On October 20, the "Outline of the Planning for the Construction of the Twin Cities Economic Circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing Region" (hereinafter referred to as the "Planning Outline") issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council was released. How to fully understand and understand the Outline Plan? In the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, what results has Chengdu achieved? What is the construction of the Chengdu Metropolitan Area? With these questions in mind, the Red Star News reporter interviewed Yang Yu, director of the Chengdu Municipal Development and Reform Commission.
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Reporter: What is the significance of the release of the "Outline of the Planning plan for the construction of the Twin Cities Economic Circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing Region" for the future development of Chengdu? Please talk about your understanding and experience.
Yang Yu: In January 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the sixth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Commission, and made a major decision and deployment to promote the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region and build an important growth pole for high-quality development, providing fundamental compliance and important guidance for the development of the Chengdu-Chongqing region in the new era. Promoting the construction of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu and Chongqing is a major measure to build a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other, which is of great significance to promoting high-quality development. It is conducive to forming an important growth pole for high-quality development in the western region and enhancing the carrying capacity of the population and economy; it is conducive to further attracting the agglomeration of talents, technology, capital and other elements, promoting the transfer of industries in coastal areas to the Chengdu-Chongqing region, continuously stimulating the potential of expanding domestic demand, and forming a new important support and strong driving force for high-quality development; it is conducive to building a strategic highland for inland opening up and a new base for participating in international competition, and helping to form a new pattern of opening up to the outside world in which the land and the sea are linked at home and abroad and the east and west are mutually beneficial in both directions It is conducive to absorbing the population of the ecological function area into the urban cluster, protecting the ecological environment of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the western region.
As one of the dual cores of chengdu-Chongqing region and the "backbone" of the province's development, Chengdu shoulders the important mission of comprehensively enhancing the radiation driving capacity and exploring the path of urban development in the new era in promoting the construction of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu-Chongqing region. Taking the "Planning Outline" as a guide to action, take the initiative to integrate into the "double cycle", sing the tale of two cities, give full play to the advantages of agglomeration radiation and leading role of central cities, enhance the awareness of active collaboration and accurate coordination ability, strive to assume heavy responsibilities in serving the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, expand the development space in the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, achieve high-quality development in promoting the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing area, and lead the creation of a high-level model for regional cooperation. Support the Chengdu-Chongqing region to accelerate the construction of an important growth pole and a new power source to drive the country's high-quality development.
Focusing on supporting the large-scale development of the western region in the new era to form a new pattern, integrating into and driving the construction of the "Belt and Road", and leading the green development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt by demonstration, focusing on the strategic positioning of "one pole, one source, two centers and two places", Chengdu will take the construction and practice of the new development concept of the park city demonstration area as the command, plant high-quality livable advantages, enhance the operation and research capabilities of international and domestic high-end elements, build a modern industrial system, innovation system and urban governance system that supports high-quality development, give full play to the leading role of Chengdu's polar core, and grasp the "dual-core leadership" The basic principles of regional linkage, reform and opening up, innovation-driven, ecological priority, green development, sharing and inclusiveness, improving people's livelihood, overall coordination, and cooperation and co-construction" are based on promoting the development of Chengdemei and the capital with the same city, the linkage development of cadres and branches, and the development of Chengdu and Chongqing as an important starting point, strengthen cross-regional division of labor and cooperation, promote all-round synergy and linkage, take the lead in exploring the innovation and path model of the reform system and path model of the appropriate separation of administrative regions and economic zones, and strive to promote the rational flow and efficient agglomeration of industry, population and various production factors. Continuously improve the overall development efficiency and competitiveness of the Chengdu-Chongqing region, and contribute to the polar core force for promoting the joint construction of a strong and distinctive twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region.
Reporter: As one of the polar core cities in the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, what are the main major measures that Chengdu has taken in the past year or so to strengthen the polar core function?
Yang Yu: Since the sixth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Committee was held, Chengdu has always regarded the promotion of the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region as a major political task entrusted to Chengdu by the Party Central Committee and an unprecedented major opportunity for urban development and construction, focusing on the strategic positioning of "two centers and two places" for the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, concentrating on enhancing the international competitiveness and regional radiation of the national central cities, taking the construction of the park city demonstration area that practices the new development concept as the command, and focusing on promoting the Sichuan Tianfu New Area, the Chengdu Eastern New Area, and the Sichuan Tianfu New Area, the Chengdu Eastern New Area, The construction of the Western (Chengdu) Science City has been accelerated, the railway port economic development zone has been put into operation, the development of Chengdemei capital has been vigorously promoted, the international gateway hub city has been built at a high level, and the polar core "trunk" city function of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region has been continuously improved.
Continue to enhance the comprehensive carrying capacity of the city, Chengdu across the Longquan Mountain to the east, the formation of "one mountain and two wings" urban spatial structure; accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, the electronic information industry has become the city's first trillion-level industrial cluster, 100 billion industrial clusters increased to 8; cultivate the construction of international consumption center city, the total tourism revenue exceeded 300 billion yuan, the added value of the financial industry reached 211.4 billion yuan, selected as the "world's best tourist destination". In 2020, the city's total economic volume reached 1.77 trillion yuan, ranking 7th in the country's cities, practicing the new development concept, and showing a new atmosphere of high-quality economic and social development.
