One Belt And One Road News: Practice Win Win Cooperation: West Hong Kong SAR Always Aims At High Quality Development

At the 14th Jiangsu provincial Party Congress recently concluded, Wu Zhenglong, Secretary of the provincial Party committee, made a report to the Congress on behalf of the 13th Jiangsu Committee of the Communist Party of China, mentioning "promoting the high-quality development of... Cambodia's Xigang SAR and other domestic and foreign cooperation parks". Earlier, in an important speech delivered at the Forum on the belt and road construction on November 19, President Xi Jinping mentioned that "the Sihanouk port special economic zone has provided a strong driving force for local development."

In this regard, Zhou Haijiang, chairman of the board of directors of Hongdou Group, is very proud and proud. He said that this is the greatest encouragement and affirmation to our leading development of Xigang special zone, and also urges us to further implement the new development concept in the future, and to work harder to build the upgraded version of Xigang special zone 2.0, It will become a high-quality win-win cooperation model on the belt and road initiative and make due contributions to the happiness of local people and economic and social development.

In the past eight years, the achievements of the western port special zone have been "solid and heavy"

"The belt and road" is a strategic decision-making rooted in the thick soil of history and conforming to the general trend of the times, and a great initiative originated from China and belongs to the world. Over the past eight years, the "belt and road" construction has gone from "freehand brushwork" to "meticulous painting", and is moving towards a higher quality development direction to promote the "belt and road" construction to benefit the people of all countries.

As one of the landmark projects of the "belt and road" construction, Xigang special zone is located in Sihanouk Province in the southwest of Cambodia. It is jointly developed and constructed by Hongdou Group and Chinese and Cambodian enterprises. It is an important special economic zone in Cambodia. The eight years since the "belt and road" construction has also witnessed the rapid development of the western port special zone and the upgrading of the park construction. Over the past eight years, the high-quality development prototype of the western port special zone has been formed. The advantages of being close to the airport and the seaport have enabled the West Port special zone to further develop the port industry with large throughput and high dependence on Logistics on the basis of the original labor-intensive enterprises, and introduce a number of large enterprises and dragon head enterprises; In the past eight years, from 54 enterprises settled in 2013 with 9000 employees, the Western Hong Kong SAR has introduced 170 enterprises from China, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States by 2021. It has two universities, namely, the China Cambodia Friendship Institute of technology and the Sihanouk port business college. It has solved nearly 30000 jobs. It is currently the fastest-growing, most influential and best social image International Special Economic Zone in Cambodia, Also known as the "golden rice bowl" by the local people.

According to statistics, in recent years, the per capita annual income of Sihanouk province is far higher than the national average level of Cambodia. According to the total economic volume, the industrial output value of Xigang SAR contributes more than 50% to the economy of Sihanouk Province, and has made great contribution to the development of local and even Cambodia. In the future, the Western Hong Kong SAR will absorb 300 enterprises and provide 80000-100000 jobs.

Over the past eight years, the Western Hong Kong SAR has always adhered to the principle of "sharing development achievements"

President Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the third "belt and road" construction forum, stressing that the belt and road construction should fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, with high standards, sustainability and people's livelihood as the goal. Over the years, the Western Hong Kong Special Zone has always adhered to the people as the center, adhered to the win-win situation of all parties, actively implemented the new development concept, took the road of sustainable development of integration, compliance, green and symbiosis, regarded the common prosperity and benefit of the people as the value orientation based on the local and win the hearts of the people, and regarded the performance of social responsibility as the common interest orientation of realizing sustainable development, It is a real heart connecting project.

A few years ago, Sheng Xiwei, who lives near the special economic zone, entered the SAR as an interpreter. During her internship, she could get more than $300 a month. When she was happy, she gave herself a real Chinese name, Chen Xiuli. Now, the wooden house of Chen Xiuli's family has turned into a brick house with all kinds of furniture and appliances. The whole family is very grateful to the Special Administrative Region. Like Chen Xiuli, there are many employees who have changed her life. At that time, governor Runming of Sihanouk once visited the villages around the Special Economic Zone in a "micro service private visit". The villagers happily told him that since the completion of the special zone, people have had good jobs, their income has increased, and the security situation in the village has been greatly improved. Runming sincerely sighed: "the special zone has played a very important role in promoting the economy of Cambodia, especially in Sihanouk province. Its development has greatly improved the living standards of the surrounding villagers."

