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Question: do the Guangdong-Macao cooperation in the development of Hengqin this great article - with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core of the CPC Central Committee concerned with building depth documentary Hengqin the Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Zone
Xinhua News Agency reporter
The South China Sea blew up and the Pearl River surged.
On the land of Nanyue, a hot land once again attracted the attention of the world.
On September 5, 2021, the "Overall Plan for the Construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council was released, pressing the fast forward button for Guangdong-Macao cooperative development of Hengqin under the new situation.
A corner of Hengqin, Zhuhai (taken on September 13, 2020, UAV photo).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Yehua
Accelerating the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone is a major decision and deployment made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core. It is important for enriching the practice of "One Country, Two Systems", injecting important impetus into the long-term development of Macao, and promoting the long-term prosperity and stability of Macao and its integration into the overall development of the country. Significance.
From the decision of the Party Central Committee and the State Council to develop Hengqin in 2009 to the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao in-depth cooperation zone, every step of Hengqin's development has been devoted to the deep care and ardent expectations of General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Twelve years of the same heart, the new journey composes a brilliant chapter.
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, and closely focusing on the main line of promoting the moderately diversified economic development of Macao, the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone has accelerated its writing and writing a magnificent chapter.
This is the branch management clearance facility on Hengqin Island (photographed on September 18, 2013).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wei Meng
Based on the overall situation and the current situation, make a major strategic plan for accelerating the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone
Hengqin is located at the southern tip of Zhuhai, Guangdong, separated by the water from Macau.
"Accelerating the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao in-depth cooperation zone", on October 14, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the 40th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and delivered an important speech, giving Hengqin the strategic positioning of the Guangdong-Macao in-depth cooperation zone.
The scope of implementation of the cooperation zone is the customs supervision area between the "first line" and the "second line" of Hengqin Island.
Among them, the line between Hengqin and the Macao Special Administrative Region is set as the "first line"; the line between Hengqin and other areas within the customs of the People's Republic of China is set as the "second line".
According to the objective reality of the whole Hengqin island, the cooperation zone will be classified and managed in different regions.
This piece of land with a total area of approximately 106 square kilometers has ushered in a new round of development opportunities.
The staff of Bank of China Hengqin Branch displayed the bank card of the commercial entity's electronic license (photographed on November 15, 2018).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Deng Hua
A timeline that runs through 12 years, marking the unchanging initial aspirations and unswerving reform and opening practices——
The development of Hengqin is a national strategy, and General Secretary Xi Jinping has always attached great importance to it.
"In 10 years, Hengqin New District has grown from scratch and has changed a lot. We must always keep our original aspirations, let it be full of innovation and development vitality, and promote the moderately diversified development of Macao's economy." On October 22, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping Said when he visited Hengqin for the fourth time in 10 years.
The beginning of the initial heart, the butterfly change of the island, began in 2009.
In January of that year, Comrade Xi Jinping, then a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the country, came to Hengqin.
When meeting representatives from all sectors of the Macau society in Macau, he announced good news: The central government has decided to agree to develop Hengqin Island.
In this meeting, Comrade Xi Jinping emphasized that in the development process, full consideration should be given to the needs of Macao to achieve moderately diversified economic development.
"This will definitely bring about new development space and opportunities for Macao, and will be conducive to the long-term prosperity, stability and development of Macao's economy."
In December 2012, Comrade Xi Jinping left Beijing for the first time after serving as the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, came to Guangdong, and came to Hengqin for the second time.
He encouraged Hengqin: "We must carry forward the spirit of being first, try first, further open up, be brave to explore, brave to break, and make contributions to the cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in terms of institutional innovation."
In December 2014, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again set foot on the land of Hengqin.
On the new campus of the University of Macau in Hengqin, General Secretary Xi Jinping and students from Macau, the Mainland, Taiwan and other places sat around the desks, listened to their speeches, and placed high hopes on the great cause of Macau’s youth to develop "One Country, Two Systems": "This undertaking It is necessary to continue to explore and continue to develop. This task will fall on your shoulders historically. I hope that young people will be brave enough to take on it and work hard to open up."
In October 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Hengqin for the fourth time during an inspection in Guangdong.
He emphasized: "Hengqin has the inherent advantages of Guangdong-Macao cooperation. It is necessary to strengthen policy support, enrich the content of cooperation, expand cooperation space, develop emerging industries, and promote Macao's economic development more vigorously."
