In the first half of this year, Hubei achieved a regional gross domestic product of 2734.645 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.8%, 0.2 percentage points faster than the same period last year, and 0.8 percentage points higher than the national average. The year-on-year growth of indicators such as industrial added value above designated size, fixed assets investment and total retail sales of consumer goods are higher than that of the whole country. At present, Hubei is making every effort to stabilize growth, strengthen technology, enhance industries, prevent risks, and benefit people's livelihoods. It leads industrial development with supply chain innovation, promotes opening up to the outside world with hub construction, and promotes consumption release with policy guidance. The province's economy continues to steadily recover and improve, actively playing a leading role in the overall national economic development. Building a supply chain platform and integrating domestic and international, upstream and downstream resources. "We hope to develop a laser wind measurement radar system and publish our requirements on the Hubei Sci Tech Innovation Supply Chain Platform with a trial and error attitude. Unexpectedly, Hubei Optics Valley Laboratory quickly connected with us and has completed the first phase of prototype development," said Zhang Junlong, General Manager of Wuhan Ganwei Technology Co., Ltd. In June 2023, Hubei Province piloted the construction of the Hubei Science and Technology Innovation Supply Chain Platform in China Optics Valley, exploring a new transformation model of "enterprise ordering, platform dispatching, and scientific research institution accepting orders". At present, there are over 40000 registered enterprises on the platform, with a cumulative collection of 24000 enterprise demands. More than 16000 projects are currently being connected and completed. The construction of Hubei sci-tech innovation supply chain platform is a microcosm of Hubei's use of Internet thinking to build a modern industrial system by focusing on the construction of supply chain system. Hubei has established seven provincial-level and multiple specialized supply chain platforms since 2022, focusing on key industries such as automobiles, textiles, and pharmaceuticals. By integrating market resources and optimizing organizational processes, it promotes cost reduction and efficiency improvement for enterprises, and enhances industrial resilience. In early autumn, walking into the Yunshang International Fashion Center in the Hanzheng Street commercial district of Wuhan, there is a dazzling array of fashionable autumn and winter clothing, and wholesalers from all over the country flock to place orders. Several tens of kilometers away, in the Hanzheng Clothing Industrial Park in Hanchuan City, clothing production lines are speeding up the production of new winter clothing. In the past, the clothing industry in Hubei was' large but not strong '. To this end, Hubei has reshaped the textile and clothing industry chain with supply chain thinking, enhanced the value chain, and established Hubei Huafang Supply Chain Co., Ltd. to integrate domestic and foreign resources, upstream and downstream, and provide services such as trading, design, and centralized procurement for enterprises. Purchasing only one item can save businesses 3% to 5% of costs Wang Qi, Deputy General Manager of Hubei Huafang Supply Chain Co., Ltd., said that since its launch in May 2023, the Huafang Chain online platform has attracted nearly 10000 enterprises to settle in, with a cumulative transaction volume exceeding 9 billion yuan. As of now, the provincial-level supply chain platform in Hubei has served over 30000 enterprises in the supply chain, becoming an effective lever for building a modern industrial system. Building a comprehensive hub and weaving a dense three-dimensional transportation network is already early in the morning. The first professional cargo hub airport in China, Ezhou Huahu International Airport, is brightly lit, with cargo planes from all over the world landing, stopping, and unloading in an orderly manner. Since its operation in July 2022, Huahu Airport has opened a total of 93 passenger and freight routes, connecting 46 domestic destinations and 30 international destinations, with a cumulative cargo and mail throughput exceeding 900000 tons. With Huahu Airport as the center, a flight circle of about 1.5 hours can cover major urban agglomerations such as Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and Chengdu Chongqing. The construction of an important node for the domestic circulation and an important hub for the domestic and international dual circulation is an important functional positioning for Hubei to become an important strategic pivot for the rise of the central region. Hubei, which does not border or rely on the sea, takes the construction of a comprehensive transportation hub as its starting point and continues to weave a three-dimensional