On October 21, the Joint Meeting of
Zhejiang-Sichuan Poverty Alleviation Cooperation and Partner Assistance was held
in Chengdu. Yin Li, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee
and Governor of the People’s Government of Sichuan Province, and Zheng Zhajie,
the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Governor of the People’s Government
of Zhejiang Province attended and addressed the meeting.
Entrusted by Peng Qinghua, Secretary of the
CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee, Yin Li, on behalf of the provincial party
committee and the provincial government of Sichuan, welcomed the delegation of
Zhejiang Province to Sichuan, and thanked Zhejiang for its support and help for
Sichuan’s development for a long time. He said Zhejiang and Sichuan are
thousands of miles apart, but the deep friendship between the people of the two
provinces remains unshakable and becomes even firmer as time goes by. With a
high degree of political consciousness and a strong sense of mission, the
Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government of Zhejiang have
resolutely implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on
east-west cooperation on poverty alleviation, assigning a large number of
outstanding cadres and talent, providing financial support, and creatively
providing partner assistance. The 40 poverty-stricken counties supported by
Zhejiang have all shaken off poverty, and the poor people have had their
production and living conditions significantly improved. We will continue
investigation and supervision to find problems and solve them as soon as
possible, so that we can successfully fulfill our annual tasks for poverty
alleviation cooperation and partner assistance, realize full implementation of
agreements, and build a well-off society in an all-round way simultaneously
with the other parts of the country. We will strive to promote the two
provinces to establish more pragmatic and efficient coordination mechanisms at
provincial, municipal and county levels, strengthen industrial cooperation and
collaborative innovation, expand labor cooperation and consumption-based
poverty alleviation, and promote deeper and more pragmatic exchanges and
cooperation between the two sides during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. It is
suggested that Sichuan and Zhejiang should jointly seize major opportunities
such as the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the Belt and
RoadInitiative, strengthen transportation infrastructure connectivity and
cooperation on circulation systems, further strengthen industrial cooperation
and transfer, and give full play to our comparative advantages to promote
common development and integrate into the new development pattern of “dual
cycles” (domestic cycle and international cycle) hand in hand.
On behalf of the provincial party
committee, the provincial government and Secretary Yuan Jiajun of Zhejiang,
Zheng Zhajie thanked Sichuan Province for its strong support for Zhejiang’s
work all the time, especially its support for Zhejiang’s work resumption and
production recovery after the COVID-19 epidemic broke out, and expressed
admiration for Sichuan’s achievements of reform and development. He pointed out
that there was a profound origin for Zhejiang-Sichuan poverty alleviation
cooperation and partner assistance. While working in Zhejiang Province, General
Secretary Xi Jinping visited Guangyuan City and Nanchong City in May 2004 to guide
on poverty alleviation cooperation, which laid a solid foundation for exchanges
and cooperation between the two provinces. Zhejiang resolutely implements the
spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches on poverty
alleviation cooperation between the east and the west, and his important
instruction of “starting well and ending well”, resolutely shoulders the
political responsibility of winning the victory of China’s battle against
poverty, and conscientiously carries out the decisions and arrangements of the
CPC Central Committee and meets the needs of Sichuan Province to overcome
poverty, thus fulfilling our task in a quality manner. It is important to
complete our task of partner assistance comprehensively, further consolidate
the achievements of overcoming poverty, do a good job in our aided villages,
and help the severely poor counties get rid of poverty as scheduled. It is
necessary to strengthen industry-based assistance, and emphasize industrial
development as the top priority to enhance the endogenous power and
“hematopoietic function” of our aided areas to increase the employment and
income of the poor people in the aided areas. It is necessary to improve the
long-term mechanism of poverty alleviation cooperation, maintain the overall
stability of the assistance policy in the principle of “sustained
responsibility, policy, assistance and supervision for aided areas that have
shaken off poverty”, maintain great efforts and high standards, and promote the
effective integration of overall poverty alleviation into the strategy of rural
revitalization. It is necessary to speed up the construction of a new
development pattern, give full play to the comparative advantages of the two
provinces, strengthen industrial, innovation, cultural and tourism cooperation,
and further promote exchanges and cooperation between Zhejiang and Sichuan to a
deeper level, a higher level and a wider range, thus achieving mutually
beneficial and win-win development.
Heads from Wenchuan County (Aba Tibetan and
Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan), Guang’an District (Guang’an City) and
Zhejiang Provincial Working Group in Sichuan spoke at the joint meeting.
On October 21 and 22, Yin Li and Zheng
Zhajie visited Guangyuan Sichuan-Zhejiang Industrial Park to inspect Wahaha “Qi
Li” Beverage Manufacturing Base and Meiyu Aluminium Deep Processing Industrial
Park, and visited Zhongzi Town, Chaotian District to inspect a demonstration
base of walnut planting and a demonstration base of strawberry planting under
the east-west poverty alleviation collaboration program.
Luo Wen, a member of the Standing Committee
of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and Vice Governor of the People’s
Government of Sichuan Province, Ye Hanbing, Vice Governor of the People’s
Government of Sichuan Province, as well as responsible persons of relevant
departments of the two provinces attended the joint meeting or inspections.