Changes in Wuxi before and after the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up

My hometown is a pearl on the shore of Taihu Lake - Wuxi.

He is an ancient city with a history of more than 3,000 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, embracing the Taihu Lake, the city's total area of 4,788 square kilometers, the population of nearly 4.4 million people, of which the city area of 1,659 square kilometers, the population of 2.159 million people.

Now has jurisdiction over Jiangyin, Yixing two county-level cities and Chong'an, Nanchang, Beitang, Xishan, Huishan, Binhu, the new district seven districts.

Wuxi is a subtropical monsoon oceanic climate, mild and humid, four seasons, the average annual temperature of 15.5C, the average annual rainfall of 1000 mm, the annual frost-free period of 230 days, the average annual sunshine hours of 2000 hours or so, the water is beautiful, fertile soil, rich in produce, is the nationally renowned fish and rice country.

Wuxi is a famous tourist destination, Wuxi is like a brilliant pearl on the shore of Taihu Lake, the famous tourist attractions are breathtaking.

The rippling waters of Taihu Lake, the leisurely flow of the ancient Canal, Taihu Lake, the best of the humanities, condensed into "Wuxi Tourism eighteen scenic spots": soft-shelled turtle spring waves, send Chang Qingyun, Mount Lingshan, Xishan clear clouds, the CCTV studio, the ancient style of the Canal, two springs reflecting the moon, the remains of the Taibo, the good volume of the cave sky, the home of Xiamen, the smoke of the Li Lake green, Goosebumps River, Plum Garden, Yixing Bamboo Sea, Xue's Garden, Taihu Island, Donglin Academy, Dragon Head Horse Tracks, etc..

Wuxi is a famous historical city in Jiangnan, it has a long history, humanities, has bred a lot of 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, father and son, the modern scientists Zhou Peiyuan, Qian Weichang, the economists, Sun Yefang, Xue Mukai, the master of Chinese culture Qian Zhongshu, art masters, Xue Mukiao, and so on. Chinese master Qian Zhongshu, art master Xu Beihong, folk musician Hua Yanjun and so on.

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 *** communication hub, Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Xinchang Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, Shanghai-Italy Expressway, Ning-Hangzhou Expressway, Yanjiang Expressway, etc., crisscrossing the area, and it is the intersection of three highways from Shanghai to Chengdu, from Heilongjiang to Hainan, and from Shanghai to Beijing, which is an important node for 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 was already one of the "four major rice markets" in the country, and was also known as the "silk market" and "cloth dock".

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 1970s, Wuxi's township industry took the lead 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 it has become one of the 15 economic centers and 13 larger cities in China.

Currently, Wuxi creates 1.6% of the country's total economy with about five ten thousandths of the country's land and four thousandths of the country's population.

Wuxi is a pioneer in opening up to the outside world. In 1985, Wuxi was approved as an open coastal city, and opening up to the outside world started early and progressed quickly, and 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, with a number of world-renowned multinational corporations investing in Wuxi.

"Japanese-funded highland", "Korean-funded plate", "Taiwan-funded team", "Hong Kong-funded groups" Competitive emergence.

Why is Wuxi so prosperous?

Throughout recent years, it is not difficult to find, Wuxi City, party and government leaders at all levels, under the guidance of the correct decision-making of the Party Central Committee, to identify the past, the policy to come here.

Unite the people, group efforts, accelerate the pace of reform and opening up, to take advantage of their strengths and weaknesses, give full play to the local advantages, Chang its good, Xing its appropriate, to create their own no, run to its direction, the reason why the writing of the Wuxi is so magnificent socialist material civilization and the construction of spiritual civilization of the new chapter!

I. About the environment

As we all know, 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 beautiful" is sung all over the country.

However, at the end of the 1960s, a campaign to encircle the lake mercilessly changed its appearance.

The enclosure of the lake, the enclosure of the land, the output of food and 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 the lake water, coupled with the development of industry, and then connected to a large number of sewage into the lake waterway, the lake water quality for many years inferior to the five types of lake water was once a burst of stench, fish and shrimp are almost extinct.

The deterioration of the water environment in Wuxi's economic and social development has suffered a huge loss.

As a result of water pollution, the 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, a serious impact on 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 remediation project, urban flood control and water transfer projects, urban river improvement projects such as the step-by-step implementation of 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: "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 Xicheng has been profoundly purified once, adding a lot of aura to this lakeside city.

Wuxi people began to stretch their brows, proud smile and back, this year's "May Day Golden Week" even appeared in the daily average of 40,000 people to see the beauty of Wuli Lake scene.

