Integrating into the new development pattern to propel high-quality development

The fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee is an important meeting held at the historical meeting point of China's "two centenary goals" and at a crucial time when the great changes unseen in a hundred years in the world accelerating their evolution. The CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 14th Five-year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Forward-looking Goals for the year 2035, plenary session, proposed the idea of speeding up the building of a new development pattern where the major domestic cycles play a dominant role and both domestic and international cycles promote each other.

This is a major decision made by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in light of the changes in China's development stage, environment and condition changes, and in particular the changes in China's comparative advantages. We must have a thorough understanding, accurate grasp and thorough implementation.

Seize the major opportunities of the new development pattern

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “The new development pattern is by no means a closed domestic cycle, but an open domestic and international double cycle.” We should thoroughly implement the important instructions and requirements of General Secretary Jinping, and deeply grasp the general trend of open development endowed to Qingdao by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and pinpoint Qingdao’s position and comparative advantage in the new development pattern. We believe that Qingdao has a unique hub position in both domestic and international cycles.

From the perspective of the domestic cycle, Qingdao is not only a developed coastal city in the east, with strong economic, technological, and industrial strength, but also the "third city in the north" and the economic outlet of the Yellow River Basin, which serves as a crucial platform to promote the mutual-aid between the eastern and western Yellow River Basin areas and the links across the land and over the sea. It boasts the value of "dual nodes" connecting the north and south as well as the east and west, exerting a unique pivotal role in accelerating the flow, circulation, and connectivity of various market resource elements.

From the view of the domestic and international double cycle, Qingdao is an important node of the new Eurasian Continental Bridge that extends east to Japan and South Korea and west to countries along the “Belt and Road”. General Secretary Xi Jinping requires Qingdao to build a new international cooperation platform of the “Belt and Road”, enhancing the city core competitiveness and giving full play to the advantages of port gateway city in the process of protection and high-quality development of Yellow River Basin. The Provincial Party Committee requires Qingdao to build a Shandong’s bridgehead to open up to the world, importantly, playing the leading role of Qingdao in opening up.

It can be said that Qingdao is not only the "dual node" of the internal and external double cycle, but also the "dual node" of the domestic north-south east-west cycle. Under the new development pattern, adhering to the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee, we will effectively enhance the ability to grasp the new development stage and implement the new development concept, give full play to Qingdao’s unique value in the new development pattern, strengthen planning and design, identify the basic path, change working ways, use market logic to think and capital power to do things, promote the implementation of work with a sense of urgency for fear of lost, and lead high-quality development with openness and innovation.

Deepen a higher level of opening up

The Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee pointed out that "persist in opening to the outside world in a wider range, wider area, and deeper level."

In the overall opening-up picture across the country, the comparative advantage of Qingdao's opening up is that it faces outward "the Belt and Road", Japan and South Korea, and that it domestically leads Shandong and the Yellow River Basin, especially with the signing of RCEP, it will usher in new and greater development opportunities.

Facing the "14th Five-Year Plan", Qingdao must make full and good use of these advantages and opportunities, and carry out more differentiated explorations and innovative reforms in the construction of open platforms such as the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone, the Qingdao Free Trade Zone, and the International Living Room, striving for more system innovation pilots. In the process of opening up and development, Qingdao should insist on examining and planning its own position with a higher position and a wider field of vision, and always maintain the scene thinking and sense of responsibility leading the development of the Jiaodong economic circle and the nine provinces along the Yellow River, and spare no efforts to build a new national strategic fulcrum for the deep opening up of the north region of the Yangtze River, and show the due value of Qingdao in serving the new development pattern of the whole country.

Make greater efforts to expand domestic demand

The Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee noted that “it is necessary to smooth the domestic cycle, promote the domestic and international dual cycles, comprehensively bolster consumption, and expand investment space.”

In a bid for Qingdao to give full play to the "double node" value in the great cycle of east, West, South and North in China and integrate into the new development pattern, an important aspect is to further expand its investment space, empowering regional development through high-quality investment growth at a high speed and for a long time.

Facing the "14th Five-Year Plan", Qingdao must keep a close eye on national policy trends, strengthen prospective research, focus on key areas such as new industries and new infrastructure, and plan ahead for a number of key projects related to medium- and long-term development and "14th Five-Year" reserve projects. Combining with active measures such as urban quality improvement, breakthroughs in Pingdu and Laixi, rural revitalization, Qingdao should accelerate the research and advancement of a number of comprehensive three-dimensional transportation, new infrastructure, new energy and water network and other infrastructure construction, and shore up our weak spots in agriculture and rural areas, municipal engineering, and ecological and environmental protection, public health, material reserves, livelihood security and other areas, thus effectively upgrade the quality of infrastructure supply.

