The central region is an important grain production base, an energy raw material base, a modern equipment manufacturing and high-tech industrial base, and a comprehensive transportation hub on the mainland, and plays a pivotal role in the country. It is necessary to consistently implement a series of policies and measures of the CPC Central Committee to promote the rise of the central region, form a joint force to promote high-quality development, and strive to write a new chapter in the rise of the central region in the Chinese-style modernization.
——On the afternoon of March 20, 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era in Changsha City, Hunan Province and delivered an important speech.
In his report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed the need to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Looking at the national territory, the central region, which is dominated by the six provinces of Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan, connects the east with the west and connects the south with the north, accounting for about 1/10 of the country's land area, gathering more than 1/4 of the country's population and creating more than 1/5 of the country's economic output value, which is of great strategic significance in promoting Chinese-style modernization.
From 2019, when General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed in Jiangxi to "continuously enhance the comprehensive strength and competitiveness of the central region and strive to create a new situation for the rise of the central region", to this year's positioning of the central region in the overall national development in Hunan - an important grain production base, an energy raw material base, a modern equipment manufacturing and high-tech industrial base and a comprehensive transportation hub.
In the past five years, General Secretary Xi Jinping has traveled to the six central provinces to orient the rise of the central region. The four words "the rise of the central region" are in the general secretary's mind. Now that the horn is sounding, the mission is urging, and the rise of the central region in the new era is at the right time.
Add momentum
Hunan: Expand and strengthen the advanced manufacturing industry
Focus on advantageous industries, strengthen industrial base reengineering and major technical equipment research, continue to expand and strengthen the advanced manufacturing industry, promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of the industry, and build a national industrial cluster.
——From March 18 to 21, 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection in Hunan.
Manufacturing is a business card of Hunan. From the longest boom concrete pump truck to the largest diameter shield machine, from high-speed EMUs to UHV power transmission and transformation equipment, Hunan has created a "China's first" and "the world's first", and the industrial business cards are dazzling.
In September 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping drew a beautiful blueprint of "three highs and four new" for Hunan, and encouraged Hunan to strive to build a national important advanced manufacturing highland. In the spring of 2024, the general secretary once again emphasized in Hunan that it is necessary to continue to expand and strengthen the advanced manufacturing industry and promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of the industry.
Today, Hunan is striving to build four national advanced manufacturing clusters, including Changsha Construction Machinery, Zhuzhou Rail Transit Equipment, Changsha New Generation Autonomous Safety Computing System, and Zhuzhou Small and Medium-sized Aero Engine, ranking third in the country and first in the central and western regions.
In Zoomlion Smart Industrial City, Xiangjiang New Area, Hunan Province, through the deep integration of digital technologies such as intelligent scheduling, industrial AI, digital twins, and full-process intelligent logistics with manufacturing, it is possible to produce an excavator every 6 minutes, an aerial work machine every 7.5 minutes, a truck crane every 17 minutes, and a boom pump truck every 27 minutes.
▲The picture shows a corner of the rolling production line of Hunan Iron and Steel Xianggang Five-meter Plate Factory.
In Hunan Xianggang Five-meter Wide and Heavy Plate Factory, a billet weighing 20 tons becomes a piece of steel plate after heating, rolling, finishing and other processes, which is transported to Zhuhai deep-water equipment manufacturing base and applied to deep-sea equipment in the mainland. Its large-scale use has allowed Asia's first deepwater jacket "Haiji-2" to take root firmly on the seabed, becoming a veritable "Dinghai Shengang" and helping China's deepwater oil and gas energy development.
These are just a microcosm of the development of Hunan's advanced manufacturing industry chain, and taking the industrial chain as the starting point to promote the continuous optimization of the industrial ecology is a major "secret" for the high-quality development of Hunan's manufacturing industry. According to the data, by the end of 2023, the number of industrial enterprises of 100 billion yuan and 10 billion yuan in Hunan Province will reach 4 and 50 respectively, 8 enterprises will enter the top 500 manufacturing enterprises in China, and the total number of large-scale industrial enterprises will remain above 20,000. The industrial Hunan army has become an important force in the rise of the central region.
