For a long period after liberation, Nantong's industrial structure with rural economy as its main feature led Nantong's economy through a long and short period of time.
Until the reform and opening up in 1978, Nantong had the opportunity and possibility to shift all its work focus to economic work in time, develop productivity wholeheartedly, and soon transformed its location advantage of riverside and seaside into social and economic development advantages, ending the transition from poverty to export-oriented
The economy has achieved rapid development, created economic miracles one after another, and social life has undergone earth-shaking changes.
In 1979, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held.
In 1984, opening up to the outside world further developed and deepened, and the country rapidly expanded from several experimental points in the south to the entire coastal areas.
The Party Central Committee decided that 14 coastal cities, including Nantong, will be open to the outside world. This historic decision has once again greatly promoted the modernization of coastal areas and the process of entering the world economic stage, and accelerated the socio-economic development of Nantong.
A historic change.
After the reform and opening up, the bold adjustment and improvement of production relations, the introduction of market competition mechanism to fully stimulate and mobilize the enthusiasm and creativity of workers, coupled with the rapid advancement of modern science and technology, all these have enabled social productivity to gain unprecedented development vitality.
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In terms of regional GDP, the main indicator of the development scale of social and economic activities, Nantong City's GDP in Nantong City was only 2.94 billion yuan in 1978. It exceeded 100 billion yuan (119.57 billion yuan) in 2004, reached 251 billion yuan in 2008, and reached 251 billion yuan in 2012.
The annual revenue reached 455.9 billion yuan.
Per capita GDP in Nantong City was 408 yuan in 1978, exceeded 1,055 yuan in 1986, exceeded 10,000 yuan in 2001 (10,078 yuan), reached 35,040 yuan in 2008, and reached 65,222 yuan in 2012.
In the 30 years since the reform and opening up, Nantong’s annual GDP and per capita GDP have skyrocketed, both more than sixfold, and the expansion is accelerating in a geometric progression.
Over the past 30 years, Nantong has insisted on developing both internal and external economic "engines", and the endogenous economic power is sufficient.
Nantong's use of foreign investment has been growing year after year, and since 2007 it has ranked among the top ten in the country.
During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the actual utilization of foreign capital exceeded US$13 billion, which was 1.8 times the total from the reform and opening up to the end of the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period.
In 2011, the GDP of Nantong region exceeded 400 billion yuan, and the per capita GDP exceeded 56,000 yuan, nearly double that of 2007.
Total fiscal revenue exceeded 95 billion yuan, 3.2 times that of 2007; local government budget revenue exceeded 37 billion yuan, accounting for an increase of 3.3 percentage points in GDP compared with 2007, making it one of the top ten prefecture-level cities in the country.
The total investment in fixed assets and the total retail sales of consumer goods were nearly 240 billion yuan and 150 billion yuan respectively, about double that of 2007.
In 2011, the three industrial structure adjustments were 7:54.5:38.5, and the value added of the service industry accounted for 3 percentage points higher in GDP than in 2007.
In 2012, Nantong's GDP was 455.87 billion yuan. In 2013, Nantong's GDP was 503.89 billion yuan, an increase of 11.8% over the previous year based on comparable prices.
Among them: the added value of the primary industry was 34.54 billion yuan, an increase of 3.1%; the added value of the secondary industry was 262.35 billion yuan, an increase of 12.0%; the added value of the tertiary industry was 207 billion yuan, an increase of 12.9%.
The per capita GDP reached 69,050 yuan. Calculated based on the average exchange rate of RMB against the US dollar in 2013, the per capita GDP reached 11,150 US dollars.
In 2014, the city's GDP reached ②565.27 billion, an increase of 10.5% over the previous year based on comparable prices.
Among them: the added value of the primary industry was 36.71 billion yuan, an increase of 3.5%; the added value of the secondary industry was 287.38 billion yuan, an increase of 10.3%; the added value of the tertiary industry was 241.18 billion yuan, an increase of 11.9%.
Per capita GDP reached 77,457 yuan.
Since 1978, with the implementation of rural large-scale contract work in the early stages of reform and opening up, more than half of the rural labor force in Nantong City has been separated from the planting industry. Among them, except for part of the flow to cities, many are employed in rural enterprises and construction industries.
During the 30 years of reform and opening up, the proportion of employees in the primary industry in Nantong City has dropped by 60 percentage points.
At the same time, the internal structure of agriculture has also seen a trend of diversification.
In the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, the proportion of planting industry continues to decline, while the proportion of forestry, animal husbandry and fishery continues to increase.
Comparing the statistics of 2008 with 1978, Nantong City’s planting industry’s proportion of the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery decreased by 30.4 percentage points, the proportion of animal husbandry increased by 10.7 percentage points, and the proportion of fishery increased by 16 percentage points.
Since the reform and opening up, Nantong has made a lot of explorations on the journey of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics, and has repeatedly innovated in Jiangsu's two "first" strategic layouts.
By the end of 2010, the total achievement value of Nantong's agricultural basic modernization indicators reached 67.3 points, ranking first in central Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu.
On the one hand, Nantong is the region with the highest population density in Jiangsu and even the country. It is necessary to break through the constraints of cultivated land resources and increase agricultural production and farmers' income; on the other hand, Nantong "reaches the Yellow Sea in the east and looks to the Yangtze River in the south" and must use it in the development of agricultural industrialization.
Haohe highlights this regional resource endowment.
Therefore, after years of exploration, Nantong people came up with the answer: “Use project agriculture as the starting point to promote the large-scale development of efficient agriculture.