My hometown is a pearl on the shore of Taihu Lake - Wuxi. He is an ancient city with a history of more than three thousand years, is located in the center of the Yangtze River Delta, east of Shanghai, west of Nanjing, south of Zhejiang and Anhui, north of the Yangtze River, in the embrace of the Taihu Lake, the city's total area of 4,788 square kilometers, with a population of nearly 4.4 million people, of which the urban area of 1,659 square kilometers, with a population of 2,159,000 people. It now 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 is a subtropical monsoon oceanic climate, mild and humid, four distinct seasons, the average annual temperature of 15.5C, the average annual rainfall of 1,000 millimeters, the annual frost-free period of 230 days or so, the average annual sunshine hours of about 2,000 hours, the water is beautiful, fertile soil, rich in produce, is the country's famous fish and rice town.
Wuxi is a famous tourist attraction, Wuxi is like a brilliant pearl on the shore of Taihu Lake, the famous tourist attractions are breathtaking. The blue ripples of Taihu Lake, flowing ancient Canal, Taihu Lake, humanities, condensed into "Wuxi Tourism eighteen scenic spots": soft-shelled turtle spring waves, send smooth clear rhyme, Lingshan victory, Xishan clear clouds, CTS Studio, the ancient style of the Canal, the two springs reflecting the moon, the remains of Taebol, the good volume of the cave sky, the home of XIAKE, the smoke of the green Li Lake, Goosebite River, the Plum Park, Yixing, Bamboo Sea, Xuejia Garden, Taihu Lake, Yixing, the Xuejia Garden, the Xuejia Garden, Wuxi, Wuxi, Wuxi, the Wuxi Tourist attractions. Bamboo Sea, Xue's Garden, Taihu Island, Donglin Academy, Longtou Horse Tracks and so on.
Wuxi is a famous historical city in the south of the Yangtze River, it has a long history, humanities, has bred many cultural celebrities and art giants, there is the great painter Gu Kaizhi in the Jin Dynasty, the great poet Li Shen in the Tang Dynasty, the great painter Ni Zan in the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty tourists, Xu Xiake, modern diplomats, thinkers, Xue Fucheng, scientists, Xu Shou, Xu Jianyin and his father and son, the modern scientists Zhou Peiyuan, Qian Weichang, the economists, Sun Yefang, Xue Muliqiao, the master of national science Qian Zhongshu, the art of art, and the master of the world, Qian Zhongshu, the master of art. In modern times, there are scientists Zhou Peiyuan and Qian Weichang, economists Sun Yefang and Xue Muqiao, national scholar Qian Zhongshu, art master Xu Beihong, and folk musician Hua Yanjun. At present, there are nearly 70 academicians of the two academies in Wuxi, which is the highest among all cities in China.
Wuxi is a regional transportation hub, with Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Xinchang Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, Shanghai-Italy Expressway, Ning-Hangzhou Expressway, and Yanjiang Expressway crisscrossing the city, and it is the intersection of three expressways from Shanghai to Chengdu, from Heilongjiang to Hainan, and from Shanghai to Beijing, which are important nodes connecting the north and south, and communicating with the east and west. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes through Wuxi. Jiangyin Port is one of the important dressing ports of the Yangtze River to the sea. With the opening of the Wuxi Airport, the completion of the Ninghang and Yanjiang Expressway and the construction of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railroad, Wuxi's position as a transportation hub will be more obvious.
Wuxi is the economic center of the city, in the mid-19th century, Wuxi has been one of the country's "four major rice markets", but also known as the "silk market", "cloth wharf". 20 century, Wuxi was born in the early 20th century, with the birth of a new city, Wuxi, and its famous "silk market" and "cloth wharf". At the beginning of the 20th century, Wuxi gave birth to a group of industrial and commercial giants represented by the Rong family, and became one of the birthplaces of China's national industry and commerce, earning it the nickname "Little Shanghai". In the early seventies, Wuxi's township industry was the first to rise in the country. After the reform and opening up, Wuxi's economy has always ranked among the top ten of large and medium-sized cities in China, and has become one of the 15 economic center cities and 13 larger cities in China. At present, Wuxi has created 1.6% of the country's total economic output with about five-tenths of the country's land and four-thousandths of its population.
