According to the outline, the planning scope includes Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces (with an area of 358,000 square kilometers). It is centered on 27 cities including Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Hefei (as shown in the following table). It is reported that the planning period of the Outline is from 2025 to 2035.
The Yangtze River Delta is one of the regions with the most active economic development, the highest degree of openness and the strongest innovation ability in China. According to public information, this land area only accounts for 2.3% of the national total area, with a population of 225 million, which contributes about 1/4 of the national GDP. The total import and export volume, foreign direct investment and foreign investment account for 37%, 39% and 29% respectively, and there are about 1/4 "double-class" universities and state key laboratories.
Since the Yangtze River Delta is so developed, what will the integrated Yangtze River Delta look like? The Outline also gives the answer:
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The following is a collection of 15 compiled by Bian Xiao (micro signal: nbdnews) according to this outline. For details, please click the link at the end of the article to view the full text.
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Aspect 1: About Shanghai
Improve the service function of Shanghai. Facing the world and the future, we will enhance Shanghai's urban energy level and core competitiveness and lead the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. Focusing on the construction of the "five centers" of international economy, finance, trade, shipping and scientific and technological innovation, we will strive to enhance the comprehensive economic strength, financial resource allocation function, trade hub function, high-end shipping service function and strategic ability of scientific and technological innovation of Shanghai metropolis, and orderly relieve the core functions of non-metropolis such as general manufacturing. Form the influential "four brands" of Shanghai service, Shanghai manufacturing, Shanghai shopping and Shanghai culture, promote the comprehensive export of Shanghai brands and management models, and provide services for the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta and participation in international competition.
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Aspect 2: About Jiangsu
Give full play to the advantages of Jiangsu's developed manufacturing industry, rich scientific and educational resources and high degree of openness, promote the development along the Shanghai-Nanjing industrial innovation belt, speed up the construction of independent innovation demonstration zones in southern Jiangsu and Jiangbei New District in Nanjing, and build a scientific and technological industrial innovation center with global influence and an advanced manufacturing base with international competitiveness.
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Aspect 3: About Zhejiang
Give full play to the unique advantages of Zhejiang's leading digital economy, beautiful ecological environment and developed private economy, vigorously promote the construction of Greater Bay Area's big garden and large-channel metropolitan area, integrate and upgrade a number of agglomeration development platforms, and build a national digital economy innovation highland, an important hub for opening up and a new benchmark for green development.
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Aspect 4: About Anhui
Give full play to Anhui's advantages of strong innovation vitality, distinctive manufacturing characteristics, good ecological resources and vast inland hinterland, promote the coordinated development of Wanjiang city belt, accelerate the construction of Hefei-Wuhu-Bengbu independent innovation demonstration zone, and create an influential source of scientific and technological innovation, a cluster of emerging industries and a green development demonstration zone.
Aspect 5: About regional linkage
Establish a mechanism for major events and major projects between cities, promote the interconnection and resource sharing of cross-regional and cross-industry commodity markets, and coordinate the layout of commodity circulation infrastructure; Strengthen the deep cooperation between the central area of the Yangtze River Delta and northern Jiangsu, southwestern Zhejiang and northern Anhui, strengthen the construction of key cities such as Xuzhou, Quzhou, Anqing and Fuyang, and promote the coordinated development of surrounding areas. Continue to promote the construction of G60 science and technology corridor in an orderly manner, and strengthen the linkage construction of ports, high-speed rail and expressways along the river.
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Aspect 6: About the metropolitan area
Focusing on the integration of infrastructure and public service cards, we will speed up the construction of Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hefei, Suzhou, Xichang and Ningbo metropolitan areas, plan and build infrastructure such as roads, water, electricity and gas in the metropolitan area in a unified way, and realize the one-card enjoyment of high-quality service resources such as education and medical care in the metropolitan area. Promote the coordinated development of Shanghai and its surrounding areas and Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area, build Shanghai metropolitan area, strengthen the coordinated development of Nanjing metropolitan area and Hefei metropolitan area, promote the close docking and division of labor between Hangzhou metropolitan area and Ningbo metropolitan area, and realize the integration of Hangzhou, Shaoxing and Ningbo. Strengthen the construction of Huaihe River eco-economic belt and Grand Canal cultural belt, and develop eco-cultural tourism around Taihu Lake.
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Aspect 7: On the integration of urban and rural development:
About increasing the investment and support of urban and rural infrastructure in northern Jiangsu, southwestern Zhejiang and northern Anhui, strengthening the construction of external communication channels in the old revolutionary base areas of Dabie Mountain, implementing the short-board project of rural infrastructure, and improving the regional traffic accessibility and the comprehensive supporting level of other infrastructure. We will deepen the reform of the household registration system, build a household registration system with equal status for urban and rural residents, improve the household registration management system adapted to the characteristics of Shanghai megacities and the settlement system for Nanjing and Hangzhou megacities, and enhance the population gathering capacity of other cities in the central area.
Aspect 8: On the enjoyment of cross-regional architecture.
