Hunan **Quan** commentator Zhou Zezhong.
During the Spring Festival this year, about 2.52 million mainland residents visited Hong Kong and Macao, and about 2.49 million Hong Kong and Macao residents visited the mainland. At the first press conference of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress in 2024, the spokesperson revealed such a news when talking about promoting the deep integration and coordinated development of the Greater Bay Area. "Smooth traffic, prosperous people, prosperous wealth", the Greater Bay Area has strong vitality.
With an economy of more than 13 trillion yuan, the Greater Bay Area's development potential is immeasurable. As an inland province, Hunan's in-depth integration into major national strategies is the proper meaning of achieving high-quality development. In this way, the wind of Lingnan can "cross" the Wuling Mountains and nourish the land of Sanxiang.
Chenzhou is the "bridgehead" for the central region to connect with Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Yongzhou is fully connected with Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and is building a "new South Gate" in Hunan. Taking Chenzhou as an example, more than 90% of the city's investment projects come from the Greater Bay Area, more than 80% of tourists from outside the province come from the Greater Bay Area, and more than 80% of the foreign vegetables are sold to the Greater Bay Area. But we can't be satisfied with just being the "back garden" and "vegetable basket" of the Greater Bay Area. Hunan and the Greater Bay Area are not a "financial circle" in the form of a general friendship, but based on the resources and location advantages of Chenzhou and Yongzhou, further improve industrial planning, promote the extension of the industrial chain, and strive to speak "Cantonese" well, eat "rice in the Pearl River Delta", and maximize the benefits of resource utilization.
In January this year, key projects from the Yangtze River Delta such as Luwei Wheels, Envision Energy, and Xianghe Motor were signed in Yueyang. Why do companies from thousands of miles away come here? It is precisely because of Yueyang's water transportation advantages and relatively low production costs that lead to the river and the sea. Such integration may also trigger another kind of thinking: to achieve high-quality development, docking industries and projects is only one aspect. What is the benchmark for high-quality development in the Greater Bay Area? Only by jumping out of one's own "one acre and three points of land" and learning from the development ideas, experiences, and practices of the advanced areas, as well as the spirit and good work style of the cadres and masses, can the wind of Lingnan "cross" the Wuling Mountains more quickly.
On the afternoon of 3 March, the Hunan delegation to the Second Session of the 14 th National People's Congress held its first plenary meeting and planned to put forward eight proposals to the congress in the name of the delegation. Among them, the "Proposal on Supporting the Acceleration of the Construction of the Songhu Waterway" and the "Proposal on Supporting the Construction of Major Energy Projects in Hunan" are closely related to the Yangtze River Delta and the Greater Bay Area. In-depth docking and integration into major national strategies, when there is the ambition of "thousands of miles of neighbors", the strength of the whole province, seek overall results, with a sense of urgency and mission of high-quality development, run out of the "acceleration" of building a highland of reform and opening up in inland areas.