High-Quality Development in China | "Caiyunzhinan" revitalizes new vitality and embarks on a steady and solid road to high-quality leap-forward development
News: Yunnan is located in southwest China. Its unique location advantage allows Yunnan to not only rely on the domestic market, but also have a vast international market in South Asia and Southeast Asia. In recent years, Yunnan has continued to optimize and expand internal connectivity and open channels to the outside world, and has played a significant role as a radiation center for South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Creating a radiation center for South and Southeast Asia and strengthening transportation and other infrastructure construction are the current priorities. The reporter saw at the construction site of the Chongqing-Kunming High-speed Railway in Xundian County that the erection of large box girders weighing 800 tons was in progress. Staff can use handheld devices to remotely operate the all-in-one transport machine and complete precise erection. At present, the construction of 63 tunnels and 109 bridges on the Yunnan section of the Chongqing-Kunming High-speed Railway has started, with 14 tunnels running through and the main work of 18 bridges completed. After the Chongqing-Kunming high-speed railway is completed and opened to traffic, it will not only shorten the travel time from Chongqing to Kunming from 6 hours to about 3 hours, but also achieve connectivity with the already opened China-Laos Railway. The traffic efficiency of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor will be greatly improved.
Zhang Weiwei is the person in charge of an international logistics company in Laos. In the early days, it was basically transported by road. Now after switching to China-Laos railway transportation, not only the freight cost of a container has been directly reduced from 70,000 to 80,000 yuan to about 20,000 yuan, but the transportation time has also been reduced from 70,000 to 80,000 yuan. More than 3 days in the past have been reduced to 1 day.
While Zhang Weiwei was busy going around various cargo yards, the construction of the Mohan International Port Industrial Park where the China-Laos Railway Mohan Station is located is also accelerating. The large-scale equipment in the venue is busy coming and going, and the work is divided into different tasks. The main construction of the industrial management center, digital economy industrial park and other projects has begun to take shape.
In May 2022, Yunnan Province innovatively implemented Kunming City's hosting of Mohan Town in Xishuangbanna Prefecture to jointly build an international port city, focusing on the development of key industries such as international commerce, processing and manufacturing, and modern logistics, and planning and construction of border industrial parks. By the end of 2023, there will be 1,232 registered companies in Mohan. In recent years, Yunnan Province has continuously strengthened the construction of radiation center facilities. Relying on its location advantages, Yunnan Province has actively integrated into the construction of the China-Indochina Economic Corridor and the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor. It has conducted cross-border RMB business with 124 countries and regions and established 12 RMB exchange centers with 9 countries. It has established a multilateral and bilateral cooperation mechanism, achieved full coverage of the Lancang-Mekong bilateral mechanism in the five countries, and established 51 pairs of sister cities with South Asian and Southeast Asian countries.
"Promoting High-Quality Development" series of themed press conferences
The State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Promoting High-Quality Development" this morning. Wang Yubo, Deputy Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Yunnan Province, said when introducing "taking a steady and practical road of high-quality leap-forward development to write a Yunnan chapter of the Chinese Dream" that Yunnan will continue to strengthen the resource economy, park economy, and port economy, and leapfrog with high quality Yunnan promotes the practice of Chinese-style modern development.
Yunnan has blue sky and white clouds, fresh air, and beautiful mountains and rivers. Since ancient times, it has been given poetic nicknames such as "South of Colorful Clouds" and "Colorful Yunnan". It is the silhouette of beautiful China. Yunnan attaches great importance to ecological protection. Its forest area ranks second in the country, and its urban air quality has ranked among the top in the country for seven consecutive years. Yunnan's economic development is full of vitality, with the total economic volume increasing from 1.1 trillion yuan in 2012 to 3 trillion yuan in 2023, and the quality of development continues to improve. In recent years, Yunnan has accelerated the construction of a modern industrial system in line with provincial conditions by vigorously developing characteristic and advantageous industries.
Wang Yubo, deputy secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and governor, said Yunnan is committed to building an important clean energy base in the country. In 2023, Yunnan Province's installed electricity capacity will exceed 130 million kilowatts, and green energy installed capacity will account for nearly 90%, ranking first in the country. For more than 30 years, the "West-to-East Power Transmission" has delivered more than 1.5 trillion kilowatt hours, ranking first in the country.
Yunnan focuses on building a national strategic non-ferrous metals industry base and a modern ecological agriculture base with plateau characteristics. The planting scale and output of tea, flowers, nuts, coffee, Chinese medicinal materials, etc. are the largest in the country. Yunnan strives to build a world tourist destination with golden signs. In 2023, all The number of tourists and total tourism revenue the province receives ranks among the top in the country.
As China's major channel connecting Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Indian Ocean Rim, Yunnan continues to expand its opening up internally and externally, and its radiating and driving capabilities are becoming stronger and stronger. With the construction of a radiation center as a guide, the "golden channel" effect of the China-Laos Railway continues to be released.
Wang Yubo said that the innovative series of international freight trains connecting the Yangtze River Delta in the east, Europe in the north, and ASEAN in the south have been launched, covering 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and 12 "One Belt and One Road" countries. Coordinate and promote the construction and development of 28 ports, free trade pilot zones, border industrial parks, etc., and effectively undertake the transfer of domestic and foreign industries.
In terms of ensuring and improving people's livelihood, Yunnan strives to achieve the dynamic elimination of poverty-stricken households and monitoring households with a per capita net income of less than 10,000 yuan and the ability to work this year. Every year, about 74% of fiscal funds are used for people's livelihood, striving to solve the "urgent and difficult worries" of the masses. "Things that we hope for" can better meet the people's needs for good employment, good education, good medical care, and good old-age care.
