Chapter 068 The Secretary's Jiangdong Blueprint

Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee Compound, Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee Building, Provincial Party Secretary Office.

On the wall on one side of the office, there is a large map of China, and Xiao Chen, secretary of the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee, is now standing in front of this map, raising his head slightly, looking at the map, and thinking deeply.

On this 1/5 million topographic map of China, about 3/4 of the country's land is dominated by yellow-brown sè, and 1/4 of the country's land is dominated by green sè. Stripping away a small part of the "oasis" in the yellow-brown sè, about two-thirds of the land of China is mountainous and hilly. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau extends several mountain ranges to the southeast, forming a high topography in the west and low in the east, and most of the rivers flow from west to east. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the highest barrier on earth, blocked the warm and humid air flow of the Indian Ocean that should have been driving straight into northwest China, forming a large arid and semi-arid climate zone in western China. The large mountainous terrain of the Midwest and its distance from the coastline make it relatively inconvenient to communicate with the outside world.

This geographical pattern of China has always affected China's economic and social development until today in the 21st century. Even in recent years, when China as a whole has entered the accelerated development of industrialization, the difference in resource endowment still plays an important role in regional economic development. Although efforts to narrow regional disparities have been going on for many years, there are still far more differences than similarities in the development of different regions in China.

However, as an insider, Xiao Chen knows that the differences or gaps are far from describing the current regional development pattern in China. When he studied the economic and social development of the provinces and municipalities in the past few years, especially since 2007, and the new development ideas that had just been established, he knew that with the beginning of the administration of the newly formed party and government leadership groups in various localities after the first time, China's local economic and social development has entered a new stage.

In fact, in his view, from 2004 to 2005, a new pattern of regional economic development has emerged in China: the center of gravity of regional growth has shifted to the north, the regional development gap has narrowed, the regional industrial division of labor has deepened, and the pace of regional cooperation has accelerated. In 2006-2007, these basic trends did not change. However, some important events that have occurred in the past two years will have a substantial impact on the pattern of regional economic development in the future. The first is the development and opening up of Linjing Binhai New Area and its rapid rise, and then in 2007, the central government successively approved the establishment of four comprehensive supporting reform pilot zones in Sichuandu, Dongchuan, Jiangcheng City Circle and Xinghuawei Urban Agglomeration. In addition, a series of regional economic development strategies, such as the large-scale development of the western region, the revitalization of old industrial bases such as the northeast, and the rise of the central region, have been successively promulgated by the central government, and it can be said that the central government has basically completed the overall layout of the coordinated development of the regional economy.

Under this overall layout, competition between regions will continue to be a main line of China's economic development.

As for the current China, foreign researchers generally believe that China implements a system of political centralization and economic decentralization, and economic decentralization mainly refers to the local decentralization of finance. Fiscal decentralization has been an important internal driving force for local competition for many years, and this kind of local competition has become a powerful driving force for China's economic development. Of course, in fact, local competition is not only related to fiscal decentralization, but also to the sense of responsibility and dedication of the majority of local officials. Xiao Chen knows a lot of local officials, from provincial leaders to county-level cadres, most of them in Xiao Chen's view, the sense of responsibility and dedication are relatively strong, and their sense of responsibility is not all related to the pressure of promotion. Some local leaders are about to take a back seat and still have the ambition to do a few important things that will benefit local development, such as Chen Zhili, former secretary of the Pengcheng Municipal Party Committee and current chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Regional competition is first manifested in the homogenization of the industrial structure, and Xiao Chen believes that this is quite reasonable, because it is a necessary condition for market competition for different market players to enter the same investment field. Regional competition also appears to be a new manifestation of the homogenization of governance slogans. For example, after the first time, local leaders generally emphasized the word "emancipating the mind", and in addition to Xiao Chen, the local leaders who are known to use this word more frequently include Yu Zhengsheng, Secretary of the Dongfang Municipal Party Committee, Wang Haikuo, Secretary of the Lingnan Provincial Party Committee, Hou Dongxiang, Secretary of the Dongchuan Municipal Party Committee, Wang Jinshan, Secretary of the Ninghui Provincial Party Committee, Peng Cheng, Secretary of the Yanbei Provincial Party Committee (formerly Secretary of the Xiaonan Provincial Party Committee, You Jing was transferred to the Secretary of the Yanbei Provincial Party Committee after taking over as Secretary of the Xiaonan Provincial Party Committee), Chen Liuwei, Secretary of the Tianya Provincial Party Committee, Xu Weibo, Secretary of the Party Committee of Neimen G Autonomous Region, Li Zhengfeng, Secretary of the Jiangnan Provincial Party Committee, and so on. Of course, the connotations of emancipating the mind mentioned by the leaders of various localities are not exactly the same, and some focus on speeding up the pace of development, while others focus on speeding up structural upgrading, but the four characters of emancipating the mind all show a sense of urgency in all localities without exception. It is foreseeable that inter-regional competition will continue to be a powerful driving force for China's economic development for a few years to come, and the deepening of the regional division of labor and the increasing constraints on resources and environment will intensify regional competition and enrich the form and content of regional competition.

