On April 2, the press conference of "Research Report on the High-quality Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta (2018)" co-sponsored by Nanjing University and Guangming Daily, undertaken by the Yangtze River Industrial Economic Research Institute of Nanjing University and Guangming Daily Think Tank Research and Release Center was held in Beijing. The conference was a collection of results announcement, keynote speeches, and roundtable discussions, which attracted the active participation of experts and scholars from think tanks, ideological and theoretical circles. Guangming Daily covered the main content of the "Report" in its full page, and picked up the highlights of the conference speeches to share them with readers and to encourage think tanks. The Yangtze River Delta region has developed economy, geographical proximity, affinity and cultural interlinkage, and the voice and action for the integrated development have been around for a long time. In November 2018, at the opening ceremony of the first China International Import Expo, General Secretary Xi Jinping announced in his keynote speech that he supported the development of regional integration in the Yangtze River Delta and upgraded it to a national strategy, pushing the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta to enter a new stage. Guangming Daily measures the past integrated development level of the Yangtze River Delta, analyzes its process, characteristics and problems of high-quality integration, and proposes countermeasures and suggestions.
