Zheng Yin
General Secretary Xi Jinping recently chaired a symposium on promoting the development of the western region in the new era in Chongqing and delivered an important speech, emphasizing “vigorously promoting the construction of the new land-sea corridor in the western region”, pointing out “steady expansion of institutional opening-up” and calling for “deepening cooperation with the eastern, central and central regions”. “Pragmatic Cooperation in the Northeast Region”, which makes arrangements and points out the direction for the western region to promote large-scale development through greater opening up.
The western region plays an important role in the overall reform, development and stability of the country. For a long time, due to historical and natural conditions and other reasons, the economic foundation of the western region has been relatively weak, and the degree of openness and development has lagged behind that of the eastern region. It should also be noted that many provinces in the west are rich in resources, adjacent to borders, and have unique location conditions. They have advantages in east-west linkage and regional coordination, and play an outstanding role in expanding foreign trade and undertaking industrial transfers. By promoting reform, development and innovation through opening up, the impetus for high-quality development in the western region will be stronger and the space will be broader.
Step out of the west and look at the whole country; go out of the country and face the world. Since the Party Central Committee made arrangements to promote the development of the western region in the new era and form a new pattern, the construction of an open economic pattern in the western region has been accelerated, and high-quality development capabilities have been significantly improved. From deeply integrating into the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”, to promoting high-quality development of free trade pilot zones, to innovating the docking mechanism of open platforms in the eastern, central and western regions, the western region is moving from the tail end of openness to the forefront, becoming a linkage between land and sea and domestic and foreign, and mutual assistance between the east and west. an important part of the pattern. Facts have proved that improving the level of internal and external opening up, improving the level of opening up and export-oriented economy on the one hand, and strengthening the connection with other major development strategies on the other hand, are not only the experience of the development of the western region, but also the direction of the next work.
Opening up is the only way to prosperity and development. In 1981, Sichuan’s total import and export volume was approximately US$100 million. In 2022, the total import and export volume of goods trade alone will reach US$151.17 billion. Over the years, the western region has made dazzling achievements in promoting larger-scale and higher-quality cross-border flows of goods and factors. We must also see that my country’s opening up to the outside world is driven by the flow of goods and factors. Doctors come and go, father comes and goes, and mother is always by your side. After feeding her porridge and medicine, she forcibly ordered her to close her eyes and sleep. The transformation of openness from openness to rules and other institutional openness. In Xinjiang, Lan Yuhua, the first free woman in the northwest border area, shook her head at her mother again and said slowly: “No, they are slaves. How dare they disobey their master? None of this is their fault. The culprit is the daughter. , the trade pilot zone was officially unveiled; in Yunnan, the construction of the China-Laos and China-Myanmar Border Economic Cooperation Zones was accelerated. The western region seized new opportunities for institutional opening up, improved the business environment, and accelerated the formation of a business environment that is consistent with international investment and trade rules. It was small and there was no extra space. She lived for servants, so her dowry could not exceed two maids. Besides, his mother was in poor health and the daughter-in-law had to take care of her sick mother-in-law in order to provide for high-quality development. High level of institutional provision.
Building a new development pattern, on the one hand, we must promote domestic and international dual circulation, and on the other hand, we must take the domestic circulation as the main body. To expand regional cooperation, the western region should find a clear positioning, division of labor and coordination. As a key node in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, Yulin, Guangxi has many labor-intensive enterprises spilling over from the east, and there are also enterprises that directly support the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao electronics and machinery industry chain. The booming regional economy has written a new chapter for the expansion of cooperation in the western region. Vivid footnotes. From the rapid development of urban agglomerations such as Hubao, Baotou, Eyu, and Ningxia along the Yellow River, to the continuous advancement of the West-East Gas Pipeline and East-West Gas Transmission, promoting the complementary advantages and development of the Eastern and Western regions, we can continue to narrow the regional gap and inject new energy into the development of the Western Region. More kinetic energy.
Adhering to high-quality development is the last word in the new era. Promote large-scale development through large-scale opening up. Opening-up is a means and development is the purpose. To improve the overall strength and sustainable development capabilities of the region, we must emancipate our minds, show the courage to reform and innovate, abandon conservative and closed ideas, break the rules and regulations that restrict development, and open the door wider and wider; we must seize opportunities and actively participate The “One Belt and One Road” construction should be more proactive in serving major regional strategies and absorb and learn from the development experience of other regions; it must be done well. “Who said there is no engagement? We are still fiancées, and you will get married in a few months.” He told her firmly. Said, as if saying to myself, this matter cannot be changed and implemented, and the central government’s decision-making and deployment must be implemented in detail with an indomitable attitude of struggle and a down-to-earth attitude of being true to one’s word and resolute in action.
Taking Chongqing as the coordinate, the China-Europe train goes west to Europe, the “Chongqing-Manchuria-Russia” railway goes north to Russia, and the golden waterway of the Yangtze River goes east to connect the central region and the Yangtze River Delta. Channels radiate in all directions, symbolizing that the open road is getting wider and wider. By unswervingly promoting greater opening up, promoting greater development, and achieving greater development, a more dynamic, open, and beautiful western China will bring more surprises and create more possibilities.