Green Development, Sharing a New Chapter —— Summary of the Fifth Anniversary of the Symposium on Promoting the Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt

　　Covering 11 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River and spanning three major plates, the Yangtze River Economic Belt not only has outstanding ecological status, but also has great development potential.

　　In the past five years, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have made historic achievements in "jointly protecting and not developing" and promoting the overall green transformation of economic and social development. The economic development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is generally stable and the structure is optimized.

　　Break the dilemma

　　Chemical industry is no longer "encircling the river"

　　The total length of the Yangtze River in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province is only 25.8 kilometers, but there are 84 chemical production enterprises, which are very dense.

　　In the Binjiang Chemical Industry Park in Xinbei District, Changzhou City, Gao Xiaoping, a villager from Xinhua Village, said that enterprises have invested and made local residents rich; "Chemical encircling the river" has made residents suffer from environmental pollution.

　　"Crack ‘ Chemical wai Jiang ’ We are duty-bound. " Xu Yawei, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Changzhou Binjiang Economic Development Zone, said that the number of chemical enterprises in the development zone has decreased from 84 in 2019 to 41 by the end of 2020. "Shut down and turn around, the first thing to change is the development concept."

　　Such measures in Changzhou are not uncommon in provinces and cities along the Yangtze River. In the past, petrochemical, steel, smelting and other industries gathered on both sides of the Yangtze River, with a large pollutant emission base, and wastewater, chemical oxygen demand and ammonia nitrogen emissions accounted for 43%, 37% and 43% of the country respectively. To give priority to ecology and green development, we must solve the dilemma of "chemical industry encircling the river".

　　Upstream, the original chemical factory building in Linxiang Industrial Park, Linxiang City, Hunan Province is being transformed into a logistics base. Since 2018, Linxiang Industrial Park has stopped all newly started chemical projects within 1 km of the Yangtze River coastline. By the end of December 2020, nine chemical enterprises had taken the lead in withdrawing according to the plan. In Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, 37 small chemical enterprises within 1 km along the Yangtze River, Poyang Lake and Xiuhe River have all closed down at the end of 2019. The chemical industry once contributed nearly one-third of the industrial output value of Yichang City, Hubei Province. In 2017, Yichang formulated a three-year action plan for 134 chemical enterprises along the Yangtze River, and proposed measures such as shutting down a batch, transforming a batch on the spot, relocating a batch to the park, and changing production to a batch. This work is now nearing completion. Hubei Province proposes to complete the customs clearance and relocation of chemical enterprises within 1 km along the Yangtze River by December 31, 2020, and promote the customs clearance and relocation of chemical enterprises within 1-15 km along the Yangtze River by the end of 2022, so as to solve the outstanding problem of "chemical encircling the river" within three years.

　　The banks of the Yangtze River, where machines roared and pipelines formed a network, are now gradually returning to peace. At the same time, new industries are rising and new kinetic energy is surging, and the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River are competing to embark on the road of green development.

　　Lixin ye

　　Seek high-quality development

　　On November 23, 2020, after 10 hours of intense debugging, the 0.18 mm ultra-thin electronic glass production line of Yichang CSG Optoelectronic Glass Co., Ltd. successfully reached the standard for mass production. Guangzhou Automobile Passenger Car Yichang Branch has become a benchmark factory for energy-saving and environment-friendly intelligent manufacturing, which can produce a car every 52 seconds … …

　　After the chemical industry was changed and moved, these alternative industries quickly made up the position. At present, the output value of new materials, biomedicine, electronic information and advanced equipment manufacturing accounts for 41.9% of Yichang’s total industrial output value. According to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, from January to September 2020, the proportion of days with excellent air quality in Yichang was 88.3%, up 21.3% from the same period in 2019.

　　Tongling City, Anhui Province, named after copper, is prosperous because of copper. With the development of the industry entering the bottleneck period, how to promote industrial upgrading and achieve high-quality development has become a new topic in Tongling.

　　"The industry needs to be transformed and copper foil needs to be developed, but we have no technology. What should we do?" For a while, Jia Jintao, the head of Tongguan Copper Foil Company, was puzzled by product innovation. Yuansheng Jin, head of high-tech department of Tongling Science and Technology Bureau, found that many copper enterprises are facing the same problem of scientific and technological innovation. "From the production of electrolytic copper to the research and development of copper foil and copper plate, improving the added value of products is the key."

　　Tongling Science and Technology Bureau included Tongguan Copper Foil Company in the application guide of key scientific and technological projects, and borrowed money from universities and research institutes. Jia Jintao said, "With the help of experts and professors, the company’s electronic copper foil stress research project has been carried out smoothly, and I am full of confidence in the next development!"

　　At present, Tongling is actively introducing deep processing projects of copper-based new materials, gradually getting rid of the primary processing stage of raw materials, and forming many industrial chains such as "plate, belt, tube, rod, wire, foil and powder". Recently, Tongling has issued a plan to promote the deep integration of copper-based new materials industry with new energy vehicles, electronic information and high-end equipment industries, and increase the added value of products.