Wuxi people are firm 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, water harmony" of the new concept of water, based on the flood control and security, water resources, water environmental protection, three basic tasks, to solve the problem of the fundamental Water, water, water, dirty three major problems, to ensure the safety of drinking water, flood security, water security for food production, water security for economic development and ecological water security needs, for the city to achieve overall well-off, the first basic modernization of the city to provide a good water service for the sustainable socio-economic development of the city to provide a good water environment.

II. Development of economic construction

More than two decades, 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 urban and rural economic and social development in Wuxi has undergone a sea change.

The comprehensive strength of the economy has realized a major leap.

In the twenty-five years between 1978 and 2003, the city's total economic output doubled six times, and the city's GDP in 2003 was 190.12 billion yuan, ranking 9th among large and medium-sized cities in the country, with a per capita income of 5,200 U.S. dollars, and the overall level of development is taking the lead in the third step towards the strategic goal.

Opening up to the outside world has made a breakthrough.

Unwavering implementation of the open-drive strategy, "three foreign" work to promote the full range of internationalization of the economy is constantly improving, 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 deepen 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, the social security system is becoming increasingly sound, basically set up the operating mechanism of the socialist market economy, and the people's enthusiasm and creativity have 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, the function of the modern central city of the agglomeration of radiation has been strengthened, the initial formation of a gradient division of labor, rational layout, coordinated development of the town system.

People's lives have been significantly improved.

People's quality of life in urban and rural areas has been fundamentally improved, 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 was the development of township and village enterprises, which greatly contributed to the development of rural productive forces, and created a new path of industrialization and modernization of the countryside.

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 (CPC), under the guidance of the ideological line of Comrade *** "emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, and start from the actual situation", the cadres and masses in Wuxi boldly broke the bondage of the "Two Fans", broke the traditional planned economy, and took the "farmers and peasants" as the basis for the development of rural industrialization and modernization. The framework of the "farmers to run the industry" this great initiative to promote the city's township enterprises to realize the emergence of a new force.

1992 *** Comrade Southern Talks published, the city township enterprises into a "jumping", "extraordinary" stage of rapid development, with extraordinary speed of development to create an economic miracle, emerged Huaxi, Sunshine, Red Bean, Far Eastern, and so on. Sunshine, red beans, far east and a number of nationally renowned enterprises and brand-name products, 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 and village enterprises and the continuous promotion of rural industrialization, not only succeeded in realizing the non-agricultural transfer of surplus rural labor, but also through the "construction of agriculture", "construction of towns", so that a large number of small towns and cities quickly rise, rural The company's business is also a major player in the market, and the company's competitiveness is rapidly increasing.

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 comprehensive economic and social coordinated development in the new historical period.

? The second leap in understanding and breakthrough in practice is to actively echo the development and opening up of Pudong and the international transfer of industries, and vigorously implement the strategy of opening up and leading the way, accelerating the 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 idea and theory of opening up to the outside world, the people of Wuxi have always put the expansion of opening up to the outside world in a prominent position in the economic work, and seize the development opportunities of the Pudong development and opening up, firmly grasp the favorable opportunities for the transfer of international capital and industry, and vigorously implement the strategy of opening up and driving the development of the city step by step to open up to the outside world to a larger scale, at a higher level, and wider areas, greatly facilitating the rapid development of our city's productive forces and the rapid rise of the internationalization of the city. The city's rapid development of productivity and internationalization has been greatly facilitated by the rapid increase in the degree of internationalization.

At present, the utilization of foreign capital in Wuxi has entered a new stage of synchronous development of quality, level, scale and efficiency, and many internationally renowned multinational corporations have settled in Wuxi, with 58 of the world's top 500 enterprises investing in Wuxi.

In 2003, the proportion of foreign-funded industries in the city's total industry has reached 25%, becoming an important force in Wuxi's economy.

What is especially gratifying is that since the construction of the Wuxi National Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone began in 1992, all kinds of key development and opening up of the parks in Wuxi have flourished, and have become the city's most important opening-up windows and platforms, and 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 the park, one-third of the gross domestic product and fiscal revenue from the park, the park economy in the city's economic and social development is playing an increasingly important role.

While actively "bringing in", vigorously implement the "going out" strategy, a number of backbone enterprises out of the new cross-border 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, and constantly adjusting and perfecting the ownership structure, so as to effectively strengthen the endogenous momentum of economic development.

"Revolution is to liberate the productive forces, and reform is also to liberate the productive forces"; "After the establishment of the basic socialist system, it is also necessary to fundamentally change the economic system that restrains the development of the productive forces, and to establish a socialist economic system that is full of vigor and vitality, so as to promote the development of the productive forces "; "Socialism can also engage in market economy".

Encouraged and guided by this series of epoch-making and famous assertions of Comrade ***, the people of Wuxi have boldly broken through the "public" and "private" names, and the "social" and "capital" names.

