Editor's note.
On November 27, Shen Xiaoming, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, came to Yueyang to investigate the economic and social development and presided over a symposium, fully affirmed the work of Yueyang, placed ardent expectations on the construction of the provincial sub-central city, and put forward clear requirements for the next specific work. Xinfeng Yueyang strives to build an important growth pole for Hunan's high-quality development, which fully reflects the great importance and care of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee for the development of Yueyang.
Yueyang focuses on building "Seven Yueyang" and launches a series of commentary chapters to comprehensively explain the meaning, connotation and realization path of "Seven Yueyang". Today, the fifth article is launched: improving the quality of the "bridgehead" and integrating into the "global chain".
Improve the quality of the "bridgehead" and integrate into the "global chain".
Build the "Seven Yueyang" and strive to build the fifth in a series of reviews on important growth poles for high-quality development in the province.
Pleasant sound. On November 27, Shen Xiaoming, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, came to Yueyang for investigation and consultation, and asked to give full play to the unique advantages of connecting the river and the sea, and strive to build an open Yueyang.
The requirements of the provincial party committee are full of expectations. Opening up to Yueyang is no longer a matter of one domain, but more of a matter of the overall situation.
As an inland hinterland, Hunan is not along the border or near the sea, but it has always embraced the vision of connecting the world across the river and sea. Yueyang's advantage of connecting the river to the sea is unique in Hunan. **The general secretary pointed out that Hunan's "One Belt and One Road" location advantage is also in Yueyang, which is the most direct and has the most considerable potential.
The symposium on further promoting the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt held in October this year requires that the unique advantages of the Yangtze River Economic Belt should be better played to traverse the east and west, undertake the north and south, and connect the river to the sea, better connect the domestic and international markets, make good use of the two resources, enhance the endogenous power and reliability of the domestic cycle, enhance the attractiveness and driving force of the international cycle, and provide strategic support for the construction of a new development pattern.
To build an open Yueyang, it is necessary to give full play to its advantages and do a good job in the "great rivers and lakes" article.
As the "north gate" of Hunan, Yueyang's advantage is in the water, and the potential is in Hong Kong: the only city along the Yangtze River in Hunan, sitting on the 163-kilometer Yangtze River "first-class waterway", is the largest water material barge base in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake;It has a national first-class water transport port and the only sea outlet in Hunan Province - Chenglingji Port, and has a developed port economy such as shipping and logistics.
Yueyang closely relies on the Yangtze River shoreline, lays a solid foundation with a platform, revitalizes resources with a hub, shapes its advantages with intermodal transport, and marks the direction with ecology, finds the focus of the city's progress, extends the opening up to the Eurasian continent and ASEAN countries, and creates a new pattern of opening up with land and sea linkage at home and abroad, and east-west two-way mutual assistance. But judging from last year's figures, Yueyang's foreign trade is still far below the national average. Even compared with other cities along the Yangtze River, it is not enough for Yueyang to turn its location advantage into a development advantage. The whole city must firmly seize the opportunity to carry out a concept update, ideological breakthrough, and action follow-up from the inside out, further do a good job in the "big rivers and lakes" article, better take on the role, and write a strong stroke for Hunan to build a highland for reform and opening up in the inland region.
To build an open Yueyang, it is necessary to use the open platform to continuously improve the level of openness.
At present, the changes in the world, the times, and history are unfolding in an unprecedented way. In the face of difficulties such as the acceleration of the process of economic globalization and the sluggish recovery of the world economy, the intensification of inflation, and the lack of demand, open development will always encounter problems of one kind or another.
Openness is the "trump card" to enhance Yueyang's development level, and it is also the source of Yueyang's vitality. The geographical advantage of connecting the river and the sea has endowed Yueyang with a more important mission of opening up. In recent years, the Chenglingji modern port cluster system has been basically completed, and the Yueyang Free Trade Zone, Chenglingji Comprehensive Bonded Zone, China (Yueyang) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone, Chenglingji Departure Tax Refund Port and "Three Zones, One Port and Five Ports" of the designated ports for imported automobiles, meat, grain, fruits, and timber have been completed and put into operation, and Yueyang has been shortlisted in the list of "China's Top 100 Foreign Trade Cities" for many years. To be at the forefront of the province's high-level opening up, it is necessary to give full play to the role of the nine national-level open platforms, especially to build the Yueyang area of the China (Hunan) Pilot Free Trade Zone, improve the efficient linkage mechanism between the pilot free trade area and the Chenglingji New Port Area and the Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and introduce more institutional achievements that benefit inland ports and reduce costs and increase efficiency for enterprises, so as to continue to expand and strengthen the port economy.
To build an open Yueyang is to broaden the open channel and continuously improve the international logistics channel.
Cities in the hinterland of the interior often need to make more far-reaching plans and make more arduous efforts if they want to stand at the forefront of opening up. In the past, due to various reasons, Yueyang missed some development opportunities, but we did not have time to suffer from gains and losses, let alone settle for the status quo. The tenacity of daring to try is the most valuable quality of Yueyang people.
**At the symposium on further promoting the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the general secretary said that a three-dimensional transportation network should be developed along the Yangtze River. This year, the province has also increased the overall planning and integration of the province's port and shipping resources, and established the port and shipping water conservancy group. This year, Yueyang was included in the list of national composite circulation fulcrum city construction and became a modern circulation strategic fulcrum city. Next, Yueyang should seize the opportunity to refine and advance research, accelerate the promotion of unified management and unified operation by deepening the reform of port and shipping, and improve the operation efficiency of port and shipping resources. At the same time, we will give better play to the role of Chenglingji Port as the only national first-class water transport port in the province, vigorously promote the construction of a port-based national logistics hub, accelerate the construction of a "one river, one lake and four waters" collection and distribution port network system led by Chenglingji Port, and constantly improve the international logistics channel focusing on river-sea routes, China-Europe trains, and rail-sea combined transport.
Hundreds of people compete for the stream, and those who strive are the first.
The purpose of building an "open Yueyang" is to alleviate the difficulties of development with openness, to gather the power of cooperation with openness, to gather the momentum of innovation with openness, and to seek shared benefits with openness. On the road of high-level opening-up, Yueyang is moving forward wave by wave, striving to be at the forefront of high-quality development and standing at the forefront of building a highland for reform and opening up in inland areas.
*: Yueyang** Yueyang release.