In the “12th Five-Year Plan” of the Western Development Program, it is proposed to accelerate the reform of a new round of rural power grids, implement rural biogas construction according to local conditions, promote renovation of dilapidated houses in rural areas, improve the village appearance, and build new rural communities.

The State Council recently approved the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Western Development” (hereinafter referred to as the “Planning”). This is the fifth five-year western development plan approved by the State Council. Under the new circumstances, what are the highlights of the "planning" and what new measures have been proposed? The reporter interviewed the relevant person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission.

The person in charge of the "planning" clear basic ideas said that the development of the western region has entered the twelfth year. On the basis of conscientiously summing up experience, "Planning" further clarified the basic ideas for the in-depth implementation of the strategy for the large-scale development of the western region around the theme line. First, in the development of ideas, pay more attention to the quality and effectiveness of development. It is clear that scientific development should be the theme, speeding up the strategic adjustment of the economic structure in a prominent position, insisting on accelerating development at a high starting point, integrating latecomer catch-up and accelerating transformation organically, and not only maintaining a certain speed of development, but also To make a fuss about "good" and come up with a new path with Chinese characteristics and western characteristics.

The second is to pay more attention to giving full play to regional comparative advantages in terms of development methods. It has clearly stated that we must intensify the implementation of a market-oriented strategy for the transformation of advantageous resources, adhere to a new path of industrialization, vigorously upgrade the industrial level and core competitiveness, and build a national energy, deep processing of resources, equipment manufacturing, and a strategic emerging industrial base. At the same time, to adapt to the trend of industrial transfer at home and abroad, and to orderly undertake the transfer of industries separately, a clear request was made.

Third, in the development of the layout, pay more attention to local conditions, classification guidance. In accordance with the "grasping the two, with the middle of the" work ideas, with one hand grasping the key economic zones to cultivate and expand, focus on cultivating new economic growth poles, one hand and the poverty-stricken border areas to get rid of poverty, accelerate the development of poverty-stricken areas, the development of ethnic minority areas.

Fourth, in terms of development priorities, we will focus more on concentrating on solving global, strategic, and key issues. Such as infrastructure construction efforts to crack traffic and water constrains. Ecological construction pays more attention to establishing long-term effective mechanisms, and proposes to speed up the establishment and improvement of ecological compensation mechanisms; pay more attention to key points and comprehensive measures, and propose to strengthen the comprehensive management of the five key ecological areas. While strengthening the development of modern characteristic agriculture, the “three rural” construction has targeted the western pastoral areas and forest areas with a wide distribution and a large area. It has revitalized the animal husbandry economy and raised the level of forestry development. Construction tasks. The direction of reform and opening up is more explicit, and further highlights key areas and key links, and further highlights the development and opening up of inland and border areas.

Fifth, in terms of development mechanisms, more emphasis has been placed on adhering to government guidance and market operations. The "Plan" proposes that local governments at all levels should strengthen guidance services, vigorously improve the investment and development environment, give full play to the basic role of market allocation of resources, and attract all kinds of elements to flow in an orderly manner to the western region, further condensing all aspects of society's strengths and participating together. And support the development of the western region.

Sixth, in terms of development policies, more attention is paid to differential support measures. The "planning" requires that with greater determination, stronger efforts, and more effective measures, the central government should implement the differentiated policies on finance, taxation, investment, finance, industry, and land in the western region, and further intensify. Capital investment and project inclination.

The person in charge of continuing to increase support for infrastructure in the west said that during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the state will continue to highlight two key links in transportation and water conservancy in the field of infrastructure construction. The traffic focuses on solving the problem of channel construction and road network improvement. The railway should speed up the construction of the inter-regional corridors connecting the western region and the eastern and central regions, and the construction of an international corridor connecting and interoperating with the surrounding areas; the highways should further strengthen the road network convergence, open up the provincial “broken roads”, and build highways connecting the eastern and central regions. International transport corridors; Civil aviation should strengthen the construction of hub airports and trunk airports, and build a number of branch airports with important functions.

Water conservancy will focus on solving engineering water shortages in the southwest region and resource shortages in the Northwest China. We will strengthen the construction of water resources allocation projects, accelerate the construction of water source projects in the southwest region, and, on the premise of full water conservation, rationally build trans-basin and trans-regional water transfer projects to solve the problem of resource scarcity in the northwest region. At the same time, the state will actively promote the construction of energy channels, improve domestic and international energy, crude oil, refined oil, natural gas and other energy transmission pipelines; promote the "three networks integration" and raise the level of informatization in the western region.