Wuxi is also the pioneer of opening up to the outside world, Wuxi was approved as a coastal open city in 1985, opening up to the outside world started early and made rapid progress, the open economy has become an important part of the city's economy. In recent years, Wuxi's open economy has developed rapidly, becoming one of the most economically active cities in the country, and a number of world-famous multinational corporations have invested and prospered in Wuxi. "Japanese-invested highland", "Korean-invested plate", "Taiwan-invested team", "Hong Kong-invested groups" are emerging.
Why is Wuxi so prosperous?
Looking at recent years, it is not difficult to find that the party and government leaders at all levels in Wuxi City, under the guidance of the correct decision-making of the Central Committee of the CPC, to identify the past, the policy to come here. Solidarity with the people, the group, speed up the pace of reform and opening up, to take advantage of their strengths, give full play to the local advantages, Chang its good, Xing its appropriate, create its no, run to its direction, the reason why the writing of the Wuxi is so magnificent socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization construction of a new chapter!
I. On the environment
We all know that economic and social development needs environment, and the core is the water environment. Water is the core of the environment, water is the soul of the environment. And we Wuxi people are proud of the water of the Taihu Lake, a song "Taihu Lake" is sung all over the country.
However, at the end of the 1960s, a campaign to encircle the lake and create fields mercilessly changed its appearance. Surrounding the lake, surrounded by the land, the output of food and fresh fish, the price is a large accumulation of silt, elevated the bottom of the lake, reducing the water capacity, reducing the self-purification capacity of the lake, resulting in secondary pollution of lake water, coupled with the development of industry, and then connected to the lake and the river's large amount of sewage, the lake's water quality for many years worse than the five types of lake water was once a foul smell, fish and shrimp are almost extinct. The deterioration of the water environment so that the economic and social development of Wuxi suffered a huge loss. As a result of water pollution, Wuxi water source Meiyuan and Wuli Lake intake was forced to close. Meiliang Lake every time a sudden water pollution incident, resulting in economic losses are in the billions of dollars, the deterioration of the water environment, but also greatly reduces the quality of life of the public, seriously affecting the tourism environment, investment environment and ecological environment. Foreign guests and businessmen came to the "Jiangnan Water City", Wuxi people are ashamed to take them to the river, lakeside.
In response to the increasingly serious water pollution, the Water Resources Bureau in accordance with the "people-oriented, respect for the laws, water harmony" of the new concept of water management, the water environment as the current water work of the top priority. Li Lake Comprehensive Improvement Project, urban flood control and water transfer projects, urban river improvement projects such as the step-by-step implementation of the urban and rural water environment greatly improved. Now people can fish in the river, can be in the waterfront recreational places to stroll ...... As written in the poem: "The long willow embankment, the annual spring breeze, fangfei is always green acacia; full of lake fire tree silver flowers, in the washing after the red rain bloom... ..."
The water of Taihu Lake has become clearer, and the soul of the city of Xicheng has been profoundly purified, adding a lot of aura to this lakeside city. Wuxi people began to stretch the eyebrows, proud smile back, this year, "May Day Golden Week" even appeared in the daily average of 40,000 people to see the beauty of Wuli Lake scene.
Wuxi is more determined to the current and future period, our water conservancy construction to closely around the city's economic and social development of the overall goal, in accordance with the "people-oriented, respect for the laws of water harmony" of the new concept of water, based on the flood control and security, water resources, water environmental protection, the three major tasks, to solve the fundamental problem of More water, less water, dirty water three major problems, to ensure the safety of drinking water, flood control, food production, water security, economic development, water security and ecological water security needs for the city to achieve overall well-off, the first to basically modernize the city to provide good water services for the sustainable socio-economic development of the city to provide a good water environment.
