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51 civil servants will be publicly selected for Sichuan and Chongqing. Recently, Dazhou City in Sichuan Province released the "2023 Dazhou Municipal Government Public Selection Announcement for Civil Servants". It is understood that the 42 quotas selected this time are also aimed at selecting township government agencies in Wanzhou District and Kaizhou District of Chongqing.

It is understood that this selection is approved by the Central Organization Department to conduct the first civil servant selection in the "Wanda Kai" area within the Chengdu Chongqing Economic Circle. This is also the first practical case in China to break through provincial administrative division restrictions and carry out public selection of civil servants since the revision and issuance of the "Public Selection Measures for Civil Servants" in 2021.

Why can Dazhou, an ordinary prefecture level city in Sichuan, "eat crabs first"?

Cross provincial selection relies on major national strategies

The selection of civil servants is an important way and means for party and mass organizations and government departments to select talents.

The reporter found through investigation that Article 7 of the revised "Public Selection Measures for Civil Servants" in 2021 states that the public selection of provincial-level and municipal level organs should, in principle, be carried out for civil servants in lower level organs within their jurisdiction.

But there are also exceptions. The Measures propose that if it is necessary to make major national strategic decisions and deployments for service guarantee outside the province, the provincial civil servant supervisory department should communicate with the central civil servant supervisory department in advance.

The cross provincial selection of civil servants this time is based on the national strategy of the Chengdu Chongqing dual city economic circle.

In the regional development sector of China, the Chengdu Chongqing region, located in the southwest, has always been crucial. Since the implementation of the Western Development in 2000, the country has been making efforts at the strategic level to promote the development of this region.

In 2011, the State Council approved the Regional Plan for the Chengdu Chongqing Economic Zone, proposing to build it into an important economic center in the western region. In 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development jointly issued the "Development Plan for the Chengdu Chongqing Urban Agglomeration", which showed that the total economic output and population size of the Chengdu Chongqing Urban Agglomeration were increasing day by day.

On January 3, 2020, the 6th meeting of the Central Committee of Finance and Economics made a special deployment to promote the construction of the Chengdu Chongqing dual city economic circle, elevating it to a national strategy and bringing new major opportunities for the development of the Chengdu Chongqing region.

Dazhou City is located in the northeast of Sichuan Province, while Wanzhou and Kaizhou are both located in the northeast of Chongqing. The three are adjacent and are important components of the Chengdu Chongqing region.

The selection involves 31 positions and 51 quotas from 23 municipal departments in Dazhou City, Sichuan Province. Among them, 22 positions and 42 quotas from 17 municipal departments are also selected for township government agencies in Wanzhou District and Kaizhou District of Chongqing City.

"In this context, Sichuan Dazhou's cross provincial selection of civil servants for Chongqing Wanzhou and Kaizhou is a vivid practice of the construction of the Chengdu Chongqing dual city economic circle, which is conducive to the coordinated development of the social economy." Tang Jiqiang, a member of the Sichuan Provincial Decision making Advisory Committee and director of the West Finance Think Tank at Southwest University of Finance and Economics, said in an interview with Chao News reporters.

Wanda's regional map comes from Dazhou Daily

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In the development process of the Chengdu Chongqing dual city economic circle, both Chongqing and Chengdu, the two central cities, are very strong, which also leads to a problem, which is the lack of secondary city support within the urban agglomeration.

The industry believes that the economic radiation radius of a central city is generally between 100 and 150 kilometers. But whether it's Dazhou from Chengdu, or Wanzhou and Kaizhou from the central urban area of Chongqing, they all range from over 200 to over 300 kilometers.

"The three cities are relatively far away from the main urban areas of Chengdu and Chongqing, making it difficult to rely on the spillover effects of the 'dual core'. It is necessary to find new development paths." Tang Jiqiang believes that the three need to "work together as brothers and develop together.".

In 2021, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Outline of the Construction Plan for the Chengdu Chongqing Dual City Economic Circle", which became a guiding document for the construction of the dual city economic circle in the Chengdu Chongqing region, bringing opportunities to secondary cities outside of the "dual core".

