The integration of the Yangtze River Delta moves from consensus to joint construction

Gu Yang, reporter from Economic Daily and China Economic Net

　　The pilot free trade zone has achieved full coverage in the Yangtze River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta Integration Demonstration Zone implements a unified enterprise registration "threshold", the country's first cross-provincial approved investment catalog is "online" in the Yangtze River Delta Integration Demonstration Zone, Shanghai Yangpu and Zhejiang Taizhou has launched the "cross-provincial administration" of government services...In the past few days, there have been frequent news of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta. A series of solid measures have become a powerful booster for regional coordinated development.

　　The Yangtze River Delta region is one of the regions with the most active economic development, the highest degree of openness, and the strongest innovation capability in China. It has a pivotal strategic position in the overall situation of the country’s modernization and the all-round opening up pattern.

Promote the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, enhance the innovation and competitiveness of the Yangtze River Delta region, increase economic agglomeration, regional connectivity, and policy coordination efficiency, which will help lead the country's high-quality development, build a modern economic system, and accelerate the formation of a major domestic cycle. The new development pattern of mutual promotion of domestic and international double cycles is of great and far-reaching significance.

Results of the implementation of the integrated strategy appear

　　With 4% of the country's area and less than 10% of the population, it has created nearly a quarter of the total economic output.

Since the reform and opening up, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has achieved remarkable results. The economic and social development is at the forefront of the country, and it has good conditions to promote higher-quality integrated development from a higher starting point.

In this context, the Party Central Committee set out to plan and promote the integrated development strategy of the Yangtze River Delta from the perspective of further opening up and building a higher-level open economy.

　　In November 2018, the regional integration of the Yangtze River Delta became a national strategy.

In May 2019, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to review the "Outline of the Yangtze River Delta Regional Integration Development Plan", from implementing the new development concept, building a modern economic system, and advancing deeper reforms from a higher starting point and higher levels of opening up In other aspects, comprehensive arrangements have been made to promote the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.

　　Since the "Outline of the Yangtze River Delta Regional Integrated Development Plan" was issued in 2019, the three provinces and one city and relevant departments have implemented the Party Central Committee's decision and deployment. The coordinated development strategy of the Yangtze River Delta has shifted from "consensus" to "co-construction", and the planning policy system is "four "Liang Bazhu" was initially constructed, the multi-level working mechanism was brought into play, and a number of reforms were continuously advanced, and a new situation for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta was rapidly taking shape.

According to statistics, over the past year, more than 30 integrated system innovations have been introduced in the Yangtze River Delta region, more than 50 plans, policies and regulations have been formulated, more than 120 cooperation agreements have been signed, and more than 60 cooperation platforms have been established.

　　In the overall planning of the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and economic and social development this year, some of the results of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta have also been "actually tested."

For example, Hangzhou’s first health code has been quickly promoted in the Yangtze River Delta and across the country; the Yangtze River Delta region is leading the country in solidly doing the "six stability" work and fully implementing the "six guarantees" tasks.

Demonstration leads to multiple breakthroughs

　　Guided by the construction of a demonstration zone for ecological and green integrated development, the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta is showing a trend of multiple breakthroughs.

　　In November 2019, the "Overall Plan of the Yangtze River Delta Eco-Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone" was announced.

The plan proposes that the construction of a demonstration zone for the integration of ecological and green development in the Yangtze River Delta is the first move and a breakthrough point for implementing the integrated development strategy of the Yangtze River Delta.

　　"In the past year, this'first-hand chess' breakthrough' has taken the lead in solving the problem, realizing the geographical breakthrough, the free flow of resources and the free flow of elements, enhancing regional competitiveness, and promoting high-quality development." Yangtze River Delta Ecosystem Said Zhang Zhongwei, deputy director of the executive committee of the green integration development demonstration zone.

　　On September 26 this year, the first batch of 5 talent innovation achievements in the Yangtze River Delta Ecological and Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone was the first to replicate and promote among the cities of the Yangtze River Delta Alliance.

