Chongqing and Sichuan together released the Plan for Adjoining Areas in Chongqing and Sichuan to Jointly Build Regional Development Functional Platforms recently. It states that Chongqing and Sichuan will collaborate to create some regional development functional platforms with distinctive competitiveness and features. This move allows the two places to figure out ways to separate economic and administrative areas properly, take the lead in making breakthroughs in planning organization, policy coordination, coordinated innovation, and co-building and sharing. Thus, the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle will embrace strong support in high-quality development.
Chongqing Digital Economy Industrial Park.
These platforms mainly function in three fields. First is the integrated development of southeast Sichuan and southeast Chongqing. The two will work together to build north- and east-bound transportation hubs there and develop and utilize competitive resources. Second is the coordinated development of the central Chengdu-Chongqing region, which will contribute to the integrated planning of industrial distribution, accept industries transferred from the Chengdu-Chongqing region, and developed areas on the east coast, and improve its ability to serve the Chengdu and Chongqing growth. The third is the integrated development of south Sichuan and west Chongqing. The two will strengthen infrastructure connectivity and industrial cooperation, and build industrial parks together.
Concentrating on the three fields, Sichuan and Chongqing plan to make concerted efforts in infrastructure, industry, environment protection, public services, benefit-sharing, and management and operation. Significant measures are as follows: to speed up building 5G network, Industrial Internet, UHV transmission lines, and other new-type infrastructure; to deepen coordination and cooperation between state-level development platforms of the two places; to establish united environment protection mechanisms and rules; to expedite the unification of education, healthcare, and employment systems; to jointly apply for the Chengdu-Chongqing coordinated development investment fund.
Sichuan and Chongqing plan to make a concerted effort to speed up building 5G networks.
Sichuan and Chongqing expect to see soundly-progressed construction of regional development functional platforms, basically-formed cooperation mechanisms, and breakthroughs in joint projects in key fields by the end of 2020. Then by 2022, the platform construction is slated to obtain significant progress, functional orientations and policy systems will begin to take shape, and cooperation mechanisms are going to improve and be a more powerful supporter. By 2025, functional adjustments will be realized, supporting functions serving Chengdu and Chongqing are expected to be significantly perfected, systems and mechanisms are going to be more developed, and a new pattern, which leads and encourages adjoining areas to realize integrated development, will come into being.