　　Changzhou Binjiang Chemical Industry Park shut down the chemical plants within 1 km along the Yangtze River and withdrew the coastline of the Yangtze River, which gave two enterprises of Wuxi Xingda Group a "new life" in the park. Xingda Group is determined to shut down two old factories and invest 3 billion yuan to rebuild new projects in different places in the park. According to the relevant person in charge, the new plant has opened up the upstream and downstream industrial chains, which not only reduces the cost and safety risks, but also reduces the discharge of wastewater and waste gas through new processes. According to estimates, after the completion of the new project, the annual sales of the enterprise will reach 6.5 billion yuan, the annual tax payment will be about 230 million yuan, the average tax revenue per mu will exceed 1 million yuan, and the wastewater emission reduction will exceed 20%.

　　Jiujiang city put an end to "polluted" GDP and fiscal revenue. In recent years, Jiujiang has rejected more than 400 investment projects that have a negative impact on the ecological environment, leaving the development space along the Yangtze River to emerging industries led by port economy and digital economy. On the south bank of the Yangtze River and the west bank of Poyang Lake, a Poyang Lake Ecological Science and Technology City with a planned area of 158.53 square kilometers is emerging, and leading enterprises have settled in. "It turned out that attracting investment from all over the world was only an economic account. Now it is a political account, an ecological account, a social account and a long-term account." Wu Bin, director of the Office of the Leading Group for Open Development along the Yangtze River in Jiujiang, said.

　　Promote synergy

　　Dancing upstream and downstream

　　Every day, Chongqing Minsheng Shipping Company has cargo ships departing from Chongqing Orchard Port, descending along the river, transshipping at Jiangsu Taicang Port and then heading for Shanghai Yangshan Port.

　　At the beginning of 2020, Chongqing Orchard Port, Taicang Port and Shanghai Port opened the "Shanghai-Chongqing Direct Express Line". "On average, it runs every day. Compared with ordinary liners, the overall logistics timeliness has increased by more than 30%." Niu Xiandan, general manager of Chongqing Orchard Port International Logistics Hub Construction and Development Co., Ltd. said that in the future, the mechanism will be innovated to reduce the waiting time for ships to wait for the gate and change ships, and the voyage will be compressed for another two to three days.

　　In Taicang Port and Yangshan Port downstream, the new customs clearance mode has also reduced the transportation time by at least two days. On November 4, 2020, 23.47 tons of red oak board arrived in Taicang Port from Yangshan Port, which is the first time that Yangshan — The first order after the formal operation of Taicang Port’s "linkage loading and unloading" supervision mode marks the comprehensive landing of customs clearance integration between Shanghai and Taiwan.

　　"Taicang Port is an extension of Yangshan Port. After the imported goods are released in Yangshan Port, they can be directly transported to Taicang Port by special barges. The export goods arrive at the wharf of Taicang Port. After the customs declaration is released, they can leave the country directly from Yangshan Port. " Vivi, Deputy Chief of Logistics Management Section of Taicang Customs, said that this mode has solved the problems of customs declaration and second arrival, which can greatly save the logistics cost and customs clearance time of enterprises.

　　The Yangtze River, a water transport artery that runs through the east and west, is a rare golden waterway in the world, and its freight volume ranks first among inland rivers in the world. In the past five years, the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River have made great efforts to promote coordinated development and add color to this golden waterway.

　　Sichuan and Chongqing have innovated the inter-provincial consultation and cooperation mechanism, established the three-level operation mechanism of Sichuan-Chongqing cooperation to promote the construction of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu-Chongqing area, including the joint meeting of the party and government, the coordination meeting of executive vice-provincial mayors and the joint office, and promoted 31 major projects jointly implemented by Sichuan and Chongqing, with a total investment of about 556.3 billion yuan.

　　Such a mechanism is being promoted in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The National Development and Reform Commission, together with 11 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River, established the "1+3" inter-provincial consultation and cooperation mechanism in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and achieved a number of achievements in joint prevention and control of ecological environment, interconnection of infrastructure, and joint construction and sharing of public services. Three provinces and one city in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River took the lead in establishing a cooperation and coordination mechanism of "three-level operation, unification and separation, pragmatism and high efficiency"; Four provinces and cities of Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River signed an agreement to establish an inter-provincial consultation and cooperation mechanism in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River; Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan provinces in the middle reaches signed an agreement to establish an inter-provincial consultation and cooperation mechanism in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River … …

　　The institutional mechanism has been broken, and the multi-level consultation and cooperation mechanism framework has taken shape. The upstream and downstream of the Yangtze River Economic Belt are working together to develop a new chapter.

　　(Reporter Wang Weijian, Jiang Yunlong, Song Haoxin, Fan Haotian, Shen Zhilin, You Yi, Ju Yunpeng, Wang Dan)