On December 20, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Macao’s return to the motherland and the inauguration ceremony of the fifth government of the Macao Special Administrative Region and delivered an important speech. Macau's long-term development opens up broad space and injects new impetus."
A major deployment, based on the conditions of the new era, with greater reform courage and stronger opening-up measures, to promote the in-depth cooperation between Guangdong and Macao ——
The new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way has begun, and Macao has a stronger desire to deeply integrate into the overall development of the country.
Exploring a new path for development, opening up new space for development, and adding new impetus to development are not only the meaning of "one country, two systems", but also the requirements of the times for comprehensively deepening reform and opening up.
On December 11, 2020, visitors at the "2020 Guangdong and Macao Branded Products Exhibition".
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia
After years of development, Hengqin’s GDP has grown from 285 million yuan in 2009 to nearly 40.7 billion yuan in 2020, with a cumulative fixed asset investment of 360 billion yuan, more than 55,000 registered commercial entities, and more than 4,500 Australian-funded enterprises. Family.
The solid foundation for cooperation, the vast hinterland, the huge potential for innovation, and the objective conditions of being surrounded by water and facilitating supervision have created good conditions for Hengqin to explore the innovation of the Guangdong-Macao cooperation system and greater openness.
In February 2019, the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Plan Outline" was released, proposing to accelerate the development and construction of major platforms such as Shenzhen Qianhai, Guangzhou Nansha, Zhuhai Hengqin, and give full play to their efforts in further deepening reforms, expanding opening up, and promoting cooperation. The pilot and demonstration role of Hong Kong and Macao will expand the development space of Hong Kong and Macao, promote the cooperation and sharing of public services, and lead the comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
This is the Zhuhai Center Building, Hengqin International Finance Center Building and other high-rise buildings and Macau in the distance (panoramic photo by drone) taken on September 13, 2020.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Yehua
Driven by a series of major deployments by the central government, it is the right time to deepen the cooperation between Guangdong and Macao in the development of Hengqin.
General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned and guided the preparation of the overall plan.
Since 2020, he has issued important instructions and instructions on the Guangdong-Macao cooperative development of Hengqin on many occasions, emphasizing that the main direction and related major projects for moderately diversified economic development should be selected, and the policy, human, financial and other aspects should be multi-pronged and concentrated. Tackling toughness.
In April 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to review the overall plan.
At this meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave an important instruction: to make good use of the Hengqin Cooperation Zone, an area where different rules and mechanisms coexist, actively explore the connection of rules and mechanisms between the two places, and explore the integration of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area market. Experience.
More powerful institutional innovation and opening measures, more distinct people's livelihood orientation and industrial development orientation, the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao in-depth cooperation zone will bring new development opportunities to Hengqin and Macau, which are separated by a strip of water, and will also bring new development opportunities to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Construction brings new development momentum and plays a more active role in accelerating the formation of a new pattern of comprehensively deepening reform and opening up and enriching the practice of "one country, two systems".
This is the Zhuhai Hengqin Bridge in the Guangdong Free Trade Zone (taken on November 15, 2018, drone photo).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Deng Hua
12 years of hard work, uphold the original aspiration, write beautiful answer sheets
"The banana forest and the green fields, the farms are few"-recalling the first time I visited Hengqin in 2009, General Secretary Xi Jinping used eight words to describe it.
Today, standing on the top of the 300-meter-high Hengqin International Financial Center, looking out over Hengqin Island, there are many avenues and tall buildings.
From Hengqin to Macau, the urban skyline is connected as a whole, which is magnificent.
In Hengqin in early autumn, the warm breeze is blowing.
The construction of the "Macao New Neighborhood" project is in full swing.
As Hengqin's first comprehensive livelihood project for Macao residents to build and integrate multiple functions such as high-quality living space, education, health, and social services, the project has been fully started.
In the next 5 to 10 years, it is estimated that 30,000 to 50,000 Hong Kong and Macao residents will work and live in Hengqin.
12 years of forging ahead and witnessing profound changes——
The combination of Chinese and Western, the integration of mountains and seas.
The new campus of the University of Macau stands on Hengqin Island, separated by the water from Taipa Island in Macau.
This is the new campus of the University of Macau in Hengqin (photographed on December 11, 2014).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wei Meng
As a landmark project of Guangdong-Macao cooperation under the framework of "one country, two systems", the total area of the new campus of the University of Macau in Hengqin is 20 times larger than the original campus.