Energize
Hubei
Hubei: New quality productivity is booming
The optoelectronic information industry is a strategic high-tech industry with wide applications, and it is also a high-tech industry that the mainland has the conditions to take the lead in achieving breakthroughs. Hubei Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone is unique in the field of optoelectronic information industry.
——On June 28, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection of Wuhan Huagong Laser Engineering Co., Ltd.
In the summer of 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Hubei, and he clearly emphasized that "efforts should be made to build Hubei into an important strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region". The construction of the "fulcrum" has become the strategic positioning and historical mission entrusted to Hubei by the central government.
Solidly promote the rise of the central region, and industrial innovation is the biggest advantage of Hubei Fulcrum. In June 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection of Optics Valley: "Hubei Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone is unique in the field of optoelectronic information industry. ”
At the symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era hosted in Changsha, Hunan, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward eight opinions on the rise of the central region, and "improving the ability of independent innovation in key areas" was placed in an important position.
▲The picture shows the 120kW industrial laser made in Hubei that was unveiled for the first time at the 2024 Photonics China of München China.
Not long ago, the 2024 PHOTONICS CHINA opened in Munich, and the 120kW industrial laser made in Hubei made its debut became the focus of the audience. As the world's highest-power industrial laser, it not only broke the foreign monopoly, but also surpassed the product price and performance.
At present, Hubei has 1 national laboratory, 10 Hubei laboratories, 8 major scientific and technological infrastructures, 163 national innovation centers, and 477 new R&D institutions, building a strategic scientific and technological force matrix. Significant progress has been made in tackling 29 key core technologies that are "stuck in the neck", and the number of high-tech enterprises has reached 25,000, ranking third in the country in terms of technology contract turnover in the province. The construction of Wuhan's science and technology innovation center with national influence has been accelerated.
On the new track, Hubei, a major province of science and education, is running with all its might, focusing on 9 emerging characteristic industries such as computing power and big data, artificial intelligence, software and information services, Hubei pioneered the "chain length + chain master + chain innovation" mechanism, introduced a three-year action plan, and advanced the layout of brain science and brain-like intelligence, future biomanufacturing, hydrogen energy and other 6 future industries. Hubei, which is moving towards the new, is full of vitality, and the footsteps of building a strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central part are even more sonorous!
Fight strength
Henan: Play the "trump card" of grain
To ensure food security, we must hold the seeds firmly in our own hands.
——In May 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspection in Nanyang, Henan.
Henan is the main wheat producing area in the country, and the wheat planting area, yield and total output rank first in the country. In May 2021, when General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Nanyang, he earnestly entrusted: "The summer grain harvest is abundant, and the economy of the whole year will be supported." ”
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited Henan five times for investigation and research, and participated in the deliberations of the Henan delegation during the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress. ”
Play well the "trump card" of grain to ensure that the rice bowl of the Chinese is firmly in their hands, and Henan's mission is on their shoulders.
▲The picture shows the construction site of high-standard farmland in the plain demonstration area of Xinxiang City, Henan Province.
Walking into the core area of the Central Plains Agricultural Valley - the core area of high-standard farmland of Shizhai Town, Xinxiang Plain Demonstration Zone, the fields are square, the forests are networked, the ditches are connected, and the canals are connected, and the large-scale translational sprinkler irrigation equipment with a height of about 4 meters and a length of more than 100 meters moves slowly, and the wheat drinks a "nutritious meal" of water and fertilizer.
