NETDA takes measures to promote high-quality development
Authorities in the Nantong Economic and Technological Development Area (NETDA), East China's Jiangsu province have implemented a series of measures to achieve high-quality development.
For instance, authorities have appointed 12 local residents to help build industrial parks that are free of extraneous odor.
The main duty of the appointed residents is to identify the extraneous odor and conduct investigations, said Bu Xiaopeng, the director of NETDA's ecological environment bureau.
NETDA had in June launched a campaign to carry out monitoring of certain enterprises and their surrounding areas. Feedback provided by residents will be a major factor in the evaluations.
According to the action plan released by the NETDA authorities in June, evaluations by the residents will account for half of the total scores.
The new evaluation system has compelled NETDA's related enterprises to invest more than 200 million yuan ($28.64 million) to deal with 265 environmental issues, according to authorities.
Building industrial parks that are free of extraneous odor is part of efforts by authorities to optimize the area's business environment, according to Bao Delin, the director of the NETDA administrative committee.
Authorities have since last year been taking steps such as recycling idle land to channel more resources towards the area's four pillar industries – new-generation information technology, high-end equipment, biomedicine and new energy.
The construction of 24 major projects with a combined investment of 26.9 billion yuan in the area started this year. These projects, which are related to NETDA's pillar industries, will be critical to advancing NETDA's high-quality development, said local authorities.
In addition, authorities have in recent years been speeding up the construction of transportation infrastructure in the area as part of efforts to improve its business environment. One such project is the No 1 metro line that was put into operation on Nov 10.