Promote the comprehensive integration of Ningbo Qianwan Shanghai-Zhejiang Cooperation Development Zone and Jiaxing into the construction of Shanghai bridgehead, and build a supporting function expansion area and a non-core function relief bearing place in Shanghai. Continue to promote the development of Wanjiang City Belt to undertake industrial transfer demonstration zone, Lianyungang East-West regional cooperation demonstration zone and Jiangsu coastal areas.
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Aspect 9: About the innovative industrial system
Strengthen the forward-looking layout and resource enjoyment of scientific and technological innovation, focus on breaking through a number of core key technologies, and build a national original innovation source. Study and formulate a comprehensive innovation and reform pilot program covering the entire Yangtze River Delta. Establish an integrated talent security service standard, implement a mutual recognition system for talent evaluation standards, and allow local colleges and universities to independently introduce talents and evaluate professional titles in accordance with relevant state regulations. Promote the integration of new Internet technologies and industries, develop a platform economy, enjoy the economy and experience the economy, and accelerate the formation of new kinetic energy for economic development. Take the lead in testing smart cars and realize the industrial application of self-driving cars. Take the lead in establishing a regional industrial Internet platform and a regional industrial upgrading service platform.
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Aspect 10: About traffic
In terms of rail transit, * * * build the Yangtze River Delta on the track, speed up the construction of projects under construction such as the first phase of the Shanghai-Shanghai Railway and the Shanghe-Hangzhou Railway, promote the construction of high-speed rail along the north river, Shanghai-Suzhou Lake and other planned projects, promote the planning docking and preliminary work of the second channel along the Huaihe River, Huangshan-Jinhua, Shanghai-Nanjing, Yongtai Wenfu and Ning Hang, and actively and prudently carry out planning research on maglev projects such as Shanghai and Hangzhou; In terms of highway traffic, the reconstruction and expansion of national and provincial trunk highways with serious congestion during peak hours will be implemented, and the reconstruction and expansion of expressways such as Ma Ning, Hening and Beijing-Shanghai will be accelerated; In terms of airports, jointly build a world-class airport group and support Sunan Shuofang Airport to build a regional hub airport; Accelerate the construction of Hefei international air cargo distribution center and Huai' an air cargo hub, and plan to build Jiaxing air transportation center; In terms of ports, port groups are encouraged to strengthen cooperation by means of cross-shareholding to promote the coordinated development of ports in the Yangtze River Delta.
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Aspect 11: About "Digital Yangtze River Delta"
Accelerate the construction of 5G networks, further promote the scale deployment of IPv6, accelerate the upgrading of networks and applications, and build the next generation Internet industry ecology; Plan the data center in the Yangtze River Delta as a whole and promote the construction of regional information hub port; Accelerate the development of quantum communication industry, coordinate the layout and construction of quantum secure communication trunk network, and carry out pilot projects for quantum communication applications; Support conditional cities to build urban brain clusters based on artificial intelligence and 5G IOT; Nanjing location service data center construction; Fully implement the Yangtze River Delta network ticketing-Netcom and transportation card, and build the world's leading cross-industry, cross-domain and cross-regional industrial Internet platform.
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Aspect 12: About ecological protection
Accelerate the construction of the Yangtze River Ecological Corridor and the Huaihe-Hongze Lake Ecological Corridor, and strengthen the ecological construction around Chaohu Lake and Chongming Island. Focusing on Dabie Mountain area in western Anhui and mountainous areas in southern Anhui-western Zhejiang-southern Zhejiang, we will build a green ecological barrier in the Yangtze River Delta. Improve the inter-basin and inter-regional ecological compensation mechanism. Establish and improve the horizontal ecological compensation mechanism of development zones, benefit zones and protected areas, and explore the establishment of pollution compensation mechanism.
Aspect 13: On the convenience of public services.
In terms of medical care, improve the direct settlement of hospitalization expenses in different places, and carry out pilot work of direct settlement of outpatient and emergency medical expenses in different places; In education, promote the balanced development of education, take the lead in realizing regional education modernization, study and publish a unified index system for education modernization, coordinate monitoring and evaluation, guide the high-quality development of schools at all levels, and encourage the establishment of branches in Anhui, where top universities and research institutes in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are located; In terms of culture, * * * has created regional cultural brands such as Jiangnan culture, and launched fast tourist routes and products such as "high-speed rail+scenic spot tickets" and "high-speed rail+hotel".
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Aspect 14: About employment and entrepreneurship
Formulate relatively unified policies on talent flow, attraction and entrepreneurship, and build a fair and competitive talent development environment. Implement targeted projects and plans to help key groups such as college graduates, migrant workers and retired military personnel find jobs and start businesses. Jointly carry out large-scale vocational skills training to improve the employment and entrepreneurial ability of workers. Establish a regional mass entrepreneurship service alliance, start the Yangtze River Delta Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and build a mass entrepreneurship service brand.
Aspect 15: About opening to the outside world
Further expand the opening of manufacturing, service and agriculture, and gradually relax market access; Strengthen cross-border electronic commerce's international cooperation and promote international trade system, management and service innovation; Accelerate the integration of customs clearance, deepen port cooperation, strengthen coordination and docking, and improve the level of customs clearance integration; We will steadily carry out pilot policies such as permanent residence for foreigners, work permits for foreigners in China, convenient entry and exit services, and employment for international students.