Shortly after the conclusion of the National Two Sessions and after the release of the country's 15th Five-Year Plan, General Secretary Xi Jinping made his first local inspection trip to Xiongan New District in Hebei Province.
He inspected the progress of the construction of the start-up area, inspected China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd. and the Xiongan Campus of Beijing No. 4 Middle School, and hosted a symposium on in-depth promotion of high-quality construction and development of Xiongan New Area… The general secretary’s trip to Xiongan contains profound considerations to guide the "15th Five-Year Plan" to get off to a good start.
First, once the decision is made, it must be implemented and move forward step by step.
The plan has been set, it’s time to implement it. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the National Two Sessions that “good planning and execution must be combined.”
In the past nine years, from a piece of land, a map to a city, Xiongan New Area has grown steadily and steadily in accordance with the established planning and deployment, and "achieved major phased results", which is the full implementation of this requirement.
In the past nine years, General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited Xiongan four times and made targeted planning guidance at key nodes each time, advancing step by step and continuously deepening it.
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Strategic planning is carried out step by step and implemented consistently. The Five-Year Plan and the construction of Xiongan New Area both reflect China’s unique institutional advantages and governance wisdom.
Five years ago, Xiongan New Area was included in the national five-year plan for the first time. The "14th Five-Year Plan" outline proposed "to build Xiongan New Area with high standards and high quality, accelerate the construction of start-up areas and start-up areas, and promote management system innovation." In the “15th Five-Year Plan” outline released in March this year, “promoting the construction of a modern city in Xiongan New Area with high standards and high quality and improving the management system” is clearly listed.
Both plans include Xiongan New Area in the strategic layout of regional development and put forward requirements for innovation and improvement of the management system. The construction of Xiongan New Area is not only related to the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, but also a test field for deepening reform and opening up in the new era. It carries the responsibility of promoting Chinese-style modernization in the next five, 10 years and even longer.
Look at one area to better coordinate the overall situation. At the Central Economic Work Conference at the end of last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “What is decided must be implemented, and all departments at all levels must have an overall view and execution ability.”
This time in Xiongan, the General Secretary requested that “all relevant parties should enhance their awareness of the overall situation and sense of responsibility, and implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee with practical actions.”
Keeping the overall situation in mind and being down-to-earth, all localities and departments worked according to the plans and moved forward step by step.
Second, anchor the development theme and create a high-quality development model.
At the beginning of its establishment, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave Xiongan New Area the mission of “becoming a model for the country in promoting high-quality development.” This time, the General Secretary put forward new expectations for Xiongan: "Strive to build an innovation highland in the new era and promote high-quality development models."
Looking at the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, "high-quality development and achieving remarkable results" ranks first among the seven major goals.
The gathering of innovative elements, the growth of smart textures, and the interweaving of blue and green spaces…these "Xiongan impressions" are vivid footnotes of high-quality development in Xiongan New Area.
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The inspection point this time is closely related to high-quality development. "China Star Network, China Sinochem, China Huaneng headquarters, and 83 state-owned enterprise subsidiaries have been relocated and registered in an orderly manner. This is the basic foundation for the future industrial development of Xiongan." "The construction of universities has unlimited potential and will promote the integrated development of industry, academia and research here." General Secretary Xi Jinping has far-reaching thoughts.
During his trip to Xiongan, he went from “promoting the decentralization and inheritance of Beijing’s non-capital functions in a more powerful and orderly manner” to “integrating high-quality construction and high-efficiency governance”, from “building a beautiful Xiongan with blue sky, green land and clear water” to “developing new productive forces in accordance with local conditions and cultivating a modern industrial system in line with the actual conditions of the new area”… The general secretary pointed out new paths for high-quality construction and development of Xiongan New Area in all aspects.
Renovate the old and make new things, and look forward to the future. There is no ready answer to promoting Chinese-style modernization through high-quality development. The practice of Xiongan New Area is not to simply copy Shenzhen and Pudong, but to explore practical and popularizable institutional innovation and development paradigms with profound changes in new development concepts, and to explore the path for China's future.
Third, always focus on people and integrate development with people’s livelihood.
The reason why the Five-Year Plan is called the National Economic and Social Development Plan is to “organically unify economic development and improvement of people’s livelihood.”
General Secretary Xi Jinping is concerned about the development and construction of Xiongan New Area and the people in this hot land.
