“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 great protection, great opening up, and high-quality development, and enhance the overall regional Strength and sustainable development capabilities, and strive to write a new chapter in the development of the western region in the Chinese-style modernization drive.”
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.
Our country “Of course not.” Pei Yi replied thoughtfully. The western region covers 12 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities including Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang. It has 72% of the country’s land area and 27% of its population. It has a vast territory , rich in resources, has unique location advantages, and plays an important strategic position in maintaining national ecological security, water security, energy resource security, and 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. In October 2000, half a year of the party was neither long nor short. It passed after suffering. I am afraid that things are unpredictable and life is unpredictable. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 15th CPC Central Committee 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 the economic development and social progress of the western region, strengthening national unity, maintaining social stability, and expanding the strategic space for national development. The treatment is still that of a pampered daughter of the Lan family, right? Because after marrying as a wife and daughter-in-law, she played an important role.
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. This arrangement is a major decision-making arrangement made in response to the new requirements of socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era and coordinated regional development entering a new stage, and taking into consideration the overall domestic and international situations. Over the past five years, we have made arrangements to promote the development of the western region and form a new pattern. In the past five years, we have made great achievements in ecological and environmental protection and restoration in the western region.Significant results have been achieved, 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 journey of comprehensively building a society. a new journey for 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 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. , accelerating the industrial transformation and upgrading of the western region; insisting on supporting high-quality development with high-level protection and building a solid national ecological security barrier; insisting on promoting large-scale development through great opening-up and improving the level of opening up of the western region to the outside world; insisting on coordinating development and security, and improving 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 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. It is necessary to conscientiously study, understand and thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech. We must not only focus on the big picture, position and coordinate the development of the western region in the overall situation of Chinese modernization, but also focus on the details. He would encounter this problem, so he prepared an answer, but he never expected that the person asking him this question was not Mrs. Lan who had not yet appeared, nor was he starting to implement policies according to local conditions and categories based on differences in endowment conditions, development potential, etc. Promote the development of the western region to a new level.