Under the guidance of the policy of promoting the domestic demands, Changde is seizing the chance to blueprint the future. As for infrastructures, in the utilization of energy, it centers on the construction of power plants and thus builds into a powerful city of electricity by improving the electricity network and energy structure and finishing the second project of Shimen Power Plant, the project of Changde Thermal Power plant, Zaoshi Reservoir and Taoyuan Nuclear Power Plant. In the construction of transportation, it plans to form a modernized three-dimensional transportation network, with Shimen--Changsha Railway as the artery of the transportation, Changde Airport as the window, national and provincial highway as the main framework and Yuanjiang and Lishui River as the channels, so as to perfect the traffic facilities. In the construction of post and telecommunications, it is trying to start the new scope of business and realize the mechanization and automation of them by developing the digital broadband exchange and auto-disposal of post. As for the reform of industry, it places Changde Cigarette Factory, the state-owned large-scale enterprise, as the locomotive to develop the plantation and re-baking of tobacco, the packing industry and the print industry. Through three or four year's efforts, Changde Cigarette Factory will develop into "the aircraft carrier" in cigarette industry with the annual value of output reaching 5 billion RMB yuan. With cement as a leading product, it will take great efforts to develop prefabricated components, glasses, plasterboard, new wall materials. With Taoyuan Textile Mill and Changde Textile Mill as the base, Changde is changing itself from a textile city into a textile and clothes city by developing high-density fabrics and making famous brand clothes. It is improving such new and hi-tech products as videophone and program-controlled telephone exchanger in quality, quantity and scale, thus giving a push to the combination and technological reform in the electronic industry. By merging, combining and upgrading, the mechanical trade is forming a whole advantage with dredger, commonly--used machinery, tobacco machinery and auto fittings as the leading products. As for agriculture, it is carrying out the export-oriented strategy and advocating the company-farmer management mode to form a specialized production and a large-scale management, thus refining and comprehensively utilizing farm products. At the same time, it will perfect the service system and the relationship between supply, production, procession and market.
By the year 2015, the GDP of Changde will be quadrupled 5 years ahead of time and the whole Changde will become a well-off society. Changde will be gradually turned into a large biological foodstuff industry city, an economically powerful city in Hunan province, a locally central city, a prosperous, civilized and open modern city. Changde people warmly welcome the sightseeing and investment of people at home and abroad and they will be rewarded greatly in Changde.