Working Together for High-Quality Integrated Development of Central Areas of Chengdu-Chongqing Region Writing a New Chapter of Practical and Substantive Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation

Addressed by Yuan Jiajun, Wang Xiaohui, Huang Qiang, and Hu Henghua

袁家军王晓晖讲话 黄强胡衡华作交流发言

On June 26, the delegation of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and Sichuan Provincial Government visited Chongqing. In Bishan District, the sides held the seventh Party-Government Meeting on Promoting the development of the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin-Hub Mega-Region, working together for high-quality integrated development in central areas of Chengdu-Chongqing region and writing a new chapter in practical and substantive Sichuan-Chongqing cooperation.

Yuan Jiajun, Secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. Wang Xiaohui, Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee, attended and addressed the meeting. Huang Qiang, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and Governor of Sichuan, and Hu Henghua, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee and Mayor of Chongqing, exchanged insights on promoting high-quality development in central areas of Chengdu- Chongqing region. Wu Hao, Secretary General of the National Development and Reform Commission, was invited to the meeting.

Yuan Jiajun said in his speech that General Secretary Xi Jinping has proposed a series of important ideas for promoting Chinese modernization and put forward a series of important requirements for the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin-Hub Mega-Region. Together with Sichuan, Chongqing will study these important ideas conscientiously, think and act in accordance with the guiding principles of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speeches and the 20th CPC National Congress, advance with great efforts the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin-Hub Mega-Region as a way for Western China to contribute to Chinese Modernization, strive to make the coordinated development in this region the fourth growth engine in China, and better play the “three roles” in China’s development. 

Yuan Jiajun pointed out that since the beginning of this year, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, there has been a better understanding of its strategic significance, a stronger initiative, and more concrete actions in promoting the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin-Hub Mega-Region. The work has been more focused; measures have been more practical; people have been more engaged. We have entered a new phase of accelerated implementation. Innovation has been more stimulated; coordinated development has been more effective; the ecosystem has been better preserved; reform and opening up have been advanced; our residents have developed a better sense of gain thanks to greater connectivity.

We should improve our political awareness and better understand its strategic significance, pursue development in the big picture of Chinese modernization, accelerate the high-quality integrated development of the central area of the Chengdu-Chongqing region, and create an important growth engine and a new powerhouse to drive China’s high-quality development. 

The key agenda for Chongqing-Sichuan cooperation include the following:

- Building a modernized infrastructure network, a high-level comprehensive transportation hub, modernized water conservancy projects, and a strong energy supply base;

- Developing a modernized industrial mix, advanced and distinctive industrial clusters, a sci-tech innovation corridor in the central area of Chengdu-Chongqing region, and China’s alternative base for strategic industries;

- Building a high-level gateway to the world in inland China, unimpeded international logistics corridors, open platforms for combined efforts and shared benefits, a first-class business environment, and a new hub oriented toward the south via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (ILSTC);

- Becoming a new exemplar of modernized urban-rural integrated development, building a high-level modernized cities cluster, implementing the project of “Strong Towns Leading the Progress of Villages”, and promoting rural revitalization on all fronts;

- Turning into a premium place to live, enhancing the interoperability of more public services, improving the ecological environment, promoting the integrated development of culture and tourism, and supporting the Chengdu FISU World University Games; and

- Ensuring organizational support, optimizing the working mechanism, enhancing policy coordination, seeing through project implementation, and working for progress on various fronts.

Wang Xiaohui pointed out in his speech that Chengdu-Chongqing Twin-Hub Mega-Region is a major strategic decision that General Secretary Xi Jinping has personally engaged in its designing, planning, and implementation. It is a major mandate the CPC Central Committee gave to Sichuan and Chongqing. 

The vision of Chengdu-Chongqing Twin-Hub Mega-Region has been clearly defined in this strategy, namely becoming a key growth engine and a new powerhouse for China’s high-quality development, China’s important center of economy and sci-tech innovation, and a pacesetter in reform and opening-up, and a premium place to live. There are key tasks in seven aspects to realize this vision. 

