Walking into the experience hall of Caishantang Pharmaceutical *** in Yongding District, Longyan, Fujian, a strong fragrance of traditional Chinese medicine came to my nose. Wanying tea produced by the company is a famous brand product in Fujian Province, which was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008 and has a history of more than 200 years.
Shen Honghai, the inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage and deputy general manager of the company, told reporters that the company is comprehensively promoting strategic cooperation with Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group, and the annual output value is expected to jump from 13 million yuan last year to 200 million yuan in the future, and Wanying tea is also expected to be upgraded from a local brand to a national brand. In addition, the cooperation between the two sides will also drive the planting of about 20,000 acres and more than 10 kinds of medicinal materials in the region, benefiting more than 20 towns and villages.
In May 2022, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued the Work Plan for Counterpart Cooperation in Key Cities in Old Revolutionary Base Areas, clarifying the establishment of counterpart cooperation between Guangzhou and Longyan City. In the past two years, the two sides have carried out in-depth cooperation in the fields of red cultural inheritance, education and medical care, industrial development, infrastructure, cultural tourism and health care, and made every effort to build a model of counterpart cooperation in key cities in the old revolutionary base area in the new era.
Complement each other's advantages, and counterpart cooperation is comprehensively promoted
At the beginning of the snow after the snow, the Gutian Conference Memorial Hall in Shanghang County is full of tourists. The first batch of "high-speed rail group" and "self-driving group" tourists of "Millions of Old Tourists in Longyan" in 2024 are experiencing the red journey here.
Since the counterpart cooperation, the number of visitors to Guangzhou to the Gutian Conference Memorial Hall has increased explosively. The docent of the Gutian Conference Memorial Hall told reporters that more and more "Lao Guang" are here to learn about the red history of Longyan and inherit the red gene.
Guangzhou and Longyan are rich in red cultural resources. Since the establishment of the cooperative relationship between the two sides, Longyan City has carried out a series of activities of the "Red Flag Does Not Fall Hero Blossoms" Red Story Publicity Group into Guangzhou, and held 5 special lectures, with an online and offline audience of more than 2.2 million people. Gutian Cadre College signed a cooperation agreement with the Party School of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Guangdong Nanling Cadre College, and Dongjiang Cadre College, and the two cities set up 17 cadre education bases for each other.
At present, Guangzhou and Longyan have established an alliance of cultural tourism cities between the two places, and continue to carry out the activity of "Millions of Old People Visit Longyan", and 64 travel agencies and business associations in the two cities have established cooperative relations. Longyan's 47 A-level tourist attractions implement the first ticket free policy for Guangzhou citizens. According to statistics, in 2023, Longyan City will receive nearly 3.65 million tourists from Guangdong, a year-on-year increase of about 180; It received about 800,000 tourists from Guangzhou, a year-on-year increase of about 230.
On January 11, the G3045 EMU from Fujian Longyan Station to Guangzhou East Railway Station officially debuted, ending the history of Longyan without starting Guangzhou high-speed EMU. Previously, the direct flight route from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport to Longyan Guanzhishan Airport was also opened at the end of 2022, and Longyan entered Guangzhou's "half-day life circle".
The transportation interconnection has shortened the time and space distance between the "old area" and the "bay area", and has led to the deepening of counterpart cooperation in various fields between the two cities.
32 key schools in Guangzhou, including Guangzhou University and Guangdong Guangya Middle School, have established counterpart cooperative relations with 37 schools in Longyan City, and 140 famous teachers in Guangzhou have carried out mentor-apprentice pairing with outstanding young teachers in Longyan.
The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital and other 11 well-known hospitals in Guangzhou have established counterpart cooperative relations with 12 hospitals in Longyan City, 12 cooperative hospitals have been inaugurated, 20 famous doctor studios have been established, and 10 management talents and medical experts of high-level hospitals in Guangzhou have served as honorary presidents or vice presidents of counterpart cooperative hospitals in Longyan City and County. More than 270 experts from Guangzhou went to Longyan to provide free medical treatment to the masses140,000 person-times, so that people in the old area can enjoy education and medical services in first-tier cities at their doorsteps.
Two-way running, industrial cooperation has achieved fruitful results
In the production workshop of Fujian Zijin Copper Industry in Shanghang County, copper foil weighing 6 tons is neatly placed in the workshop, and a thin copper strip is pressed out of the machine, and the thinnest is only 001 mm. Zhou Jianhui, general manager of the company, said that Zijin Mining, which was born in Shanghang County, is the world's sixth largest copper producer, and Fujian Zijin Copper is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zijin MiningThe 50,000-ton cold-rolled high-precision copper strip project covers new energy vehicles, 5G communications, high-end electronics, aerospace and other fields, and is expected to have an annual industrial output value of 2.5 billion yuan after completion. "With the help of counterpart cooperation, we will open up the South China and international markets, and both sides will usher in new development opportunities. ”
Wuping County, known as the "first county of forest reform in China", is located in the southwest of Longyan City, at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. Zhang Lihua, secretary of the Wuping County Party Committee, told reporters that thanks to the cooperation of Guanglong, the high-speed rail dream of the people of Wuping finally came true in December 2023, and "Wuping people from all directions, high-speed rail go home for the New Year" has become a reality. In addition, Wuping County gives full play to the geographical advantages adjacent to Guangdong and the opportunity of Guanglong cooperation, and takes the information industry focusing on new display as the first industry, in recent years, the new display industry has developed rapidly from small to large, and has become the main force of industrial development in the county.
Zheng Fazhong, a second-level researcher of the Guangzhou Municipal Cooperation Office, introduced that the two cities of Guangzhou and Longyan adhere to the industrial cooperation and project construction as the focus of counterpart cooperation, explore the cross-regional benefit sharing mechanism, find the convergence point and entry point of the development of the two sides, and share resources such as market and technology, and have achieved "pragmatic results" in industrial cooperation.
According to reports, in 2023, the two cities will sign a total of 54 counterpart cooperation agreements on red culture, state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, finance, and government services, with a total investment of 48.7 billion yuan. On September 7, 2023, the Guanglong Cooperative Industrial Park was officially unveiled, with 14 enterprises signing contracts and entering the park; On December 26, Guangzhou and Longyan City held a centralized groundbreaking ceremony for key industrial projects of counterpart cooperation, including Guangzhou Automobile Group's lithium iron phosphate comprehensive utilization project, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Wanglaoji (Longyan) Industrial Park (Yongding) Production Base Project, and Guangzhou Industrial Control Group 350,000 tons of cold-rolled high-precision copper strip project, Guangzhou Construction Group, Shanghang County, Longyan Chengfa cooperation project and other four Fortune 500 enterprise projects landed in Longyan.
The sparks in Gutian are burning the plains, and the red flags are picturesque. The sails of the Pearl River are hanging high, leading the ...... of the timesAs sung in the song "Hand in Hand" co-created by Guangzhou and Longyan, from red kapok to red camellia, from "Xiaomanjiao" to Yongding Tulou, the "Bay Area" and "Old Area" are working together to write a new love affair between mountains and seas.
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