Less than a week after the National Two Sessions, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Hunan for an inspection and hosted a symposium in Changsha on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era.
Since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the General Secretary has personally chaired meetings to promote the construction of Xiongan New Area with high standards and high quality, deepen the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, strengthen the comprehensive prevention and control of desertification, promote the construction of key ecological projects such as the "Three Norths", and promote the new era. This symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era is the seventh symposium to promote the implementation of regional development strategies. "Next step, we will also hold symposiums on promoting the development of the western region, ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin. These meetings will be held once a term, and we will grasp them one by one, round by round, and achieve long-term success and step by step. If you go deeper, you will definitely achieve something..." If you see it right, continue to work hard and never give up if you fail. This is the general secretary's determination, tenacity and method to work hard.
When the General Secretary visited Hunan in 2020, he said with emotion: "We are now at some historically significant time nodes." At that time, the "13th Five-Year Plan" was about to end, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" was about to begin. In 2024, we are about to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and we have also entered a critical year to achieve the goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan". Holding this symposium at a new historical node is a new departure from a higher starting point for the central region’s rise strategy.
The six central provinces account for about one-tenth of the country's land area, host about one-quarter of the population, and create about one-fifth of the total economic output. They are my country's important grain production bases, energy and raw material bases, and modern modern provinces. The equipment manufacturing and high-tech industrial base and comprehensive transportation hub play a decisive role in the country.
Five years ago, the General Secretary presided over a symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in Nanchang, Jiangxi, and drew up a grand blueprint for creating a new situation for the rise of the central region. "In the past five years, we have worked step by step and steadily, and we have continued to move in the right direction. We have achieved great results and the results are obvious."
Five years have passed, and the development of the central region has reached a higher starting point. At this symposium, the General Secretary pointed out the direction for promoting the rise of the central region in the new era. The general secretary's words are full of confidence and power: "I believe that through everyone's careful understanding of relevant work ideas and measures, specific plans adapted to local conditions will be formed and fully rolled out in the six provinces. The accelerated rise of the central region will usher in a new round of climax."
Resolutely shoulder the important task of maintaining national food security and firmly hold the Chinese people’s jobs in their own hands
A year's plan begins with spring, and a year's good fortune begins with spring plowing.
It is the season for spring plowing preparations. On the afternoon of the 19th, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the 10,000-acre grain production comprehensive demonstration area in Xiejiapu Town, Dingcheng District, Changde City.
It is surrounded by fertile fields and clear water. Pieces of green and golden colors are swaying in the spring breeze, and the air is filled with the fragrance of earth.
According to the local responsible comrades, the demonstration area adopts the "five unifications and two utilizations" technical model - unifying fine varieties, unifying machine inserting and throwing, unifying mechanical deep fertilization, unifying green prevention and control, and unifying physical and chemical technologies, using field ridges to plant soybeans, and using winter slack Green manure is used in fields, and the yield per mu of early rice and late rice reaches 1152.3 kilograms.
Along the path beside the fields, the General Secretary walked deep into the farmland.
People are raising seedlings in the rice fields nearby, and the seeds on the seedling trays have just been sown. "When will you start planting rice here?" The general secretary stepped forward to inspect it carefully and communicated cordially with the major grain growers and agricultural technicians present.
"Early to mid-April."
"We don't plant May Day rice seedlings in the south!" The general secretary's familiarity with agricultural production aroused everyone's knowing laughter.
"How much net income can you get from one acre of land?" the general secretary asked with concern.
"If you also grow rapeseed, you can get about 1,300 to 1,400 yuan with the land subsidy."
Chen Shuaiyu, a major grain grower present, is a college student born in the 1990s who returned to his hometown. He took the lead in establishing a cooperative and contracted more than 2,800 acres of rice fields. The general secretary started chatting with him: "What are you studying in college? How long have you been back?"
"I studied business administration and have been back for nine years."
"Do you plan to continue doing this?" the general secretary asked.
