Du Huiliang, a deputy to the National People's Congress and mayor of the Ordos municipal government, highlighted the vibrant development of the city's strategic emerging industries, such as new energy, new materials, and new equipment. This is according to an interview with Inner Mongolia Daily.

Du emphasized the need to tailor the nurturing and expansion of strategic emerging industries to local conditions.

As a traditional energy hub, Ordos has actively integrated its new energy and transformative technology sectors in recent years. It accelerated the construction of a modern national coal chemical industry demonstration zone, and strove to create a world-class hub for new energy industries.

To date, Ordos has already connected 10.4 million kilowatts of new energy to the grid, with plans to surpass 50 million kW by 2025. The high-energy consumption and high-emission coal chemical industry is transitioning towards environmentally friendly and low-carbon practices.

Du stated, "Ordos has seized the 'window of opportunity' for the large-scale development of new energy, insisting on the integrated advancement of new energy generation projects and equipment manufacturing. This will accelerate the development of emerging industries such as wind power, solar power, hydrogen, hydrogen storage, and new energy vehicles.

The city has attracted 52 leading and supporting enterprises in the aforementioned industrial chains, with the manufacturing and new energy industries witnessing investment growth of 175 percent and 266 percent in 2023, respectively.

As one of the four modern national coal chemical industry demonstration zones, Ordos has established a modern coal chemical industry system that includes coal-to-oil and gas, coal-to-alcohol-ether, and coal-to-olefin processes. The city now has an annual production capacity that exceeds 20 million metric tons.

Du also stressed that technological innovation is a crucial support for the development of strategic emerging industries.

Ordos relies on technological innovation to foster high-quality development, thus it has introduced new policies with substantial incentives for the science and technology sector, as well as related talents.

In 2023, fiscal investment in the city's science and technology sector increased by 55.7 percent.

Additionally, Ordos has established several high-level science and technology innovation platforms in collaboration with top institutions, such as Tsinghua University and Peking University. It has also implemented groundbreaking projects, including the country's first zero-carbon airport and the world's largest silicon-carbon negative electrode material transformation project.