Yangtze belt development to get boost
Political Bureau emphasizes advancing high-level, green growth of major region
A key meeting of the Communist Party of China highlighted on Monday the need to advance the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, calling for unwavering efforts to protect its ecology and environment and propel innovations in science and technology.
The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee — the Party's core leadership — reviewed a guideline on policies and measures to further promote the high-quality development of the economic belt, a region of 11 provincial-level areas along the Yangtze River.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting, which also deliberated a set of regulations on CPC leadership over foreign affairs.
The meeting came after Xi chaired a symposium on Oct 12 with high-level officials in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, to deliberate on steering the economic belt's high-quality growth — the fourth meeting of its kind that he has presided over since 2016.
Policymakers stressed on Monday the significant changes in the region since the implementation of the strategy to build the economic belt, including in the ecology and environment, development modes, regional integration, and reform and opening-up.
According to official statistics, the economic belt covers more than 2 million square kilometers, or one-fifth of China, and accounts for over 40 percent of the total national population. Its GDP reached 55.98 trillion yuan ($7.86 trillion), over 46 percent of the national total, in 2022.
According to an official summary of the meeting, policymakers underlined that a high-quality ecology and environment in the Yangtze River basin is the fundamental guarantee of the economic belt's high-quality growth.
It is important to continue to promote well-coordinated environmental conservation and avoid excessive development, with greater efforts set to be made on high-quality protection to guard the ecological red lines and coordinate efforts to cut carbon emissions and pollution, expand green areas and promote growth, the summary said.
The meeting also emphasized the necessity to take innovation in science and technology as the driving force and actively explore new sectors and tracks for development, adding that integration of innovation chains in the region must be reinforced and the modernization of supply and industrial chains must be moved forward.
The planning and transfer of industries along the Yangtze River must be coordinated in order to better connect the domestic and international markets and make good use of both markets, the policymakers said.
The dynamism and reliability of the domestic market must be further enhanced, and more work must be done to increase the attractiveness to the international market, they added.
The meeting also stressed the importance of inter-provincial consultation, of shared ecological governance and common development, including steps to improve the level of integration in regional transportation, deepen market-oriented reforms and promote coordinated regional development.
The economic belt must coordinate development and security, ensure the security and stability of key industrial and supply chains for the nation, and bolster its capacity in disaster prevention and mitigation, the summary said.
It also called for greater policy support to enable the rollout of major reform measures in key sectors.
As for the regulations on CPC leadership over foreign affairs, the meeting highlighted the significance of the document in institutionalizing the Party's long-term leadership over foreign affairs, including concepts, systems and successful practices.
It stressed the need to further strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee over foreign affairs, and to accelerate efforts to create a sound system of laws and regulations on foreign-related matters.
中共中央政治局召开会议
审议《关于进一步推动长江经济带高质量发展若干政策措施的意见》《中国共产党领导外事工作条例》
中共中央总书记习近平主持会议
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会议指出，长江经济带发展战略是以习近平同志为核心的党中央作出的重大战略决策。战略实施以来，思想认识、生态环境、发展方式、区域融合、改革开放等方面发生了重大变化，发展质量稳步提升，发展态势日趋向好。
会议强调，推动长江经济带高质量发展，根本上依赖于长江流域高质量的生态环境。要毫不动摇坚持共抓大保护、不搞大开发，在高水平保护上下更大功夫，守住管住生态红线，协同推进降碳、减污、扩绿、增长。要坚持把科技创新作为主动力，积极开辟发展新领域新赛道，加强区域创新链融合，大力推动产业链供应链现代化。要统筹抓好沿江产业布局和转移，更好联通国内国际两个市场、用好两种资源，提升国内大循环内生动力和可靠性，增强对国际循环的吸引力、推动力。要坚持省际共商、生态共治、全域共建、发展共享，提升区域交通一体化水平，深化要素市场化改革，促进区域协调发展。要统筹好发展和安全，维护国家重要产业链供应链安全稳定，提升流域防灾减灾能力，以一域之稳为全局之安作出贡献。要坚持中央统筹、省负总责、市县抓落实的工作机制，加强统筹协调和督促检查，加大政策支持力度，在重点领域推动一批重大改革。沿江省市各级党委和政府要切实履行主体责任，强化工作落实，步步为营、扎实推进、久久为功，推动长江经济带高质量发展不断取得新进展。
会议指出，《中国共产党领导外事工作条例》对党领导外事工作作出规定，把党长期以来领导外事工作的思路理念、体制机制和成功实践转化为制度成果，对于确保党中央对外大政方针和战略部署得到有力贯彻执行具有重要意义。
会议强调，要进一步加强党中央对外事工作的集中统一领导。要加快形成系统完备的涉外法律法规体系，不断提升外事工作的制度化、规范化、科学化水平。要深刻认识新征程上党的外事工作使命任务，把习近平外交思想贯彻落实到外事工作全过程各方面，为推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业创造有利条件，为维护世界和平与发展、推动构建人类命运共同体作出更大贡献。
会议还研究了其他事项。