Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2012, Guangyuan of Southwest China's Sichuan province has achieved solid progress in the improvement of its people's wellbeing in all respects.

New look of a small mountain village in Guangyuan, Sichuan province. [Photo/share.gyxww.cn]

The city has always put food security at the top of its agenda, exploiting untouched arable land and releasing special subsidies to encourage farmers in crop plantation.

Statistics show that the city's sown areas have reached 315,000 hectares. Its grain output rose to 1.61 tons in 2021, up 15.3 percent from 139.9 tons in 2012.

In the past decade, the city has adopted multiple measures to consolidate hog production and deepen agricultural industrialization. The number of live pigs sold by scale farms hit 3.69 million in 2021, an increase of 2.5 percent from 2012.

A woman feeds the Jianmenguan Chicken, which are awarded credentials of national geographical indication and agricultural production source. [Photo/share.gyxww.cn]

The brand of Jianmenguan Chicken was awarded credentials of national geographical indication and agricultural production source, and has entered six supermarkets in Chengdu, capital of the province.

The newcomer of the Shuangfeng Modern Agricultural Park has provided local farmers with ample employment opportunities and boosted their income.

The overall price growth has been within a reasonable range in Gunagyuan, Sichuan province. [Photo/share.gyxww.cn] 

Meanwhile, the city has rolled out a series of mechanisms to further cut the cost of drinking water, passenger vehicles, natural gas and electricity in a move to lower the living costs of the people.

The average annual growth rate of the CPI has come in at around 2.1 percent between 2012 and this year. The overall price growth has also been within a reasonable range during the same period.