Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 7th Title: Take on the responsibility of shouldering the major economic provinces - Scan the opening group activities of the Zhejiang delegation

Xinhua News Agency reporters Gu Tiancheng, Yue Deliang, and Wei Yijun

At 15:00 on March 6, the Zhejiang delegation attending the third session of the 14th National People's Congress held an opening group activity, attracting more than 150 reporters from more than 90 media at home and abroad.

The interview area was packed, and many reporters arrived at the venue two hours in advance. "Zhejiang is an important window to see China's high-quality development." A foreign media reporter explained his concern for Zhejiang.

In 2024, Zhejiang Province's GDP exceeded 9 trillion yuan; the added value of strategic emerging industries increased by 7.5% year-on-year; the import and export scale exceeded 5 trillion yuan for the first time; Ningbo Zhoushan Port's annual cargo throughput ranked first in the world for 16 consecutive years...

The Zhejiang delegation used a set of data to tell the reporters on the scene: As a major economic province, Zhejiang's economy showed a good development trend in 2024, with steady progress, quality improvement, and a positive trend. Zhejiang will firmly grasp the core task of high-quality development and building a demonstration zone for common prosperity, and resolutely shoulder the responsibility of the economic province to take the lead.

The reporter found during his on-site speeches and questions and answers that "private economy" has become a high-frequency word. A reporter asked, Zhejiang private enterprises won multiple firsts in the top 500 private enterprises in China last year. What is the reason?

"China's super-large market with a population of more than 1.4 billion, a large number of high-quality talent resources, a complete industrial chain system, etc. have created good conditions for the development of the private economy." Representative Xu Guanju, chairman of Zhejiang Chuanhua Group Co., Ltd., said, "Of course, this is also a concentrated reflection of Zhejiang's excellent business environment and innovative vitality. Zhejiang is a province with a large private economy. The government creates an innovation environment for enterprises. The "sunshine and rain" are particularly sufficient. Enterprises are bravely climbing on the road of innovation and rushing to the two-way to make Zhejiang show surging innovation vitality."

The 2025 Government Work Report mentioned that it is necessary to support economic provinces to take the lead and formulate support policies in terms of factor guarantee, scientific and technological innovation, reform and opening up first and pilot. Representative Xu Renbiao, mayor of Zhoushan City, felt deeply about this.

In November last year, the State Council officially approved the implementation of the first commodity resource allocation hub in Zhejiang. Representative Xu Renbiao said that Zhoushan will carry out construction with high standards in terms of infrastructure construction, accelerating pilot implementation, and strengthening service guarantees, striving to achieve the best service, lowest cost and highest efficiency.

DeepSeek, humanoid robots and other scientific and technological innovation achievements have stunningly "come out of the circle" and stirred up a surging wave of the development of new quality productivity. How Zhejiang can achieve the two-way pursuit of talent education and scientific and technological innovation has become a hot topic of attention for reporters on the spot.

"A major economic province takes the lead and needs to have more chassis in talent and education to support it." Representative Li Xiaokun, President of Wenzhou Medical University, said that Zhejiang universities have joined hands with leading enterprises and scientific research institutes to build national key laboratories, covering the three major scientific and technological innovation highlands of "Internet +", life and health and new materials, and aim at future science and technology.

The source of innovation lies in people. A set of data is worth paying attention to: in 2024, Zhejiang Province added 110 major scientific and technological achievements, introduced 41 top talents, and added 390,000 high-skilled talents.

Representative Zhang Yabo, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sanhua Holdings Group Co., Ltd., said that at the moment of rapid development of AI, enterprises should boldly use young and creative scientific and technological talents. We must not only focus on independently cultivating leading figures and experts, but also introduce external talents, tolerate personalized differences in talents, and accept the failure of innovation in exploration.

Seting an example in promoting common prosperity for all people is an important focus for the economic province to take on the role of the main focus. Anji, Yiwu and others, as observation samples for Zhejiang to promote common prosperity, have attracted the attention of reporters on the spot.

"By improving infrastructure, the 5G network covers the entire village. A few steps will be taken to libraries and coffee shops, and charging piles and shared bicycles can be found within 5 minutes." Representative Wang Yucheng, secretary of the Party Branch of Yucun Village, Anji County, Zhejiang Province, said: "The villagers all say that what is in the city is in the village; what is not in the city is in the village, and what is not in the city is in the village!"

The reporter learned in the interview that the double-difference of urban and rural residents' income in Zhejiang Province narrowed to 1.83 in 2024, and the coverage rate of Hemei villages reached 51.7% at the end of the year.

Representative Fang Haolong, Party Branch Secretary of Lizu Village, Houzhai Street, Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, said that last year they joined hands with eight surrounding villages to establish the "Big Lizu Joint Rich Alliance" to jointly seek projects to enrich the people. He said: "This year, the construction of the comprehensive service center project is being promoted. After the construction of this center that integrates agricultural product exhibitions, e-commerce logistics, culture and leisure functions, it will not only increase the village's collective income, but will also benefit many surrounding villages."

The open group activity of the Zhejiang delegation lasted for nearly 3 hours. Some reporters are still unsatisfied and make an appointment with representatives participating in the open group activities for the next interview. The topic of "the economic province takes the lead" will continue.