At the current stage of urbanization construction, regional coordinated development has become an important direction for the construction of urban circles. After the National Development and Reform Commission officially approved the "Chengdu Metropolitan Area Development Plan", on November 29, 2021, the Sichuan Provincial Government officially issued the "Chengdu Metropolitan Area Development Plan" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). This is the third metropolitan planning approved at the national level after Nanjing Metropolitan Area and Fuzhou Metropolitan Area, and it is also the only one in the Midwest.

The "Planning" made it clear that the Chengdu metropolitan area is centered on Chengdu and is formed together with the closely connected cities of Deyang, Meishan, and Ziyang. Mainly include: Chengdu City, Jingyang District of Deyang City, Shifang City, Guanghan City, Zhongjiang County, Dongpo District of Meishan City, Pengshan District, Renshou County, Qingshen County, Yanjiang District of Ziyang City, Lezhi County, with an area of 26,400 The total area is 33,100 square kilometers, and the permanent population is about 27.61 million by the end of 2020. The planned scope is extended to Chengdu, Deyang, Meishan, and Ziyang, with a total area of 33,100 square kilometers. By the end of 2020, the permanent population is about 29.66 million.

In terms of specific construction tasks, the "Plan" proposes to optimize the development layout of the metropolitan area, accelerate the promotion of infrastructure in the same city and network, coordinate to improve the level of innovation-driven development, jointly build modern high-end industrial clusters, improve the level of open cooperation, and promote the convenient sharing of public services. The eight tasks of mutual protection and governance of the ecological environment and deepening of system and mechanism reforms. In terms of optimizing the development layout of the metropolitan area, taking the development of the same city as the guide, strengthen the radiation and driving role of Chengdu as a central city, give full play to the comparative advantages of Deyang, Meishan, and Ziyang, strengthen the supporting role of small cities, counties and key towns, and build a polar core leading, The spatial development pattern of a networked metropolitan area with serial axis and multi-point support.

Accelerate the promotion of infrastructure in the same city and network, build a three-dimensional transportation system in the Chengdu metropolitan area, promote the integration of energy, municipal, and water resources and other infrastructures to provide strong support for high-quality development. In terms of synergistically improving the level of innovation-driven development, strengthen the construction of high-level innovation platforms, enhance the function of agglomeration and transformation of innovation resources, and build a German-Mei-funded innovation community. In terms of co-building modern high-end industrial clusters, we will promote the development of industrial innovation and integration, improve the modernization level of industrial chain supply chains and the core competitiveness of competitive industries, and build a modern industrial system featuring high-end cuts, dislocation development, and clusters.

In terms of improving the level of open cooperation, actively integrate into major strategies such as the construction of the Belt and Road, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the promotion of the western development in the new era to form a new pattern, proactively serve the new development pattern, deepen open cooperation, and jointly build a global inland reform and opening up. High ground. Editor/Xu Shengpeng