Xi Jinping announced in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the first China International Import Expo that the central government will support the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and make it a national strategy. The Central Economic Work Conference proposed to promote the regional coordinated development, encourage the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta and other regions to increase their driving force as central cities, and push forward the high-quality development.What is the significance of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta upgrading to the national strategy? And what does it mean to the development of the nation and Nanjing? How does Nanjing position itself in this national strategy, and how to seize the opportunity to promote its own development? In this regard, the reporter has a dialogue with Professor Liu Zhibiao, President of the Yangtze River Industrial Economic Research Institute of Nanjing University.Professor Liu Zhibiao said that as one of the most important parts of the Yangtze River Delta, Nanjing should position itself as the opening center of the northwest region of the Yangtze River Delta, plan to build a world-class advanced manufacturing cluster, strive to be the main force of the reform and opening-up dominated by domestic demand in the new era, and drive the development of Jiangxi, Anhui, Northern Jiangsu and even the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