II. Economic construction and development
Twenty years, the people of Wuxi in the trend of reform and opening up, grasp the center of economic construction, emancipation of the mind, bold exploration, seize the opportunity, innovation and development, so that all aspects of the economic and social development of urban and rural areas of Wuxi have undergone a sea change. Comprehensive economic strength to achieve a major leap. 1978 to 2003, twenty-five years, the city's total economic output doubled six times in 2003, the city's gross domestic product of 1901.2 billion yuan, ranking ninth in the country's large and medium-sized cities, per capita reached 5,200 U.S. dollars, the overall level of development is taking the lead in the third step towards the strategic objectives. Breakthrough progress in opening up to the outside world. Unswervingly implement the opening-up strategy, "three foreign" work to promote comprehensively, the internationalization of the economy continues to improve, has developed into one of China's most open and dynamic region. The city has approved more than 8,300 foreign investment projects, and the actual utilization of foreign capital has reached 14.9 billion U.S. dollars. The vitality of the institutional mechanism has been fundamentally enhanced. Continuously deepening the reform of all aspects of the economy and society, state-owned enterprises, township and village enterprises with new vitality, the rapid growth of the private economy, social security system is increasingly sound, basically established the operating mechanism of the socialist market economy, the people's enthusiasm, creativity has been fully stimulated. Urban and rural construction to show a new image. The process of urbanization is accelerating, the infrastructure system is becoming more and more perfect, the level of urban planning, construction and management is rapidly improving, the quality of the urban and rural environment has improved significantly, and the gathering and radiation function of the modernized central city has been strengthened, initially forming a gradient division of labor, rational layout, coordinated development of the town system. People's life has been significantly improved. Urban and rural people's quality of life has been a fundamental improvement, education, employment, medical care and other levels continue to improve, in 2003, the per capita disposable income of urban residents, the per capita net income of peasants reached 11,647 yuan and 6,329 yuan, per capita savings of urban and rural residents reached 2.4 million yuan.
In detail, we have four leaps in understanding and breakthroughs in practice in the reform and opening up:
The first leap in understanding and breakthroughs in practice is the development of township and village enterprises, which greatly contributed to the development of rural productive forces, and created a new road of industrialization and modernization of the rural development. Wuxi is one of the birthplaces of township industry in China. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, under the guidance of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's ideological line of "emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, and starting from the actual situation", the cadres and masses in Wuxi have boldly broken through the bondage of "Two Fans" and the traditional framework of planned economy. "Farmers run industry" this great initiative to promote the city's township enterprises to realize the upsurge. 1992 Comrade Deng Xiaoping's Southern Dialogue published, the city's township enterprises into the "jumping", "super-conventional "The rapid development stage, with extraordinary speed of development created one economic miracle after another, emerged a number of nationally renowned enterprises and brand-name products such as Huaxi, sunshine, red bean, far east, and so on, and become the leading force to support the rural areas and even the city's industrialization, but also led to the rapid development of the entire Wuxi economy in the last century. The rapid development of township enterprises and the continuous promotion of rural industrialization, not only succeeded in realizing the non-agricultural transfer of surplus rural labor force, but also through the "industrial construction of agriculture", "industrial construction of towns", so that a large number of small towns rising rapidly, the rural regional competitiveness quickly The competitiveness of rural areas has increased rapidly. Relying on the vigorous development of township enterprises, Wuxi's rural economy has maintained rapid development over a long period of time, laying a solid foundation for the realization of regional urban-rural integration and the 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 the development and opening up of Pudong and the international transfer of industries, and vigorously implement the strategy of opening up and speeding up the process of marketization and internationalization of the Wuxi economy. "China's development can not be separated from the world", "open to the outside world is the way to strengthen the country", is a basic national policy, to "seize the opportunity to take advantage of the international peaceful environment, and absorb more of what is useful to us! ".
Under the guidance of the theory of opening to the outside world, the people of Wuxi have always put the expansion of opening to the outside world in a prominent position in the economic work, grasping the development opportunities of the development and opening up of Pudong, grasping the favorable opportunity of the transfer of international capital and industry, vigorously implementing the strategy of opening up and driving the development of the city's productive forces and internationalization, and promoting the opening up of the city step by step to a larger scale, a higher level, and a wider range of development, which greatly promoted the rapid development and rapid increase of our productivity and internationalization. It has greatly promoted the rapid development of the city's productivity and the rapid enhancement of the degree of internationalization. At present, the use of foreign investment in Wuxi has entered a new stage of synchronous development of quality, level, scale and efficiency, many internationally renowned multinational corporations have settled in Wuxi, the world's top 500 enterprises in Wuxi, there have been 58 investment in Wuxi.