"I will definitely continue to work. Now the country has great support for growing grains. The more we work, the more energetic we will be!" the young man replied loudly.
In the field of hope, the figure of youth is active. They took over the important responsibilities of their fathers and opened up new worlds with new ideas and technologies.
After leaving the rice fields, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the home of Dai Hong, a major grain grower in Zhongping Village, Hong Kong. In the yard, rice transplanters, rice throwers, drones for spraying pesticides, as well as seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and other agricultural materials prepared for spring plowing are all available.
Dai Hong told the General Secretary that he had contracted more than 480 acres of paddy fields, all of which were planted with double-cropping rice. Last year, the net income from farming was more than 550,000 yuan, and the government also subsidized more than 70,000 yuan.
The general secretary was very happy after hearing this: "Grain farmers cannot suffer losses. Only when they make money can they be motivated to grow grain."
"Hunan and Guangzhou are ripe, and the world is full of them." The eight hundred miles of Dongting and Yuanli in Hunan are flowing continuously, nourishing the fertile land of Hunan and Hunan.
"I often say that the Chinese people's rice bowls must be firmly in their own hands, and they should mainly contain Chinese food. We, more than 1.4 billion people, cannot rely on anyone else. Now that our lives are better, we must not forget this." The general secretary’s words gave the villagers reassurance. “The Party Central Committee will continue to encourage and support our rural areas to take the path of agricultural modernization, continue to improve policies in this area, so that growing grain can also make people rich, and let the lives of the majority of farmers blossom.” High and keep living a happier and better life.”
Food is connected to people's livelihood and national security.
Hunan plays an important role in stabilizing national food security - it produces 4.4% of the country's grain with 2.8% of the country's arable land, and ranks first in the country in terms of rice area and output.
On the morning of the 21st, while listening to the work report of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, the General Secretary talked about the issue of food loss and waste from the perspective of food security: "When I joined the queue in the countryside, I couldn't change my shoulder to carry the wheat. If I changed my shoulder and shook it, the wheat would fall. It will fall down and be wasted. Nowadays, a lot of grain losses are caused by mechanical harvesting. We need to improve the machinery to avoid extensive operations."
He required Hunan to fully implement the joint responsibilities of the party and government for food security, seize the two key points of seeds and cultivated land, guard the red line of cultivated land, and resolutely prevent the "non-agriculturalization" of cultivated land and the "non-grain conversion" of basic farmland.
Looking at the entire central region from Hunan, 5 of the 13 major grain-producing areas in the country are here. In 2023, the six central provinces will account for 29.2% of the country's grain output.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited six central provinces many times, and every time he talks about food security.
At the symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era held on the afternoon of the 20th, the main responsible comrades of the six central provinces unanimously talked about the issues of food production and food security.
After listening to everyone's speech, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that ensuring national food security should be placed in a prominent position, guarding the lifeblood of cultivated land, seizing the key point of seeds, implementing actions to increase grain production capacity, accelerating research on key core technologies in the seed industry and agricultural machinery, and speeding up research on key core technologies in the seed industry and agricultural machinery. Increase investment in high-standard farmland construction and management and protection, and strengthen the protection and utilization of agricultural germplasm resources. At the same time, we should adhere to the big agricultural concept and the big food concept, actively develop characteristic agriculture and agricultural product processing industry, and improve the level of agricultural industrialization.
Coordinate education, science and technology, and talent work to provide strong impetus for modernization construction
Education, science and technology, and talents are the basic and strategic support for comprehensively building a modern socialist country. General Secretary Xi Jinping has far-reaching considerations and strategic plans for coordinating education, science and technology, and talent work.
How to transform advantages in education, science and technology, and talents into development advantages is an important issue that General Secretary Xi Jinping has always paid attention to. In recent years, the General Secretary has visited various provinces in the central region and emphasized this issue every time he visited.
On the afternoon of the 18th, under the continuous spring rain, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Hunan First Normal College (Chengnan Academy Campus) for inspection and investigation.
