China News Agency, Guangzhou, February 20th: What is the significance of "recreating a new Guangdong" to explore the way for China?
——Interview with Wang Tinghui, President of Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences
China News Agency reporter Cheng Jingwei
On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese lunar calendar, Guangdong held the "First Meeting of the New Year" - the province's high-quality development conference, which aroused attention at home and abroad.
What important signal did the conference send?
How to achieve the goal of "recreating a new Guangdong"?
What is the significance of exploring the Guangdong path of Chinese-style modernization?
What new opportunities does Guangdong's promotion of high-quality development bring to the world economy?
A reporter from China News Agency "Dongxiwen" interviewed Wang Tinghui, president of the Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences, for an in-depth interpretation and elaboration.
The interview transcript is summarized as follows:
China News Agency reporter: Guangdong's "New Year's First Meeting" focused on high-quality development. What important signals did it release?
Wang Tinghui:
Guangdong is the vanguard, pioneer, and experimental area of reform and opening up. It plays a very important role in the overall situation of China's reform, opening up, and modernization. Guangdong's deployment and actions in Guangdong have special significance in leading the latest development direction.
Guangdong's "New Year's First Meeting" is a rallying meeting to unify thinking and boost confidence, a cheering meeting to clarify the direction and stimulate enthusiasm, and a mobilization meeting to gather strength and inspire people to forge ahead.
With a sense of urgency of "can't wait", a sense of crisis of "can't wait", and a sense of responsibility of "can't sit still", Guangdong held a clear banner of "high-quality development" at the first meeting of the year. As the primary task and general starting point of modernization, it quickly released a clear signal of the start.
On January 8, 2023, in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, passengers took the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge shuttle bus to arrive at the Zhuhai Highway Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.
Photo by Chen Jimin
China News Agency reporter: Guangdong dared to take the lead in reform and opening up in the past, and now it is promoting high-quality development in an all-round way. How do you view Guangdong's current historical position?
Wang Tinghui:
Guangdong is located at the frontier of exchanges between Chinese and Western civilizations, and has been playing the role of a pioneer in modernization since modern times.
Here came the earliest overseas students and engineers in modern China, and established the earliest national capitalist industry and commerce (Jichanglong Silk Reeling Factory). recipe.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially since the reform and opening up, Guangdong has been active on the stage of modernization as a vanguard, pioneer and demonstration area, with rapid development and miracles.
The province's GDP increased from 18.585 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) in 1978 to more than 12.9 trillion yuan in 2022, ranking first in the country for 34 consecutive years; per capita GDP increased from 370 yuan in 1978 to 98,285 yuan in 2021; 161.5 All relatively poor people have been lifted out of poverty...
At the same time, Guangdong has a large population, tight resource constraints, and a complex external environment for open development. The task of improving the balance and coordination of development is heavy, and the extensive development mode of fighting for land, price, and labor is unsustainable.
At present, the growth of Guangdong's economic development volume has entered a plateau period, and qualitative breakthroughs are in the brewing period. Only through qualitative improvement, new breakthroughs and development breakthroughs can we respond to the uncertainty of the external environment with the certainty of high-quality development, and use quality In order to start a new round of high-quality oriented development and catch-up, the substantial improvement and continuous growth of the realized volume can be started.
Unlike "crossing the river by feeling the stones" in the early days of reform and opening up, Guangdong has now formed a strong consensus on "high-quality development".
Guangdong must further understand its historical position, grasp the overall situation, grasp the historical initiative, place high-quality development in the overall situation of national development, and achieve "high-quality development" at the forefront and set an example.
Aerial photography of the fourth phase of the Canton Fair Complex.
(UAV photo) Photo by Chen Jimin
Reporter from China News Agency: The discussion of "recreating a new Guangdong" has attracted great attention from the outside world. What is the path for Guangdong to achieve this goal?
Wang Tinghui:
Huang Kunming, secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, pointed out at the provincial high-quality development conference that "recreating a new Guangdong and creating a new miracle that will impress the world" has put forward new goals and requirements for the future-oriented development of Guangdong.
In my opinion, the fundamental way out of "rebuilding a new Guangdong" is to implement the new development concept and promote high-quality development through high-quality reform, opening up and innovation.
First, high-quality, comprehensive and in-depth reforms are required to accelerate the establishment of institutional systems and institutional advantages for high-quality development with leading and innovative reforms.
Based on the national strategic layout and deployment, Guangdong should give full play to its first-mover advantages in reform, policy advantages, geographical advantages, platform advantages and innovation advantages. With great courage, promote reform and development at a higher starting point and deeper level at a high level, build a high-level socialist market economic system, timely and effective "integrated" supply system to promote high-quality development, and further make good use of platforms such as Shenzhen's comprehensive reform pilot project to achieve high-efficiency Orderly advance the innovation and reform measures of major strategic cooperation platforms, create a comprehensive reform pilot for the market-oriented allocation of national factors, and deepen reforms in areas such as scientific and technological innovation, state-owned assets and enterprises, digital government, and credit Guangdong.
On October 17, 2022, at the Guangzhou Seagull Island Flight Base, the flying car "Traveler X2" developed by a technology company.
Photo by Chen Jimin
Second, we must expand opening-up in an all-round way with high quality, and accelerate the establishment of an open pattern and open advantages for high-quality development with a large-scale opening-up and deep-opening.
Relying on the "Double Zones" (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Shenzhen Pioneering Demonstration Zone), further promote the in-depth cooperation in the opening up of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, accelerate the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao cooperation platforms such as Hengqin, Qianhai, and Nansha, and implement the "Bay Area Link" project in depth , Steadily promote institutional opening-up, and build a new higher-level open economic system.
