Since this year, the city has adhered to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, based on the requirements of "three new and one high" and focusing on the functional positioning of "three places and two points", made every effort to stabilize growth, expand investment and promote development, and achieved positive results in all work. In the first three quarters, the city's regional GDP was 23.96 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%.
Industrial production grew steadily. Focusing on "Strengthening Leaders, supplementing chains and gathering groups", we will continue to strengthen industrial operation scheduling, adhere to "one enterprise and one policy" to solve practical problems of enterprises, guide enterprises to seize market opportunities, increase capacity release, and contribute to the steady growth of industrial economy. In the third quarter, the added value of the secondary industry increased by 7.3%, and that of industries above designated size increased by 10%. From January to August, the profits of above designated industrial enterprises increased by 4.4 times year-on-year.
Factor demand is driven by cooperation. We implemented the mechanism of municipal leaders' contracting and special class promotion, strengthened factor guarantee, and ensured the orderly progress of the project with departmental coordination and strengthened services. In the first three quarters, the city's fixed asset investment totaled 7.82 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.1%, and the fixed asset investment increased steadily. Seize the "golden nine silver ten" consumption peak season, hold promotional activities, issue consumption vouchers, innovate consumption patterns and other measures, actively carry out various forms of promotional activities, and further release the consumption potential. In the first three quarters, the total retail sales of social consumer goods increased by 19.1%, higher than 1.1% of the whole province, and the consumer market gradually warmed up. Organize enterprises to participate in online and offline key exhibitions and festivals such as Lanzhou Investment&Trade Fair and The China Import and Export Fair; Strive for foreign trade and economic development funds of 5.76 million yuan for Jiuquan Iron and steel company, Tiancheng color aluminum and other foreign trade enterprises; The "strategic cooperation agreement on jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt" was signed with Alxa League. From January to August, the total import and export volume of the city was 910 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39.4%, and the import and export increased steadily.
Development quality and efficiency continued to improve. We deepened the integration of online and offline services, improved the convenience of enterprise start-up, and actively promoted the construction of digital government. From January to September, there were 29600 market subjects, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%, and the vitality of market subjects continued to increase. In the first three quarters, 11 municipal scientific and technological achievements were registered, 67 various technical contracts were registered, the turnover reached 836 million yuan, and scientific and technological innovation was constantly active.
Livelihood indicators remained stable. In the first three quarters, 6218 new urban jobs were created, 95.7% of the target task of 6500 people were completed, the registered unemployment rate was 2.87%, consumer prices rose by 1.2%, and employment prices were generally stable. In the first three quarters, the per capita disposable income of urban residents reached 36056 yuan, an increase of 7.8%; The per capita disposable income of rural residents reached 17900 yuan, an increase of 10.8%, and the growth of residents' income basically kept pace with economic growth. This year, 13 of the 17 practical things identified by the province and city to benefit the people have been completed, and the remaining 4 are being promoted in an orderly manner. In the first three quarters, the city's comprehensive air quality index ranked third in the province, with 227 days of excellent ambient air quality. The city's water environment quality remained good, the water quality compliance rate was 100%, and the environmental quality continued to improve. (reporter Yang Liang)