China's focus face to face: How will Pudong "lead" the next 30 years?

(China Focus Face to Face) How will Pudong "lead" the next 30 years?

　　China News Service, Shanghai, November 13th, title: How will Pudong "lead" the next 30 years?

——Interview with Zhou Hanmin, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai CPPCC

　　China News Agency reporter Li Jiajia

　　The 30th Anniversary Celebration of Pudong Development and Opening-up was held in Shanghai on the 12th.

Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission delivered an important speech at the meeting.

　　Thirty years have been magnificent and 30 years have lived up to their youth. Pudong has moved from Lannidu Road to the International Financial City, from Qianmo Farmland to Zhangjiang Science City, from remote areas to the nearest place to the world... Every goal has become a reality here.

The Pudong River is surging and the East is wide. In the next 30 years, how will Pudong play the leading role in reform and opening up in the new era?

How will it create a leading zone for socialist modernization?

Zhou Hanmin, vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the China Democratic National Construction Association, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency on the 12th "Focus on China" and gave an authoritative interpretation.

China News Agency reporter: (11th) The State Council formally decided to launch the "One Industry One Certificate" pilot program in Pudong New Area. Over the past 30 years, Pudong has made many attempts in system innovation and has become a "experimental field."

Why can Pudong become a "experimental field" and what role can it play in the future?

　　Zhou Hanmin: The 30-year development and opening up of Pudong has taken the road, in a word, to force deeper reforms with greater opening up.

　　The "one industry, one certificate" pilot reform passed by the State Council (11th) is a new pilot and a new system innovation on the road of reform in Pudong in the next 30 years.

Through the implementation of "one industry, one certificate", more companies will have better development in Pudong, and more companies will experience equal opportunities, equal status, and enjoy equal rules.

Thirty years of Pudong has become a thing of the past, and the next 30 years will have to stand up and move forward, because greater challenges are waiting for us.

Zhou Hanmin, vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the China Democratic National Construction Association, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Service.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Hengwei

China News Service: President Xi Jinping mentioned in his speech that Pudong will be built into a leading area for socialist modernization.

The central government also proposed to build Shenzhen into a pilot demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics. From "demonstration" to "leading", what does the change of a word mean?

　　Zhou Hanmin: Shenzhen and Pudong jointly carry the historical mission of advancing the Republic. The growth and progress of the two fully demonstrate that high-level and institutional reforms require institutional guarantees, and this system is the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.

　　Chinese idioms always put "demonstration and guidance" together.

The so-called demonstration is to show mature experience, which is to emphasize that it can be copied and promoted; while leading, there is a more urgent task, which is to emphasize the radiability.

It can be copied, promoted and radiated. This is the mission of the pioneers and vanguards of reform.

　　What has Pudong created in the past 30 years?

I think three words can be summed up: passion, vision, and determination.

Passion, Pudong’s speed is behind Pudong’s passion. It is a passion that keeps giving to others and never going forward. Foresight, Pudong has always positioned its development in the future. In response to major changes in the world pattern and China’s development stage, Pudong has always been on track. Beat.

At present, China is entering a new stage of development, implementing new development concepts, and forming a new development pattern. This requires foresight; finally, determination is to overcome all difficulties and strive for victory.

　　From building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, China must transform into a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.

In this critical historical period, Pudong must uphold the new development concept, namely innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing.

Innovation means to make new achievements that no one has done before; coordination means to complement the advantages of the Yangtze River Delta, coordinate development, and better serve the national strategy; green means to put ecological protection as the top priority and make the ecological environment better. Important cities stick to it; openness means high-level, omni-directional, continuous openness and continuous openness; sharing means that people’s cities are built for the people and the people’s cities are the people’s ideas are implemented to the end, and the results of construction are shared with the people.

Therefore, demonstration and leadership is a combination of words. Shanghai and Shenzhen are both equal and independent of each other. They will jointly undertake and continue to undertake the task of advancing China's reform and opening up.

Zhou Hanmin, vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the China Democratic National Construction Association, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Service.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Hengwei

China News Agency reporter: In his speech, President Xi Jinping emphasized that Pudong should strive to become the central node of the domestic cycle and the strategic link between the domestic and international double cycles.

How to understand this positioning?

In the new round of reform and opening up and development in the future, what are its functions?

　　Zhou Hanmin: This is Pudong's new positioning, the core embodiment of the important role of the "leading area", and the strategic thinking that Pudong New has to have for 30 years of continuous struggle.

　　At present, as the world’s third largest country in terms of land area and the world’s largest population, China’s middle-income population has reached 400 million. Continuously boosting the economy through consumption has become an important leading idea for the country’s economic and social development, with the domestic cycle as the main body It is to see our huge development potential and practical needs.

