Lianbo｜General Secretary on the Rise of Central Region emphasizes giving play to two “advantages”

Broadcast on May 27, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and reviewed "Several Policies and Measures to Promote the Accelerated Rise of the Central Region in the New Era", releasing a positive signal of striving to write a new chapter in the rise of the Central Region. The meeting emphasized that to promote the rise of the central region to achieve new and major breakthroughs, it is necessary to give full play to the "advantages of aggregation of scientific and educational resources" and "location advantages."

The central region includes the six provinces of Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan, covering one-tenth of the country's land and contributing one-fifth of the country's total economic output, with huge development potential and space. One of its advantages is its rich scientific and educational resources.

There are more than 700 colleges and universities in the central region, accounting for 30% of the country's students; there are 82,500 high-tech enterprises, accounting for 21% of the country's total; national strategic emerging industry clusters and national advanced manufacturing clusters account for 27.3% of the country's total. % and 17.8%.

The Politburo meeting pointed out that it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of gathering scientific and educational resources, adhere to innovation-driven development, and strengthen original scientific and technological research.

Whether the "backbone" of the central region can be made stronger depends largely on whether the scientific and technological innovation capabilities have been improved. Vitalizing resources and transforming scientific and educational advantages into innovation momentum is the essence of promoting the accelerated rise of the central region in the new era.

More than two months ago, when presiding over a symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era, the General Secretary specifically urged the central region to take advantage of its abundant scientific and educational resources, strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in innovation, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productivity.

On April 11, 2023, in the production workshop of Wuhan Optics Technology Co., Ltd., technicians worked on the optical module production line.

To give full play to the advantages of gathering science and education resources, we must not only adhere to the priority development of education, but also adhere to the principle of self-reliance and talent leadership in science and technology.

In recent years, the General Secretary has visited the central region many times, leading the efforts to transform the central region's advantages in gathering scientific and educational resources into momentum for high-quality development. At the University of Science and Technology of China, he discussed innovation with teachers, students, and scientific researchers at the school, and encouraged the school to "achieve more impressive results in the fields of talent training and innovation." During his trip to Hubei in 2022, he saw many elite talents gathered in a company. Everyone was young and full of energy. The General Secretary was very happy. He said that scientific and technological innovation relies on investment and talent.

In Hunan, the Malanshan Video Cultural and Creative Industrial Park Enterprise and the School of Computer Science of the National University of Defense Technology jointly built the world's first "video supercomputer", which can complete the rendering of a 4K commercial "in just one meal"; in Anhui, A group of doctors from the University of Science and Technology of China, with the ambition of "serving the country with science and technology", started from an office with a dozen people and less than 100 square meters, and entered the "no man's land" of the quantum technology industry...

In today's central region, the advantages of gathering scientific and educational resources are being transformed into surging momentum. From 2019 to 2023, the GDP of the central region increased from 21.8 trillion yuan to 27 trillion yuan, and innovation-driven results have been remarkable.

Giving full play to regional advantages is also a key move to promote the rise of the central region.

The central region connects the east to the west and connects the south to the north. It is an important comprehensive transportation hub in my country and plays a decisive role in the country.

This Politburo meeting proposed that we should give full play to our location advantages and strengthen the construction of a modern transportation infrastructure system. This reminds one of the requirements put forward by the General Secretary at the symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era not long ago - to strengthen the construction of modern transportation infrastructure systems and strengthen the major corridor pattern in the central region.

As we all know, the modern transportation infrastructure system carries not only the flow of people and logistics, but also the flow of information and capital. Strengthening the construction of a modern transportation infrastructure system is both a major responsibility and a huge opportunity for the central region.

Rebuilding the advantages of transportation hubs means reshaping and expanding the economic landscape, and the central region has great potential. This confidence and confidence comes from the fact that Henan has built the country's first "meter"-shaped high-speed rail network, from the country's first professional cargo hub airport in Ezhou, Hubei, from the gradual formation of the "four-hour aviation economic circle" in Changsha, Hunan, and from the highway It is connected in all directions, the railway is convenient and efficient, the "Silk Road in the Sky" connects the world, and the Yangtze River is navigable day and night.

On June 20, 2022, the first G9206 train of the Jizheng High-speed Railway in Zhengzhou left Zhengzhou East Station.

In the new era, the location advantages of the central region have become more prominent, and multiple regional development strategies have overlapped and interacted here. "It is necessary to strengthen the connection with other major development strategies and better integrate into and support the new development pattern." This is the request made by the General Secretary to the six provinces of Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan.

At the symposium on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era, the General Secretary clearly requested that the central region "strengthen in-depth docking with the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and strengthen cooperation with the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin Integration and linkage”.

At present, Anhui relies on the integration of the Yangtze River Delta to actively undertake industrial transfers and achieve transformation and upgrading; Henan and Shanxi are deeply involved in ecological protection and high-quality development strategies in the Yellow River Basin; Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi are actively promoting green and low-carbon industrial transformation, and in the Yangtze River Economic Belt Play an important role in the construction...

The advantages of gathering scientific and educational resources and the unique geographical advantages will surely inject a steady stream of impetus into the rise of the central region.

Proofreading｜Liu Zhen, Sun Jie, Song Chunyan, Li Yingzhuo, Lou Hao