From April 10 to 13, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Hainan.
On the way, I inspected the coastal ecological protection work, and fertilized and watered the pine tree I planted by myself.
It was 2010, and it was also April.
Not long after the construction of an international tourist island has become a national strategy, Hainan is at a new historical starting point.
Xi Jinping, then member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice-chairman of the state, visited many cities and counties in Hainan and gave timely and powerful guidance to Hainan's scientific development and the construction of an international tourism island.
The pine tree was planted at that time.
A tree has lush foliage when we meet again; an island is full of affection when we meet.
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"Acquaintance" with Hainan began in 1979.
At that time, Hainan was subordinate to Guangdong, and Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping's father, presided over the work in Guangdong.
Xi Jinping, a student at Tsinghua University, often uses his winter and summer vacations to visit his father in Guangdong.
From January 15 to 24, 1979, Xi Zhongxun accompanied Ye Jianying to inspect Yulin Naval Base, Sanya, Wanning Xinglong Overseas Chinese Farm and other places. Xi Jinping participated in this activity.
At that time, Hainan was still a poor and backward closed island. In those days, the builder, who was ruthless and open to the mountains and forests, made a deep impression on the young Xi Jinping with his drive to develop and construct Hainan.
During the National Two Sessions in 2018, in the Guangdong delegation, General Secretary Xi Jinping specially talked about this past.
On April 13, 1988, Xi Zhongxun, as the executive chairman of the congress, presided over the closing meeting of the first session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
This conference decided to establish Hainan Province and Hainan Special Economic Zone, which will push Hainan Island to the forefront of China's reform and opening up.
Exactly 30 years later, on April 13, 2018, Hainan "stands at 30".
General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the meeting to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hainan's establishment of a special economic zone and solemnly announced that "the Party Central Committee has decided to support the establishment of a pilot free trade zone in Hainan Island", giving Hainan a new major responsibility and mission for the reform and opening up of the special economic zone.
The good policy of reform and opening up has brought earth-shaking changes to the ends of the earth.
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The story of Xi Jinping and Hainan has many back and forth chapters.
When working locally, Xi Jinping has always vigorously promoted exchanges and cooperation with Hainan, drawing on experience and complementing weaknesses.
During his time in northern Shaanxi, being secretary of the county party committee in Zhengding, Hebei, and working in Fujian, Xi Jinping forged an indissoluble bond with the seed industry and breeding in southern Hainan.
In 2018, he visited Hainan again, and the general secretary went to the National Nanfan Scientific Research and Breeding Base, emphasizing the need to be determined to develop my country's seed industry.
The first stop of this inspection in 2022 will be the Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory in Sanya City. The general secretary also emphasized: "Seeds are the key to my country's food security. Only by holding Chinese seeds tightly with one's own hands can we stabilize China. A rice bowl can achieve food security.”
In Fujian, support and promote the Yangpu Economic Development Zone to hold large-scale investment promotion activities in Fujian; in Zhejiang, warmly welcome the Hainan party and government delegation and economic and trade delegation to carry out the "Big Special Zone and Metropolis Interactive Cooperation" activity...
Today, General Secretary Xi Jinping is investigating the Yangpu Economic Development Zone, which is a pilot area and a demonstration area of the Hainan Free Trade Port.
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Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in 2013, 2018 and 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited Qiongzhou Land for investigation and research three times, focusing on the advantages and characteristics of Hainan, and pointing out the direction for Hainan.
Based on the advantages, define Hainan's unique business card.
"Hainan's development started later, but it has many advantages and great development potential, and has many unique and bright business cards, such as the country's largest special economic zone, the permanent host of the Boao Forum for Asia, an international tourism island, Yangpu Development Zone, and tropical agricultural products. The main production areas, etc., each of these business cards contains profound development potential and breeds important development vitality, and can make a big article and a good article.”
From the establishment of an ecological province to the construction of an international tourist island, from the development of tropical agriculture to the development of the ocean... Based on a deep understanding of Hainan's unique resource conditions, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made strategic guidelines for Hainan's development to give full play to its advantages and tap its potential.
As the only provincial-level special economic zone in the country, Hainan has always assumed the important responsibility of an experimental field for reform and opening up.
The construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port is a major reform and opening-up initiative personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Whether it is a request at the CIIE or an important instruction, the general secretary has a clear positioning for the Hainan Free Trade Port - "speeding up the process of exploring and building a free trade port with Chinese characteristics" and "building a free trade port with high quality and high standards".
In the past four years, from the establishment of a free trade pilot zone to the start of the construction of a free trade port, the new highland of reform and opening up has accelerated its growth and has continuously exuded its unique charm.
General Secretary Xi Jinping hopes that Hainan will build the Hainan Free Trade Port into a beautiful business card showing Chinese style with the spiritual realm of "success and success do not have to be mine" and the historical responsibility of "success and success must have me".
The deep message and the heavy entrustment are the ardent expectations of the General Secretary for "accelerating the construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics with world influence and making Hainan a model for China's reform and opening up in the new era".
Producer: Zhao Cheng
Planning: Huo Xiaoguang
Main writers: Zhang Yan, Huang Yue
Coordination: Zhang Xiaosong, Dong Jun, Wang Xuan
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