But are you promoting the entire region to join the Shanghai metropolitan area? Xuancheng Party Committee Secretary Li Zhong said that it takes three hours to reach Shanghai by high-speed train.

This year is the sixth year that the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has been elevated to a national strategy. In order to implement the spirit of the General Secretary's important instructions, Liberation Daily and Shangguan News launched a series of interviews with political figures in the Yangtze River Delta cities, interviewing responsible comrades in key cities in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui to discuss how to further promote the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.

As soon as the interview ended that day, Xuancheng Party Committee Secretary Li Zhong rushed to Guangde. From May 9th to 11th, the second round and fifth event of the Nine Cities Political Consultative Conference to discuss higher-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor was held in Guangde. The important topic this time was to promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta health care industry. The nine-city CPPCC member-enterprise alliance health care industry group was also established.

Where is Xuancheng? In Anhui, it is located in the southeast; but if placed on a map of the Yangtze River Delta, it is located at the strategic center of the Yangtze River Delta. In terms of location, Xuancheng is not only the only city in Anhui that borders Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it is also the location of Shanghai’s “enclaves” Baimaoling Farm and Juntianhu Farm. It can be said that the elements of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui are complete. A few years ago, the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government learned from the practices of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in jointly building the Yangtze River Delta ecological green integrated development demonstration zone on the east coast of Taihu Lake. The strategic concept of planning an industrial cooperation zone of “six counties in one place” was put forward, among which Guangde and Langxi in Xuancheng are within the scope of the six counties.

How to understand the significance of Xuancheng to Anhui? In November last year, the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee clearly assigned Xuancheng the mission of “being a bridgehead for Anhui’s deep integration into the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta” at an on-site office meeting in Xuancheng. Earlier, Xuancheng had been actively promoting the entire region to join the Shanghai metropolitan area.

Li Zhong: Promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta is a major national strategy personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping. It is also the greatest opportunity, greatest potential and greatest dividend for the development of Xuancheng. The main development direction of Xuancheng is to integrate into Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. After the opening of the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou high-speed railway, it will open up an extremely important central corridor for Shanghai to radiate to the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta and even the central and western regions. Xuancheng is basically one hour away from the four central cities of Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou by high-speed rail, and is located at the radiation intersection center of the four urban areas. Currently, Xuancheng to Shanghai requires a detour from Nanjing or Hangzhou, which takes about 3 hours, and the second-class ticket price is about 220 yuan. After the opening of the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou high-speed railway, the time from Xuancheng to Shanghai will be about 1 hour, and the ticket price is about 130 yuan. Not only The journey time has been reduced by 66%, and the ticket price has also been reduced by 40%. As an important node city in the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huxuan Development Corridor, Xuancheng will build a comprehensive transportation hub city in the west wing of the Shanghai metropolitan area to better transform its location advantages into development success.

To this end, Xuancheng is "attacking from all sides": maximizing its role as a bridgehead and effectively taking over the radiation and driving role of Shanghai; deeply participating in the joint construction of the Nanjing metropolitan area, implementing the matters decided by the joint party and government meetings and the symposium on cooperative development with Jiangsu provincial enterprises; actively Integrate into the Hangzhou metropolitan area, actively integrate into the Hefei metropolitan area's innovation chain industry chain, strengthen cooperation in new energy, intelligent connected vehicles, artificial intelligence and other fields to form a linkage effect. At the same time, we will strengthen cooperation with the cities in the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor and the Taihu Science and Technology Innovation Circle, and use the platform to perform and develop. Last year, among the 16 cities in the province, Xuancheng ranked 11th in economic size, but the actual investment in Xuancheng in the Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions was 91.49 billion yuan, ranking third in the province.

In order to link the resources of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Xuancheng has made every effort to promote the construction of the Yangtze River Delta Industrial Cooperation Zone with a planned area of ​​85 square kilometers since last year. The Guangde area faces Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Huzhou, the Xuanzhou area faces Nanjing, and the Langxi area faces Changzhou. ,Wuxi. Changhe District received approval from the Anhui Provincial Government in January this year and has been included in the 2024 national key construction projects for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. Next, Xuancheng will follow the goal of "laying the foundation in one year, achieving results in three years, and developing in five years" to promote the settlement of a number of impactful and iconic new productivity projects, striving to build Changhe District into the Yangtze River Delta It is a "new landmark" for integrated development, a "gathering place" for emerging industries, and a "test field" for reform and opening up.

