Editor’s Note: Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, ranked eighth on the list of top 10 most attractive Chinese cities for talents in 2021 according to China's Urban Vitality Research Report 2021. Other cities also develop rapidly, which contributes to common prosperity in Zhejiang. Let’s take a quick look at today’s Zhejiang Highlights.

1. Steady growth for Zhejiang economy in Jan-Feb

The economy of Zhejiang province maintained steady growth from January to February this year, according to Zhejiang Provincial Bureau of Statistics.

Figures released by the bureau show that the added value of industries above designated size reached 322.3 billion yuan ($50.57 billion), up 10.7 percent year-on-year, and fixed asset investment increased by 15.9 percent year-on-year during the January-February period, 5.1 percentage points faster than the same period in 2021. Investment in the manufacturing sector also grew by 28.6 percent.  

2. Qiantang District Committee holds conference on comprehensively deepening reform and digital reform

A conference on comprehensively deepening reform and digital reform of Qiantang District was held on March 22.

Jin Chengtao, secretary of Qiantang District Committee, made a speech on the conference. He stressed that we should take the digital reform as the lead, further magnify the work pattern, highlight substantial results, and strive to walk in the forefront of the whole province's reform.

3. Light Up Red for TB carried out in Zhejiang

On the evening of March 24, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Zhejiang province carried out Light Up Red for Tuberculosis campaign in Qianjiang New City beside the Qiantang River, in order to call on people to step up commitments and actions needed to halt the global TB epidemic.

March 24, 2022 is the 27th World TB Day. Light Up Red for TB, launched by the Stop TB Partnership, is a global campaign to show solidarity for the over 1.5 million lives lost to TB annually and the millions of lives affected.

4. Ningbo promotes common prosperity in Sichuan

Women from all walks of life in Ningbo, Zhejiang province have joined efforts to promote rural revitalization and common prosperity in Sichuan province.

Organized by the Yinzhou district women's federation, a program entitled Five Actions and Ten Projects was launched earlier this month.

More than 100 women from the district, including entrepreneurs, lawyers and teachers, will cooperate with women's federations in Muli and Yanyuan counties in Sichuan's Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture. They will offer assistance relating to female entrepreneurship, poor families and education.

5. Zhejiang takes the lead in legislating to protect ancient roads

The Measures for the Protection of Ancient roads in Zhejiang province, which comes into effect in March this year, is the first local legislation to specifically protect ancient roads in China.

In order to make the restored ancient roads become an important part of its tourism and rural revitalization, Zhejiang focuses on the road network system, landscape system, cultural system, supporting facilities system, indication system and maintenance system, and fully explores the ecological and historical culture of the ancient roads. That the restored ancient roads can play a driving effect requires a long-term management mechanism, which is also the purpose of Zhejiang to promote legislation.

Since 2015, Zhejiang has invested more than 300 million yuan in the protection and repair of more than 200 ancient roads, with a total length of more than 1,500 kilometers.

Editor: Li Qiaoqiao