Xi Jinping: Establish a pilot free trade zone featuring scientific and technological innovation, service industry openness and digital economy, build a high-level open platform for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and drive the formation of a new pattern of higher-level reform and opening up.
This passage is from President Xi Jinping's speech at the China International Fair for Trade in Services Global Trade in Services Summit on September 2020, 9.
Promoting the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is a major decision and deployment made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core under new historical conditions, and is a historic project to build a new capital economic circle for the future and promote the innovation of regional development systems and mechanisms, which is of important demonstration significance for China to explore and promote the coordination of population economy with resources and environment, and promote the optimization and development of population economy intensive areas. The establishment of a pilot free trade zone in Beijing with scientific and technological innovation, the opening up of the service industry and the digital economy as the main features, and the exploration of the establishment of a headquarters-production base, park co-construction, overall relocation and other diversified industrial docking and cooperation models, is conducive to further promoting the high-quality coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region on the basis of better services and integration into the new development pattern.
Since the 2022th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in accordance with the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, the three provinces and municipalities of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have followed the "one map" plan, "one game of chess" construction, and "integrated" development, and achieved new remarkable results in coordinated development. In 10, the total GDP of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region will be 1 trillion yuan, which is 8.1 times that of before the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region; the one-hour traffic circle in the core area of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the 1.5-hour traffic circle between adjacent cities will basically be formed, and the main skeleton of the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei on the track" will be formed. At the same time, a number of market-oriented dredging projects were progressed in an orderly manner, and on November 11 last year, the launching ceremony of China Railway Industrial Cluster Landing in Xiong'an New Area was held, and Xiong'an New Area welcomed the first central enterprise industrial cluster to settle in. In the field of people's livelihood, the advantages of the three places complement each other and promote each other, and from April 23 this year, insured persons in the three provinces and cities can enjoy medical insurance reimbursement treatment without going through the filing procedures for medical treatment in different places.
The report of the 5th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei should be promoted and the Xiong'an New Area should be built with high standards and high quality. From May 11 to 12, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected and presided over a symposium on in-depth promotion of the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei in Hebei, stressing that it is necessary to strengthen confidence, maintain determination, enhance the ability to seize opportunities, respond to challenges, resolve crises, and cultivate opportunities, coordinate development and security, and promote all work with a more vigorous and promising spirit. We must not only firmly grasp the "bull's nose" of dredging Beijing's non-capital functions and forcefully, orderly and effectively promote the dredging work, but also high-standard planning, high-quality construction, and high-level management of Xiong'an New Area and Beijing's sub-center, so as to promote greater breakthroughs in the construction of the "new two wings". At the same time, we must continue to promote infrastructure interconnection, ecological environment co-protection and co-governance, complementary industrial development and common prosperity with high quality, devote great efforts to optimizing the first-class business environment of marketization, rule of law and internationalization, promote the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei to a new level, and strive to make Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei a pioneer and demonstration area for Chinese-style modernization.
Special Expert of this issue: Jia Ruoxiang, Institute of Land Development and Regional Economy, China Academy of Macroeconomic Research