Li Zhong: Xuancheng is expected to join the Shanghai metropolitan area and enter the forefront of the development of urban areas in China and the world. This is exciting.

The most critical and basic task to integrate into the Shanghai metropolitan area is to start with planning. Xuancheng seizes the opportunity of the Shanghai metropolitan area plan being compiled and seeks to more fully reflect its own functions, advantages, demands and role in it. In the early stage, the Shanghai Metropolitan Area Planning Team specially visited Xuancheng for investigation. At the Shanghai Metropolitan Area Planning 2024 Xuancheng Station Seminar held at the end of March, Xuancheng proposed improving the level of the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huxuan Science and Technology Innovation Corridor and accelerating industrial cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta. A number of important proposals, such as the construction of the Yangtze River Delta region and promoting the joint construction of the Yangtze River Delta health care base between Shanghai and Anhui, were fully recognized by the participating members.

Previously, Xuancheng had reaped dividends and tasted the sweetness from connecting with Shanghai. In September last year, the Xuancheng Science and Technology Innovation Center, Xuancheng's first "science and technology innovation enclave", was built and operated in Songjiang, Shanghai. It directly links Shanghai's high-end innovation resources and scientific and technological achievements. Currently, it has Huasheng New Energy and Xuancheng Advanced Photovoltaic Technology There are 22 projects settled or planned to be settled in, such as research institutes, and more than 30 project leads are being followed up, and we are actively building a "R&D in Shanghai, production in Shanghai, promotion in Shanghai; incubation in Shanghai, implementation in Shanghai, promotion in Shanghai; talent introduction in Shanghai, use of wisdom in promotion;" An integrated development model with headquarters in Shanghai and investment in Xuan.

Li Zhong: Historically, Huizhou merchants entered Jiangsu and Zhejiang via ancient roads "eastward". Today, Xuancheng still retains more than ten ancient roads such as the Hui-Hangzhou Ancient Road. "Looking east" is the embodiment of Xuancheng's open genes, and "catching up with Jiangsu and Zhejiang and striving to be the first in Jianghuai" is also the city's new vision and goal. The purpose of proposing this vision and goal is to encourage the whole city to raise the bar and not to be left behind, creating a strong atmosphere of catching up with each other for development.

In recent years, we have seized the national strategic opportunity for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, actively leaned on it, accurately connected it, and fully integrated it, actively promoted the whole region to join the Shanghai metropolitan area, and effectively promoted the economic and geographical pattern of Xuancheng in Anhui and even the Yangtze River Delta. Significant changes have taken place, and the transformation from passively accepting "siphonage" to actively attracting "overflow" of elements from Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang is being realized. In 2023, a total of 42,000 talents of all types will be introduced, a year-on-year increase of 31.7%. It has achieved a net inflow of permanent residents for two consecutive years, and has been shortlisted for the "Top 100 Talent Attractiveness List of Chinese Cities" for three consecutive years.

Li Zhong: Xuancheng insists on high-level docking with the first-developed areas of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In the early days, it focused on the high-level docking of infrastructure, and now it has further expanded to the high-level docking of systems and mechanisms. We took the initiative to contact the Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, established a document exchange mechanism, regularly sorted out the latest policies issued by Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, compiled and issued the ""First Trial" Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Policy Brief", formulated 22 learning transformation matters, and adopted the "Get Creatively draw on and use "Laterism" to achieve the goal of "what can be done in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and what can be done in Xuancheng". Next, we will sort out a list of policies on a quarterly basis that are feasible in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and are also applicable in Xuancheng, and actively learn from, copy, and promote them to fully unleash the power and vitality of reform and opening up.

