People are diligent and spring comes early, and development is seizing the day. At the beginning of the new year, Guangdong ushered in the visit of "old friends". From February 25th to 27th, the party and government delegation of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region came to Guangdong for inspection and exchange, during which the two provinces and autonomous regions signed the "Framework Agreement on Building an Important Strategic Hinterland of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Further Deepening Guangdong-Guangxi Cooperation" (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement") to discuss cooperation plans and seek a new chapter of common development.
Crossing the Xijiang River and flying over the Pearl River, the avenue is like a stone, and the travelers are boundless. With full ambition and solid steps, Yuegui will show greater achievements in promoting high-quality development and move to a new height.
High position: strengthen strategic docking and draw a new development pattern.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the general secretary has taken a long-term view and taken the overall situation, constantly enriched and improved the new concepts, new ideas and new strategies of regional coordinated development, and made solid progress in major regional strategies. In recent years, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces and regions have continued to deepen exchanges and cooperation, strengthened the docking of major national strategies, and strived to make greater breakthroughs in service and integration into the new development pattern.
Look at the linkage of the "two bays", and the beauty is shared.
The Beibu Gulf Economic Zone is backed by the west and connected to ASEAN, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is one of the regions with the highest degree of openness and the strongest economic vitality in China. The "two bays" linkage development demand is strong and the space is broad.
It's good to ride the wind, and the sky is thousands of miles. Guangxi seized the opportunities of the "Belt and Road" construction, the entry into force and implementation of RCEP, and the Pan-Pearl River Delta regional cooperation, and issued the "Guangxi Comprehensive Docking of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Construction Master Plan (2018-2035)" and other documents, from the aspects of industry, transportation, and policies to fully connect with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In 2023, 373 billion yuan will be invested in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area enterprises in Guangzhou, accounting for 36% of the total in Guangxi during the same period9%；The total investment in the signed project agreements reached 527 billion yuan, accounting for 31 percent of the total in Guangxi during the same period3%。
Melt out new opportunities and "turn" out of a new world. The Beibu Gulf Economic Zone has actively introduced a number of leading enterprises in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, such as BYD, Huike and Nine Dragons, and has gradually become a new highland for undertaking industrial transfer in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. "We are optimistic about the potential and prospects of Guangdong-Guangxi cooperation, and will continue to invest in Guangxi and continue to strengthen cooperation with Guangxi. According to the relevant person in charge of BYD, BYD has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Beibu Gulf Port Group, and laid out a new energy battery project in Nanning, Guangxi, which has become BYD's largest battery production base in the world and the fastest in China.
According to the agreement, Guangdong and Guangxi will further strengthen inter-provincial consultation and cooperation in the Beibu Gulf city agglomeration, promote Guangxi's integration into the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, provide resource elements, market space and labor support for the development of the Greater Bay Area, undertake the gradient transfer of industries in an orderly manner, and build Guangxi into an important strategic hinterland of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Look at the "two rivers" rushing and thriving.
The Pearl River-Xijiang Economic Belt runs through Guangdong and Guangxi, connects Yunnan and Guizhou upwards, and connects Hong Kong and Macao below.
The glow of the sun shines on the Xijiang River. **South**.
Under the pragmatic promotion of Guangdong and Guangxi, the coordinated development between cities in the Pearl River-Xijiang River basin has become increasingly close, and the construction of cooperation platforms has been gradually deepened. As of June 2023, 80 enterprises and institutions and 133 projects have been introduced to the Shenzhen Bama Health Cooperation Special Pilot Zone, including Huawei, Shenpeng Tourism, and the Shenzhen Institute of Agricultural Genomics of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, with a planned investment of 8806.8 billion yuan. In 2023, the output value of science, industry and trade in the Guangdong-Guangxi Cooperation Special Pilot Zone (Wuzhou) will reach about 59.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 352%。
Take water as the medium and develop the industry according to water. Along the context of the river basin, Guangdong and Guizhou will make full "articles" in terms of infrastructure connectivity, first-class waterway construction, the development of the Pinglu Canal Economic Belt, the industrial layout along the Yangtze River, cultural tourism and sports cooperation, and public service cooperation, so as to jointly promote the high-quality development of the Pearl River-Xijiang Economic Belt.
Look at the two-way openness and smooth circulation.