transportation network that covers the whole province, connects the whole country, and radiates globally. Standing at Huangshi New Port and looking out, large cargo ships are berthed in an orderly manner, and cranes are waving along the shore, creating a busy scene. As the largest single port in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Huangshi New Port is located in the middle zone of the urban agglomeration of the four provinces of Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Hunan, with unique advantages of crossing east and west, connecting north and south, and connecting the river and the sea. At present, the entire port has 23 berths for 10000 tons, with a throughput capacity of 80 million tons per year. Promote trade through channels and cluster industries through trade. Driven by Huangshi New Port, the local area has introduced billion dollar industrial cluster projects such as Hongsheng Copper Industry and Emerging Pipe Industry, and the development blueprint of "billion dollar port, billion dollar park, and port new city" is becoming a reality. The construction of the Hubei Hunan border section of the Hubei North Expressway is accelerating; The Jingmen Jingzhou high-speed railway has started joint debugging and testing, and the countdown to Hubei's "city to city high-speed railway" has begun; The China Europe Railway Express (Wuhan) maintains a stable number of 55 cross-border transportation routes, radiating to 40 countries and 117 cities in Eurasia... Zhong Zhiqing, Director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Transport, stated that as Hubei accelerates the investment and construction of the "Iron, Steel, Public and Air" transportation network, the "hard connectivity" will continue to extend, strengthen, and form a network, and the transportation infrastructure of the "nine provinces' thoroughfare" will become more solid as it moves towards the "nine provinces' thoroughfare". In May of this year, Hubei Province took the lead in launching three major actions nationwide: replacing cars with "energy", replacing household appliances with "intelligence", and revitalizing home decoration, kitchen, and bathroom facilities, using "real money and silver" to fully promote large-scale consumption. On August 10th, Hubei implemented the policy of upgrading consumer goods through trade in: increasing subsidies for automobiles, home appliances, and home decoration, and providing subsidies for electric bicycles through trade in. According to data from the Department of Commerce of Hubei Province, from January to August this year, the retail sales of restricted automotive products in the province increased by 4.2% year-on-year, while the amount of scrapped cars and second-hand car transactions increased by 57.1% and 12.1% respectively. The stimulation of consumer vitality and the stable growth of the consumer market cannot be separated from the support of a good consumer environment. Hubei has established nearly 4000 consumer rights protection stations in large supermarkets, agricultural markets, commercial districts, tourist attractions, and other places, and encourages physical stores to respond to the "offline seven day no reason return and exchange" commitment. Currently, nearly 5000 physical stores have participated, and in the past year, more than one million returns and exchanges have been processed for consumers, with a total price of over one billion yuan. Consumption is the endpoint of the economic cycle and the fundamental driving force of economic development Wang Shirong, Director of the Market Supervision Administration of Hubei Province, said that the market supervision department will continuously optimize the consumption environment and stimulate consumption potential to boost confidence in the consumer market. Culture and tourism are the "big head" of the consumer market. On September 14th, the nearly two month long Yangtze River Culture and Art Festival opened in Wuhan, with light and shadow shows and fireworks displays illuminating the banks of the two rivers. Since the beginning of this year, various regions in Hubei have presented a Taiwanese cultural and tourism feast through cultural and tourism promotion. Statistics show that in August, the number of tourists received and the comprehensive tourism revenue in Hubei increased by 12.6% and 17.7% respectively year-on-year, with 6.077 million hotel stays, a year-on-year increase of 45.6%. As the National Day holiday approaches, Hubei Province has released a series of cultural and tourism consumption support measures, involving more than 50 million yuan in cultural and tourism consumption voucher subsidies, and over 3000 various themed activities. Ke Ke, Director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Hubei Province, said that tourism has become a rigid demand for a better life for urban and rural residents. Hubei will fully tap into the space for cultural and tourism consumption and continue to create economic growth points. (New Society)