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This book seeks truth from facts and is thoughtful. It covers development planning, ecological environment, innovation factors, industrial policies, land indicators, three-dimensional transportation, market unity, business environment, information and information, public services, social security, national policies, institutional supply, and coordination. The system, development path, etc. cover the main areas, key issues and main contradictions of regional coordinated development. It not only profoundly reveals the new era proposition of "human modernization ≠ Western modernization", It also fully demonstrates the huge institutional advantages and broad prospects of Chinese-style regional coordinated development.

■Liu Shilin

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The Yangtze River is the mother river of the Chinese nation. The Yangtze River Economic Belt is the region with the widest cross-region, the largest population, the strongest economic strength and the strongest innovation capabilities in China. It is an important support for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. On October 12, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the symposium on further promoting the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, emphasizing the need to "seek long-term trends, implement long-term policies, and build a foundation for long-term security to further promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt." Quality development to better support and serve Chinese-style modernization." In this year's "Government Work Report", it is proposed to continue to promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Recently, Ding Zhongli, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic League, wrote the preface, co-edited by Li Guoping, Liu Binglian and Feng Kui, and jointly completed by more than 40 regional economic research scholars,"Research on Regional Coordination and High-Quality Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt" Published by Qunyan Publishing House, is an excellent book that meets the needs of the high-quality development theme of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

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Concerned about the academic inheritance of "the greatest person in the country"

In terms of origin, promoting the implementation of regional coordinated development strategies and major plans has always been an important part of the work of the Democratic League Central Committee to serve the National Development Center. This can be traced back to Mr. Fei Xiaotong, the leader of the Central Committee of the Democratic League and a famous scholar. As early as the 1980s and 1990s, he proposed the general idea of "developing regional economies and building economic corridors." In terms of "sitting and talking about Tao", he proposed that "China's economic development must establish a regional economic perspective." In terms of "starting from start", the three major economic development zones, namely the Pearl River Delta, the Yellow River Delta, and the Yangtze River Delta, he successively proposed to establish, have become the earliest blueprints of China's three most developed urban agglomerations today, and can also be called Chinese-style modernization."The biggest one in the country".

In recent years, the Central Committee of the Democratic League has continuously taken the promotion of regional coordinated development as the key research direction, and has carried out many investigations and investigations in the Yangtze River Basin, the Yellow River Basin, the national urban agglomeration and the metropolitan area, deeply feeling the historical changes of China's regional development, and constantly deepening the understanding of the law and nature of regional coordinated development, as Ding Zhongli pointed out in the preface to the book. Regional coordinated development is promoting the formation of a regional economic layout with complementary advantages and high-quality development, which constitutes an important support for high-quality development. on the other hand, the task of sustained and in-depth coordinated regional development is still very arduous. Therefore, the Central Committee of the Democratic League has identified the issue of regional coordinated development as an area of long-term research, and it is necessary to continuously follow up and deepen the investigation. "it has formed a research method of the linkage between the central and local organizations of the Democratic League, the left-right interaction of the relevant provincial, autonomous and municipal organizations of the Democratic League, and the coordinated promotion of various forces within and outside the League." On the basis of the research jointly initiated by the Central Department of political participation and discussion of the Democratic League, the China Regional Science Association and the Capital Institute of Development of Peking University, the book focuses on the main line of "regional coordination and high-quality development". It inherits the fine style of study that the people of the Democratic League are "the big people of the country", and shows the vivid practice of the "research methods" of the people of the Democratic League, which is an important achievement for the people of the Democratic League to seriously perform the function of participating in and discussing state affairs. It also reflects the mission of the people of the Democratic League to consciously serve the work of the national center.

