Xinhuanet Jiangsu Channel, Nanjing, November 27th: Competition and cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta region has entered a new round. The current increasingly fierce competition situation is naturally giving birth to a new geographical concept, which is: the Taihu Lake City Circle composed of five cities: Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Jiaxing, and Huzhou.
In fact, recently, there have been continuous cultural and performing arts events around Taihu Lake, the tourism route map around Taihu Lake has been finalized, and the five cities along the lake are singing "Taihu Beauty"; the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou Taihu Lake Highway has also started construction; Huzhou Planning to build a bridge on Taihu Lake, Wuxi has clarified the lakeside awareness in its urban development strategy, and launched the "Taihu Lake Expo" brand for the first time... Not long ago, the reporter heard from many experts when attending the Yangtze River Delta Integration Forum Very interested in this new concept.
Xu Weirong, a researcher at the Wuxi Yangtze River Delta Development Research Center, was the first domestic scholar to propose a city circle around Taihu Lake. He believes that the current economic development has actually broken through the administrative framework. If we look beyond Suzhou, Wuchang and Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, and look at the Yangtze River Delta, we can immediately find that the administrative divisions of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai will be the biggest influence on the future development of the Yangtze River Delta. If the barriers are bound to be broken, then the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changjiahu area is the junction of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and should take the lead in realizing in-depth cooperation across administrative divisions.
The "small circle" will not hinder the development of the "big circle", but will have the effect of boosting and accelerating. Some experts analyze that the rise of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou triangle is indeed not a blessing to the five cities around Taihu Lake. Jiaxing and Huzhou, like Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou, face the possibility of being squeezed or torn apart by the two poles of Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou. But at the same time, it provides a realistic possibility for the five cities to break through administrative divisions and build a "Taihu Lake City Circle". The Taihu Lake Basin and the Yangtze River Delta are two economic regions with different extensions but basically the same connotation. The Suzhou-Wuxi-Changjiahu area is the core of the Taihu Lake Basin, and has historically been a geomantic treasure land that has hosted many humanistic stories. In modern times, it has been the cradle of capitalism and national industry. However, due to the rise of Greater Shanghai, it has gradually been relegated to the position of being aggregated and radiated. This is the result of the interaction between market economy and planned economy. A detailed analysis shows that, in fact, whether from a historical or realistic perspective, the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changjiahu area is not composed of Suzhou, Xichang and Jiahu, but by Suzhou, Wuzhou and Suzhou. The natural junction is also a strategic node between coastal areas such as Zhejiang and Fujian and the inland hinterland. With the rise of the private economy, the mutual penetration of private capital in the Taihu Lake area has become an "irresistible temptation", producing an effect of 1+1+1+1+1>5.
The great practical significance of the "Taihu Lake City Circle" composed of the five cities of Suzhou, Wuxi, Changjiahu and Jiahu is that it is not an artificial delineation but an objective existence. It is a multi-faceted "hand-in-hand" formed through geographical proximity. ” and “marriage.” Looking at the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou triangle framework, if Su, Wu, Chang and Jiahu occupy only one side, Su, Wu, Chang and Jiahu occupy all three sides. Coupled with the construction of the Sujia Expressway, the high-speed loop between the five cities is imminent, and the formation of a "small return flow" in the big triangle can create an agglomeration effect of factors.
Tang Keke, a researcher at the Wuxi Yangtze River Delta Development Research Center, believes that the Taihu Lake City Circle, like our province’s strategies of large-scale development along the river and cross-river development, strengthens “sub-regional” economic cooperation and development, which is a major regional development strategy. The basis and important content of the economic integration development of the Yangtze River Delta. Urban development in the Yangtze River Delta must expand outward by restructuring urban relationships. How to reorganize urban relations? An important starting point is to seek breakthroughs from the Taihu Lake urban circle, because this is a naturally formed urban circle.
Faced with the surging development tide of the Yangtze River Delta, the prosperity of the Taihu Lake City Circle has ushered in the best period.
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