To create a high-quality living place, Chengdu has actively created a national ecological civilization construction demonstration city, built 4,780 kilometers of Tianfu Greenway, Longquan Mountain Urban Forest Park has achieved 140,000 mu of greenery and scenery, accelerated the construction of a natural protected area system with giant panda national park as the main body, and restored 25,000 mu of giant panda habitat. Deeply promote the protection and restoration of forest pans in western Sichuan, solidly promote the water environment governance and ecological corridor construction of the Minjiang and Tuojiang rivers, and achieve the afforestation of 59,300 mu in the basin and surrounding areas. The "rail + bus + slow travel" urban green transportation system has accelerated its formation, with a rail transit operating mileage of 558 kilometers, ranking fourth in the country, and building 500 kilometers of barrier-free cycling trails; the satisfaction of public service quality ranks first among the 110 monitoring cities in the country; and it ranks first in the list of "China's happiest cities" for 12 consecutive years.
Enhance the operation and research capabilities of high-end elements, build and put into operation Tianfu International Airport, the maximum annual passenger throughput of Shuangliu International Airport exceeded 55 million times, and the number of international (regional) routes reached 131, ranking 4th in the country. Chengdu International Railway Port Economic Development Zone has been upgraded to a national-level economic development zone, the layout of the international train network and domestic and foreign service nodes have been continuously improved, connecting 66 cities abroad and 20 cities in China, and the practices of China-Europe express train consolidation and consolidation, and the "one single system" reform of international multimodal transport have been promoted throughout the country. In 2020, the city's total foreign trade import and export reached 715.42 billion yuan, ranking fourth among sub-provincial cities; in the first three quarters of this year, the total import and export volume of foreign trade reached 586.13 billion yuan, an increase of 12.8% year-on-year.
Reporter: The "Outline Plan" specifically mentions the Chengdu Metropolitan Area. At present, what is the construction of chengdu metropolitan area?
Yang Yu: Focus on enlarging the "trunk" and strengthening the polar core, join hands with Deyang, Meishan, Ziyang and other cities to vigorously promote the development of the same city, strengthen planning guidance and policy coordination, and achieve a strong start in the construction of Chengdu Metropolitan Area. In the first half of 2021, the metropolitan area achieved a regional GDP of nearly 1.2 trillion yuan, accounting for 0.4 percentage points of the province's proportion increased from the same period last year.
In terms of establishing and improving the top-level design and planning system, we have established a working mechanism of "leaders of the provincial party committee and provincial government, coordination of the leading group of the same urbanization, coordination of the same urbanization office, guidance of the provincial departments, and promotion of the main body of the four cities of Chengde Meizi"; pioneered the formation of a "1+1+N" metropolitan area planning system based on the qualitative development planning of the Chengdu metropolitan area, the quantitative of land spatial planning, and the fixed point of a series of special plans; focus on the reform of the appropriate separation of administrative districts and economic zones, and start the creation of the Chengde Meizi Urbanization Comprehensive Pilot Zone.
In terms of accelerating the construction of the metropolitan circle on the track, the S3 line of the urban railway has accelerated the construction and completed the investment of 1.514 billion yuan, the Chengde S11 line and the Chengmei S5 line have completed the establishment of the project company; the metropolitan area has 104 pairs of daily mobile vehicles with an average daily passenger flow of 24,000 passengers; 6 "broken head road" projects such as the Sancha Lake Ring Lake Road have been opened; the first phase of the Bihe River Water Supply Project has been officially opened; and the 220KV supporting project of the Xinjin 500KV substation has started construction.
In terms of accelerating the construction of a cross-regional industrial ecosystem, 15 industrial alliances such as electronic information, intelligent manufacturing, and medicine and health have been jointly established, the construction plan of "three districts and three belts" has been prepared and introduced, 464 projects have been landed in the Chengde Lingang Economy, Chengmei High-tech, and Chengzi Linkong Economic And Industrial Belt, the first Chengdu Metropolitan Area Industrial Ecological Construction Enterprise Supply and Demand Matchmaking Meeting has been jointly held, the "Overall Implementation Plan for the Integrated Development of adjacent areas of Chengde Meizi" has been formulated, and the construction of 8 high-quality demonstration sites in the junction areas such as Pengshi Chuanqi Industrial Park has been steadily advanced.
In terms of continuously improving the sense of market entities and citizens, Chengdu, together with Deyang, Meishan and Ziyang, jointly issued a declaration on the business environment of the metropolitan area, and 100 government service matters were accepted without discrimination in the same city; the number of service trips of Tianfu citizens Yunziyang and Meishan platform exceeded 5.5 million; the first in the country to realize the "one-stop" transfer of employee medical insurance participation relationship in different places, at the same time, the housing provident fund and urban loan off-site use policy achieved the first in the country, and became the third region in the country to enjoy the subsidy policy for old-age beds in different places.
Reporter: After the plan is announced, what work will Chengdu carry out next?
Yang Yu: After the announcement of the plan, Chengdu will comprehensively check the table and firmly implement the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the provincial party committee, take the enhancement of international competitiveness and regional radiation as the main direction of attack, further strengthen the "backbone" function of the polar core, accelerate the construction of the park city demonstration area that practices the new development concept, promote the construction of the "three districts and one city" high-energy platform, the development of the same city of Chengde Mei, the construction of the international gateway hub city and other landmark major tasks to continue to achieve results; further deepen the implementation of the provincial party committee's "one stem and many branches" development strategy, and give full play to the "backbone" Lead and coordinate the role of central cities, promote the linkage of cadres and branches, and the coordinated development of the five districts; further plan to promote the deepening of cooperation under the Sichuan-Chongqing cooperation framework mechanism, lead the overall coordinated development of the Chengdu-Chongqing region, continuously contribute to the construction of the chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle, and strive to grow and leap forward in integrating into the "double cycle" and singing the "Tale of Two Cities".
Red Star News reporter Zhong Qianni
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