These five achievements involve professional qualifications, titles, continuing education credit hours, and the establishment of a "single window" for work and residence for foreigners. They will effectively break the barriers to talent and promote the free flow of talent elements.

　　Previously, the housing and construction departments of Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui jointly signed the "Yangtze River Delta Housing Provident Fund Integration Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement", including the Yangtze River Delta Housing Provident Fund Loan Payment and Use Certificate, and the Yangtze River Delta Housing Provident Fund Abnormal Warning The first batch of integrated implementation projects will be recognized in the Yangtze River Delta region.

　　The continuous improvement of the level of infrastructure interconnection in the Yangtze River Delta has made more integrated development possible.

The "Yangtze River Delta on the track" has made the cities in the Yangtze River Delta closer together. The "1 to 3 hour life circle" is changing from a dream to a reality, and the effect of "same urbanization" of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui continues to expand.

Around the Shanghai metropolitan area and the metropolitan area of ​​Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hefei, Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou, and Ningbo, the Yangtze River Delta has formed a 1-hour commuting circle with intercity railways, urban (suburban) railways, urban rail transit, and urban expressways as the backbone. .

　　Today, the total mileage of high-speed rail operations in the Yangtze River Delta has exceeded 5,000 kilometers, and the most dense high-speed rail network in the country has been fabricated.

By 2025, the Yangtze River Delta will initially establish a modern comprehensive transportation system, with a railway density of 507 kilometers/10,000 square kilometers and a highway density of 500 kilometers/10,000 square kilometers. The global competitiveness of the world-class airport cluster and port cluster will be significantly enhanced. .

　　In addition to the modern sea, land and air transportation system, there is an invisible "digital network" that supports the efficient connectivity of the Yangtze River Delta.

It has become a consensus in the Yangtze River Delta to allow data to run more.

The smooth flow of data has allowed various development factors in the Yangtze River Delta region to be more closely linked and transformed into an endogenous driving force for economic and social development.

Innovation drives high-quality development

　　If ecological green is the background color of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, then technological innovation is the bright color that promotes the high-quality integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.

　　In Shanghai Songjiang G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, the Yangtze River Delta Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Center is stepping up its construction. After completion, it will become a world-class and national leading artificial intelligence supercomputing hub.

As the “reservoir” of the science and innovation board, the cities along the G60 Science and Technology Corridor of the Yangtze River Delta continue to exert their strength in science and technology innovation, and continuously gather the joint force of innovation and development in the Yangtze River Delta region.

In the future, more industrial clusters with high gold content will start from here and participate in global competition.

　　The "2020 Yangtze River Delta Regional Collaborative Innovation Index" shows that the comprehensive level of collaborative innovation in the Yangtze River Delta has an average annual growth rate of 9.33% since 2010, and the average annual growth rate of the first-level indicators is more than 7%.

As the development of regional integration in the Yangtze River Delta has become a national strategy, the collaborative innovation of science and technology in the Yangtze River Delta is constantly running out of "acceleration".

　　From Zhangjiang in Shanghai to Hefei in Anhui, the two comprehensive national science centers on the east and west wings of the Yangtze River Delta echo each other and are under construction.

In the past five years, the Yangtze River Delta region has accelerated significantly in the fields of technology, finance, industry, and infrastructure construction.

As a major move to promote deeper reforms, higher levels of opening up, and an important strategic choice to deal with major changes unseen in a century, the integrated high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta will assume more historical missions.

　　The symposium on solidly advancing the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta proposed that the implementation of the integrated development strategy of the Yangtze River Delta should closely follow the two key words of integration and high quality, and use integrated ideas and measures to break administrative barriers, improve policy coordination, and make the elements more important. Unobstructed flow on a large scale is conducive to giving play to the comparative advantages of various regions, realizing a more reasonable division of labor, gathering a stronger synergy, and promoting high-quality development.

This has further pointed out the direction for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.

In the future, the innovation and development of the Yangtze River Delta region will be based on the overall national development situation, plan higher quality development at a higher level, and pave the way for my country's technological and industrial innovation.

　　Gu Yang