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When visiting the latest issue of CCTV's "Dialogue" column, Xu Kunlin, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee, said that in 2020, Suzhou's GDP ranked sixth among large and medium-sized cities in the country, and the general public budget revenue, total import and export volume, and total industrial output value ranked higher, so the strongest prefecture-level city has nothing to be proud of for Suzhou, because Suzhou's goal is not to maintain the first prefecture-level city, but should have greater responsibility and action.
Xu Kunlin, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee, was a guest of CCTV's "Dialogue" to interpret the suzhou development code.
[Author]: Su Pingyuan
【Source of this article】:Reproduced from the WeChat public account Suzhou Round Table, ID: suzhouyuanzhuo, please contact Suzhou Round Table for reprinting.
At different historical stages, Suzhou has always attracted the world's attention with different wonderful and style. What kind of development experience has been left in the development process of the city?
What is "greater responsibility and action"? Why "greater responsibility and action"? What kind of Suzhou code is hidden in this "greater responsibility and deed"?
The future of Suzhou
To build a socialist modern and strong city, take the lead in exploring on the road of common prosperity, and economic development and a better life shine together.
Suzhou proposed to build a socialist modern and strong city that shows a new picture of "strong, rich and high". Moreover, because of the foundation of 2 trillion YUAN of GDP, Suzhou is determined to take the lead in exploring the road of common prosperity.
Every city is a people-oriented development goal, Suzhou's goal is livable and suitable for work, that is, economic development and a better life shine together, on the one hand, continue to build the Suzhou manufacturing brand, while creating a desirable city of innovation, open city, humanistic city, ecological city, livable city, good governance city, so that the people have a full sense of gain, happiness.
What 2 trillion means
Suzhou and Shanghai jointly created the Shanghai Metropolitan Area. Suzhou's economic volume of 2 trillion yuan has effectively promoted the Shanghai metropolitan area to become bigger and stronger, and enhanced its core competitiveness.
It should be said that in addition to the large scale, Suzhou's industrial categories are more complete, and the quality of economic development is constantly improving. Wujiang Shengze Town alone has produced two "Fortune 500" enterprises.
Taking Shenghong as an example, the enterprise started from a small factory in a village in 1992, dozens of people started from "one poor and two white", insisted on doing a good job and making characteristics of the belief, after the enterprise entered the chemical fiber industry, from textile and petrochemical to refining and chemical technology to open up the whole industrial chain. With independent innovation, Shenghong has created a number of records and zero breakthroughs in many aspects of functional fibers and low-carbon new materials, and has achieved the first place in the country and even the world in many technical fields.
Behind the economic development is the spirit of hard work and achievement. The spirit of Zhangjiagang, the road of Kunshan, and the experience of the park are the "three magic weapons" of Suzhou. As the first flagship project of cooperation between the governments of China and Singapore, the development and construction of Suzhou Industrial Park has not only made remarkable achievements in economic and social development in the past 27 years, but also formed a park experience with the characteristics of the times, with the experience of the park with reference, innovation, harmony and win-win as the core, and has become the soft power of Suzhou's economic development.
There is a saying in Suzhou that biluochun under a big tree means that Shanghai is a big tree, and Suzhou plants biluochun underneath. The radiation of Shanghai's reform and opening up and the spillover effect of Shanghai are very critical to Suzhou. Suzhou is a pioneering demonstration area for reform and opening up, and is also one of the most developed areas for processing trade in China. Competition between countries is not only between enterprises, but also between metropolitan areas. In fact, Suzhou and Shanghai jointly created the Shanghai Metropolitan Area. Suzhou's economic volume of 2 trillion yuan has effectively promoted the Shanghai metropolitan area to become bigger and stronger, and enhanced its core competitiveness.
Where is the new momentum?
The precious spirit of Suzhou is to build the center of manufacturing and focus on manufacturing. Kinetic energy conversion is to achieve intelligent transformation and digital transformation in a timely manner. Suzhou's insistence on manufacturing must be firmly maintained and firmly followed.
According to economic and industrial development data for the first quarter of this year, Suzhou's industrial value added increased by 43% year-on-year, the fastest growth of any city in China.
Focus on manufacturing
The precious spirit of Suzhou is to build the center of manufacturing and focus on manufacturing. The original industry is more traditional, including textile, chemical, steel, and actual processing trade, anti-risk ability is also relatively poor, if the power is not converted, the downward pressure is relatively large. The transformation and upgrading of Suzhou manufacturing is to achieve intelligent transformation and digital transformation in a timely manner, and to make the traditional industry from large but not strong in the past to be big and strong.
