The tide of the Pujiang River is strong

The tide of the Pujiang River is surging, and the eastern wind is coming.
Domestic large aircraft soared, new energy vehicles, highlighting Shanghai's hard core strength. On both sides of the Pujiang River, thousands of lights; under the sycamore trees, light and shadow are mottled. From the Bund to the North Bund, from Xintiandi to Wukang Building, new and old landmarks are full of tourists, releasing the humanistic charm of Shanghai.
Shanghai is the birthplace of the party, the birthplace of the original intention, the birthplace of the great party building spirit, and the largest economic center city in China. The latest statistics show that in the first half of 2023, Shanghai achieved a gross regional product (GDP) of 2139.017 billion billion yuan, an increase of 9.7 percent over the same period last year. The total economic output continued to rank first among domestic cities, and the quality of development improved steadily.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited Shanghai 5 times, delivered a series of important speeches and made a series of important instructions and instructions on the development of Shanghai, hoping that Shanghai "has the courage to pick the heaviest burden and gnaw the most difficult bones. Give full play to the role of pioneers, demonstrations, and breakthroughs to make greater contributions to the reform and development of the country".
At the conference on studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping called for "testing the achievements of thematic education with the new results of promoting high-quality development". As the vanguard of my country's reform and opening up, and the pioneer of innovation and development, Shanghai closely focuses on high-quality development, the primary task of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, and puts forward the major strategies, major tasks, and proposals given by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core. The important requirements are persistently refined into "construction drawings", high quality is transformed into "real-life paintings", and the Shanghai chapter of high-quality development is constantly written.

　　Strengthen the "four functions"

Walking into the first domestic large-scale cruise ship "Ada Mordor" is like walking into a "moving sea city". The cruise ship has a total length of 323.6 meters, a width of 37.2 meters, a height of 24 stories, and a gross tonnage of about 135500 tons. It can carry 5246 passengers when fully loaded.
With its profound manufacturing heritage, Shanghai is not only an international economic, financial, trade, and shipping center, but also a city that can simultaneously develop rockets, satellites, large ships, and large commercial aircraft.
Whether Shanghai aims at the world's top cities, better represents the country to participate in international cooperation and competition, or serves the overall development of the country, and better empowers other regions, the key lies in how strong its core functions are. When General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Shanghai in 2019, he accurately pointed the pulse of Shanghai's development and asked Shanghai to strengthen the "four major functions" of global resource allocation, scientific and technological innovation sources, high-end industry leadership, and open hub portals, pointing out Shanghai's main direction of promoting high-quality development.
The third Plenary session of the 12th Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee held on July 4, 2023 examined and adopted an important document, "opinions of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee on thoroughly studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thinking on Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the New era, deepening high-level reform and opening up, and promoting high-quality development." promote Shanghai's "four major functions" from "have" to "strong or not strong. "It is necessary to combine thematic education and condense and put forward a major starting point with traction and focus, so as to achieve the outline, drive the overall situation, and create a new situation." At the plenary meeting, Chen Jining, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, said so.
 

On June 6, 2023, the first domestic large-scale cruise ship "Ada Mordor" was officially undocked after completing a series of tests in the dock at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard. The first domestic large-scale cruise ship is not only another peak for China's shipbuilding industry, but also a new engine to drive the development of China's cruise industry.

