The Yangtze River Delta taking the lead in forming a new pattern of reform and opening up at a higher level is of great significance to China's efforts to build a new development pattern, promote high-quality development, and comprehensively push forward the construction of a strong nation and national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization. In November last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping, while presiding over a forum on in-depth promotion of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in Shanghai, emphasized that the YRD region should actively promote high-level synergistic opening up. Promote a high level of opening to the outside world with a focus on system-based opening, strengthen the mutual learning and replication of reform experience, and strive to become a powerful engine that smooths China's economic cycle and a strategic hub that connects the domestic and international double cycle. Concerted symphony, sharing the big picture. Following the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and instructions, Shanghai, Suzhou, Zhejiang and Anhui have been learning from each other, cooperating to promote institutional innovation, and injecting strong impetus into the promotion of Chinese-style modernization with a higher level of coordinated opening up. In the first four months of this year, the total value of foreign trade imports and exports in the Yangtze River Delta region exceeded 5 trillion yuan, a record high, an increase of 5.6% year-on-year, accounting for 36.5% of the country's total imports and exports.The Yangtze River Delta, three provinces and one city, fights against uncertainty with strong determination and stands tall in the gale and storm of international trade competition, and plays a majestic symphony of the resounding voice of integrated development for the service of building a new development pattern.Port Group Finger into a Fist Highly Efficient Interaction Synergy, Collaboration, Group Cooperation "Sell Globally"Looking forward to the spring breeze, the tide grows together. The Yangtze River Delta region, with the interconnection of ports and terminals, innovative "linkage and unloading" customs clearance mechanism, and upstream and downstream industrial collaboration, has joined hands in "going out", building a new high ground for opening up to the outside world, and actively participating in the division of labor and cooperation in the global industry. Field bridge, shore bridge lined up, container up and down, the river cruise "thousands of boats racing" ...... early summer, the Yangtze River Delta ports, terminals, whistles rise and fall, playing the beat of progress. In May this year, "Xuan Yang" cargo ship loaded a number of 61.64 tons, the value of 379,300 U.S. dollars of aluminum wheels, from the port of Taicang, Jiangsu Province, arrived in Shanghai Yangshan Port, through the "linkage unloading and picking up and dropping" mode of exporting overseas. "This mode of cost reduction and efficiency advantage is obvious, improve the customs clearance time, compression of transportation time, compared with the traditional mode of water-to-water transshipment, the export of each TEU for the enterprise to save logistics costs of 400 yuan, the import of each TEU can save 200 yuan." Zhu Hualiang, General Manager of Shanghai Zhitai International Freight Forwarding Co. In the first four months of this year, Shanghai Yangshan Port has carried out a total of 195,900 TEUs of business, an increase of 41.85% year-on-year, benefiting more than 500 foreign trade enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta. Looking at the entire Yangtze River Delta region, "linkage unloading" mode has covered 12 ports, three provinces and one city interact more and more frequently. In March this year, 60 loaded polypropylene plastic particles of the China-European liner containers into the Nanjing General Insurance Zone (Longtan piece), this batch of goods will be stored here, sales and distribution, marking the first to be launched in Jiangsu, "China-European liner + bonded" import mode of the implementation of the ground. So far, more than 600 containers into the area, saving more than 920,000 yuan for the enterprise. The Yangtze River Delta three provinces and one city launched a variety of new trade models, emphasizing the linkage effect, the use of digital technology, simplify the process, reduce enterprise costs, increase the viscosity of the industrial chain, enhance the resilience of the supply chain, significantly accelerate the productivity of the elements of the efficient synergy, and effectively promote extensive cooperation with the global industrial chain. Smooth channel is the rise of foreign trade. Yangtze River Delta port group clenched fingers into a fist, efficient interaction, inland and international trade with an important bridge and hub. In the first four months of this year, the total value of foreign trade import and export in the Yangtze River Delta region amounted to 5.04 trillion yuan, and the import and export of high-tech products accounted for 35.3% of the total import and export value of similar commodities in the country, of which the export growth rate of lithium-ion battery products in the three provinces and one city were more than 80%.Enlargement of the overall advantage of opening up the "re-escalation" share, common prosperity, with the casting of attracting investment "strong magnetic field"."Free and orderly flow of factors," "Gradual elimination of administrative barriers," "Significant reduction of systematic transaction costs," "International competitiveness of business environment among the world's frontrunners". According to the "Three-year Action Plan for the Construction of International First-class Business Environment in the Yangtze River Delta", the Yangtze River Delta will gradually realize the above goals by 2025, and continue to attract foreign investment to "raise the bar" in China. The Yangtze River Delta will continue to attract foreign investment to China with deep-level reforms and high-level opening up to attract high-quality foreign investment, and will play "one card" to win new opportunities. To promote the advantageous areas in the opening up of "re-upgrading", the three provinces and one city all the way along, sharing, co-prosperity, to participate in global competition and cooperation "heavyweights" - new energy! The automobile industry is the Yangtze River Delta region to build a "gold standard", the overall formation of Shanghai as the headquarters, Suzhou, Zhejiang and Anhui linkage development model. 