Try first, try the future

Source: Economic Daily

Since entering the new century, the global economic growth rate has slowed down, the downward pressure on China's economy has increased, in the face of the rapid rise in labor costs and the continuous decline of traditional competitive advantages, the eastern region has once again assumed the heavy responsibility of "taking the lead" in exploration, and actively explored a new path of transformation and upgrading and leapfrog development. Especially in the new stage of development, in the face of major changes unprecedented in a century, under the reshaping of the global economic and trade pattern and the superposition of uncertain and unstable factors such as the new crown pneumonia epidemic, it is urgent to promote the eastern region to make timely adjustments in the first development to continuously adapt to changes in the internal and external environment.

It is necessary to take the lead in improving the independent innovation ability of the eastern region, and realize the optimization and upgrading of the economic structure and the transformation of the growth mode. It is necessary to improve industrial quality and international competitiveness by strengthening the capacity building of scientific and technological innovation and promoting collaborative innovation between industry, education and research, actively promote the innovation and development of the eastern region, and continue to give play to the radiation and driving role of the eastern region as an important growth engine to provide strong support for economic transformation and development.

It is necessary to take the lead in improving the socialist market economic system and continuously enhance the ability of sustainable economic development in the course of institutional innovation. The eastern region is at the forefront of opening up and is a "test field" and "demonstration area" for reform in many fields. It is necessary to continue to deepen the reform of "decentralization and management services" and continuously promote the structural reform of the supply side to the depth. In the future, it is necessary to accelerate the construction of Shenzhen as a pioneering demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Shanghai Pudong to build a leading area for socialist modernization construction, and Zhejiang's high-quality development and construction of a common prosperity demonstration zone, and other pilot projects, so as to form more replicable and generalizable institutional achievements.

Practice now, the future can be expected. Only by doing solid work and on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country can the eastern region hand over a higher quality of development answers. (Source of this article: Economic Daily Author: Gu Yang)