China News Online, July 19 (Li Jiajia and Feng Saiqi) "The Yangtze River Delta is one of the most active, open, and innovative regions in China's economic development. It plays a decisive role in the overall situation of the country’s modernization and all-round opening up. Xia Cheng, deputy director of the Regional Development Strategy Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, pointed out at the 2021 Yangtze River Delta Inland Open and Linked Development Forum held in Shanghai on the 19th, he hopes that the sister cities of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui will go hand in hand and firmly grasp the Yangtze River Delta. Strategic opportunities for integrated development, on the basis of existing cooperation practices, further exert advantages, actively explore, boldly innovate, take advantage of the situation, cooperate and achieve win-win results, and create an important platform for pragmatic cooperation in the open and joint development of the inland of the Yangtze River Delta.
Inauguration of the cross-border e-commerce service center in inland cities in the Yangtze River Delta. Photo by Shen Hai
On July 19, the 2021 Yangtze River Delta Inland Opening and Linkage Development Forum with the theme of "Seize New Opportunities and Unblock the "Double Cycle"" was held in Shanghai, aiming to further strengthen the exchanges and cooperation and interconnection of cities in Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui. To promote the high-quality integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and to create a new open highland in the inland area, we will consolidate our wisdom and efforts.
This event was hosted by the Zhejiang Provincial Leading Group Office for Promoting the Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta and the Jinhua Municipal Leading Group for Promoting the Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta.
At the event site, Jinhua Municipal Party Committee and Mayor Xing Zhihong pointed out that this year is the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the year of deepening breakthroughs in the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.
In the next step, we must closely follow the two keywords of "integration" and "high quality", and further promote infrastructure interconnection, industrial science and technology co-prosperity and win-win, openness to promote co-promotion, public service co-construction and sharing, and inter-city exchanges. Come and go, and coordinate to create a grand pattern of integrated development, a large modern industrial cluster, a bridgehead for opening up, a high-quality living circle of Harmony and the United States, and a new model for regional cooperation.
Jointly promote the development of inland opening up and linkage in the Yangtze River Delta to achieve new breakthroughs and achieve new achievements.
Chen Jianzhong, Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Deputy Director of the Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta in Zhejiang Province, Zhou Lan, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, and An Zhengyi, Commercial Consul of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Shanghai, addressed the event.
Ge Rui, member of the Standing Committee of the Bengbu Municipal Party Committee and executive deputy mayor, Sun Xin, deputy mayor of Jingdezhen Municipal Government, and Shao Guoqiang, deputy mayor of Jinhua Municipal Government, communicated as city representatives from four provinces and twelve cities.
Subsequently at the forum, the Jinyi area of Zhejiang Free Trade Zone and the Bengbu area of Anhui Free Trade Zone signed a strategic cooperation agreement, and formally established the cross-border e-commerce industry and education alliance in the inland cities of the Yangtze River Delta to conduct cross-border e-commerce in the inland cities of the Yangtze River Delta. The opening ceremony of the Commercial Service Center.
The cross-border e-commerce industry and education alliance of inland cities in the Yangtze River Delta is based on the value concept of "building a platform, creating value, sharing resources, and a win-win future", centering on the goal of "connecting the government, undertaking the enterprise, shaping the image, and creating the brand" Guidance, highlighting the creation of a cross-border ecological environment, the cultivation of a flexible industrial supply chain, the play of the service endorsement function, and the overall branding of the cross-border inland of the Yangtze River Delta, a new platform for co-construction of regional cooperation.
The event also invited think tanks such as Zhang Yuan, general manager of government affairs and policy for eBay Greater China, Xu Mingqiang, CTO of Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd. Omni-channel Division, and Cheng Keyuan, chairman of Zhejiang Yinghe International Logistics Co., Ltd., to focus on Boundary e-commerce promoted the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, central enterprises going overseas, and cross-border e-commerce logistics assisted international circulation.
With the deepening of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, the fraternal cities of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui have gone from "close neighbors" that are geographically and closely related to "teammates" who coordinate "operations" to thoroughly implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee to promote development. There are many bright spots.
From the realization of cross-provincial government services in the four provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Anhui to the inauguration of the Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui inter-provincial green manufacturing industry-education integration alliance, the inland cities of the four provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui continue to build new inland open highlands. The high-quality integration of the Yangtze River Delta in the new era contributes to the aggregation of forces.
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