In the countryside, actively guiding 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, for 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 vitality and competitiveness, and to take the lead in the village-level reform. At the same time, the first village-level collective economic shareholding reform, to promote the separation of ownership and operation of rural collective assets, opened up a new way of rural reform and development; in the city, vigorously promote the reform of state-owned enterprises, accelerate the innovation of state-owned enterprise system and strategic adjustment of the state-owned economy, so that the state-owned enterprises, the state-owned economy has been revitalized, the formation of a new development of competitive advantage.

Vigorously develop capital management, Weifu, Little Swan, Sunshine, three houses and a number of other 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, collective economy, always adhere to the "six" policy, unswervingly support and promote the development of non-public economy, and actively support the private economy bigger and stronger.

Last year, the private economy created by the added value of the city's economy has risen to 31.2%.

The deepening of reforms and institutional innovations in urban and rural enterprises have greatly released the potential for economic development and vitality, and pushed the comprehensive strength of Wuxi's economy to a new level, providing a good institutional mechanism for the rapid and healthy development of 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 interaction between new industrialization, internationalization, urbanization, and the overall coordinated development of the economy and society, and accelerating the process of "two firsts.

The 16th Party Congress made the scientific judgment that the first two decades 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, the key to seizing this strategic opportunity is to focus on the new situation and new requirements of the new century and new stage, to further define the development positioning, to innovate the development dynamics, to enhance the level of development, and to promote the accelerated development of Wuxi economy and society at a higher level.

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 have clearly stated that Jiangsu should take the lead in building a moderately prosperous society in all aspects, and take the lead in basically realizing modernization.

Wuxi, as an important part of Jiangsu, an important pole in southern Jiangsu, 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, the city *** clearly put forward to create the province's "two pioneers" 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.

Around this goal, we formulated and implemented the "Wuxi to create the province's" two "first" pilot zone demonstration area action program "to comprehensively promote science and education, economic internationalization, urbanization and sustainable development of the" four major strategies "have been launched! "The construction of the "Two Pioneering" Pilot Zone Demonstration Zone has achieved obvious results. The construction of the demonstration area has achieved obvious results.

In the past two years, the city's economy has maintained rapid and stable growth, open economy, private economy, the deepening of the reforms, the continuous optimization of economic structure, the overall vitality and competitiveness to further enhance; urban and rural construction has made breakthroughs in urban planning and construction of townships to speed up the city's urban planning and construction system to further improve urban functions and management level, urban and rural ecological protection and environmental governance has been strengthened, the entire city environment has been changed. The environmental appearance of the whole city has undergone significant changes; the project of enriching the people has been vigorously promoted, encouraging entrepreneurship, expanding employment, and improving the protection of the measures have been better implemented, the income level of the urban and rural people steadily increased, and the effectiveness of enriching the people is 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.

My city has won the creation of the national civilized city work advanced city, the national garden city, national environmental protection model city and other titles, the creation of the national double embrace model city to achieve "four consecutive", the cause of all thriving, the realization of the "two first" The prospects for the realization of the "two first" goal are promising.

Practice has proven that a strong sense of development, sense of opportunity, sense of precedence and sense of doing is the most valuable spiritual wealth of our reform and development for more than two decades, and is the most important spiritual impetus for us to achieve the goal of "two firsts".

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 emancipation, 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, studying new situations, adapting to new circumstances, solving new problems, relying on the deepening of reform and opening up, and breaking through the institutional constraints that are not adapted to the development of productive forces time and time again, and winning the leading edge of economic and social development.

III. Science, education, culture and health

Quality resources for basic education to further expand the further development of all levels and types of education at the end of 2003 with 761 schools of all levels and types of school students 770,300, an increase of 10,400 people.

Medical conditions have further improved.

In 2003, the city has 1,387 health care institutions, of which 37 general hospitals, 18 specialized hospitals, Chinese hospitals, Chinese and Western medicine hospitals, 6, 114 township health centers, sanatoriums, five.

Cultural facilities continue to improve, in 2003, art, cultural centers (stations) 127, public **** 9 libraries, museums (within the cultural system) 5.

Cultural endeavors are wonderful.

Successfully hosted the first "China Wuxi? Taihu International Folk Music Exhibition", held a variety of square arts 140, organized more than 50 public performances and so on.

To sum up, since the reform, Wuxi has been changing rapidly, we have seen with our own eyes, 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 to come, we are more to adhere to the pace of reform to improve the comprehensive strength of the city of Wuxi:

We have to improve the quality of the population as a breakthrough, the 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, and to further solidify the foundation for the rise of the comprehensive power; 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.

Now, studying outside, every hometown people talk about the local construction and development of the situation, or read the relevant news reports in the newspaper, all make me excited, doubly intimate.

I sincerely hope that Wuxi, with favorable subjective and objective conditions, to carry on 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!