How to be a good vanguard？ General secretary lays emphasis on Guangdong.

　　Guangdong, backed by Nanling Mountain and facing the South China Sea, has been one of the starting points of the Maritime Silk Road since ancient times and has long been the first in fashion. As the vanguard, pioneer and experimental area of China’s reform and opening up, Guangdong plays an important role in the overall situation of Chinese modernization.

　　From April 10th to 13th, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited Guangdong, which was his fourth visit here since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In four days, the general secretary went deep into enterprises, ports, rural areas and other places to clarify the direction and guide the path for Guangdong’s development.

　　How to "be in the forefront in promoting Chinese modernization"? At the report meeting of the provincial party Committee and government on the 13th, the General Secretary made a key point for Guangdong, that is, to do a good job in building Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area — —

　　"Take the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as a great opportunity for Guangdong to deepen its reform and opening up, and put it in the top priority, with the Pearl River Delta as the main position, and do a good job of this great event with the strength of the whole province, so as to make Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area a strategic fulcrum of the new development pattern, a demonstration place for high-quality development and a leading place for Chinese modernization."

△ Overlooking Guangzhou.

　　Building Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a major national strategy planned, deployed and promoted by the Supreme Leader General Secretary. In recent years, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have accelerated the integration and development, and Greater Bay Area has created 1/9 of the country’s economic aggregate with 0.6% of the country’s land area. This hot land with an area of 56,000 square kilometers and a total population of more than 80 million presents unprecedented vitality.

　　— — Become the strategic fulcrum of the new development pattern

　　During this visit to Guangdong, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed in Xuwen Port, Zhanjiang that the port should be built into a modern integrated land and water transportation hub connecting Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Hainan Free Trade Port. At LG’s Guangzhou manufacturing base, the General Secretary issued an invitation to foreign investors: come to China, Guangdong and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, deepen the China market, and create new glories for enterprise development.

　　In the case of weak global economic growth, China will accelerate the construction of a new development pattern and strengthen the construction of business environment, and its market advantage will become more obvious. Under such a background, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has unlimited potential.

　　On April 6th, the first batch of 20 typical cases in Guangdong Province to promote the connection mechanism of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Rules were published, including 7 cases involving business environment. For example, Qianhai took the lead in exploring the application mechanism of extraterritorial law and accumulated fresh experience in promoting the high-level opening of the legal service industry; The format specification of cross-border credit report has laid a foundation for mutual recognition of cross-border credit between Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, and provided reference for cross-border credit cooperation between China and other economies around the world.

△ A Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge shuttle bus from Hong Kong to Zhuhai entered Zhuhai.

　　In addition, the global transportation system also provides more possibilities for Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to become the strategic fulcrum of the new development pattern.

　　With the full recovery of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong cross-border long-distance high-speed railway, the laying of the main line of the Guangzhou-Shantou high-speed railway has been completed, the Nanzhu (China) intercity project has started, and the infrastructure construction of the "one-hour living circle" in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has become increasingly complete.

△ Scenery on both sides of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong

　　All 11 cities in Greater Bay Area have ports, which is one of the regional port groups with the largest throughput and the best water depth conditions in the world, and the throughput of regional ports ranks first among all bay areas in the world. It is estimated that by 2035, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will have 7 transport airports and 17 runways, with a passenger throughput of 420 million passengers and a cargo and mail throughput of more than 20 million tons, thus building a world-class airport group leading the world and developing with high quality.

　　Overlooking the earth from space, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has become one of the most brightly lit areas on the blue planet in the satellite night view.

　　— — Become a demonstration site for high-quality development

　　What is high-quality development? General Secretary of the Supreme Leader once explained: "More specifically, high-quality development is from ‘ Is there ’ Turn ‘ Ok ’ 。”

　　Guangdong is a big automobile province. In 2022, the automobile output reached 4.1 million, ranking first in the country for many years. Not only the traditional automobile industry is huge, but also the leading enterprises of new energy vehicles, such as BYD and GAC Ai ‘an, are increasingly becoming important growth points of Guangdong’s economy.

　　On April 12th, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited Guangzhou Automobile Aian New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. and stressed that China is a big country, so it should attach importance to the real economy and take the road of self-reliance. Key core technologies should be based on independent research and development, and international cooperation is also welcome. It is necessary to strengthen education and personnel training and lay a solid foundation for self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology.

