On January 5, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the progress and effectiveness of the ten-year development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Wang Changlin, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, pointed out at the meeting that the Yangtze River Economic Belt accounts for about 1/3 of the country's energy consumption and carbon emissions, contributing nearly half of GDP, and the leading role of the main battlefield of ecological priority green development has become increasingly prominent.

In the past ten years, traditional industries such as steel, petrochemical and chemical industries, and building materials in the Yangtze River Economic Belt have actively promoted green transformation, and built 24 national carbon peak pilot cities and parks, and 14 zero carbon parks. New energy clean energy ships to increase research and development, promotion efforts, a total of about 10000 old operating ships scrapped and updated. Zhejiang Lishui, Jiangxi Fuzhou and other 14 pilot areas to accelerate the exploration of ecological product value realization mechanism.

Green transformation to achieve new breakthroughs, industrial upgrading is also constantly shaping new advantages. The Yangtze River Economic Belt has a good industrial foundation and strong resilience. By strengthening the reconstruction of the industrial foundation, promoting major technical equipment research, and deepening the cooperation between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, it has cultivated 41 national advanced manufacturing clusters and 30 strategic emerging industrial clusters, accounting for the whole country. The proportion reached 51% and 45% respectively.

Take the automobile industry as an example. With the accelerated change of electric and intelligent technology, the supply chain of the automotive industry chain in the riverside region continues to be upgraded. In 2025 alone, the output of new energy vehicles in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Chongqing will exceed one million, and a new energy vehicle industry chain that runs through the entire river basin and covers the entire chain is accelerating.

Improve the regional innovation system. At present, the new kinetic energy of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is accelerated to cultivate. In terms of innovation platforms, provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have laid out three science and technology innovation centers and eight national laboratories, breaking through a number of key core technologies in the fields of artificial intelligence and quantum information, and accelerating the development of scientific and technological innovation industrial highlands such as Hefei Quantum Avenue, Wuhan Optics Valley, and Chengyu Western Science City.

"It should be said that the Yangtze River Economic Belt has become one of the regions with the richest scientific and technological resources and the strongest vitality for innovation and entrepreneurship in my country." Wang Changlin said. In the future, we will continue to expand and strengthen the total economic volume. The Yangtze River Economic Belt will continue to work hard on greening, high-end, and intelligence, further accelerate the green transformation, cultivate and expand green and low-carbon industries in accordance with local conditions, and better realize protection in development, Develop in protection.