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Achievements of reform and opening up in hometown

My hometown is Wuxi, a pearl on the shore of Taihu Lake. It is an ancient city with a history of more than 3,000 years, located in the center of the Yangtze River Delta, with Shanghai in the east, Nanjing in the west, Zhejiang and Anhui in the south, the Yangtze River in the north and Taihu Lake in the middle. The city has a total area of 4,788 square kilometers and a population of nearly 4.4 million, including an urban area of 1.659 square kilometers and a population of 2 1.59 million. It has jurisdiction over two county-level cities, Jiangyin and Yixing, and seven districts, namely Chong 'an, Nanchang, Beitang, Xishan, Huishan, Binhu and New District.

Wuxi has a subtropical monsoon maritime climate with four distinct seasons, with an average annual temperature of 15.5C, an average annual rainfall of 1000mm, a frost-free period of about 230 days and an average annual sunshine hours of about 2,000 hours. It is a famous land of fish and rice in China.

Wuxi is a famous tourist attraction. Wuxi is like a bright pearl on the shore of Taihu Lake, and its famous tourist attractions are beautiful. Blue waves ripple in Taihu Lake, and the ancient canal flows leisurely. Taihu Lake has beautiful scenery and outstanding people, which is condensed into "Eighteen Scenes of Wuxi Tourism": Zhu Yi Chuntao, Chicken Farm Qingyun, lingshan scenic spot, Xishan Qingyun, Zhongshi Cinema, Canal Antique, Er Quan Yue Ying, Taibo Ruins, Shanjuan Cave, Xiake's Hometown, Lihu Smoky Green and Ebi Lanjiang.

Wuxi is a historic city in the south of the Yangtze River. It has a long history and rich humanities, and has nurtured many cultural celebrities and artists, including Gu Kaizhi, a great painter in Jin Dynasty, Li Shen, a great poet in Tang Dynasty, Ni Zan, a great painter in Yuan Dynasty and Xu Xiake, a traveler in Ming Dynasty. In modern times, there were diplomats and thinkers Xue Fucheng, scientists Xu Shou and Xu, scientists Zhou Peiyuan and Qian Weichang, economists Sun and Xue Muqiao, masters of Chinese studies Qian Zhongshu, artists Xu Beihong and folk musicians. At present, there are nearly 70 academicians of Wuxi Academy of Sciences, ranking among the best in all cities in China.

Wuxi is a regional transportation hub, with beijing-shanghai railway, Xinchang Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, Hu Yi Expressway, Nanjing-Hangzhou Expressway and Jiang Yan Expressway criss-crossing. It is the intersection of Shanghai-Chengdu Expressway, Heilongjiang-Hainan Expressway and Shanghai-Beijing Expressway, and it is an important node connecting north and south and communicating east and west. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal runs through Wuxi. Jiangyin Port is one of the important transshipment ports in the Yangtze River estuary. With the opening of Wuxi Airport, the completion of Ning Hang-Jiang Yan Expressway and the construction of Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, Wuxi's position as a transportation hub will become more obvious.

Wuxi is an economic center city. /kloc-In the middle of the 20th century, Wuxi has become one of the "four rice markets" in China, and it is also a famous "silk market" and "cloth wharf". At the beginning of the 20th century, a number of industrial and commercial giants, represented by the Rong family, were born in Wuxi, which became one of the birthplaces of national industry and commerce in China and won the reputation of "little shanghai". In the early 1970s, Wuxi's township industry was at the forefront of the country. After the reform and opening up, Wuxi's economic aggregate has been ranked among the top ten large and medium-sized cities in China, and it has become one of the national 15 economic center cities and 13 larger cities. At present, Wuxi has created 1.6% of the national economic aggregate with about five ten thousandths of land and four thousandths of population.

Wuxi is a pioneer in opening to the outside world. Wuxi 1985 was approved as an open coastal city, which started early and made rapid progress. Open economy has become an important part of urban economy. In recent years, Wuxi's open economy has developed rapidly, becoming one of the most active cities in China, and a number of world-renowned multinational companies have invested in Wuxi. Japanese Highland, Korean Plate, Taiwan Province Team and Hongkong Group are on the rise.

