The comprehensive reform area, known as the "new special zone", bloomed for the ninth time. This is the first time that all areas of a province have been approved as comprehensive reform areas after Chongqing.

Caijing National Weekly learned exclusively from Shanxi that the State Council has officially approved Shanxi Province as the "National Comprehensive Reform Experimental Zone" for the transformation and development of the national resource-based economy, and the documents will be issued to Shanxi Province immediately, and Shanxi will also hold a press conference to announce the approved policy.

So far, starting from Pudong New Area, the state has successively approved nine national comprehensive reform pilot zones, and the other seven are Tianjin Binhai New Area, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan City Circle, Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan City Group, Shenzhen and Shenyang Economic Zone.

From April 2065438 to April 2000, Shanxi's application plan was submitted to the central government, and it took half a year to be approved, making Shanxi one of the regions with the fastest comprehensive reform.

This is the first time that the State Council has approved all areas of a province as comprehensive reform areas, and it is also the largest comprehensive reform area in this area. Compared with the other eight places, Shanxi Comprehensive Reform Area embodies the central government's indicative reform intention.

It is worth noting that, unlike the other eight places, which took the initiative to apply first and then obtained the central approval, the approval for Shanxi first originated from the central pilot intention. Previously, compared with the earliest era of the five special zones in the south, the comprehensive reform zone known as the "new special zone" was more regarded as an independent reform under the national examination and approval policy space.

According to informed sources, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) began to investigate the Zongshen work in Shaanxi Province at the end of 2009. The reporter of Caijing National Weekly happened to meet a survey conducted by the National Development and Reform Commission at the end of February 2009. At that time, the whole work was still in its infancy, and the signboard mistakenly wrote "experimental area" as "experimental area".

Shanxi has become the largest comprehensive reform experimental area approved by the state, with a total area of 156579 square kilometers. It now governs Taiyuan, Datong, Shuozhou, Yangquan, Changzhi, Xinzhou, Lvliang, Jinzhong, Linfen, Yuncheng, Jincheng and other 1 1 prefecture-level cities, while the total area of Chongqing, a provincial city previously approved, is 82,402.95 square meters.

In a survey, Kong Jingyuan, director of the Economic System Reform Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, once explained the significance of Shanxi's application for a comprehensive reform zone: "The transformation of Shanxi's resource-based economy is of typical significance in the country. Shanxi has resource advantages that are difficult to replicate in other provinces, and it is necessary to capitalize or even market resource elements as soon as possible. "

On the afternoon of September 1, Yuan, secretary of Shanxi Provincial Party Committee, and Wang Jun, governor, paid a special visit to Zhang Ping, director and deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, and held talks on the comprehensive reform experiment of resource-based economy transformation in Shanxi Province. At the meeting, Yuan bluntly said, "Shanxi will be unsustainable if it is not reformed."

It is reported that Shanxi will get preferential policies in the aspects of sustainable development of coal industry, financial return, coal bed methane mining, and land use approval for old coal mines. Similar to other comprehensive reform schemes in the comprehensive reform area, Shanxi will receive preferential policies for land approval.

The state will support Shanxi province to have the land use index of "land replacement" under the condition that the total amount of existing cultivated land remains unchanged; In addition, Shanxi will also have the right to use and approve coal mining subsidence areas, abandoned industrial and mining areas and inferior land.

The problem of gas rights in the development of coalbed methane in Shanxi Province is likely to make a breakthrough this time. Shanxi coal enterprises will have the priority to exploit coalbed methane on the premise of obtaining the right to exploit coal resources first.

Traditionally, after the State Council has approved a place as a comprehensive reform zone, the local government will formulate a detailed comprehensive reform plan, and will also apply for approval in the form of special planning to refine policies in finance and land.

As one of the most typical resource-based economic provinces in China, there are about 1 1 resource-based cities in Shanxi Province, and 94 of the 1 19 counties (cities, districts) have coal resources. After long-term exploitation, these counties and cities are close to or almost close to "resource-exhausted cities".

Prior to this, on 200 1, the State Council approved Fuxin as the first "pilot city for economic transformation of resource-exhausted cities" in China. However, there has been no breakthrough in the province's pilot, and this time it has achieved the approval of Shanxi.

Among them, the contribution rate of coal, coke and other related industries to economic growth accounts for nearly 90% in Shanxi.

Wang Jun pointed out at the briefing of the National Development and Reform Commission that "resource-based transformation is the fundamental way out for Shanxi to achieve scientific development". Zhang Ping, director of the National Development and Reform Commission, pointed out that "Shanxi's adjustment of industrial structure and the promotion of resource-based economic transformation have both external objective requirements and subjective wishes of the provincial party committee and government to take the initiative to adjust".

Under the background that the Twelfth Five-Year Plan focuses on changing the growth mode and the state has issued opinions on the development of strategic emerging industries, this reply from Shanxi is of great significance.

Peng Sen, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, once expressed the hope that Shanxi will intensify the work of clean energy and new energy and continue to play a good role as a national energy base.

In this application plan, Shanxi proposes that Shanxi Province will continue to promote the integration of coal resources, build a modern coal energy industry, build a comprehensive energy base and industrial system integrating coal and electricity, and build a strong cultural tourism province to realize the transformation of the province's economy from a single resource-based industry to a new, diversified and modern industrial system.