Time has entered the first year of the 14th Five-Year Plan. As the region with the best industrial foundation, the most active economic development, the strongest innovation capability, and the highest degree of openness in the entire province of Sichuan, the superposition of multiple major national strategies will make the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone a better place. High-level integration brings new opportunities.

What are the major developments of the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone in the next five years?

"By 2025, the total economic volume will strive to exceed 4 trillion yuan, the inner circle will be in the same city, the global integration will have made substantial progress, the urbanization rate of the permanent population will exceed 70%, and the per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents will increase faster than the national and global The aviation hub, intercontinental aviation transfer center and cargo center have basically been completed..." The provincial government recently issued the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Integrated Development of Chengdu Plain Economic Zone" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan").

The "Plan" clarifies the strategic positioning of the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone in the next five years: high-quality development and active growth pole, important source of scientific and technological innovation, inland reform and opening demonstration zone, and model area for livable life in metropolis.

Strengthen Chengdu Polar Nuclear's leadership

"Co-innovative urbanization leads the demonstration zone", the "Planning" pointed out that the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone will coordinately promote a new type of urbanization centered on people, in-depth implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, and accelerate the construction of a national central city as a regional center city. The networked urban system supported by important node cities and based on counties and key towns will promote the coordinated development of large, medium and small cities and small towns, and jointly promote the development of the inner circle of the same city and the whole area.

In terms of strengthening the leadership of Chengdu Polar Core, the "Planning" requires comprehensively upgrading the development level of Chengdu's central city, speeding up the construction of a park city demonstration area that implements new development concepts, and building a regional economic center, a science and technology center, a world-famous cultural city and an international gateway hub. Strengthen the core power source of the Chengdu-Chongqing Double-City Economic Circle. Among them, the "two districts and one city" (Tianfu New District, Eastern New District, and Western (Chengdu) Science City) are still the focus of development.

Promote the development of the same city of Chengde and capital. Strengthen the province's "mainstream" function, give full play to the leading role of Chengdu and the comparative advantages of Deyang, Meishan, and Ziyang, create a comprehensive experimental zone for the integration of Chengde, Meishan and Ziyang, and enhance the polar core function and comprehensive carrying capacity of the metropolitan area.

Building a regional innovation community

In the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", technological innovation and digital economy are important for the development of the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone.

The "Plan" pointed out that a comprehensive science center will be built at a high level. Including focusing on strategic areas such as nuclear energy, aerospace, information technology, and biomedicine, accelerating the formation of major scientific and technological infrastructure and research base clusters; building the Western (Chengdu) Science City with high standards to create an important source of innovation driving power in the country; accelerating the construction of China ( Mianyang) Science and Technology City, to create a pioneering demonstration zone for technological innovation. And focus on advantageous areas such as aerospace science and technology, life sciences, electronic information, and accelerate the establishment of Tianfu laboratories; focus on key areas such as basic materials, lithium batteries and new materials, biological breeding, environmental systems and control, and jointly build engineering (technical) research centers, High-level biological safety protection laboratory, etc.

In terms of the development of the digital economy, following Sichuan’s “14th Five-Year Plan” in 2021, the “14th Five-Year” Integrated Development Plan for the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone also clarified that the region will collaborate to create a digital economy. Accelerate the promotion of digital industrialization, take the construction of the national digital economy innovation and development pilot zone as a guide, build a number of unique digital economy innovation and development industrial parks, and take the lead in exploring a new model of digital industry agglomeration development.

At the same time, promote the digital empowerment of the industrial chain, including the deep integration of a new generation of information technology and the real economy, and the creation of a national digital transformation promotion center. We will implement the “cloud use data to empower intelligence” action, promote the intelligent transformation of traditional enterprises, build a national industrial Internet platform, a national industrial Internet big data sub-center, and build a number of “digital workshops” and “smart factories”.

Speed up the layout and construction of Chengdu Airport Terminals in different cities

If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. The effect of convenient transportation on economic development is self-evident. The "Planning" pointed out that "build a comprehensive transportation network based on rail transit, and enhance the radiation capacity of transportation hubs."

In terms of air transportation roads, the fourth pole of China's civil aviation will be built next, and Chengdu Tianfu International Airport will be built and put into operation with high standards, so as to enhance the operation guarantee capacity of Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport and promote the "two-field one" operation. Improve the layout of the branch airport, build the T2 terminal of Mianyang Nanjiao Airport, start the construction of Leshan Airport, advance the preliminary work of Suining Airport, and accelerate the construction of general airport clusters. Layout and construct Chengdu airport terminal in a remote city. Optimize and improve the layout of the "Three Mains and Three Auxiliary" railway stations of Chengdu's main hub, and promote the joint development of Chengdu International Railway Port, Chengdu Tianfu International Airport and the railway hub.

Intercity rapid traffic. It will promote the "four networks integration" of arterial railways, intercity railways, urban (suburban) railways, and urban rail transit, speed up demonstration applications of mountain rail transit, suspended monorail transit, and build a multi-level and multi-standard rail transit network to create a "1 hour "Commuter circle. Accelerate the transformation of the Chengdu railway hub loop line and the construction of the Chengde Meizi city (suburban) railway, build the "two rings and three shots" rail transit network framework in the metropolitan area, and promote the operation of railway public transportation. Speed up the implementation of the Chengdu urban rail transit project and explore the extension to surrounding cities. The construction of mountain rail transit Dujiangyan to Siguniangshan line, and the early stage work of the Longmen Mountain resort tourism line and other projects will be carried out in a timely manner.

In terms of external transportation roads, it will fully integrate into the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, build the Cheng-Lan railway, the Cheng-Zi-Yi high-speed railway, and accelerate the advancement of the Sichuan-Tibet railway, Cheng-Da-wan, Chengdu-Chongqing middle line, Xining-Chengdu trunk railway, and Miansui inner city. The construction of the international railway, the implementation of the expansion and transformation of the Chenglong section of the Chengdu-Chongqing railway. Improve the external expressway network, speed up the construction of Jiuzhaigou to Mianyang, Deyang to Dujiangyan and other expressways, start construction of Leshan to Zizhong, Tianfu New Area to Leshan and other expressways, and accelerate the implementation of the expansion and transformation of Chengdu-Chongqing, Suiyu, and Chengzilu expressways.

In terms of water transportation roads, the expansion project of inland waterway navigation will be implemented, the comprehensive development project of Minjiang Port Navigation and Power, and the construction of the Fujiang Three-star Ship Lock project will be promoted. The preliminary work of the Minjiang Banqiao Hub will be accelerated, construction will be started in due course, and the waterway from Longxikou to Yibin will be completed. Remediation project, the construction of the Minjiang-level waterway remediation project will be carried out simultaneously to create a golden waterway that connects the river to the sea.

In the era of 5G and digitalization, we will cultivate new consumption formats, jointly create “smart nursing homes” and “smart elderly care communities”, and support Chengdu and others in actively creating national-level smart health and elderly care demonstration bases. Cultivate new online shopping models such as live streaming, social e-commerce, short videos, "cloud shopping" and "cloud shopping". Jointly promote the online and offline interactive integration of education, medical and other services. Create a "digital community" and actively promote the "Internet access" of fresh food, supermarkets, and catering. Develop innovative digital economy services and products such as 4K/8K ultra-high-definition immersive theater, global 3D dome, digital light and shadow art exhibition, and create future time immersive scenes. Editor/Xu Shengpeng