从十年发展走向十年领跑——广西北部湾经济区设立十周年工作座谈会侧记

□ 文/本刊记者 李易之



从十年发展走向十年领跑——广西北部湾经济区设立十周年工作座谈会侧记

□ 文/本刊记者 李易之

2006年到2016年，北部湾经济区用10年时间创造了一个“北部湾速度”的奇迹。北部湾经济区GDP从成立之初的1418.09亿元，到2016年的5867.32亿元，增长超过了3倍；财政收入增长4.54倍；港口货物吞吐能力增长了3倍；贸易进出口增长3倍，且已占据全广西对外贸易的半壁江山，以实力证明了“北部湾速度”。

从“风生水起”，到如今的“龙腾虎跃”，站在北部湾经济区成立10周年的节点，回顾成绩，令人瞩目。奇迹的背后，是无数人辛勤耕耘结出的硕果，也是中国政府高度重视下实现的成就。

2016年3月20日，在中国广西壮族自治区首府南宁举行的广西北部湾经济区“总结十年成就 推动升级发展”工作座谈会上，中国国际经济交流中心理事长曾培炎谈道，自己作为北部湾经济区建设的最早参与者，亲眼见证它从诞生到成长壮大，感到十分欣慰。

他指出，历经十年开放开发，北部湾经济区经济综合实力显著增强，区域发展战略地位不断提升，与周边地区开放合作务实推进，改革创新先行先试凸显亮点。北部湾不仅成为引领广西加快发展的核心增长极，也成为中国沿海经济最具活力、发展最快的地区之一，成为中国与东盟联系最紧密、合作最有效的区域之一。

曾培炎认为，在第13个五年计划阶段，中国仍处于重要的战略机遇期。北部湾经济区开放开发应按照“五位一体”总体布局和“四个全面”规划，积极融入国家规划、扩大开放合作，坚持创新驱动、科学统筹，集中力量优先发展。

曾培炎表示，希望北部湾经济区在深入理解国家对广西发展的“三大定位”基础上，结合自身特点和优势，找准北部湾经济区未来发展的新定位，发挥政策的综合优势，打造“一带一路”与东盟合作的新枢纽，寻找产业升级发展的新方式，注重沿海中心城市的集聚辐射作用，努力打造北部湾经济区升级版，推进北部湾经济区全面开放开发。

如今的北部湾经济区早已成为了广西经济社会发展的重要引擎，广西壮族自治区党委书记彭清华认为，北部湾经济区开放开发10年历程就是新世纪以来广西扩大对外开放的缩影。

他表示，2016年是中国“十三五”开局之年，也是北部湾经济区在经历了前10年的开发建设之后，又一个10年的开始。北部湾经济区现已是国际大通道的主通道、战略支点的核心区、“一带一路”的衔接点，在千载难逢的机遇之下，北部湾将大有作为，同时也将享受十分可观的政策红利。

彭清华表示，北部湾经济区作为广西经济实力最强、成长性最好的发展区域，能否实现升级发展、在广西率先全面建成小康社会、发挥好引擎的作用，对广西“十三五”发展目标的实现将产生非常大的影响。

据了解，在广西“十三五”规划中，北部湾经济区四市到2020年经济总量将占全广西的40%以上；北部湾还将力争实现“三个过万”，即地区生产总值、规模以上工业总产值过1万亿元，人均生产总值过1万美元；其高新技术产业、现代服务业、沿海港口吞吐能力、城乡居民人均收入等主要经济指标增速，在“十三五”要走在全广西的最前列。

要实现这些目标，彭清华表示，北部湾经济区应做到树立并贯彻五大发展理念、全面深化改革创新、破除瓶颈制约等；应将打造北部湾经济区规划建设升级版、提升跨境贸易运输等便利化水平、加快推进供给侧结构性改革、构建高端高质高效现代产业体系、打造北部湾经济区同城化升级版等作为主攻的方向。

彭清华还强调说，北部湾经济区各级相关部门要继续发扬 “北部湾精神”，勇挑重担、主动作为、共同协作，为加快实现自治区“两个建成”，即“实现与全国同步全面建成小康社会”、“基本建成西南中南地区开放发展新的战略支点”的目标，作出新的更大贡献。

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Take the Lead in the Next Decade Based on Remarkable Achievements in the Last Decade --Summary of the Forum of 10th Anniversary of the Establishment of Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone

written by Li Yizhi / translated by Mo Tingting

F or the last 10 years Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone (BGEZ) has shot up with dramatic changes at a remarkable “Beibu Gulf Speed” from 2006 to 2016.Its GDP topped 586.732 billion yuan by 2016, rising more than 3 times from 141.809 billion yuan in its early days; the fi scal revenue increased by 4.54 times; the port handling capacity rose by 3 times; and the total volume of imports and exports grew by threefold, claiming half of market share of Guangxi’s foreign trade.

