In the final year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, how can we achieve decisive victory and demonstrate new responsibilities and actions on the new journey? Provinces across the country have unveiled their "task lists" and sounded the "charge horns."
Regarding Goals, There is Strategy
From Guangdong, a major economic province, setting this year's target at "around 5%" on the high base of 14 trillion yuan last year, to Liaoning's strategy of "stabilizing the primary industry, sustaining the secondary industry, and boosting the tertiary industry" with a proposed growth of "more than 5%", and then to Tibet, which takes "improving people's livelihood and rallying people's hearts as the starting and ending points of all work" and sets a clear goal of "growing by more than 7%, striving for 8%"...
Regarding Actions, There are Methods
From Zhejiang's support for Hangzhou to build a highland for the development of the artificial intelligence industry, focusing on both the "effective improvement in quality" and the "reasonable growth in quantity", to Henan's correction of unfair practices such as industry monopolies, aiming to form an economic order that is both "liberalized" and "regulated", and then to Yunnan's promotion of models such as joint construction of industrial parks and parks within parks to comprehensively improve the efficiency of resource allocation...
From these, we can see the awareness of "a unified national plan" among localities in implementing the decision-making and deployment of the Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core. We can also see the creative practices of localities in grasping their strategic positions, giving play to their own advantages, and serving the overall situation with their respective regions.
From these, we can truly feel the vitality of the land of China and deeply understand the confidence, foundation, and bright future of the Chinese economy.
(I)
"Identifying the strategic position within the national overall situation." This is the deep logic of local development practices and a strategic consideration for jointly playing the big game of "promoting Chinese-style modernization."
As China's largest economic center city, Shanghai is a window for the world to observe China. Its regional GDP reached 5.39 trillion yuan last year. As the leader of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Shanghai has clearly set its expected growth target for this year at "around 5%".
Building Shanghai into the "Five Centers" is a major decision made by the Central Committee after a comprehensive assessment of the domestic and international situations and overall consideration of the reform and development situation. It is an important mission entrusted to Shanghai by the Central Committee.
Shanghai's development goals and actions are precisely the result of in-depth thinking and scientific planning under this strategic positioning, adhering to the principle of "Considering Four Aspects".
In Lingang, Shanghai, in 2021, the entrepreneurial team of "Energy Singularity" company arrived, aiming at the super energy - controllable nuclear fusion.
This will be the Chinese "sun" illuminating the future. The fusion energy of 1 liter of seawater is equivalent to that of 300 liters of gasoline. Currently, dozens of nuclear fusion technology innovation enterprises around the world have attracted investments of over 7 billion US dollars, but commercialization is still a long-term prospect.
The long-term prospect means uncertainty and also means "no current output value", but Shanghai remains determined. It participates in the whole chain, from material research and development, component processing, device installation to environmental and safety evaluations, to fill in the gaps. The Science and Technology Commission, the Economic and Information Commission, and the Lingang New Area Administrative Committee have provided strong support with good policies.
In March 2024, the world's first all-high-temperature superconducting tokamak device independently developed by "Energy Singularity" was completed in Lingang. By mid-June, this "artificial sun" achieved plasma discharge, giving China a preemptive advantage in the key field of high-temperature superconducting magnetic confinement fusion.
It took 3 years to achieve a breakthrough from scratch, and it may take another 10 years to achieve commercial power generation through controllable nuclear fusion...
It's not just about controllable nuclear fusion. The domestic production line of 48K large tow carbon fiber took more than 10 years from research and development to large-scale and high-quality production. The domestic large aircraft took 16 years from project approval to its first commercial flight...
Future industries often seem "unclear" and "require waiting", but they often hold the key to winning the future. Precisely for this reason, entrusted with the mission of building an "International Scientific and Technological Innovation Center", Shanghai always maintains historical patience, "dares to shoulder the heaviest burdens and tackle the toughest problems", regardless of short-term benefits, and focuses on making long-term contributions.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must consider from the overall situation and lofty ideals what we are doing and why we are doing it."
In modern history, one of the root causes of China's backwardness and being bullied was technological backwardness. In the face of the profound changes unseen in a century, scientific and technological innovation is the key variable.