-- Strengthening the global resource allocation function and highlighting the strategic potential for high-quality development. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to "actively allocate global capital, information, technology, talents, goods and other essential resources, and use the service and joint construction of the'Belt and Road' as the starting point and breakthrough point to accelerate the internationalization of the Shanghai financial market". Shanghai continues to expand and strengthen the capital factor market, efficiently allocate key strategic elements such as talent, technology and data, and improve the level of global operation of business entities. Shanghai has become one of the most complete regions in the global financial factor market, with currency, stocks, bonds, futures, bills, foreign exchange, gold, insurance, trust and other financial institutions. In 2022, the total transaction volume of Shanghai's financial market will reach 2932.98 trillion billion yuan, and the financial industry will account for 19.3 percent of Shanghai's total GDP.
-- Strengthen the source function of scientific and technological innovation, and stimulate the surging power of high-quality development. Speeding up the construction of a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence is a major task assigned by General Secretary Xi Jinping when he visited Shanghai in 2014. Shanghai continues to strengthen basic research, strengthen key core technology research and the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and build an open innovation system with global competitiveness. By the end of 2022, three national laboratories have been established and operated in Shanghai, and the number of new R & D institutions and R & D and transformation functional platforms has reached 17 and 15 respectively. The "2022 Global Innovation Index Report" released by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows that in the global "best technology cluster" ranking, Shanghai and Suzhou have merged into one cluster for the first time, ranking sixth in the world.
-Strengthen the leading function of high-end industries and play an exemplary role in high-quality development. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to "adhere to the strategic positioning of modern service industry as the main body and advanced manufacturing industry as the support, and strive to master the core links of the industrial chain and occupy the high-end position of the value chain". Shanghai continues to focus on the three leading industries of integrated circuits, biomedicine and artificial intelligence and the five future industries of future health, future intelligence, future energy, future space and future materials to build a world-class industrial cluster. to electronic information, automobile, life and health, high-end equipment, advanced materials, fashion consumer goods six key industries to promote intelligent, green and integrated development, cultivate world-class enterprises with benchmarking significance.
-- Strengthen the function of open hub portals and enhance the radiation capacity of high-quality development. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to "persist in opening up to promote reform, development, and innovation, and bravely jump into the vast ocean of the world economy to fight the storm and strengthen the muscles and bones". Shanghai continues to improve the soft environment of opening up, deepen the institutional opening up of rules, regulations, management and standards, build an open facility carrier, build a world-class shipping hub, expand the channels of introduction, deepen trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, build a platform for going out and enhance the competitiveness of going out.
"The' four major functions' are a complementary organic whole. Resource allocation is the foundation, innovation policy source is the core, industry leadership is the carrier, and hub portal is the support. We must grasp the whole, grasp the key and push forward together." The secretary of the party committee of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences weighed the relationship between the "four functions" in this way.

　Deepening high-level reform and opening up

The Huangpu River is flowing, and the open tide is rolling forward.
"Shanghai, backed by the Yangtze River and facing the Pacific Ocean, has long led China's opening up." In his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the first China International Import Expo, General Secretary Xi Jinping said affectionately, "I have worked in Shanghai and have personally felt the importance of openness to Shanghai and Shanghai's openness to China. Openness, innovation and inclusiveness have become the most distinctive character of Shanghai."
As a "vanguard of reform and opening up and a pioneer of innovation and development", Shanghai pursues not only the accumulation of "quantity" and the superposition of "number", but also the breakthrough of "quality" and the leap of energy level. This requires Shanghai to deepen high-level reform and opening up, carry out greater policy and institutional innovation, give full play to the biggest advantage of opening up, speed up the building of the central node of the domestic cycle and the strategic link of the domestic and international double cycle, open up new fields and new track of development, and constantly shape the development of new kinetic energy and new advantages.
More than 30 years ago, the Party Central Committee was far-sighted and played the "trump card" of Pudong development and opening up, declaring to the world China's determination to promote reform and opening up. More than 30 years later, the reform and opening up has reached a new historical juncture. In the face of the unprecedented changes in the world in a century and the construction of a new development pattern, Pudong will build a leading area for socialist modernization, which can play a better leading and leading role in the development of other regions of the country.
"Strive to become a pioneer in a higher level of reform and opening up, a pioneer in the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country, a practical example of demonstrating the'four confidence', and better demonstrate the Chinese philosophy, Chinese spirit, and Chinese path to the world." In November 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a special trip to attend the 30th anniversary celebration of Pudong's development and opening up and delivered an important speech.
Keeping in mind the entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, Pudong New Area holds high the banner of reform and opening up in the new era, boldly tries, boldly breaks through, and reforms independently, continuously improves the energy level of reform, strives to create a frontier window for all-round opening up, and strives to be a pioneer in comprehensively deepening reform and opening up. According to the latest information released by the Pudong New area, 413 of the 450 tasks of the "implementation Plan for promoting High-level Reform and opening up in Pudong New area to build a leading Zone for Socialist Modernization" have been completed or basically completed, accounting for 91.8 percent. A number of landmark achievements have landed one after another. Zhu Zhisong, secretary of the Pudong New Area District Committee, said that Pudong will continue to strengthen reform leadership, opening leadership, innovation leadership, function leadership, and development leadership, promote high-quality development with a higher level of reform and opening up, and make greater contributions to Chinese-style modernization.
The construction of the pilot free trade zone is an important strategic measure of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core to promote reform and opening up in the new era. In the past 10 years, the pilot free trade zone has played the "head goose effect" of institutional innovation, created a vivid model of open development, promoted the in-depth implementation of major strategies, and played an important role in the process of my country's reform and opening up.