The responsible person for the ecological construction in the western region has focused on this person. He said that the western region is an important ecological security barrier in China. In the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, it is necessary to speed up the establishment of an ecological compensation mechanism in accordance with the principle of who develops and protects and who benefits from compensation. Research and formulate the "Regulations on Ecological Compensation" and work hard to realize the institutionalization and legalization of ecological compensation.

The second is to consolidate and develop the results of returning farmland to forests, returning grazing land to grassland, accelerating the preparation of key grassland ecological protection projects such as the management of degraded grassland, and continuing to promote the protection of natural forests, the management of wind and sandstorms in Beijing and Tianjin, the comprehensive management of rocky desertification, and the construction of shelterbelt systems. We will steadily promote ecological immigration and carry out pilot projects of ecological civilization demonstration projects.

Third, we must continue to promote the prevention and control of water pollution in key river basins and regions, strictly protect drinking water sources, improve drinking water quality standards, ensure drinking water safety, establish and improve industrial pollution prevention and control systems, and promote comprehensive utilization of solid waste and pollution prevention. We will vigorously promote the comprehensive management of the rural environment and strengthen the control of agricultural non-point source pollution.

The fourth is to effectively strengthen resource conservation and management, reasonably control total energy consumption, strictly implement total pollutant emission control, implement key energy-saving emission reduction projects, and vigorously develop circular economy.

Fifth, we must adhere to the principle of combining prevention and prevention with prevention, and comprehensively improve the comprehensive capacity for disaster prevention and reduction and disaster risk management.

Five major measures to improve the lives of peasants in the west The responsible person said that safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood is an important responsibility of the government and is the fundamental purpose of implementing the strategy for the development of the western region. The "Planning" put forward the key tasks of building social undertakings focusing on the protection and improvement of the people's livelihood in the areas of giving priority to the development of education, doing everything possible to expand employment, improving the social security system, enhancing the capacity of medical and health services, and prospering the cultural undertakings.

In improving the production and living conditions of farmers in the western region, there are five major measures.

The first is to accelerate the development of modern characteristics of agriculture. Strengthen the construction of farmland water conservancy and the transformation of low- and medium-yield fields; actively promote agricultural mechanization and adjust the agricultural structure; vigorously develop facility agriculture, promote agricultural standardized production and industrialization; strengthen agricultural technology promotion, animal and plant disease prevention and control, and agricultural product quality and safety supervision.

The second is to revitalize the animal husbandry economy. Increase the intensity of infrastructure construction in pastoral areas, fully implement the grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward mechanism, improve the production and living conditions of herdsmen, and speed up the transformation of animal husbandry development.

The third is to improve the level of forestry development. We will increase the intensity of afforestation, increase the total amount of forest resources, accelerate the establishment of a modern forestry industry system, and continue to deepen the reform of the collective forest right system.

The fourth is to broaden the channels for farmers to increase income. Expand the breadth and depth of agriculture, fully tap the potential for increasing revenue within agriculture; work hard to increase the income of farmers’ families; strengthen farmers’ training; promote farmers’ entrepreneurship; increase farmers’ non-agricultural employment income; implement various policies for strengthening agriculture and benefit agriculture and increase farmers’ transfer income. And property income.

The fifth is to build a happy new home and implement the "six-to-farm" project. Comprehensively solve the problem of drinking water safely in rural areas, speed up the construction of Tongxiang Village Road, accelerate the implementation of a new round of rural power grid reform, implement rural biogas construction according to local conditions, promote renovation of rural dilapidated buildings, improve village appearance, and build new rural communities.

The person in charge in the western region to further enhance the level of opening up said that the western region has 18,000 km of land border lines and borders on 14 neighboring countries and regions. It is an important channel for China to reach Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Russia and Mongolia. Geographical advantages are prominent. The opening level of the western region determines the breadth and depth of China’s opening to the outside world.

In the coming period, expanding the opening up of the western region is the focus of China’s opening-up strategy. The western region should implement a more proactive and open strategy, increase its opening to the west, and continuously expand new open fields and space. The relevant departments of the State Council should step up efforts to study policies and measures to promote development and opening up in the border areas, accelerate the construction of key border towns and cities, key ports, and key development and opening pilot areas, and build open-ended bridgeheads and economic growth poles. Accelerate the development of inland open economy and build inland open economic strategic highlands such as Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Kunming, Nanning, and Guiyang, and actively promote Ningxia to form an important window for China to open to Arab and Muslim countries.

Western Development Strategy (news background)

The scope of the Western Development includes Shaanxi Province, Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sichuan Province, Chongqing Municipality, Yunnan Province, Guizhou Province, Tibet Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region 12 provinces, autonomous regions, and The municipalities and three minority autonomous prefectures have an area of ​​6.85 million square kilometers, accounting for 71.4% of the country.

