ThePaper.cn:
The guideline uses many beautiful words to describe Pudong's future, including the vision to become a shining pearl of a great modern socialist country by 2050. I would like to ask Mr. Weng, how will Pudong New Area achieve this goal? Could you give us an idea of Pudong's future? Thank you.
Weng Zuliang:
Thank you for your questions. The guideline assigns Pudong the major task of building a leading area for socialist modernization and the grand goal of becoming a shining pearl of a great modern socialist country by 2050, fully embodying the expectations of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the CPC Central Committee for Pudong. Officials and people in Pudong are greatly encouraged and inspired.
On the new journey, Pudong will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly study and implement the principles of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the grand gathering celebrating the 30th anniversary of Pudong's development and opening-up and his other important speeches and instructions about Shanghai, and unswervingly move forward along the three paths that General Secretary Xi Jinping has outlined for Pudong.
First, we will unswervingly free minds and deepen reform. We will comprehensively free minds in order to guide and promote in-depth reform breakthroughs. When making plans for reform breakthroughs, we will give more consideration to the whole development process of things, the entire chain of industrial development, and the full life cycle of enterprises. We will focus on strategic reforms, pioneering reforms, fundamental reforms, targeted reforms, and improvement-oriented reforms to stimulate market vitality and enhance governance efficiency.
Second, we will unswervingly expand opening-up to the world. We will pursue opening-up at a deeper level, in broader areas, and with greater intensity, and pay greater attention to institutional opening-up. We will give better play to the role of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone and its Lingang Special Area as "test fields," align ourselves with the highest international standards and levels, and step up stress test.
Third, we will unswervingly break free from conventions and pursue innovation and breakthroughs. We will strive to make major innovations in basic science and technology and major breakthroughs in key and core technologies. We will optimize the ecology for innovation and entrepreneurship, smooth the two-way fast lane linking basic research, applied research, and industrialization and build world-class industrial clusters.
The central government has outlined a beautiful vision for Pudong by 2050. In addition to becoming a shining pearl of a great modern socialist country, Pudding is also expected to become an important urban area with strong global appeal, creativity, competitiveness, and influence, and a global model for urban governance capability and efficiency. In my mind, Pudong in the future will become the best destination for global investment, trade, and entrepreneurship. Goods, technology, talents, data, and capital from all over the world will be efficiently allocated here, and new discoveries, inventions, start-ups, and products will constantly emerge. In the future, Pudong will also become the best example of a "people's city," where everyone has the opportunity to excel in life, and can participate in governance in an orderly manner, enjoy a high-quality life, feel the human touch and have a sense of identity and belonging. The people living in Pudong will feel a sense of gain, happiness, and security. Thank you.