On July 13, 2023, the four-day 18th China International Animation and Game Expo kicked off at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Hall. Animation and game industry chain upstream and downstream more than 200 Chinese and foreign enterprises to participate in the exhibition. The picture shows the visitors in Tencent video booth shooting.

Entering Shanghai Customs learned that in the first half of this year, the import and export of Shanghai Free Trade Zone was 1.1 trillion yuan, accounting for more than half of Shanghai's total foreign trade import and export value, and its contribution to Shanghai's foreign trade growth exceeded 80%. "Transform the achievements of thematic education into a powerful force for reform and innovation and promote development. Lingang will continue to improve natural ecology, talent ecology, science and technology ecology, and industrial ecology, and accelerate the creation of a world-class, open and modern industrial system." Wu Xiaohua, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, said.
Along the direction guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping, Shanghai has stimulated market vitality with institutional innovation, adhered to the unity of goal orientation and problem orientation, and vigorously promoted high-quality development.
In just 38 days, Hualing shares completed the entire process from acceptance to the meeting on the Beijing Stock Exchange, setting a record for A shares. Behind this record, the reform measure of "replacing administrative compliance certificate with credit report" explored by Shanghai Pudong New Area has played an important role, saving a lot of valuable time for enterprises to go public.
In order to create a market-oriented, legalized, and international first-class business environment, since 2018, Shanghai has implemented 6 consecutive rounds of action plans to optimize the business environment, and has formed a batch of innovative experiences in license processing, project approval, and enterprise cancellation. Copy and promote nationwide.
According to Wang Lei, global executive vice president of AstraZeneca, Shanghai has given foreign-funded enterprises enough confidence in human settlements, legal environment and government services. Including AstraZeneca, as of the first half of 2023, Shanghai's regional headquarters of multinational companies and foreign-funded R & D centers have reached 922 and 544 respectively. Both indicators rank first in the country. Shanghai is still the most attractive investment in the world. One of the hot spots.
In the new era and new journey, Shanghai will focus on promoting more pioneering reforms, leading opening up, and breakthrough innovation at a new starting point, adhere to the path of high-quality development, and strive to build a new highland of reform and opening up in the new era.