Openness is the only way to achieve high-quality development. Adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, Guangdong is the vanguard, pioneer and experimental area of reform and opening up. Guangxi is connected to ASEAN by land and sea, and is the frontier window of China's cooperation with ASEAN. When the two "frontiers" meet, it must be "the first to get the moon near the water".
Taking advantage of important platforms such as the China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair), the China-ASEAN Expo, and the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, Guangdong and Guizhou will work together to promote the high-quality development of the Free Pilot Zone, vigorously explore the markets of the "Belt and Road" countries, especially the ASEAN market, and continue to jointly expand the opening up to the outside world.
Plan for great development from a high position, and draw a big picture with "a game of chess". With the continuous amplification of the superposition effect of major national strategies, Yuegui has leveraged its strength to take off.
High level: Infrastructure first, unblocking the "arteries" of the economy
Overlooking the land of Guangdong and Guangxi, the "major arteries" crisscross and extend in all directions, connecting the grand blueprint of cooperation and docking between the two provinces and regions.
Connectivity and infrastructure first. Guangdong and Guangxi provinces and autonomous regions will give full play to their geographical advantages of connecting Hong Kong and Macao, radiating the mainland and linking the world, strengthen the supporting and leading role of infrastructure, and jointly build a new land-sea corridor in the western region at a high level, so as to open up the "two pulses of appointment and supervision" and forge "strong bones" for economic development.
During the 2021 Pan-Pearl River Delta Regional Co-operation Chief Executive Joint Conference, Guangdong and Guangxi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Enhancing Transport Connectivity. At present, the "12 railways" and "15 highs" jointly planned and constructed by Guangdong and Guizhou have been built into "4 railways" and "8 highs", and 13 routes have been opened, and a comprehensive transportation channel system connecting ASEAN, Hong Kong and Macao, and radiating Yunnan and Guizhou has been basically completed, bringing great convenience to the personnel exchanges and goods circulation between the two provinces and regions.
In addition, the Lianshan-Hezhou branch of the Erguang Expressway (Guangdong section) will be fully completed in December 2023 and will be put into operation after the completion of the Guangxi section; The construction of the Yangchun-Xinyi Expressway will be accelerated, and it is expected to be completed and opened to traffic in 2025; The preliminary work of a number of railway and expressway projects connecting the two provinces and regions, such as the Hepu-Zhanjiang railway, the Liuzhou-Guangzhou railway, and the Beiliu-Huazhou expressway, is also being promoted.
The sound of the waves is long, and hundreds of boats compete for the current. In the busy picture of cargo ships shuttling back and forth, the Pearl River-Xijiang "** waterway" is surging, flowing with the efforts and achievements of Guangdong and Guizhou to jointly promote the construction of water conservancy and shipping.
Datengxia is the longest and largest canyon in Guangxi, located in the throat of China's southwest water transport to the sea, with the help of Datengxia water conservancy project has been transformed into a "first-class waterway". In 2020, the Datengxia Ship Lock was put into operation, increasing the navigation capacity of Xijiang ships from 300 tons to 3,000 tons. In 2023, a total of 369.64 million ships will pass through the lock, 96.27 million tons of nuclear load and 40.82 million tons of cargo will pass through the lock, respectively, a year-on-year increase, and Guangxi's goods can reach the world through the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and drive the local industry of more than 10 billion yuan.
Datengxia Water Conservancy Project. **South**.
The development of shipping has helped Guangdong and Guizhou to accelerate the construction of a world-class modern logistics system, so that the "first-class waterway" can truly release the "first-class benefits". In November 2022, the "Two Bay Express" route jointly created by Guangzhou Port Group and Beibu Gulf Port Group was launched, shortening the logistics time between the Greater Bay Area and Beibu Gulf by nearly a week. In 2023, container liner routes from Guangxi Baise and Liuzhou to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will be opened one after another, greatly reducing logistics costs and promoting the logistics development of the Pearl River-Xijiang Economic Belt.
When the infrastructure is connected, the various elements of development are also "activated". Since then, the mountains are no longer high, the roads are no longer long, and the beautiful vision of "people enjoying their travels and things flowing smoothly" between Guangdong and Guizhou has become a reality of daily life, and the economy has accelerated to "run" by taking advantage of the situation.
High quality: The industry is blooming and activating the development momentum.
