In 2022, Songming saw a 2% increase in the GRP to 16.5 billion and a 2% rise in the total industrial output to 15.8 billion yuan, topping 10 billion yuan of the total retail sales of consumer goods, up 9.2% year-on-year. Songming had introduced 44 major industrial projects, including 31 projects with an investment of over 100 million yuan and 5 projects with an investment of 1 billion yuan. 11.69 billion-yuan domestic investment and 42.83 billion-yuan foreign investment were in place. Songming ranked first in Kunming with 7168 new market entities of various types added. Songming had accomplished 11.11 billion yuan of the total investment in fixed assets, among which the investment in fixed assets in industry and agriculture hit a record high, reaching 4.51 billion and 448 million yuan, up 35.9% and 219.3%.

In 2023, Songming will enhance its awareness of speed, raise its standard, and accelerate its development to ensure it catches up with or surpass the average rate of Kunming's development. Songming will carve out a path of high-quality leap-forward development. It is reported that Songming will focus on 6 aspects: developing Songming Country through industries, accelerating the transformation of Songming from a county to a city, implementing 5 key points of rural revitalization, improving public transportation, pushing forward the comprehensive governance, and building a service-oriented government that is ruled by law, of political integrity, and satisfied by people. Songming plans to invest 1 billion yuan into constructing a national green industrial park, a low carbon(zero carbon) industrial park in Yunnan, and a demonstration base of an industrial cluster.

In addition, Songming will comprehensively upgrade two leading industries: automobile and advanced manufacturing, and food processing, fully support BAIC Group to expand production and capacity, and actively promote Dongfeng Yunnan Vehicle to ensure key projects llike the Machine Tool and Mold Industrial Park Phase II of Shenji Group Kunming Machine Tool Company Limited to be built and put into production to make profits. Songming will also seize the industrial layout opportunity of new energy batteries and photovoltaic manufacturing industry, formulate support policies based on each sector, speed up the deployment of energy storage, hydrogen energy, and batteries, and photovoltaic module manufacturing to foster two 10 billion yuan emerging industrial clusters and form new advantages for Songming's development. (Editors: Ines, Lexi)