On the other hand, inter-regional cooperation has become another main line in China's regional economic development pattern. This can be felt from the degree of activity in the cooperation between the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, the Bohai Rim Economic Zone and its surrounding provinces. The Pan-Pearl River Delta Economic Zone is actually "pan" 9+2, and the relevant provinces and regions cannot explain it if they do not have a high degree of enthusiasm for cooperation. Closer cooperation between regions is a testament to the rationality of local officials. The strong rise of Linjing Binhai New Area and the launch of Chengdu-Chongqing, Jiangcheng and Xinghuawei Comprehensive Reform Pilot Zones will surely increase the enthusiasm for future regional cooperation.

In Xiao Chen's view, China's regional competition and cooperation are based on regional resource endowment differences and related economic development levels. From the perspective of the two main indicators of industrialization and urbanization, the gap between China and the developed countries in the West is even greater than that between China and the developed countries in the West. In general, Huaxia is still in the middle stage of industrialization, and it may take until around 2021 to fully realize the industrialization process. In 2005, 10 provinces and cities in the eastern part of the country had entered the first half of the late stage of industrialization, the northeast region had entered the first half of the middle stage of industrialization, and the central and western regions were still in the second half of the early stage of industrialization. The Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta are in the second half of the late stage of industrialization, and the Bohai Rim region is in the first half of the late stage of industrialization. From the perspective of provincial-level units, the three municipalities directly under the central government, Beijing, Dongfang, and Linjing, have already achieved industrialization, while individual provinces in the west have just entered the early stage of industrialization. The city indicator also shows large east-west differences.

Therefore, the eastern, central, and western regions each have their own troubles, and the troubles of each province within the economic zone are also different. Generally speaking, the provinces in the central and western regions are suffering from the troubles of "growing up", while the developed provinces in the east are facing the troubles of "growing up". The central and western regions have placed more emphasis on development as the first priority, while the eastern region has placed more emphasis on the premise of development as scientific development. Different troubles determine that there is more economic cooperation than competition among the eastern, central, and western provinces, and similar troubles determine that there is more competition than cooperation among the provinces in the eastern, central, and western regions.

Xiao Chen certainly believes that under the banner of the Scientific Outlook on Development and under the strategic framework of the central government's overall planning of the development of various regions, the competition and cooperation between regions will lay a harmonious imprint and jointly interpret the new glory of China's economy in the new world.

However, as the secretary of the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee, Xiao Chen is most concerned about what kind of road Jiangdong should take at this moment. As an important pole of the Yangtze River Delta, Jiangdong is a wing of the Yangtze River Delta, and how to develop this wing is the biggest exam question in front of Xiao Chen.

Looking forward to the development of China's economy in the next five years, no one can but pay attention to the "Yangtze River Delta", one of the leading regions, that is, the situation in the Jiangbei and Jiangnan areas, among which the Jiangdong economy is an important wing of the "Yangtze River Delta" growth pole.

