Take the lead in opening up and promote opening up in the western region.

　　Interviewer:

　　Zhou Shanshan newspaper commentator

　　Single soldier Chongqing Daily commentator

　　Zhou Shanshan: Recently, when the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader presided over a symposium to further promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, he emphasized that "it is necessary to give full play to the unique advantages of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, connecting the domestic and international markets, making good use of the two resources, enhancing the endogenous power and reliability of the domestic macro-cycle, enhancing its attraction and impetus to the international cycle, and providing strategic support for building a new development pattern". Located in the hinterland, Chongqing is not near the sea or along the border, but it has the advantages along the river and is at the junction of the "Belt and Road" and the Yangtze River Economic Belt. According to its own characteristics, how can Chongqing find a correct position in the new development pattern?

　　Single soldier: The location advantage of the connecting point determines that Chongqing should break through the problem of promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and jointly building the "Belt and Road" integration, accelerate the construction of the "Belt and Road" strategic fulcrum on the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and create an inland open highland. Taking the water of the Yangtze River as a link, Chongqing will be opened to other parts of the country; Leverage the "Belt and Road" to expand Chongqing’s open space to the world. Chongqing has constantly exerted its initiative, planned a domain from the overall situation and served the overall situation with a domain, and opened up an open road suitable for itself, the west and the inland. The former inland hinterland is changing to the open frontier.

　　Zhou Shanshan: General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "In terms of industrial development, the provinces and cities along the Yangtze River should not only display their advantages, but also develop in a coordinated, misplaced and coordinated manner." The flow of goods reflects the pulse of coordinated development and open development. Glass substrates produced in the eastern region, upstream along the Yangtze River, are made into display screens for various electronic products in Chengdu-Chongqing region, and then transported to Europe and Southeast Asia through the Central European trains and the new land and sea channels in the west; The goods returned by the Central European trains are transported to the eastern region along the Yangtze River here; Chemical products such as sodium sulfate from western provinces are also assembled here and transported to Southeast Asia … … The Yangtze River Economic Belt is developing into a double-circulation aorta that is unblocked at home and abroad, witnessing the accelerated formation of a new pattern of all-round opening-up with land and sea linkage and two-way mutual assistance between east and west.

　　Single soldier: to the east, take advantage of the Yangtze River golden waterway to go to sea; To the west, through the Central European train to Europe; To the south, the new land and sea passage in the west reaches Southeast Asia; To the north, the "Chongqing Manchu Russia" train goes directly to Russia. From "one line" to "one net", the channel of internal communication and external communication supports Chongqing to build an all-round opening pattern. Being a pioneer in the reform and opening up of inland provinces, Chongqing is making every effort to explore the opening system of "big channel, big hub, big port, big logistics and big platform", and vigorously promote the modernization of the supply chain of the industrial chain by taking logistics and logistics as well as economy and trade as well as integration with the world, so as to truly achieve a foothold in Chongqing, radiate to the west, serve the whole country, link ASEAN and integrate into the world.

　　Zhou Shanshan: General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that Chongqing "should increase innovation support, unswervingly push forward reform and opening up, and strive to take the lead in opening up and promote opening up in the western region". In 2022, Chongqing Pilot Free Trade Zone will take the city’s 1.46‰ Area, gathering nearly half of the actual use of foreign capital in the city, contributing nearly two-thirds of the total foreign trade import and export, is not only a test field to accelerate the institutional opening of rules, regulations, management and standards, but also a powerful starting point to promote the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and jointly build the "Belt and Road" integration. How does Chongqing promote opening up through reform?

　　Single soldier: the story of "railway bill of lading letter of credit" is quite representative. Not long ago, a company in Chongqing imported eight cars from Germany through China Europe Train (Chongqing), and obtained financing by issuing an international letter of credit on the basis of the railway bill of lading, which reduced the operating pressure and enabled it to enjoy the convenience that railway transportation saved more than 20 days compared with sea transportation. The person in charge felt: "Thanks to the railway bill of lading, we originally had to pay more than 6 million yuan for goods, and we only needed to pay 960,000 yuan in cash after financing." In the past, in international trade, only shipping could produce a bill of lading with the function of document of title. Chongqing Pilot Free Trade Zone relies on the financing and settlement mode of railway bill of lading, so that cross-border railway transportation has also achieved letter of credit settlement, effectively helping cross-border trade. As of the first half of this year, eight banks in Chongqing have carried out 73 railway transport documents financing, involving an amount of about 204 million yuan, which has provided more convenience for enterprises to carry out cross-border trade. Leading the high-level opening-up with policy opening, Chongqing has tried first on the road of institutional opening-up and gained fruitful results.

　　Zhou Shanshan: From the integration into the Belt and Road Initiative, to the exploration and innovation in the Free Trade Zone, and then to the construction of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu-Chongqing, every step of Chongqing’s opening-up is firm and solid. Not long ago, Chongqing’s Five-year Action Plan for Accelerating the Construction of a New Land and Sea Passage in the West (2023— 2027) was officially issued. In the future, how can Chongqing continue to play its own advantages and expand its high-level opening up?

　　Single soldier: Building an inland open highland with greater openness, wider openness and deeper openness has become a new mission of Chongqing. Next, we should continue to make efforts to promote the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and jointly build the "Belt and Road" integration, make good use of tangible carriers such as large channels and platforms, greatly enhance the open energy level, make good use of the policy advantages of the free trade zone, and constantly build inland open highlands, where high-end industrial elements gather, gradually build an open industrial system that is global and gathers modern elements, and promote the continuous iterative upgrading of the reform and open energy level in inland areas. Seek development by opening up, gather strength by opening up, and create the future by opening up. Chongqing will surely ride the wind and waves and forge ahead.