Promote high-level opening up in many places and find this starting point in the "First Meeting of the New Year"

　　Promoting high-level opening up is an inevitable choice to promote high-quality development and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern.

At the first New Year meeting held in various regions over the past two days, reporters found that high-level opening up to the outside world has been placed in an important position in the development of work throughout the year by many provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.

　　Guangxi is China's international gateway to ASEAN. At their first New Year meeting, expanding opening up internally and externally will naturally become a distinctive theme.

Through high-quality construction of the New Land-Sea Corridor in the West, vigorous promotion of the construction of the Pinglu Canal, and deepening economic and trade cooperation with ASEAN countries, etc., Guangxi is working hard to become a convenient place for domestic and international dual-circulation market operations.

　　Yunnan is located at the junction of China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. For Yunnan, expanding opening up to the outside world means strengthening the port economy. Therefore, at the first meeting of the New Year in Yunnan, port economy became a hot topic.

The main person in charge of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee pointed out that it is necessary to adhere to and improve the scheduling mechanism of major industrial projects, continuously increase investment in major projects, and continue to do major projects such as port economy.

　　At the first meeting of the New Year in the central province of Hubei, the main person in charge of the provincial party committee proposed that Hubei should be built into an important node of the domestic cycle and an important hub for domestic and international dual cycles.

At the beginning of 2024, Hubei continues to make efforts to expand opening up. Ezhou Huahu Airport, Asia's first professional cargo airport, has opened 4 new international cargo routes, and the China-Europe Express (Wuhan) has reached 40 countries in Europe and Asia. , 109 cities.

Shandong: Promote high-level opening up and high-quality investment promotion

　　At this year's "First Meeting of the New Year", Shandong Province proposed to promote high-level opening up and high-quality investment promotion as the focus of work in 2024.

What are the considerations behind using openness as a keyword?

How do you view the challenges and potential of Shandong’s current high-level opening up?

How will the opening up to the outside world be promoted in the future?

Come and watch the reporter’s interview.

　　At the "First Meeting of the New Year", the main person in charge of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee said that in 2024, more arduous efforts will be needed to promote economic recovery.

As a major foreign trade province on the eastern coast, Shandong's foreign trade development, especially exports, is also facing greater pressure.

Under this situation, it is extremely necessary to use high-level openness as the key word.

　　Zhang Yibing, Deputy Commissioner of Jinan Customs: Opening up is a "golden key" for Shandong to develop foreign trade and economy, which must be firmly grasped; on the other hand, entering a new era and facing major changes, Shandong can only push openness to a wider scope Only with a wider scope and deeper depth can we provide new opportunities to alleviate the difficulties of foreign trade development and stimulate the momentum of foreign trade development.

　　As a province with a large economy and strong foreign trade, Shandong's complete industrial system formed over the years and its advantages in foreign trade development have laid a solid foundation for Shandong's high-level opening up.

　　Zhang Yibing, Deputy Commissioner of Jinan Customs: Shandong has many major interconnection channels, has cultivated many large pilot platforms, and supported the development of many large industries that attract internal and external connections. At the same time, by continuously optimizing the business environment, Shandong’s private enterprises have developed The scale and proportion of exports are also increasing year by year.

　　The main person in charge of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee introduced at the first meeting of the New Year that Shandong is currently in a critical period of building a green, low-carbon and high-quality development pioneer area, and it is more necessary than ever to expand opening up and pay close attention to investment promotion.

　　Chen Fei, Secretary and Director of the Party Leadership Group of the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce: This year we will introduce more powerful policies to support enterprises in our province to participate in 260 international exhibitions around the world and expand our ability to grab orders and expand markets.

We will increase investment promotion, especially strengthening cooperation with multinational companies. This year we will hold 37 major investment promotion activities at a high level, including Hong Kong and Macao Shandong Week and Singapore Shandong Week.

Shaanxi: Cooperation “invites in” and enterprises “go out”

　　As the "gateway" for my country's opening to the west, Shaanxi vigorously develops an open economy.

At the first meeting of the New Year held in Shaanxi, the main person in charge of the provincial party committee proposed to seize the opportunity to promote high-level opening up.

After the meeting, reporters visited and found that staff were taking action at some local project sites and enterprises.

　　When the reporter came to the newly built terminal business hall in Xi'an Chanba International Port, the company's first batch of Kazakhstani employees had already arrived.

Staff from both China and Kazakhstan can’t wait to start communicating on the progress of the next project.

　　Zhang Bingxin, deputy general manager of China-Kazakhstan (Xi'an) Commerce and Logistics Co., Ltd.: The first batch of port terminal operation equipment we purchased has been officially put into use.

At present, we must continue to promote our personnel recruitment work to help our projects be put into production as soon as possible.

　　The terminal project mentioned by the staff is one of the important cooperation results of the first China-Central Asia Summit. Relying on the China-Europe freight train, it will be built as Kazakhstan's trade and logistics distribution center in China in the future.

　　While the door is open to welcome foreign staff to cooperate, more and more products are being exported overseas through China-Europe trains.

In the factory of a materials technology company, the reporter saw that more than 100 large-scale equipment and more than 500 employees were all at work to catch up on orders.

　　Ye Tao, director of Xi'an Factory No. 1 of Shaanxi Guqin Material Technology Co., Ltd.: We have currently signed orders of about 120 million yuan in 2024. It is expected that we can complete the delivery of 20,000 products in the first quarter, and the total output value will exceed 60 million yuan. above.

　　Not only does it export new materials, Shaanxi also strives to develop overseas markets through China-Europe trains.

Reporters saw at the Xi'an International Port Station that staff were working hard to load containers one by one into the China-Europe train.

　　Yuan Xiaojun, general manager of Xi'an Free Trade Port Construction and Operation Co., Ltd.: On the one hand, we maintain close coordination and docking with overseas railway companies to ensure that the China-Europe train Chang'an is safe, stable, operates on schedule and arrives and delivered as scheduled overseas.

On the other hand, we have accelerated the research and development and construction of a digital comprehensive service platform, which has further accelerated the review time of League of Nations documents, which can further speed up the operation of the China-Europe train Chang'an and reduce costs.

　　At present, the highest daily number of China-Europe Chang'an trains has reached 18, setting a new high for the same period in history.

This year, Shaanxi will further deepen high-level opening up by focusing on improving the quality and efficiency of the China-Europe freight train Chang'an.

　　Shi Zhijun, Director of the Comprehensive Affairs Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Commerce: Expand high-level opening up, continue to promote the implementation of the Shaanxi-related outcomes of the China-Central Asia Summit and the eight actions of jointly building the "Belt and Road", give full play to the role of the China-Europe freight train gathering center, and enhance the ability of open channels level, deeply integrate into the overall pattern of jointly building the “Belt and Road”, and achieve new breakthroughs in building an inland highland of reform and opening up.

　　(CCTV reporter Wu Yongjun, Zhao Shuguang, Sun Yuantian, Qiyong, and Wu Chengxuan)