First Observation丨Nine regional development symposiums after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, drawing a new chapter of high-quality development


On September 12, General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted a symposium on comprehensively promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin in Lanzhou, Gansu and delivered an important speech.

Since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has placed coordinated regional development in a prominent and important position during his trips to local inspections and surveys. So far, the General Secretary has presided over nine symposiums on regional development, with topics covering promoting the construction of Xiongan New Area with high standards and high quality, further promoting the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, strengthening comprehensive desertification prevention and control, and promoting key ecology such as the “Three Norths” Project construction, the new era promotes the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China, further promotes the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, deepens the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, promotes the rise of the central region in the new era, promotes the development of the western region in the new era, and comprehensively promotes ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin develop.

Nine pieces are placed on the market, and the layout becomes a trend. On the grand journey of advancing Chinese-style modernization, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made intensive arrangements for my country’s regional development strategies and opened a new chapter for high-quality development.

(1) Anchoring the primary task of high-quality development

In the new era and new journey, my country How the regional economic layout adapts to the huge challenge of profound adjustments to the global political and economic landscape, and how to better support the primary task of high-quality development, are major issues to be solved.

The nine symposiums focused on different regional development strategies, but the main line of promoting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development ran throughout. Reviewing this series of symposiums, we can see General Secretary Xi Jinping’s far-reaching considerations of promoting high-quality development through coordinated regional development under the new situation.

Coordinated development is an inevitable requirement to narrow the regional urban-rural development gap and achieve common prosperity. But coordinated development is not something “Master and Madam would not agree to.” It simply requires all regions to reach the same level of economic development.

In the grand picture of Chinese-style modernization, each regional sector gives full play to its comparative advantages and exploresA high-quality development path that is in line with its own characteristics and forms strategic support for the country’s overall development is General Secretary Xi Jinping’s intention to promote “regional economic layout with complementary advantages and high-quality development.”

The nine symposia included not only the development planning for Xiongan New Area, but also the further promotion of high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the comprehensive promotion of ecological protection in the Yellow River Basin. and long-term considerations for high-quality development; it not only makes systematic arrangements around different regional sectors in the northeast, central and western regions, but also points out the direction for important power sources of high-quality development such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Yangtze River Delta; it not only focuses on exploring the path for Chinese-style modernization, The vanguards who lead the demonstration also attach great importance to the functional areas that safeguard the bottom line of safety and build ecological security barriers…

From point to area, and from area to the whole country, Major regional development strategies and regional coordinated development strategies are connected and integrated with each other, and the signal of regional coordination and integration is more clear.

Currently, the world is undergoing major changes unprecedented in a century, and China’s economic transformation and upgrading has entered a critical period. Coordinating development and security, and coordinating ecological protection and economic and social development are the essence of achieving high-quality development and an important requirement for promoting Chinese-style modernization.

At the nine symposiums, the bottom line of security in food, industry, energy, ecology, and national defense was further consolidated and strengthened, and new ways of collaboratively promoting ecological priority and green development were explored. The requirements of protecting while developing and developing while protecting are more prominent.

(2) Need motivation to further comprehensively deepen reforms

Coordinated development is essentially Reform proposition.

Promoting coordinated regional development is related to a large and complex economic and social operating system. It is necessary to properly handle the government and market, central and local governments, administrative regions and economic zones, towns and cities. rural areas and many other relationships. Different Areas At the end, when he was kicked out of the new house to entertain guests after the wine ceremony, he had the idea of ​​​​reluctant to leave. He felt…he didn’t know what to feel anymore. Development strategies carry different missions. Some need to be tried first and break new paths, while others are going through pains and have to climb over hurdles. All of these require motivation to further comprehensively deepen reforms.

Reform and opening up are key words in the nine symposiums.

Comprehensively promote ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, and “deeply participate in the construction of a national unified market”;

Deeply promote the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta “Regional divisions and administrative barriers must be broken down through institutional mechanisms to provide institutional guarantees for integrated development”;

Improve the level of opening up of the western region to the outside world”;

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Regional development requires both Collaborative integration will open up the domestic circulation and continue to unleash the vitality of the unified national market. It will also form a comprehensive opening-up pattern and deeply integrate into the international circulation.

Anchoring on major reform issues, the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made arrangements for improving the implementation of strategic mechanisms for coordinated regional development and making arrangements for optimizing the layout of regional opening-up.

(3) Adhere to the methodology of long-term success

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has hosted four symposiums on promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Focusing on promoting the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, the General Secretary presided over three symposiums; focusing on the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, promoting the revitalization of Northeast China, and promoting the rise of the central region, the General Secretary presided over two

Focusing on a strategy, consistent and continuous deepening, embodies the general secretary’s working method of nailing implementation and long-term success; grasping the new situation In response to the new situation and new tasks, we must make timely strategic arrangements in response to new problems and new challenges, highlighting the ideological and practical power of steering the ship.

It is worth noting that the 20th Anniversary of the Party. After the election, the Central Leading Group for Coordinated Regional Development was formally established to plan and coordinate major policies among various strategies from a higher level, strategic perspective, and overall situation. This institutional arrangement further demonstrates that General Secretary Xi Jinping strengthens the integration of regional development strategies.

To plan for a long-term trend, implement long-term strategies, build a long-term foundation, and comprehensively promote coordinated regional development to a higher level will provide a better foundation for the future. Good support for Chinese-style modernization and provide strong momentum

Planning: Zhang Xiaosong

Writer: An Bei

Visual: Zhu Siming, Jia Yining

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