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(News Network): Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited Chongqing twice, drawing a blueprint for the development of Chongqing in the new era.
Bearing in mind the general secretary's entrustment, Chongqing will speed up the construction of an inland open highland, a land with beautiful mountains and rivers, strive to promote high-quality development, create a high-quality life, and strive to draw a new picture of building a socialist modernization in Bayu.
Chongqing is located in the southwestern part of my country and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is an important strategic fulcrum for the development of the western region, and also the connecting point between the "Belt and Road" and the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Huaxi Village in Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County is located deep in the Wuling Mountains.
In April 2019, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Chongqing, he made a special trip here to learn about the implementation of the "Two No Worries and Three Guarantees".
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to speed up the improvement of relevant support and guarantee measures such as subsistence allowances, medical insurance, and medical assistance, and use the institutional system to ensure that the poor are truly and steadily lifted out of poverty.
To implement the requirements of the general secretary, Chongqing started from the small part of people's livelihood, and ensured that "two worries and three guarantees" were implemented carefully by doing a good job in controlling dropouts, ensuring full coverage of medical insurance for the poor, and speeding up the renovation of dilapidated houses.
In 2020, all 18 poverty-stricken districts and counties in Chongqing will be lifted, and all 1.167 million poor people will be lifted out of poverty.
Tan Minglan, a villager in Huaxi Village, Zhongyi Township, Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County, Chongqing City:
Our current income is 60,000 to 70,000 yuan a year, and our current life is sweeter than honey and redder than pepper.
Innovation is the first driving force for development.
In January 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during an inspection in Chongqing that innovation is the key to enterprise development and market success, and core technologies are not given by others, and they cannot just follow others, but must strive for self-improvement and dare to make breakthroughs.
Implementing the spirit of the General Secretary's instructions, Chongqing launched an innovation-driven development action plan to promote high-quality industrial development through technological innovation.
At present, a total of 40 state-level enterprise technology centers have been built, and the R&D investment of industrial enterprises accounts for about 80% of the R&D investment of the whole society.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
In January 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping comprehensively and profoundly expounded the major strategic ideas for promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt at the symposium on promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt held in Chongqing, and drew a grand blueprint for the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Over the past six years, "together with major protection and not to engage in major development" has become the consensus of the whole society, giving priority to ecology and green development. Chongqing restores the natural ecology and plans for industrial upgrading, and has embarked on a green development path of ecological beauty, industrial prosperity and wealth for the people. road.
Accelerating the construction of inland opening up highlands and playing a leading role in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" is the earnest entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping to Chongqing.
Bearing in mind the general secretary's entrustment, Chongqing will coordinate the four-modal transportation of iron, air, water, and public transportation to accelerate the construction of an inland international logistics hub.
Not long ago, Chongqing Orchard Port, the first port-based national logistics hub in the western region, completed the construction of an intelligent port, greatly improving the efficiency of loading and unloading.
In 2021, the total cargo throughput of Orchard Port will exceed 20.871 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 46%.
Linking the east and the west, connecting the north and the south, and reaching the world with goods, at present, the China-Europe freight train (Yuxin-Europe) has operated more than 10,000 trains in total, and the logistics network of the new western land-sea channel covers 315 ports in 107 countries (regions) around the world.
Promoting the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle is a major national regional coordinated development strategy personally deployed by General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Since 2020, Chongqing and Sichuan have joined hands to build a twin-city economic circle in the Chongqing area, jointly implemented a number of major scientific and technological projects, accelerated the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Science and Technology Corridor, and worked together to build world-class industrial clusters such as new energy and intelligent connected vehicles.
An important growth pole of high-quality development that supports the development of the western region in the new era is accelerating its rise.
In the past ten years, Chongqing has fully implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's entrustment to the land of Bayu. The economic development has achieved an overall transformation from high-speed growth to high-quality development, and the people's life has achieved a historic transformation from an overall well-off to an all-round well-off.
In 2021, Chongqing will achieve a regional GDP of 2,789.402 billion yuan, an increase of 8.3% over the previous year; the per capita disposable income of rural residents will reach 18,100 yuan, an increase of 10.6%.
Zhu Jiang, Deputy Director of Chongqing Development and Reform Commission:
We will follow the direction of General Secretary Xi Jinping to promote high-quality development, create high-quality life, achieve economic strength, scientific and technological strength, ecological civilization construction level, and people's living standards. A new chapter in the modernization of socialism.