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Comprehensive exploration that connects theory and practice

After half a century of exploration since the reform and opening up, China has formed a more scientific and systematic policy and strategic planning system for the implementation of regional coordinated development. it mainly includes the "overall strategy of regional coordinated development", such as the large-scale development of the western region, the revitalization of the northeast, the rise of central China, and the leading development of the east. Major regional strategies such as the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Yellow River Basin, and the construction of the Shuangcheng Economic Circle in Chengdu and Chongqing; national new areas represented by Pudong and Xiongan, free trade pilot areas, Hainan free trade ports and other "important functional areas" The "major special plans", including the old revolutionary base areas, ethnic minority areas, and border areas, have become the core carrier of Chinese-style modernization and a hub platform for promoting the realization of domestic and international double cycles. The Yangtze River Economic Belt covers 11 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, with an area of about 2.05 million square kilometers, accounting for 21 percent of the country's total. On the one hand, as a super-complex giant system, the physical geography, history, culture and development level of the Yangtze River economic belt vary greatly, and the administrative levels, economic types and social structures are complex and diverse, which is a concentrated area of problems and contradictions. On the other hand, as an important axis that directly affects the overall situation of national modernization, the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is facing challenges such as tight time, heavy tasks, heavy responsibilities, strong demonstration and other problems, and must find a new way of high-quality development.

The difficulty, depth and breadth of choosing such a field and topic can be imagined. In order to complete such investigation and research work, we need not only a high sense of responsibility, lofty strategic understanding, large-scale theoretical framework and diversified disciplinary methods, but also rich pre-accumulation, in-depth social research, firm academic commitment and good teamwork. The book systematically reviews the research achievements of the older generation of scholars, such as pointing out the original contribution of Mr. Lu Daodao's "T" font theory to the study of the concept of the Yangtze River economic belt, and at the same time, it mainly discusses the major areas of the development of the Yangtze River economic belt at present and in the future, such as ecological construction, industrial agglomeration, digital economy, science and technology service industry, innovative development, major productive forces layout, regional coordinated development mechanism and so on. In the vast and magnificent experimental field of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, it not only tests the adaptability of relevant western theories and models, but also actively constructs new theories and methods adapted to China's national conditions, which further enriches the theoretical system of regional and urban research in the world. In terms of application, it not only includes special studies on the ethnic areas of the Yangtze River Delta, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Chengdu and Chongqing, central Yunnan and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, but also makes an in-depth analysis of the regional development experiences of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area and the Yellow River basin. at the same time, it puts forward the optimization path to promote regional coordination and high-quality development. Such a comprehensive exploration of theory and practice can also be used for reference to other regions of China.

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Vivid practice and display of Chinese-style modernization

The Yangtze River Economic Belt traverses the east and west, carries the north and south, connects the river and reaches the sea. It has good basic conditions, a solid economic foundation, and a high degree of reform and opening up. It has a core and leading position in China's regional development and is a giant experimental field for Chinese-style modernization. Time flies, the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt has entered its eighth year, and it has reached a new stage of providing experience and setting a benchmark for high-quality development in other regions of the country. This book seeks truth from facts and is thoughtful. It covers development planning, ecological environment, innovation factors, industrial policies, land indicators, three-dimensional transportation, market unity, business environment, information and information, public services, social security, national policies, institutional supply, and coordination. The system, development path, etc. cover the main areas, key issues and main contradictions of regional coordinated development. It not only profoundly reveals the new era proposition of "human modernization ≠ Western modernization", It also fully demonstrates the huge institutional advantages and broad prospects of Chinese-style regional coordinated development.

The river flows day and night, and development never stops. At present, the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is in a critical period from quantitative change to qualitative change. There are still some deep-seated problems and contradictions that need to be explored, such as "coordination for coordination" and "coordinated development structure is too complex" pointed out in this book, and "eating a big pot" to eliminate regional gaps,"sports" ecological governance, and "economism" that deviates from the positioning of not engaging in large-scale development are all things that need further research and solved in the future. A hundred steps forward and make further progress. Looking to the future, we hope that the NLD members 'research on coordinated regional development will continue to deepen and expand, propose more and better solutions to solve the unbalanced and inadequate development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and accelerate the construction of high-quality development regions. Economic layout and land space support systems provide more effective and powerful intellectual support.

(The author is the director of the Research Department of the China Urbanization Promotion Association and the president of the Institute of Urban Sciences of Shanghai Jiao Tong University)