Our reporter Ju Yunpeng
In July, Shanghai Port is expected to complete a container throughput of over 4.3 million TEUs, a record high for the same period in history; on August 11, the 2022 annual G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor scientific and technological achievements auction in the Yangtze River Delta exceeded 5 billion yuan... Everywhere in the Yangtze River Delta region Vitality bursts.
In 2018, the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has become a national strategy.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the implementation of the integrated development strategy of the Yangtze River Delta should focus on the two key words of integration and high quality, break administrative barriers with integrated ideas and measures, improve policy coordination, and allow factors to flow smoothly on a larger scale. It is conducive to giving full play to the comparative advantages of various regions, realizing a more rational division of labor, condensing stronger synergies, and promoting high-quality development.
Shouldering deep and high hopes and major missions, the Yangtze River Delta region has continuously strengthened policy coordination, deepened division of labor and cooperation, and gathered strong synergies. Carry the burden and be at the forefront.
Continuous innovation in systems and mechanisms, and surging development vitality of market players
Focusing on the two key words of integration and high quality, the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta continues to innovate systems and mechanisms, and market players are surging with strong development vitality.
In July this year, the Yangtze River Delta Eco-Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone Developer Alliance selected 12 members to join the alliance, expanding the number of alliance members to 53.
In August 2020, the Demonstration Zone Developer Alliance was established.
"Instead of attracting investment through traditional forms such as management committees or development companies, but through 'joining the alliance', enterprises, universities, research institutes and other units can come to the same platform and exhibit their strengths." The first batch of 12 developers of the Alliance Huang Jia, managing partner and Shanghai managing partner of PwC, one of the founding members, believes that the relatively decentralized mechanism of the demonstration zone is conducive to alliance members conducting business according to their own characteristics.
China Three Gorges Corporation took the lead in compiling the implementation plan for water ecological environment governance in the demonstration area, and actively participated in the research on carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in the demonstration area. The connection between Qingpu District and Wujiang District, Suzhou, Jiangsu, and ecological coastlines; Shanghai Urban Investment and Shanghai Consulting Group jointly established the Yangtze River Delta Urban Consulting Company to carry out strategic research on infrastructure renovation, energy level improvement of ancient towns, and rural revitalization. ...
At the same time as the project is being constructed, the demonstration zone has launched 88 institutional innovations in green development, factor flow, and common prosperity, making the flow of talents, capital and other factors more convenient.
"It does not break administrative affiliation, but it can break administrative boundaries. The continuous advancement of integrated system innovation will surely provide more powerful policy support and institutional guarantee for the majority of market players." Director of Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone Hua Yuan, director of the executive committee, said.
In May 2021, the three provinces and one city of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui signed the "Memorandum of Cooperation on the Joint Development of the Yangtze River Delta Pilot Free Trade Zone", established the Yangtze River Delta Pilot Free Trade Zone Alliance, shared the advantageous longboard resources of their respective pilot trade zones, and jointly planned and led regional coordination. As the focus of development, the top ten institutional innovation cases in the Yangtze River Delta Pilot Free Trade Zone have been released, and a forum on institutional innovation in the Yangtze River Delta Pilot Free Trade Zone has been held.
Promote cross-domain flow of resource elements and solve cross-domain governance problems
In key areas such as scientific and technological interconnection, ecological and environmental protection, all regions and departments in the Yangtze River Delta work together to promote cooperation, promote the cross-regional flow of resources and elements, and solve cross-regional governance problems.
In October 2020, the Ministry of Science and Technology approved and supported the construction of the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center (hereinafter referred to as the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center).
On June 3, 2021, the center was officially unveiled, and a series of reform measures were implemented one after another.
In terms of innovation resources, the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center has established 4 overseas cooperation platforms, and established strategic cooperative relations with 72 foreign and 61 well-known domestic universities and R&D institutions, supporting the research results of domestic and foreign universities and institutes to the Yangtze River Delta. Regional implementation and transformation; on the R&D carrier side, there are 87 R&D carriers with first-class R&D platforms and technical talents in advanced manufacturing, new materials, biomedicine, information technology, energy and environmental protection and other fields, aiming at major national strategic needs and key industry commonality Technology, carry out technical research; on the industrial demand side, jointly build enterprise joint innovation centers with leading enterprises in the industry. As of the first half of this year, a total of 218 enterprise joint innovation centers have been built, and 936 technical requirements have been condensed, helping enterprises to achieve technical cooperation 341 item.
As of the end of May 2022, the Yangtze River Delta scientific and technological resource sharing service platform jointly built by Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui has gathered 23 major scientific research infrastructures, more than 40,000 sets (sets) of large-scale scientific instruments, 315 national-level scientific research bases, science and technology There are more than 200,000 talents, 2,429 service institutions, more than 15,700 service projects, and more than 1.6 million domestic and foreign standards. The number of visits to the platform has reached 1.85 million.
In terms of ecological and environmental protection, the two provinces and one city of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have strengthened and deepened the joint river and lake chief system, established an information sharing platform for comprehensive water environment management in the Taihu Lake Basin, formulated special plans for joint protection of key transboundary water bodies, coordinated control of lake cyanobacteria pollution, and developed Taihu Lake. The pilot project of dredging and solidification was carried out, the restoration of ecological wetlands around Taihu Lake was accelerated, and the construction of demonstration zones for the treatment and utilization of organic wastes in urban and rural areas around Taihu Lake was steadily advanced.
In 2021, the total nitrogen and total phosphorus concentration indicators in Taihu Lake will be the best levels in the past 10 years.
Infrastructure interconnection, convenient and fast public services
With the accelerated interconnection of various infrastructures, public services have become more convenient and efficient, and cities in the Yangtze River Delta are getting closer and closer.
The long triangle on the track runs out of acceleration.
By the end of 2021, the operating mileage of the Yangtze River Delta high-speed railway will exceed 6,500 kilometers.
At present, the construction of the Shanghai-Suhu Railway, the second phase of the Hutong Railway, the Ninghuai Railway, and the Hexin High-speed Railway has been accelerated.
On July 13, the construction of the Shanghai-Sujia Intercity Railway started. The railway starts from Shanghai Hongqiao Business District in the east, reaches Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province in the south, and reaches Wujiang District in Suzhou City in the west.
The construction of the west extension project of Shanghai Rail Transit Line 17 has started, and Suzhou Rail Transit Line S1 has achieved full access. After completion, the Shanghai-Suzhou Rail Transit will be fully "handshake".
The construction of new digital infrastructure is vigorous.
In the Yangtze River Delta region, the three major operators have invested more than 200 billion yuan in total, and built 382,000 5G base stations, accounting for 24.9% of the country's total.
The national top node (Shanghai) for industrial Internet identification analysis has been completed and put into operation. A total of 67 secondary nodes in the Yangtze River Delta region are connected, covering 84,000 enterprises in aerospace, medical equipment, new materials, construction machinery and other fields.
"One-stop service" makes public services more warm.
At present, 138 government service matters are handled across provinces and cities in 41 cities in the Yangtze River Delta, and 30 types of high-frequency electronic licenses have been shared and recognized. Covering 41 cities in the Yangtze River Delta and more than 10,000 medical institutions, from the start of the pilot program in September 2018 to the end of June 2022, the cumulative direct settlement exceeded 9.4 million.
The Yangtze River Delta region is exploring a new "all-in-one card" model based on social security cards. As of the end of June 2022, the number of physical cardholders of social security cards in the Yangtze River Delta has reached about 240 million, and the number of electronic card holders is about 120 million.