The teachers and students live in the Mainland, and the laws of Macao are applied. The two systems collide and blend here.
"The University of Macau is a testimony to the successful practice of'One Country, Two Systems' in Macau," said Song Yonghua, President of the University of Macau.
This 40-year-old university has become a higher education institution that places equal emphasis on teaching and research and ranks high in Asia. It is in the forefront of chip research and development, quality research of Chinese medicine, and the Internet of Things in smart cities.
The changes of the University of Macau are the epitome of the in-depth cooperation between Guangdong and Macao in Hengqin.
In 2009, the Hengqin New Area was established; in 2015, the Hengqin area of the Guangdong Free Trade Zone was listed; in 2019, the construction of the Hengqin International Leisure Tourism Island...a series of major deployments continued to empower the development of the Hengqin New Area.
12 years of forging ahead, witnessing the take-off of flapping wings——
In 2018, at the first China Hengqin Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Competition, the Macau youth He Guotao led the team to develop the "Puqiang AI Car Core Brain" project and won the championship, and won a 100 million yuan research and development fee for free.
Now, in the era of Puqiang in the Hengqin Macau Youth Entrepreneurship Valley "settling down", it has completed the E round of financing and has won the favor of many well-known investment institutions at home and abroad.
With scientific and technological innovation and industrial development as the main theme, Hengqin has given full play to its role as a fulcrum in the construction of the Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macao Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, and promoted the extension of Macao's scientific and technological innovation resources to the inland.
This is the sea view room and swimming pool of Zhuhai Changlong Haiqin Bay Hotel on Hengqin International Leisure Tourism Island (photographed on April 19, 2019).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Dawei
At present, Hengqin has incubated more than 600 innovative and entrepreneurial projects from Macau. It has established a demonstration base for production, education and research with the University of Macau and Macau University of Science and Technology. All of Macau's four state key laboratories have established branches in Hengqin.
The "five horizontal and three vertical" trunk road network has been basically completed, and the underground integrated pipeline network and information network have been fully put into use; the Hengqin advanced intelligent computing platform with a total investment of about 2 billion yuan has completed the first phase of construction, with a computing power of 11.6 billion per second Million times, it can provide computing power services for more than 100 Guangdong and Macao technology enterprises, universities and R&D institutions.
More and more young people from Macau come to Hengqin to realize their entrepreneurial dreams.
The support behind it is Hengqin's continuous improvement of infrastructure, continuous improvement of scientific research conditions, increasingly convenient customs clearance conditions, and the spirit of continuous improvement and innovation.
In the power tunnel of Zhuhai Hengqin Comprehensive Pipe Gallery, China Southern Power Grid staff operate inspection robots to conduct dynamic inspections of cable tunnels (photographed on December 12, 2019).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liang Xu
Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Industrial Park, Hengqin Macau Youth Entrepreneurship Valley, Guangdong-Macao Cross-border Financial Cooperation Demonstration Zone... Brand-new platform carriers have been accelerated to build, constantly refreshing industrial energy levels, and performing in this hopeful land A wonderful chapter from "breaking" to "creating".
It is the first nationwide to issue "commercial subject electronic license cards", issue the first provisional arbitration rules, take the lead in implementing "Hong Kong taxation for Hong Kong people, Macao taxation for Macao people", launching the policy of entering and exiting Hengqin for single-plate vehicles in Macao, and launching a total of 622 reform and innovation measures. 11 items were replicated and promoted throughout the country...The tide hits the oars and the waves dance on the top of the wave. In this vibrant land, the moving movement of reform and opening up is played.
From a new starting point, focus on tackling tough issues, dare to be the first, and continue to inject new impetus into the practice of "One Country, Two Systems"
2021 is the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the beginning of Macau's plan to implement the second five-year plan.
Macau, which has been hit hard by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, has highlighted the disadvantages of economic unity development, and it is urgent to further explore the path of moderately diversified economic development.
When convening a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to review the overall plan, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to focus on advantageous areas, subdivide industries, and select the main direction of the moderately diversified economic development of Macao, so as to increase the attractiveness of various talents and promote the development of the Greater Bay Area. The economic development pattern of the district was optimized.
It is necessary to establish and improve the system and mechanism of Guangdong-Macao cooperative development of Hengqin, innovate the management model, and promote the economic integration and development of Macao and Hengqin.