In 2007, Jiangdong Province's GDP exceeded 2.5 trillion yuan, doubling from 2002, with an average annual growth rate of 14.5%, and an increase of more than 3 percentage points compared with the average annual growth of 10.7% in the previous five years. In horizontal comparison, this rate is expected to exceed the national average by about 4 percentage points. In 2007, the per capita GDP of Jiangdong Province was US$4,428, an increase of 91.5% in five years. (Note: The previous text is wrong, Jiangdong's GDP this year should be the third in the country, second only to Lingnan and Qidong, higher than Jiangnan, and only a little less than Qidong.) However, it is worth noting that the per capita GDP is slightly lower than that of Jiangnan, although it is also relatively limited. )

"Achieve a well-off situation in an all-round way, and be happy in Jiangdong." The prestige of Jiangdong's economic "leader" is not only reflected in the speed of development, but also highlights the word "good". How is it good? There are five main "good":

"Good" in the economic development is stable, there are no big ups and downs, except for 2003, when the GDP growth was 13.5%, the other four years of growth have remained above 14%; "Good" in the optimization of industrial structure, in which the contribution rate of scientific and technological progress to economic growth reached 49%; "Good" in the coordinated development of urban and rural areas and regions, in the past five years, huā has a lot of money in the "three rural" aspects, and the development speed of central and northern Jiangsu is particularly fast; "Good" is leading the country in energy conservation and emission reduction, environmental protection, and ecological city construction; In the past five years, the per capita disposable income of urban residents has doubled, maintaining a double-digit growth rate every year, and realizing that the people can share the fruits of development.

But as the secretary of the provincial party committee, Xiao Chen can't only see the good side, he is more concerned about the bad side, that is: although Jiangdong's economy has achieved "good" and "fast" development, it still faces severe challenges in the future. The main problems are economic structural contradictions, pressure on resources and the environment, the increase of peasants' incomes, and the interests of the masses.

As an economically developed region in the "Yangtze River Delta", Jiangdong's economy is still "heavy", and the task of transforming to high-end manufacturing and modern service industries is arduous. Therefore, this year, the specific requirements put forward by the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government are to promote the integration of informatization and industrialization, and strive to increase the proportion of the added value of the service industry in the regional GDP by 1 percentage point.

Xiao Chen particularly emphasized that Jiangdong's economy did not emphasize "hard development", but under the principle of "adhering to the first development, scientific development, and harmonious development", the implementation of "enriching the people first, science and education first, environmental protection first, and saving first", these four "priorities" are to put people's livelihood, innovation, population, resources and environment coordination in the first place in the political work, that is, the provincial party committee and provincial government have been constantly emphasizing the "happy Jiangdong" recently.

However, in the work report made by the provincial government to the first session of the 11th Jiangdong Provincial People's Congress, there are still some "hard indicators", highlighting "development" and "people's livelihood". In the next five years, Jiangdong's GDP will grow at an average annual rate of 10% and its per capita GDP will be US$8,000 in 2010. The rest of the figures are all related to people's livelihood. Among them, the income growth rate of rural residents is close to that of urban residents, and the average annual growth rate of GDP of 10% should be said to be conservative, and more attention is paid to quality and efficiency, and the per capita target of 8,000 US dollars compared with 4,428 US dollars per capita in 2007 is not only encouraging, but even shocking many people. The outside world said that it seems that now Jiangdong people are "outperforming CPI" and have more confidence.

After the secretary of the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee took office, the Jiangdong Provincial Government has put forward four new goals for the next five years. The first is the "five major strategies", that is, "to implement science and education to rejuvenate the province, economic internationalization, urbanization, regional common development and sustainable development at a higher level". The second is the "four coordinations", that is, "adhere to the coordination of speed, quality and efficiency, consumption, investment and export, population, resources and environment, and reform, development and stability". The third is all-round energy conservation and environmental protection, that is, "adhere to the organic unity of promoting modernization and building ecological civilization, save energy resources and protect the ecological environment's industrial structure, growth mode, and consumption pattern have been initially formed, and the sustainable development capacity has been continuously enhanced". Fourth, the goal of improving people's livelihood is specific and clear, that is, "the per capita disposable income of urban residents will increase by more than 9% per year, and the per capita net income of rural residents will increase by more than 8% per year, and absolute poverty will be basically eliminated." ”

Xiao Chen knows that the new provincial party committee and provincial government of Jiangdong Province are standing on a new basis: Jiangdong's economy is transforming from semi-intensive and semi-extensive to intensive growth, and the proportion of scientific and technological R&D investment in the whole society in the regional GDP has increased from 1% to 1.7% in the past five years, and the provincial financial investment in education and health has increased by 28.5% annually. There are 1.568 million college students, ranking first in vocational schools.

