Lu Junfeng
The vast rivers and huge waves are washed away, gathering in Foshan and thriving in Foshan, always giving people endless upward strength and nourishing this fertile land.
Recently, the Foshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have made a series of arrangements to build a pilot zone for high-quality development of towns and villages around Xijiang-Beijiang District, which has aroused the general attention and eager expectations of the academic, business and grassroots people. The common idea of all walks of life is to solve development problems and find new growth space, Foshan has found the right path.
Regional economics believes that to promote economic development, specific geographical spaces need to be used as growth poles to drive economic growth in the entire region. To solve the problem of unbalanced and uncoordination of development, we need to break the idea of rapid balance and equal effort, solve the imbalance with unbalanced, concentrate our efforts to create new development fulcrums and even extremes in areas with good resource endowments and great development potential, laying the foundation for the next step of creating a diffusion effect to areas with more lagging development.
Foshan has a wise eye to recognize the beads, and set up an area at the waist to build a new growth pole. This area has a deep historical and cultural heritage, a good ecological foundation, great potential for rural value release, has a certain industrial foundation, convenient water transportation and relatively abundant land space. Xijiang and Beijiang provide this area with open and efficient factor channels and good ecological resources such as water, gas, animals and plants. Overall, it has good potential and large space. It has the ability to undertake the radiation and accelerate development of the eastern Guangxi area, and has the ability to work with the eastern area to drive the development of the western northern region, which is the weakest economy in the city.
In the decisive year of implementing the “High-quality Development Project of Hundred Counties, Thousand Towns and Ten Thousand Villages” and “Starting Results in Three Years”, how to build and develop this area well and truly become an attractive and driving growth pole, and truly become a benchmark for high-quality development with excellent development quality and speed, and win-win industry and ecology, we need to grasp the two key points of humanistic leadership and reform support.
Humanistic leadership is to fully release the cultural potential of this area, so that all excellent cultural resources in scenic spots, mulberry gardens, ancestral halls, riversides, parks, in hands with intangible cultural heritage inheritors, village history museums, etc. can be brought alive, integrate with the market, and work hand in hand with enterprises to become a new force in upgrading industries, attracting popularity, promoting consumption, and beautifying the environment. Looking from Sixianjiao to the north and Ganzhutan to the south, the Xijiang and Beijiang have strong arms to nurture mountains, water, people, culture, production and cities with strong Lingnan charm and Guangzhou characteristics. From the perspective of comparison between regions and regions, towns and towns, these cultural resources are the largest capital and the greatest potential board for the Pilot Zone of Xijiang-Beijiang. Revitalizing cultural vitality and stimulating cultural value is a main line that must run through the entire process and all aspects of work during the construction of the Xijiang-Beijiang Pilot Zone.
In essence, humanistic leadership is to handle the relationship between the six major elements and six major fields of mountain, water, people, culture, industry and city, highlight the leading function and empowerment role of culture, and implement the city through culture, promote production through culture, revitalize water through culture, famous mountains through culture, and culture. Make the city more urban, convenient, efficient and friendly. Make the countryside more rural, rich in Lingnan flavor, eliminate dirty and messy, and be quiet, warm and harmonious. Make the industry more advanced, have a better system, better structure and higher levels. After the integration and development of the first, second and third industries, and with the wings of culture, Foshan took off again in the industry. Let rivers and lakes flow through and nourish the hometown, small bridges and flowing water, and cruise ships are weaving. Looking through the water, it seems like traveling through the time and space of the thousand-year-old county, a beautiful picture of the Lingnan water town. Let the spiritual energy of famous mountains and rivers bloom, and the Confucian culture on Xiqiao Mountain will shine with more dazzling light and new era value on the new journey. The purpose of development is to benefit the people. The key is to make people happier, more pleasant and more promising. Then use down-to-earth cultural activities and cultural undertakings to attract and nourish people, so that people can like the present and have expectations for the future.
Reform support means building a system that provides strong support for high-quality development through systematic and integrated reform and innovation, and promoting a significant improvement in development quality, governance efficiency and human vitality. After the reform and opening up, for a long time, Foshan was famous for its daring to venture, be the first to be the first to drink. Some people praised Foshan for being “not a special zone, but better than a special zone.” In the current situation where various resource bottlenecks are becoming increasingly intensified, we need to make good use of the key moves of reform, dare to improve and overcome difficulties, focus on key areas, break down backward concepts and institutional barriers that hinder high-quality development, and let all factors that are conducive to high-quality development burst out with vitality, and all sources of innovation and creativity flow fully.
The support of reform is to deepen the construction of a five-level linkage construction pattern for urban, towns, villages and communities, and stimulate vitality and motivation at the grassroots level. Release and empower the grassroots, so that those who can hear the charge and see the artillery fire have the power and resources to match, so that those who work hard and capable, those who are good at doing their best can show their strengths in their due positions, and also the phenomenon of high-end and high-implementing implementation will decline.
Two rivers reflect two mountains, Foshan should have great potential. We look forward to the fruitful results of this high-level strategy in Foshan, and make great contributions to the creation of a new Foshan.
(The author is a researcher at the China Economic System Reform Research Association)