Lishui Airport successfully completed its verification test flight and obtained its operating license, bringing the “aviation dream” closer to reality. The Southwest Zhejiang Science and Innovation Industrial Park, with a total investment of 2.7 billion yuan, officially opened, attracting the first batch of 40 partnership projects. The regional public brand “Lishui Nine Signature Botanicals” was launched, marking a critical step in the branding strategy for the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and health industry... This year, Lishui has been delivering a steady stream of good news.

Currently, Lishui is charging forward as the “main battlefield” in building a high-quality development common prosperity demonstration zone, embodying the spirit of “striving with action, taking initiative to excel”. Focusing on three strategic tasks—cultivating new growth drivers, advancing common prosperity, and constructing a “Great Garden”—Lishui is striving to become a nationally renowned benchmark for green development and a vibrant city of “beautiful mountains and clear waters”.

Reshaping a Modern Ecological Economic System

“The mountain e-scooters developed through this partnership will mainly export to European countries, with a target of exceeding 100 million yuan in export sales within three years.” On June 13, Huari Dynamics Technology (Lishui) Co., Ltd. signed a collaboration agreement with Germany’s Sun Venture for the Fast Track Mountain E-Scooter project, accelerating its “chain-linked” expansion into the European market. In Jinyun County, the intelligent short-distance mobility industry is rapidly forming industrial clusters, with 27 large-scale enterprises already in the supply chain and an annual output nearing 7 billion yuan.

By fostering chain-clustered industrial growth, Lishui is reshaping a regionally distinctive modern ecological economy. It concentrates on five major eco-industrial sectors, implements the “dual recruitment and dual investment” strategic initiative, and closely tracks four key lists—economic growth, project investments, investment attraction, and funding bids—to drive project construction and secure a strong mid-year performance. Lishui’s industrial economy has achieved both quantitative expansion and qualitative improvement.

Low-altitude economy soars high. Zhejiang Rongqi Technology Co., Ltd. was listed in the “2025 Low-Altitude Economy Benchmark Cases” for its “Drone-Assisted Intelligent Management and Emergency Rescue in Qianjiangyuan-Baishanzu National Park” project, adding another national-level honor after winning the “Productivity Promotion Award”. Since relocating from Shenzhen to Lishui Economic Development Zone four years ago, Rongqi has seen rapid growth—its output value surged from 40 million yuan to 120 million yuan, placing it among China’s top-tier industrial drone manufacturers, with internationally leading technological capabilities.

Health and pharmaceutical industries strengthen their chains. Leveraging its ecological and natural advantages, Lishui promotes integrated TCM and health industry development by attracting major enterprises, building large platforms, and creating flagship products. This strategy strengthens secondary industries to boost primary and tertiary sectors, cultivating a 10-billion-yuan TCM health industry cluster. Currently, the city has 57 large-scale enterprises, including 17 with annual revenues exceeding 100 million yuan.

Projects surge ahead. The Zhejiang Yunzhongma Fashion Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Base, with an annual output value of 2.3 billion yuan, and the Eco-Nice Intelligent Factory and Core Ecological Industrial Zone, with a total investment of 3.336 billion yuan, commenced construction in the first half of the year—adding momentum to Lishui’s economic stability and its role as a new growth pole in Zhejiang’s development landscape. In the first half of 2024, 12 major projects (with total investments exceeding 20 billion yuan) joined the province’s centralized construction launch.

Talent and technology empower development. Lishui’s innovative “shared talent” mechanism breaks down barriers between employers and regions, creating a “1+9” shared talent database system that connects universities, cities, and counties to provide strong talent support for industries. Currently, over 800 shared talents have assisted more than 100 enterprises, solving 120 key technical challenges.

In early June, the list of the first batch of specialized and sophisticated small and medium-sized enterprises in Zhejiang Province in 2025 and the enterprises that passed the review was announced. 17 enterprises in Lishui City were on the list. Up to now, the city’s provincial-level specialized and sophisticated small and medium-sized enterprise array has expanded to 396.

“Strong Cities, Thriving Villages, Integrated Development” Advance Together

Narrowing the “three major gaps” (urban-rural, regional, income disparities) is Lishui’s primary mission in advancing leapfrog high-quality development for common prosperity. Guided by the “Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Improvement” project, Lishui City strengthens cross-mountain coordination and city-county collaboration, centering on prosperity through “strong cities”, “thriving villages”, and “integrated development”.

Since June, construction machinery has roared at the Miaogao Mountain Tunnel project in Suichang County—a core urban infrastructure project 20.2% completed, expected to open in 2027. Once finished, it will link old and new urban areas, enhancing the county’s capacity and supporting urban-rural integration. By then, it will become an important passage connecting the new and old urban areas, effectively enhancing the carrying capacity of the county seat and playing an important supporting role in driving “village revitalization” and “integration” with “strong city”.