Take advantage of the trend to develop the industrial Internet

The Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee noted that "it is necessary to boost the modernization of the industrial chain and supply chain."

In the face of the new global industrial competition pattern formed at a faster pace, Qingdao has clearly proposed to build the world's industrial Internet capital.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Qingdao will focus its efforts on the industrial Internet, further integrate and exert its advantages in industrial foundation, venture capital, application scenarios, Cosmoplat, and etc., to cultivate a relatively complete industrial Internet whole industry ecology, thus taking the initiative in participating in global industrial Internet competition and cooperation. It will support Cosmoplat to strengthen cooperation and exchanges with leading enterprises and scientific research institutions, seize the market, expand on a large scale, maintain leading advantages, and upgrade service capabilities. In addition, adhering to the guidance of the Industrial Internet, combined with the development of new energy and new materials, new energy vehicles, high-end equipment, marine and other key industries, Qingdao will open up various types of application scenarios, and continuously incubate, promote, and gather new technologies, industries, new formats, and new mode, thus comprehensively raising Qingdao's competition level in the national and global industrial chain supply chain.

Speed up the construction of entrepreneurial city

Innovation is at the core of China's modernization drive. Innovation and entrepreneurship complement each other, with innovation as the means and foundation of entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship as the carrier and motivation of innovation.

Qingdao has clearly proposed to build an entrepreneurial city. The purpose is, through the theme of entrepreneurial cities, to use market-oriented mechanisms and means to gather various innovative and entrepreneurial elements such as people, finances and materials needed for urban development faster, more and better. On the basis of the first draft of the policy proposed by the fund and entrepreneurial team, the "Ten Articles for Youth Innovation" has been introduced, establishing a policy support system covering ten aspects of "politics, industry, education, research, talent, finance, service, use, awards, and competition".

For the "14th Five-Year Plan", Qingdao will build a "4+1" development ecology of "four chains in one" of industrial chain, capital chain, talent chain and technology chain plus high-quality and efficient government service environment, open the city scenarios, industry scenarios and application scenarios to various innovation and entrepreneurial entities, expand and strengthen government guidance funds, Kechuang Mother Fund, Angel Mother Fund, Youth Venture Capital Direct Investment Fund, promote market-oriented talent introduction and evaluation mechanisms, cultivate technical broker teams, host entrepreneurship competitions, thereby linking all the necessary elements and requirements for innovation and entrepreneurship, and fulfilling the dreams created by various entrepreneurial entities.

Making breakthroughs in the development of modern service industry

The modern service industry features greater industrial radiation, broader spatial coverage, and stronger ability to integrate resources. Qingdao's deep integration into the new development pattern is to play its role in serving the domestic big cycle and domestic and international double cycles.

Qingdao is now actively docking with the modern service industries in Shanghai and Hong Kong, to create a key base for high-quality high-end resources to go northward, which has received the response and support of modern service companies in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

For the "14th Five-Year Plan", Qingdao will deeply dock with Shanghai and Hong Kong's modern service industry resources such as finance, trade, shipping, science and technology, promote the construction of an international shipping trade financial innovation center, deepen service trade innovation through drawing on Beijing’s service trade development experience in the fields of finance, technology, information, cultural creativity, and business service, and build northern service industry bases and national-level service economic centers.

Make the city more convenient and warm

The starting point and end point of smoothing the domestic cycle is to improve the quality of life of the people. For a city, improving the quality of people’s lives means providing better public services, medical education, social security, and living conditions, a more beautiful environment and more diverse cultures, so that all the general public, entrepreneurs, and investors can feel convenient and warm. This is a livelihood issue, a business environment issue, and also a social governance issue. 

Qingdao will continue to carry out in-depth "I love Qingdao •I have dissatisfaction• I want to speak" people’s voice listening theme activity, adhere to problem orientation, seek more benefits for the people’s livelihood, solve people’s livelihood concerns, and speed up the filling of shortcomings and weaknesses starting from optimizing the industry structure, with a focus on raising the income level of residents, and continuously enhancing the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.

A new journey has begun. We will expedite the forging of a "three-lized and one type", i.e., marketized, legalized, professionalized, and open cadre team with high quality and ability, and implement various tasks in a strict and practical style, and accelerate the construction of an open, modern, dynamic, and fashionable international metropolis, making new and greater contribution to the construction of a modern and powerful Shangdong in the new era.