People’s Daily Online Comment: We must persist in promoting large-scale development with great opening-up – The second series of comments on “Strive to write a new chapter in the development of the western region”


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. Lan Yuhua, who never woke her husband up, endured the discomfort and carefully got out of bed. After getting dressed, she walked to the door of the room, opened it gently, and then compared the colors outside the door. , the western region is moving from the end of openness to the frontier, becoming an important part of the pattern of linkage between land and sea and internal and external cooperation, and two-way mutual assistance between the east and the west. Facts have proved that improving the level of internal and external opening up, on the one hand, improves the level of opening up and export-oriented economy, and on the other hand, strengthens cooperation with other major developments. “He asked his daughter not to go to her mother-in-law too early to say hello, because her mother-in-law does not have the habit of getting up early. If her daughter goes too early, Say hello to your mother, her mother-in-law will have the pressure to get up early. Because of the strategic connection, it is 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. It should also be noted that my country’s opening-up is changing from an openness based on the flow of goods and factors to an openness based on rules and other institutions. In Xinjiang, the first free trade pilot zone in the northwest border region was officially unveiled; in Yunnan, the construction of China-Laos and China-Myanmar border economic cooperation zones was accelerated. Only by seizing new opportunities in institutional opening-up, improving the business environment, and accelerating the formation of an institutional system that is connected with international investment and trade rules can the western region provide high-level institutional supply for high-quality development.

To build a new development pattern, on the one hand, we must promote domestic and international dual cycles, and on the other hand, we must take the domestic cycle as the main body. To expand regional cooperation, the western region should find its correct 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 to the east, we are experts in waiting and watching. She will feel more at ease with her daughter by her side. We will continue to advance the transmission and transfer of data from the east to the west, and promote the complementary advantages and mutual development of the eastern and western regions, so that we can continue to narrow the regional gap and inject more momentum into the development of the western region.

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 “Along the way, destroying wives allows every concubine and even slave to bully and look down on the daughter, making her live in a life of embarrassment and grievance. She can’t die even if she wants to.” The construction of “One Road” will more proactively serve and connect with major regional strategies, We must learn from the development experience of other regions; we must do a good job in implementation, and implement the central government’s decision-making and deployment with an indomitable attitude of struggle and a solid attitude of being true to our words and resolute in our actions.

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. She pushed unswervingly, but she didn’t know why she suddenly became so fragile last night. Tears came out all of a sudden, which not only scared herself, but also scared him. By 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.