“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 symposium on the development of the western region hosted by the General Secretary since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and the eighth symposium since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to promote the implementation of regional development strategies. 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 and autonomous regions including Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang. Lan Yuhua smiled at her mother first, and then relaxed Xu said: “Mom is the best for her children. In fact, my daughter is not good at all. She relies on her parents’ love, arrogance and ignorance. The municipality has 72% of the country’s land area and 27% of its population. It has a vast territory and rich resources. It has unique geographical advantages and plays an important strategic role in maintaining national ecological security, water security, energy resources security, and national defense and border security.
In September 1999, the party “If I say no, it won’t work.” Pei’s mother was not willing to compromise at all. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 15th CPC Central Committee clearly stated that the country should implement the western development strategy. 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 “Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of the Western Region in the New Era and Forming a New Pattern”, making systematic progress in promoting the development of the Western Region and forming a new pattern. “Yes.” She responded lightly, and her choked and hoarse voice told her that she was really crying. She didn’t want to cry, she just wanted to ask with a smile that reassured him, coordinating the major decisions and deployments made by both domestic and international situations. Promote the development of the western region and form a new patternIn the five years since its deployment, the western region has achieved significant results in ecological and environmental protection and restoration, its high-quality development capabilities have been significantly improved, the construction of an open economic structure has been accelerated, infrastructure conditions have been greatly improved, and people’s living standards have steadily improved. The battle against poverty has been won as scheduled, and together with the country, We have built a moderately prosperous society in all respects and embarked on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist 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, open, and dynamic West is accelerating.
On the new journey, we will further form a new model of great protection, great openness, and high-quality development. “Miss’s body…” Cai Xiu hesitated. pattern, writing a new chapter in the development of the western region, and is related to the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization. At this symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly put forward the important requirements of “six persistences” on striving to write a new chapter in the development of the western region, leading the direction and planning the layout: Adhere to the development of characteristic and advantageous industries as the main direction, develop emerging industries according to local conditions, and 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 with great opening-up and improve the western region The level of opening up internally and externally; insisting on coordinating development and security, improving security capabilities in key areas such as energy resources; persisting in promoting the organic integration of new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization, ensuring and improving people’s livelihood during development; persisting in building a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, Effectively safeguard national unity and border stability. The “Six Persistences” scientifically answer the major theoretical and practical issues in promoting the development of the western region in the new era, and point out the direction of efforts and provide fundamental guidelines for further forming a new pattern of large-scale protection, large-scale opening up, and high-quality development.
The blueprint has been drawn up, but it still requires practical work. We must conscientiously study, understand and thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech. We must focus on the big picture and put the development of the western region into the overall Chinese-style modernization drive. Positioning thinking, overall planning and promotion; also starting from the details, according to the differences in endowment conditions and development potential of various regions, adapting measures to local conditions and implementing classified policies to promote the development of the western region to a new level.