China News Service, Haikou, September 26 (Zhang Yuehe) "The '15th Five-Year Plan' period is a golden window period for Hainan Baoting to seize major policy opportunities and achieve the first position." Therefore, this Li and Miao Autonomous County, located in central and southern Hainan, not far from Sanya, closely follows the functional layout of the China-EU Green Digital Innovation Cooperation Zone and has drawn a "new blueprint" and "new layout" for high-quality development in the next five years.
At a press conference recently held by the Hainan Provincial Information Office on the theme of "Getting Started with the 15th Five-Year Plan", Cai Yaoze, the head of Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County, said that facing the new journey of the 15th Five-Year Plan, Baoting will anchor the construction goal of "three districts and three places", actively integrate into the overall situation of Hainan Free Trade Port construction, and unswervingly follow the development path of establishing a good ecological county, prospering the county through industry, strengthening the county through innovation, and enriching the people, so as to promote high-quality development and common prosperity for people of all ethnic groups.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Baoting County's GDP grew at an average annual rate of 5.1%. In 2022 and 2023, the high-quality assessment continuously ranked first among similar cities and counties. In 2024 and 2025, the comprehensive assessment continued to rank second among similar cities and counties; it was rated as "China's livable climate county" Honors such as "China's Natural Oxygen Bar", "China's Most Beautiful County", "Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration Area", "Clear Waters and Green Mountains Are Gold and Silver Mountains of Practical Innovation Base", "National Key County for Leisure Agriculture" and "National Soil and Water Conservation Demonstration County" have laid a solid foundation for high-quality development during the "15th Five-Year Plan".
From the outline of Baoting's "15th Five-Year Plan", it can be seen that by 2030, the county will achieve an average annual growth rate of about 6.5% in regional GDP, a per capita regional GDP of 72,100 yuan, an urbanization rate of about 50% of the permanent population, and an increase in average life expectancy to 82 years. It strives to reach a higher level of economic development, a brighter ecological background, a more mature institutional system, a deeper opening to the outside world, a more coordinated urban and rural area, a better guarantee of people's livelihood and welfare, and more effective social governance.
How to ensure that the grand blueprint drawn up in the “15th Five-Year Plan” is implemented? "Promoting green and low-carbon development across the region at a high level", as the core engine for creating high-quality county development, is placed at the top of Baoting's key tasks.
Cai Yaoze said that Baoting will build a low-carbon and efficient new energy system, develop biomass energy and other clean energy, and promote the high-quality development and utilization of geothermal resources according to local conditions; continue to promote new energy vehicles, develop green buildings, and build urban ecological spaces; build a digital carbon management platform, promote carbon accounts, carbon inclusive applications, and cultivate new business formats such as green finance, carbon sink trading, and low-carbon services; deepen international open cooperation, create a non-governmental diplomacy base in the climate field, and strive to build Baoting into a "Davos" exchange platform in the climate field.
"Three districts and three places" is the core strategic positioning established based on Baoting's resource endowment, and there is also a clear "road map" for construction. According to the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, Baoting will build a tropical rainforest hot spring health and wellness resort at a high level to strengthen the core industry of health and wellness resorts across the region; build a high-level tropical characteristic and efficient agricultural demonstration zone to consolidate the foundation of the rural revitalization industry; build a high-level exhibition and experience area for the protection and inheritance of outstanding national culture, and cast a Consolidate the consciousness of the Chinese nation's community; create a high-level practice site for "lucid waters and lush mountains are gold and silver mountains" and build a model for ecological value transformation; create a high-level high-tech industrial cultivation base to spawn new productivity growth poles in the county; create a high-quality livable place to build a beautiful and happy home in Baoting.
Tropical rain forests, natural hot springs and Li and Miao customs are the unique resources, advantages and potential for the development of Baoting. To this end, the county continues to optimize the layout of cultural tourism and wellness spaces, continue to write about rainforest vacations, enrich the supply of wellness vacation products, improve international service levels, and strive to create the Qixianling Hot Spring wellness brand and the iconic "enjoy the rainforest, soak in the hot springs, and take a deep breath" IP; launch traditional festival brands such as "March 3rd" and Hainan Qixian Hot Spring Water Festival, polish and upgrade high-quality performing arts repertoire such as "Gangong Bird" and "Betel Nut·Ancient Rhythm", create a Limiao literary and artistic district, an intangible cultural heritage experience gathering area, and cultivate unique cultural consumption scenes.
In terms of building a tropical characteristic and efficient agricultural development demonstration zone, Baoting is focusing on building a national standardized production base for rambutan, strengthening the durian industry cluster, and polishing the "Baoting Qixian" county public brand; complementing the shortcomings of intensive processing of agricultural products, cold chain logistics, and e-commerce sales, developing leisure agriculture and experience agriculture, promoting the deep integration of agricultural science, agricultural tourism, and agricultural commerce, and improving the entire industrial chain of "planting, research, production, processing, sales, and tourism".
In terms of creating a high-tech industry cultivation base, Baoting will build and make good use of the Jiamao Industrial Park and the Jinbotong Future Intelligent Food Industrial Park, and actively deploy emerging industries such as green manufacturing, modern logistics, and low-altitude economy; cultivate and develop digital health care, digital agriculture, and digital tourism, and support the construction of innovation platforms such as the Hainan Free Trade Port Health Medical Research Institute and the Hainan Tropical Fruit and Vegetable Science and Technology Innovation Base; promote open cooperation in science and technology, improve the science and technology innovation incubation and transformation system, promote the implementation and transformation of more scientific research results, and better serve the construction of an island of technological innovation.
Once the blueprint is drawn, the key lies in implementation. Wang Gang, executive deputy county magistrate of Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County, said that he will adhere to a blueprint to draw it to the end, promote the implementation of the "three districts and three places" strategy, improve quality and upgrade, and ensure that the blueprint is transformed into a vivid reality of high-quality development step by step. (over)