The Outline clearly proposes to promote the integrated development of the Northeast Chongqing and Northeast Sichuan regions, and supports the joint construction of the Sichuan Chongqing coordinated development demonstration zone by Wanzhou, Dazhou, and Kaizhou; It is also proposed to explore the reform of moderate separation between economic and administrative regions.

In March of this year, the Chongqing Municipal People's Government and the Sichuan Provincial People's Government jointly issued a notice on the overall plan to promote the coordinated development of the Sichuan Chongqing Wanda Kai region, making detailed arrangements to support the coordinated development of Wanzhou, Dazhou, and Kaizhou.

Tang Jiqiang was the earliest participant in the overall plan concept. He stated that the construction of the "Wanda Kai" Sichuan Chongqing coordinated development demonstration zone is a landmark and leading construction project in implementing national strategy, reflecting the overall national strategic situation. "

To promote the coordinated construction of demonstration zones, it is necessary to break the restrictions of administrative regions. So Dazhou is taking the lead in throwing the olive branch and selecting civil servants across provinces and cities, which is also in line with the major strategic needs of the country

In addition, in terms of economic size, among the three, Dazhou City is the sub central city of Sichuan Province, with a regional GDP of 250.27 billion yuan in 2022, ranking seventh among the 21 cities and prefectures in the province; In 2022, Wanzhou's GDP was 111.84 billion yuan, ranking 8th among the 38 districts and counties in Chongqing; Kaizhou is 66.203 billion yuan, ranking 20th in Chongqing district and county.

"Relatively speaking, Dazhou City has a large population, a large area, and a good industrial foundation. This olive branch is very attractive to cadres in Wanzhou District and Kaizhou District." Tang Jiqiang believes.

Dazhou City View Pictures from Dazhou City People's Government Network

Providing reference significance for regional coordinated productivity

The most important aspect of a region's development is talent.

In recent years, Dazhou has established three strategic positions based on its abundant natural gas, lithium, potassium and other resources, combined with its geographical advantages, to build a Wanda Kai natural gas lithium potassium comprehensive utilization cluster area, an international land port hub that exports from east to north, and a cluster to cultivate a sub center for the economy of Northeast Sichuan Province.

At the same time, Dazhou City is seizing digital opportunities and actively promoting digital transformation. In September 2021, it launched the planning and design of the new smart city construction demonstration project. In the national "East West Calculation" project, the Chengdu Chongqing region has been approved to build a national integrated computing power network hub node, and Dazhou is one of the five cities to build internal data centers.

"Ten thousand urgent!" Tang Jiqiang used this term to describe Dazhou's thirst for talent due to internal development needs.

In order to attract talents, in 2022, Dazhou took the lead in proposing the establishment of a talent exclusive festival called "Dazhou Talent Festival" in Sichuan Province. The Dazhou Municipal Party Committee's Talent Development Promotion Center was established and officially put into operation. In March of this year, Dazhou also launched the 2023 "Talent Plan" spring recruitment work, recruiting a group of urgently needed master's and doctoral students and outstanding undergraduate students for economic and social development nationwide.

According to public data, in 2022, Dazhou City introduced 46 doctoral talents, exceeding the total of the past five years, and attracted 12000 young talents to work and start businesses.

"Promoting high-quality development of regional economy requires a group of excellent managers who understand modern industries and future development," said Tang Jiqiang.

The reporter reviewed the job selection table and noticed that the job types announced this time are diverse, many of which come from economic management departments, such as Dazhou Finance Bureau, Dazhou Commerce Bureau, Dazhou Market Supervision Administration, Dazhou Digital Economy Bureau, etc.

"Cross provincial selection of civil servants can avoid disorderly competition and blind development in the context of regional integration development, which is conducive to coordinating productivity and forming a more reasonable and efficient development chain such as industrial chain, supply chain, innovation chain, talent chain, etc." said Tang Jiqiang.

Tang Jiqiang also believes that such a selection mechanism provides reference significance for the integrated development of regions such as the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area.