In order to continue to "catch up and compete", we will also focus on several aspects of work: First, we will insist on taking the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta as the greatest opportunity, greatest potential energy and greatest dividend, fully promote the development of "integrating circles into groups", and fully undertake the development of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Industrial transfer and functional decentralization; second, make project investment promotion the main theme of economic work, continue to promote new industrialization, give full play to the "sharp knife chain" role of foreign investment promotion bureaus, and strive to attract and land more large projects of 5 billion yuan and 10 billion yuan or more; The third is to insist on treating the business environment as the most important factor resource and strive to build a city with the highest service efficiency, the shortest service time, the simplest service process and the least trouble in the province.

Li Zhong: We regard optimizing the business environment as a top priority to enhance regional competitiveness, and innovatively establish a "Political and Business Forum" mechanism, which is held on the first Saturday of every month and announced one week in advance. Enterprises can sign up to participate independently, and the municipal party committee and municipal government are mainly responsible. Comrade Xi Jinping took the lead in receiving the earnest discussion and stipulating the path and time limit for solving the problem. Now it is becoming Xuancheng's new business environment brand and city business card. A total of 16 sessions were held from January last year to April this year, and 262 companies reported 372 issues. Except for 9 issues that are in progress, the rest have been resolved.

The political and business symposium is not a simple meeting, but a starting point and platform for optimizing the business environment in Xuancheng. Initially, 10 companies were invited to each political and business symposium. Now, the number has not only increased to 15 companies, but also a business environment undercover video is played at the meeting to expand the scope of solving problems for companies. The telephone numbers of the general duty rooms of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government are also provided to the heads of all regulated enterprises, so that they can report any problems at any time. Currently, this measure has been included in the "public voice response" management system of Anhui Province.

The political and business symposium is only one of the "four face-to-face" working methods innovatively established by Xuancheng. In addition, there are face-to-face measures such as policy implementation, factor guarantee, and problem solving, which are promoting the realization of a transformation from "nearest Zhejiang" to "most like Zhejiang" Changes in the business environment. We have comprehensively promoted our thinking, service standards, and public services to be closer to those of Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang. We have implemented innovations such as hiring intermediaries to help small and medium-sized enterprises apply for preferential policies, establishing a weekly factor guarantee consultation mechanism, and a "turnover pool" system for industrial project land. practice. Last year, there were 43,000 newly registered market business entities in the city, an increase of 12.9%; the average time from contract signing to start of construction, and from start of construction to production was at the leading level in the province and even the Yangtze River Delta.

Li Zhong: Xuancheng has excellent natural ecology and is the only "natural oxygen bar city" in Anhui and the seventh in the country. It has profound cultural heritage and is the only city in the country that is home to the Four Treasures of the Study. At the end of last year, the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government issued the "Action Plan for the Construction of a World-class Leisure, Vacation, Health and Wellness Tourism Destination in Greater Huangshan", assigning this task to Huangshan, Chizhou, Anqing and Xuancheng. This is not only an important task entrusted by the province, but also an important way for Xuancheng to transform its ecological and cultural advantages into development advantages.

Since last year, we have closely focused on the Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang markets, linked up Huangchiyi resources, focused on integrating into the Shanghai metropolitan area, and strived to create a "landscape picture on rice paper", especially accelerating the development of the health care industry as a feature of promoting the construction of "Greater Huangshan" Advantages are carefully built, focusing on the joint construction of the Yangtze River Delta health care base in Guangde. The health and wellness base has selected the "best" Luhu Bamboo Sea National Water Conservancy Scenic Area in Guangde, with a planned area of ​​23.18 square kilometers. At present, Shanghai Guangming Group is taking the lead in formulating the health care base plan. It has established high-standard work teams at the provincial, municipal and county levels. It is accelerating the creation of the Luhu Bamboo Sea National Tourism Resort and is fully promoting the Mount Shan Hot Spring Leisure Resort and the Urban Reception Hall. , Ganxi Health Care Demonstration Village, Hehe Ecological Park and other key project construction, vigorously attract health care and medical leading companies, and accelerate the creation of a demonstration benchmark for Shanghai-Anhui health care cooperation.

At the same time, we fully explore the connotations of Anhui culture, red culture, and the Four Treasures of the Study culture, strengthen the revitalization and utilization of ancient villages, promote the industrialization of characteristic crafts and intangible cultural heritage projects, vigorously develop the Anhui cuisine industry, and continue to build the "Greater Huangshan" Xuancheng brand.