Not only through expanding employment, changing local people's livelihood channels, improving living standards, driving the development of surrounding businesses and creating business opportunities for the surrounding residents to get rid of poverty and become rich, the western port special zone also pays attention to training, starting from basic skills training, gradually moving towards higher education, focusing on training local professional skilled personnel, high-level management personnel and high-quality comprehensive talents. Sihanouk China Cambodia Friendship Institute of technology, which officially opened in 2018, has enrolled about 1000 local students. The Western Hong Kong SAR has always been enthusiastic about public welfare and charity to benefit the local people. The Special Administrative Region donated 254000 US dollars to build local schools; Actively contributing to the Cambodian Red Cross Society; They donated rice, water, mosquito nets and financial aid to the disaster areas.

Over the past eight years, the Western Hong Kong Special Zone has fully embodied the "China Cambodia co construction"

"Co construction", as the core concept of the belt and road initiative, means that all countries participate in and cooperate with each other to share development opportunities and expand common interests, so as to form a mutually beneficial and win-win community of interests, which has been fully reflected in the construction of the West Port special zone.

As the only state-level overseas park with bilateral government agreement signed by China and Cambodia, the government mechanism "support" promotes the operation and development under the framework of the bilateral coordination committee jointly led by the Ministry of Commerce and the Cambodian Development Council. The Chinese Embassy in Cambodia gives normalized guidance and support to identify problems and solve problems in time.

With the "support" of bilateral governments, the Wuxi Municipal People's government and the Health Bureau of Sihanouk province have set up health service centers in Xigang special zone since 2017. Doctors from Wuxi's public hospitals have been sent in turn to visit doctors all year round. By April 2020, 2196 patients have been provided with treatment services, Jiangsu Province has sent six groups of "Chinese doctors' love tour" medical team for voluntary diagnosis and treatment of nearly 8300 local patients, so that the surrounding people can see the benefits of development and feel that the quality of development is closely related to improving the quality of life. In order to support the development of the SAR, the Cambodian government has also set up a one-stop service center in the SAR, so that the enterprises settled in the SAR can complete the relevant procedures.

The Ministry of foreign affairs allocated a special fund to fund epidemic prevention materials. The Embassy in Cambodia actively promoted the "spring seedling program" to give priority to the vaccination of Chinese and Cambodian employees in the Western Hong Kong SAR. Jiangsu Province gave full support to epidemic prevention materials and telemedicine guidance.

Moreover, the development of the Western Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has been affirmed by the leaders of China and Cambodia. Chinese President Xi Jinping praised it as a "model of practical cooperation between China and Cambodia". Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen visited the Western Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for many times and called him "the son of his own". He also highly praised the Western Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as a "model of fruitful results achieved in the belt and road" cooperation between China and Cambodia.

In the future, version 2.0 of the Western Hong Kong SAR will open a new development bureau

The "14th five year plan" and the outline of long-term goals in 2035 clearly put forward to promote the high-quality development of the "belt and road" initiative. In his important speech delivered at the Third Forum on the belt and road initiative, President Xi Jinping pointed out that we should continue to promote the high-quality development of the belt and road initiative. The belt and road initiative has entered the 2.0 era, pointing out the direction for the international development of Chinese enterprises.

At present, the company is focusing on promoting the "three modernizations and Three Integrations", namely, promoting the industrialization of the park, internationalization of the park, capitalization of the park, strengthening the integration of industry and city, industry and education, enterprise development and social responsibility, and enabling the construction of the upgraded version of the special zone 2.0. From January to October this year, the special economic zone of Sihanouk port bucked the trend and rose. The total import and export volume of enterprises in the region reached 1.767 billion US dollars, an increase of 38.81% over the same period of last year.

It is reported that the China Cambodia free trade agreement Regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP) will come into effect on January 1, 2022. After the former comes into effect, the tariff free ratio between the two sides will exceed 90%, which will provide greater impetus for the two sides to deepen economic and trade cooperation. The latter will form the largest free trade zone covering 30% of the world's population and trade volume, and its member countries include Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines There are 15 countries including bin, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. The signing of RCEP will facilitate investment and trade for all Member States, and it is expected to form a regional investment climax. The Western Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has made preparations for China Cambodia free trade agreement and investors from various countries brought by RCEP, including the establishment of two universities to train skilled talents for the park. By then, the Western Hong Kong SAR will surely usher in a new round of faster and better development, so as to build a common destiny for China and Cambodia The same body makes new contributions.