It was Xue Weibo, a large local grain grower, who gave instructions to this "big guy". I saw him turn on his mobile phone, press it a few times according to the process, and after two or three minutes, all the sprinklers sprayed water, and every five minutes, the two wheels of the sprinkler irrigation equipment would move forward by half a meter. "Smart irrigation" has pressed the "fast forward button" for the spring management of wheat fields, Xue Weibo said, "There are still a lot of high-tech equipment in the field, intelligent moisture monitoring system real-time monitoring of wheat drought degree, insect radar can monitor the movement trajectory of migratory pests from a long distance, and now farming is becoming more and more convenient." ”
In recent years, Henan has taken the construction of high-standard farmland as an important measure to implement the strategy of "storing grain on the ground and storing grain in technology", and has built a total of 85.85 million mu of high-standard farmland, accounting for 76% of the total cultivated land area of the province, ranking second in the country. In 2023, the annual grain output will reach 132.49 billion catties, stable at more than 130 billion catties for seven consecutive years, of which the autumn grain output will be 61.48 billion catties, an increase of 3.3%, ranking first in the main grain-producing provinces in the country.
Tap the potential
Anhui: Create a source of scientific and technological innovation
It is necessary to further consolidate the foundation of innovation, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, accelerate the cultivation of emerging industries, and work hard for a long time.
——In August 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during a visit to the Anhui Innovation Museum.
Anhui is the Anhui of the Yangtze River Delta and the Anhui of the central region. "The Yangtze River Delta on the left and the central region on the right" has the great potential of "left and right" location advantages and national strategic superposition.
During his inspection in Anhui, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The key to Anhui's efforts to achieve overtaking and leapfrog development and continue to catch up in the ranking of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country during the 14th Five-Year Plan period depends on innovation." It is necessary to continue to lay a solid foundation for innovation, perseverance and long-term success. ”
▲The picture shows the Advanced Computing Center in Hefei, Anhui Province.
In January this year, the third-generation independent superconducting quantum computer "Origin Wukong", equipped with 72-bit independent superconducting quantum chips, was put into operation in Hefei High-tech Zone. This superconducting quantum computer is independent and controllable in four aspects, from hardware to quantum chips, to operating systems and application software, with a localization rate of more than 80%, and has made significant progress in system stability, number of qubits, and computing accuracy.
As of the end of March this year, "Origin Wukong" has received more than 4.28 million remote visits from around the world, and has completed nearly 167,000 global quantum computing tasks. This series of data has witnessed the first large-scale and long-term opening of China's quantum computing power to the world.
The quantum industry is a microcosm of Anhui's leading industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation. Anhui focuses on building a source of scientific and technological innovation and a gathering place for emerging industries, and releases new momentum for industrial development.
According to the data, at present, Anhui has built 13 pre-research large scientific devices under construction, has more than 200 "national brand" innovation platforms, and has obtained a number of original achievements such as optical fiber quantum key distribution and "Jiuzhang No. 3" quantum computing prototype, nearly 2,400 enterprises have settled in China (Hefei) Sound Valley, with an annual output value of more than 200 billion yuan, and the regional innovation ability ranks first in the country.
Strong gravitational pull
Shanxi: Promote reform and development through opening-up
If it is correct, we must persist in it, work hard for a long time, do not repeat it, do not toss, and strive to find a new path of transformation and development as soon as possible.
——In May 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspection and investigation in Shanxi.
Building a new highland for inland areas to open up to the outside world is an important mission entrusted to Shanxi by General Secretary Xi Jinping. During his inspection and investigation in Shanxi, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "Shanxi is an important part of the 'Belt and Road' business circle", and it is necessary to "catch up with a more open mind, take the initiative to connect with the construction of the 'Belt and Road', and create a new highland for inland areas to open up to the outside world".
▲The picture shows the China-Europe train sent to Russia by Shanxi Bonded Logistics Center.
Promote reform and development through opening up. Shanxi has introduced a "1+N" policy system for opening up to the outside world, and has comprehensively improved the level of opening up. In 2023, Shanxi's import and export volume will reach 169.372 billion yuan, of which 71.7 billion yuan will be imported and exported with countries and regions jointly built under the Belt and Road Initiative, a year-on-year increase of 5.7%.
