It is related to the "big test" of high-quality development, Guangdong Express brother applied to answer!

In the process of striving to achieve the primary task of achieving high-quality development, where are the "economic coordinates" of Guangdong at present?

Joining hands with Hong Kong and Macao, in the name of the Greater Bay Area, less than 1% of the country's land area is used to create 12% of the country's total economic output - this is Guangdong.

The county area accounts for 71.7% of the province's area, but the county GDP accounts for only 12.5% of the province's GDP, and only one county in the top <> counties in the country is on the list - this is also Guangdong.

The unbalanced development of urban and rural areas is the basic provincial condition of Guangdong and the biggest shortcoming of Guangdong in achieving high-quality development.

The county is governed, and the world is safe. County modernization is an important foundation for China's modernization. Today, Guangdong implements the "High-quality Development Project of 100 Counties, Thousands of Towns and Thousands of Villages" to solve the problem of unbalanced regional development, and proposes to promote "new-type urbanization with county towns as important carriers". Among them, how to scientifically promote the orderly transfer of industries and "revitalize the county with industry" is a key part of it.

Among the 57 counties or county-level cities in Guangdong, Puning, a county-level city in Jieyang, is the most populous county-level city in China.

The just-released 2022 national express delivery volume list, Jieyang unexpectedly surpassed the three major cities of Shanghai, Hangzhou and Dongguan. The annual express delivery business volume reached 37.29 billion pieces. It is Puning that plays a pivotal role in it.

Located in the northwest and east of Guangdong, the location is not excellent, why can the small city "stand out"? Along the continuously expanding transportation network and logistics network, we can glimpse what top-level designs of Guangdong are promoting regional coordinated development from the story of "counterattack" in small cities?

The small city "counterattack" apocalypse

In the past year, where in China was the busiest courier brother?

The answer may come as a surprise: Guangdong tops the list with more than a quarter of the country's express delivery business – the delivery brother here handles 301.36 billion express delivery operations every year.

Logistics is an important bellwether for economic recovery. Guangdong, the country's largest economic province, seems reasonable to be named the "largest province in express delivery". But a closer look at the list shows that it is not simple: among the top ten cities, Guangdong occupies "half of the rivers and mountains": in addition to large cities such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Shantou and Jieyang, which are far away from the Greater Bay Area and located in the northwest and east of Guangdong, also "unexpectedly" made the list.

How did the story of the "counterattack" of the small town happen?

Just past the Lunar New Year, the crisp and bright rhythm of Jieyang Ying song and dance exploded on the Internet - this is also the first impression of many people on this eastern Guangdong city.

The bustle faded, and street electronics malls and express pick-up points could be found everywhere, weaving like knots throughout Puning's urban transportation network – and with the economic recovery, express delivery continues to reshape the ecology here.

Behind the huge volume of express delivery is the figure of the industry. Plastic products, hardware products, textiles and garments are the traditional industrial foundation of Jieyang. But the industry can only represent the past here - the days of rising by foundry and low-end manufacturing are gone a decade ago.

The opportunity for "pointing" comes from e-commerce.

Ten years ago, a large number of Jieyang people engaged in clothing business in Guangzhou found that with the development of e-commerce, the agglomeration effect of wholesale market stalls was weakening, and they returned to their hometowns, opening the road to village-level e-commerce development, and many e-commerce villages in Jieyang developed and grew. Today, more than 95% of Jieyang's express delivery is e-commerce.

E-commerce is called "running out of productivity". However, can it be done just by relying on the courier brothers to fight for speed?

"We deliver at 8 a.m., and customers in Guangzhou can receive the goods at 4 p.m., and Puning's warehousing cost per square meter is about 30% lower than that in Guangzhou." The e-commerce people in Jieyang told us that a modern logistics system that can sink into the village and connect the world is far more important than "running fast".

Today's Jieyang, almost all major express delivery brands in the country have set up distribution centers here, handling more than 2000 million express deliveries per day.

There are also many suppliers from Guangzhou and Shenzhen. At the same time, they have warehouses in Guangshen and Jie. However, the delivery time has not increased: Guangzhou and Shenzhen have a large number of professional markets, Jieyang has high-quality and affordable warehousing resources, and the business discussed from Guangshen can be sent from Jieyang to the world in a blink of an eye.

Behind the "dream linkage" is the top-level design

Behind the "dream linkage" of the three "fast" cities, it is not difficult to see the power generated by Guangdong's top-level planning and design.

While people are turning their attention to the super projects in the Greater Bay Area, such as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the Shenzhen-China Corridor, new national highways, county roads and rural roads are quietly connecting the Bay Area and the east, west and north of Guangdong, and the regional pattern has been profoundly changed.

By the end of last year, the total mileage of Guangdong Expressway reached 11211,9 kilometers, ranking first in the country for nine consecutive years. Among them, there are many industrial linkage roads connecting the east, west and north of Guangdong from the Greater Bay Area.

Today, Guangdong proposes to implement the "High-quality Development Project of 100 Counties, Thousands of Towns and Thousands of Villages", how to link the northwestern counties of Guangdong into the Greater Bay Area, jointly participate in the construction of industrial modernization system, and ultimately achieve common prosperity? Following this transportation network, which continues to extend, Guangdong has given a new answer to achieve coordinated regional development.

From a broader perspective, Guangdong's industrial design with the help of transportation networks is more intuitive. On a map from the Guangdong Provincial Department of Transportation, we see a completely new Guangdong: this year, Guangdong plans to renovate 1000,6583 kilometers of ordinary national and provincial highways, and <>,<> kilometers of rural roads. The rapid transit network between the northwestern and eastern regions of Guangdong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has integrated more and more counties, towns and villages into the comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network.

"In 2035, Guangdong will achieve one-hour access within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and two hours within Guangdong Province. In terms of the circulation of goods, it realizes one-day delivery in China. Li Jing, chief planner of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Transportation, told reporters that from the perspective of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the distance between the east and west of Guangdong is constantly narrowing, and it is no longer just "poetry and distance".

For Guangdong, industrial transfer is not a simple overflow and relocation, let alone a road network. A large-scale linkage of productive forces relying on the development of transportation is taking place in southern Guangdong. While the express delivery industry is accelerating forward, it is also activating Guangdong's economic and trade, and industrial professional belts that cross regional restrictions are taking shape.

It is no accident that more and more Jieyang and Shantou are formed.

"In the orderly transfer of the entire industry in Guangdong Province, the government has consciously linked the Pearl River Delta cities with other prefectures and cities, and consciously matched resources in accordance with the requirements of the industrial chain and the advantages of the economic market." It is not only transferred in the manufacturing process, it can even be transferred in the circulation link. Chen Hongyu, former counselor of the Guangdong Provincial Government and professor of the Party School of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, has studied regional economic development for many years, and he believes that to inject vitality into the county economy, in addition to the transfer of the industry itself, what is more important is the effective allocation and linkage of resources. From the perspective of top-level design, the transportation network is planned in the direction of industrial layout, so that the industrial economy belt is "smooth", and the regional linkage story woven by the express brother brings new thinking and paradigm to regional coordinated development.

Express delivery time is fast, traffic speed is fast, and the industrial system responds quickly. Starting from the small city of Jieyang, what we see is a new angle and new possibility of "building a new Guangdong" driven by high-quality development.