　　Play a leading role in the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta

"Between Shanghai and Suzhou, you can transfer directly to the subway, not to mention the convenience." A passenger who lives in Suzhou and works in Shanghai said. In June this year, Suzhou Rail Transit Line 11 was officially opened for operation and met with Shanghai Rail Transit Line 11. Suzhou and Shanghai, the two core cities in the Yangtze River Delta region, have realized the interconnection of rail transit systems across provinces and cities.
The Yangtze River Delta region uses only 1/26 of the country's land and about 1/6 of the population to create nearly 1/4 of the total economic output. It is one of the regions with the most active economic development, the highest degree of openness, and the strongest innovation ability in my country. Among them, it is inseparable from the leading role of Shanghai. During his visit to Shanghai in 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "giving full play to Shanghai's leading role in cooperation and exchanges in the Yangtze River Delta region is not only the need of Shanghai's own development, but also an important mission entrusted to Shanghai by the central government."
As early as the Ninth Party Congress in Shanghai held in May 2007, Comrade Xi Jinping proposed that the planning of Shanghai work should adhere to the "four places": that is, "put on the strategic positioning of the central government for the development of Shanghai, put on the general trend of economic globalization, put on the general pattern of national development, and put on the overall deployment of the Yangtze River Delta region to think and plan". The cadres and the masses in Shanghai said: "This is the precious spiritual wealth left by Comrade Xi Jinping to Shanghai, and the'four in the' is the basis for planning all work in Shanghai."
"Supporting the development of regional integration in the Yangtze River Delta and rising to a national strategy" is a major decision announced by General Secretary Xi Jinping at the opening ceremony of the first China International Import Expo. In August 2020, the General Secretary pointed out at the symposium on solid promotion of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta held in Hefei, Anhui Province, that it is necessary to "pay close attention to the two key words of integration and high quality, do solid work and work hard to promote the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta to achieve continuous results".
The construction of the Yangtze River Delta ecological green integrated development demonstration zone is the first move and breakthrough point to implement the Yangtze River Delta integrated development strategy. Through more than three years of hard work, the demonstration zone has formed 112 groundbreaking integrated system innovations, of which 38 are replicated and promoted nationwide; the GDP of the demonstration zone has grown at an average annual rate of 7.4 percent, and the total industrial output value above designated size has grown at an average annual rate. An increase of 10.9 percent.
The construction of G60 science and technology innovation corridor in the Yangtze River Delta will accelerate the integration of nine cities (districts) in Songjiang District of Shanghai, Suzhou City of Jiangsu Province, Hangzhou City, Huzhou City, Jiaxing City and Jinhua City of Zhejiang Province, Hefei City, Wuhu City and Xuancheng City of Anhui Province into the integrated development matrix of the Yangtze River Delta. As a source, Songjiang continues to deepen the collaborative innovation of the Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Corridor and build a "1,365" Science and Technology Achievement Trading Display Platform, with the total transaction volume exceeding 6.6 billion yuan in 2022.
On the morning of May 28, 2023, China Eastern Airlines Group Co., Ltd. used the world's first C919 large passenger aircraft delivered by COMAC to fly from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport to Beijing Capital Airport, successfully opening the world's first commercial passenger flight of this type. Behind this is the test of the integration of scientific and technological innovation and manufacturing strength in the Yangtze River Delta region. About 10% of the components, 50% of the aluminum and 50% of the composite structural parts required for the final assembly of C919 are "made in Zhenjiang"; Hefei Aerospace Physics Technology Co., Ltd. of Aviation Industry conducted lightning protection test for the aircraft radome; Zhejiang Xizi Bierui Aerospace Industry Co., Ltd. provided air stamping turbine generator hatch ...... Shanghai, Hefei, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Zhenjiang and other Yangtze River Delta cities to accelerate independent innovation, strong chain chain, A total of Chinese people's "big plane dream".

　　Implementing the Important Concept of "People's City"