Therefore, Xiao Chen believes that Jiangdong has the conditions to implement science and education to rejuvenate the province at a higher level this year, vigorously promote the construction of an innovative province, and promote the transformation of investment to innovation-driven, resource dependence to science and technology, and Jiangdong manufacturing to Jiangdong creation.

Due to Xiao Chen's proposal of "Happy Jiangdong", in terms of regional common development, Jiangdong Province has clarified the new tasks of northern Jiangsu for the first time. Concentrate efforts to help Suyu achieve greater breakthroughs, promote the revitalization of the old industrial base of Pengcheng, focus on supporting the port city to achieve greater development, accelerate the construction of important central cities in the hinterland of northern Jiangsu, and give full play to the important role of salt in coastal development.

With the internationalization of the economy, Jiangdong will accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the open economy. Jiangdong's "bringing in" has always achieved very good results, and the introduction of foreign capital has ranked first in the country for many years, and the content of "going out" in this year's political work report is the longest in all previous political work reports, indicating the change from encouraging and supporting the "Jiangdong economy" to encouraging and supporting the "Jiangdong people's economy". Two days ago, Zhao Jiemin called from Cambodia to report on the opening of the China-Cambodia Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone, because Xiao Chen paid special attention to going out this year.

In addition, Jiangdong Province has specifically proposed to take the water environment management of Taihu Lake as the top priority of environmental protection work. This year, the provincial finance is expected to invest more than 3 billion yuan in the management of Taihu Lake, and 10% to 20% of the new financial resources of cities and counties in the Taihu Lake basin will be dedicated to the management of Taihu Lake. In addition, we will intensify efforts to tackle energy conservation and emission reduction, adhere to the "three-pronged approach" of structural adjustment, technological progress and strengthened management, so that energy consumption per unit of GDP will be reduced by 4.4%, and chemical oxygen demand and sulfur dioxide emissions will be reduced by 3% and 3.6% respectively. This has ensured that the target of 11 percent growth in Jiangdong's GDP this year is not "hard development," but is built on the basis of optimizing the structure, improving efficiency, reducing consumption, and protecting the environment.

In short, Xiao Chen's ultimate goal in leading Jiangdong's scientific development, reform and opening up is to improve people's livelihood. This was evident in the 2008 policy program of the Jiangdong Provincial Government. Ten practical matters of people's livelihood were written into this year's political work report, which expounded on people's livelihood issues at a large length, with practical goals and measures, and promised to "strive to make people's livelihood problems institutionalized, systematically solved, promoted and implemented in a long-term manner". In terms of solving the difficulties of employment, schooling, medical treatment, housing, etc., each of them has data to illustrate. Not only the low-income and needy people will benefit, but also the vast number of ordinary urban and rural residents will benefit to varying degrees.

To this end, Xiao Chen also specially invited front-line workers in different regions and positions in southern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu, and northern Jiangsu, including teachers, enterprise technicians, cleaners, farmers, etc., to discuss people's livelihood issues, directly listen to their voices, and asked the drafting group of the political work report to fully absorb the opinions of front-line personnel on education, medical care, social security, and price stability, and enrich the content of the report.

More than 10 symposiums, more than 900 amendments, and more than 10 major revisions, in the process of drafting the political work report in the past three months from Xiao Chen's succession as secretary of the provincial party committee to the issuance of the political work report, the public opinion was constantly listened to, and the revisions were repeated, and finally a new political program of Jiangdong Province was formed, which concentrated the wisdom of the people, reflected the wishes of the people, and paid attention to the people's livelihood.

Combining the goals of political struggle with the new expectations of the people, and striving to improve people's livelihood and promote social harmony, this is the characteristic of the new local policy in Jiangdong after Xiao Chen's team debuted. He hoped that Jiangdong could build a higher-level moderately prosperous society in the future and become a new benchmark for the "Yangtze River Delta" and China's economy.

Xiao Chen's gaze slowly stopped on the Indochina Peninsula and Cambodia.