According to the National Development and Reform Commission on the 29th, this year’s development of the western region will do seven major tasks, including maintaining a stable and rapid economic development in the western region, continuing to strengthen infrastructure and ecological environment construction, strengthening the foundation for agricultural and rural development, and vigorously developing characteristics. Advantageous industries, actively promote the development of social undertakings and improve people’s livelihood, intensify reform and opening up, and strive to complete the task of post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.

The National Development and Reform Commission stated that this year is a crucial year for the implementation of the western development strategy. Solidly advancing the development of the western region is of great significance to further consolidating the economic recovery and promoting the coordinated development of the region.

In order to maintain the steady and rapid economic development of the western region, the state will promptly promulgate and implement several opinions on the in-depth implementation of the western development strategy, study and formulate related supporting measures and implementation rules, and effectively implement the policies and measures for the western development. Continue to increase the central government's support for transfer payments and various special funds in the western region, and increase the focus of central investment in areas such as people's livelihood projects, ecological environment, infrastructure, industrial structure adjustment, and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. Carry out the preparation of the "Western Development “Twelfth Five-Year Plan".

In order to accelerate the construction of a modern infrastructure system that is appropriately advanced, functionally equipped, safe and efficient, the western region will further expand the scale of the comprehensive transportation network, continue to promote the construction of the western section of the national expressway network and the development of eight main highways in the western region, and open up inter-provincial and urban discontinuities Toward the road, continue to promote the construction of a number of key water conservancy projects; accelerate the construction of information infrastructure such as broadband Internet and 3G networks; promote the construction of energy infrastructure such as oil and gas pipeline networks and power grids.

In order to consolidate the results of returning farmland to forests and returning grazing land to grassland, relevant departments will speed up the preparation of the overall plan for returning farmland to forests, the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" plan, and improve the policy of returning grazing land to grassland.

According to the arrangements of relevant departments, while further strengthening the foundation for agricultural and rural development in the western region this year, it will vigorously develop characteristic and advantageous industries, including vigorously developing strategic emerging industries such as energy conservation and environmental protection, new energy, new materials, biomedicine, and information networks; Strengthen the combination of military and civilian areas and military-civilian integration in the western region's national defense technology and industry advantages; dig deeper into cultural resources such as history and ethnicity, and vigorously develop characteristic cultural industries. Strengthen the construction of tourism infrastructure, cultivate and build a number of well-known tourist attractions and tourist routes.

In terms of promoting the development of social undertakings and improving people’s livelihood, this year, the western region will promote the balanced development of compulsory education, and continue to focus on major education such as rural junior high school building renovation projects, primary and secondary school building safety projects, special education school construction, and secondary vocational education basic capacity building. Special construction; strengthen public medical and health services and health emergency response capacity building, promote the construction of key Chinese hospitals at or above the prefecture level, support and promote the development of Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine.

In addition, the western region will intensify the reform and opening up: promote the layout and strategic adjustment of the state-owned economy, implement the strategy of transforming advantageous resources, and actively undertake the transfer of industries in the eastern and central regions; vigorously improve the investment environment and promote the development of the non-public economy; deepen the prices of resource products Reform, improve the pricing and cost-sharing mechanism of renewable energy power generation; deepen the comprehensive rural reforms, improve the supporting policies for the collective forest tenure system reform, and continue to promote the reform of the basic grassland management system; give full play to the advantages of the border to promote economic, trade and cultural exchanges with neighboring countries.

-----Source "China Calcium Carbide Industry Association Net"