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Zhejiang has witnessed sustained rapid economic development since its reform and opening up; in particular, since the beginning of the 21st century, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government have comprehensively, systematically summarized eight advantages of Zhejiang Province in development, and have put forward and thoroughly carried out eight measures for future development—the “Eight-Eight Strategies”.
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“Eight-Eight Strategies” means proceeding from Zhejiang’s actual conditions to further give scope to eight advantages and push forward eight measures. First, further give play to the advantages of Zhejiang’s institutions and mechanisms, actively promote the common development of the economy with different types of ownership while ensuring that public ownership remains dominant, continuously improve the system of a socialist market economy; second, further draw on the advantage of Zhejiang’s location, proactively keep in line with Shanghai, actively engage in cooperation and communication with the Yangtze River Delta, constantly increase the level of opening up internally and externally; third, further leverage the advantages of the massive characteristic industries in Zhejiang, speed up the building of advanced manufacturing bases, take the path of new industrialization; fourth, further give play to Zhejiang’s advantages in coordinated urban and rural development, quicken urban and rural integration; fifth, further utilize Zhejiang’s ecological advantage, turn Zhejiang into an ecological province, build a green Zhejiang; sixth, further exploit the advantages of mountain and marine resources, energetically develop the marine economy, boost the leapfrog development of the underdeveloped areas, and make the development of the marine economy and the underdeveloped areas become the new economic growth point of Zhejiang Province; seventh, further utilize Zhejiang’s environmental advantages, actively push forward main construction principally including five major ten-billion projects, practically strengthen legal construction, credit construction and improve the efficiency of organs; eighth, further leverage Zhejiang’s humanistic advantage, actively rejuvenate the province through science, technology and talent, step up efforts to turn Zhejiang into a culturally strong province.
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“Four Changes and Three Famous Things” means “Vacating the cage to change birds,” replacing the people with machines, optimizing space to save land, expanding the market through e-commerce, and cultivating well-known enterprises, famous products, and eminent experts; “Three Renovating and One Demolishing” means renovating old residential areas, old factory areas in urban areas and the villages in cities, demolishing illegal buildings; “The Governance for Five Kinds of Water” means treating sewage, controlling flooding, discharging the accumulated water, guaranteeing water supply, and saving water.
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See Xu Jianfeng, Zhejiang Has Economically Become Industrially Developed, Zhejiang Academic Journal, 2009(1).
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According to the Zhejiang Statistical Yearbook 2015, all of them are based on the prices in the same year.
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Data come from the Zhejiang Statistical Yearbook 2015 and the Science Technology Department of Zhejiang Province.
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Data come from the Zhejiang Statistical Yearbook 2015.
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Data come from the Zhejiang Statistical Yearbook 2015.
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Data come from the Zhejiang Statistical Yearbook 2015.
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Xi Jinping, Remaining Steadfast on Two Fronts, Creating New Advantages of Zhejiang in Developing the Economy with Different Types of Ownership, Economic Times, March 15, 2003.
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“Placing equal emphasis on three tasks” includes placing equal emphasis on strict prevention of new pollution and vigorous control of old pollution; urban pollution abatement and rural pollution abatement; wide adoption of clean production and the construction of environmental protection projects; “developing three projects simultaneously” includes developing simultaneously pollution prevention and control, and ecological protection; industrial pollution prevention and control, prevention and control of domestic pollution, and agricultural non-point source pollution; prevention and control of water pollution and air pollution.
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In “811”, “8” means 8 major water systems, canals, and plain river networks throughout the province; “11” means 11 cities divided into districts, and it also means 11 provincial key controlled areas under environmental protection, including Jiaojiang Waisha, the Yantou Chemical and Pharmaceutical Base; the Huangyan Chemical and Pharmaceutical Base; the Linhai Shuiyang Chemical and Pharmaceutical Base; the Shangyu Fine Chemical Park; chemical enterprises in the Dongyang and Nanjiang River Basins; the Xinchang-Shengzhou Section of the Xinchang River Basin; chemical enterprises in the Shenjia Industrial Park, Quzhou; printing, dyeing, chemical industries in eastern Xiaoshan; the Pingyang Shuitou Leather Making Base; the electroplating industry in Wenzhou City; the storage battery industry in Changxing.
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Data come from the Zhejiang Statistical Yearbook 2014.
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Xu, J. (2019). Introduction: Zhejiang’s Economic Development and the Chinese Dream. In: Pei, C., Xu, J. (eds) Chinese Dream and Practice in Zhejiang – Economy. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7484-5_1
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