The predecessor of the First Division was the Chengnan Academy founded in the Southern Song Dynasty. It has a profound cultural heritage that has been inherited for thousands of years. It is also famous for cultivating a group of older generation proletarian revolutionaries and famous teachers in modern times.
As soon as he entered the school hall, the school spirit and school motto written on the walls on both sides were particularly eye-catching. General Secretary Xi Jinping stopped and stared.
The school motto "To be a teacher of the people, first be a student of the people" was written by Mao Zedong, a student of the First Normal University; the school spirit "Seek truth from facts and not be self-righteous" was written by Xu Teli, a teacher of the First Normal University. The style of the Chinese Communists permeates between the lines, triggering the General Secretary’s deep thoughts.
The land of Hunan and Hunan is a hot red land. From here, a large number of outstanding Chinese Communists walked to the stage of history, shining like stars and dazzlingly.
The emergence of outstanding talents comes from the long-term academic vision of the founders.
In the school exhibition hall, there are old photos of students participating in physical exercise, voluntary labor, field exercises, social practice, etc. a hundred years ago, showing the division's insistence on "equal emphasis on three educations" and "integration of body and mind" to allow students to develop in an all-round way. Advanced school running philosophy.
General Secretary Xi Jinping was deeply touched by this: "Our current school education must also pay attention to this issue and not just teach knowledge."
When leaving, teachers and students gathered around and greeted the General Secretary loudly.
General Secretary Xi Jinping said to everyone: "In the era when our country was poor and weak, a group of patriots felt that if China wanted to become strong, it must develop education."
What are the signs of a good school? How to run a good school?
The general secretary spoke with sincerity: "The purpose of the school is not only to improve the cultural quality of students, but also to guide students to aspire to serve the country. Now, the world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century, and our country is comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the development of the nation with Chinese-style modernization. It is the right time for contemporary young students to revive the great cause. At this time, we have a greater responsibility to jointly run education well, train students well, and cultivate batches of talents for promoting Chinese-style modernization."
Applause echoed in the campus for a long time, and the young faces were filled with confident smiles.
The central region has a profound cultural heritage and has more than 700 colleges and universities, accounting for 30% of the country's students. To provide a strong impetus for modernization, we must not only adhere to the priority development of education, but also adhere to science and technology, self-reliance and talent leadership.
"Cultivation and development of new productive forces are new driving forces that accelerate the rise of the central region." At the symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that more attention should be paid to the in-depth integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and the central region should be given full play to The advantage of rich scientific and educational resources strengthens the main position of enterprises in innovation and accelerates the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productivity.
After leaving the First Division, the General Secretary came to BASF Shanshan Battery Materials Co., Ltd. This is a Sino-German joint venture technology innovation enterprise mainly engaged in the research and development, production and sales of lithium-ion battery cathode materials. Its products are used in many fields such as electric vehicles and mobile phones.
Inspecting product displays in the company's exhibition hall, and walking into the comprehensive analysis room and battery technology center, the General Secretary had an in-depth understanding of the company's research and development status.
The general secretary emphasized: "Scientific and technological innovation and high-quality development are the keys for enterprises to continue to grow and remain invincible. Private enterprises and joint ventures can make great achievements in this regard."
When leaving the company, General Secretary Xi Jinping had a cordial exchange with the German person in charge of the company, and asked about any other problems that needed to be solved in the company's operations.
The person in charge said that the company has received great support from the local government. There are many opportunities here and great potential for development. He hopes to work with the Chinese team to make battery materials made in Hunan go global.
"China's door of opening up will open wider and wider. We are willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with other countries around the world and welcome more foreign companies to invest and develop in China. Currently, we regard the high-tech field as the focus of development. We are willing to strengthen cooperation with companies from various countries, Let’s develop together. I believe you will have a very good prospect here!” said the General Secretary.
Only by planning in the general trend and taking action in the overall situation can we clearly understand our role positioning, give full play to our unique strengths, and seize opportunities for development.
