Recently, there has been constant news about Henan and Shandong taking the initiative to move closer to each other. Henan took the initiative to move closer to Shandong. On April 8, the official website of the Zhengzhou Municipal Government released the "Zhengzhou City 2024 Natio

Recently, there has been constant news that Henan and Shandong are actively moving closer to each other.

Henan took the initiative to move closer to Shandong. On April 8, the official website of the Zhengzhou Municipal Government released the "Zhengzhou City 2024 National Economic and Social Development Plan". In terms of scientific and technological innovation as this year's "number one task", Zhengzhou proposed to strengthen linkage with Jinan, Qingdao, and Luoyang, enhance innovation source capabilities, and strive to create the Luyu National Regional Science and Technology Innovation Center with Zhengji, Qingdao, and Luoyang as the core.

html On March 28, the Henan Provincial People's Government issued the "Opinions on Supporting Lankao's Construction of a Pilot Zone for High-Quality Development to Enrich the People and Strengthen the County", in which it "strongly promotes Lankao's integration of Zhengzhou and Bianji, upgrading and expansion of capacity", and the construction of Zhengzhou-Kaikou unified urbanization in the east At the same time as the "Demonstration Zone", it was proposed to "establish a linkage mechanism with the Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration, rely on high-speed rail, highways and other comprehensive transportation channels to create key nodes and distribution centers for modern logistics, and build the Lancao Economic Cooperation Zone."

Shandong also took the initiative to Henan. Get closer. On March 26, the Shandong Port Supply Chain Integrated Services (Henan) Promotion Conference was held in Zhengzhou, Henan. At the promotion meeting, the relevant person in charge said that they will take this meeting as an opportunity to work with all parties to build a new strategic support hub, build a new land-sea corridor along the Yellow River, cultivate new advantages in comprehensive services, and create a new future of win-win cooperation. Be a good provider of high-quality services, a strong engine for regional development, and serve as a "gold medal partner" for enterprises in Henan and along the Yellow River Basin.

Various signs indicate that Henan and Shandong are gradually deepening their cooperation, and have advanced from the initial "Shandong-Henan appointment" to the stage of "mutual benefit and common prosperity".

In recent years, Luyu’s first “close” contact was the definition of the scope of urban agglomerations in 2016. In December 2016, the State Council approved the "Central Plains Urban Agglomeration Development Plan". In addition to the 18 provincial cities in Henan Province, including Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, and Luoyang, the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration also includes 12 cities in the four provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Anhui, and Shandong. Cities, including Liaocheng and Heze in Shandong Province.

Less than two months later, in January 2017, the Shandong Provincial People's Government approved the "Shandong Peninsula Urban Agglomeration Development Plan (2016-2030)". In February, the plan was officially announced by the Shandong Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration has expanded from the original eight cities to 17 districts and cities in the province (16 districts and cities after Laiwu was transferred to Jinan). The entire urban agglomeration has a population of hundreds of millions and its economic scale ranks among the top in the country. "Shandong Peninsula cities "Group" is basically finalized. This also means that Liaocheng and Heze have become the "connecting link" between the two urban agglomerations.

The second time the Shandong-Henan cooperation attracted the world’s attention was the ecological protection cooperation. In July 2022, because the water quality of the Yellow River entering Shandong has always remained above Class II water quality in the past two years, Shandong, as the beneficiary, cashed in 126 million yuan of Henan Province ecological compensation funds. Previously in 2021, Shandong Province and Henan Province signed the "Yellow River Basin (Henan-Lu Section) Horizontal Ecological Protection Compensation Agreement", taking the lead in establishing an inter-provincial horizontal ecological compensation mechanism for the Yellow River Basin in the country. "If the water quality drops by one level, Henan will give Shandong 6,000 million; the water quality increased by one level, Shandong gave Henan 60 million." "Based on the water quality monitoring results of the Liuzhuang national control section of the main stream of the Yellow River," data provided by the state has formed a new pattern of upstream and downstream working together to protect the Yellow River ecology, providing a basis for river basin management Template.

The major background of Shandong-Henan ecological protection cooperation is the major national strategy of the Yellow River. In September 2019, a major national strategy for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin was formally proposed. In October 2021, the "Outline Plan for Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development in the Yellow River Basin" was issued. As Shandong and Henan have the strongest economic strength among the nine provinces and regions in the Yellow River Basin, ecological protection cooperation is the basis for development, and deeper collaboration is the basis for high-quality economic development. develop. The concepts of "Zhengji Qingluo" and "Lancao" were launched, and Shandong's port moved westward to Henan and served as a good "port to the sea" for Henan. These are all clear evidence that "Shandong and Henan have an appointment" and have entered into "deep cooperation".

In October 2021, the Development and Reform Commission of Shandong Province and Henan Province signed the "Cooperation Framework Agreement on Jointly Building a High-Quality Development Demonstration Zone in the Yellow River Basin in the Adjacent Areas of Henan and Shandong". The two provinces of Henan and Shandong will continue to deepen cooperation in the fields of ecological environment protection, infrastructure construction, industrial division of labor and cooperation, cultural protection and inheritance, etc., jointly build a high-quality development demonstration zone in the Yellow River Basin, and strive to create a model for coordinated development of inter-provincial adjacent areas across the country.

