In July this year, the Central Urban Work Conference, held again after 10 years, is of great milestone significance in the history of urban development in my country and marks a new historical position in my country's urban development. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at this meeting provides fundamental guidance for doing a good job in urban work in the new era and new journey, and points out the direction for browsing a new path to urban modernization with Chinese characteristics. The meeting clarified the overall requirements for urban work at present and in the future, including "to promote high-quality urban development as the theme and adhere to urban connotation-oriented development as the main line", and required "to deeply grasp the strategic orientation of urban connotation-oriented development and to improve the quality of urban development more targetedly." The "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting High-Quality Devel

Deeply grasping the strategic orientation of urban connotation-oriented development has important contemporary significance and rich connotation-oriented development is an important concept advocated by General Secretary Xi Jinping. At the 2015 Central Urban Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed: "We must adhere to intensive development, establish the concept of 'smart growth' and 'compact cities', scientifically define the boundaries of urban development, and promote the transformation of urban development from external expansion to internal improvement." At that time, my country's urbanization was still in a stage of rapid development, and this important statement reflects General Secretary Xi Jinping's profound thinking and forward-looking layout on urban development. During the local inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping repeatedly emphasized connotation-based development. For example, during his inspection in Shanghai in 2019, he required "rational arrangement of production, life, a

Cities are the center of economic, political, cultural, social activities. To deeply grasp the strategic orientation of urban connotation-oriented development, we must promote economic, environmental and social coordination in an intensive and efficient manner within the scientifically defined scale scope and development boundaries, through the means of optimizing spatial layout, improving the living environment, and improving the governance system, and promote economic, environmental and social coordination in an intensive and efficient manner to achieve higher quality, more efficient and more sustainable development. A city is a complex system formed by a large number of elements and their interactions, and the meaning of urban connotation development is very rich. At the economic level, we emphasize innovation-driven, focus on relying on scientific and technological progress, institutional optimization, management improvement and other means to improve total factor productivity under the constraints of e