Facing the new era, Karamay lost no time in putting forward a brand-new development strategy: building a new industrial city with petroleum and petrochemical economy as the leading factor and modern agriculture, tourism and tertiary industry simultaneously. While making the oil refining and petrochemical industry bigger and stronger, relying on abundant water and soil resources and unique tourism resources, we will start comprehensive agricultural development and tourism development, gradually form an industrial pattern with the petroleum and petrochemical economy as the leading factor and the industries such as modern agriculture, tourism and emerging tertiary industry developing rapidly, build the largest industrial city in Xinjiang and a regional central city in northern Xinjiang with strong radiation driving force, build a well-off society in an all-round way by 20 10, and take the lead in basically realizing modernization in Xinjiang in 2020. The "Karamay Strategy" in the new century fully embodies the spirit of scientific development and shows Karamay's great wisdom in pursuing harmonious development.
Karamay is a city that started from resources. After more than 50 years' efforts, Karamay has formed a relatively complete petroleum industry system integrating oil and gas exploration and development, petroleum refining and petrochemical downstream product processing, and has become an important petroleum and petrochemical production base in China. It can be said that the development of Karamay is a microcosm of China's industrial modernization.
The development of any city is inseparable from its historical and practical advantages. Karamay proposed that by 20 10, we should strive to achieve an annual oil and gas output of 20 million tons, basically forming a modern large oil and gas field pattern; By 20 15, we will strive to achieve an annual output of crude oil 150,000 tons and natural gas 10 billion cubic meters, and realize a historic leap from a large oil field to a large oil and gas field. Such a development goal is completely in line with the reality of Karamay. On this basis, Karamay put forward the strategic goal of promoting the development of petrochemical downstream industries, petrochemical-related industries and supporting services on the basis of becoming a national large-scale petrochemical industrial base, planned and started the construction of Karamay Petroleum and Petrochemical Industrial Park in advance, invested huge sums of money, accelerated the construction of infrastructure such as roads in the petrochemical park, and laid an important foundation for attracting investment and entering the park. This paves the way for the sustainable development of Karamay petroleum and petrochemical industry.
This is a modern city. It includes not only the modernization of industry, but also the modernization of agriculture and service industry. Not only the modernization of cities, but also the modernization of rural areas; It includes not only the modernization of various social undertakings, but also the modernization of people ... Karamay, while developing the leading industry of petroleum and petrochemical industry, put forward the idea of developing high-tech and modern agriculture with forestry and grass as the main industry, focusing on improving the desert ecological environment and following the development model of full utilization of resources, large-scale production, industrialized operation, enterprise operation and socialized service. Through rolling development and attracting investment, Karamay has established the concept of "high-tech and modern agriculture". At the same time, Karamay regards tourism as the development focus of emerging industries, and defines the orientation of building Karamay into a tourist area with the characteristics of western Xinjiang, taking the oil culture and desert landscape in arid areas as tourism resources, and taking ghost towns, oil cities, desert nature reserves and sightseeing agriculture as leading products. This development idea avoids the singleness of industrial structure and is conducive to the harmonious development of various industries, thus creating conditions for the all-round prosperity of Karamay, enriching the connotation of the city and improving its quality.
Resources are the foundation of the development of a region. Today, the connotation of resources has been expanded. Tangible resources such as oil, natural gas, land and water are valuable resources, while intangible resources such as culture, brand, characteristics and lifestyle are also very valuable resources. Tangible resources are always limited, but the potential of intangible resources is unlimited. The "Karamay Strategy" in the new century fully combines the development and utilization of tangible resources with the development and utilization of intangible resources, implements the requirements of scientific development into the connotation of development, seeks the harmonious development between man and nature, and embodies the development rationality and wisdom of the "oil city" people.
The "Karamay Strategy" in the new century is a systematic project, a brand-new concept that Karamay takes the lead in comprehensive modernization, and a great cause. It is not easy to accomplish such a great undertaking. It requires not only the self-reliance and hard struggle of Karamay people, but also the mobilization and utilization of all forces and the full use of various social resources. With extraordinary wisdom and broad mind, we should be good at taking advantage of the situation to form a joint force to promote this great process. It is from this perspective that Karamay has promoted investment attraction to an unprecedented height in recent years, invested huge financial resources in urban infrastructure construction, significantly improved the urban environment, continuously improved the public service facilities system, and significantly improved the city's taste and comprehensive competitiveness. At this "Karamay -2008 Investment Environment and Cooperation Project Promotion Conference", the actual actions of the majority of merchants actively investing are full affirmation of Karamay's development ideas and also show their confidence in Karamay's future development.
This is just the beginning.