Background of the establishment of Bijie Economic Development Zone

1. Support for the great achievements in the construction of the Bijie Experimental Zone. Since the State Council officially approved the establishment of the Bijie Experimental Zone on June 9, 1988, over the past 20 years, due to the Party Central Committee, the State Council, the Provincial Party Committee, and the Provincial Government, Attaching great importance to it, and with the active participation of the central committees of all democratic parties and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Bijie Experimental Zone has always taken "development poverty alleviation, ecological construction, and population control" as its "three major themes". Focusing on the center of economic construction, it has transformed relief poverty alleviation into development-oriented poverty alleviation. , vigorously implement economic development and population control, integrate ecological construction into economic development, promote ecological construction with economic development, and promote economic development with continuous ecological recovery, thus basically getting rid of the "poverty-out-of-control population growth-ecological seriousness" aggravating and then aggravating poverty”, the region has made great progress in all aspects of economy, society and ecology. The great achievements in the construction of the Bijie Experimental Zone have laid a good foundation for the all-round development of the Bijie area. Industrialization is an insurmountable stage in the development of a region. In the history of modern economic development, no country or region has yet achieved modernization beyond the industrialization stage. Bijie has stood in a period of historical transformation from poverty alleviation through development to building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. In Bijie's journey towards fully realizing modernization, the new content of poverty alleviation through development will be based on the "three modernizations and one base" (industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural industrialization). and transportation-based infrastructure construction), industrialization and urbanization have received unprecedented attention from the Bijie Prefectural Committee and Bijie District Administration of the People’s Republic of China. Important documents such as "Opinions on Accelerating the Process of Industrialization" and "Opinions of the Bijie Prefectural Committee and Bijie District Administration of the People's Republic of China on Further Expanding Opening to the Outside World". It has become common knowledge to promote urbanization through industrialization and promote the comprehensive development of the pilot zone. 2. Policy support for the national western development strategy. On November 8, 2001, the Wujiang Hongjiadu Hydropower Station project, a landmark project of the national "West-to-East Power Transmission" strategy, started construction in the Bijie area. The then Premier of the State Council, Zhu Rongji, delivered a speech "Wujiang The start of construction of Hongjiadu Hydropower Station marks the beginning of the development of the western region." As the place where the development of the western region kicked off, Bijie enjoys 19 specific preferential policies and measures in five categories stipulated in the State Council's "Notice on the Implementation of Several Policies and Measures for the Development of the Western Region" and "Implementation Opinions on Several Policies and Measures for the Development of the Western Region". It includes industrial policies and regional policies for the development of the western region, policies to increase capital investment, measures to enhance the attractiveness of the western region, measures to improve competitiveness, policies to attract talents and develop science and technology education, etc. At the same time, Bijie is a resource-rich area. With the advancement of western development, Bijie's rich resource advantages will gradually transform into economic advantages. The "depression effect" created by the policy advantages of the Western Development and the resource advantages of Bijie will become a continuous booster for Bijie's industrial development. 3. The need for industrial transfer in the eastern region. Under the new situation of gradually deepening economic globalization, the large-scale transfer, integration, and upgrading of industries have become an important booster for the leap-forward development of the regional economy. Since the 1980s, the eastern coastal area has been the main area to undertake the transfer of labor-intensive industries from developed countries and Hong Kong and Taiwan to the inland. It has made great progress with the help of external forces. A large number of enterprises have grown rapidly, and have basically completed the primitive accumulation of capital. Plan strategic layout for the whole country and implement industrial transfer in order to achieve faster development; with the rapid economic growth in coastal areas, the pressure for industrial upgrading has increased, and the business costs of enterprises have continued to increase, prompting some labor- and resource-intensive industries to lose their comparative advantages. Industries are moving to the central and western regions; due to the great achievements in the construction of the Bijie Pilot Zone and the unique policy advantages of the pilot zone, the hard and soft environment for investment in the Bijie region has been significantly improved, the overall economic level has continued to improve, and it is beginning to have the conditions to undertake the transfer of industries from the eastern region. 4. The national policy of expanding domestic demand and the promotion of transportation infrastructure construction in Bijie District As the impact of the U.S. financial crisis on the world economy continues to deepen, the momentum of my country's economic growth slowdown has gradually emerged. In order to further expand domestic demand and promote stable and rapid economic growth, the State Council executive meeting on November 5, 2008 introduced 10 measures. Among them, infrastructure construction such as railways and highways has become the country's investment focus to expand domestic demand. The national policy of expanding domestic demand has directly contributed to the great concept of building large-scale transportation in Bijie area and breaking the "marginalization". The Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government have tilted their support to Bijie's transportation construction from the perspective of "promoting Guizhou's scientific development experimental field". The prefectural committee and administrative office reviewed the situation and made scientific decisions, and made the idea of ??building a transportation hub in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and prioritized the construction of highways, railways, and airports. The construction of the Bijie section of the Huangzhi Railway and Xia-Rong Expressway has started, and the construction of the Bijie section of the Chengdu-Guizhou Express Railway and the Hangzhou-Ruili Expressway is about to start. The Bijie Airport is also carrying out preliminary work in an intense and orderly manner. It is connected to Guiyang to the south, Luzhou to the north, Zunyi to the east, and Liupanshui to the west. A comprehensive three-dimensional transportation system that connects the north and south and connects the east and west and integrates railways, expressways, and aviation is taking shape. The Bijie area has stood at an inflection point in social and economic development from poverty alleviation to a moderately prosperous society. Accelerating the process of industrialization has become the main theme of the times in the Bijie area. The economic accumulation of the Bijie Experimental Zone's sustainable development is the foundation for Bijie's promotion of industrialization. The national western development strategy and the unique policy advantages of the Experimental Zone are a good policy soft environment for realizing the industrialization of the Bijie region. The construction of the Sichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou transportation hub is the key to the industrialization of the Bijie region. The strongest and most direct promoter of the process.