The Central Committee has required the Yangtze River Delta region to "build a source of scientific and technological innovation", the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to "focus on building an important source of independent innovation and the main source of original innovation in China", and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to "become a global highland for scientific and technological innovation and an important source of emerging industries"... Behind these entrusted missions and high expectations is the practical answer to the era proposition that "the key to Chinese-style modernization lies in scientific and technological modernization".
A country's strategic layout is crucial to its national strength, and the precise positioning of localities highlights the institutional advantages.
On the new journey, firmly establishing the overall situation thinking, grasping the strategic positioning, taking coordination as the key method, and transforming institutional advantages into strategic initiatives will unleash unprecedented development potential.
(II)
In the grand chess game of the national governance system, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is like the "general" sitting in the central command post, with different pieces playing their respective roles, and the overall situation of the chess game being clear.
For localities, the key to playing their respective roles lies in adapting measures to local conditions, combining with local realities, and giving play to their own advantages.
Anhui, located in the central region, once faced the development dilemma of being "neither in the east nor in the west". Since the new era, it has overcome difficulties and advanced triumphantly. This year, it has proposed that "the regional GDP of the whole province will grow by more than 5.5%, and strive for better results in practical work", declaring that "it is necessary to take on the heavy responsibility, 'jump up to pick the peaches'" and "win more admiration".
The expected target is not low, and the tone is also strong, changing some people's stereotypes and arousing curiosity: What gives Anhui the confidence?
We can catch a glimpse from three aspects:
Last year, its automobile production volume ranked second in the country, with the production volume of new energy vehicles increasing by 94.5% year-on-year;
The operating revenue of above-scale industrial enterprises achieved a "triple jump", and the added value of above-scale industrial enterprises increased by 9% year-on-year last year;
From 2018 to 2024, the regional economic aggregate of Anhui stepped up to a "trillion-yuan level" every three years, from breaking through 3 trillion yuan to breaking through 5 trillion yuan...
The secret lies in giving play to the superimposed advantages of multiple national development strategies and continuously making efforts in building itself into an "important area with three functions and one zone".
Starting from the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has deeply implemented the regional coordinated development strategy, regional major strategies, the main functional area strategy, and the new urbanization strategy, optimized the layout of major productive forces, and constructed a regional economic layout and territorial space system with complementary advantages and high-quality development. This has created conditions, provided opportunities, and opened up space for localities to embark on a path of high-quality development suitable for their own regional realities.
It is precisely by focusing on giving play to and making good use of the advantages of multiple national development strategies such as the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the rise of the central region, and the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, and combining with its own geographical characteristics, resource endowments, industrial foundations, and scientific research conditions, that Anhui has stimulated the superimposed effects of multiple strategies and formed a "momentum" of high-quality development with an increasing total amount, a new industrial structure, and forward development.
It actively integrates into the new development pattern, complements the new energy vehicle industry chain in the Yangtze River Delta with 7 complete vehicle enterprises and 2,800 supporting enterprises, and helps form a "4-hour industrial circle";
It accelerates the integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain. Strategic emerging industries such as "chip, display panel, automobile, and new energy integration" and "emergency, life sciences, and intelligent manufacturing" are rising rapidly, and their proportion in the output value of above-scale industrial enterprises has increased from 20.7% in 2013 to 43.6% in 2024...
From the coastal areas in the east to the western plateaus, from the southern landscapes to the fertile fields in the north, the differences in resource endowments among different regions in China are rarely seen in the world. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "it is necessary to follow the path of reasonable division of labor and optimized development according to the conditions of each region."
With the most national advanced manufacturing clusters, national specialized and sophisticated "little giant" enterprises, and national-level 5G factories in the country, Jiangsu has laid out subject specialties urgently needed for new-quality productive forces in 2025 and built innovation consortia, which will give birth to more growth points;
Relying on the Beibu Gulf, Guangxi deepens practical cooperation with ASEAN, fully connects with the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and carries out actions to strengthen the marine economy. With an expected growth rate of around 5%, Guangxi plays a "concerto" of development;
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Facing the challenges of external environmental uncertainties and the pressure of the transformation between old and new growth drivers, it is not easy to "push the stone uphill". However, we should also see that opportunities brought by scientific and technological revolutions, industrial transformations, and the new development pattern are surging towards us.