Why is Wuxi so big?

Throughout recent years, it is not difficult to find that party and government leaders at all levels in Wuxi, under the guidance of the correct decision of the CPC Central Committee, have learned from the past and learned from the future. Unite the people, gather strength, speed up the pace of reform and opening up, foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, give play to local advantages, develop well, develop appropriately, create inappropriately, and go wherever you want, which is why Wuxi has written such a magnificent new chapter in the construction of socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization!

I. About the environment

As we all know, economic and social development needs the environment, and the core is the water environment. Water is the core and soul of the environment. And we Wuxi people are even more proud of Taihu Lake, and a song "The Beauty of Taihu Lake" sings all over the country.

However, in the late 1960s, a movement to reclaim the land around the lake changed its face mercilessly. Surrounding the lake, the land is enclosed, and grain and fresh fish are produced, but at the cost of accumulating a lot of silt, raising the bottom of the lake, reducing the water intake, reducing the self-purification ability of the lake, and causing secondary pollution of the lake. In addition, with the development of industry, a large amount of sewage has been brought into the rivers of lakes, and the water quality of lakes has been worse than the five categories for many years. At one time, Taihu Lake smelled bad, and fish and shrimp almost disappeared. The deterioration of water environment has caused great losses to Wuxi's economic and social development. Due to water pollution, the water intakes of Wuxi Meiyuan and Wuli Lake were forced to close. Every sudden water pollution incident in Meiliang Lake has caused billions of dollars in economic losses, and the water environment has deteriorated, greatly reducing the quality of life of citizens and seriously affecting the tourism environment, investment environment and ecological environment. Foreign guests and businessmen come to "Jiangnan Watertown", but Wuxi people are ashamed to take them to the riverside and lakeside.

In view of the increasingly serious water pollution problem, the Water Conservancy Bureau takes improving the water environment as the top priority of the current water conservancy work in accordance with the new concept of "people-oriented, respecting the law and harmony between people and water". The comprehensive improvement project of Lihu Lake, urban flood control and water diversion project and urban river regulation project were gradually implemented, and the urban and rural water environment was greatly improved. Nowadays, people can fish in the river and stroll in the leisure places by the water ... As the poem says, "Long willow, annual spring breeze, wheatgrass is always green acacia; Lake full of wahoo silver flowers, in full bloom after red rain washing ... "

The water in Taihu Lake has become clear, and the soul of Xicheng has been deeply purified, adding a lot of aura to this lakeside city. Wuxi people's brows began to stretch, and their proud smiles came back. This year's "May 1 Golden Week" saw an average of 40,000 people competing for the beautiful scenery of Wuli Lake every day.

Wuxi people are more determined about the present and the future. Our water conservancy construction should closely focus on the overall goal of the city's economic and social development, follow the new concept of "people-oriented, respect for laws and harmony between people and water", base on the three basic tasks of flood control safety, water resources supply and water environment protection, fundamentally solve the three major problems of water abundance, water scarcity and dirty water, and ensure the safety of drinking water, flood control safety, water for food production and water for economic development.