In 2003, foreign-funded industries accounted for the proportion of the city's total industry has reached 25%, becoming an important force in Wuxi's economy. Especially gratifying is that, since 1992, Wuxi National High-tech Industrial Development Zone began construction, Wuxi, all kinds of key development and opening up the park flourished, become the city's most important window and platform for opening up to the outside world, the most attractive industrial agglomerations and scientific and technological achievements of the "incubator". At present, 85% of the city's foreign investment in the development and opening up of parks, one-third of the gross domestic product and fiscal revenue from the parks, parks in the city's economic and social development of the economy is playing an increasingly important role. In actively "bring in" at the same time, vigorously implement the "go out" strategy, a number of backbone enterprises out of the new way of transnational business.
The third leap in understanding and breakthrough in practice is centered on the establishment and improvement of the operating mechanism of the socialist market economy, actively exploring various forms of realization of public ownership, constantly adjusting and perfecting the ownership structure, and effectively enhancing the endogenous momentum of economic development. "Revolution is the emancipation of the productive forces, and reform is also the emancipation of the productive forces"; "After the establishment of the basic socialist system, it is also necessary to fundamentally change the economic system that binds the development of the productive forces, to set up a socialist economic system that is full of vigor and vitality, and to promote the development of the productive forces "; "Socialism can also engage in market economy". Inspired and guided by this series of epoch-making and famous assertions of Comrade Deng Xiaoping, the people of Wuxi boldly broke through the "public" and "private" names, the "social" and "capital" names. The people of Wuxi boldly broke the "public", "private", "social" and "capital" constraints, adhere to the "three conducive" as the fundamental criteria, from the local reality, vigorously promote the ownership reform, and greatly enhance the inherent dynamics and vitality of economic development. In rural areas, actively guide township enterprises through the shareholding system, joint-stock cooperative system and other forms of asset restructuring and system innovation, especially after entering the new century, in view of the new situation of economic and social development in rural areas, and strive to explore new forms of realization of the collective economy, and to promote the township enterprises "second restructuring", to enhance the vitality and competitiveness of the same time, the first village-level collective economy shareholding system. It took the lead in the reform of village-level collective economic shareholding system, promoting the separation of ownership and operation rights of rural collective assets and opening up a new way of rural reform and development; in the cities, it vigorously pushed forward the reform of state-owned enterprises, accelerated the innovation of the system of state-owned enterprises and the strategic adjustment of state-owned economy, which revitalized state-owned enterprises and the state-owned economy, and formed a new competitive advantage in development. Vigorously develop capital management, Weifu, Swan, Sunshine, three rooms, and a number of enterprises have been successfully listed, the formation of the capital market has a greater impact on the "Wuxi plate".
In accelerating the reform and development of state-owned and collective economy, always adhere to the "six" policy, 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 has risen to 31.2% of the city's economy. The deepening of reforms and institutional innovations in urban and rural enterprises have greatly released the potential and vitality of economic development, pushed the comprehensive strength of Wuxi's economy to a new level, and provided good institutional and institutional conditions for the rapid and healthy development of the economy.