△ Intelligent production line of Guangzhou Automobile Ai ‘an assembly workshop

　　It is the only way to change from "having" to "being good" and accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.

　　Relying on Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, an important power source, Guangdong is working with Hong Kong and Macao to speed up the construction of a world-class bay area and a world-class urban agglomeration, and to build a demonstration site for high-quality development.

　　On the first working day after the Lunar New Year this year, Guangdong held a provincial conference on high-quality development, stressing that it will highlight and deepen the cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and establish and coordinate the implementation of the annual task list of major issues and major projects in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

　　Since then, Qianhai Administration and Hong Kong have jointly issued the Sixteen Measures on Building an Intellectual Property Innovation Highland in Qianhai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong to promote Greater Bay Area to cultivate a fertile soil for scientific and technological innovation; The Catalogue of Encouraged Industries in Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone was issued, which supported 185 categories, including scientific research and development, high-end manufacturing industry and Macao brand industry … …

△ Located in the startup area of Guangming Science City in Shenzhen. It is expected that scientific apparatus, a synthetic organism in the start-up area, will be partially put into use this year.

　　As of February this year, Greater Bay Area has gathered 51 unicorn enterprises, accounting for about 1/6 of the country and 1/20 of the world. Guangdong’s comprehensive ability of regional innovation ranks first in the country for six consecutive years. From exploration to guidance, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is continuing to give full play to the advantages of reform and opening-up, and create a model of high-quality development.

　　— — Become the leading place of Chinese modernization

　　"Chinese modernization" is a key word that runs through the general secretary’s visit to Guangdong.

　　At Dashuiqiao Reservoir in xuwen county, Zhanjiang, the General Secretary pointed out that to promote Chinese modernization, water resources should be taken into account.

　　In Baiqiao Village, Genzi Town, Maoming, the General Secretary said to the villagers: "To promote Chinese modernization, we must comprehensively promote rural revitalization and solve the imbalance between urban and rural development."

　　At the briefing, the General Secretary emphasized: "The common prosperity of all people is the essential feature of Chinese modernization, and coordinated regional development is the inevitable requirement for achieving common prosperity."

　　During the first three visits to Guangdong, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited the Pearl River Delta, northern Guangdong and eastern Guangdong successively. This trip to western Guangdong, where Zhanjiang and Maoming are located, sends a strong signal to promote regional coordinated development and common prosperity. At the same time, it emphasizes the optimal allocation of water resources, which is also an important means to solve the problem of unbalanced regional development.

△ Self-driving cars carry out road tests in Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone.

　　It is proposed that Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area should be built into a leading place of Chinese modernization, and the General Secretary has far-reaching considerations.

　　From a national perspective, the imbalance of regional development is a problem to be solved step by step in the process of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. Guangdong’s exploration in promoting regional coordinated development will provide experience for the whole country.

　　In recent years, Greater Bay Area has played a leading role in radiation, intensified industrial transfer, and coordinated the layout of productive forces in the nine cities of the Pearl River Delta and Guangdong, East and West, driving the surrounding areas to accelerate development; Actively participate in the construction of a new land and sea passage in the west, build a Guangdong-Guangxi-Guizhou-Yunnan high-speed rail economic belt in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, and build an integrated cooperation zone between Shenzhen, Jiangxi and Hong Kong in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, so as to promote the development of Central South and Southwest China; Work together with national strategies such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Hainan Free Trade Port to create an important power source leading high-quality development … …

　　As one of the regions with the highest level of openness and the most dynamic economy in China, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has the unique advantage of creating a leading place of Chinese modernization by giving full play to the comprehensive advantages of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and opening up new opportunities through complementary advantages.

△ Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge

　　Tide surges in Dawan, and Qian Fan races. If we do a good job in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area’s construction, Guangdong will surely be in the vanguard of comprehensively deepening reform and opening up to the outside world at a high level, and will be at the forefront in promoting Chinese modernization.

　　Producer: Geng Zhimin

　　Producer Xing Lai

　　Editor-in-Chief Ning Lili

　　Information Liu Xinyan

　　Visual sense Jiang yuhang