On the afternoon of March 28, the Shanxi Provincial Roundtable Dialogue for German-funded Enterprises was held in Taiyuan, Shanxi, which was the first roundtable dialogue for foreign-funded enterprises organized by Shanxi this year, and also the first attempt to organize roundtable dialogues according to key countries. In terms of economic and trade cooperation, Taiyuan, Changzhi and other cities have cooperated with Siemens AG and IBG (welding technology) to establish Sino-German industrial parks and intelligent manufacturing innovation centers to jointly create a new highland for German-funded enterprises to gather.
In recent years, Shanxi has introduced a number of pragmatic measures to continuously expand opening up and optimize the business environment for foreign investment. In 2023, the actual use of foreign investment in the province will be 1.284 billion US dollars, ranking first in the growth rate of the six central provinces, and the scale of foreign investment utilization will hit a record high.
In the face of the opportunities and challenges of promoting the rise of the central region in the new era, Shanxi proposes to promote in-depth reform and high-level opening-up as a whole, continue to build a more competitive new highland for inland areas to open up to the outside world, and take the road of high-quality development.
Find the resultant force
Jiangxi: Deep docking with the Yangtze River Delta
Efforts should be made to demonstrate in accelerating the high-quality development of old revolutionary base areas, and to be the first in promoting the rise of the central region.
——In May 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.
Jiangxi, the red holy land, carries the original mission of the Chinese Communists. The August 1 military flag was raised in Nanchang, the spark burned from Jinggang Mountain, the great rehearsal of the republic began in Ruijin, and the 25,000-mile long march set off from Yudu, and the Chinese revolution marched to victory from here.
In May 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, and put forward hopes for the development of the central region: "Continuously enhance the comprehensive strength and competitiveness of the central region, and strive to create a new situation for the rise of the central region." ”
In October 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Jiangxi again and asked "Jiangxi to take the lead in accelerating the high-quality development of old revolutionary areas, striving to be the first in promoting the rise of the central region, and doing good deeds in promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt".
"Do good deeds in promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt" is a new requirement put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping to Jiangxi based on reality, and this time at the symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era hosted by Changsha, Hunan, the General Secretary once again emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen the in-depth docking with the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and strengthen the integration and linkage with the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.
▲Shangrao photovoltaic new energy industry, represented by JinkoSolar, a leading photovoltaic new energy company, actively joins the Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Industry Alliance. The picture shows the automated production line at JinkoSolar's Shangrao production base.
From one-way undertaking to mutual benefit and win-win, from industrial cooperation to all-round hand-in-hand. In recent years, Jiangxi has unswervingly promoted the strategy of opening up. As the "East Gate" of Jiangxi, Shangrao is the "gateway" connecting the Yangtze River Delta region, which is the most economically active in China, and has the inherent geographical advantage of "coastal hinterland and inland frontier".
In May 2023, the Conference on Promoting the Ecological Construction of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta was held in Shanghai, and Shangrao City participated as the only specially invited city outside the cities covered by the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor. From January 12 to 13, 2024, the Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor (Shangrao) Science and Technology Cooperation Industrial Park and Collaborative Innovation Center were unveiled simultaneously.
By the end of 2023, 16 enterprises in Jiangxi have established scientific research enclaves in Shanghai, 8 enterprises plan to build scientific research enclaves, and 9 famous universities and enterprises in Shanghai, including Tongji University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, have participated in the establishment of 6 industrial chain science and technology innovation consortiums in Jiangxi.
A group of vivid data shows that the linkage between Jiangxi and the Yangtze River Delta is entering the deep water area, which also demonstrates the determination of the central province to embrace the world, and also creates a golden model of cross-regional cooperation.
Create a strong foundation and surging new kinetic energy, innovate and develop to create a new engine, and in-depth cooperation to create a new picture...... Now the central region is accelerating its rise, looking forward to tomorrow, the six central provinces will strive to take the lead and strive to write a new chapter of Chinese modernization!
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