The fourth leap in understanding and breakthrough in practice is to seize the major strategic opportunity for development at the beginning of the new century, highlighting the new industrialization, internationalization, urbanization and the interaction of economic and social development in a comprehensive and coordinated manner, to accelerate the process of "two firsts". The 16th Party Congress made the scientific judgment that the first twenty years of the 21st century is a period of important strategic opportunity that must be grasped tightly and can make great achievements. For us in Wuxi, to seize this strategic opportunity, the key is to the new century and the new stage of the new situation facing the new requirements, to further clarify the development of positioning, innovation and development of power, enhance the level of development, and to promote the economic and social development of Wuxi at a higher level to accelerate the development. The CPC Central Committee is highly concerned about the development of the eastern region and has high expectations. The two general secretaries of the Central Committee clearly put forward Jiangsu to take the lead in building a moderately prosperous society in all aspects, and take the lead in basically realizing modernization. Wuxi as an important plate of Jiangsu, South Jiangsu an important pole, for the province's "two first" to bear the burden of responsibility. In the face of new development tasks and requirements, the municipal party committee and the municipal government clearly put forward to create the province's "two first" pilot area, demonstration area of the goal of the struggle, and strive to take the lead in the province to build a high-standard, high level of comprehensive well-off society, take the lead in the realization of basic modernization. Focusing on this goal, we have formulated and implemented the "Wuxi Strives to Create the Province's "Two Pioneering" Pilot and Demonstration Zones Action Outline", comprehensively promoted the "four major strategies" of developing the city through science and education, internationalization of the economy, urbanization and sustainable development, and launched the "Three Interactions" and the "Three Interactions" campaigns. "The construction of the pilot zone demonstration area has achieved obvious results. The construction of the "two pioneering" pilot zone demonstration area has achieved obvious results. In the past two years, the city's economy to maintain rapid and stable growth, open economy, private economy, the deepening of reforms, economic structure continues to optimize the overall vitality and competitiveness to further enhance; urban and rural construction has made breakthroughs in progress, the city's town system planning and construction to speed up the advancement of the city's functionality and management level to further improve the urban and rural ecological protection and environmental governance has been strengthened, the entire city environment The city's environment and appearance have undergone significant changes; the project of enriching the people has been vigorously promoted, the measures of encouraging entrepreneurship, expanding employment and perfecting security have been well implemented, the income level of the urban and rural people has steadily increased, and the effectiveness of enriching the people has been increasingly apparent; the coordinated development of science and technology, education, culture, health and other undertakings, and the further strengthening of spiritual civilization, democracy and law and order, and party building. The city has won the titles of Advanced City in Creating National Civilized Cities, National Garden City, National Environmental Protection Model City, etc. The city has achieved "four consecutive championships" in Creating National Model Cities for Double Embrace, and all undertakings are thriving, with promising prospects for realizing the goal of "two firsts".
Practice
Practice has proved that a strong sense of development, sense of opportunity, sense of priority and sense of practical work, is the most valuable spiritual wealth of our reform and development for more than two decades, but also the most important spiritual impetus to achieve the goal of "two first". The majority of the city's cadres and masses are constantly strengthening this important ideological **** knowledge. We have always adhered to the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, deepening reform, expanding opening up, and injecting inexhaustible vitality and vigor into economic and social development. Over the past two decades, the people of Wuxi have been advancing with the times, pioneering, constantly studying new situations, adapting to new circumstances, solving new problems, relying on deepening reform and expanding opening up, breaking through the institutional constraints that are not adapted to the requirements of the development of the productive forces over and over again, and winning the leading edge of economic and social development.
Three. Science, education, culture and health
Basic education quality resources to further expand the further development of all levels and types of education at the end of 2003 has all levels and types of schools 761, with 770,300 students, an increase of 10,400 people. Medical conditions further improved. 2003, the city has 1,387 health care institutions, including 37 general hospitals, 18 specialized hospitals, Chinese hospitals, Chinese and Western medicine hospitals, 6, 114 township health centers, sanatoriums 5. Cultural facilities continue to improve, in 2003, art, cultural centers (stations) 127, public **** library 9, museums (within the cultural system) 5. Cultural endeavors brilliant. Successfully hosted the first "China Wuxi? Taihu International Folk Music Exhibition", held 140 various types of square arts, organized more than 50 public performances and so on.
In summary, since the reform, Wuxi is changing rapidly, we have seen, but also y felt, experienced. We are grateful for the reform and opening up to bring us all these great changes, we more appreciate the greatness of the party.
So in the days ahead, we are more to adhere to the pace of reform and improve the comprehensive strength of the city of Wuxi:
We should improve the quality of population as a breakthrough, efficient development of human resources; to speed up the adjustment of industrial structure as the main line, to substantially improve the overall competitiveness of the economy as the goal; to focus on infrastructure construction, to further consolidate the foundation for the rise of the comprehensive strength; but also to Improve the social development system, promote the overall progress of social undertakings ...... We firmly believe that Wuxi's tomorrow will be better.
Nowadays, studying outside, every hometown people talk about the development of the local construction, or read the relevant news reports in the newspaper, all make me excited, doubly affectionate. I sincerely hope that Wuxi, with favorable subjective and objective conditions, to carry forward the past and the future, the past and the future, in the tide of reform and opening up, to achieve new results, write a new chapter, create a new world!