The Comprehensive and Complete-Set Reform Pilot Experimental Zone

An economic development pilot zone with institutional innovation as the main driving force and a comprehensive reform pilot as the main feature. Its significant advantage is that it has the right to make policies first, and it has significant radiation, demonstration and driving effects. The purpose of building national pilot zones with comprehensive accompanying reforms is to provide new experience and ideas for improving the socialist market economy system and coordinating reforms in all aspects. Practice has shown that implementing first and piloting first, and point-to-face reform promotion method is an important experience in overcoming difficulties and successfully promoting Reform and Opening-up. The pilot zones with comprehensive accompanying reforms adhere to the overall planning of urban and rural development, regional development, economic and social development, harmonious development between man and nature, domestic development and opening to the outside world, so as to determine the objectives and main tasks of the reform experiment.

Since June 2005, the executive meeting of the State Council approved the establishment of the first national pilot zone with comprehensive accompanying reforms in Shanghai Pudong New Area. Upto June 2013, Heilongjiang Province was approved as a pilot area for pilot zone with comprehensive accompanying reforms of modern agriculture in the “Two Great Plains”, during which the State Council has successively approved 12 national reform pilot zones with comprehensive accompanying reforms of the country. The National pilot zones with comprehensive accompanying reforms can be divided into six major types in terms of themes: the developing and opening theme, including Shanghai Pudong New District, Tianjin Binhai New District, Shenzhen, Xiamen, and Yiwu pilot districts; the theme of overall planning of urban and rural areas, including Chongqing and Chengdu; the theme of social construction, including Wuhan urban agglomeration and Chang-Zhu-Tan urban agglomeration; the theme of exploration of new industrialization paths, including Shenyang Economic Zone; the theme of agricultural modernization, including the two plains of Heilongjiang Province; and the theme of resource-based economic transformation, including Shanxi Province. The national pilot zones with comprehensive accompanying reforms are representatives of the first implementing and first piloting. The reform exploration, progress and experience can provide useful references for comprehensively promoting and deepening reforms.