198 1 10 In June, Deng Xiaoping personally approved the establishment of Huli Processing Zone, and the construction of Xiamen Special Economic Zone began. 1February, 984, Deng Xiaoping wrote an inscription for the special economic zone: "Let the special economic zone run faster and better". Pointed out the direction for the development of special economic zones. In the same year, Deng Xiaoping agreed to the suggestion of Fujian Provincial Committee and Xiamen Municipal Committee, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China approved the expansion of the special economic zone from 2.5 square kilometers in the lake to the whole island 1, 3 1 square kilometers, and the special economic zone implemented part of the policy of free port. Later, Deng Xiaoping repeatedly gave important instructions on the development of the SAR, pointing out that the SAR is a window of technology, management, knowledge, foreign policy and an open base. The special economic zones we have established and the policy of opening to the outside world have a clear guiding ideology, that is, we should not close them, but open them. Deng Xiaoping once again pointed out that development is the last word and the key to solving all problems in contemporary China.
On the occasion of the establishment of the Special Economic Zone, Xiamen Municipal Committee, with the approval of the CPC Central Committee and the Provincial Party Committee, established three Taiwanese investment zones outside Xiamen Island, namely Xinglin, Jimei and Haicang, which became an important part of the Special Economic Zone and enjoyed the treatment of the Special Economic Zone. A number of Taiwanese investment zones have made important contributions to the sustained, rapid and healthy development of Xiamen Special Economic Zone. The scope of the special zone has been expanded from 13 1 square kilometer to 690 square kilometers.
On the advice of foreign friends, Deng Xiaoping pointed out that to develop the economy, the SAR should first develop transportation and communication, which is the starting point of economic development. According to Deng Xiaoping's instructions, the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government borrowed money from Kuwait to build Xiamen Gao Qi International Airport, imported 10,000 sets of program-controlled telephone communication equipment from Japan, expanded Xiamen Port, built an expressway around the island to relieve the port, widened Xiahe Road, and built Xiamen Bridge and Haicang Bridge. Greatly improve the traffic and communication difficulties in special economic zones.
In order to further turn Xiamen into a window for opening to the outside world and an important base for reform and opening up, the municipal party committee and municipal government established Xiamen International Convention and Exhibition Center in 1985, which became an important window and base for Xiamen's opening to the outside world to discuss trade, and put forward the working policy of opening to the outside world to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Southeast Asia and the world. With the development of economic globalization, Xiamen Special Economic Zone's foreign and domestic economic cooperation and exchanges are also developing day by day, with large scale and high specifications. Every year, there are not only national and international "September 8th" investment fairs, but also regional "April 8th" investment and trade fairs for Taiwanese businessmen. Attracting foreign investment to participate in the economic construction of special zones is an important factor for the sustained, rapid and healthy development of Xiamen Special Economic Zone.
Since the establishment of the Special Zone, the Xiamen Municipal Committee has put forward the policy of prospering the city with port and industry, and building a port scenic tourist city, which has played an important role in Xiamen's modern port construction, rapid development of modern industry and modern city construction. This policy is in line with Xiamen's reality. In order to expand the economic hinterland, the Xiamen Municipal Committee made a decision to move the factories in the urban area to the rural areas outside the island. At the same time, while continuing to do a good job in urban construction, we will shift the focus of construction to rural areas outside the island in a planned way. This decision is also correct. Practice has proved that the shift of construction focus to rural areas outside the island has not weakened and affected urban construction, but has promoted the rapid development of cities driving rural areas, industry feeding agriculture, rural urbanization and urban-rural integration. By 2007, the municipal government's investment in rural areas outside the island accounted for 53.5% of the city's total investment, which greatly promoted the rapid development of the four new urban areas. In Siming District in the downtown area, the GDP increased from 654.38+0.675 billion yuan in 2003 to 38 billion yuan in 2007, and the total fiscal revenue increased from 365.438+0.2 billion yuan to 7365.438+0 billion yuan, making it an advanced unit in the top 100 districts in China.
200 1 At the Ninth Party Congress of Xiamen, the Municipal Party Committee put forward the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and strengthening the country through talents, and put forward the decision to establish an education, culture and science and technology city, which provided a new idea for Xiamen to further implement economic construction as the center and promote coordinated economic and social development. After the reform and opening up, the municipal party committee and government have successively established cultural, educational and scientific infrastructure such as Jimei Cultural and Educational Center, Urban Cultural and Art Center, Sports Center, Jimei Garden Expo Park and High-tech Park, which has effectively promoted the construction of a strong city in education, culture and science and technology. The party's modernization is centered on economic construction and comprehensively promotes economic, political, cultural and social construction. With the sustained, rapid and healthy development of the national economy, Xiamen has a relatively solid material foundation. Therefore, it is in line with the central spirit and the reality of Xiamen to propose the construction of an education, culture and science and technology city.
At the ninth Party Congress in Xiamen, the municipal party committee and the municipal government proposed to reform the administrative management system and adjust the administrative divisions. Municipal institutions were reorganized into six new urban areas, namely Siming, Huli, Haicang, Jimei, Tongan and Xiang 'an, which were incorporated into the Xiamen Special Economic Zone system and enjoyed special zone treatment. Later, the municipal party committee and municipal government built a new area around the East China Sea in Jimei and Tongan coastal areas, covering an area equivalent to a new Xiamen Island. Xiamen Special Economic Zone has expanded from 690 square kilometers to 1674 square kilometers. The hinterland of special economic zones has been expanded and the investment environment has been further improved. The dilemma of small hinterland and low economic aggregate that has long plagued special economic zones has been initially alleviated.
