At the beginning of the new year of 2024, the door of China's trillion city club will open again.
On January 30, the Yantai Municipal Bureau of Statistics released economic data for 2023, announcing that Yantai's GDP in 2023 will reach 10,1624.6 billion yuan, a historic step of one trillion yuan. Yantai has become the third city in Shandong with a GDP of more than one trillion yuan after Qingdao and Jinan.
Shandong has three trillion cities, what is the impact? How will you start again?
The "three cores" of new and old kinetic energy conversion are all over one trillion.
trillions, which can be described as the "spire" of the city.
A city exceeding one trillion yuan not only means a breakthrough in the total economic output, but also represents a new level of urban energy level. Yantai has become a trillion-dollar city, which has brought its own development into a new stage, which is also of great significance to Shandong.
In 2018, Shandong opened the curtain on the transformation of old and new kinetic energy. Resolutely eliminate backward production capacity, close the "scattered pollution", and adhere to the ...... of "vacating cages for birds".What exactly does kinetic energy conversion bring to Shandong?
In addition to a series of data and information such as industrial structure, investment, innovation, and high-tech industries, Jinan will exceed one trillion yuan in 2020 and Yantai in 2023, and the three core cities of Jiqingyan's new and old kinetic energy conversion will all enter one trillion yuan, and the regional GDP will reach 9 trillion yuan. This shows that instead of disrupting Shandong's development rhythm, the kinetic energy transformation has injected more sustainable development momentum into the city. In the face of the new crown epidemic and the complex and severe external environment thereafter, Shandong's urban development still maintains upward momentum.
Over one trillion yuan is a 'display of achievements' for the conversion of new and old kinetic energy in Yantai. Dong Yanling, dean of the Regional Economic Research Institute of Shandong University of Finance and Economics, believes that through the conversion of kinetic energy, Yantai's manufacturing advantages and potential have been further released, laying a solid foundation for the impact of trillions.
On January 11, Gravity-1 was successfully launched in the waters near Haiyang, Shandong. Photographed by the Sky Mirror on the clouds.
From another point of view, with the strong support of the three trillion cities, the position of the strategic fulcrum of economic development in northern Shandong will be more stable, and the driving force and influence will be more significant, and it can better play a leading role in the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.
Between the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Yangtze River Delta, there is a highland of uplift.
Together with Yantai, it has entered the trillion city club, as well as Changzhou, Jiangsu. On the first day of the 2024 New Year, the Propaganda Department of the Changzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a document on WeChat***Changzhou, saying that in 2023, Changzhou will "enter the city of trillions with high quality".
After Changzhou and Yantai, the number of trillion cities in the country has reached 26. Of these, most are concentrated in the southern region and 7 in the northern region.
Shandong has a large economy and a good industrial foundation, which is an important strategic fulcrum for the economic development of China's northern region, and an important link for the balanced development of China's north and south and the overall planning of land and sea in the east and west. Li Guangjie, director of the Institute of International Economics and Politics of the Shandong Academy of Social Sciences, believes.
In Li Guangjie's view, Yantai has been promoted to a trillion city, and the number of trillion cities in Shandong has reached 3, marking a new level of comprehensive strength and competitiveness of the urban agglomeration on the Shandong Peninsula, and has become a development highland between China's eastern coastal areas, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Yangtze River Delta, which is of great significance for promoting the balanced development of the north and the south and building a new pattern of regional development.
After Yantai, in the next few years, the north may usher in a round of trillion-dollar city "expansion tide".
At the beginning of 2021, Weifang put forward the goal of "insisting on a regional GDP of more than one trillion yuan, sprinting to the top 30 of large and medium-sized cities in the country in terms of comprehensive strength, and accelerating into the ranks of second-tier cities in China", and the city's GDP will reach 7306 in 2022400 million yuan, becoming the next seed city in Shandong to sprint to GDP trillions. Taking advantage of the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era, the three provinces in Northeast China will achieve a breakthrough of zero trillion cities, Dalian (8430900 million yuan) and Shenyang (7695800 million yuan) have run into the sprint circle, striving for trillions of collisions, plus Hebei Tangshan (8900700 million yuan) and Shijiazhuang (7100.600 million yuan), northern cities are struggling to catch up.
"How strong" is where the advantage lies and where the potential lies.
In 2020, the GDP of Nantong, Jiangsu Province will exceed one trillion yuan, and Xu Huimin, then secretary of the municipal party committee, threw out the famous "Nantong question": Are we ready in the face of trillions?
Behind the "Nantong Question" is the challenge that every new trillion-dollar city must face. After trillions, urban development has entered another world, competition and benchmarking objects have also been further improved, the old comparative advantage may disappear, and the new comparative advantage has yet to be tapped. What is the goal? What is the basis for achieving the goal? What needs to be done now?
Shandong proposed to support Yantai to build a green, low-carbon and high-quality development demonstration city, which clarified Yantai's new positioning in the province's development strategy. From the perspective of the law of urban development, all kinds of resources are always directed to the central city with absolute advantages in the region.
The provinces in the central and western regions have gathered the strength of the whole province to build strong provincial capitals, and the provincial capital cities have risen strongly: Zhengzhou's GDP in 2022 will be 129 trillion yuan, the volume is the second largest in Henan's GDP Luoyang (5675200 million yuan) more than twice as much; Changsha GDP14 trillion yuan, is the second city of Hunan Yueyang (4710700 million yuan) nearly 3 times; Chengdu is even more with 208 trillion yuan of economic aggregate, becoming the second city of Mianyang (3626900 million yuan) is more than five times that of a super center city, which has become a golden signboard to attract all kinds of resources.
In fact, there are reasons for a single branch and a hundred flowers blooming. In the past, when there was a lack of location advantages and policy advantages, inland provinces concentrated limited resources to one point, gave priority to strengthening and expanding provincial capitals, and then radiated to the periphery. However, the resource endowment of various cities in Shandong is not too different, or each has its own strengths, and the distribution of resources is more balanced, and the development naturally tends to be "stronger".
"One super" or "how strong", in the final analysis, is still based on the choice of different realistic conditions.
For Shandong, "balance" is where the characteristics lie, where the advantages lie, and where the potential for future development lies. Dong Yanling believes that it is indeed necessary for Shandong's trillion-dollar city to become bigger, better and stronger, so that it can become a more influential, radiant and dynamic center in the region, win more competitive advantages, and make greater development breakthroughs. At the same time, it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of "network structure and multi-head support" - "multi-strong" support each other, form a structure of urban agglomerations that are coordinated and mutually promoted, and seek development with higher quality and efficiency, lower risk and more population.
Nurturing more trillions of cities will be the inevitable goal and responsibility of Qilu.
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