At the general window of the Qinchuangyuan innovation-driven platform, scientific research achievements are accelerating from "laboratory" to "production line";
19 reform pilot experiences in Shaanxi Pilot Free Trade Zone are copied and promoted nationwide, and a series of pioneering reforms have stimulated new vitality;
At Xi'an International Port Station, a China-Europe train enters or leaves the port every 80 minutes, building a trade bridge to the world;
Through strategic restructuring, a batch of key competitiveness of provincial state-owned enterprises in the fields of energy and chemical industry, equipment manufacturing, transportation and others have been comprehensively improved;
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A series of bold reform measures and a series of hard-won opening-up achievements are vivid illustrations of Shaanxi's adherence to and utilization of the "key move" of reform and opening-up, and also inject strong impetus into Shaanxi's decisive victory in the "14th Five-Year Plan" and setting sail for the "15th Five-Year Plan".
Practice has fully proved that reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for the Party and the people's cause to keep pace with the times, and it is also the fundamental driving force for promoting Chinese-style modernization.
In May 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the need to focus on expanding domestic and foreign opening-up, and to create a highland for the reform and opening-up of the inland areas, when listening to the work report of the Party Committee and the government of Shaanxi Province.
The whole province has been bearing in mind the trust and instructions, insists on deepening reform and opening-up to stimulate vitality and promote development, speeds up the cultivation of new momentum and advantages, and breaks through the waves to move forward with high-quality development.
Major reforms and "small incision" reforms are deepened in an integrated way —
State-owned enterprises in the fields of transportation, electricity, water conservancy, agriculture, foreign trade, etc., have achieved resource complementarity and advantage re-creation through strategic restructuring and professional integration; the business environment is constantly optimized in a market-oriented, legal, and internationalized manner. Since this year, Shaanxi has added 9 national reform pilot projects, introduced 190 new measures to optimize the business environment, and integrated 162 development zones and industrial parks into 123.
Promoting the synergy of flow-oriented opening-up and institutional opening-up;
The China-Central Asia Xi'an Summit and other major foreign affairs activities were held in Shaanxi, and the core indicators of the China-Europe Railway (Xi'an) ranked among the top in the country; deeply integrated into the grand pattern of jointly building the "Belt and Road", actively integrated into and served the construction of the national unified market, strengthened economic and technological cooperation with sister provinces, and held the "Invest in China·Choose Shaanxi" activities for multinational companies...
Promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation;
Promoting the cultivation and growth of new productive forces with the construction of the Chuanhu Innovation Driver Platform; carrying out pilot projects of the "three reforms" of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, stimulating the endogenous power of scientific researchers to transform scientific and technological achievements; implementing the reform of the "five mechanisms" of scientific and technological finance, with the first 10 billion yuan of the provincial science and technology innovation mother fund put into operation; the construction of the Xi'an regional science and technology innovation center is accelerating...
only reformers advance, only innovators excel, only those who reform and innovate succeed.
A set of data shows the positive effects of the reform and opening-up in Shaanxi.
From January to October this year, the total import and export value of the province increased by 12.2%, exceeding the national average by 8.6 percentage points; the actual use of domestic capital increased by 12.5%; more than 10,000 scientific and technological achievements were transferred and transformed, and 905 enterprises for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements were established. Since this year, the transaction amount of technology contracts has exceeded 370 billion yuan, and 761 key industrial chain technology problems have been solved.
Power from reform;
"Last year, the company's revenue increased 37 times compared to before the merger and restructuring, with an annual output value of nearly 4 billion yuan," said Gao Guixuan, chairman of Shaanxi Expressway Asphalt Material Technology Co., Ltd.
Four years ago, the company was a long-losing provincial highway system asphalt station facing closure. In 2021, Shaanxi Transportation Holdings Group was established. The asphalt station integrated superior resources, re布局 the industrial park, built intelligent production lines, renovated process flows, developed new products, and optimized corporate management... A series of reform measures have allowed the ailing old state-owned enterprise to be reborn.
In 2021, 17 transportation enterprises, including the original Shaanxi Expressway Group, Shaanxi Transportation Group, and Highway Research Institute, were strategically reorganized to form the Shaanxi Transportation Holdings Group Co., Ltd., focusing on transportation functions, optimizing the scientific and technological innovation system, highlighting the transformation of achievements, and promoting industrial upgrading... Since its establishment, Shaanxi Transportation Control Group has won 12 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards and 70 national invention patents; in 2024, Shaanxi Transportation Control Group achieved operating income of 77.826 billion yuan and a total profit of 2.844 billion yuan, an increase of 16.14% and 19.70% respectively compared to the previous year.
Adhering to the principle of "one industry, one enterprise, one enterprise, one industry", Shaanxi has restructured the state-owned enterprise system to improve efficiency, achieving resource aggregation, mechanism innovation, and industrial upgrading, transforming state-owned enterprises from "dispersed management" to "intensive development". In 2024, the total profit of the provincial state-owned enterprises in Shaanxi reached 86.12 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.9%.
Seeking vitality from openness —
In July this year, the direct flight route from Xi'an to Qimikent, Kazakhstan was opened. Xi'an has direct flight routes to "five countries and eight cities" in Central Asia, becoming the city with the most flight routes to Central Asia in China.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Shaanxi has solidified its foundation with "hard connectivity" and enhanced its efficiency with "soft power", accelerating the formation of a three-dimensional international transportation channel, and has basically formed a modern logistics system facing Asia and Europe and reaching the world. In 2024, Shaanxi's import and export trade with the five Central Asian countries increased by 48.1%, and its import and export trade and direct investment with the countries along the "Belt and Road" increased by 20.2% and 135.5% respectively.
The deeper the reform, the higher the level of opening-up required; the higher the level of opening-up, the greater the driving force it exerts on reform.
Focusing on the customs clearance, transportation, financing and service of the China-Europe Railway Express, the Shaanxi Pilot Free Trade Zone has introduced more than 20 pioneering reform measures, such as "inspection after release", which has shortened the export customs clearance time of the land port by 50% and reduced the comprehensive transportation cost by more than 15%.
Practice and development are endless, and reform and opening-up are also endless.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical five-year period for Shaanxi to catch up and surpass in the construction of Chinese-style modernization and to strive to be a pioneer. The development environment is also facing more profound and complex changes. only by continuously deepening reform and expanding high-level opening-up can we consolidate and expand advantages, break down bottlenecks, strengthen shortcomings and weak links, further liberate and develop productive forces, and continuously enhance social vitality.
The "Suggestion" of the 14th Five-Year Plan, which was deliberated and adopted by the ninth plenary session of the provincial party committee, lists "making greater breakthroughs in creating a highland for the inland opening-up and reform, and striving to be a model in the western region" as one of the main goals.
Standing at a new historical starting point, the whole province should maintain strategic determination, and with the perseverance and courage to make way through mountains and build bridges over rivers, advance with a steady pace, and with greater strength coordinate the deep-level reform and high-level opening-up, resolutely break through the institutional and mechanism obstacles that restrict high-quality development, create a new situation in the changing situation, and strive to open up a new world of reform and development. (Reporter of the Masses News, Liu Juxing)