The central region has a complete range of manufacturing industries and is an important modern equipment manufacturing and high-tech industrial base in my country. This is the core strength that promotes the rise of the central region.
The General Secretary clearly pointed out that the central region should be based on the foundation of the real economy, expand and strengthen advanced manufacturing, actively promote new industrialization, transform and upgrade traditional industries, cultivate and strengthen emerging industries, plan and build future industries in advance, and accelerate the construction of advanced manufacturing as the core. Supporting modern industrial system.
Comprehensively deepening reform is the driving force for the rise of the central region.
The General Secretary requested the central region to deepen the market-oriented reform of factors, improve the basic system of market economy, comprehensively clean up and correct local protection behaviors, promote the rational flow and optimal allocation of various productivity factors across regions, and better participate in the construction of a unified national market.
The low level of opening up to the outside world is an important shortcoming that affects and restricts the rise of the central region.
The general secretary emphasized that we must steadily expand institutional opening up, deeply integrate into the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", proactively connect with the New Eurasian Continental Bridge and the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, build high-standard free trade pilot zones, and create more high-level opening-up and cooperation platforms. It will play a greater role in connecting domestic and international dual circulation.
Consciously strengthen ecological protection and cultural inheritance, and show the lasting charm of natural scenery and humanistic customs
Changde River Street has a long history and was destroyed in the Battle of Changde in 1943. In recent years, through restoration and reconstruction, it has become an important carrier for retaining historical memories and inheriting the urban context.
On the morning of the 19th, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Changde from Changsha and first inspected Changde River Street.
After a spring rain, the sun is exceptionally warm. There are many shops on both sides of the street, with a dazzling array of local products, food and snacks, and special handicrafts. It is antique and has a pyrotechnic atmosphere.
Along the stone slab road, the General Secretary walked to inspect the scenery of He Street, entered shops, inquired about prices, chatted about household matters, and had cordial exchanges with shopkeepers, tourists and citizens from time to time.
On the street, a young man is making Leicha. In the pottery bowl, a mountain pepper stick is ground back and forth, raw rice, ginger, tea leaves and other ingredients are mashed and mixed, and cooked into a necessary local drink for entertaining guests. The general secretary stepped forward to watch the making of Leicha.
The young man told the general secretary that Leicha is one family in the world, no matter where it is from, it embodies the Chinese hospitality.
"This is also part of Chinese culture and must be passed on." said the general secretary.
The Yuanyang Zoumalou displays the intangible cultural heritage of Changde.
After watching the display of local intangible cultural heritage skills, the General Secretary pointed out that the colorful traditional culture with local characteristics together constitute the splendid Chinese civilization and also promote economic and social development. Changde is a place with cultural inheritance. The silk strings, high tunes, chants, etc. here must be passed down and utilized with appropriate carriers, and developed with the times.
Humanities and economy promote and prosper each other, and cultural inheritance and economic development complement each other. This is the due meaning of the development of Hunan and even the rise of the central region.
"The long history and culture, the profound revolutionary culture, and the active modern culture are the rich resources and profound foundation for Hunan to enhance its cultural soft power." The general secretary emphasized that it is necessary to better shoulder the new cultural mission, inherit the history and culture, and continue to Revolutionary culture and the development of advanced socialist culture enable Hunan culture to achieve new development and present a new atmosphere in the new era, and demonstrate new achievements in building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
Changde is born from water and thrives by the water. The Yuanli River flows through it and merges into the vast Dongting.
The breeze blows gently, the water is clear and the shore is green. In Changde River Street, the General Secretary came to the bank of the Chuanzi River to hear about the comprehensive management of the local water environment.
According to local responsible comrades, in recent years, Changde has implemented river and lake connectivity and systematic management. The water quality of the Yuanli River main stream section has maintained Class II or above for four consecutive years. The waterfront scenery along the rivers and lakes has become a good place for citizens to relax and exercise. . In the West Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve, the long-lost finless porpoise, Chinese sturgeon, black stork and other national first-level protected animals have returned, attracting a large number of tourists and increasing the income of residents around the lake area.