Wang Xiaohui pointed out that a priority could be the fast development of the central area of the Chengdu-Chongqing region. It will be catalyzed by the pilot projects between the neighboring cooperation platforms, the exploration of new ways such as the delinking between economic zones and administration areas as appropriate, promoting the coordinated development of provincial and national high-tech zones, enhancing the leading role in Central China’s economic development, and keeping firming up the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin-Hub Mega-Region.

Connectivity on all fronts should hold the key. Major projects include the construction and speed-raise of railways like the Chengdu-Chongqing Middle Line and Western Chongqing Line, the Sichuan-Chongqing 1000 kV UHV AC Project, and interoperability of public services. These projects will bring tangible benefits to people and play as a solid foundation for Sichuan-Chongqing interactions. 

Fostering a modernized industrial system should be a focus. The two sides will work together to transform and upgrade the industry, resume and uplift the service sector, improve the quality and efficiency of agriculture, better support leading industries, develop high-level industrial clusters, and foster new impetus and new advantages for Sichuan and Chongqing’s development.

Boosting the capability of synergized innovation should be our common mission. We will develop the Chengdu-Chongqing Comprehensive Science Center, Western China Science City, and Mianyang Sci-Tech City, support national and provincial level laboratories, and stimulate innovation by combing industry, education, research, and application, and contribute to China’s greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology.

Improving cooperation mechanisms should be the cornerstone. Sichuan and Chongqing will set up well-conceived mechanisms, break barriers, and further empower ourselves with a sound environment for mutually beneficial cooperation and substantive results of this national strategy.

Delegates reviewed in writing the suggestions on optimizing the Sichuan-Chongqing cooperation mechanism for promoting the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin-Hub Mega-Region, the list of key cooperation items for 2H of 2023, and listened to the reports on promoting the high-quality development in the central area of the mega-region, and the progress and results of the Chengdu-Chongqing interaction.

During their stay in Chongqing, the delegation of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and Sichuan Government also visited places like Chongqing Fudi Lithium Battery Co., Ltd., Advanced Data Center of Western China (Chongqing) Science City, Chongqing Konka Semiconductor Optoelectronics Industrial Park, Xiuhu Eco-Zone. They obtained first-hand information on Sichuan and Chongqing’s joint efforts in developing the smart cars and NEVs, the Chengdu-Chongqing hub of the national integrated computing power network, and China’s important electronic information industry cluster as well as Bishan’s efforts in building a wonderful place to live.

Source/Chongqing Daily

6月26日，四川省党政代表团来渝考察，两省市在重庆市璧山区举行推动成渝地区双城经济圈建设重庆四川党政联席会议第七次会议座谈会，携手推进成渝中部地区高质量一体化发展，在走深走实上谱写川渝合作新篇章。

重庆市委书记袁家军主持会议并讲话，四川省委书记王晓晖出席会议并讲话。四川省委副书记、省长黄强，重庆市委副书记、市长胡衡华围绕推动成渝中部地区高质量发展等作交流发言。国家发展改革委秘书长伍浩应邀出席会议。

袁家军在讲话中说，习近平总书记对推进中国式现代化作出一系列重要论述，对推动成渝地区双城经济圈建设提出一系列重要要求。我们要共同深化学习领会，进一步把思想和行动统一到习近平总书记重要讲话精神上来，全面贯彻党的二十大精神，牢牢把握双城经济圈建设是西部地区推进中国式现代化的重大战略，努力打造区域协调发展“第四极”，在全国发展大局中更好地发挥“三个作用”。要把“一体化”和“高质量”作为推动双城经济圈建设两个关键，坚定贯彻新发展理念，加快构建“一体两核多点”新格局，做大经济总量、提高发展质量，打造有实力、有特色的双城经济圈。要把成渝中部崛起作为推动双城经济圈建设走深走实的重要突破口，加快推动重庆西扩、成都东进，为两省市高质量发展注入新动能、拓展新空间。