In November 1999, the Central Economic Work Conference proposed a strategic decision for the development of the western region. In mid-March 2000, the Office of the Leading Group for the Development of the Western Region of the State Council was formally established and started its work. In October 2000, the "Proposal of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the Tenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development," adopted by the Fifth Plenary Session of the 15th CPC Central Committee, made the implementation of the development of the western region and the promotion of regional coordinated development a strategic task. Stressed: "Implementing the strategy for the large-scale development of the western region, accelerating the development of the central and western regions, and relating to economic development, national unity, and social stability, and the coordinated development of the region and the ultimate realization of common prosperity are important measures for achieving the third-step strategic goal." 2001 In the month, the "Outline of the Tenth Five-Year Plan for the People's Republic of China on National Economic and Social Development" passed by the Fourth Session of the Ninth National People's Congress once again carried out specific plans for the implementation of the Western Development Strategy. On December 8, 2006, the State Council executive meeting reviewed and approved in principle the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" for the Great Western Development.

Achieving a Common Prosperity with Clear Objectives The "12th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Western Region" approved by the State Council has announced that it is a programmatic document that guides the five-year development of the western region, and also implements the central government's in-depth implementation of the strategy for the large-scale development of the western region. And the national "Twelfth Five-Year" plan outlines major initiatives.

During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council and the strong support of the people throughout the country, under the arduous struggle and unremitting efforts of the cadres and people of all ethnic groups in the western region, the large-scale development of the western region has made great achievements. These five years are the five years since the reform and opening up to the outside world, the economic development rate of the western region for the first time surpassed that of the eastern region. It is also the five-year period in which the western region has the fastest economic and social development, the highest quality, the most affordable benefits to the people, and the most outstanding contributions to the country. The western region has taken a new historical starting point and entered a new stage of development. However, we must also realize that the western region is still the "shortcoming" of China's regional development and is the difficulty and focus of building an overall well-to-do society. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, it is necessary to place the strategy of in-depth implementation of the development of the western region on the priority of regional development strategy, further increase awareness of opportunities and awareness of hardships, and strive to maintain sustained, steady and rapid economic and social development for a long time, and achieve GDP and urban and rural residents. The growth rate of income exceeded the national average and efforts were made to create a new situation for the development of the western region.

To create a new situation in the development of the western region, we must pay more attention to the quality and benefits of development. It is necessary to firmly establish the concept of scientific development, adhere to the strategic adjustment of the economic structure as the main direction of accelerating the transformation of economic development methods, and constantly enhance the endogenous driving force of economic development. It is necessary to maintain a certain rate of development, but also to make a fuss over "good", to effectively promote change in development, to seek development in transition, and to strive to develop a new path of scientific development with Chinese characteristics and characteristics of the west.

To create a new situation in the development of the western region, we must pay more attention to giving full play to regional comparative advantages. We must intensify the implementation of a market-oriented strategy for the transformation of advantageous resources, adhere to the road of new industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, vigorously upgrade the industrial level and core competitiveness, and build an important national energy base, deep processing base for resources, equipment manufacturing base and strategy. The emerging new industrial base has opened up a broader space for national development.

In order to create a new situation for the development of the western region, we must pay more attention to concentrating on solving the overall, strategic, and key issues. We must continue to prioritize infrastructure construction, focus on solving the bottleneck constraints of transportation and water conservancy, and accelerate the construction of a modern infrastructure system that is moderately advanced, functionally supported, and safe and efficient. Strengthen the ecological construction and environmental protection, reverse the deterioration of the ecological environment from the source, and build a solid ecological security barrier in China. We must speed up social development with a focus on improving people's livelihood and establish a basic public service system covering urban and rural residents so that people of all ethnic groups in the western region can share development achievements.

In order to create a new situation for the development of the western region, we must pay more attention to implementing the regional development guidelines based on local conditions and guidance. Intensively implement the overall strategy for regional development and the strategy for the main functional areas, and stick to the cultivation and growth of key economic zones with one hand, form an economic highland that stimulates and radiates peripheral development, and mobilize ethnic minority areas and concentrating on special difficult areas to eradicate poverty and achieve prosperity. The special support policies for ethnic areas will promote the development of poverty in the poverty-stricken areas and ethnic areas.

To create a new situation in the development of the western region, we must pay more attention to the consolidation of all forces. We must adhere to the combination of government guidance and market mechanisms, central government support and self-reliance in the western region, and common development in the western region and the eastern and central regions. We should further deepen institutional and institutional innovation, vigorously implement the inland opening and border opening strategy, and guide all kinds of elements to the western region. Orderly gathering, forming a good situation for joint participation and support for the development of the western region.