2023, the Yangtze River Delta new energy vehicle production totaled 3,417,800 units, accounting for the national total output of 36.2%. "Integration "The integration of the Yangtze River Delta as a whole has become a "strong magnetic field" to attract global capital - in January this year, the Mubele green In January this year, Mubel green new energy automobile port project signed in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, covering an area of 105 acres, with a total investment of 100 million U.S. dollars; early April, Suzhou Zhongxinglian Precision Industry Co., Ltd. new energy automobile parts and components expansion project to start, aiming to enhance the new energy automobile core components manufacturing capacity ......2022, Airbus set up a research and development center in Suzhou, utilizing the Yangtze River Delta region aviation, talent and business environment. center, taking advantage of the Yangtze River Delta region's aviation and hydrogen energy-related industry chain, to carry out hydrogen energy infrastructure research and development, and promote the transformation and upgrading of the aviation industry. "Our confidence comes not only from the huge Chinese market, but also from being optimistic about the high-quality and green development of the Yangtze River Delta economy." Xu Gang, Global Executive Vice President of Airbus and CEO of Airbus China, said. As China continues to open up to the outside world, multinational enterprises seek new breakthroughs, from "manufacturing plants" to "R & D headquarters", rooted in the Yangtze River Delta has become the consensus of more foreign investors. Over the past year, the Yangtze River Delta has been ushering in important foreign investment projects: Novartis China Radiopharmaceuticals, a Fortune 500 company, invested in Haiyan, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, which is China's first foreign-funded project in the field of nuclear medicine; Hydro Group, a Fortune 500 company, opened the fourth phase of Hydro Aluminum (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, which is the largest single investment of the group in the world. ......Institutional Innovation Blossoms in the Yangtze River Delta: Breaking Walls, Breaking Waves, and Playing the "Reform Card" Hand in HandBreaking down administrative barriers and improving policy synergy. The Yangtze River Delta has accelerated the improvement of institutional mechanisms, promoted the system integration and synergy of various reform initiatives, and accelerated the synergy from regional projects to regional integration and institutional innovation. The flower of institutional innovation bloomed throughout the Yangtze River Delta, synergistic opening up the fruits of China's economic rebound also contribute to the "incremental" - Fair spillover effect continues to amplify the intention of the cumulative turnover of more than 420 billion U.S. dollars over the past six years, the number of exhibitors organized by the Jiangsu delegation, The number of exhibitors organized by the Jiangsu delegation and the intended turnover have remained at the forefront of the country for many times in a row. "The Yangtze River Delta region has unique advantages in resource sharing, talent construction, convergence and innovation, and is becoming an important engine for China's high-quality economic development." Mr. Zhu Snapshun, President of Siemens China Research Institute, said that through the window of the Fair, he saw the economic and trade heat and development potential of the Yangtze River Delta. Build a higher level of openness platform, the Yangtze River Delta three provinces, one city and four pilot free trade zones shoulder the mission of "system reform" test bed, take the lead in docking the international high-standard economic and trade rules, and actively promote high-level synergistic opening up - pilot free trade zones are not only actively exploring innovative modes of cooperation and improving the level of cooperation, they have made great achievements in the field of cooperation. The Pilot Free Trade Zone has not only achieved remarkable results in actively exploring innovative cooperation modes and improving the level of cooperation, but also docked with international high-standard economic and trade rules, such as CPTPP and DEPA, to jointly build an upgraded version of the Pilot Free Trade Zone. "Deepening the Yangtze River Delta Pilot FTZ linkage and innovation development, Jiangsu FTZ has formed 4 batches of 60 reform pilot experiences." Tang Dajun, deputy director of the Jiangsu FTZ, said that the Yangtze River Delta's advantageous production capacity, high-quality equipment, applicable technology and standards will be promoted by steadily expanding the opening up of rules, management, standards and other systems, and the region will have a GDP of 2.8 trillion yuan in 2023, contributing nearly 101 TP3T of economic output to a region that accounts for less than 21 TP3T of the three provinces and one city. These hardcore figures come from Hongqiao International Open Hub, a major platform for opening up the Yangtze River Delta to the outside world. To the "new" quality, accumulation of "potential" into force, Hongqiao International Open Hub has become the Yangtze River Delta system reform another major achievement, with more mutual recognition and sharing of the system, synergistically promote the development of new forms of foreign trade and new modes of development, and jointly cultivate a new competitive advantage in foreign trade. A few days ago, Hongqiao Pinhui - Hongqiao Imported Commodities Exhibition and Trading Center signed a contract to deepen cooperation with three sub-centers in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang and Hefei, Anhui. "Jiangsu will collaborate to implement a number of policies and measures to promote Hongqiao international open hub to further enhance the level of energy, and enhance the northward expansion belt 'big transportation, big business, big exhibition, big science and innovation' function." The relevant person in charge of the Department of Commerce of Jiangsu Province said that it will focus on building a two-way open hub with world convergence, focus on shaping the new advantages of the open economy, and will also raise Jiangsu's strengths to contribute more to the development of the Yangtze River Delta, while also striving to achieve its own high-quality development in the integration. Winning a project together, planning an industry together, going to a blue ocean together, the Yangtze River Delta goal is the same, the pace is firm. Looking back, Shanghai, Suzhou, Zhejiang, Anhui, three provinces and one city have been firmly focusing on the two key words of "integration" and "high quality", and have fought together; in the future, the Yangtze River Delta will embrace the bright future of Chinese modernization in the non-stop "going out". In the future, the Yangtze River Delta will embrace the bright prospect of Chinese modernization without stopping "going out".
