From April 22nd to 24th, Chongqing. A survey and a symposium, focusing on promoting the development of the western region in the new era. Plan from point to surface, and place from surface to point. General Secretary Xi Jinping made this survey to look at Chongqing's logistics parks and focus on opening up; To showcase the achievements of technological innovation and industrial development, and plan for innovation; Go to the community and "urban brain" to think about new ways to promote modernization of urban governance. The fields of openness, innovation, and urban governance have also undergone significant changes due to the national strategy of western development. This is the first time that General Secretary Xi Jinping has hosted a symposium on the theme of the Western Development after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and it is also the eighth thematic conference on coordinated regional development after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The desert and gobi, snow covered plateau, towering mountains, rolling rivers... For a long time, the General Secretary has devoted a lot of efforts to the western region, which covers more than 70% of China's land area, and is full of deep feelings and hopes: "To promote the development of the western region is a century project. We should maintain our strategic determination, continue to work hard and steadily, and strive to write a new chapter in the development of the western region in the construction of Chinese path to modernization!" An open road "to further form a new pattern of great protection, great opening, and high-quality development" to promote development through opening up is a common long history of the vast and diverse western regions. May. More than 40 years ago, the spring breeze of reform and opening up greened the eastern and southern coasts, while the western region was also eagerly anticipating more opportunities. The pattern determines the train of thought. In the autumn of 2013, the initiative of jointly building the "the Belt and Road" was put forward, and the western region also surges out new development potential. Chongqing is a microcosm of the Western opening-up. On the afternoon of 22nd, the first stop of the investigation, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into Chongqing International Logistics Hub Park. Within the park, there is the Chongqing Waterless Port Operation and Dispatch Center for the Western Land Sea New Corridor. The map on the big screen, with Chongqing as the coordinate point, depicts the "major artery" connecting the world: heading west, the China Europe freight train directly reaches Europe; To the north, the "Chongqing Manchuria Russia" railway runs north-south; To the east, the golden waterway of the Yangtze River connects the central region and the Yangtze River Delta; To the south, the western land sea new channel crosses mountains and seas. The new land sea channel in the west is a trade line that General Secretary Xi Jinping has paid attention to many times during his recent visit. "From Chongqing to Qinzhou in Guangxi, and then through the Strait of Malacca, it saves more than ten or even twenty days compared to going south along the golden waterway of the Yangtze River along the eastern coast." There is also a set of impressive data. Chongqing officials introduced: "The western land sea new channel covers 503 ports in 121 countries and regions, with exports of the" new three samples "reaching 8.82 billion yuan in 2023, a nearly double year-on-year growth." For many years, the surging river water has carried the mountain goods and local products from various parts of the southwest downstream, while the cloth, cotton and yarn from the southeast have been flowing upstream with the resounding Sichuan River horn. Nowadays, railways, highways, and air routes radiate from all directions, and Chongqing's development is also considered from the perspective of China, Eurasia, and the world. "Logistics is the 'sinews' of the real economy." General Secretary Xi Jinping felt