Two. Economic construction and development

For more than 20 years, under the trend of reform and opening-up, Wuxi people have firmly grasped the center of economic construction, emancipated their minds, boldly explored, seized opportunities, and innovated and developed, which has caused earth-shaking changes in all aspects of Wuxi's urban and rural economy and society. Comprehensive economic strength has achieved a major leap. During the 25 years from 1978 to 2003, the economic aggregate of this city increased sixfold. In 2003, the city's total output value reached19065438+200 million yuan, ranking ninth among large and medium-sized cities in China, with a per capita income of $5,200. The overall development level is taking the lead in moving towards the third-step strategic goal. Breakthrough progress has been made in opening up. Unswervingly implementing the strategy of opening to the outside world, the work of Sanyo has been comprehensively promoted, and the level of economic internationalization has been continuously improved, which has developed into one of the most open and dynamic regions in China. The city approved more than 8,300 foreign investment projects, and actually utilized foreign investment of 654.38 billion US dollars. The vitality of institutional mechanisms has been fundamentally enhanced. With the deepening of economic and social reforms, state-owned enterprises and township enterprises have shown new vitality, the private economy has developed rapidly, the social security system has become increasingly sound, the operating mechanism of the socialist market economy has been basically established, and the enthusiasm and creativity of the people have been fully stimulated. Urban and rural construction shows a brand-new image. The urbanization process is accelerating, the infrastructure system is improving day by day, the management level of urban planning and construction is improving rapidly, the environmental quality of urban and rural areas is obviously improved, and the centralized radiation function of modern central cities is enhanced, initially forming an urban system with gradient division of labor, reasonable layout and coordinated development. People's lives have improved significantly. The quality of life of urban and rural people has been fundamentally improved, and the level of education, employment and medical care has been continuously improved. In 2003, the per capita disposable income of urban residents and the per capita net income of farmers reached 1.654, 38+0.647 yuan and 6329 yuan respectively, and the per capita savings of urban and rural residents reached 24,000 yuan.

Specifically, since the reform and opening up, we have achieved four leaps in understanding and breakthroughs in practice:

The first leap in understanding and breakthrough in practice was to vigorously develop township enterprises, which greatly promoted the development of rural productive forces and created a new road of rural industrialization and modernization. Wuxi is one of the birthplaces of township industry in China. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, under the guidance of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's ideological line of "emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts and proceeding from reality", the broad masses of cadres and masses in Wuxi boldly broke through the shackles of "two whatevers" and broke away from the traditional planned economy, and promoted the township enterprises in our city to achieve a sudden emergence with the great pioneering work of "farmers running industries". 1992 After Comrade Deng Xiaoping's talk on the south was published, the township enterprises in our city entered the stage of "leaping" and "supernormal" rapid development, which created one economic miracle after another, and a number of well-known enterprises and brand-name products such as Huaxi, Sunshine, Red Bean and Far East emerged, which became the leading force supporting the industrialization of rural areas and even the whole city, and also promoted the rapid economic development of Wuxi in the last century. The rapid development of township enterprises and the continuous advancement of rural industrialization have not only successfully realized the non-agricultural transfer of rural surplus labor, but also made a large number of small towns rise rapidly through "building agriculture with industry" and "building towns with industry", and the competitiveness of rural areas has been rapidly enhanced. Relying on the vigorous development of township enterprises, Wuxi's rural economy has maintained rapid development for a long time, which has laid a solid foundation for realizing regional urban and rural planning and comprehensive and coordinated economic and social development in the new historical period.

The second leap in understanding and breakthrough in practice is to actively respond to Pudong's development and opening up and international industrial transfer, vigorously implement the opening-up strategy, and accelerate the marketization and internationalization of Wuxi's economy. "China's development can't be separated from the world" and "opening to the outside world is the road to a strong country" is a basic national policy. We should "seize the opportunity, make use of the international peaceful environment and absorb more useful things for us".

Under the guidance of the theory of opening to the outside world, the people of Wuxi have always placed the expansion of opening to the outside world in a prominent position in economic work, seized the development opportunity of Pudong's development and opening up, seized the favorable opportunity of international capital industry transfer, vigorously implemented the opening-driven strategy, and gradually promoted the development of opening to the outside world to a larger scale, a higher level and a wider field, which greatly promoted the rapid development of our city's productive forces and the rapid improvement of its internationalization level. At present, the utilization of foreign capital in Wuxi has entered a new stage of simultaneous development in quality, level, scale and benefit. Many internationally renowned multinational companies have settled in Wuxi, and 58 Fortune 500 companies have invested in Wuxi.

