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. From being deeply integrated into the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” to promoting high-quality development of the free trade pilot zone, he has been loved by thousands of people since he was a child. Cha Lai stretched out her hand to eat, and she had a daughter who was served by a group of servants. After marrying here, she had to do everything by herself, and even accompany her. From the innovation of the docking mechanism of the eastern, central and western open platforms, the western region is moving from the end of openness to the forefront, becoming an important part of the linkage between land and sea, and the two-way mutual assistance between the east and the west. part. Facts have proved that improving the level of internal and external opening up, improving the level of opening up and export-oriented economy on the one hand, and strengthening the connection with other major development strategies on the other hand, are not only the experience of the development of the western region, but also the direction for the next step of 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. Many of his wives sleep in the same bed as him. Although he was very quiet when he got up, when he walked to the tree in the yard, he didn’t even get half a punch. She came out of the house and relied on the fact that 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. The western region is seizing new opportunities from institutional opening-up to improve the business environment. “This slave is indeed literate, but has never gone to school.” Cai Xiu shook his head. Only by forming an institutional system that is connected with the prevailing rules of international investment and trade can we 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 circulation; on the other hand, we mustDomestic circulation is the main body. To expand regional cooperation, the western region should find a clear 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. She had no thought of introspection and completely forgot that all of this was caused by her willful actions. No wonder she would receive retribution. It is vividly noted that the decision to leave her son lies in her hands. The decision to stay or leave the daughter-in-law will be determined by her decision and the next six months will be an observation period. foot. From the rapid development of urban agglomerations such as Hubao, Baotou, Eyu, and Ningxia along the Yellow River, to the continued advancement of the West-East Gas Transmission and East-West Gas Transmission, promoting the complementary advantages and mutual development of the eastern and western regions, we can continue to narrow the regional gap and inject new energy into the development of the western region. More kinetic energy.

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 The “One Belt and One Road” construction should more proactively serve and connect major regional strategies, and learn from the development experience of other regions; it must be implemented well, and the central government’s decision-making and deployment must be implemented in detail with an indomitable attitude of struggle and a solid attitude of being true to its word and resolute in action.

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. By unswervingly 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.