Yangtze River Delta's integrated development enters the critical period

Recently, the State Council issued an official reply, agreeing in principle to the overall plan of the Yangtze River Delta ecological green integrated development demonstration zone (hereinafter referred to as the plan).

the State Council has pointed out in its reply letter that the implementation of the plan should be guided by Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, fully implement the spirit of the nineteen and third Plenary Session of the nineteen and third Plenary Session of the party, adhere to the general keynote of the work of steady progress, adhere to the new development concept, persist in promoting the development of high quality, and persist in deepening the marketization by taking the structural reform of supply side as the main line. Reform and expand high-level opening up, give full play to the initiative of the central and local governments, intensify reform and innovation, implement and integrate major reform measures in a centralized way, further improve service level and core competitiveness, realize the organic unity of green economy, high-quality life and sustainable development, and work out a cross administrative region joint construction and sharing, ecological civilization and economic and social development.

People's governments of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang should strengthen organizational leadership, improve working mechanism, formulate supporting policies, implement work responsibilities, and ensure that the objectives and tasks set in the plan are achieved on schedule. Important policies and major construction projects involved shall be submitted for approval according to procedures. Liu Xiangdong, a researcher at the Economic Research Department of China International Economic Exchange Center, told Securities Daily that the national plan is the important support for the implementation of the "two mountains theory" and the Yangtze River economic belt protection, the implementation of the concept of sustainable development and the promotion of high-quality development. The integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta is inseparable from green sustainable development and further strengthening High quality development, give full play to the national demonstration effect of the Yangtze River Delta, and realize green sustainable development in the open development.

It can be said that the Yangtze River Delta is one of the regions with the most active economic development, the highest degree of openness and the strongest ability of innovation, and plays an important role in the national economy. On May 13 this year, the Political Bureau meeting of the CPC Central Committee deliberated on the outline of the Yangtze River Delta regional integration development plan (hereinafter referred to as the outline of the plan). Ying Yong, mayor of Shanghai, said at the 13th (enlarged) meeting of the Standing Committee of the 15th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress on July 22 that the central government had issued the planning outline, which clearly defined the strategic positioning of "one pole, three areas and one highland" in the Yangtze River Delta. At present, Shanghai has formulated the implementation plan for the implementation of the planning outline, mainly focusing on the two keys of "integration" and "high quality", focusing on "seven key areas" cooperation and "three key areas" construction. On October 28, Xiao Guiyu, deputy director of the Standing Committee of Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, led a team to the core area of the Yangtze River Delta ecological green integration demonstration zone in Qingpu District to investigate the construction of the Yangtze River Delta integration development system and mechanism.

In introducing the construction of the integrated development system and mechanism of the Yangtze River Delta, Ruan Qing, director of the Shanghai development and Reform Commission, said that with the development of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta becoming a national strategy, in order to strengthen the unified leadership of the national leading group for promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, the regional cooperation mechanism of the Yangtze River Delta has changed from "three-level operation, integration and separation" to "up and down linkage, three Level operation, integration and division, and respective responsibilities ". With the development of Yangtze River Delta integration entering the critical period, the construction of demonstration area is about to enter the construction stage, which needs to further improve the system and mechanism of Yangtze River Delta integration development.

According to the report of Ali Research Institute, under the requirements of high-quality development, the Yangtze River delta needs to better represent the country to participate in a new round of global cooperation and competition, build a strong and active growth pole for China's development and a leader in scientific and technological innovation, better lead the development of the Yangtze River economic belt, and better serve the national development strategy. At present, the integration of the Yangtze River Delta is positioned as "one pole, three areas and one highland". That is to say, through the integrated development, the Yangtze River Delta has become a strong and active growth pole for the national economic development, a model area for the high-quality development of the national economy, a leading area to basically realize modernization and a model area for the development of regional integration, and a new highland for the reform and opening up in the new era.