Gaozhou, a county-level city in Maoming, Guangdong province, has 94 key construction projects in 2022, with a total investment of 31.44 billion yuan ($4.68 billion) and an annual planned investment of 5.38 billion yuan.

From January to May, 1.59 billion yuan in investment was completed, accounting for 29.49 percent of the annual investment plan.

Among them, there are 33 provincial and municipal key construction projects, with a total investment of 15.11 billion yuan and an annual planned investment of 2.55 billion yuan. The investment completed from January to May was 1.1 billion yuan, accounting for 43.3 percent of the annual planned investment.

As of the end of May, Gaozhou had 26 unconstructed projects, 64 projects that had started, and four projects that had been completed, with the operating rate being 71.1 percent.

Wanglaoji Guangdong Lychee (Maoming) Industrial Park is one of Gaozhou's key projects for this year. On May 28, the industrial park was completed and put into operation, opening a new chapter in the high-quality development of Guangdong's lychee industry.

The industrial park is divided into two phases, with a total investment of 300 million yuan. The first phase of the project covers an area of about 142 mu (9.47 hectares), where an office building, a dormitory building, and a lychee juice production line have been built. The production line can process 200 metric tons of lychees per day and is expected to provide hundreds of local jobs in Maoming.

At present, 85 percent of the supporting buildings and supporting facilities in the factory area have been complete.

Wanglaoji Guangdong Lychee (Maoming) Industrial Park. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]