Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, 24 Oct (Xinhua) -- Title: Breaking New Ground again to See the Western Region Continuing to Struggle to Open a New Situation -- General Secretary Xi Jinping Plans to Write a New Chapter in Promoting the Large-scale Development of the Western Region
Xinhua News Agency reporters Wang Lei, Sun Yi, Liu Xiacun and Xu Jinyu
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This is a centralized resettlement site for poverty alleviation and relocation in MawoZhai, Xinren Miao Township, Qianxi City, Guizhou Province (taken on July 24, drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Wenbin
China's western region is vast and related to the overall development of the country. Skimming the western region and solving the problem of unbalanced and insufficient regional development has always been a major event planned by General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to the sustained and healthy economic and social development of the western region, visited the western provinces more than 20 times, gone deep into the frontline of the grass-roots frontier, and issued a series of important speeches to orient the pulse for the large-scale development of the western region in the new era.
More than 50 million poor people have been lifted out of poverty in an all-round way, major energy projects have been completed, and new industries and new formats have flourished... A more beautiful, more open and more dynamic western China is taking advantage of the momentum at a new starting point to create a new pattern of high-quality development and write a new chapter in coordinated regional development.
Consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and continuously release new momentum for sustainable development
"In the past, when going out, you had to climb over the cliffs of 'hand-pickpocket rock' tens of meters high. Because of the danger, some villagers have a hard time getting out of the house for two or three years. "The improvement of infrastructure has made the villagers of Xinren Miao Nationality Township In Guizhou Province feel a lot of emotions. Today, this "cliff village" on the edge of the Wujiang River has long been opened to the mountain road, ushering in a new picture of rural revitalization.
This is a centralized resettlement site for poverty alleviation and relocation in Mawo Village, Xinren Miao Township, Qianxi City, Guizhou Province (taken on February 3, drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ou Dongqu
The western region is the main battlefield in the battle against poverty, and the "three districts and three states" deeply impoverished areas are all located in the western region. With China's comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society as scheduled this year, the western region has successfully handed over the answer sheet for poverty alleviation: since 2012, 50.86 million poor people in the western region have been lifted out of poverty in an all-round way, and 568 poverty-stricken counties have all taken off their hats!
"Achieving moderate prosperity is not the end, but a new starting point."
Spring colors of the bridge in Cen Song Town, Jianhe County, Sinan to Jianhe Expressway, Guizhou (photo taken on March 23, 2019). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Wenbin
On the occasion of the Spring Festival in 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a special trip to Huawu Village during his inspection and research in Guizhou. "We must also consolidate the results of poverty alleviation, continue to promote rural revitalization, and go on in a down-to-earth manner in accordance with the established goals, develop the industry well, build the countryside better, and create a more colorful and colorful life." The general secretary's words won the applause and cheers of the crowd present.
The dilemma of "one side's water and soil cannot support one party's people" was once the deepest memory of the people in the western region. Today, the people in the western region have lived a good life and embarked on a new journey, which is inseparable from General Secretary Xi Jinping's concern and planning for promoting coordinated regional development, coordinated development and common development for many years.
"It is necessary to adapt to changes in the situation and tasks, focus on consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and deepen the cooperation between the east and the west and the work of designated help."
In April this year, the National East-West Cooperation and Central Units Designated Assistance Work Promotion Meeting held in Ningxia conveyed and studied the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping. For the work of east-west cooperation and designated assistance, General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions are clearly positioned - the Party Central Committee has made major decisions focusing on promoting coordinated regional development and promoting common prosperity.
Walk through the years of endeavor, witness the vicissitudes of great changes, and create a new atmosphere.
Looking at the western land, a relay race from poverty alleviation to rural revitalization is unfolding fiercely.
A popular TV series "Mountains and Seas", so that the model of East-West cooperation - Ningxia Minning Town is well known to audiences across the country. For more than 20 years, the cadres and masses of Ningxia and the Fujian aid group have worked together to turn the "dry beach" into a "golden beach", and the story is touching and emotional.