Based on the location advantages of the intersection of dual cycles, actively promote the integrated high-quality development of the Pearl River Estuary in the Greater Bay Area, and promote the deep integration of domestic and international markets.
Aerial photography of the new passenger inspection building at Hengqin Port.
(UAV photo) Photo by Chen Jimin
Third, we must promote innovation in an all-round way with high quality, fully release the primary driving force, and accelerate the construction of an innovation pattern and innovation advantages for high-quality development.
Guangdong's regional innovation capability ranks first in the country for six consecutive years.
It is necessary to promote the construction of a whole-process innovation ecological chain of "basic research + technological breakthroughs + industrialization of achievements + technological finance + talent support". Stuck neck" problem.
It is necessary to cooperate with Hong Kong and Macao innovation resources, platforms, and organizations to accelerate the construction of an international science and technology innovation center in the Greater Bay Area and create an important source of global science and technology innovation.
On September 24, 2022, construction of the permanent site of the Greater Bay Area Science Forum started in Nansha District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province.
(UAV photo) Photo by Chen Jimin
Reporter from China News Agency: "From east to west, from north to south, from middle to south, make a fortune in Guangdong" has been resounding all over the country, and has made countless strugglers. How can Guangdong further expand its opening up and attract more capital, enterprises and talents?
Wang Tinghui:
Guangdong should actively take advantage of China's ultra-large-scale market, further expand opening up in an all-round way, and form new advantages in opening up and developing with global competitiveness.
On the one hand, Guangdong must deeply participate in the "Belt and Road" initiative, actively and deeply connect with RCEP ("Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement"), and play a good combination of foreign trade, foreign investment, outsourcing, foreign economics, and foreign intelligence. , steadily expand institutional opening-up, accelerate the formation of new advantages of institutional opening-up, continue to iteratively upgrade the reform and innovation of the business environment, and attract the inflow of global high-end elements, first-class enterprises and high-level talents.
On the other hand, it is necessary to realize the joint development of internal and external opening up, build an open development competitiveness that connects internal and external markets, coordinates internal and external resources, connects internal and external openings, and integrates internal and external development, attracts more capital to flow into Guangdong, more enterprises invest in Guangdong, and more talents take root Guangdong.
On September 17, 2021, in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, two Macao doctors received a practicing certificate from the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone.
Photo by Chen Jimin
China News Agency reporter: For more than 40 years, Guangdong has been an important window for the international community to observe China's reform and opening up. Guangdong's high-quality development promotes the realization of a new leap forward in modernization. What is the significance of exploring the way for China?
Wang Tinghui:
Guangdong should achieve a new leap forward in modernization with high-quality development, take the lead in the country and create new brilliance in the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. There are three aspects of practice and exploration significance:
The first is to explore a high-quality development path for national modernization.
Guangdong is China's largest economic province, a province with a strong economy and a large population.
Give full play to the first-mover advantages of reform and opening up and the basic advantages of high-quality development, solidly and deeply promote high-quality development, and explore the Guangdong path of Chinese-style modernization, which can demonstrate and lead the radiation to drive high-quality development across the country.
The second is to explore the open practice of promoting modernization with high-quality development.
Focusing on the goal of building a world-class and best Bay Area, Guangdong will fully and deeply integrate into the development of the Greater Bay Area, further expand opening-up in an all-round way with high quality, promote the conversion of development momentum through open development, change the development mode, optimize the development structure, and improve development efficiency. The Bay Area is open and complementary, develops in coordination, and innovates to lead and promote China's modernization drive.
The third is to explore the innovative practice of guiding high-quality development with the ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Guangdong's reform, innovation and development will achieve a new leap forward in modernization with high-quality development. It will continue to innovate and develop practices, enrich innovative practical experience, optimize and improve practical advantages, and show the world a society with Chinese characteristics. The institutional advantages and innovative achievements of socialism.
Reporter from China News Agency: If the total GDP of Guangdong in 2022 is calculated as an individual economy, it will already be among the top ten economies in the world. In Guangdong's new journey towards high-quality development, what opportunities will it bring to foreign-funded foreign companies and even the world economy?
Wang Tinghui:
In recent years, Guangdong has introduced policies and measures such as the "Ten Measures for Foreign Investment" and its revised version, and took the lead in promulgating local regulations on the protection of foreign investment rights and interests, which has attracted a number of high-quality large foreign investment projects such as BASF and ExxonMobil.
Guangdong's comprehensive and in-depth reform, comprehensive expansion of opening up and comprehensive promotion of innovation mean that there will be more investment opportunities, larger market scope, broader market space and more promising development opportunities for foreign-funded foreign companies.
First of all, Guangdong is accelerating the integration of regional markets in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, optimizing the construction of a market-oriented, law-based, international first-class business environment, which will further reduce the institutional transaction costs of foreign-funded foreign companies, protect the rights and interests of foreign investors in accordance with the law, and improve the investment of foreign-funded foreign companies. predictability and convenience.
Secondly, Guangdong will further open up the field of foreign capital and foreign investment, strengthen institutional opening, create an internationally influential investment promotion platform, and improve the quality and level of foreign capital utilization, which will greatly expand the investment opportunities of foreign capital and foreign companies.
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Respondent profile:
Wang Tinghui is currently the Deputy Secretary and Dean of the Party Group of the Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences.
He is mainly engaged in research in the fields of regulatory economics, modern Austrian economics, development theory and policy, and institutional economics.
In May 2003, the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government awarded the title of "Guangzhou City Model Worker".
In May 2006, the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government awarded the title of "Model Worker of Guangdong Province".