On the afternoon of March 20, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era in Changsha, Hunan, and made important arrangements for solidly promoting the rise of the central region from a higher starting point.
This is the second time since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that the General Secretary has hosted a symposium on the coordinated regional development strategy of the rise of the central region.
In May 2019, in Nanchang, Jiangxi, the General Secretary presided over a symposium on promoting the rise of the central region and raised three questions in succession - "Can the development momentum of the central region be sustained? Can it be achieved in advanced technologies, key areas, and key areas?" Can there be greater breakthroughs in this link? Can we get better and better on the road of high-quality development and accelerating the conversion of old and new driving forces?"
How has the central region developed in the past five years?
At this symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave a positive evaluation - the economy in the central region is generally stable, the momentum for innovative development continues to increase, the industrial foundation has significantly improved, reform and opening up have taken new steps, social undertakings have developed in an all-round way, and people's living standards have continued to improve. The pace of green and low-carbon transformation has accelerated, and the development of the central region has reached a higher starting point.
"Current Affairs Micro-Observation" looks at the development report card and future direction of the central region from two "trends".
——Leverage advantages and enhance innovation and development momentum
Manufacturing is the foundation of a country, the foundation of a strong country, and the main battlefield for high-quality economic development. The central region is an important modern equipment manufacturing and high-tech industrial base in my country, and General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about the development of the manufacturing industry here.
At the symposium five years ago, the General Secretary put forward 8 opinions on how to work on the rise of the central region. The first one was to "promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry."
△On March 18, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was inspecting Changsha, Hunan Province, came to BASF Shanshan Battery Materials Co., Ltd. to listen to the local situation of accelerating the development of new productivity and expanding high-level opening to the outside world, inspected the company's product display, and learned about material performance testing. situation and battery production process.
"We must lead industrial innovation with technological innovation and actively cultivate and develop new productive forces." At this symposium, the General Secretary put forward new requirements for the development of the manufacturing industry in the central region - based on the foundation of the real economy, making it bigger and stronger and advanced In the manufacturing industry, we will actively promote new industrialization, transform and upgrade traditional industries, cultivate and expand emerging industries, plan and build future industries in advance, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system supported by advanced manufacturing.
In recent years, the central region has made great efforts to lead industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, focusing on advantageous industries, strengthening industrial base reconstruction and major technical equipment research, and promoting high-end, intelligent, and green development of industries.
In the Optics Valley of China in Wuhan, Hubei, China's first suspended aerial rail train "Optics Valley Photon" shows a full sense of technology. With the support of a series of innovative policies, Optics Valley has gathered 16,000 optoelectronic information companies, and the overall scale of the optoelectronic information industry exceeds 500 billion yuan.
China Sound Valley in Hefei, Anhui Province has more than 2,000 companies settled in it and its annual output value exceeds 200 billion yuan, forming a new generation of information technology industry cluster with intelligent voice and artificial intelligence industries as its core.
Optimize and reorganize 40 national key laboratories and promote the construction of 12 major national science and technology infrastructure; make major breakthroughs in key core technology fields such as quantum communications, autonomous security computers, and industrial motherboards and accelerate industrialization... After years of development, the central region The accumulation of innovative development elements has accelerated, and the construction of a modern industrial system has accelerated. National strategic emerging industry clusters and national advanced manufacturing clusters account for 27.3% and 17.8% of the country respectively.
From 2019 to 2023, the GDP of the central region increased from 21.8 trillion yuan to 27 trillion yuan, and the economic aggregates of Henan, Hubei, and Hunan ranked among the top ten in the country.
——Leverage the situation to integrate into and support the new development pattern
"It is necessary to strengthen the connection with other major development strategies and better integrate into and support the new development pattern." At this symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping asked the central region to strengthen in-depth docking with the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. , to strengthen integration and linkage with the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.
The central region connects to the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei to the north, integrates into the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta to the east, and connects to the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to the south. It is also in a key midstream zone for the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.
Through deep connection, integration and linkage with other major development strategies, it can not only better attract industrial innovation resources in developed regions and take advantage of the situation, but also enhance the radiation and influence on underdeveloped regions.
Coordinated regional development is a development chess game that focuses on the overall situation, links the east, west, north, and south vertically and horizontally, and coordinates domestic and international connections. my country's economy has shifted from a stage of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development, which has put forward new requirements for coordinated regional development. We cannot simply require all regions to reach the same level of economic development. Instead, we must follow the path of rational division of labor and optimized development based on the conditions of each region.
Today, the central region is accelerating to form a coordinated development pattern with reasonable division of labor, complementary advantages, and unique characteristics.
Henan and Shanxi are deeply involved in the ecological protection and high-quality development strategy of the Yellow River Basin; Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi actively promote the green and low-carbon transformation of industries and play an important role in the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt; Anhui relies on the integration of the Yangtze River Delta and actively undertakes industrial transfer, Achieve transformation and upgrading; Changzhutan urban agglomeration, Greater Nanchang metropolitan area, Zhengzhou metropolitan area, central Shanxi urban agglomeration, etc. continue to emerge.
The central region not only proactively integrates into major national strategies based on its own positioning, but also opens up a development pattern through open cooperation. In the past five years, the total cargo volume of airports in the central region has reached nearly 7 million tons, and the cumulative cargo volume of the Zhengzhou-Luxembourg "Air Silk Road" has exceeded 1 million tons; a total of 45 institutional innovation achievements in Henan, Hubei, Hunan, and Anhui Pilot Free Trade Zones have been replicated and promoted at the national level.
With integration, interaction, integration and complementarity within the region, new steps have been taken in high-level open cooperation outside the region, and the development space of the central region continues to expand.
"We must consistently implement a series of policies and measures implemented by the Party Central Committee to promote the rise of the central region, form a joint force to promote high-quality development, and strive to write a new chapter for the rise of the central region in the Chinese-style modernization drive." General Secretary Xi Jinping said on a higher starting point We have high hopes for solidly promoting the rise of the central region.
The rise of central China has a promising future.
Producer | Geng Zhimin
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Editor-in-Chief丨Ning Lili
Written by Cheng Yu
Vision丨Jiang Yuhang
(CCTV News Client)