In August 2023, Shandong and Henan provinces jointly signed the "Cooperation Agreement on Strengthening Transportation Connectivity Services to Support Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development in the Yellow River Basin" in Zhengzhou. The two provinces decided to adhere to the principles of coordinated advancement, land and sea coordination, and cooperation and openness, fully implement the "Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development Plan", and give full play to Shandong as the only province with an outlet to the sea in the Yellow River Basin and Henan Zhengzhou International Air Cargo Hub, and the national The leading role of the railway hub in jointly building the great land-sea corridor along the Yellow River, promoting the coordinated development of the Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration and the Central Plains urban agglomeration through transportation infrastructure interconnection, and providing strong support for working together to lead the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, Provide a strong guarantee for striving to write a new chapter in the practice of Chinese-style modernization in Luyu.

Under the guidance of the Shandong-Henan Cooperation Agreement, the biggest change in the two provinces is the traffic conditions. The Jizheng High-speed Railway, which opened at the end of last year, and the Rilan High-speed Railway, which will be fully completed in June this year, will make passenger flow between Henan and Shandong more convenient. Regular railway freight has also seen new improvements. In 2023, Shandong Port will accelerate its transformation and upgrading from a "single port operator" to a "comprehensive supply chain service provider", and will have stronger advantages in serving inland hinterlands such as Henan.

Shandong Port relies on 9 inland ports and more than 10 container sea-rail intermodal trains in Henan, which has smoothed Henan Province's sea channel. In 2023, the Henan region completed 98,000 TEUs for sea-rail combined transport, a year-on-year increase of 143.2%; from January to February this year, 17,000 TEUs were completed, a year-on-year increase of 34.6%. By continuously enlarging its hub functions and platform advantages, Shandong Port has built a "golden maritime channel" for "end-to-end" economic and trade exchanges for Henan's import and export customers. This year, the Dongjiakou to Wari (Yanshi) railway connection line project will start. This project is a major provincial project determined by the Shandong Provincial Government in 2024. The line will run west through Qingdao City, Weifang City, Rizhao City, and Linyi City with 10 stations. This means that Henan will be able to directly connect to Qingdao Dongjiakou Port in the future after the Jiaoyan-Shijiazhuang Railway directly connects to Rizhao Port.

The continuous changes in traffic conditions in Lu and Henan have provided more possibilities for cooperation between the two provinces. This time, we proposed to create the "Luyu National Regional Science and Technology Innovation Center with Zhengzhou, Jiaqingluo as the core" and the construction of the "Lancao Economic Cooperation Zone", which is based on the Jizheng high-speed railway that has been opened and the Japan-Lanzhou high-speed railway that is about to be opened.

"Luyu National Regional Science and Technology Innovation Center" is also a product of the Yellow River's major national strategy. During this year’s National Two Sessions, Li Liying, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and president of Henan Institute of Engineering, revealed to the media that as early as December 2022, the two provinces submitted the “Plan for Luyu to Build a Nationally Influential Science and Technology Innovation Center (2022-2022)” to the Ministry of Science and Technology. 2035)》. In January 2023, the Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Work Conference revealed that it will accelerate the establishment of the Luyu National Regional Science and Technology Innovation Center and strive to obtain approval as soon as possible.

At the beginning of this year, the general offices of the two provincial governments of Shandong and Henan mentioned in the "Implementation Plan for Cooperation and Development of Shandong and Henan Adjacent Areas" jointly issued that they strive to create Shandong and Henan National Regional Science and Technology Innovation Center and jointly build a regional innovation center with national influence. Strengthen the collaborative linkage between Shandong Peninsula and Zhengluoxin National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone to create a collaborative innovation community in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.

At the same time, for the cooperation of the "Lancao Economic Cooperation Zone", we will strengthen industrial docking, "build Landong home furnishing supporting industrial park, build a wood products processing industry belt from Lancao to Cao County, build the Central Plains Home Expo Park, and form a 'raw material supply-finished product manufacturing'" —Home Furnishing Customization—Marketing promotes the collaborative development system of the entire industry chain, promotes the coupling of the "five chains" (industrial chain, supply chain, institutional chain, innovation chain, and ecological chain), and builds the country's modern home furnishing capital."

In the cooperation between Shandong Port and Henan, it is becoming more and more detailed, with specific enterprises directly contacting each other: for example, at the promotion meeting, the three parties of "Guangzhou MTR" jointly announced the cross-border "land-sea connectivity, sea-rail direct transportation" Customs clearance projects in customs areas: Shandong Port Qingdao Port signed strategic cooperation agreements with Fengshen Tire, Rizhao Port and Anyang Iron and Steel International Trade, Yantai Port and Henan Xinlianxin International Trade, Bohai Bay Port and Chinalco Materials Henan Branch; Shandong Port Logistics Group Signed strategic cooperation agreements with Henan Digital Trading Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou Railway Logistics Center and Changzhi Railway Logistics Center of Zhengzhou Bureau of China Railway, Cruise Culture and Tourism Group and Zhengzhou Tourism Association, Investment Control Group and Puyang Hengrun Zhubang Petrochemical; Shandong Port Trade The Group signed strategic cooperation agreements with Henan Fengli Petrochemical, Medical Care Group and Jiuzhoutong (Henan) Medical Equipment Company, Overseas Development Group and Ruifeng New Materials, and Shipping Group and Henan Travel Agency Association.

This shows that "Luyu" "We have an appointment" to cooperate and start "you have me, and I have you". From the perspective of the nine provinces and regions in the Yellow River Basin, Shandong's regional GDP (gdp) in 2023 will be 9.2 trillion yuan, making it the largest economy in the basin. Province; Henan's regional GDP in 2023 is 5.9 trillion yuan, making it the second largest economic province in the basin. Shandong and Henan cooperate in ecological protection and high-quality development, support each other's development, and have the power to radiate and drive the development of the Yellow River Basin. , which is of great significance to the economic development of northern my country.

Source: Popular News Client

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