As the leader, pioneer and builder of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone, Comrade Xi Jinping, in this passionate land, struggled with the constructors of the special economic zones to open up a series of reform and opening up, economic construction, environmental protection, and cultural heritage. Vivid practices such as conservation have yielded fruitful results. The condensed scientific concepts, valuable experience and excellent style of work have still guided the city’s voyage.
1. 'Fish to raise fish' activate Xiamen Port
In 1985, the State Council approved the extension of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone to the entire island of Xiamen. In the summer of this year, Xi Jinping was swept away from Hebei and went to Haxiaxin to serve as a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and the Executive Vice Mayor.
At that time, Zhu Lishui, deputy director of the Xiamen Municipal Commission for Economic Reform, recalled that Xi Jinping was in charge of reform of the institutional and institutional mechanisms in Xiamen. Direct leadership promoted a series of thorny reform explorations. 'Fish to raise fish' is one of them, activating Xiamen Port and activating it. Many troubled state-owned enterprises.
Soon after arriving in Xiamen, Xi Jinping’s tall figure appeared at Dongdu Wharf. The winds of the sea were far away. He walked up to the bridge crane and looked up at the tens of meters high. He asked the staff how much they could hang. This is the only two bridge cranes in Xiamen Port. A crane can only finish 35,000 TEUs a year. The same bridge crane in Hong Kong can complete 120,000 TEUs per year. Through several visits to the site, we carefully listened to corporate officers. Employees’ opinions, Xi Jinping made clear the problem—the transportation capacity is not enough, the facilities are not perfect, and the process links are not matched. The government has no more money to improve the facilities of the company. The profit is not only a dilemma but also a minor loss. This is not only the dilemma of the Xiamen Port Authority. It was also a problem for the vast majority of state-owned enterprises in Xiamen at the time. 'Comrade Xi Jinping told us that the government does not want you to make profits. You don't want to earn money. You don't want to get a financial one. Profits are left to you, but you have to promise one. Earn money first. To improve the facilities. ' An old port operator recalled the scene of a meeting at that time. The reforms were forced by problems. Xiamen was the first country to introduce taxation and profit diversion measures, and 66 state-owned industrial enterprises in the budget implemented in the city. Profit distribution, after tax repayment, for different companies, to take different proportions. The core purpose is, in addition to paying taxes, as far as possible to leave profits for the development of enterprises. In the first year of reform, Xiamen Port Authority earned more than 2000 Ten thousand yuan, earning more than seven hundred million yuan in a few years.
2. To open up the soaring wings for Xiamen’s opening to the outside world
As the first joint-venture and enterprise-operated airline in China, the birth of Xiamen Airlines is a preliminary attempt of China's civil aviation system reform. For Xiamen, it is open to the outside world of the Special Economic Zone and is soaring.
'To Xiamen Airlines, Comrade Xi Jinping devoted his energies. There was no room at the time, there was no room, no aircraft, no crew. Comrade Xi Jinping often ran Beijing to seek support from the Central Government, the Air Force and the Civil Aviation Administration. Support. ' Xiamen Airlines former vice president Manager Song Chengren said that these past events are familiar to the old Xiamen Airlines people.
As a result of Xi Jinping’s unremitting efforts, Xiamen Airlines obtained the support of the civil aviation department and was sponsored by a financial institution. It leased two Boeing-737 aircraft to Boeing for operation. At that time, Xiamen Airport was too small to be built, but there was no money to build. Xi Jinping served as the head of the Kuwait loan leading group of the Xiamen Airport Expansion Project. After arduous efforts, he obtained a loan of 18 million U.S. dollars from the Kuwaiti government to solve the urgent needs of the airport expansion. Today's Xiamen Airlines has 200 aircraft and operates 350 routes. Many of them became the only airline of CAAC to maintain profit for 31 consecutive years.
3. 'Three Steps' Explore the Construction of Free Harbor Special Economic Zone
Xi Jinping’s work in Xiamen was the critical period after the State Council had just approved Xiamen’s gradual implementation of some of the Free Harbor policies. At that time, Freeport was a new thing in the country and almost no one understood it. Xi Jinping decided to start with study and study. The municipal party committee and the municipal government suggested that the organization should deploy competent personnel of relevant functional departments and research institutes to take the lead in starting research on exploring and implementing some of the Free Harbor policies.
Zheng Jinmu, deputy director of the Xiamen City Planning Commission, recalled that: 'Comrade Xi Jinping often took us to Beijing, visited famous scholars at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and humbly asked various questions. I invited the Institute of Economic Research of this college to study with Xiamen. He learned how to ask questions. Love research, leave a deep impression on us.
Reform and opening up need to learn from international experience. Xi Jinping took the task group to visit Singapore to organize the first international seminar on 'Export Processing Zone and Free Port', accumulating relevant international data and data for Xiamen.
Reform and opening up must be based on China’s national conditions. Under the direct leadership of Xi Jinping, Xiamen does not fully refer to Singapore’s free port model, but based on its own conditions, it proposes specific concepts for the implementation of certain policies in the Free Port. It clearly adopts a gradual approach, following three steps. 'Construction of Xiamen as a Freeport-type Special Economic Zone': The first step is to build a bonded area in Xiangyu; the second step is to expand the bonded area to the entire island and to a free trade zone; The third step is to release the island on a limited scale. Freeport.
'This is the initial exploration of the development of a free port with Chinese characteristics. It is very groundbreaking throughout the country.' Lin Zhaohui, executive vice president of the Xiamen Party School, said that Xiamen has become the most direct beneficiary of this concept.
