China News Service, Hohhot, August 22 (Reporter Li Aiping) "When many people think of Inner Mongolia, they feel that it is very far away and closed. What I want to tell you is that Inner Mongolia is located in the frontier, but it is not remote or closed. "
On August 22, Sun Shaocheng, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, recommended the degree of opening up of Inner Mongolia at the press conference on the theme of "This Decade of China, Inner Mongolia" held here.
"It's not remote, it means that Inner Mongolia is originally close to Gyeonggi and close to the domestic central market. 'One step west of Beijing is Ulanqab'." Sun Shaocheng explained.
Sun Shaocheng then told the media reporters at the meeting, "To say that it is not closed, it means that Inner Mongolia has the gene of openness since ancient times. Historically, it has been an important hub and channel for the 'Prairie Silk Road' and the 'Wanli Tea Ceremony', and today it is the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor. It is an important node of the country and an important gateway to the new land-sea passage in the western part of the country.”
According to official data, Inner Mongolia spans the “Three Norths”, with more than 1.3 billion mu of grassland, accounting for 22% of the country, nearly 400 million mu of forest, accounting for 12% of the country, and more than 57 million mu of wetland, accounting for 16% of the country. The area of desertified and desertified land accounts for nearly 1/4 of the country.
After ten years of sharpening a sword, Inner Mongolia is undergoing "great changes".
Sun Shaocheng said that in the past ten years, the GDP of Inner Mongolia has crossed the threshold of 2 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below) from just over one trillion yuan at the end of last year, and the per capita GDP has increased from 42,000 yuan to 85,000 yuan. It ranks tenth in the country, maintaining a good situation of economic development, ethnic unity, social stability and frontier tranquility.
In the past ten years, the operating mileage of Inner Mongolia's railways has increased from more than 9,400 kilometers to nearly 15,000 kilometers, ranking first in the country. The newly added highway mileage has reached 49,000 kilometers. It has been fully connected with high-grade highways in the surrounding eight provinces and regions, and the number of civil airports has increased from 15 to 43, Hubao, Ewu, Chifeng, Tongliao and other places have been integrated into the capital's 2.5-hour "commuting circle".
Sun Shaocheng introduced that over the past ten years, Inner Mongolia has introduced a total of 2.9 trillion yuan of domestic (outside the region) funds, accounting for 43.5% of the total investment in Inner Mongolia from 26.8%.
The number of ports open to the outside world has increased from 12 to 20, the number of transit trains between China and Europe has increased from 3 in 2013 to more than 6,100 last year, and the number of departing China-Europe trains has increased from more than 30 in 2016 to more than 300 last year. . The total number of China-Europe trains entering and leaving the Erenhot port has exceeded the 10,000-line mark, and the total freight volume at the border land port ranks first in the country.
In Sun Shaocheng's view, in this decade of the new era, the "traffic network" of Inner Mongolia Unicom inside and outside the country has become more and more dense, the "relationship network" of regional cooperation has expanded, and the "circle of friends" on the "Belt and Road" has become more and more wider.
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