General Secretary Xi Jinping Makes New Arrangements to Promote the Rise of Central Region from a Higher Starting Point
On March 20, General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted a symposium in Changsha City, Hunan Province, focusing on promoting the rise of the central region in the new era. This marks the second time since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that General Secretary Xi has hosted a symposium on the coordinated regional development strategy of the central region’s rise.
2024 is a critical year for achieving the goals and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan. General Secretary Xi emphasized the importance of promoting the rise of the central region from a higher starting point. The central region, which includes provinces such as Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan, plays a crucial role in China’s overall development.
Xi Jinping outlined new strategic arrangements to solidly promote the rise of the central region. These arrangements focus on actively cultivating and developing new productive forces, coordinating deep reform and high-level opening up, ensuring high-quality development and high-level security, and promoting green development.
The central region, with its rich resource elements, market potential, and cultural heritage, is positioned as an important grain production base, energy raw material base, modern equipment manufacturing, and high-tech industrial base. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed the need to strengthen the connection with other major development strategies and form a synergy to promote high-quality development in the region.
By emphasizing the mutual promotion of high-quality development and high-level security, Xi Jinping highlighted the importance of ensuring food, energy, and resource security in the central region. Moreover, promoting green and low-carbon development and supporting the construction of a new development pattern are key priorities for the region’s growth.
As China embarks on its journey towards Chinese-style modernization, the rise of the central region will play a crucial role in supporting the country’s overall development. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s new arrangements aim to propel the central region to new heights, contributing to China’s high-quality development and modernization efforts.
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This article is a summary of the symposium hosted by General Secretary Xi Jinping to promote the rise of the central region in China. It highlights the strategic arrangements made by Xi Jinping for the region’s development and emphasizes the importance of high-quality development, reform, and security in the central region.