“We must consistently implement the Party Central Committee’s policies and measures to promote the development of the western region, further form a new pattern of large-scale protection, large-scale opening up, and high-quality development, enhance the overall regional strength and sustainable development capabilities, and in the Chinese-style modernization drive Strive to write a new chapter in the development of the western region.”
On April 23, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on promoting the development of the western region in the new era in Chongqing and delivered an important speech to formulate a new pattern for further promoting the development of the western region. This symposium is the first held by the General Secretary since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. “I am Pei Yi’s mother. This strong man, is it my son who asked you to bring me a message?” Pei’s mother asked impatiently, His face was full of hope. The symposium on the theme of developing the western region is also the eighth symposium to promote the implementation of regional development strategies since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. This year is the fifth year that the Party Central Committee has made arrangements to promote the development of the western region in the new era and form a new pattern. This symposium held at a critical time point is of great significance in promoting the implementation of decision-making arrangements and planning the next stage of work.
The western region of my country covers 12 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities including Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang, and has 72% of the country’s land area and 27% of its Population, vast territory, rich resources, have unique location advantages in maintaining national ecological security. The same is true for these potted flowers, and the same is true for large black stones. It has an important strategic position in security, water security, energy resources security, national defense and border security.
In September 1999, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that the country should implement the strategy of developing the western region. 2 something happened? In October 2000, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made further arrangements for this, and the implementation of the Western Development Strategy was fully launched. Over the past 20 years since the implementation of the Western Development Strategy, the country has continuously increased its support for the construction of transportation, water conservancy, energy, communications, municipal and other infrastructure in the western region, and implemented a series of ecological protection measures such as natural forest protection, returning farmland to forest, and returning grazing land to grassland. The project has effectively promoted economic development and social progress in the western region, and played an important role in strengthening national unity, maintaining social stability, and expanding the strategic space for national development.
The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to “strengthen measures to promote the development of the western region to form a new pattern.” In March 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the seventh meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Deepening Reforms, which reviewed and approved the “On Promoting the Development of the Western Region in the New Era and Forming a New Strategy”. He left, this time he really left without looking back. “Guiding Opinions on the Pattern”, which makes systematic arrangements for the development of a new pattern in promoting the development of the western region. This is a major decision made in compliance with the new requirements of socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era and coordinated regional development entering a new stage, and coordinating both domestic and international situations. deploy. In the past five years since we made arrangements to promote the development of the western region and form a new pattern, significant achievements have been made in protecting and restoring the ecological environment in the western region.Effectively, high-quality development capabilities have been significantly improved, the construction of an open economic pattern has been accelerated, infrastructure conditions have been greatly improved, and people’s living standards have steadily improved. We have won the battle against poverty as scheduled, worked with the country to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and embarked on the road to comprehensively building socialism. A new journey for a modern country. The GDP of the western region will increase from 20.5 trillion yuan in 2019 to 26.9 trillion yuan in 2023, with an average annual growth rate of 4.9%, ranking first among the four major sectors. Today, a more beautiful, more open, and more dynamic West is accelerating.
On the new journey, we will further form a new pattern of great protection, great opening up, and high-quality development, and write a new chapter in the development of the western region, which is related to the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization. At this symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping worked hard to write a new chapter in the development of the western region to guide the direction and layout, and clearly put forward the major requirements of “six persistences”: insist on developing characteristic and advantageous industries as the main direction, and develop emerging industries according to local conditions. , accelerate the industrial transformation and upgrading of the western region; insist on supporting high-quality development with high-level protection and build a solid national ecological security barrier; insist on promoting large-scale development through great opening-up, and improve the level of opening up of the western region to the outside world; insist on coordinating development and security, and improve energy Security capabilities in key areas such as resources; insist on promoting the organic integration of new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization to protect and improve people’s livelihood during development; insist on building a strong sense of the Chinese nation’s community and effectively safeguard national unity and border stability. The “Six Persistences” scientifically answer the major theoretical and practical questions in promoting the development of the western region in the new era, and point out the direction of efforts to further form a new pattern of large-scale protection, large-scale opening up, and high-quality development. , provides fundamental compliance.
The blueprint has been drawn up, but it still requires practical work to draw it. It is necessary to conscientiously study, understand and thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech. We should not only focus on the big picture, positioning and coordinating the development of the western region in the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, but also start from the details, based on the endowments and conditions of each region. Development potential and other differences, we should adapt measures to local conditions and implement classified policies to promote the development of the western region to a new level.