Original title: Adhere to the principle of promoting development through opening up
At the symposium on promoting the development of the western region in the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that we should adhere to the principle of promoting the development of the western region through the great opening up and improve the level of opening up of the western region to the outside world. This has pointed out the direction for promoting the economic and social development of the western region and achieving all-round social progress.
The western region plays an important role in the overall situation of national reform, development and stability. Over the past five years, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has made arrangements to promote the development of the western region in the new era to form a new pattern. By constantly improving the level of opening up, the western region has broken the previous geographical disadvantages, and gradually formed an open pattern of interaction at home and abroad, and mutual aid between east and west.
Adhering to the principle of opening up and promoting development, the western region can make better use of domestic and foreign resources and markets, strengthen regional economic cooperation and exchanges, promote industrial upgrading, innovative development and structural adjustment, inject new vitality into the development of the western region, drive the progress of various social undertakings, and improve and enhance the living standards of the people in the western region.
Adhering to the principle of opening up to promote development, we need to vigorously promote the construction of open channels and deeply integrate into international cooperation platforms such as the Belt and Road Initiative. This will help to build a more complete transportation infrastructure system, an efficient and high-quality logistics service system and a domestic and international open system. Improving the transportation, communication and other infrastructure and improving the accessibility and connectivity of the western region can provide convenient conditions for opening up to the outside world. In recent years, the western region has significantly improved in transportation, water conservancy, power grid, communication and other infrastructure, but it still needs to further reduce logistics costs and time costs, improve the efficiency of factor agglomeration and flow, so as to enhance the attractiveness and competitiveness of the western region.
Adhering to the principle of promoting large-scale development through large-scale opening, we should also improve the layout of various industrial parks, border economic cooperation zones and cross-border economic cooperation zones in border areas, and promote the high-quality development of pilot free trade zones. Constantly optimize the industrial layout, strengthen infrastructure construction, improve the cross-border cooperation mechanism, and promote the institutional innovation, open cooperation and industrial upgrading of the pilot free trade zone.
At the same time, the western region should steadily expand institutional openness and create a market-oriented, legal and international business environment. By strengthening government services, simplifying approval procedures, reducing enterprise costs, improving administrative efficiency, creating a livable business environment, attracting more enterprises and investors to the western region, and promoting the level of opening up to the outside world.
We should be more proactive in serving major regional strategies, actively integrate into the construction of a unified national market, innovate the docking mechanism of the eastern, central and western open platforms, and deepen practical cooperation with the eastern, central and northeastern regions. Through measures such as strengthening policy coordination and cooperation mechanism construction, we will further promote the formation of a new pattern of regional coordinated development in which the east leads the west and the east and the middle promote each other.
Adhering to the principle of opening up and promoting development is of great significance to improving the level of opening up of the western region to the outside world, strengthening the economic ties and cooperation between the eastern and western regions, and improving the international competitiveness of the western region. It is the only way to promote the sustainable and healthy development of the western region's economy and society, and also to build a domestic circulation as the main body The new development pattern of domestic and international double circulation and mutual promotion provides strong support.
