Source: Chen Xiaowan Drawing: Gong Xiaolei On October 28, 2023, the Liaotai Railway Yellow River Highway and Railway Bridge will become an important channel for the southward longitudinal connection of northwest Shandong, facilitating the travel of people on both sides of the Yellow River. (□ Xinhua News Agency)
□ Reporter Chen Xiaowan Fang Lei Coordinated regional development is an inevitable requirement for high-quality development. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 12th Provincial Party Committee and the Economic Work Conference of the Provincial Party Committee emphasized that it is necessary to create new advantages in promoting regional coordinated development. Promote the coordinated development of cities along the Yellow River, promote the coordinated development of land and sea, actively connect with the coordinated development of the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and promote the high-quality development of the county economy. Vigorously develop the marine economy and accelerate the construction of a strong marine province. Shandong is an important industrial base in the mainland and a strategic fulcrum for the economic development of the northern region, and occupies an important position in the national regional development pattern. Shandong has thoroughly implemented the major national strategy of the Yellow River, with the construction of a green, low-carbon and high-quality development pilot zone as the overall starting point, continuously improved the regional policy system, and coordinated the coordinated development of urban and rural areas. Promote the intensive and efficient development of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas On January 5, in the maltose production workshop of Shandong Guyu Biotechnology Co., Ltd. in Zhucheng, workers performed their duties and machines operated in an orderly manner. "This is a major provincial project in 2023, and the products produced such as maltitol, fructose, and polylactic acid are widely used in beer, beverage, food and other industries, with a daily production capacity of 800 tons. After the project is completed, 300 new jobs can be created. Guan Yanchun, general manager of the company's ecological health co-production project, introduced. In fact, this biomedical company that has shown its strength in the market is not a local enterprise in Zhucheng, but is jointly invested and established by Beijing Shounong Food Group Co., Ltd. and Qingdao Yuanxiang Asset Management Co., Ltd. "Outsiders" chose to settle the project in Zhucheng, and the attractiveness of the urban agglomeration played an important role. Today, 36 "Qingzi" enterprises have settled in Qingdao Industrial Park, located in Linjia Village and Town, Zhucheng City, and a number of major projects from Qingdao such as Root Biotechnology, Sailun Tire, Soft Control United, and Qingte New Energy have empowered the high-quality development of the county economy. Focusing on giving full play to the leading role of the urban agglomeration on the Shandong Peninsula, Shandong promotes the intensive and efficient development of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, and continuously optimizes and improves the development pattern of "a group of two hearts and three circles". In 2023, the coordinated development of Shandong region will go further - in October 2023, the provincial government issued the "Qingdao Metropolitan Area Development Plan", and Qingdao, Weifang Zhucheng, Gaomi City, Donggang District of Rizhao City, Laiyang City, Laizhou City, and Haiyang City of Yantai will form a "Qingdao Metropolitan Area" with a land area of 21,500 square kilometers, building a development pattern with core guidance, axis expansion, and multi-point support. Breaking through Heze and the rise of Luxi is an important measure to promote the coordinated development of Shandong and achieve from large to strong. In 2023, Shandong issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Breaking Through the Rise of Heze Luxi (2023-2025)", proposing 31 main tasks in 8 aspects to accelerate the leapfrog development and high-quality development of five cities, including Heze, Zaozhuang, Dezhou, Liaocheng and Binzhou. Thoroughly implementing the major national strategy of the Yellow River and vigorously promoting east-west cooperation is the unshirkable glorious mission and major task of the provinces along the Yellow River. In terms of the provincial cooperation system, Shandong has taken the lead in establishing more than 30 alliances and organizations such as science and technology innovation, industry and education, and pilot free trade zones in the Yellow River Basin, and has carried out more than 100 inter-provincial cooperation items, building a stage for win-win cooperation along the Yellow River Basin. We will focus on building the most convenient and economical outlet to the sea in the Yellow River Basin, and signed a cooperation agreement with the Central Plains urban agglomeration on transportation infrastructure connectivity, which will significantly reduce the comprehensive transportation cost in China by more than 20%. The level and quality of urbanization have been steadily improved The weather has warmed up, and in recent days, Wubu Village, Sunbo Town, Feicheng City, has been crowded with tourists. Song Yuan, the "new villager", was busy every day from the morning, preparing ingredients, cooking, and cleaning the room. Similar to the Song and Yuan dynasties, Wubu Village gathered more