"There are orchids in the garden", "delicious grass and colorful fallen flowers", unique history and culture, and beautiful ecological environment are the best business cards of a place.
Nature, humanity, mountains and rivers are all priceless treasures.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that we should promote the deep integration of culture and tourism, protect the green mountains, green waters, blue skies and pure land of Sanxiang, and transform the natural scenery and humanistic customs into the lasting charm of the tourism industry.
The General Secretary further put forward the clear requirement of "accelerating the construction of a beautiful Central China", emphasizing that we must continue to fight hard in the battle against pollution and strengthen the ecological environment system management, comprehensive management, Collaborative governance, improving the value realization mechanism of ecological products, and promoting industrial ecology and ecological industrialization.
Continue to deepen the rectification of formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots and stimulate the spirit of entrepreneurs and responsibilities
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always attached great importance to solving outstanding formalism problems and reducing the burden on the grassroots.
From the "Notice on Solving the Outstanding Problems of Formalism to Reduce the Burden on the Grassroots", which proposes hard and practical measures, to launching a special working mechanism to rectify formalism at the central level and reducing the burden on the grassroots to further implement it; from determining the "Year of Burden Reduction at the Grassroots" to The report exposed typical cases of formalism and bureaucracy... Under the personal deployment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, a series of measures have promoted the work of reducing burdens at the grassroots level to be deeper and more practical.
In this critical year, how to further reduce the burden on the grassroots and improve the efficiency of grassroots governance so that the majority of grassroots cadres can go into battle with ease and work hard?
During his inspection in Tianjin, the General Secretary pointed out that “continue to rectify formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots, guide the majority of party members and cadres to work hard, forge ahead, and fully promote the implementation of the Party Central Committee’s decisions and arrangements”; when participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the National Two Sessions, he emphasized that “resolutely correct Cure formalism and bureaucracy, effectively reduce the burden on the grassroots, stimulate the creative vitality of the whole party and society, and boost the entrepreneurial spirit of party members, cadres and officials”...
During this trip to Hunan, the General Secretary also specifically inspected the burden reduction situation at the grassroots level in rural areas.
In the courtyard of the Party and Mass Service Center of Gangzhongping Village, Duan Dexi, secretary of the village party branch, reported the changes he felt to the general secretary: "Our village had 38 brands at its peak, but now there are only 12."
The general secretary turned around and saw four signs: Gangzhongping Village Branch Committee, Villagers Committee, Village Supervisory Committee, and Economic Cooperative. They were clear and concise.
Behind the decrease in brand names is the decrease in the tasks undertaken by the grassroots.
Duan Dexi told the General Secretary that there are now fewer certificates that need to be issued by the village. In the past, there were more than 20 certificates at most, including death certificates, birth certificates, etc. Now most of them are no longer needed, and there are fewer tasks assigned by functional departments. The number of WeChat work groups on village cadres’ mobile phones has also been reduced from more than 30 at the time to 4 now. Everyone has more time and energy to serve the people.
The general secretary nodded in affirmation. He pointed out that the Party Central Committee has made clear requirements to reduce the burden on the grassroots, resolutely rectify formalism and bureaucracy, refine troops and streamline administration, and persevere in carrying out this work.
When listening to the work report of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, General Secretary Xi Jinping further emphasized the need to consolidate and expand the results of thematic education, establish and improve long-term mechanisms, establish and practice a correct view of political performance, continue to deepen the rectification of formalism, reduce the burden on the grassroots, and continuously improve Leadership style and work style. "In any job we do and in whatever we do for the masses, we must seek truth from facts."
Spring comes early when people are diligent, and it is the right time to make progress.
Riding the spring breeze of the new era, the land of Hunan and Hunan is striving to be the first, and the central region is full of vitality, striving to write a new chapter in Chinese modernization.
Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhang Xiaosong and Zhu Jichai People's Daily reporters Du Shangze and Wu Qiqiang
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