In 2003, foreign-funded industries accounted for 25% of the city's total industrial output value and became an important force in Wuxi's economy. What is particularly gratifying is that since the construction of Wuxi National High-tech Industrial Development Zone began on 1992, various key development and opening parks in Wuxi have flourished, becoming the most important window and platform for the city's opening up, the most attractive industrial gathering place and the "incubator" of scientific and technological achievements. At present, 85% of the city's foreign capital has settled in the development of open parks, and one-third of GDP and fiscal revenue come from parks. Park economy plays an increasingly important role in urban economic and social development. While actively "bringing in" and vigorously implementing the "going out" strategy, a number of key enterprises have embarked on a new road of transnational operation.

The third leap in understanding and breakthrough in practice is to establish and improve the operating mechanism of the socialist market economy, actively explore various forms of public ownership, constantly adjust and improve the ownership structure, and effectively enhance the endogenous power of economic development. "Revolution is liberating productive forces, and reform is liberating productive forces"; "After the establishment of the basic socialist system, we must fundamentally change the economic system that restricts the development of productive forces and establish a dynamic socialist economic system that promotes the development of productive forces"; Socialism can also engage in a market economy. Inspired and guided by a series of epoch-making famous theories of Comrade Deng Xiaoping, Wuxi people boldly broke through the shackles of "public", "private", "social" and "capital", adhered to the "three benefits" as the fundamental standard, and proceeded from the local reality to vigorously promote the ownership reform, which greatly enhanced the internal motivation and vitality of economic development. In rural areas, we should actively guide township enterprises to carry out asset reorganization and system innovation through joint-stock system and joint-stock cooperative system, especially after entering the new century, and strive to explore new forms of collective economy in view of the new situation of rural economic and social development. While promoting the "secondary restructuring" of township enterprises and enhancing their vitality and competitiveness, we took the lead in the joint-stock reform of village-level collective economy, promoted the separation of ownership and management rights of rural collective assets, and opened up a new path for rural reform and development; In cities, we will vigorously promote the reform of state-owned enterprises, accelerate the institutional innovation of state-owned enterprises and the strategic adjustment of state-owned economy, so that state-owned enterprises and state-owned economy will be full of vitality and form new advantages in developing competition. Vigorously develop capital management, and a number of enterprises such as Fu Wei, Little Swan, Sunshine and Sanfangxiang successfully went public, forming a "Wuxi Plate" with great influence in the capital market.

While accelerating the reform and development of state-owned and collective economy, we always adhere to the policy of "six liberalization", unswervingly support and promote the development of non-public economy, and actively support the private economy to become bigger and stronger. Last year, the added value created by the private economy accounted for 3 1.2% of the city's economy. The deepening reform and institutional innovation of urban and rural enterprises have greatly released the potential and vitality of economic development, promoted Wuxi's comprehensive economic strength to a new level, and provided good institutional and institutional conditions for rapid and healthy economic development.