Depending on concerted efforts of numerous people and close attention from the government of China, a thriving and promising BGEZ has emerged in the world, achieving remarkable achievements and satisfying results.

At the Forum concerning BGEZ’s “Summary on Ten-years Achievements, Outlook for Industrial Upgrading and Development” held in Nanning, the provincial capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on March 20, 2016, the Chairman of China Center International for Economic Exchange (CCIEE) Zeng Peiyan expressed his delight to be involved in the construction of BGEZ, as he had witnessed BGEZ’s formation and growth all the way.

Zeng pointed out that, having experienced tenyears opening up and development, BGEZ has significantly enhanced its comprehensive strength, constantly lifted its regional development strategic position, expanded opening up and cooperation with surrounding regions in a pragmatic manner, and emphasized on its highlights through carrying out pilot schemes in reform and innovation.BGEZ has not only become a core growth pole in leading rapid growth of Guangxi, but also one of the most dynamic regions with fastest economic growth in the coastal areas of China, and one of the regions closest to ASEAN with most effective cooperation.

Zeng indicated that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China is still in an important period of strategic opportunities.According to the general layout of “Five-in-One” and the planning of “Four Comprehensives”, BGEZ should be committed to opening up and development by proactively being involved in national programming and expanding opening up and cooperation, insisting on innovation driving, scientifi c planning and concentrating on priority development.

Based on the deep understanding of Guangxi’s “Three Orientations” formulated by the state, and combining with self characteristics and advantages, BGEZ should endeavor to build an upgraded version of itself and carry forward its all-round opening up and development by capturing its new positioning for futuredevelopment, exerting comprehensive advantages of the policies, forging a new hub for cooperation between the Belt and Road construction and the coopertation with ASEAN, exploring new model for industrial upgrading and development, and paying attention to the gathering and radiation effect of central cities in coastal areas, Zeng said.

BGEZ has already been a powerful engine for the economic and social development of Guangxi.Peng Qinghua, Party Secretary of CPC Guangxi Committee remarked that the opening up and development of BGEZ in the last decade can be regarded as an epitome of the expansion of Guangxi’s opening up after entering the 21st century.

Peng indicated that now BGEZ has already served as the main access to the great international channel, the core area of strategic fulcrum, the important gateway for organic linkage of the Belt and Road, embracing a golden opportunity that 2016 is the outset of the state’s Thirteenth Five-Year Plan, as well as the beginning of the next decade after the development and construction of BGEZ during the last decade, adding that there are considerable dividends and preferential policies, and BGEZ will definitely make great-leap-forward development.

Peng suggested that BGEZ as a region enjoying the most powerful economic strength and most steadily growth will determine whether BGEZ can implement upgrade and development, take the lead in building a comprehensive welloff society in Guangxi and play a role as an engine, which will exert huge infl uences on the realization of Guangxi’s development objective under the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan.

It is learned that during the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan period, by 2020, the GDP of four cities within BGEZ, namely, Nanning, Beihai, Qinzhou and Fangchenggang, will be over 40 percent of that of Guangxi; BGEZ will also strive for “Three over Tens-of-thousands”: both gross regional production and the total industrial output value over designated size will surpass 1 trillion yuan, and the per capita GDP will exceed US$ 10,000; the growth rate of major economic indicators such as Hi-tech Industries, tertiary industry, coastal port handling capacity and per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents will be at the forefront of Guangxi.

To achieve these goals, BGEZ should insist on and implement five development concepts, comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, and break the bottlenecks; BGEZ should aim at an ungraded version of itself through facilitating the cross-border trade transportation, accelerating the reform of the supply side, forming a modern industrial system of high end, high quality and high effi ciency, and forging an ungraded version of urban integration in BGEZ.

At last, Peng emphasized that the relevant departments at all levels of BGEZ shall make additional and more contributions to the realization of “Two Completions”, namely “the completion of building a comprehensive well-off society” and “basic completion of a new strategic fulcrum for the opening up and development of Southwest and South-central China”, by giving full play to the “spirit of the Beibu Gulf” and taking the initiative to shoulder great responsibilities, with concerted efforts.