High-level smart cities shall be constructed as per high standards in order to improve the intelligentization of economic and social developments. The Overall Planning for Smart Cities of Wuhan shall be deeply implemented. The national big-data strategy shall be implemented practically to develop the supercomputer center and enhance urban service functions such as the big data and cloud computing. Demonstration projects related to applications of “Internet Plus” and “Internet of Things” shall be implemented. Projects of “Smart Government” shall be implemented to establish the citizen and enterprise-oriented service system to make government affairs public, thus providing intelligentized services via online and offline platforms.

The Wuhan Municipal Government has prepared the Outline of the 13th Five-Year Plan for National Economy and Social Development of Wuhan (Draft) in accordance with Suggestions of Wuhan Municipal CPC Committee on the Formulation of the 13th Five-Year Plan for National Economy and Social Development.

The overall idea and goals of the economic and social development of Wuhan during 13th Five-Year Plan Period are as follows: The great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics shall be held high, and the spirit of important speeches made by Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping shall be thoroughly implemented. The development idea of innovation, coordination, green, open and sharing shall be firmly established, and the strategy of “Four Comprehensives” (Comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society, comprehensively deepen reform, comprehensively govern the nation according to law, comprehensively strictly govern the Party) shall be insisted. What’s more, development shall be focused as the top priority, and the working policy of “making progress, improving quality, promoting efficiency, being quality oriented while giving consideration to quantitative indicators” shall be insisted. In addition to creating and adapting to the new normal actively, the integrated economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction shall be promoted comprehensively. The comprehensive national innovation reform experiments shall be advanced systematically and the construction of industrial innovation centers which are globally influential shall be sped up. Furthermore, the economy, city and people’s livelihood shall be upgraded in order to a new level to take the lead in achieving the moderately prosperous society. The leading position of Wuhan among all cities across China in terms of the comprehensive economic strength shall be consolidated, and the best endeavor shall be made to turn Wuhan into one of the first-tier cities in China, thus laying solid foundation for reviving and developing Wuhan into a national central city.

(I) Improving the economic scale and quality synchronously by insisting innovative development and expediting transformation

Innovation, the focus of development, leads the future. We should quicken the development of innovation cities, cultivate new development forces, construct new industrial systems and thus upgrade the economy of Wuhan. The gross regional production across Wuhan shall reach 1.9 trillion Yuan by 2020.

The comprehensive innovation reform experiment shall be propelled systematically, and national innovation centers shall be built. The plan of doubling the industrial innovation capacity shall be implemented to construct the industrial innovation ecosystem which integrates “Five Chains” (the industrial chain, innovation chain, talent chain, capital chain and policy chain) basing on the information technology sector, life health sector and intelligent manufacturing sector. The plan of “Wuhan City Partner” shall be implemented to establish a close connection with innovative and entrepreneurial talents in order to make them fight together for the common future and thus to develop Wuhan into an international talent hub. The plan of “Entrepreneurship Valley” shall be carried out to develop strong innovation parks, including Wuhan Future Science and Technology Town, Raycom Wisdom Valley and Daijiashan Science and Technology Park, to overspread the great mass fervour for innovation and entrepreneurship vigorously across the whole city. By 2020, the ability of Wuhan in converging global innovation elements shall be promoted significantly, the East-Lake National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone shall be basically built into a world-class science & technology park, and Wuhan shall be developed into a national innovation-oriented city.

The project of developing Wuhan into the “City of Books”, “City of Museums”, “City of Creativity” “City of Arts” and “City of Universities” shall be deeply carried out to improve the cultural strength of Wuhan City. Socialist core values shall be adhered to build the consensus and to converge powers in order to develop the spiritual home commonly owned by all Wuhan citizens. The project of promoting Wuhan into a more civilized city shall be implemented to improve and share the self-confidence, sense of gain and sense of honor among Wuhan citizens.

Nationally leading cultural functional areas shall be developed. The Wuhan Qintai Culture and Art Center shall be constructed. The protection and reconstruction of historic districts at Qingdao Road shall be sped up in order to form the cultural functional area featured by 1 core region (Qintai--Guibei) and 2 belts (Wuchang Ancient City-- East Lake and Shahu Lake, Yangtze River in Hankou----Zhang Gongdi Forest Park and Wuhan Garden Expo Park). 