　　At the 3rd China International Import Expo that just concluded in Shanghai, the amount of transaction intentions reached a record high, exceeding US$72.6 billion.

Many exhibitors expressed their high trust in the CIIE and their sincere expectations for the future CIIE. There was even a Fortune 500 company who booked a booth for the next three CIIEs.

In addition, this year's "May Day" holiday and "Eleventh" long holiday people's tourism consumption fully demonstrated that the conditions for the main domestic cycle are already in place.

　　Twenty years ago, the total population of Pudong was less than 3 million people. Today, it almost doubled. When I was in charge of Lujiazui, Pudong 20 years ago, when I was the deputy district governor, the influence of Lujiazui was very limited.

Today, Lujiazui alone supports 76% of Pudong’s total economic output, with hundreds of thousands of employees in the financial industry.

In 1992, Shanghai proposed to build an international economic center, an international financial center, and an international trade center. This year, Shanghai's international financial center has been basically completed, ranking third in the world; as an international shipping center, it also ranked fifth in the world.

From this, it can be seen that Pudong's strategic link status of domestic and international double circulation is very obvious.

　　Therefore, the central government handed over the task of becoming a central node and strategic link to Pudong. This is another splendid article on reform and opening up after the construction of the four major centers in Shanghai. We must write it well, and we must write it well.

When the reform and opening up are not completed, only the progress will be made.

Zhou Hanmin, vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the China Democratic National Construction Association, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Service.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Hengwei

China News Service reporter: In his speech, President Xi Jinping emphasized the need to continue to promote Pudong’s high-level institutional opening.

This certainly includes the institutional construction of laws and trade rules. We know that the Shanghai Free Trade Zone has made many useful attempts. Then, in future plans, what other institutional constructions will be carried out in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone?

Where should Lingang New Area start to benchmark against the highest international level?

　　Zhou Hanmin: Institutional openness is our extremely critical openness measure.

The so-called institutional openness, my understanding is that, on the one hand, it is necessary to further integrate into international practices and international rules, and establish a "rule-based" concept.

On the other hand, the solidification of many experiences created by China's reform and opening up into standards and systems to contribute to the reform and optimization of the global governance system is two-way.

　　Institutional opening must first emphasize improving legislation.

On April 18, 1990, the central government announced the development and opening of Pudong. In less than five months, that is, on September 10, the nine regulations on the development and opening of Pudong were announced to the world in Chinese, English, and Japanese. The legislation of the Ministry has seriously referenced the mature legislation experience of the world.

It is precisely that we have integrated into the world-recognized principle of rule of law that today's Pudong's tens of thousands of businessmen gather and come near and far.

　　Similarly, the Shanghai Free Trade Zone broke ground on September 29, 2013. The "Regulations on China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone" was promulgated and implemented on August 1, 2014. There are 9 chapters and 57 articles in it, and domestic opinions have been widely sought. , And (including) open online solicitation of opinions.

All legislative participants have considered the mature experience of the world's free trade zone and the concepts that should be learned in each clause, so the institutional openness is of great significance.

　　On August 20, 2019, the Lingang New Area was officially established. The freedom of trade, investment, transportation, shipping, capital, and talents' freedom to choose careers granted by the central government are clearly stated through relevant regulations.

We have increasingly realized that institutional openness is the cornerstone of the country's continued reform and opening up policy.

Similarly, institutional openness also requires us to summarize and refine China's good practices, so that the world can learn from them. Some useful experiences such as China's governance, Shanghai governance, and Pudong governance become the common wealth of human civilization.

Data map: On the evening of September 30, 2020, the National Day Pujiang Light and Shadow Show was staged on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yin Liqin

Reporter from China News Service: Against the background of the spread of the global new crown epidemic, many uncertain factors have been added to the international economy. Pudong will start a new round of reform and opening up. Which step should we take?

　　Zhou Hanmin: The global new crown epidemic is raging and spreading. It is very difficult for China to survive on its own. However, it is necessary to cultivate new opportunities in the crisis and open new opportunities in the changing situation. Pudong's future development is also the same.

Pudong’s new development is a re-start of reform and opening up.

In the current global economic recession, two battles should be fought and won at the same time.

First of all, it did everything possible to promote the economy. The rapid rebound of China's economy from the deep decline in the first quarter to a positive growth of 4.9% in the third quarter demonstrates the indomitable development resilience of a country; secondly, united efforts to fight the epidemic and normalize the epidemic At the same time of management and control, it is necessary to ensure that breakthroughs in the development of the new crown vaccine are made as soon as possible to benefit the general public.

　　Development is the last word. Looking forward to the next 30 years, the banner of Pudong's development and opening up will continue to be carried forward. Pudong's strategy of serving the Yangtze River Delta and serving the country must be better.

The important speech of the General Secretary is a new order, and it is also the consistent expectation of Pudong by the people of the whole country.

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