Shanxi Comprehensive Test Area Reported To The State Council

As a resource-based Province, how to get out of the "single coal" single economic development mode in Shanxi has attracted much attention. The arrival of Yuan Chunqing, the new secretary of the provincial Party committee, made the outside world full of expectation for Shanxi.

"At present, Shanxi is at a critical stage of development. How to realize the development and transformation of a large energy and resources province is our most realistic and urgent topic." Yuan Chunqing, the newly appointed president, repeatedly stressed the status quo of the economic development of Shanxi's major resource-based cities. "There is no way out for the development of Shanxi's resource-based economy without transformation."

In June 11th, our reporter learned from the Shanxi provincial development and Reform Commission that Shanxi's resource-based economy has a clear idea of transformation and development, that is, to utilize the two advantages of mineral resources and cultural resources to consolidate the strategic position of the new national energy and industrial base, and realize the transformation from a single pillar industry to a new, diversified and stable modern industrial system.

A person from the Shanxi provincial development and Reform Commission further analyzed that for Shanxi, transformation and development is to realize the intensification of traditional industries such as coal, coke, electricity, metallurgy, manufacturing and so on, so as to realize the scale of cultural tourism, logistics, information, new materials and new energy.

The test area will be approved.

Shanxi's economy is booming because of coal and Shanxi's problem is caused by coal.

The reality before Shanxi lies in the fact that large-scale, high-intensity and mass coal exploitation leads to a single extensive industry in Shanxi, serious damage to the ecological environment, low utilization of resources and frequent accidents.

At present, Shanxi has taken an express train for national economic restructuring.

In May 2009, vice president Xi Jinping visited Shanxi and made important instructions on Shanxi's economic and social development. Subsequently, the China financial affairs office led the national development and Reform Commission and other relevant departments to conduct a two thematic survey of Shanxi's transformation and development. The research group proposed that Shanxi could be regarded as the "comprehensive experimentation area for the transformation and development of the national resource based economy". In the national strategy to promote regional coordinated development, we should give a "first try" on the system and mechanism, supplemented by fiscal, financial, environmental protection and other policy support.

People in charge of the Shanxi development and Reform Commission said that in the process of transformation and development in Shanxi, the central government will receive policy and financial support on the construction of the energy heavy chemical industry base, the adjustment policy of industrial structure, the rise of central China, the policy of transforming the western and old industrial bases, the pilot of coal sustainable development policy, the pilot project of ecological construction, and the pilot of circular economy.

The preferential policies granted to Shanxi by the state are exceptionally generous, and Shanxi officials have been called "the highest gold policy since the founding of the people's Republic of China". This includes the central government's annual "special fund for transformation and development", special development project discretion, land replacement rights and so on.

"Selecting Shanxi as a pilot area is of great significance for solving the difficulties and problems in the transformation of resource-based regions, speeding up the transformation and development of Shanxi's economy, promoting the coordinated development of Shanxi's economy and resources and environment, narrowing the gap between regional development and increasing national energy security." Li Ting, director of the Macroeconomic Research Institute of Shanxi development and Reform Commission, said.

At the same time, Shanxi, as a typical resource-based economic region and an important energy base in the country, has strong representativeness, great demonstration value and prominent pilot role. It has important strategic significance for promoting the transformation and development of other resource-based regions and promoting the adjustment of the national economic structure.

According to our reporter's understanding, the reform plan has been submitted to the State Council, and the plan is drawn up by the leading group of research work on the policy plan of the comprehensive reform of Shanxi's state resource based economy transformation. "If there is no accident, there is no suspense about the approval of the plan." Li Ting said.