This is the photovoltaic power station of the desert photovoltaic industrial park in Zhongwei City, Ningxia (September 7, 2018, drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Peng
Haiyan (left), employees of minning hemei e-commerce poverty alleviation workshop in Minning Town, Yongning County, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, and Ma Yan live streaming goods (taken on November 11, 2020). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Feng Kaihua
Once a modern winery was built on the land of the Gobi Desert, people learned to "live" bring goods on the Internet, traditional industries such as agriculture are accelerating integration with green food processing and cultural tourism, and the endogenous development momentum of poverty alleviation areas continues to increase...
A scene of a happy home in the relocation area of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province (taken on August 25, drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Hu Chao
In Ninglang Yi Autonomous County, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, commonly known as Xiaoliangshan, in recent years, through Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation, scientific and technological support, and enterprise drive, the largest potato detoxification seed potato breeding base in northwest Yunnan has been built, and the potato has changed from "life-saving potato" to "rich potato", and the potential for industrial revitalization has been continuously released.
Looking at the western land, a big article that nurtures new kinetic energy with scientific and technological innovation is starting wonderfully——
In Guizhou, the country's first big data comprehensive pilot zone, 23 key data centers have been put into operation and under construction; the western cloud base in Zhongwei City, Ningxia has built 6 super-large data centers; nearly 6,000 digital economy enterprises of various types have registered in Chongqing Liangjiang Digital Economy Industrial Park; Sichuan announced that it will build a Chinese "storage valley" with international influence...
Workers patrol the computer room of China Mobile's Guizhou data center (photographed on May 24). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ou Dongqu
Panorama of the Digital Economy Industrial Park in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area in the China (Chongqing) Pilot Free Trade Zone (file photo). Xinhua News Agency
In recent years, the western region has combined its own advantages to promote the upgrading of traditional industries to the middle and high-end, and further cultivated and developed characteristic industries; new economies such as clean energy, big data, and digital economy industries have flourished vigorously, nurturing new momentum for development.
Adhere to the ecological priority and explore the road of high-quality development in line with local realities
The western region is an important ecological security barrier in China, and is also the birthplace of many major rivers such as the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and the Lancang River. The ecological and environmental problems in the western region are not only related to the western region, but also to the whole country and to the future generations of the Chinese nation.
"Take ecological environmental protection as the basic premise and rigid constraint of high-quality development" and "adhere to the correct ecological and development concept"... Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always emphasized ecological protection during his inspection and investigation in the western provinces, and has consistently adhered to the concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains".
Over the years, the western region has placed ecological environmental protection in a prominent and important position, and has thoroughly implemented key ecological projects such as returning farmland to forest, returning grazing land to grassland, protecting natural forests, shelter forests in the Three Norths, and comprehensive treatment of rocky desertification, and continuously improving the quality of the ecological environment. By the end of 2020, the cumulative implementation of returning farmland to forests and grasslands in the western region has exceeded 137 million mu, and the forest coverage rate has exceeded 19.3%.
People do not live up to Qingshan, and Qingshan will certainly not live up to people.
On September 13 this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Gaoxigou Village, Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province, to learn about the promotion of soil erosion control and ecological civilization construction. On a hill in Gaoxigou Village, the general secretary raised his eyes and gazed. Under the blue sky and white clouds in autumn, the ditches and ditches of the Loess Plateau are dressed in green clothes, full of vitality.
Gaoxigou Village, Yinzhou Street, Mizhi County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, in the Loess Gully is full of green eyes (drone photo taken on September 10). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Tao Ming
From the loess plateau with deep ravines, to the majestic Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, to the colorful Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, green is becoming the background color of the development of the western region.
In the Nagqu-Yangbajing section of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, the train passes across the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Special Bridge (drone photo taken on May 30). Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Hu Xuefeng)
The Dui Baguo Bridge on the Nagqu-Yangbajing section of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway from Nagqu to Yangbajing in Dangxiong County, Lhasa, Tibet , was built by China Railway City (drone photo taken on May 29). Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Hu Xuefeng)
In Tibet, the ecological protection redline area has reached 608,000 square kilometers, half of the whole autonomous region has been included in the strictest protection scope; in Guizhou, as one of the first batch of national ecological civilization pilot areas, the province has delineated a total of 1332 ecological environment zoning control units to accurately carry out ecological protection; in Qinghai, the ecological compensation system has promoted the herders to change from ecological users to ecological guardians; in Ningxia, 1 in every 5 degrees of electricity is new energy power, and more and more green electricity is transmitted through "west-to-east electricity" The channel is transported to many parts of the country...
