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Tongzhou district

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2018-07-23

The district's regional GDP growth reached 126.9 billion yuan ($17.98 billion) in 2018, 7.8 percent higher than that of the previous year (similarly hereinafter) calculated in comparable terms. The per capita regional GDP were 111,100 yuan and 100,800 yuan respectively calculated in terms of the permanent residents and the registered permanent residents. According to the average exchange rate of yuan to dollar at that time, they were translated into $16,800 and $15,200 respectively. When we take the three industries separately, the added value of the primary industry was 5.84 billion yuan with a decrease of 0.3 percent; the added value of the secondary industry was 62.25 billion yuan with a growth of 6.9 percent and the added value of the tertiary industry was 58.82 billion yuan with an increase of 9.6 percent.

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The cultural park of loyalty and filial piety in Dongshe town, Tongzhou district, Nantong [Photo/tz.gov.cn]

The ratio of the three-industry structure has been adjusted from 5.0:49.1:45.9 of the previous year to the ratio of 4.6:49.0:46.4. The added value of the tertiary industry to the regional GDP has increased by 0.5 percent. Over the course of the year, the output value of high-tech industry has reached 103.81 billion yuan, registering growth of 7.2 percent, and the output value of emerging industry has reached 60.70 billion yuan, registering growth of 6.7 percent. 

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Sunrise at Nanshan Lake [Photo by Li Xudong/tz.gov.cn]

In 2018, the employment conditions for urban and rural areas in Tongzhou district have maintained steady growth with 9,698 new urban jobs and 3,600 people who move from rural to urban areas to find work being added. The urban unemployment rate was 1.74 percent at the end of 2018. One industrial park was honored as the provincial entrepreneurship incubation base. A total of 3,828 private enterprises were newly added all year round with the total registered capital of 25.86 billion yuan. A total of 11,319 individual businesses were newly registered with the registered capital of 1.42 billion yuan. The industrial output value of private enterprises accounted for 67.8 percent of the overall scale-sized industrial output value. The proportion of private investment now stands at 79.25 percent of the total fixed asset investment. 

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