Leaders of the four provincial-level regions in the Yangtze River Delta reached a consensus on the further promotion of green and integrated development in the delta region at a symposium held Wednesday in Shanghai city.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches on important instructions for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta were studied at the meeting in addition to the analysis on the new situation and new tasks facing the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta in the new stage, according to a statement released after the meeting.
The leaders reviewed the Yangtze River Delta Regional Integrated Development 2022 Work Plan and the To-Do-List of Key Cooperation Matters for the Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta Region in 2022, according to the statement.
Discussions were made on efficient coordination of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, promoting high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and industrial coordinated development, continuous efforts to improve the level of infrastructure service guarantees, building a new highland for reform and opening up, working together to build a green and beautiful Yangtze River Delta, striving to build a happy and harmonious Yangtze River Delta, accelerating the promotion of regional coordinated development, and improving the regional cooperation mechanism, the statement said.
Clarifications were made on a number of major to-do-lists to jointly promote the higher-quality integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta at present and in the future, according to the statement.
Promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta is a major national strategy personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, said the statement.
Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping’s instructions under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui have closely followed the tone of integration and high quality, work closely together to give full play to their respective strengths, make concerted efforts, and accelerate the promotion of various tasks, and improve the system and mechanism of integrated development, the statement said.
Embarking on the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has placed high hopes on the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, requiring the Yangtze River Delta to take the lead in basically realizing modernization, and endow the Yangtze River Delta with the mission of the times to be the pilot, and demonstration, according to the statement.
The leaders agreed that they must fulfill their responsibilities, forge ahead more courageously, take more effective measures, carry out more pragmatic actions, promote new practices of modernization with higher-quality integration, and deal with the uncertainty of the external environment with the certainty of integrated development, strive to write a new chapter in the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, and take practical actions to welcome the convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the statement said.
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui will resolutely implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions and the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, efficiently coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, consolidate and optimize the joint prevention and control mechanism of the epidemic in the Yangtze River Delta, and continue to strengthen the information exchange and interconnection in the Yangtze River Delta region and the response to major epidemics, jointly promote the construction of the emergency response system for major public health emergencies in the Yangtze River Delta region, and accelerate innovation-oriented breakthroughs in vaccines and drugs, said the statement.
The Yangtze River Delta will focus on stabilizing growth, go all out to stabilize market expectations, strengthen factor guarantees, strengthen economic adjustment, smooth the flow of logistics and people in the Yangtze River Delta region, accelerate the construction of major cross-regional projects, and make positive contributions to stabilizing the national economy, the statement said.
Efforts should be made to coordinate development and security, strengthen information sharing and coordinated risk management in the fields of finance, food, and energy security, jointly prevent and resolve various risks in the social field, and create a harmonious and stable social environment, according to the statement.
Efforts must be made to enhance international competitiveness, promote high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and coordinated industrial development, accelerate the construction of comprehensive national science centers in Zhangjiang of Shanghai and Hefei of Anhui, promote the opening and coordination of national laboratories, strengthen national strategic scientific and technological strength, launch the joint research plan of the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community and jointly promote the construction of new R&D institutions such as the National Technology Innovation Center in the Yangtze River Delta, the statement said.
Efforts will be made to speed up the demonstration and application of major technological innovation breakthroughs, solidly promote the construction of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor and the industrial innovation belt along the Shanghai-Nanjing route, jointly advance key core technologies, strengthen the coordinated layout of strategic frontier areas, implement major projects, give full play to their comparative advantages, and seize the commanding heights of future development, said the statement.
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui will accelerate the promotion of industrial chain reinforcement actions, deepen and improve the cross-regional coordination mechanism of the industrial chain and supply chain, maintain the stability of the supply chain under extreme conditions, promote the efficient and smooth economic cycle, and jointly create a strategic emerging industry cluster with international competitiveness. The integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta must start with major projects, continue to improve the level of regional infrastructure services, promote the construction of several major rail transit projects, explore the integrated operation and management mode of cross-regional intercity railways, build world-class port clusters and airport clusters, continuously improve the accessibility of inter-provincial highways, and build a regional intelligent transportation demonstration network, said the statement.
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui will support enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta to actively participate in the construction of the global logistics system, and coordinate to promote cooperation in major energy and water conservancy projects, the statement said.
The four provincial-level regions will promote the layout of new digital infrastructure and joint innovative applications including 5G, industrial Internet, and data centers with high standards, start the construction of national hub nodes in the Yangtze River Delta, a national integrated computing power network, and accelerate the cultivation of regional data element markets, according to the statement.
The Yangtze River Delta will go all out to continuously optimize the business environment, create a new highland for reform and opening up, speed up the construction of regional market integration, promote the smooth flow of commodity elements and resources on a larger scale, jointly build a high-level Hongqiao International Open Hub, and jointly organize the fifth China International Import Expo, the statement said.
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui will make greater efforts to implement the concept of green development, jointly build a green and beautiful Yangtze River Delta, strengthen the ecological protection of the Yangtze River and a new round of comprehensive cleanup of the Taihu Lake water environment, continue to work together to carry out the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River, and jointly explore the inter-provincial ecological protection compensation mechanism in the Taihu Lake Basin, and further improve the ecological environment information sharing mechanism in the Yangtze River Delta, the statement said.
Efforts will be made to accelerate the formulation of carbon emission peaking goals and action plans for the four provincial-level administrative regions, jointly build a regional green industry system, and accelerate the formation of an incentive and restraint mechanism for pollution reduction and carbon reduction, according to the statement.
Driven by the Yangtze River Delta Eco-Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui will form more development highlights and institutional innovation achievements by focusing on key areas and key links, and carrying out more systematic and integrated reform exploration, the statement said.
