4Hp35Uky2qL Author: Tang Lijiu, Xiong Shaohui opinion.huanqiu.com article Tang Lijiu, Xiong Shaohui: What should Xinjiang do to develop the western region in the new era? /e3pmub6h5/e3pr9baf6 <article><section data type="rtext"><p>At the symposium on promoting the development of the western region in the new era hosted by Chongqing not long ago, President Xi Jinping further emphasized the importance of giving play to the role of the western region in the overall reform, development and stability of the country. As the core area of the "Silk Road Economic Belt", Xinjiang is the top priority of the western development in the new era. What should Xinjiang do</ p> <p>The author believes that the main axis of Xinjiang's economic development in the new era is "strengthening Xinjiang and enriching the people" because of Xinjiang's geographical strategy, resource combination advantages, huge development space and economic endogeneity. Specifically, there are five main areas</ p> <p>First, vigorously develop the new energy industry and build a national demonstration base. Xinjiang is rich in renewable green energy resources such as wind energy and solar energy. In particular, the total reserves of wind energy resources reached 890 million kilowatts, and the technical exploitable amount of wind energy resources accounted for 15.4% of the national technical exploitable amount, ranking second in the country; The theoretical reserves of solar energy resources account for 40% of the country's technically exploitable resources, ranking first in the country</ p> <adv-loader __attr__inner="7004636" __attr__style="width: auto; position: relative;float: left;border: 1px solid #ebebeb; padding: 20px;overflow: hidden;margin: 10px 30px 40px 0; "></adv-loader> <p>Xinjiang new energy has made remarkable achievements in energy utilization efficiency, equipment manufacturing cost, operation and maintenance management, etc., providing technical support for the development of Xinjiang new energy industry. In addition, Xinjiang has built a green power market system including green power trading and green card trading, which provides strong support for the development of new energy industry, including new energy vehicles. By increasing the construction of wind power, solar power, hydrogen energy and hydropower projects, and building a national trillion level new energy industry demonstration base, it can not only reduce China's dependence on imported energy, but also reduce carbon emissions, making positive contributions to energy supply and environmental protection nationwide and globally</ p> <p>The second is to vigorously develop low altitude economy and create a comprehensive experimental zone for low altitude industries in the west. As a strategic emerging industry, low altitude economy is speeding up the formation of new quality productivity with its long upstream and downstream chains, wide service fields, and strong driving role. Through the development of low altitude cultural tourism, low altitude logistics and other industries, improve their added value and competitiveness, and become a new important engine for economic growth in Xinjiang. The development of low altitude economy will create a large number of jobs related to aircraft manufacturing, maintenance and operation, which will inject new vitality into Xinjiang's labor market. At the same time, it can also attract more high-tech enterprises and talents to settle in Xinjiang, and promote the development of industrial structure towards high-end and intelligent direction</ p> <p>At present, Xinjiang has 25 civil transport airports, 17 general airports and 79 navigable takeoff and landing points, making it the province with the largest number of airports and navigable takeoff and landing points in China. In the future, Xinjiang must increase investment and support for low altitude economy, improve relevant policies and regulations, strengthen talent training and technological innovation, build a comprehensive experimental zone for low altitude industries in the west, and promote the leap forward development of low altitude economy in Xinjiang</ p> <p>Third, we will vigorously develop the digital intelligence economy and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. Digital intelligence economy takes digital information as the key production factor, improves production and operation efficiency and optimizes economic structure through modern information network and intelligent algorithm. By developing digital and intellectual economy, Xinjiang can promote the upgrading and transformation of traditional industries and cultivate new economic growth points; It helps to enhance regional competitiveness, attract more investment and innovation resources, and open up and develop to the west; It can drive the prosperity of related industries and create more employment opportunities. At the same time, Xinjiang can also promote the optimization and upgrading of talent structure by training and introducing digital talents. In 2023, digital industrialization and industrial digitalization will continue to advance, and the main business income of the digital economy industry will exceed 200 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of about 40%. In the future, Xinjiang will take the strong development of new energy industry as an opportunity to actively integrate into the national layout of "calculating data from the east to the west", promote the integrated development of digital intelligence technology and industry, and provide impetus for Xinjiang to realize lane changing overtaking and promote the western development in the new era</ p> <p>Fourth, accelerate the construction of Xinjiang Free Trade Zone and create a platform open to the west. According to the development orientation of "one center, five regions and one base" in the Implementation Plan for the Construction of China (Xinjiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone issued by the State Council in October 2023, the concept of "one center" is to build a primary product integration center in Central Asia and other surrounding countries, and combine the advantages of European countries in scientific and technological innovation and high-end component manufacturing, The Xinjiang Pilot Free Trade Zone is expected to become a key node in the Eurasian industrial chain cooperation and promote the process of regional economic integration. The construction of the "five zones" covers the construction of the refining and textile and clothing industry cluster, the strategic emerging industry cluster such as new energy and new materials, the equipment manufacturing and general aviation industry cluster, the green computing development pilot zone, the ecological priority and low-carbon development demonstration zone. The establishment of "one base" aims to build a special agricultural and sideline products and special pharmaceutical industry base</ p> <p>By building "one center, five regions, and one base", the Xinjiang Pilot Free Trade Zone is expected to become an important force to promote economic and trade cooperation in Central Asia and even Asia Europe, provide strong support for China's implementation of opening to the west, and help create an Asia Europe golden channel and a bridgehead for China's opening to the west</ p> <p>The fifth is to vigorously develop the headquarters economy and gather the development elements of the western opening up. Headquarter economy is an economic model generated with the emergence of business parks and central business districts (CBD). As a new economic form, headquarters economy is of great strategic significance to enhance Xinjiang's independent innovation ability, promote the transformation and upgrading of urban economy, accelerate regional cooperation and development, and enhance Xinjiang's core position in the construction of the "Silk Road Economic Belt". Once the headquarters economy is formed, it will bring obvious spillover effects such as tax supply effect, industrial agglomeration effect, industrial correlation effect, consumption driving effect, employment multiplier effect, etc. to the economic development of Xinjiang. For this reason, Xinjiang needs to introduce more preferential policies and measures to attract domestic leading enterprises and listed companies to settle their group headquarters in Urumqi, Kashi, Ili and other regions, so as to boost the high-quality economic development of Xinjiang</ p> <p>Promoting the development of the west in the new era is a century project, but also a systematic project. Xinjiang also needs to emancipate its mind, broaden its vision and make new and greater contributions to the realization of Chinese style modernization. (The authors are respectively the president of Xinjiang East West Economic Research Institute and the initiator of Guangdong Indo Pacific Peace and Development Research Institute)</p></section></article> one trillion and seven hundred and fifteen billion eight hundred and eighty-six million one hundred and ninety-one thousand and seventy-two Copyrighted works of Globegroup are strictly prohibited from being reproduced or mirrored without written authorization. Violators will be investigated for legal responsibility. Editor in charge: Zhao Jiandong Global Times one trillion and seven hundred and fifteen billion eight hundred and ninety-nine million one hundred and forty thousand nine hundred and eighty-one one two []