Jiahe County is one of the first pilot counties for urban-rural integration in Hunan. After more than a decade of exploration and practice, it has taken the lead in paving a new path for the integrated urban-rural development. Among them, the integration of water supply and public transportation is well-known nationwide and demonstrated throughout the province.

 

In recent years, Jiahe County has promoted the construction of a demonstration county for urban-rural integration to advance the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. It has made efforts to promote the development of rural politics, economy, culture, society, ecological civilization, and party building around industries, talents, culture, ecology, and organizations in a coordinated way.

 

Jiahe County has issued the “Five-year Action Plan for Comprehensive Promotion of Rural Revitalization through the Implementation of the ‘Ten Integrations’ in Urban and Rural Construction in Jiahe County (2021-2025)”. It has improved the system and mechanism for integrated urban-rural development, and consolidated the achievements of urban-rural integration construction throughout the county to narrow the urban-rural gap and achieve a higher level of urban-rural integration.

 

On December 18, 2024, Jiahe was included among the “Top Ten Typical Cases of Rural Revitalization in Hunan Province” based on its achievements and experience in promoting the “Ten Integrations” of urban and rural construction and improving the quality of people’s livelihood.

 

The first two-day Jiahe Kitchen Knife Forging Skills Competition came to an end On January 1.

 

Casting and forging has a long history in Jiahe County, with unique casting and forging culture, skills, resources, and markets. It is a traditional advantageous industry and has been rated as a pilot county for China’s casting industry cluster, a casting industry base in Hunan Province, the “Casting Capital of Jiangnan”, and the “Green Forging Development Base”.

 

Jiahe County’s casting and forging industry cluster is a key advanced manufacturing industry cluster cultivated in Hunan Province. There are currently 158 casting and forging enterprises in the county, including 113 ones above designated size, 15 provincial-level specialized, refined, characteristic and innovative enterprises, and 1 national “little giant”. 

 

The annual output of castings in Jiahe hits over 2 million tons, and the products are exported to multiple countries.

 

An official of the Science, Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Jiahe County said that in the next step, Jiahe County will continue efforts to extend and expand the industrial chain to build Jiahe High-tech Zone into an influential industrial cluster that features small and medium-sized enterprises, with the goal of an annual total revenue of 22 billion yuan in technology, industry and trade in the casting and forging industry by the end of 2026.

 

The 2024 Hunan “Village Chef Competition” was held in Jiahe County on August 30, 2024.

 

Jiahe has been renowned for its diverse traditional cuisine for a long time. In 2022, Jiahe County launched the construction of Hunan Food Town and issued a series of policy documents to provide policy support for the high-quality development of Jiahe’s catering and food industry.

 

Besides, Jiahe cuisine has been integrated with Shennong education and farming culture and Jiahe’s traditional culture, endowing cuisine with cultural connotations.

 

Jiahe County has worked to support a group of enterprises to establish food raw material, auxiliary material, seasoning production and processing bases and “Food Material Market”, to expand the selenium-rich industry. 

 

At present, there are 14 high-quality food ingredient planting and breeding bases, driving more than 16,000 farmers to achieve employment. As high-quality vegetables can be delivered to Hong Kong in four hours, Jiahe’s high-quality food ingredients have been fully integrated into the food circle of the Greater Bay Area.

 

Chinese source: xinhuanet