The mountains and fields are green, the people's pockets are bulging, and the western land is full of vitality.
Give play to comparative advantages and open up a new pattern with a higher level of opening up
At 2:00 a.m. on October 11, accompanied by the sound of the whistle, the first "Shanghai" China-Europe train left the Alashankou port, and the clothing, shoes, hats, auto parts and precision instruments loaded from Shanghai, China, were sent to Hamburg, Germany, through which it marked that the number of China-Europe express trains passing through the Alashankou port in Xinjiang had reached 60.
Outbound Central European (Central Asia) trains stop at Alashankou Station in Xinjiang (drone photo taken on May 27). Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Guan Bo)
As China's closest railway port to the European Union, Alashankou Port operates efficiently in the context of the global spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and has become a microcosm of China's western region to expand international cooperation on the "Belt and Road".
"Integrate into the joint construction of the 'Belt and Road'", "Better transform unique location advantages into open development advantages", "Promote reform and development with opening up"... In recent years, General Secretary Xi Jinping has expressed the importance he attaches to the opening up and development of China's western region on many occasions.
In 2020, the total import and export volume of the western region will be 2.95 trillion yuan, which is 26 times that of 1999; more than 7,000 China-Europe express trains in the western region will be opened, accounting for about 59% of the total number of the country; the new land-sea corridor in the western region will accelerate the construction of construction, promoting the formation of an open pattern of land and sea linkage, east-west two-way mutual benefit; the construction of cross-border major projects such as the China-Laos Railway has steadily advanced; and the open platforms such as Sino-foreign cooperative industrial parks and cross-border economic cooperation zones have continued to exert efforts...
This is a scene of the Wild Elephant Valley Station of the Yu (Creek) Mill (憨) Railway in the domestic section of the China-Laos Railway (taken on September 29, drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Hu Chao
Based on the new era, facing a new journey. China's western region is moving from the once relatively closed "end" to the "frontier" of increasing openness.
In May 2020, the Guiding Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Promoting the Formation of a New Pattern of The Large-scale Development of the Western Region in the New Era was promulgated, aiming to promote the large-scale development of the western region to form a new pattern of great protection, great opening up, and high-quality development. At the same time, the superposition of state-level blockbuster plans such as the Twin Cities Economic Circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region and the new land-sea corridor in the western region has made western China present a broader prospect for development.
As the country's first inland open economic pilot zone, Ningxia, which is "not on the edge and not near the sea", has held the China-Arab States Expo for 5 consecutive years. At the 5th China-Arab States Expo, which ended successfully in August this year, a total of 277 signed results were signed.
The China-Arab States Expo brings "big business opportunities" to enterprises, reflecting that the door of China's opening up will only open wider and wider. As Zhang Liwei, deputy director of the Ningxia Expo Bureau, said: "The China-Arab States Expo is held in Ningxia, but it does not belong only to Ningxia, it is an open platform for China's provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities to Arab countries and the world." ”
This is the clean energy and new materials exhibition area of the China-Arab States Expo (taken on August 22). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Feng Kaihua
Year-on-year increase of 6.1%! In the first half of this year, this report card on the actual use of foreign capital in China's western region is full of color under the circumstance that the global epidemic situation is still grim.
Ride on the momentum and continue the struggle.
We should forge a new trail in the large-scale development of the western region in the new era and promote the formation of a new pattern in the large-scale development of the western region. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, a strong joint force is being gathered on the journey of the large-scale development of the western region and ushering in a broad future with more achievements. (Participating reporters: Li Qianyu, Zhang Yan, Dong Boting, Gu Yu, Hu Xu, Zhou Kai, Wang Mingyu, Xu Haitao, An Lumeng, Pu Chao)
Editor: Nie Yi