II. Guidelines and Main Tasks for Promoting the Development and Opening-up of the TBNA

The guidelines for promoting the development and opening-up of the TBNA are as follows. With the guidance of the Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of the Three Represents, the TBNA should fully adopt the scientific outlook of development, further liberate people’s mind, promote reform and opening-up, and exerting competitive edge. With a high starting-point and a broad vision, priorities should be laid on science and technology innovation, self-innovation, and highlighting the special characteristics of the TBNA and improving her development environment. The TBNA should adopt new ideas, new institutional systems, and new mechanisms to steadily strengthen her comprehensive competitiveness, innovation ability, service ability, and international competitiveness so that she will play greater roles in propelling the development of Tianjin, the economic revitalization of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region as well as the circum-Bohai region, the interaction between China’s east, west and central regions so as to achieve balance in the economic growth of the different regions of China.

In order to do a good work for promoting the development and opening-up of the TBNA, the following principles should be followed. The TBNA should continue to follow the scientific outlook of development in social and economic planning and the path of scientific development. The TBNA should highlight her own special characteristics to fully exert her comparative competitive edge. The TBNA should adhere to the practice of carrying forward reform and opening-up so that greater impetus will be injected into her growth and development through reform and opening-up. The TBNA should make continual efforts of science and technology innovation and self-innovation to boost her innovation ability, thus enhancing her capability to serve, propel and promote regional economic growth. Land should be utilized in an economic and intensive way in the TBNA to substantially exert the guidance and regulatory role of land in economic growth. The TBNA should maintain sustainable development and build herself into a resource-efficient and environment-friendly new district and by putting people first, she should also promote the all-round development of a harmonious society.

The function orientation of the TBNA is set as follows. With the support of Beijing Municipality, Tianjin Municipality and Hebei Province, the TBNA aims to serve the circum-Bohai region, to extend her driving force to North China, Northeast China and Northwest China and face Northeast Asia. Efforts will be exerted to build the TBNA as the gateway of North China for opening-up, a grade-A modern manufacturing, R&D, and incubation center, an international shipping and logistics center of North China. The TBNA will also be gradually built into an eco-city and an ideal dwelling place featured by economic boom and social harmony.

The main tasks for promoting the development and opening-up of the TBNA are the following. Taking hold of the opportunity of acting as a pilot zone for comprehensive supporting reforms, the TBNA should explore new patterns of regional development and provide experience and examples for reforms and growth in other parts of China. Following a new path of industrialization, the TBNA should take the enhancement of her self-innovation ability as a central link to further improve her R&D and incubation systems and upgrade her overall technological level and competitiveness. Fully exerting her geographic, resources and industrial advantages, the TBNA should accelerate infrastructure construction, proactively promote the growth of hi-tech sectors and modern service sectors, and improve her comprehensive competitive edges and her ability to serve the development of the entire region as a growth engine. Through unified planning and coordination, the TBNA should build certain function zones with distinguished features, make good use of her space, and adopt powerful measures for water saving, for the intensive and efficient use of land, for reducing energy consumption, and for improving investment density and output efficiency on every kilometer of land. The TBNA should also do a good job in dealing with all kinds of environmental problems to maintain eco-balance and develop circular economy so that harmony will be achieved between human beings and nature, between economic growth and environmental protection. The TBNA should also promote institutional innovation and set up a unified, balanced, clean and highly streamlined and efficient administrative system.