Hu Changsheng emphasized at the Provincial High-Quality Urban Development Conference: Adhere to local conditions and follow objective laws to build innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart cities. Ren Zhenhe presided, and Zhuang Guotai and Shi Moujun attended.
The Gansu Provincial High-Quality Urban Development Conference was held in Lanzhou on May 29. Hu Changsheng, Secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, attended and delivered a speech. He emphasized that we should take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as a guide, thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discussions on urban work and his important speech at the Central Urban Work Conference, fully implement the important instructions and spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's inspection of Gansu, firmly establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, adhere to local conditions, follow objective laws, and intensify efforts to build innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart modern people's cities.
Ren Zhenhe, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Governor of the Province, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. Provincial leaders Zhuang Guotai, Shi Moujun, Lei Dongsheng, Sun Xuedao, Liu Changgen, Zhang Yongxia, Zhang Xiaoqiang, Li Gang, Wang Bing, and others attended.
The meeting reported on the progress of urban renewal work in the province. The main party secretaries of Lanzhou, Jinchang, Pingliang, and Dunhuang delivered speeches successively.
Hu Changsheng pointed out in his speech that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has delivered a series of important speeches and made a series of important instructions on urban planning, construction, and governance, profoundly analyzing the changes in the situation of China's urban development, clearly putting forward the important principle of "five transformations and five more emphases," and systematically deploying the strategic tasks of "one optimization and six major constructions," scientifically answering the major questions of for whom and by whom urban development is for, and what kind of cities to build and how to build them, providing a fundamental guide for our urban work in the new era. All levels and departments in the province should unify their thoughts and actions in line with the important speeches and instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, accurately grasp the characteristics and laws of urban development in our province, and continuously create a new situation of high-quality urban development in the province.
Hu Changsheng emphasized that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is an important period for the province's urban development to transform from scale expansion to functional improvement, from incremental construction to stock renewal, from extensive management to fine governance, and from outward expansion to connotation enhancement. We should focus on kinetic energy conversion and intensify efforts to build innovative cities, continuously expand modern service industries such as science and technology services, business finance, software information, modern logistics, culture, tourism, sports, and commerce, develop building economy, platform economy, sharing economy, digital economy, and headquarters economy according to local conditions, and promote urban construction and operation in a market-oriented manner to make cities more vibrant. We should focus on quality improvement and intensify efforts to build livable cities, carry out urban renewal actions, implement underground pipeline renovation projects, solidly promote public transportation construction, strive to build complete communities, continuously improve the level of modern property management, and make cities more comfortable and convenient. We should focus on ecological beautification and intensify efforts to build beautiful cities, adhere to the concept of harmony between humans and nature, strengthen overall protection and systematic governance, coordinate greening and scenery enhancement, pollution prevention and control, energy conservation and carbon reduction, promote the urban environment to become better and more beautiful, and make cities greener and low-carbon. We should focus on safety protection and intensify efforts to build resilient cities, construct a spectrum of urban safety risks, comprehensively strengthen the defense against natural disasters such as waterlogging and mountain torrents, effectively prevent safety risks in fire protection, gas, building construction, and other fields, deeply advance public safety management and civilized law enforcement of urban management, and make cities safer and more reliable. We should focus on culture casting soul and intensify efforts to build civilized cities, promote socialist core values, protect and inherit the historical context of cities, shape urban landscapes with distinctive features, cultivate urban spiritual civilization, and make cities more virtuous and good. We should focus on governance efficiency and intensify efforts to build smart cities, promote digital upgrading, integrated management, and multi-scenario applications according to local conditions, strive to build "digital twin cities," and make cities more convenient and efficient.
Ren Zhenhe emphasized in his presiding speech that we should thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discussions on urban work and the important instructions and spirit of his inspection of Gansu, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, vigorously promote urban structural optimization, kinetic energy conversion, quality improvement, green transformation, cultural continuation, and governance efficiency. We should seize opportunities and tap potential, grasp and comply with the trend of population mobility, focus on the regional development pattern of "one core, three belts, multiple supports," implement city-specific policies and classified guidance, and strengthen and refine the core functions of cities. We should make up for shortcomings and enhance resilience, resolutely maintain the seriousness and authority of urban planning, systematically plan production, life, ecology, culture, safety, and other work, strengthen the planning and construction of water networks, new power grids, computing networks, new generation communication networks, urban underground pipe networks, logistics networks, and continuously optimize the functional structure and spatial layout of cities. We should improve quality and expand connotation, earnestly practice the people's city concept, improve the layout and allocation of public services, enhance the intelligent and refined level of urban governance, pay attention to the construction of urban cultural soft power, and make people's lives more convenient, comfortable, and better.
The meeting was held in video form down to the city (prefecture) level. (New Gansu·Gansu Daily reporters Fan Hairui and Jin Xin)
