China Economic Review: The North and South are synergistic and complement each other's advantages to make a good high-quality development "a game of chess"
Core viewpoint:
Mr. Zifang, a commentator of Economic Daily-China Economic Net, believes that for the north and south regions, there are differences as well as integrity.
The difference is to give play to the comparative advantages of different regions, and the whole is to "continuously realize the people's yearning for a better life", the common goal.
Whether it is difference or integrity, the value beacons that run through are the new development concepts.
In the Internet age, absolute and extreme titles or opinions can always attract the attention of many people.
Discussions about the Chinese economy cannot escape this "routine."
Recently, sensational theories such as the so-called "Great Southern Era", "The South fully crushes the North", "The South is strong and the North is weak," and "The North is declining" have appeared on the Internet, trying to amplify the imbalance in regional development.
But if you think about it calmly, you will find that this kind of argument is largely just to attract attention and earn traffic.
To paraphrase an internet buzzword, "Your product, your fine product", those who say that the North-South gap has widened, mostly use the province's total GDP ranking as an argument.
But in many cases, it's not that the louder you shout, the more reasonable it makes.
With the palm of your hand stretched out, the five fingers are not uniform. In a country as large as ours, the resource endowments, population structure, cultural traditions, political location, industrial policies and other factors are all different. The GDP represents the level of regional economic development. It’s normal that the total amount of the index is high and low.
In fact, rankings can indeed tell us something.
Recently, all 31 provinces’ economic data for 2020 have been released.
The top five in total GDP are Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, and Henan, and the top five in per capita disposable income of residents are Shanghai, Beijing, Zhejiang, Tianjin, and Jiangsu. From these two sets of data, it is impossible to derive the southern The conclusion of who crushes in the north.
Those who are interested can also look at the rankings of per capita GDP, primary product added value, secondary product added value, and industrial value added above designated size, and can get similar conclusions.
You can even lengthen the timeline. Compare the ranking of total GDP and the ranking of GDP per capita in recent years. The gap in the ranking of per capita GDP between the North and the South is smaller than the gap in the ranking of total GDP, and in terms of per capita GDP. In terms of indicators, the gap between regions is actually shrinking.
It should be noted that not simplistically interpreting the results of development as increasing the value of GDP, not blindly ranking the rankings of the GDP, and talking about heroes, has increasingly become the consensus of all regions.
In recent years, various regions have followed the path of rational division of labor and optimized development based on actual conditions, and coordinated regional development has moved forward.
Looking at the land of China, major development strategies such as the revitalization of the Northeast, the rise of central China, and the development of the western region, coordinated development with Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, ecological protection and high quality in the Yellow River Basin The development and the construction of the two-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region have built up the "meridian" of coordinated development in my country.
For the North and South regions, there are differences as well as integrity.
The difference is to give play to the comparative advantages of different regions, and the whole is to "continuously realize the people's yearning for a better life", the common goal.
Whether it is difference or integrity, the value beacons that run through are the new development concepts.
For example, the emphasis on "innovative development", some regions want to achieve the phoenix nirvana of industrial development through innovation, while some regions try to rely on innovation to avoid the old path of "pollution first, then governance"; pursuit of "shared development", some Regions pay more attention to promoting urbanization, while the focus of work in some regions is rural revitalization.
"Sing as one, the palace and businessmen coordinate." Whether it is a "big cycle" or a "double cycle", the word "coordination" is inseparable.
North-South synergy, complementary advantages, realize dislocation development, coordinated development, and organic integration, and continuously improve people's sense of gain, happiness and security. Under the guidance of common goals and guided by the same concepts, we will play a game of high-quality development. "In order to reach the other side of the dream together.
(Economic Daily-China Economic Net commentator Mr. Zifang)