Changshu Bosideng Group is a representative of Suzhou to accelerate the promotion of intelligent manufacturing upgrades and digital transformation, through independent research and development of software systems and big data centers with independent intellectual property rights, Bosideng has built the most advanced intelligent manufacturing production base and intelligent distribution center in the garment industry, realizing "good goods are not out of stock, bad goods are not produced", and completely solve the structural shortage problem of traditional clothing enterprises.
Shagang Group, as a steel enterprise, is also actively promoting the digital transformation of "intelligent manufacturing", taking the production base of the headquarters as an example, in five years, its employment scale will be compressed from the current 15,000 people to 12,000 people, reducing 3,000 people, which means to reduce 800 to 1,000 jobs, and the only way to hold these 800 to 1,000 jobs is digital and intelligent transformation.
It can be seen that intelligent transformation and digital transformation are becoming the only way for the high-quality development of Suzhou manufacturing. At present, 12 of the 15 dual-cross platforms of the National Industrial Internet have settled in Suzhou, and more than 1,000 enterprises in Suzhou have carried out "intelligent and digital" diagnosis, driving industrial investment and technological transformation investment of nearly 40 billion yuan. Next, Suzhou will also "coach" the intelligent transformation of manufacturing enterprises through online cloud live broadcasting, offline sub-industry, sub-field, and sub-scale.
Make efforts to strategic emerging industries
As a representative of strategic emerging industries, the revenue output value of Suzhou biomedicine and related industries has reached 210 billion, which is one of the best in the country. Taking Cinda Biologics as an example, this biomedical enterprise, which was born and raised in Suzhou, has grown into a leading enterprise in China's biomedical industry through ten years of development, thanks to Suzhou's good business environment. Whether it is the number of new drugs, the number of capital accumulation, or the density of talents today, Suzhou has firmly sat in the first phalanx of national biopharmaceuticals.
In addition, there are eight major nano-industry clusters in the world, China's suzhou, as well as the third generation of semiconductors, artificial intelligence and so on. Suzhou is also building a base for the aerospace industry, undertaking the joint construction of COMAC's industrial chain, and the development pattern of "walking on multiple legs" has been formed.
A common vision or standard of the world to measure whether a city can be called a developed city, it must look at the proportion of the tertiary industry. People who pay attention to the development of Suzhou have found that the proportion of the secondary and tertiary industries in Suzhou is basically the same, so is Suzhou a developed city? Or does it have the potential of a developed city?
In this regard, Suzhou has a clear view: focusing on manufacturing should be advocated. "China is a big country, a big country, and it must do manufacturing, especially high-end manufacturing, and key components must have the ability to produce." The service industry also has to have a foundation, and it still has to serve the manufacturing industry, especially the high-end manufacturing industry, so Suzhou's insistence on manufacturing must be firmly maintained and firmly followed. ”
This persistence may also become a special force supporting Suzhou's GDP of 3 trillion yuan.
Growing pains
The market plays a decisive role in the allocation of resources, and the reform has not yet been put in place, and the administrative allocation of resources often occurs or occurs in large quantities, which actually causes great restrictions on Suzhou.
The city energy level is low. The problems that Suzhou is now encountering are relatively large or concentrated, that is, "the market plays a decisive role in the allocation of resources", and there has not been a reform in place, and the administrative allocation of resources often occurs or occurs in large quantities, which actually causes great restrictions on Suzhou.
For example, Suzhou's total import and export volume is the fourth in the country's large and medium-sized cities, accounting for 50% of Jiangsu's total import and export volume, but the Export-Import Bank of China can not set up a branch in Suzhou, CITIC Insurance can not set up an office in Suzhou, can only set up an office.
If service agencies or regulatory agencies are not in place, the actual development efficiency will be reduced, and the long-term absence of such institutions will inevitably cause obstacles to regional development.
Suzhou is already a national super-large city with a GDP of more than two trillion yuan, but its administrative level is still a prefecture-level city, from the perspective of national administrative allocation of resources, Suzhou is a bit of a "loss", because the relevant state departments in the process of allocating directly subordinate institutions, it is strictly in accordance with the city's administrative level to configure, and it is precisely in this regard that the demand for Suzhou administrative management is particularly large. At the same time, because of the low administrative level, it directly affects Suzhou's contribution to the further expansion and strengthening of the Shanghai metropolitan area. In this sense, the urban energy level of Suzhou's "prefecture-level city" not only affects Suzhou's own development, but also affects the overall pattern of the whole country to a certain extent, and "appropriate adjustment" has become a very necessary and urgent matter.
"Bulk Suzhou". This is an emotion of the people for living in the city, but Suzhou is strengthening overall coordination and casting synergy. For example, the city business card of "Made in Suzhou".
