In 2023, China began fully implementing the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress. It was also a year when the economy rebounded after the three-year COVID-19 pandemic. Facing the complex and grave international environment and amidst the arduous domestic tasks of reform, development, and stability, under the strong leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the CPC Hengyang Municipal Committee and the Hengyang Municipal Government have adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought onSocialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. We comprehensively implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party and its Second Plenary Session, withstood external pressures, overcame internal difficulties, and fully advanced the implementation of the "Three High and Four New" blueprint (which means encourage Hunan to become a national hub for advanced manufacturing, a high-ground for innovation-driven development with core competitiveness, and a high-ground for reform and opening-up in inland areas. Hunan should blaze new trails in high-quality development, demonstrate new initiatives in fostering a new development pattern, and show new responsibility in promoting the rise of the central region and the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Strive to write a new Hunan chapter in upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.). With full efforts to fight the "Six Critical Battles for Development" (promote economic growth, advance scientific and technological innovation, optimize the business environment, prevent risks, ensure workplace safety, and safeguard people's livelihoods), we vigorously implemented the development strategy of "Building the City through Manufacturing and Revitalizing the City through Culture and Tourism," continued to advance the "Focus on Centralization Breakthrough" initiative. The national economy showed signs of recovery and improvement, solid progress was made in high-quality development, laying a more solid foundation for building a new socialist modernization in Hengyang.