"A new platform to promote the moderately diversified development of Macao's economy";
"A new space to facilitate the life and employment of Macao residents";
"A new demonstration of enriching the practice of'One Country, Two Systems'";
"Promoting the construction of a new highland in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area."
The overall plan closely focuses on the main line of promoting the moderately diversified economic development of Macao, and draws a blueprint for the important article of accelerating the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao in-depth cooperation zone.
This is the Hengqin port (a drone photo) taken on August 18, 2020.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Deng Hua
On August 18, 2020, the new travel inspection area of Hengqin Port, which adopts the new model of "cooperative inspection and one-time release", was opened.
Macau residents get great convenience in and out of Hengqin.
In the first anniversary of its opening, more than 6 million inbound and outbound passengers and approximately 900,000 vehicles were inspected and released.
Among them, Macau single-license vehicles account for more than 50% of the daily customs clearance volume of inbound and outbound vehicles at Hengqin Port.
According to the overall plan, the “front line” actively promotes the cooperative inspection and one-time customs clearance model on the basis of mutual agreement and ensuring safety, and continuously improves the level of customs clearance facilitation.
At the same time, it is clarified to accelerate the construction of dedicated passages between the Hengqin campus of the University of Macau and the Hengqin port, and explore the construction of a new intelligent port between the Hengqin campus of the University of Macau and the cooperation zone to highly facilitate the entry and exit of the teachers and students of the University of Macau.
"After the opening of the new Hengqin port, it only takes less than half an hour to drive from Macau to Hengqin Company. We look forward to more convenient customs clearance measures." Said Cai Yuanbo, founder of Xianhao Technology and a young Macau man who started his business in Hengqin.
The “first-line” of goods is released and the “second-line” is managed, the entry and exit of personnel is highly convenient, and cross-border financial management is innovated... Between Macau and Hengqin, the flow of materials, personnel, capital and other elements is more smooth, and the integration of high-level open new system It will inject continuous impetus into the development of the Mainland and Macau.
Zeng Wanwen is a "post-85" Macau youth. After returning from studying in Australia, she founded Chao Hong (Guangdong) Cold Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. in Hengqin.
She is very optimistic about the opportunities brought about by accelerating the construction of a new development pattern.
"Hengqin is backed by the hinterland of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, facing the world, and has an excellent advantage in cross-border logistics." She said.
For the in-depth cooperation between Guangdong and Macao, institutional mechanisms are the key.
The overall plan is clear. Under the leadership of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Construction Leading Group, Guangdong and Macau jointly set up a cooperation zone management committee to make overall decisions on major plans, major policies, major projects, and important personnel appointments and removals within the scope of their powers.
The management committee of the cooperation zone implements a dual director system, which is jointly held by the Governor of Guangdong Province and the Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region.
The overall plan also made a series of innovative mechanism arrangements.
Macau Peninsula in the morning light (taken on July 29, 2020, drone photo).
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia
The Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, He Yicheng, said in his 2021 fiscal year policy address at the Legislative Council of the Special Administrative Region that in accordance with the deployment of the central government, the implementation of the in-depth cooperation zone plan should be done in a solid manner.
Use open and innovative thinking to create an innovation cooperation zone that combines the advantages of the "two systems", is highly integrated with international rules, promotes a moderately diversified economy in Macao, and serves the country's opening up.
Ma Xingrui, Governor of Guangdong Province, said that in the future, Hengqin will strengthen its connection with Hong Kong and Macau rules and mechanisms.
Focusing on facilitating the convenient and efficient flow of people, logistics, capital, and information, a series of pioneering and leading policies have been endowed, and greater progress has been made in the connection, integration, and accommodation of rules and mechanisms, and a world-class business environment has been created.
In the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a new highland is accelerating its rise.
By 2035--
The strong vitality and superiority of "One Country, Two Systems" have been fully demonstrated. The economic strength and technological competitiveness of the cooperation zone have been greatly improved, the public service and social security system have operated efficiently, the integrated development system and mechanism of Qin-Macao have been improved, and the goal of promoting the moderately diversified economic development of Macao is basically accomplish.
The blueprint is drawn and the prospects are promising.
Under the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao in-depth cooperation zone will be accelerated, and the miracle of the new era will continue to be written.
(Reporters Xu Jinpeng, An Bei, Liu Huan, Li Hanfang, Ye Qian, Wang Haoming)