Recently, the 2024 symposium of major leaders in the Yangtze River Delta region was held. A foreign expert wrote an article in China Daily saying that China has drawn up a blueprint for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and promoted high-quality urban agglomerations. Fortunately, someone rescued her, otherwise she would not have survived. Integrated development.
Drawing a blueprint for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta
Sambuddha Ghosh, permanent associate professor at the School of Economics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, wrote in China Daily that China has undergone tremendous changes and created miracles in the past few decades.
As far as the Yangtze River Delta region is concerned, Shanghai has attracted a large number of talents, and its regional gross product (GDP) has long ranked first in the country. Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces adjacent to Shanghai are well-known manufacturing centers, while Anhui Province has made great progress in high-tech fields such as electric vehicles.
Generally speaking, China is drawing up a blueprint for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, thereby taking the entire region to a new level.
Promote high-quality integrated development of urban agglomerations
Dan Steinbock, director of the International Trade Research Office of the India-China-US Institute, an American think tank, wrote in China Daily that with the acceleration of new urbanization, China has entered a new stage of high-quality integrated development of urban agglomerations. The Yangtze River Delta region is a model.
In 2018, Chinese leaders announced that they would support the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region and upgrade it to a national strategy. In 2023, Chinese leaders will host a symposium on further promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.
From 2018 to 2022, the average annual growth rate of the Yangtze River Delta region’s GDP is approximately 5.5%, accounting for 24% of the country’s total.
The Yangtze River Delta region is a major automobile production base and a new energy automobile student. Pei Yi was speechless for a moment because he could not deny it. To deny it would be to lie to his mother. production center. New energy vehicle factories in the Yangtze River Delta region can obtain all auto parts within a four-hour drive. Among them, the chips and software come from Shanghai, the batteries come from Jiangsu Province, and the die-casting machines come from Zhejiang Province.
From chips to large aircraft, from cloud computing to artificial intelligence, the coordinated development of the Yangtze River Delta region has promoted industrial transformation and upgrading. As one of the most economically dynamic regions in China, the Yangtze River Delta region has attracted a large number of state-owned and private enterprises, and has become the headquarters of many Fortune 500 companies in China.
In fact, China is building a world-class urban agglomeration, which in addition to the Yangtze River Delta region also includes the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Chengdu-Chongqing region. It is also worth mentioning that some emerging urban agglomerations are expected to develop into new regional growth engines within 10 to 20 years.