The fourth leap in understanding and breakthrough in practice is to firmly grasp the important strategic opportunity period of development at the beginning of the new century, highlight the interactive promotion of new industrialization, internationalization and urbanization and the comprehensive and coordinated development of economy and society, and accelerate the process of "two firsts". The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a scientific judgment on the first two decades of 2 1 century, which is an important strategic opportunity period that must be firmly grasped and can make great achievements. For Wuxi, the key to seize this strategic opportunity period is to further clarify the development orientation, innovate the development momentum, improve the development level, and promote Wuxi's economic and social development at a higher level. The CPC Central Committee pays great attention to the development of the eastern region and places ardent expectations on it. The two General Secretaries of the Central Committee clearly pointed out that Jiangsu should take the lead in building a well-off society in an all-round way and basically realize modernization. As an important plate in Jiangsu and an important pole in southern Jiangsu, Wuxi is duty-bound to shoulder the heavy responsibility of "two firsts" in the province. Facing the new development tasks and requirements, the municipal party committee and the municipal government clearly put forward the goal of striving for "two leading" pilot areas and demonstration areas in the province, striving to build a well-off society with high standards and levels in an all-round way in the province and basically realize modernization. Around this goal, Wuxi has formulated and implemented the action plan of striving for "two leading" demonstration areas in the province, comprehensively promoted the "four strategies" of revitalizing the city through science and education, economic internationalization, urbanization and sustainable development, and successively launched major measures such as "three interactions", "three development directions" and "three concentration". The construction of "two first" demonstration areas has achieved remarkable results. In the past two years, the city's economy has maintained rapid and steady growth, the open economy and the private economy have gone hand in hand, various reforms have been deepened, the economic structure has been continuously optimized, and the overall vitality and competitiveness have been further enhanced; Breakthrough progress has been made in urban and rural construction, the planning and construction of the city's urban system has been accelerated, the city's functions and management level have been further improved, urban and rural ecological protection and environmental governance have been strengthened, and the city's environmental outlook has undergone major changes; The project of enriching the people has been vigorously promoted, and various measures to encourage entrepreneurship, expand employment and improve security have been well implemented. The income level of urban and rural people has been steadily improved, and the effectiveness of enriching the people has become increasingly apparent; Science and technology, education, culture, health and other undertakings have developed in a coordinated manner, and the building of spiritual civilization, democracy and the legal system and party building have been further strengthened. Our city has successively won the titles of national civilized city, national garden city and national environmental protection model city. And create a national double-support model city to achieve "four consecutive championships." All undertakings are thriving, and the prospect of achieving the goal of "two firsts" is gratifying.

Practice has proved that a strong sense of development, opportunity, striving for the first place and struggle is the most precious spiritual wealth of our reform and development for more than 20 years, and it is also the most important spiritual motivation for us to achieve the goal of "two taking the lead". The broad masses of cadres and people in the city are constantly strengthening this important idea. Everyone has always adhered to the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, and constantly deepened reform and opening up, which has injected inexhaustible vitality and vitality into economic and social development. For more than 20 years, Wuxi people have kept pace with the times, made pioneering efforts, constantly studied new situations, adapted to new situations, solved new problems, and, relying on deepening reform and opening wider to the outside world, broke through the institutional constraints that did not meet the requirements of the development of productive forces again and again, winning the opportunities for economic and social development.

Three. Science, education, culture and health

High-quality resources for basic education have been further expanded, and all kinds of education at all levels have been further developed. By the end of 2003, there were 76 1 school of all levels and types, with 770,300 students, an increase of 654.38+0.40. Medical conditions have been further improved. In 2003, there were 1387 medical and health institutions in the city, including 37 general hospitals, 8 specialized hospitals, 6 hospitals of traditional Chinese medicine and integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, 6 township hospitals 1654 and 5 sanatoriums. Cultural facilities continued to improve. In 2003, there were 127 art and cultural centers (stations), 9 public libraries and 5 museums (within the cultural system). Cultural undertakings are brilliant. Successfully held the first "China Wuxi? Taihu International Folk Music Exhibition held 140 performances in various squares and organized more than 50 public welfare performances.

To sum up, Wuxi has changed with each passing day since the reform. We have seen it with our own eyes, felt it deeply and experienced it. We are grateful for all the great changes brought about by the reform and opening up, and we have realized the greatness of the party.

Therefore, in the future, we should adhere to the pace of reform and improve the comprehensive strength of Wuxi:

Taking improving the quality of population as a breakthrough to effectively develop human resources; To speed up the adjustment of industrial structure as the main line and to greatly improve the comprehensive competitiveness of the economy as the goal; It is necessary to focus on infrastructure construction and further consolidate the foundation for the rise of comprehensive strength; Improve the social development system and promote the all-round progress of social undertakings ... We firmly believe that Wuxi will have a better tomorrow.

Nowadays, when studying abroad, whenever my hometown people talk about the local construction and development, or occasionally read relevant news reports in the newspaper, I am excited and feel very cordial. I sincerely wish Wuxi, which has superior subjective and objective conditions, will forge ahead into the future, create new achievements, write a new chapter and open up a new world in the tide of reform and opening up!