than 20 "new villagers" from all over the country, who rented idle houses in the village to develop homestays, and more than 50 migratory bird-type "new villagers" lived here from time to time. "Recently, we have also launched a recruitment plan for 'new villagers' to 'make a home in a 600-year-old village', and the team of intentional 'new villagers' is growing. Zhao Tongjun, secretary of the party branch of Wubu Village, said. In 2023, Shandong will further promote the "people-centered" new urbanization, adhere to the urban and rural chess, guide the free flow, equal exchange and rational allocation of urban and rural population, land, capital, technology and other factors, reshape the new type of industry-agriculture and urban-rural relations, and realize "urban and rural areas in the city, and urban and rural areas in the countryside", and the deep integration of urban and rural areas. "In the past, if you wanted to go out after dinner, you had to find a big park, and there were many people on the long way. Now there is a park in front of my house, where you can walk, box, practice swords, and dance, which is convenient and spacious!" said Zhou Zilu, a resident of Junan County. While improving the quality of life of the surrounding residents, the pocket park also retains the historical memory of several generations. "In 2023, we will focus on promoting the urbanization construction with the county as an important carrier, and the construction of 384 urban construction projects in each county will be started, with an investment of 30.4 billion yuan. Wu Jibing, deputy director of the Linyi Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, introduced. In 2023, Shandong issued the "Opinions on Further Accelerating the High-quality Development of the County Economy" and the "Three-Year Action Plan for the High-quality Development of the County Economy (2023-2025)", proposing a series of measures in terms of "heavy industry, strong integration, ensuring factors, promoting opening-up, and building mechanisms". "Our province will focus on cultivating the strong, helping the weak, and linking the three articles, and determine about 20 counties in the province, 'one county, one policy' to help solve the blockages, difficulties and outstanding problems of county development, and promote the province's 136 counties (cities, districts) to compete for development, dislocation development, and linkage development. Yu Mingbing, deputy director of the Provincial New and Old Kinetic Energy Conversion Comprehensive Pilot Zone Construction Office, said. Create a new highlight of the marine economy On December 5, 2023, the 700TEU container ship built by Rizhao Gangda Shipyard of Shandong Port Equipment Group was listed. This is the first intelligent container ship tailored according to the operation characteristics of the foreign trade internal branch line of the Shandong Peninsula, operating the Rizhao-Qingdao "daily class" foreign trade internal branch line, further encrypting the container branch network of Shandong port around the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, and promoting the circulation of regional production factors and business exchanges. "Last year, the throughput of Rizhao Port continued to be carried forward, with 9 types of goods exceeding 10 million tons, and 7 types of goods ranking first in the country; Rizhao Port has achieved a qualitative leap from a traditional bulk dry bulk terminal to a smart and green demonstration port, and from domestic trade to domestic and foreign trade. Zhang Jianbo, deputy director of the production business department of Rizhao Port of Shandong Port, said. The ocean is a strategic place for high-quality development, and ports are a powerful engine for the development of the marine economy. In 2023, our province will issue the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of a World-class Port Cluster in Shandong Province (2023-2025)" to accelerate the construction of a world-class port cluster that is safe, convenient, smart and green, cost-effective, with strong support, integration and openness. Under the influence of a number of favorable policies, the cargo throughput and container throughput of Shandong Port will achieve a "double breakthrough" of 1.7 billion tons and 40 million TEUs in 2023, completing a new leap in the historic magnitude. Based on the advantages of having the only outlet to the sea in the Yellow River Basin and ranking first in the number and density of sea routes in the northern ports, Shandong has built a large logistics, network and hub along the Yellow River. Today, Shandong port is closely connected with more than 180 countries and regions around the world, and is interconnected with domestic coastal ports and Yangtze River ports internally, becoming an important bridge connecting domestic and foreign trade and an important global supply chain hub. Through the ocean, to the sea map strong. According to preliminary estimates, in the first three quarters of 2023, Shandong's marine GDP reached 1.26 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%. The added value of the seven marine industries of marine fishery, marine aquatic product processing industry, marine mining, marine salt industry, marine chemical industry, marine electric power industry and marine transportation industry ranks first in the country, and blue is becoming an important background color for Shandong's economic development. (□ reporters Zhang Peng, Cao Rufeng, Li Shenghao participated in the writing)