Xi Jinping emphasized at the symposium on comprehensively promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Implementing the Spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee

Promoting high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt

On November 14, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission hosted a symposium on comprehensively promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province and delivered an important speech. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng

Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, November 15. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission hosted a symposium on comprehensively promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on the morning of the 14th and delivered an important speech. He emphasized that it is necessary to implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Plenary Sessions of the 19th Central Committee, unswervingly implement the new development concept, promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and write a new chapter in ecological priority and green development., To create a new model of regional coordinated development, build a new highland for high-level opening up, create new advantages for innovation-driven development, and create a new advantages, make the Yangtze River Economic Belt the main battlefield of China's ecological priority green development, smooth the domestic and international double circulation aorta, and lead the main force of high-quality economic development.

Han Zheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council, and leader of the Leading Group for Promoting the Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt attended the symposium and delivered a speech.

Xi Jinping specially convened this symposium after his inspection in Jiangsu. At the symposium, He Lifeng, Director of the Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, E Jingping, Minister of Water Resources, Han Changfu, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Lou Qinjian, Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, Liu Qi, Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, and Sichuan Provincial Party Secretary Seven comrades including Peng Qinghua spoke successively, introduced the work situation, and put forward opinions and suggestions. principal comrades in charge of other provinces and municipalities who participated in the forum submitted written statements.

On November 14, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission hosted a symposium on comprehensively promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province and delivered an important speech. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi

After listening to everyone's speeches, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech. He emphasized that in the past five years, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have promoted the improvement of the ecological environment and promoted the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. The intensity, scale, and influence are unprecedented, and the ecological environment protection of the Yangtze River Economic Belt has taken place. With turning changes, historic achievements have been made in economic and social development. The economic development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is generally stable, the structure is optimized, the people's living standards have been significantly improved, and protection in development and development in protection have been realized. In particular, since the beginning of this year, the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have responded vigorously to the sudden outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, coordinated the prevention and control of the epidemic and economic and social development, effectively overcome the impact of major floods and the impact of changes in the external environment, and made outstanding contributions to China's taking the lead in restoring positive economic growth among the world's major economies.

Xi Jinping pointed out that promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee and a major strategy related to the overall development of the country. The proposal of the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has made clear demands on this. The Yangtze River Economic Belt covers 11 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River and spans the three major sectors of my country's east, middle and west. The population size and total economic volume occupy "half of the country". It has a prominent ecological status and huge development potential. It should be practicing new development concepts and building new development patterns., Play an important role in promoting high-quality development.

Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the protection and restoration of the ecological environment system. It is necessary to proceed from the integrity of the ecosystem and the system of the river basin, trace the source and treat it systematically, so as to prevent headaches and feet. It is necessary to find out the root of the problem and systematically carry out ecological environment restoration and protection from the source. It is necessary to strengthen coordination and linkage, strengthen the coordinated management of various ecological elements such as mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grasses, promote interaction and cooperation in the upper, middle and lower reaches, and enhance the relevance and coupling of various measures. We should pay attention to the overall promotion, strengthen the systematicness and integrity of comprehensive management while making key breakthroughs, so as to prevent abnormally heavy and light, individual soldiers from advancing, and taking care of one and losing the other. Under the premise of strictly protecting the ecological environment, we should comprehensively improve the efficiency of resource utilization, accelerate the promotion of green and low-carbon development, and strive to build a green development demonstration belt in which man and nature coexist harmoniously. It is necessary to put the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River in an overwhelming position, build a new system of comprehensive management, and comprehensively consider the organic links of water environment, water ecology, water resources, water security, water culture and shoreline, promote the coordinated management of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, rivers, lakes and reservoirs, left and right banks, main and tributaries, improve the ecological environment and ecological functions of the Yangtze River, and enhance the quality and stability of the ecosystem. It is necessary to strengthen land space control and negative list management, strictly abide by the ecological red line, continue to carry out ecological restoration and environmental pollution control projects, and maintain the ecological authenticity and integrity of the Yangtze River. It is necessary to speed up the establishment of a mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products, so that the protection and restoration of the ecological environment can obtain reasonable returns, and the destruction of the ecological environment should be paid a corresponding price. It is necessary to improve the Yangtze River water disaster monitoring and early warning, disaster prevention, and emergency rescue system, promote comprehensive river management and embankment reinforcement, and build the Anlan Yangtze River.

Xi Jinping stressed the need to promote a smooth domestic cycle. It is necessary to adhere to the idea of a national game of chess, clarify the orientation of self-development in the overall situation of national development, and explore effective ways to promote the smooth domestic cycle. It is necessary to organically combine demand traction with supply creation, promote the coordinated development of upstream, middle and downstream, strengthen the co-construction and sharing of ecological environment, infrastructure, and public services, and guide the orderly transfer of capital, technology, and labor-intensive industries in downstream areas to the middle and upper reaches, To retain key links in the industrial chain. It is necessary to promote a new type of urbanization with people as the core, handle the relationship between central cities and regional development, promote urbanization with county towns as an important carrier, and promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas. It is necessary to enhance the capacity of urban flood control and drainage. We should improve people's quality of life, consolidate and enhance the achievements of poverty alleviation, and strengthen the effective connection with rural revitalization. It is necessary to raise people's income levels, increase investment in employment, education, social security, and medical care, promote convenience sharing, and solidly promote common prosperity. It is necessary to build a unified, open and orderly transport market, optimize and adjust the transport structure, and innovate the mode of transport organization.

Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to build a new highland for high-level opening up. It is necessary to coordinate the opening up of the coastal areas along the river and inland, accelerate the cultivation of more inland open highlands, improve the level of opening up along the border, achieve high-quality introduction and high-level going out, promote trade innovation and development, and use foreign capital with higher quality. It is necessary to accelerate the promotion of institutional openness such as rules and standards, improve the layout of free trade pilot zones, and build a new system of open economy at a higher level. It is necessary to grasp the relationship between openness and security and to weave an open safety net. Provinces and cities along the Yangtze River should find their respective positions in the new development pattern of mutual promotion of domestic and international double cycles, and take the initiative to open their markets to the world. It is necessary to promote the integration of the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", accelerate the construction of the "Belt and Road" strategic fulcrum on the Yangtze River Economic Belt, expand investment and trade, and promote cultural exchanges and people-to-people bonds.

Xi Jinping stressed the need to accelerate the upgrading of the industrial base and the modernization of the industrial chain. We should have the courage to innovate, adhere to the focus of economic development on the real economy, focus on the advanced industrial foundation and the modernization of the industrial chain, give full play to the overall advantages of coordination and linkage, and comprehensively shape the new advantages of innovation driven development. It is necessary to establish a system and mechanism to promote the effective connection of industry, university and research, and cross-regional cooperation, step up the layout of a number of major innovation platforms, accelerate breakthroughs in a number of key core technologies, and strengthen the guarantee capabilities of key links, key areas, and key products. It is necessary to promote the construction of scientific and technological innovation centers and comprehensive national laboratories, and enhance the original innovation ability and level. It is necessary to strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in innovation, create advanced manufacturing clusters with international competitiveness, and create an independent, controllable, safe and efficient industrial chain supply chain that serves the whole country. It is necessary to stimulate the vitality of various subjects, break down the institutional barriers that restrict the free flow of elements, and promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. We should attach great importance to the issue of food security.

Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to protect and carry forward the Yangtze River culture. The Yangtze River has created a thousand-year-old context from Bashan and Shushui to Jiangnan water towns. It is a representative symbol of the Chinese nation and a symbolic symbol of Chinese civilization, and an important source of cultivating the core values of socialism. It is necessary to protect, inherit and carry forward the Yangtze River culture well, continue the historical context, and strengthen cultural self-confidence. It is necessary to protect the cultural relics and cultural heritage of the Yangtze River, deeply study the cultural connotation of the Yangtze River, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional culture. It is necessary to integrate the history and culture of the Yangtze River, landscape culture and urban and rural development, highlight local characteristics, and use more "micro-transformation" "embroidery" kung fu to restore historical and cultural blocks.

Xi Jinping stressed: leading comrades of party committees and governments at all levels, especially the top leaders of the party and government, should resolutely implement the decision-making arrangements of the party Central Committee on the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, strengthen confidence, have the courage to take responsibility, grasp the iron marks, step on the stone and leave the seal, and earnestly grasp the work well and achieve results. It is necessary to carry out in-depth research on the hotspots, difficulties, and pain points that currently restrict the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, find out the real situation, pinpoint the crux of the problem, and propose countermeasures. Central enterprises and social organizations should actively participate in the development of the Yangtze River economic belt, increase investment in human, material and financial resources, and form a good atmosphere for the whole society to jointly promote the development of the Yangtze River economic belt. It is necessary to maintain historical patience and strategic determination, draw a blueprint to the end, one crop after another, and ensure that a river of clear water will last for future generations and benefit the people.

Han Zheng said in his speech that to promote the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, it is necessary to thoroughly study and understand the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party, and integrate the new development concept throughout the entire development process and various fields. Set a good example in high-quality development and make greater contributions to accelerating the construction of a new development pattern. It is necessary to strengthen the comprehensive management, systematic management, and source management of the ecological environment, especially the "ten-year ban on fishing" in the Yangtze River, and promote the restoration of aquatic biodiversity in the Yangtze River. It is necessary to strengthen regional coordinated and coordinated development, promote the overall improvement of the scientific and technological innovation capabilities of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, coordinate and optimize the industrial layout, and prohibit the transfer of polluting industries and enterprises to the middle reaches. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of a comprehensive transportation system, systematically improve the navigation capacity of trunk waterways, and strengthen the railway, highway, and air transportation networks. It is necessary to strengthen all-round opening up, deeply integrate into the construction of "Belt and Road Initiative", and promote the mutual promotion of domestic and international double cycles.

Ding Xuexiang, Liu He, Chen Xi and Xiao Jie attended the symposium.

Responsible comrades of relevant departments of the central and state organs and responsible comrades of relevant provinces and cities attended the forum.