With the acceleration of infrastructure investment, the capital side has also increased its efforts. On December 21, 2022, the reporter learned from the press conference held by the Lianyungang City Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau on the 2023 Lianyungang Urban Construction and Infrastructure Construction Plan and Major Project Arrangements that the city’s urban construction and infrastructure construction project plan for 2023 was officially released. According to the plan, the projects are divided into three categories ABC according to the priority. Among them, there are 617 category A projects that are related to the key concerns of people's livelihood, support the high-quality development of the port city, and the integration of the port industry and the city, with a total investment of 295.6 billion yuan. The planned investment in 2023 72.9 billion yuan; 297 category B projects with a total investment of 144.49 billion yuan; 162 category C projects with a total investment of 61.08 billion yuan. A total of 1076 projects with a total investment of 501.17 billion.

In accordance with the spirit of the relevant meetings of the Lianyungang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and according to the work requirements of urban construction projects of "maintaining key points, people's livelihood, and urgent needs", after sorting out Class A projects, there are 134 major urban construction and infrastructure construction projects in the city in 2023. The investment is 117.5 billion yuan, and the annual planned investment is 28.3 billion yuan. It mainly includes nine categories including municipal infrastructure projects, public service supporting projects, ecological and environmental protection projects, and characteristic features and cultural and tourism infrastructure. There are 33 annual plans for the implementation of municipal infrastructure projects. In 2023, the city will complete the upgrading and reconstruction project of Xuxin Highway, start the east extension of Qindongmen Street, the Lingzhou Road-Renmin Road Rapid North Ring Project, and the Keyuan Road Rapid East Environmental engineering, etc., and promote the five planned roads in Haizhou District to pass under the railway overpass approach road project.

There are 37 annual plans for the implementation of public service supporting projects. In 2023, the city will vigorously promote the construction of the infrastructure of the International Pharmaceutical Innovation Industrial Park (Phase II), the infrastructure of the China Pharmaceutical Port Business Service Zone, and the port business service center to serve the city. The city's pharmaceutical, petrochemical and other characteristic and advantageous industries. At the same time, the renovation and expansion of the Fourth People's Hospital and Haizhou District Business Center will be carried out, and major infrastructure projects such as the construction of the city's disease control center project and the Baihushan Comprehensive Commodity City will be completed in order to continuously improve the city's comprehensive service level.

There are 14 annual plans for the implementation of urban safety and security projects, the completion of the third phase of Maokou Water Plant, and the improvement of urban water supply capacity by 200,000 tons per day; the safety sales of the city's Jinping Phosphate Mine Tailings Storage Project. There are 3 annual plan implementation projects of landscaping projects, focusing on the completion of the third phase of the East Yanhe River Model Section of the River Chief System. 16 ecological and environmental protection projects are planned to be implemented, and the urban emergency sewage treatment facilities and the second phase project of the Xuwei New District Reclaimed Water Plant are accelerated; The processing capacity is 50,000 tons/day. There are 3 characteristic features and cultural tourism infrastructure projects, focusing on the implementation of projects such as promoting the shaping of urban coastal characteristic spaces and comprehensive upgrading of Huaguo Mountain.

At the same time, 6 urban renewal projects are planned for the year, focusing on the implementation of the urban renewal of the East Yanhe area, the renewal of the Lianyun Old Street area, and the demolition and upgrading of houses on the south side of Zhongshan Road, so as to accelerate the renovation of old communities. In the year, we will focus on implementing one affordable housing project, and build a resettlement community in Haizhou Industrial Park. In addition, 21 comprehensive traffic engineering projects will be implemented, mainly including the expansion of the Lianyungang-Huai'an section of the Changshen Expressway and the construction of roadbeds and bridge and culvert structures; the completion of the construction of small and medium bridges on the Xuwei-Guanyun section of the Liansu Expressway, large bridges, and extra-large bridges Strive for half-through; 204 National Highway Ganyucheng District Expressway to promote Baotong road subgrade construction; 233 National Highway Guanyun North Section Construction Project to carry out subgrade and bridge and culvert structure construction, and Guanyun Yanwei Operation Area Wharf Phase III Project to promote wharf hydraulic main body construction etc. The start and implementation of a large number of urban infrastructure construction projects and major projects will provide strong support for accelerating the construction of Lianyungang's "strong, rich, beautiful and high" new port city. Editor/Xu Shengpeng