The unveiling of Guangxi's first "reverse industry innovation enclave" in the Greater Bay Area, the promotion of the Nanning (Shenzhen) ASEAN Industrial Cooperation Zone (Guangdong-Hong Kong......-Macao Greater Bay Area) was held, and the strategic framework agreement on jointly building the Nanning (Shenzhen) ASEAN Industrial Cooperation Zone was signedA series of actions between Guangdong and Guangxi in 2023 fully demonstrate the deep significance of the two provinces and regions to seize the opportunities between ASEAN and the Greater Bay Area with industry as a link.
Lei Xiaohua, deputy director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies of the Guangxi Academy of Social Sciences, said that Guangxi can take advantage of the pivotal role of connecting ASEAN and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to realize the integration of industrial chains, chains and value chains, learn from each other's strengths, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, so as to form a closer regional economic cooperation division of labor.
Focusing on new energy vehicles, new materials, electronic information, intelligent manufacturing, biomedicine and other fields, Guangdong and Guangxi are actively exploring a new cooperation model of "R&D in the Greater Bay Area, Manufacturing in Guangxi, and ASEAN Market", and jointly build a cross-border industrial cluster for ASEAN. In the future, Guangdong and Guizhou will continue to jointly promote the construction of industrial parks such as Nanning (Shenzhen) ASEAN Industrial Cooperation Zone, Jiangmen (Chongzuo) Industrial Park, and Guangxi Dongrong Pilot Demonstration Zone, accelerate the formation of new quality productivity, and activate the "new engine" of high-quality development.
Turning our attention from the world stage to the fields, industry is also the key to the revitalization of the countryside, and agriculture is the most important thing.
Guangdong and Guangxi provinces and autonomous regions adhere to the combination of consumption assistance and industrial development, and jointly implement actions such as "10,000 enterprises and 10,000 villages" to boost "Bay enterprises into Guangxi" and "Guizhou products into the Bay". In the first half of 2023, a total of 156 agricultural products in Guangxi will be rated as "Zhen Products", and a total of 159 agricultural product demonstration bases for Shenzhen and 37 "vegetable basket" production bases for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will be built, and Guangdong will help purchase and sell 132 agricultural and livestock products and characteristic handicraft products in Guangxi3.5 billion yuan, an increase of 10 percent year-on-year2%。
In the alpine vegetable base of Gantian Town, Leye County, Baise City, Guangxi, the vegetables are fresh and green, and the faces of the busy villagers are full of joy. It is understood that about 60 tons of high-quality alpine vegetables are sold from here to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area every day.
Guangdong-Guizhou cooperation construction of Shenbai Legao Mountain Vegetable Project. **South**.
Leye alpine vegetables have been famous in Guangxi for many years, but the effect of promoting agricultural income was not obvious in the past. Under the Guangdong-Guizhou cooperation mechanism, the alpine vegetable base of Gantian Town, Leye County, Baise City, Guangxi Province uses the modern agricultural business philosophy to plant organic vegetables in accordance with the "Zhen product" standard, and creates a whole industrial chain of "from standard planting, processing, brand building, to product sales", achieving an annual output value of more than 5,000 yuan and an annual output of 2 high-quality alpine vegetables40,000 tons, driving around 250,000 people are employed in the vicinity every year.
Alpine vegetable base, kiwifruit industrial park, agricultural, tourism, industry and business integration development demonstration area, the implementation of Guangdong-Guangxi cooperation projects has been effective, so that Gantian Town has changed from a national-level poverty-stricken township to a national-level agricultural industry strong town.
The magnificent picture of rural revitalization is slowly unfolding in the land of Bagui, and the story of Gantian Town is just one of them. As of October 2023, 115 industrial parks have been built, including 73 agricultural industrial parks, with a total of 561 enterprises in the park, with an investment of 19.9 billion yuan.
Diversified industries are blooming and fruitful, the road to prosperity is getting wider and smoother, and the economic vitality of Guangdong and Guizhou continues to emerge and the development momentum continues to burst out.
Ride the wind and break the waves, and it is time to set sail. Standing at the starting point of the new year, Yuegui will continue to work hard with a high-spirited attitude, and the energy of the dragon and tiger leap to forge ahead, and go on a new journey and create new brilliance together.
Co-ordinator: He Jingwen Men Lili.
Curator: Chen Jing.
Reporter: Zhang Zhiyi.