Since 265438+20th century, under the guidance of the spirit of the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and in accordance with the instructions of the provincial party committee, Xiamen Special Economic Zone should take advantage of its location in Taiwan Province, give full play to its advantages of "five boundaries", expand its "six firsts", build Xiamen Special Economic Zone into an important central city on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and strive to become a pioneering area for scientific development and cultural exchanges on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and play an exemplary role.
According to the instructions of the provincial party committee, the municipal party committee and the municipal government put forward a new leap-forward development strategy in the new century and new stage, seized the favorable opportunity of the central government's support for the development of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, increased the construction of central cities on the west side of the Taiwan Strait, promoted cross-strait economic, scientific and cultural cooperation, and developed to a wider extent. In a wider field and at a higher level, it played its due role in promoting the direct two-way three links between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, making cross-strait personnel exchanges and economic, cultural and technological cooperation and exchanges smoother, and strengthening the construction of the west side of the Taiwan Strait.
In the past 30 years of reform and opening up, the development of Xiamen Special Economic Zone has changed greatly: great achievements have been made in the construction of seaports, airports and information ports. Since 1975, Xiamen Port has been expanded several times. At present, there are 8 port areas with a depth of 40km, which can accommodate 4 deep-water berths1/kloc-0, with a maximum berthing capacity of 654.38+10,000 tons. All five continents in the world, except Africa, can have direct navigation to Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. China Shipping Group and CMA were introduced to build ports, making Xiamen an international shipping hub port. Xiamen Airport: 1978 There are only two domestic routes. Now Xiamen International Airport has been opened to 1 10 countries and regions, and 149 domestic and international routes are the central stations of China and Southeast Asia. With a three-hour flight circle in Southeast Asia, it is a domestic first-class international airport. Xiamen Information Port 1978 has 1400 exchange, 1 300 users, and there is no international long-distance line. Users must communicate with foreign countries through Fuzhou and Shanghai. By 1989, there were 33,000 dialects in Xiamen, and the call capacity increased by 1 1 times compared with 1978, and the international direct dial automatic telephone reached 158 countries and regions. As of April 2008, Xiamen has 9 16683 users (excluding mobile phones and PHS). Xiamen Information Port has become a first-class information port in China. In addition to the original yingtan-Xiamen Railway, there are three high-speed railways in Xiamen, namely, Fuxia, Xia Long and Xiamen-Shenzhen, which are built by the Ministry of Railways. All four railways run through the city, which is rare in other cities in China. Xia Long Railway is connected with Beijing-Kowloon Railway through Gan Long Railway, Beijing-Guangzhou Railway through Gan-Shao Line, and the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta, which is helpful to the active exchange of materials in the southeast coast, and at the same time, it opens the coastal port channel for Hunan and Jiangxi, which is rising in central China, and links the inland economy with the port economy. Fuxia, Xia Long and xiamen-shenzhen railway will be completed and opened to traffic in 2009, 20 10 and 2010 respectively. The completion of these high-speed railways will certainly make greater contributions to the coordinated development of southwest Fujian, urban and rural areas in southern Fujian and regional economy.
In the past, there were only two seawall passages in Xiamen, Jimei and Xinglin, and the traffic was inconvenient. At present, there are Xiamen Bridge, Haicang Bridge, Jimei Bridge, Xinglin Bridge, Chenggong Avenue, Xiang 'an Tunnel and rapid traffic in the city. After all these traffic arteries are completed, all six districts in the city can communicate with each other within half an hour. Longyan, Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou can also communicate in about an hour. The economic center on the west side of the Taiwan Strait has expanded, the distance between them has been shortened, and personnel and logistics have become more convenient. Xiamen Special Economic Zone has a big port, airport, transportation, hinterland and market, forming a seaport, airport, information port, high-speed railway, expressway, high-speed intercity bus and rail transit.
In 2007, the GDP of Xiamen was137.7 billion yuan, an increase of10/%over the previous year, and the total industrial output value was 283.7 billion yuan, an increase of 17.7% over the previous year. Xiamen Modern Industry and Torch High-tech Zone has expanded from the initial 1.7 1 km2 to 1.3. 75 km2. The total output value increased from 654.38+0.04 billion yuan in 2000 to 865.438+0.697 billion yuan, and the proportion of the total industrial output value increased from 465.438+0% to 665.438+0.
In the past 30 years, Xiamen has successively won the UN Habitat Award, the National Civilized City, the National Habitat Environment Award, the National Health City, the National Garden City, the National Excellent Tourist City, the National Advanced Family Planning City, the National Excellent City for Comprehensive Management of Social Security, the National Green Model City, the Best Investment City for Multinational Corporations, and the National Double Support Model City (National Model City).
The Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government adhere to the instructions of Deng Xiaoping, and the SEZ is the window of reform and opening up and an important base for system innovation and scientific experiments. The practice of the Special Zone is successful, and it has made great achievements, enriched Deng Xiaoping Theory, and enjoyed a high reputation in China and at home and abroad.
The municipal party committee and the municipal government always carry out "development is the last word". Development is the key spirit to solve all problems in contemporary China, and it runs through the whole process of the development of the special zone as the theme of the construction of the special zone. According to the objective reality of Xiamen Special Economic Zone, guiding the economic and social construction of the special economic zone with the spirit of Scientific Outlook on Development is a successful experience of leaping development and conforms to the scientific spirit of Scientific Outlook on Development's comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development.
The municipal party committee and municipal government seize the location advantage of Xiamen Special Economic Zone in Taiwan Province, give full play to the advantage of "Five Margins Line", expand the "Six Beginnings", build an important central city on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and play the role of two pioneering areas. The effect is remarkable and the role is huge, which conforms to the spirit of scientific development and harmonious development of people on both sides of the strait.