Text / Qin Xinfang, special commentator of this website
Strong provincial capital, namely strong Lanzhou.
As the capital city of Lanzhou, compared with other cities in the province, Lanzhou itself is “stronger”. In the past five years, the total production value of Lanzhou has reached a level of 300 billion yuan, making it the first contribution to the province’s high-quality development. For another example, in terms of county economic development in the province, according to the “Gansu County and Rural Development Report (2021)”, the top ten comprehensive competitiveness counties in Gansu are: Chengguan District, Anning District, Qilihe District, Liangzhou District, Xifeng District, Xigu District, Suzhou District, Ganzhou District, Baiyin District, Yuzhong County. Among the top ten counties, Lanzhou occupies half of it, which can be described as the most beautiful.
To strengthen the provincial capital again, doesn’t it mean to build Lanzhou into a “strong, medium and strong”? Yes, to vigorously implement the action to strengthen the provincial capital is to greatly enhance Lanzhou’s radiating and driving capacity as a regional central city, and to use its advantages as a centralized location for development elements such as administrative resources, human resources, scientific and technological resources, and financial resources in the region to build it Become a strong engine driving the development of the province.
So, what do we need to make the provincial capital strong? The first task is to increase the total economic output of the provincial capital and strengthen the economic strength. To further strengthen the provincial capital, it is necessary to focus on promoting a new type of industrialization, focusing on strengthening the leader, supplementing the chain, and gathering clusters, optimizing the stock, expanding the increment, and improving the quality on the basis of the existing industry. On the one hand, we must give full play to the advantages of the old industrial base, revitalize “Made in Lanzhou”, and accelerate the transformation of traditional industries and the cultivation of emerging industries; on the other hand, to strengthen the provincial capital and focus on the new district. As Mayor Zhang Weiwen said, Lanzhou New District is the main bearing area of the city’s strong industry. It is necessary to further enhance the sense of urgency and responsibility for development, adhere to the principle of project-based heroes, industry-based strength, and play a pioneering role in the strategy of “Strengthening Provincial Capital”. Contribute to the systematic promotion of Lanzhou’s high-quality development in the new district. In the past five years, the total output value of the new district in Lanzhou has increased by 16.7% annually, and the growth rate ranks among the top new districts at the national level.
Some people may ask, does a strong provincial capital mean that Lanzhou will remain strong and other cities in the province will remain weak? This is a misunderstanding of the far-reaching significance of a strong provincial capital. If the provincial capital is strong, the whole province will be strong, and if the provincial capital is prosperous, the whole province will be prosperous. The implementation of the action to strengthen the provincial capital is an inevitable trend for the province to accelerate the process of urbanization and an inevitable choice for the province’s economy to become bigger and stronger. The strengthening of the provincial capital has an inestimable huge radiation and traction for driving the economic development of the province. A strong provincial capital, like a locomotive with strong power, will only drive the province’s economy into the fast lane of rapid development.
In accordance with the “New-type Urbanization Plan of Gansu Province (2021-2035)”, take urban agglomerations as the main form of promoting new-type urbanization, and accelerate the formation of the Lanzhou-Baiyin metropolitan area as the core, Tianshui and Jiuquan-Jiayuguan as the sub-centers “One core and two secondary centers” is the leading urban construction pattern, which promotes the organic linkage of urban agglomerations, urban belts and metropolitan areas, and promotes the coordinated development of large, medium and small cities and small towns. Obviously, we need to see not only the “strengthening the provincial capital” action, but also the province-wide layout of other cities in key industries and functions. Each city has its own role positioning and must be integrated into the province’s “game of chess”. The view of opposing the development of the powerful provincial capital with other cities in the province is short-sighted and “squint”.
The clear-cut proposal to implement the action to strengthen the provincial capital has given new goals, new tasks, and new missions to the development of Lanzhou, and at the same time injected a strong driving force to move forward. Looking forward to the upcoming 2022, innovation-driven speeding up industrial transformation and upgrading, expanding and strengthening emerging growth poles, taking the road of urban-rural integration development, strengthening ecological and environmental protection governance, building a new development pattern, deepening reform and opening up, and promoting common prosperity, effectively guarantees and Improving people’s livelihood has been incorporated into the blueprint drawn by the government. With a blueprint drawn to the end, and shouldering its mission in the action of strengthening the provincial capital, Lanzhou will surely be the “locomotive” leading the high-quality development of Gansu.
Source: China Gansu Net