Suzhou's regional development actually has its own characteristics, including investment promotion, industrial layout, economic planning and other aspects of the emphasis on dislocation development. Taicang is actually a gathering place for German enterprises, and now it has more than 300 enterprises, for which the Construction of Taicang's Defeng Street is stepping up construction and will be initially completed at the end of this year. The Suzhou High-tech Zone is a gathering place for Japanese-funded enterprises, and the Huaihai Street of the High-tech Zone is a Japanese cuisine street, where Japanese entrepreneurs and engineers have formed a living circle. In Kunshan, there are about 6,000 Taiwan enterprises.
It is necessary to strengthen overall coordination and fully dislocate competition, so as to determine a common goal, and the momentum can be brought together.
"More than 2 million new population". Behind the 2 million, on the one hand, is the attractiveness of the city, on the other hand, can the city provide enough medical care, education and other conditions for the newly arrived 2 million and the original residents?
According to the figures released by the census, Suzhou's current permanent population has reached 12.748 million, in fact, with a floating population of 17 million, in fact, the pressure on public services is still relatively large. To this end, Suzhou attaches great importance to the increase of 82 schools in Suzhou last year (from kindergarten to high school), and this year the city will add 85 new ones.
To alleviate the current situation of tight educational resources, Suzhou proposed "more office + good management", that is, in addition to running some of the original public schools well, it also introduced excellent social schools. Similarly, for the top three hospitals, Suzhou added 5 new hospitals last year, from the original 7 to 12 now, and the future goal is to "double" to 24.
"Shanghai! Shanghai! "Suzhou has a very complex emotional factor in Shanghai. Originally, I thought that Shanghai was not very close to Suzhou, which was very good; but I felt that if I was so close, Shanghai might become the upper limit of Suzhou's development, and with Shanghai, Suzhou might never have the opportunity to become a world-class metropolis.
In fact, Suzhou and Shanghai have been connected in history, and the so-called blood is connected. Today, Shanghai is accelerating the construction of five major centers, and Shanghai is still a double dragon head (the leader of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the leader of the Yangtze River Delta). Because of its geographical proximity, Suzhou actually undertakes the spillover effect of Shanghai. Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, the overall benefit has been beneficial. To this end, Suzhou proposes to comprehensively learn from Shanghai, dock with Shanghai, serve Shanghai, and integrate into Shanghai.
If the construction of 5 centers in Shanghai plus the construction of 1 center in Suzhou is a "5+1" center, it seems that the competitiveness of the Shanghai metropolitan area and the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration will be very strong, and the competition for world-class bay areas and metropolitan areas will be strong.
Integration of the Yangtze River Delta
From Suzhou's point of view, in the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, it should be more proactive, which is the biggest historical opportunity facing Suzhou. At the same time, Suzhou should continue to build its own comparative advantage in competition.
The total economic volume of one city and three provinces in the Yangtze River Delta accounts for 1/4 of the country. From Suzhou's point of view, in the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, it should be more proactive, which is the biggest historical opportunity facing Suzhou. At the same time, Suzhou should also continue to build its own competitive comparative advantages, one is the most complete industrial chain advantage, 35 industrial categories are complete, manufacturing capacity is strong, supporting capacity is strong, logistics costs are low; the other is a livable and workable urban environment, more reasonable housing prices, a large number of good schools, good hospitals, so this entrepreneurial environment is very good, the living environment is also very good, but also a livable and livable city.
The urbanization of Shanghai and Suzhou is equivalent to Shanghai people having one more Jinji Lake and Yangcheng Lake, and Suzhou people having one more Lujiazui and the Bund. This actually means that each contributes to the long board, dislocated development, and complements each other's advantages. Shanghai in science and technology innovation may be more 0 to 1, and Suzhou will do more 1 to 10, 10 to 100 this kind of transformation, because of the relatively low manufacturing cost advantages, so Shanghai's function, Suzhou does not need to build it, but this does not mean that it is either or, but also can be moderate competition.
Embroidered double-sided embroidery, to launch the Suzhou manufacturing and Jiangnan cultural brand, Suzhou is confidently building a desirable humanistic city.
Everyone has a unique Suzhou in their hearts. Mr. Lee Jeong-do, a Nobel laureate, once said, "I don't know what heaven looks like, but if it has a tenth of the beauty of Suzhou, it is enough." ”
Therefore, in the minds of many people, Suzhou may not be just a simple geographical symbol, not a simple cultural expression, Suzhou is showing its wonderfulness to the world with its own charm, which is another new departure towards a new goal.
Source of this article: Xinhua News Agency, Suzhou Round Table
Author: Su Pingyuan, Round Table Observer
WeChat Editor: Zhang Sui