Yongxing Hulan River Bridge with a total length of 16709m is a key project of the Hayi high-speed railway. The reporter saw at the construction site that several piers stood in the main river channel of Hulan River, and the huge tower cranes around kept lifting materials. The workers were full of energy and rushed to catch up with the time.

Li Feng, Chief Engineer of Harbin Railway Project Management Department of China Railway Shanghai Engineering Bureau, said that the construction team has taken special measures against the severe cold in northern China, and has also adopted construction techniques such as large-diameter bored piles to ensure the quality of bridge construction.

Spring is cold and chilly, but it is also hot. This is the current Northeast. The heat of ice and snow economy is still continuing.

FAW Ferdi's new energy power battery project was officially put into production. Photographed by Xu Chang, reporter of Xinhua News Agency

Large projects are important windows for observing local economy. In 2024, Heilongjiang Province will implement 1000 provincial key industrial projects, Liaoning Province's annual planned investment in provincial key projects will exceed 170 billion yuan, and Jilin Province plans to implement more than 2500 major projects. The construction of large projects adds vigorous impetus to the development of the old industrial base.

In project construction, the three northeastern provinces have accelerated the construction of high-quality and efficient industrial structures, planted new quality productive forces, and promoted the "stability" of the real economy while accumulating the stamina of "progress".

Accelerate the layout of a number of key projects that benefit the current, seek a long-term, and create new momentum. At the beginning of February, the first production base of new energy vehicle power battery in Northeast China - FAW Verdi New Energy Power Battery Phase I Project was put into operation. Wang Zepeng, the executive vice general manager of FAW Ferdi New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., said that the project plays an important role in promoting the new energy vehicle industry in Jilin Province to master key core technologies. It is expected to achieve batch delivery of power batteries by the end of the first quarter.

In the Northeast Light Alloy Co., Ltd. located in Harbin, a special aluminum alloy forging production line project with a total investment of 450 million yuan is under construction. Over the years, this company has focused on the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure, and its high-end aluminum alloys have been widely used in the aerospace field.

Production plant of Northeast Light Alloy Co., Ltd. Photographed by Xie Jianfei, reporter of Xinhua News Agency

This year, the new engine of economic development and strategic emerging industry projects will account for more than 50% of the provincial key industrial projects in Heilongjiang Province. Duan Yuelan, deputy director of the Major Projects Office of Heilongjiang Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said that Heilongjiang Province should accelerate the project construction to achieve the "first quarter" of commencement, resumption and full construction, and give full play to the role of key projects as a "ballast" for economic growth.

When the project is started, everyone is busy and the economy is booming. The reporter's visit found that behind the continued warming of the construction of major projects in the Northeast, the increasingly improved business environment in various regions is indispensable.

Sparks splashed and machines roared. In Huludao City, Liaoning Province, Sinochem Yangnong Huludao large-scale fine chemical project with a total investment of about 10 billion yuan is progressing smoothly and is expected to be put into production within the year. According to the person in charge of the project, the local government innovated and adopted the mode of "land acquisition and commencement", and comprehensively optimized the approval process. The construction permit was approved within one week, and the processing period of various approvals was significantly shortened.

In recent years, various regions in Northeast China have continued to deepen the reform of "decentralization, regulation and service", regard the optimization of business environment as a "bull nose" to transform government functions and stimulate market vitality, and have taken a series of targeted measures to remedy weaknesses and replace "business" with "win business".

According to the data, in 2023, the utilization of domestic capital by projects with 10 million yuan or more in Heilongjiang Province will increase by 21.1% year on year; The actual funds in place for investment promotion in Liaoning Province and Jilin Province increased by 16% and 34.8% year on year respectively.

Enterprises have the most direct feelings about the changes in the development environment. The first phase of the Songyuan Hydrogen Energy Industrial Park (green hydrogen ammonia methanol integration) project with an investment of 10.5 billion yuan was started last year. Li Jingguang, chairman of China Energy Construction Hydrogen Energy Co., Ltd., said that the reform measures of business environment in Jilin Province had strengthened market confidence. The company decided to adjust the planning, merge the second and third phases of the project, and advance the construction to this year. (Reporters Qiang Yong, Ma Xiaocheng, Zou Mingzhong)