On November 2, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the concept of a people's city for the first time during his inspection of Yangpu Riverside, profoundly revealing the people's attributes of a socialist city with Chinese characteristics, endowing Yangpu with the glorious mission of building a people's city in the new era, and having directional, leading and fundamental guiding significance for the development of Yangpu. Over the past five years, Yangpu has kept in mind the entrustment, forged ahead with gratitude, firmly held high the banner of the people's city, unified the thinking of the whole region with the concept of the people's city, inspired the spirit of the whole region, and guided the practice of the whole region, leading Yangpu to undergo earth-shaking changes.
The concept of the People's City has led Yangpu to consolidate its political foundation, vividly demonstrating the truth and practical power of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The ideological consensus of the whole region has been widely condensed, the systematic study and research of the people's city concept, the overall publicity and interpretation have been deepened, and the target system, work system and evaluation system of urban construction and development have been continuously improved, forming a closed loop of putting theory into practice, enriching theory with practice, and guiding practice with theory.
The concept of people's city leads Yangpu to expand the way of development, and innovatively explores the Yangpu sample of urban development with Chinese characteristics. Innovation has become the first driving force for the construction of people's cities, promoting economic development to achieve quality, efficiency and power changes, the continuous optimization of regional industrial structure, the improvement of economic strength and quality, and the vigorous development of the digital economy.
The People's City concept leads Yangpu to respond to the people's expectations, fully demonstrating the vivid picture of the city making life better. The whole process of people's democracy has been deepened and expanded, and the long-term mechanism for doing practical things for the people has been improved and improved, the investment in people's livelihood has increased from 9.591 billion yuan in 2020 to 16.260 billion yuan in 2023, 29,000 households below the second level have embraced a new life, and 6 million square meters of old housing have achieved reverse growth, and everyone can obtain belonging and recognition by participating in urban construction in an orderly manner.
The People's City concept leads Yangpu's path of innovative governance, vividly presenting a vivid example of promoting the modernization of the grassroots governance system and governance capacity. The work pattern of the Party's leadership in the construction of the people's city has continued to improve, the guiding standard of "knowing people and selecting people according to facts" has been clearly established, the level of refinement and precision of urban services and the level of digitalization and intelligence of urban management have been continuously improved, the operation of urban areas has been safe and stable, and the pilot city of national municipal social governance modernization and Shanghai Safe Demonstration City have been successfully established.
Over the past five years, every change, every bit of progress, and every leap forward in Yangpu is inseparable from the care and guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the scientific guidance of the people's city concept. The vivid practice of the past five years has shown us that the concept of the people's city has profoundly changed Yangpu, systematically reshaped Yangpu, and led the achievements of Yangpu, which is the guiding ideology that Yangpu must be consistent. Last year, when General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Shanghai, he put forward a new important requirement of "fully practicing the concept of a people's city". The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) wrote the concept of the people's city into the Decision, taking it as a guiding concept for deepening the reform of the urban construction, operation and governance system and accelerating the transformation of urban development mode. The just-concluded Fifth Plenary Session of the 12th Municipal Party Committee put forward the major task of "improving the policy system for the construction of best practices in people's cities", which not only gave us a new glorious mission, but also brought us historical opportunities.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the 5th anniversary of the People's City concept. At such an important historical juncture of carrying forward the past and forging ahead into the future, the Ninth Plenary Session of the 11th District Committee focused on the theme of people's city construction, systematically summarized the experience and achievements of people's city construction in the past five years, accurately analyzed the bottlenecks and constraints of high-quality development, scientifically depicted the panorama and construction drawings of Yangpu people's city construction at a new starting point, and reviewed and adopted the "Yangpu District Committee of the Communist Party of China on Implementing the Spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Fifth Plenary Session of the 12th Municipal Party Committee, Further Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization". The Opinions on Doing Practical Work and Walking in the Forefront of Building the Best Practice of People's Cities in Yangpu City have pointed out the direction of progress and provided a clear path for the construction of Yangpu People's City. Standing at a new starting point, we must consciously take the promotion of the new practice of the people's city as the mission of keeping in mind the entrustment and forging ahead, as the practical requirement of implementing major tasks and the overall situation of the service center, and as the urgent need to respond to risks and challenges and promote high-quality regional development. Measure pressure and explore new paths.
The blueprint has been drawn and the trumpet has sounded. We should unite more closely around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, hold high the banner of reform and opening up, and take the lead in building a people's city as a pioneer and a pioneer, so as to make new and greater contributions to Shanghai's leading and exemplary role in promoting Chinese-style modernization!
Editor: Cao Jun
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