A groundbreaking ceremony for 31 major new projects of Xinghua city took place on Feb 18.

Two industrial projects in Xinghua city – located in East China's Jiangsu province – are regarded as major provincial projects for the current year.

Plans have been issued for Xinghua city to demolish more than 20,000 dilapidated old rural houses and build new ones in the next five years.

A group of over 200 robots are nowadays seen as special force for productivity in the Xinghua High-tech Zone, with their intelligent output markedly improving the efficiency of resident businesses.

Momentum is picking up in Xinghua, in the wake of a Jan 29 conference on development that highlighted the importance of the real economy.

President Xi Jinping on Saturday expressed strong confidence and optimism about China's economy in his New Year address to ring in 2023, saying the economy enjoys "strong resilience, tremendous potential and great vitality".

Xinghua is fast developing its local healthy foods cluster as a pathfinding sector.