Walking through the Shanghai World Expo Cultural Park, the environment is quiet, surrounded by mountains and water. In addition to the reserved venues for the World Expo, the park also has the simple and elegant Jiangnan garden "Shenyuan", as well as the new cultural landmark Shanghai Grand Opera House and the new sports landmark Shanghai Jiushi International Equestrian Center.
"Leave the best resources to the people." It will become the largest riverside park green space in the central city of Shanghai, occupying nearly 2 square kilometers of land in the riverside. Some people estimate that its market value has reached hundreds of billions of yuan. However, Shanghai's choice is not to build commercial buildings and engage in large-scale development, but to build green parks, so that citizens and tourists can climb mountains to watch the river and stroll for rest.
People's happiness and well-being is the ultimate goal of promoting high-quality development, which is not only a practical need to enhance the endogenous driving force of high-quality development, but also an inevitable requirement to implement the important concept of "people's city. On November 2, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping said during an inspection tour in Shanghai: "The city is the city of the people, and the people's city is the people. Whether it is urban planning or urban construction, whether it is the construction of new urban areas or the transformation of old urban areas, we must adhere to the people as the center, focus on the needs of the people, rationally arrange production, life, and ecological spaces, and take connotative, intensive, and green The high-quality development path of China strives to create a good environment suitable for business, livable, fun, and travel, so that the people have more sense of gain and create a happier life for the people."
"Take the satisfaction of the people as the fundamental criterion for judging the effectiveness of the theme education, solve the most direct and practical interests of the people, and do things that benefit the people's livelihood, warm the people's hearts, and comply with public opinions. Do it well, so that the results of modernization will benefit all people more and more equitably." In April 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping made it clear during his inspection tour of Guangdong.
The people's city is built by the people, and the people's city is for the people. "Everyone has the opportunity to shine in life, everyone can participate in governance in an orderly manner, everyone can enjoy a quality life, everyone can truly feel the temperature, and everyone can have the identity of belonging", implementing the important concept of "people's city", Shanghai puts forward the direction of "five people.
Integrating the whole process of people's democracy into the whole process of urban development and all aspects of urban construction, Shanghai is striving to create the best practice place for people's democracy in the whole process.
Hongqiao Street, Changning District, Shanghai is one of the first grass-roots legislative contact points set up by the legal work Committee of the standing Committee of the National people's Congress. General Secretary Xi Jinping visited here in 2019 to investigate and put forward the major concept of people's democracy in the whole process for the first time. This legislative and public opinion "through train" located at the door of the people's home reflects the essence of "people's democracy in the whole process"-"ensuring and supporting the people to be the masters of the country". From July 2015 to April 2023, Hongqiao Street listened to 82 draft laws and submitted 2566 opinions, 166 of which have been adopted. Listening to the wisdom and public opinion of the people, the whole process of people's democracy is going deep into the urban fabric of Shanghai.
First-class cities need first-class governance. "Garbage sorting is the new fashion! Comprehensive garbage disposal needs the participation of the whole people, and Shanghai should grasp this work well." On November 6, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during a survey at the first sub-station of Jiaxing Road Street, a citizen post station in Hongkou District, Shanghai. On May 21, 2023, he wrote back to Jiaxing Road Street garbage sorting volunteers, hoping that they would "do a good job of publicity and guidance with heart and emotion, drive more residents to form a good habit of classified delivery, and promote garbage sorting to become a new fashion of low-carbon life". After repeated study, the volunteers said that they should combine the implementation of the spirit of the general secretary's important reply with the study and implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and the promotion of theme education, and continue to give full play to the unique role of volunteers in grassroots governance.
From the start of the implementation of the breakfast project, to the installation of elevators in old houses; from the first "15-minute community life circle", to the sports ground under the bridge, the city's high-line park; from the digital transformation of "buildings to read", to the endless emergence of beautiful neighborhoods ...... Shanghai's "people's livelihood answer sheet" is full of happiness.
The tide surges and the Pujiang River is wide, and Fen Ji sails again. Shanghai is a glorious city and a place where miracles are constantly witnessed. In the process of carrying out thematic education, Shanghai firmly grasps the general requirements of "learning ideas, strengthening party spirit, emphasizing practice, and building new achievements", implements problem-solving to promote high-quality development, and promotes high-quality development with the attitude of a pioneer and the responsibility of a pioneer. Development continues to achieve new results, making Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics a more brilliant and vivid picture on both sides of the Pujiang River.