Last morning, Fuzhou press conference to celebrate 70th anniversary of China took place in the press conference hall of provincial government where 46 domestic and foreign media focused on economic and social growth of Fuzhou.Among them were new faces that first came Fuzhou and were impressed by the achievements reported in the press conference and were familiar ones witnessing the progresses of Fuzhou.While giving thumbs up for the achievements over the past 70 years, reporters of different media gave their best wishes to Fuzhou.

"Fuzhou is changing rapidly with a promising future."

How to promote high - quality economic development?Fuzhou gave a distinctive answer.While making traditional industries stronger, Fuzhou has stimulated a new round of industrial growth by focusing on the programs including Digital Fuzhou, Maritime Fuzhou and Platform Fuzhou.

"Fuzhou is changing so fast. It is due to its solid ground for economic development," said Duan Jinzhu, reporter of Fujian Daily, who also noted that Fuzhou has promoted high - quality economic development over the past few years, with GDP approaching RMB 800 billion and it has fostered several industrial clusters valued RMB 100 billion, exemplified by its textile and chemical fibre industry.

He witnessed the industry's changes by tracking the industry in Changle for a long time." When I first interviewed Highsun Group, it was a company that only focused on downstream industries such as chemical textile without upstream industries. In recent years, it is developing its upstream industries and grows stronger, bolstering the textile and chemical fibre industries of Fuzhou, Fujian and even the whole country." He thought that Fuzhou is embracing a brighter future as its city development and business environment keep improving.

Last morning, Fujian Channel of People.cn broadcast the whole press conference live in both pictures and words. "Digital Fuzhou has given birth to new driving forces of industrial development," said Lin Xiaoli, reporter of the channel who had participated in two Digital Chine Summits. She was impressed by the policies and plans made for digital development of Fuzhou. In recent years, more retail companies transformed through the Internet. New retails like Super Species and Hema Fresh are opening in Fuzhou one by one. In the eyes of Lin Xiaoli, Fuzhou is grasping opportunities for a great development prospect.

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"In Fuzhou, we are living happy lives."

Protecting environment and cultivating culture, Fuzhou turns the vision of seeing the mountains and waters and remembering nostalgia into reality.

"I was touched by the sentence that developing the city with good luck and becoming the luck people," said Huang Shan, reporter of CCTV News of China Media Group from Beijing who was deeply impressed by Fuzhou's freshness and green. Ecological Green is Fuzhou's calling card. Fuzhou is among the top three capitals in forest coverage and air quality, with 15.1 square meters of green areas per capital."I think this figure means that everyone in Fuzhou owns a green living room, a proof of the happiness of living here," said Huang Shan.

In terms of city development, Peng Jianjun, reporter of www.cnr.cn of China Media Group who has worked in Fuzhou for 20 years, told us that livability is the key word. He said, "In Fuzhou, you can see greenery out of windows and you can walk in the shades of trees. You will be greeted by Chuanzhu Parks every few steps and there are a lot more places for leisure here.Meanwhile, travel is becoming more smooth as traffic congestion is being handled and the density of road network is increasing." Pan Jun, reporter of the News Center of Fujian TV, also gave Fuzhou a like, "Subway is changing Fuzhou people’s way to travel.Fuzhou is going to have a subway line on operation each year, and we hope that more lines will invigorate the city's development."

"A city’s development depends on its cultural environment," pointed out Su Rongrong, who is a reporter of Fujian Station of Ta Kung Wen Wei Media Group. The reporter also said that Fuzhou has continued to strengthen its public culture service and its culture foundation by initiating public culture programs like 24 - hour libraries in urban areas and the Straits Center for Culture and Art and by hosting activities like forums for traditional dwelling protection and culture heritage, so that people can truly feel that city develops for people and they can live in a warm city.

　　"Fuzhou is opening wider to the world."

As a coastal city and an old capital of Fujian, Fuzhou shows its open attitude.As one of the first batch of coastal open cities in China, Fujian has made progress in opening to the world by becoming six strategic zones, setting the 21st-Century Maritime Cooperation Committee and establishing Maritime Fuzhou program.

"It is the fifth year since I first came Fuzhou for work. I am deeply impressed by the fact that Fuzhou is big," said Li Zongrao, reporter of Fujian Traffic Radio.In his mind, Fuzhou is not only big in size and potential but also getting bigger in its open door to the world.In recent years, more and more national and even international events, conferences and exhibitions held in Fuzhou. Traditional events like the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Expo on May 18 are growing in scale and having more highlights. Through these activities, Fuzhou are attracting world attention as well as more opportunities. Now, Fuzhou is going to continue its strategy of developing to the east and the south along the river and to the sea, promoting the development of Maritime Fuzhou and new coastal cities. "We believe that Fuzhou will open wider and become more influential in the world with its advantages and constantly improving construction," said Li Zongrao.

"After learning about Fuzhou for ten years, I find that Fuzhou has grown bigger and more beautiful. It is now an international city with stories, visions and business opportunities, pursuing opening up on all fronts," said Xu Guoxi, director of Cross - Straits News Center of Jdonline who also said that as Fuzhou already has a blueprint for future development, he will continue to follow Fuzhou's next moves: how to promote the spirit of doing good solid work without delay, how to leverage its advantages of being several strategic zones so that businesses of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan can first enjoy the opportunities, thus realizing high - quality development and catching up to leading cities.

(Source:Fuzhou News Agency, Translation: The Committee Secretariat)