Brief introduction of economic and social development experimental zone in Dabie Mountain old revolutionary base area

The experimental zone for economic and social development of Dabie Mountain old revolutionary base area was established in February, 20 1 1. Its initial scope includes Hong 'an County, Macheng City, Yingshan County, Luotian County, Tuanfeng County and Qichun County in Huanggang City, Hubei Province, and Dawu County and Xiaochang County in Xiaogan City. 20 12 in order to promote the regional development of the old revolutionary base area in Dabie Mountain in our province, the provincial party committee and government decided to expand the scope of the experimental area on the basis of starting eight counties and cities at the initial stage, and to include the remaining five counties in Huanggang (namely Huangmei County, Wuxue City, Huangzhou District, Xishui County and county-level Longgan Lake Farm), Guangshui City in Suizhou City, huangpi district City, Xinzhou District and Xiaogan City in the experimental area. Up to now, the economic and social development experimental zone of Dabie Mountain Revolutionary Old Area in our province * * * involves 4 cities 18 counties (cities, districts). Hubei will achieve the overall goal of "Red Dabie Mountain, Developing Dabie Mountain, Green Dabie Mountain and Rich Dabie Mountain", and build the experimental area into an important revolutionary traditional education base, a red tourism base, a red culture dissemination base and an ecological civilization education demonstration base in China, and become the vanguard of economic and social development in the old revolutionary areas, an experimental area for overall urban and rural development and an ecological protection demonstration area in the whole province.

Compared with other areas in Hubei Province, Dabie Mountain area has unique advantages: Dabie Mountain is an old revolutionary base area, known as the cradle of the Red Army and the hometown of generals, with 2 million people participating in the revolution and 6,543.8+0,000 people dying; Dabie Mountain has a unique ecology with a forest coverage rate of 40%. In addition, it also has the geographical advantage of connecting the east with the west, and is an important bridge and link connecting Wanjiang city belt, Yangtze River Delta and Wuhan city circle.

Hubei Dabie Mountain Revolutionary Old Area includes Xinzhou District of Wuhan, huangpi district, Guangshui City of Suizhou City, Huanggang City, Dawu County, Xiaochang County and Anlu City of Xiaogan City. Hubei "Dabie Mountain Revolutionary Old Area Economic and Social Development Experimental Zone" (hereinafter referred to as the experimental zone) is mainly based on the key poverty alleviation and development counties identified by the state and Hubei Province, including 8 counties and cities in Xiaogan City, including Hong 'an County, Macheng City, yingshan county City, Luotian County, Tuanfeng County, Qichun County, Dawu County and Xiaochang County.

The person in charge of the Finance and Economics Office of Hubei Provincial Party Committee (Hubei Provincial Agricultural Office) said that according to the requirements of "obvious changes in three years, great changes in five years and great leap in 10 years", nine major tasks will be determined, including coordinating urban and rural development, accelerating county economic development, vigorously developing modern agriculture and forestry, increasing farmers' income through multiple channels, strengthening infrastructure construction, strengthening ecological civilization construction, vigorously developing tourism and strengthening small towns.

Liu Xuerong, Mayor of Huanggang City, said earlier that Huanggang is a famous old revolutionary base area in China, which has made great sacrifices and contributions to the China revolution and the construction of new China. But at present, Huanggang's economic and social development lags far behind the whole country and the whole province. The establishment of such a pilot area is of great significance for speeding up the development of the old areas.