By late June, Ordos had resumed or commenced 243 out of 304 key projects with a respective investment of more than 100 million yuan and a total completed investment of 48.8 billion yuan. In the first half of this year, Ordos further improved the level of modern agriculture and animal husbandry development, sped up the supply-side structural reform of agriculture and animal husbandry. The administration further optimized the production in regional and operation structure of agriculture and animal husbandry, comprehensively initiated the construction of the national modern agriculture demonstration park and 100 model villages for industrial restructuring, and extended the development chain of resource-based industries.

The projects, including the overall planning of Nalin River Orefield, BEGCL 4 billion m3 Coal-to-gas project and SPIC 800,000t Coal-to-olefin project were approved by the nation. The Yitai 2,000,000t Coal-to-liquid project was commenced, Zhongtian Hechuang 1,370,000t Polyolefin Project (Phase II) reached its designed capacity, and Yitai 1, Ordos’ strategic emerging industries further expanded in scale as 43 out of 51 “seven-industry” projects were commenced or resumed, with a total completed investment of 11.04 billion yuan. Big data projects, including China Unicom Cloud Base, China Telecom Cloud Base and Ant Maker Platform, were also matured in Ordos. Key projects, including Ordos High-purity Polycrystalline Silicon Project, Hangjin Banner Balagong PV Power Generation Project, Jiuke Environmental Industrial Park Project, HMB Helicopter Manufacturing Project, BOE Display Project (Phase II), Accenda Anti-Cancer Drug R&D Base and Shibo International Health City Project, were advanced smoothly.

The city also reached cooperative agreements with Israel Corporation, JD Group and other enterprises in fields such as new energy vehicles and big data center construction. In the first half of this year, the contribution of non-coal industries to Ordos’ above-scale industrial growth reached 71%, and an industrial system of diversified development and multi-pole support was established at an exemplary pace. Ordos also sped up the development of modern service industries. According to the deployment of the Conference on Tourism for Development of Inner Mongolia, Ordos accelerated the building of a national one-for-all tourism demonstration zone, comprehensively advanced 111 key tourism projects, completed the construction of Eqian Banner “1+6” Red Tourism Education Base and also put it into operation, and accelerated the construction of Gathering Paradise (Phase II), Grassland Silk Road Town-Kangzhen and other key projects.

In the first half of this year, Ordos received 5.88 million tourists with a growth rate of 22.6%. The city has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in China. It reached cooperation agreements with major enterprises like Tewoo Group and Huochebang. The Shenhua Multimodal Transport Smart Logistics Park also broke ground. The Ordos’ logistics intelligence level was also improved comprehensively.