袁家军指出，今年以来，在党中央坚强领导下，我们推动成渝地区双城经济圈建设的政治自觉、思想自觉、行动自觉不断强化，工作更聚焦、措施更务实、氛围更浓厚，推动双城经济圈建设进入加速实施的新阶段，创新动能更加强劲、协同发展更加有效、绿色本底更加坚实、改革开放更加深化、民生共享更加有感。要进一步提高政治站位、战略站位，把双城经济圈建设放在中国式现代化的宏大场景中谋划推进，加快成渝中部地区高质量一体化发展，打造带动全国高质量发展的重要增长极和新的动力源。要协同构建现代化基础设施网络，合力打造高能级综合交通枢纽，统筹推进现代水利工程建设，共同强化能源高效保障。要协同培育现代化产业体系，携手打造先进特色产业集群，共建成渝中部地区科创大走廊，合力打造国家战略产业备份基地。要协同打造内陆高水平开放门户枢纽，合力畅通开放通道，共建共享开放平台，共同营造一流营商环境，携手建设以西部陆海新通道为牵引的南向开放新枢纽。要协同建设现代化城乡融合发展新样板，合力打造高能级现代化城市群，联合实施“强镇带村”工程，携手促进乡村全面振兴。要协同推进高品质生活宜居地建设，推动公共服务共享，提升生态环境质量，促进区域文旅融合发展，积极支持参与成都大运会。要共同抓好组织保障，完善工作机制，强化政策协同，抓实项目落地，推动工作落实，更好带动合作整体推进。

王晓晖在讲话中指出，推动成渝地区双城经济圈建设是习近平总书记亲自研究、亲自部署、亲自推动的重大战略决策，是党中央交给川渝两地的重大政治任务。这一重大战略明确了“一极一源、两中心两地”的战略定位和七个方面的重点任务，带给了我们共建中国经济增长“第四极”的宝贵历史机遇，必将有力带动未来一个时期两省市高质量发展再上新台阶。推动成渝地区双城经济圈建设，国家有部署、双方有需要、现实有基础，只要我们两地加强合作、密切协作、同步发力，就一定能壮大成渝主轴、挺起中部脊梁，推动国家战略走深走实、更好服务国家全局。

王晓晖指出，希望两省市把研究推动成渝中部地区加快崛起作为战略重点，抓好两地毗邻地区重大合作平台的先行发展，积极探索经济区与行政区适度分离改革新路径，抓好国省新区和高新区协同发展，不断提升对中部地区的经济辐射力、发展带动力和能级提升力，进一步夯实双城经济圈建设的重要支撑。要把全方位互联互通作为关键抓手，推动成渝中线高铁、渝西高铁等标志性干线项目提速建设，加快推进川渝1000千伏特高压交流工程建设，做深做细川渝通办事项，让两地群众享受到国家战略带来的更多红利，进一步筑牢双方交往交流的坚实底座。要把构建现代化产业体系作为主攻方向，协同推进工业转型升级、服务业恢复提振、农业提质增效，聚焦优势产业加强协作配套，共建高水平产业集群，进一步培育川渝发展新动能新优势。要把提升区域协同创新能力作为共同使命，以共建成渝综合性科学中心、西部科学城和推进绵阳科技城建设为牵引，以各类国省实验室建设为依托，合力打造产学研用深度融合的科技创新矩阵，进一步服务国家高水平科技自立自强。要把健全完善合作机制作为支撑保障，理顺体制、打破阻隔、提升效能，为双方互利协作提供更加良好的制度机制环境，进一步推动国家战略落地见效。

会议书面审议了优化完善推动成渝地区双城经济圈建设川渝合作工作机制的建议、2023年下半年重点合作事项清单，听取了两省市推动成渝中部地区高质量发展、双核联动联建进展成效等情况汇报。

在渝期间，四川省党政代表团还前往重庆弗迪锂电池有限公司、西部（重庆）科学城先进数据中心、重庆康佳半导体光电产业园、秀湖生态区等地参观考察，了解川渝两地共建智能网联新能源汽车产业、共建全国一体化算力网络成渝国家枢纽节点、联手打造具有国际影响力的电子信息产业集群以及璧山区打造高品质生活宜居地等情况。

文/重庆日报