Since Dawan District was included in the report of the 14th Provincial Party Congress last year, not long ago, our province officially released the Dawan District construction roadmap.
How to build Zhejiang Dawan District? This has always been a focus of attention from all walks of life. Recently, at the Fourth Annual Academic Conference of the Social Sciences in Zhejiang Province, jointly organized by the Zhejiang Federation of Social Sciences and Zhejiang University of Technology, experts and scholars attending the conference focused on the construction of the Great Bay Area and launched a brainstorming. The theme of this annual meeting is “The era of the Great Bay Area: new momentum and new pattern”.
“The Bay Area, rather than being a regional economy, I would rather call it a new economic space. Understanding the Bay Area economy from the perspective of economic space may bring us some new perspectives and new ideas.” Sheng Shihao, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Provincial Federation of Social Sciences, has been paying attention to the study of the Bay Area economy, he said in his report.
In the construction and development of the Bay Area, the real space is the Bay Area space, and the virtual space is the global network, including urban networks and industrial networks. How can these two networks play a gathering role in the economy of the Bay Area? Sheng Shihao believes that the Bay Area economy has characteristics such as openness and inclusiveness, but the biggest characteristic is innovation and leadership.
Building a world-class Bay Area requires industrial support, with the real economy being the top priority. Professor Yu Miaojie, Vice President of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, said that the industrial foundation of the Great Bay Area is very strong, whether in the Yangtze River Delta or in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao. Developing the economy of the Great Bay Area should focus on the combination of reality and reality, with reality leading and virtual following, and with reality leading and virtual following.
What are the characteristics of Zhejiang Dawan District compared to the world-class Dawan District? In a report, Liu Daoxue from the Small and Medium Enterprises Research Institute of Zhejiang University of Technology mentioned that the finance in the Great Bay Area of New York is very developed, the technology in the Great Bay Area of San Francisco is leading, and the industrial characteristics in Tokyo are obvious. “What are the characteristics and highlights of our Greater Bay Area? According to our research, I believe it is the new economy and the digital economy.” Liu Daoxue believes that although we are far from Japan, the overall trend is consistent from the port economy to the industrial economy, to the service economy, and then to the innovative economy.
Whether it is the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, or the Yangtze River Delta region currently undergoing accelerated integration, the construction of transportation networks is an obvious weakness. Sheng Shihao mentioned that nowadays, rail transit and highways mainly solve the problem of point to point, which is not conducive to innovation and tolerance in terms of space utilization. “An innovative transportation space resource needs to be open, and both sides of the line need to be able to enjoy the convenience brought by rapid transportation.”
On the current situation of the transportation network in the Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao regions, Yuan Zhiping, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong, Macao, and Pearl River Delta Research Center at Sun Yat-sen University, once conducted a survey. In his consulting report, he stated that one of the biggest weaknesses in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao is the construction of the transportation infrastructure network. Within an area with a diameter of more than 100 square kilometers, Tokyo and New York one-hour metropolitan areas are very convenient. However, the actual traffic situation in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao now takes 3 hours or more between the farthest points.
The same problem exists in the Yangtze River Delta region. Chen Xian, a professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University and head of the China Development Research Institute, pointed out that there are still many shortcomings in infrastructure, especially rail transit, in the promotion of integration in the Yangtze River Delta. Liu Daoxue, who had studied in Japan, also had a personal feeling about this. He said, “After 20 to 30 years of integration in the Tokyo Bay, we have driven integration through intra-city integration, with a more specific goal. If it is an hour of transportation, a lot of information, innovation, and communication can be more smooth.”
In addition, the reporter also noticed that the experts who spoke at the meeting mentioned the environmental protection issues in the Bay Area. Experts say that Dawan District needs to establish a legal ecological protection mechanism. Liu Daoxue mentioned that large enterprise groups such as Toshiba and Mitsubishi in Japan also have pollution problems, and it is also they that ultimately developed cutting-edge environmental leading technologies. “This is the participation of corporate entities in environmental protection, and there should also be common participation by citizens, not just administrative leadership.”
(Source: Zhejiang Online)