Original title: Achieving leapfrog development in the open (on-site commentary).
Give full play to the unique location advantages, gather the power of cooperation with openness, gather the momentum of innovation with openness, and seek the blessing of sharing with openness.
Walking into the Xinjiang Urumqi Meilin Building Import Bonded Commodity Experience Center, there are a dazzling array of high-quality goods from many places around the world. The proprietor, Zaidura Turson, had just returned from Hong Kong after negotiating business, but he was full of energy. He told reporters: "We must seize the opportunity and plan to open more than 30 duty-free shops next year to promote more duty-free goods into the community." ”
The "opportunity" in Zaidura's mouth refers to the China (Xinjiang) Freedom Pilot Zone, which was officially established not long ago. The policy is favorable, and the market feedback is the most intuitive. In the International Trade City of Xinjiang Western Regions Light Industry Base, more than 500 parking spaces have been filled, and the person in charge of the enterprise said, "This year, we have built a new Silk Road Cloud Warehouse Phase II, and more than 300 merchants will settle in." This is the third upgrade in the company's development history. A Kazakh truck driver who has been running cross-border transportation for 7 years admitted that there are more and more people around him who come to China to run trucks, because everyone is eager to "drive on the road to common prosperity". One project after another bears fruit, one channel and one channel flows smoothly, what does this hot land rely on to write a new chapter of investment and business?
In the Baktu Port Cultural Exhibition Hall in Tacheng area, people can learn about the prosperity of this important commercial port town in the past, "camel bells are endless, and hoof wheels are staggered on the road". Historically, Xinjiang has long been an important place for commercial and trade exchanges between Eurasia and a major logistics and transportation channel between China and foreign countries. In terms of location, Xinjiang is adjacent to eight countries and is located in the hinterland of the Eurasian continent. From the perspective of promoting high-level opening-up, Xinjiang has unique geographical advantages. Only by identifying our strategic positioning in the overall situation of the country and grasping the historical opportunity of jointly building the "Belt and Road" can we accumulate momentum and change from the "border of the northwest" to the "prosperous center".
Really work hard, follow the trend, and dare to work hard to expand the space. In order to catch up with the laggard and turn from weak to strong, economically backward regions must seize the historical opportunity to achieve leapfrog development. In recent years, Xinjiang has shown the spirit of hard work and daring to try to promote the construction of the core area of the "Belt and Road" and achieved fruitful results. Since the opening of the China-Europe train, more than 30,000 China-Europe (Central Asia) trains have passed through the Alashankou port, and the "7 24-hour" appointment customs clearance mechanism has been operating efficiently. Khorgos highway port trial 24-hour freight customs clearance, after the vehicle customs declaration as long as the electronic card to the card reader, twenty or thirty seconds can complete the customs clearance operation. From 2013 to 2022, the total import and export value of Xinjiang increased from 1,708100 million yuan increased to 2463600 million yuan. The sound of the whistle and the rolling wheels have engraved the steps of adding vitality to opening up and increasing the impetus of reform, witnessing the surging vitality injected into economic development by deepening reform and opening up.
Transformation and upgrading, taking advantage of the momentum, and seeking innovation can accumulate momentum. On the side of the workshop of the Xinjiang branch of GAC Passenger Vehicle, the brand-new models are neatly arrangedAt the entrance of Sany (Tacheng) wind power equipment, the truck loaded with wind turbine blades is ready to depart. In the first three quarters of this year, the total import and export value of Xinjiang's foreign trade increased by 47 percent year-on-year3%。Among them, the total export value of electric manned vehicles, lithium batteries and solar cells increased by 61% year-on-year5%。From the "old three" represented by mechanical and electrical products, clothing, shoes and hats to today's "new three", the optimization of foreign trade structure reflects the high-quality development of Xinjiang. This enlightens us that to give full play to the advantages of latecomers and achieve corner overtaking, we must conform to the trend of high-end, intelligent and green, grasp the huge opportunities brought by the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and strive to create new advantages on the new track.
At the 6th China International Import Expo, the "Xinjiang is a good place" investment cooperation promotion conference and cultural exhibition activities attracted a lot of attention, and the expression that "Xinjiang is no longer a remote area, but a core area and a hub area" is impressive. Facing the future, giving full play to its unique geographical advantages, gathering the power of openness and cooperation, gathering the momentum of innovation with openness, and seeking the blessings of sharing through openness, Xinjiang will surely be able to leap to a higher level and achieve greater development in the process of "connecting the east with the west" and "bringing the west to the east". (The author is the editor of the commentary department of this newspaper).
*: People's Daily Online, People**.