Looking across the country, every province has development strategic dividends and reform and opening-up dividends, "holding a good hand of cards". At the same time, differences hide potential, and gradients accumulate potential energy.
Remembering that high-quality development is the hard truth in the new era, identifying comparative advantages, forging development strengths, giving full play to everyone's abilities and advantages, and pooling development forces, the Chinese economy will not only win the present but also the future.
(III)
When the Central Committee looks at issues, it always takes a broad perspective and considers what the most important mission of a region is.
For example, serving as the "ballast stone" for ensuring stable grain production and supply in the country is the primary responsibility of Northeast China. "Continuing to be China's 'Great Northern Granary' is as glorious and important as the Yangtze River Delta region being the center of China's cutting-edge technology."
"Protecting the ecological environment of Qinghai is a matter of great national significance." The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters, is the Third Pole of the Earth. Strengthening ecological environmental protection and maximizing ecological functions have become the main tasks of this region.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "Qinghai shoulders the major mission of maintaining ecological security" and "the top priority is to protect the 'Chinese Water Tower' of the Sanjiangyuan area well." Remembering its mission and responsibility, Qinghai strives to serve the overall situation with its own region, and has clearly set its growth target for this year at around 4.5%, striving for better results.
Compared with the actual growth rate of 2.7% last year, this year's expected target has been adjusted up to around 4.5%. How can Qinghai achieve this? The key lies in giving priority to ecology and pursuing green development.
On the one hand, to protect the "Chinese Water Tower", Qinghai has made a determined decision to abandon the regional GDP that comes with pollution. On the other hand, "Qinghai's greatest value lies in its ecology, its greatest responsibility lies in its ecology, and its greatest potential also lies in its ecology."
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Qinghai has invested a total of 497 million yuan in implementing 106 wetland protection and restoration projects and promoted the construction of national parks with high quality. Currently, the wetland area in the Sanjiangyuan area is nearly 50,000 square kilometers, the water quality of the three major rivers at their outlets remains excellent, and hundreds of billions of cubic meters of source water are delivered downstream every year.
It combines high-level protection with high-quality development, and supports high-quality development with high-level protection.
At the 塔拉滩光电园区 (Talatan Photovoltaic Power Generation Park), more than 7 million photovoltaic panels are like a vast blue sea, with green grass and groups of black Tibetan sheep under the panels. The development of the photovoltaic industry has turned the Gobi desert into an ecological pasture. It can not only sell green electricity but also reduce the wind speed in the park by 50%, decrease the soil water evaporation by 30%, restore the vegetation coverage rate to 80%, and the annual forage yield reaches 110,000 tons.
At the 察尔汗盐湖 (Qarhan Salt Lake), salt mining ships navigate in the mirror-like salt fields, and modern factories turn brine into potassium fertilizer, providing support for "securing the rice bowl". At the same time, the "white brine" is transformed into "white oil", and lithium resources are purified, helping Qinghai form a complete lithium battery application industry chain from anode and cathode materials, electrolytes, diaphragms to lithium battery manufacturing, providing power for new energy vehicles.
Qinghai is accelerating the construction of a world-class salt lake industry base, building a national highland for clean energy industries, an international ecological tourism destination, and a base for exporting green and organic agricultural and livestock products... Following the dialectics of knowing what to do and what not to do, Qinghai is focusing on cultivating a modern industrial system that reflects its local characteristics and advantages.
Hubei actively integrates into the national innovation chain. Technologies such as storage chips, hollow-core optical fibers, and myocardial atherectomy are world-leading, and it is "accelerating the construction of an important strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region";
Chengdu and Chongqing seize the "timing and geographical advantages" of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, improve the transportation capacity of the China-Europe freight trains, expand the radiation scope of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, solve the international logistics problems in the western region, and promote the formation of a comprehensive open pattern of "linking the land and sea at home and abroad and mutual assistance between the east and the west";
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Fully implementing the new development concept, actively integrating into and effectively serving the overall situation, not only adding luster to one's own region but also contributing to the overall situation, on the land of China, with high-quality development comprehensively promoting Chinese-style modernization, a scene of a hundred boats racing forward is emerging.
The whole year's work depends on a good start in spring. Once we have a clear vision, we should act quickly. Starting with full determination and taking practical actions, we will surely achieve a successful conclusion of the 14th Five-Year Plan!
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