network reached 909 kilometers, ranking first nationwide.
• A total of 242 bus routes were optimized, with the transfer rate between buses and rail transit within 50 meters reaching 91 percent.
• Over 50,000 new parking spaces for motor vehicles were added in the central area.
• A total of 2,295 sessions of large-scale events were held, representing a 25.8-percent increase, and 16,000 sessions of public cultural events were launched.
• A total of 198 high-quality sports events, such as the World Table Tennis (WTT) China Smash, were both well-received and commercially successful.
• The resolution rate and satisfaction rate for requests and complaints handled through the citizen service hotline reached 97.3 percent and 97.7 percent, respectively.
Beijing is steadily turning public expectations into visible and measurable outcomes.
(Source: people.cn)