The cultural strength shall be strengthened. The glamour of historical cultures such as the Zhiyin Culture (developed from the legend of Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi who are bosom friends), Panlong Culture, Mulan Culture and Shouyi Culture shall be highlighted. The international influence of famous cultural events such as the Qintai Music Festival shall be enhanced. The project of cultivating key cultural activities and sports events shall be carried out, and key international events such as the 7th Military World Games shall be organized appropriately to build Wuhan into a city of culture, sports and leisure. In addition, diversified needs of different groups shall be considered to revive the glory of traditional Chinese Han culture and cultivate numerous leading figures representing the modern culture. Important national cultural industry bases shall be constructed, too.

The influence of Wuhan City shall be strengthened. International communication platforms shall be developed to support the integrated development of traditional media and new media. Global marketing shall be carried out to tell about fascinating stories of Wuhan and thus to build positive image for this city. The publicity and reputation of Wuhan City shall be improved by utilizing cultural communication in order to develop Wuhan into an international and desirable city.

We will pay more attention to the following priorities during our work:

(I) Expediting the construction of the national innovation-oriented city, and making new breakthroughs in converging innovation elements and improving the innovation capacity

The comprehensive innovation reform experiment will be initiated comprehensively, the integration of “Five Chains” (the industrial chain, innovation chain, talent chain, capital chain and policy chain) will be promoted, innovation bottlenecks will be broken through, and the innovation ecosystem will be optimized in order to generate reproducible and propagable experiences.

Enterprise-oriented innovation mechanisms will be improved. The action plan which covers all R&D institutions of medium and large enterprises will be formulated and implemented to encourage high and new technology enterprises to establish R&D centers widely. To be more specific, 30 R&D institutions of Global 500 enterprises, China’s top 500 enterprises and transnational corporations will be introduced. The policy system encouraging innovations will be improved. Measures of qualifying innovative products will be formulated, and the ratio of governmentally purchased services and innovative products of small and medium scientific and technological enterprises will be increased. Pilot projects of the scientific and technological finance reform will be propelled deeply, and mother funds of Angel Investments will be established.

The construction of innovation parks will be advanced comprehensively. Policies related to the spatial layout planning, land planning, talent reward and Angel Investment of innovation parks will be prepared basing on constructions of industrial parks and transformations of old cities and towns, old factory buildings and old villages. A number of large-scale competent and experienced enterprises will be invited to invest into, construct, manage and operate innovation parks. New incubators such as Wisdom Valley and Makerspace will be established, and a number of innovation parks will be constructed. The development of the City of Universities will be accelerated to develop the innovation circle and belt around institutions of higher learning and the East Lake. The construction of the new science-technology town in Hankou will be sped up, too. 

More efforts will be made to cultivate and introduce high-end innovative talents. The plan of “Wuhan City Partner” will be implemented vigorously, and those “10 policies” targeted on “three kinds of talents” (leading personnel from various sectors, well-known venture capital investors, and outstanding innovative and entrepreneurial young talents) will be carried out practically in order to establish the information base for leading personnel from the global industrial sectors. It is expected that a minimum of 2 leading personnel from various sectors and 200 high-end enterprise talents can be invited to join us. The implementation of the cradle project will be accelerated, and various apartments and communities will be constructed for young entrepreneurs. In addition, offshore entrepreneurial bases will be explored and constructed for overseas talents.

Industrial innovation projects of “Internet Plus” will be deeply implemented. The project of building Wuhan into a “City on the Cloud” will be accelerated, and demonstration projects of “Smart Cities” will be popularized. The mobile internet, cloud computing, big data and Internet of Things will be integrated with the manufacturing industry and service industry to develop and enhance the new industry patter such as the Industrial Internet and Internet Finance.

(III) Following the development law of cities, maintaining development momentum, and making breakthroughs in promoting the comprehensive functions and quality of cities

The postmodern concept will be applied, and more attention will be paid to ecological protection and construction regulation rather than focusing on construction guidance merely. The original focus on developing urban functions will also be changed to the improvement of functions and quality of cities. New urban management methods featured by social governance, intelligence and modernization will be applied to replace traditional ones. 

We will continue to handle 10 concrete affairs related to issues widely concerned by Wuhan citizens in this year.

10. Innovation and entrepreneurship will be supported. Major supports will be provided to construct a minimum of 2 innovation parks within areas where numerous universities and colleges are located. Outstanding “Entrepreneurship Valleys” will be established and 50 maker spaces will be increased. Various comprehensive services such as “fully furnished accommodation, 100Mb broadband and agency services” will be provided by innovation parks and platforms for innovative and entrepreneurial talents. Supports will be provided to 20000 innovative and entrepreneurial talents to start their businesses. Over 2000 innovation and entrepreneurial enterprises of college students will be newly established.