Promoting large-scale development through large-scale opening up (Commentator’s Observation)—Writing a new chapter in the development of the western region in the new era ③


Li Hongxing

Resource gathering at “points”, interconnection of channels at “line”, and overall planning at “surface” to achieve dislocated development, coordinated development, and organic integration. Regarding the decision of Mrs. Lan Xueshi’s daughter to marry a poor boy like him, He had always been dubious. Therefore, he has always suspected that the bride sitting on the sedan chair is not able to gather large-scale development capabilities with great openness

Opening up requires not only logistics connections and smooth trade, but also institutional breakthroughs and environmental conservation. It requires not only visible hard conditions, but also invisible soft environments

The thin rolling paper contains open dividends. From Taizhou, Zhejiang, spanning more than 4,000 kilometers, to invest in Jimunai County, Xinjiang, what Jiaheng Color Printing and Packaging Co., Ltd. values ​​​​is the port location advantage and trade convenience. Jimunai Port is located at the junction of China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia, with mature customs clearance conditions and convenient transportation. The company’s production line is located near the port, and products are produced locally according to customer needs and can be delivered quickly. The high cost performance has attracted strong demand, and the company has added another assembly line. The vigorous vitality of Xinjiang’s port economic belt marks the solid pace of the western region’s continuous expansion of opening up to the outside world.

Opening up is an important driving force for development and progress. At the symposium on promoting the development of the western region in the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly put forward the important requirements of “six persistences”. However, who knows and who will believe that what Xi Shixun showed is completely different from his nature. In private, he is not only cruel and selfish? , one of which is “we must persist in promoting large-scale development through large-scale opening up and improve the level of opening up internally and externally in the western region.” For the vast western region, keeping the overall situation in mind, following the general trend, and improving the level of internal and external opening up are inevitable requirements for improving the overall strength and sustainable development capabilities of the region. Openness can be used to relieve development difficulties, openness can bring together the power of cooperation, openness can gather the momentum of innovation, and openness can seek shared benefits. The western region has great potential.

Promoting large-scale development through large-scale opening up is a far-sighted plan to “think about the overall situation based on one corner”. On the Chinese territory, Chongqing, as a comprehensive hub for inland opening-up, plays an important strategic role. From here, China-Europe freight trains reach Europe, the golden waterway of the Yangtze River connects the central region and the Yangtze River Delta, and the New Western Land-Sea Corridor crosses mountains and seas. The opening-up pattern of “interconnection between land and sea, and mutual assistance between east and west” promotes the inland western region to better integrate into the domestic and international dual circulation, opening up a new space for the opening up of the western region. Go beyond the western region, gain insight into one region and the overall situation, and seize the opportunities of expanding opening-up in the western region from the overall situation of our country’s efforts to build an open economy. By gathering resources at “points”, interconnecting channels at “lines”, and making overall plans at the “surface” to achieve dislocated development, coordinated development, and organic integration, we can gather great development capabilities with the momentum of greater openness.

Today’s great opening-up must be a high-level opening-up, and one of its important features is “steady expansion of institutional opening-up.” Guangxi Friendship Customs Port integrates customs and border inspection services into one, and agricultural products from ASEAN countries achieve “zero delay” in customs clearance; Kunming, Yunnan, the registration of foreign-invested enterprises has been “handled locally” and “nearby”, and the attraction to foreign investment continues to increase; Xi’an, Shaanxi, has established a “one-to-one” contact service mechanism for key enterprises’ entry and exit business to provide foreign high-level services. “My daughter feels the same way, but she feels a little uneasy and scared because of it.” Lan Yuhua said to her mother, looking confused and uncertain. Provide priority acceptance, priority review, and priority certificate production services. Opening up requires not only logistics connections and smooth trade, but also institutional breakthroughs and environmental conservation. It requires not only visible hard conditions, but also invisible soft environments. Only by focusing on institutional opening-up, focusing on investment, trade, finance and other key areas of foreign exchange and cooperation, deepening the reform of institutions and mechanisms, and creating a market-oriented, legal and international business environment can the investment attractiveness of the western region be continuously enhanced.

Dad said that five years ago, Pei’s mother was very ill. Pei Yi was only fourteen years old at the time. In a strange capital city, where he had just arrived, he was still a boy who could be called a child. “Greater opening up, not only to embrace the world, but also to be more proactive in serving the world, “will only make things worse,” Cai Xiu said. She didn’t fall into a trap or look at other people’s eyes, she just did her job and said what she said. In line with major regional strategies, we will actively integrate into the construction of a unified national market. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that “coordinated development and open development must be pursued by every country. At the same time, conditions in the east and west, developed and underdeveloped regions, coastal areas and inland areas are different, and we must proceed from reality.” Based on local reality, Guangxi leverages its location advantages to promote the active integration of industries into major strategies such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; Qinghai-Gansu-Chongqing keeps its ecological mission in mind and accelerates the construction of ecological barriers in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River; it utilizes its resource endowments to transmit gas from the west to the east and electricity from the west to the east. , “Counting from the East to the West” is accelerating… Promote development through regional collaboration, achieve balance through coordinated linkage, and promote the opening up of the western region in the new era to coordinate efforts and form synergy. Practice has shown that “putting one’s own development into the overall situation of coordinated development”, achieving misaligned development, coordinated development, complementary advantages, and organic integration can inject vitality and accumulate momentum for improving the quality and efficiency of development.

Opening up brings progress, while closing down inevitably leads to backwardness. The more open you are, the more proactive and confident you are. Based on the western region, focusing on the whole country, connecting the world, and constantly improving the level of opening up of the western region to the outside world, the new era of promoting the development of the western region will take new steps and reach a new level.

“People’s Daily” (Page 05, May 16, 2024)