The climax of The "Tale of Two Cities" in Chengdu and Chongqing is approaching

Regional observation Reporter Wang Caina

One city is small and the two cities are large, and the climax of the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region is approaching, and a high-level model of regional cooperation is about to come out.

A few days ago, 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") was released, which proposed to strengthen the leading role of Chongqing and the central cities of Chengdu, lead the overall coordinated development of the Chengdu-Chongqing region, promote the rational flow and efficient agglomeration of industries, population and various production factors, promote the formation of a powerful and distinctive twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, and create an important growth pole and a new power source that drives the high-quality development of the country.

Although it has been given an important mission in the overall sense, the construction of the twin-city economic circle in chengdu and Chongqing is still in the stage of promoting construction, the infrastructure bottleneck needs to be broken, the urban scale structure is not reasonable, the degree of coordination of the industrial chain division of labor is not high, and the support capacity of scientific and technological innovation is weak... Obviously inferior to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, how can the construction of the Twin Cities Economic Circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing Region move from blueprint to reality?

In the past year or so, there have been many explorations and practices in the Chengdu-Chongqing area with remarkable results. Since the sixth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Committee in January 2020 proposed to "promote the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region", the construction of the chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle has pressed the "fast-forward button", continuously improving the promotion mechanism, continuously strengthening policy coordination, increasingly close government-enterprise exchanges, making multi-point breakthroughs in public service co-construction and sharing, steadily improving the ability of collaborative innovation, and widely condensing social consensus, laying a solid foundation for the full implementation of the "Planning Outline".

According to public data, in 2020, the GDP of the Twin Cities Economic Circle in Chengdu-Chongqing Region exceeded 6.6 trillion yuan, accounting for more than 0.15 percentage points of the national proportion compared with 2019. In the first three quarters of this year, The GDP of Chongqing Municipality was 1,995.189 billion yuan, an increase of 9.9% year-on-year, an average growth of 6.2% in two years; the GDP of Sichuan Province was 3,899.866 billion yuan, an increase of 9.3% year-on-year, and an average growth of 5.8% in two years, both higher than the national average... The important growth poles of high-quality development and the rudiments of new power sources have begun to appear, and the ability of chengdu and Chongqing to serve the overall national strategy has been continuously enhanced.

How big the driving role of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region can actually be greatly determined by how strong the "dual-core" leadership is and how close the "double-circle" interaction is. Therefore, the key to singing the "Tale of Two Cities" and building an "economic circle" is to use more reform methods and innovative spirit to comprehensively enhance the urban development level of Chongqing and Chengdu, accelerate the formation of a modern metropolitan circle commensurate with the "fourth pole", and strongly drive the surrounding cities into a stage of high-quality development through the "two-way interaction" of the two major metropolitan areas, promote the formation of a dense, intensive and efficient spatial pattern in the economic circle of the two cities, and accelerate the free flow and efficient allocation of factor resources in a larger regional space. Quickly become a model student for the state to explore the reform of the moderate separation of economic zones and administrative regions. A more important consideration is how to interact more closely with the three major economic circles of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

In the face of the long-term and arduous and complex task of "building an important growth pole and a new power source to drive the high-quality development of the whole country", the Chengdu-Chongqing region should soberly understand the gaps and challenges, take the new round of global scientific and technological revolution and industrial chain reshaping as an opportunity, focus on building a number of world-class advanced manufacturing clusters and important characteristic industrial bases in the country, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system with efficient division of labor, dislocation development, orderly competition, and mutual integration, and promote the formation of a modern industrial system with distinctive characteristics, relative integrity, The safe and reliable regional industrial chain supply chain system leads the enhancement of the radiation and influence of the economic circle in the national and even global industrial chains, supply chains and value chains.

It is expected that the "Tale of Two Cities" in Chengdu and Chongqing will become another key fulcrum for Supporting China's economy.