This year, Lishui has prioritized centralized urban strengthening, driving coordinated county development. The urban core improves the Greater Liandu integration mechanism, using the Three Rivers Estuary Collaborative Development Zone to connect North City, South City, and Bihu New City, while leveraging transportation and industrial chains to integrate surrounding counties. Counties and districts upgrade the “small county, big city” strategy, strengthening industrial platforms and public services. Central towns (subdistricts) serve as key nodes linking urban and rural areas, driving township cluster development and cross-village revitalization. Recently, 33 Lishui villages were listed in Zhejiang’s first 2025 batch of provincial key villages (for mountainous and island counties), gaining rapid development opportunities.

Focusing on full-chain industrial upgrades, Lishui pioneers high-quality agriculture, creating new growth avenues for sustained farmer income.

With Alibaba’s support, the “Jingning 600” agricultural brand achieved standardization, branding, and digitalization. China’s first “Highland Vegetable Hema Village” in Jingnan Township’s Dongtang Village boosted 500 households’ income by 1,200 yuan per mu, with cumulative sales exceeding 5 million yuan. Longquan’s edible mushroom industry—a provincial 1-billion-yuan “local specialty” chain—accounts for one-third of the city’s agricultural output. Songyang’s tea industry, with a “planting-processing-culture-carbon” chain, exceeds 10 billion yuan in output, increasing 100,000 tea farmers’ income by 27,000 yuan per capita. Currently, 505,100 people work in Lishui’s agricultural chains, earning 36,600 yuan annually on average.

Facing issues such as uncoordinated urban - rural development and not-smooth circulation of urban - rural elements, Lishui takes operation as a link to string together the “golden chain” of the flow of urban - rural elements. The city - wide rural operation partner recruitment conference held on May 20th builds a broad cooperation platform for treasure - like villages with foundations and advantages and partners with ideals and aspirations, gathering more advantageous resources! Boosting village development.

Previously, Lishui launched two rounds of the “I Own a Village in Zhejiang-Lishui” rural revitalization partner program, attracting 530 partners who brought projects and vitality to villages, jointly advancing common prosperity.

With a market-driven approach to innovating rural development and operational mechanisms, Lishui has pioneered the “Strong Village Company + Cooperative + ‘Common Prosperity Workshop’” reform to boost farmer incomes. By implementing initiatives for sustained and stable growth in rural earnings and strengthening the “strong linkage” mechanism between economic development and farmer prosperity, Lishui is advancing its vision of “wealthy villages and prosperous residents”. To date, Lishui has established 131 “Lishui Mountain Livestreaming” Common Prosperity Workshops, creating jobs for over 5,000 people and generating more than 1.6 billion yuan in online retail sales.

Lishui has unlocked new pathways for shared prosperity in cultural tourism through innovative strategies including scenario reinvention, format innovation, and service quality enhancement. The global success of the game Black Myth: Wukong has brought international attention to one of its filming locations - the Shisi Temple in Jingning, now attracting numerous visitors. Meanwhile, Longquan has pioneered an integrated development model combining intangible cultural heritage with tourism. This approach propelled Xitou Village to stand out among over 260 competing villages from 60+ countries, earning its designation as one of the “World’s Best Tourism Villages” by the UNWTO.

In May this year, the establishment of the Lishui All-for-One Tourism Alliance marked a significant step forward in the city’s cultural tourism sector, transitioning to a “collective operation” model and entering a new phase characterized by openness, cooperation, and mutual benefit.

Through clustered development of premium agricultural products, Common Prosperity Workshops, and cultural tourism routes, Lishui is forging a powerful “Common Prosperity Consortium” that is rapidly activating the region’s “wealth-creation engine”.

Pioneering Precision Public Service Delivery Models

Beyond boosting incomes for mountain residents, advancing equitable access to quality public services stands as a cornerstone in building Lishui’s Common Prosperity Demonstration Zone.

Through its groundbreaking cross-mountain public service integration reform, Lishui has developed eight coordinated service systems spanning childcare, education, healthcare, employment, culture, sports, elderly care, and disability support. These tailored solutions now benefit nearly 400,000 residents across remote, transportation-challenged mountain communities.

“The doctors have arrived! Please queue up for consultations.” On the morning of June 13, this announcement greeted villagers as Dajiang Town’s “Smart Mobile Hospital” unit arrived in Longkeng Village, Jinyun County. Eighty residents received orderly medical care outside the cultural hall.

Receiving medical treatment and prescriptions at doorstep has become routine for residents in Lishui’s remote mountain villages. As of late May, the city’s 64 mobile smart hospital units had completed 40,300 medical trips, traveling 1.76 million kilometers to serve 1.77 million patients, with nearly 27.8 million yuan processed through mobile medical insurance settlements.

On June 14th, the Party-Masses Service Center in Lucí Township, Jingning She Autonomous County was extremely lively. At the hair-cutting service booth, Party member volunteers in red vests provided free haircuts and physiotherapy massage services for the elderly. At the health booth, the workers from the township hospital were busy taking blood pressure for the elderly and writing prescriptions. Rural Party members were registering various purchase and errand - running needs of the villagers... In response to problems such as poor direct access to public services in “hollow villages”, Jingning launched the “I Deliver Services to Villages and Communities” campaign, setting up a "service bazaar" to promote the inclusive and balanced development of public services and ensure they reach mountain villages directly.