4. Initiate the hard work of rectifying environmental pollution
Wuhu, formerly known as the Inner Bay fishing port on Xiamen Island, is one of the eight scenic spots in Xiamen. In the 1970s, digging the embankment to make land in the sea resulted in Wuhu becoming a basically enclosed inner lake. A large amount of sewage was discharged into the lake.
When did Wuhu no longer smell stinky? ' The voice of the citizens in the management of Lugu Lake, Xi Jinping felt empathy.
On March 30, 1988, Xi Jinping presided over a special conference on strengthening the comprehensive management of Wuhu, which triggered a tough fight against environmental pollution in Xiamen. The conference clearly established a comprehensive governance mechanism and formed a group of related functional departments and experts. The Lake Governance Leading Group creatively proposed the 20-character principle of 'ruling the lake according to law, intercepting pollution, clearing and reclaiming shores, invigorating water bodies, and beautifying the environment'. In response to the lack of funds in the early stage, it explicitly determined that 10 million yuan of fiscal funds should be invested each year, accounting for the time The city’s basic construction expenditures were nearly 10%. At the same time, multi-channel financing of sewage charges, land lease income, loans, and technical reform funds increased efforts with unprecedented efforts. Xiamen City followed the working guidelines established by Xi Jinping and carried out four large-scale renovations. Once the lake of smelly water, the butterfly has become the blue waves nowadays, the egrets are soaring, the colorful 'urban green lungs' and the 'urban city parlour'. The old ones that disappeared into the city during the past are turned into more modern ones. The dazzling new scene in Xiamen - 'Looking at the night'.
53,000 yuan to reverse the fate of a century-old building
One day in 1986, Xi Jinping had just finished a report on Gulangyu and left the hall. At that time, he was the curator of the Xiamen Museum. Gong Jie, who was in charge of the restoration of the Eight Diagrams Building, pulled him.
Comrade deputy mayor, please visit the Eight Diagrams Building. ' Gong Jie issued an invitation.
'Yeah!' Xi Jinping promised to be very crisp.
Turning around in the courtyard, Gong Jie said, 'There are upstairs'.
'I know what you mean.' Xi Jinping said immediately.
When Xi Jinping walked into the building, he climbed up and stepped up. Every step he made, the old floor creaked. The water leaked from the roof left a trail of yellow-brown mildew. A small child ran over and the floor rocked.
'What's missing?' Xi Jinping asked as he walked.
'30 million yuan.' Gong Jie replied.
'Take it tomorrow.' Xi Jinping said.
Talking about this matter, Gong Jie has been hard to hide his excitement. 'It is just so simple. I will never forget that at the most tense and most difficult times, the 300,000 he set aside completely reversed the fate of a century-old building!'
After the refurbishment, the Bagua Building became the only and largest organ museum in the world. Due to the integrity of the history of the year, Bagua Building and another 52 historic buildings became the core elements of the Gulangyu cultural heritage, and in the course of the subsequent application process. , highly praised by UN World Heritage conservation experts.
6. Careful protection of the cultural heritage left by the ancestors
At the beginning of the reform and opening up, many people ignored the precious things of Gulangyu during the boom of economic development. Many old villas were in disrepair. Some fishermen demolished the masonry of old villas and went home to cook stoves and cut rare names. Wooden home fire burning.
However, Xi Jinping regards this island as a “treasure of the country.” He once reassured that “the number of people who can combine the natural landscape and the cultural landscape in the construction of our city and scenic area is not very large. It is necessary to regard Gulangyu as a jewel of the country and plan its construction and protection at this height.
Zhang Weixin, deputy director of the Gulangyu Tourist Area Management Office, participated in Gulangyu Island in 1987, the master plan of the Wanshi Mountain Area. 'Comrade Xi Jinping often came to guide the work and told us that we must grasp the basic data in order to understand, understand, and do detailed work. It was under the leadership of Comrade Xi Jinping that the planning team spent nearly a year to find out the homes of the Xiamen scenic area including Gulangyu.
At the end of September 2001, when he was deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, Governor Xi Jinping went on Gulangyu again. How did Gulangyu protect and inherit the cultural heritage? Xi Jinping proposed new thinking - Gulangyu has at least four characteristics that can be used to make a fuss. , that is landscape series, marine series, Qindao series and humanities series.
On June 14 of the following year, Xi Jinping came to Xiamen to investigate and board another Gulangyu Island. He looked at the island, which was in front of the century, and emphasized that Gulangyu should be given a more prominent position and play a more important role. In 2017, Gulangyu was successful. Xi Jinping, who is already the highest leader of the party and the country, has given important instructions - 'carefully preserve the cultural heritage left behind by his ancestors and allow the historical context to be better passed on.'
7. Standing on the first line of drought-resistant seedlings
In the summer of 1986, no soaking rain had been carried out since the end of the summer, and it had been dry for a month. The rice that should have been planted to bloom had died over a large area. In Tongan County, on the edge of a paddy field, in charge of agriculture, Xi Jinping in the countryside was frowning.
'Can not wait! Tractors, electric irrigation pump, diesel, fertilizer, all quickly deployed. 'Standing on the field, Xi Jinping clappered on the spot, and urged the relevant departments to implement as soon as possible.
Xi Jinping led the team to the field and stood on the frontline of the drought to solve practical problems in a timely manner. The city quickly set off an upsurge of drought, leading cadres and the masses went into battle, digging canals to pump water to fight drought and protect seedlings, while grabbing late rice and planting late sweet potatoes, autumn peanut.
In those years, the summer drought and autumn drought brought about 100 days of drought that had not been seen in more than 30 years in Xiamen. Due to timely drought prevention, disaster losses were reduced to a minimum. At the end of the year, the per capita income of farmers did not decrease, but also increased by 20 yuan.
This matter has always been talked about by the local people. Many people said that Vice Mayor Xiyong dares to take charge.