Without reform, there will be no Longgang. Let's reform again and revitalize Longgang, "said He Zongjing, Secretary of the Longgang Municipal Party Committee in Zhejiang Province, at the Longgang New Urbanization Reform and Development Promotion Conference. Over the past five years, Longgang has explored a new path of comprehensive reform characterized by" large government, flatness, low cost, and high efficiency, "achieving the ability of" small government "to provide" large services. More than 40 years ago, the east wind of reform and opening up was magnificent. When this warm breeze blew into the mountainous area of southern Zhejiang, the "Wenzhou model" was born. Longgang, holding the "key" of personnel circulation and trading at Fangyan Port, opened the treasure chest of "prospering commerce with the port, promoting industry with commerce, and expanding the city with industry". From a small fishing village to the establishment of a "farmer self built" farmer city (town) in 1984, and then to the rise to become a county-level city in 2019. Throughout the years, Longgang's highly free and active private economy has been driving the formation of a service-oriented government and laying a solid foundation for the development of a "large department system" and "flattening". Born out of reform and renowned for reform. Every leap of Longgang is marked with a distinct imprint of reform, "said Zhang Zhenfeng, Vice Governor of Zhejiang Province and Secretary of Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee. In the past five years, Longgang has embarked on the path of reform empowering high-level operation and explored the experience of reform empowering high-quality development. Since its establishment as a city, it has undertaken 7 national and 42 provincial reform pilot projects, and has been selected as 3 typical cases of China's reform. The Third Plenum of the 20th Central Committee proposed to "deepen the reform of granting economic and social management rights to mega towns that are commensurate with their population and economic scale." As the first pilot program of transforming mega towns into county-level cities in China, Longgang's experience provides important reference significance for the development and reform of mega towns. In the approval and notification from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Zhejiang Province, it is required to establish a simple and efficient grassroots management system, refine and quantify the establishment of strict control institutions, and implement the provisions of the State Council's "Three Chapters on the Constitution". Specific tasks such as personnel establishment and funding need to be solved by local governments themselves. Longgang implements the 12 character city policy of "large department system, flattening, low cost, and high efficiency". Set up 15 party and government departments, without setting up "townships and streets", restructure levels, implement local regulations on "city managed communities", build a "city community grid" governance structure, with 70% of municipal government officials and personnel sinking into communities and stationed in grids, and more than 19 social workers per 10000 people, achieving over 90% of incidents to be resolved quickly at the community level. In this way, Longgang City has about 60% fewer institutions than similar counties and cities in the province, and compared to counties and cities with the same population size, the total staffing is reduced by more than 40%, saving more than 1 billion yuan in costs annually. Not relying on staffing, but on 'smart governance'. In the context of limited administrative resources, we aim to improve governance efficiency, promote the digital and intelligent transformation of the government, break down data barriers in various departments, integrate more than 9700 video surveillance channels and nearly 9400 various IoT sensing terminals, and use intelligence to enhance efficiency and liberate manpower, achieving a social intelligent governance model of "global perception" for urban operation, "one network management" for social governance, and "efficient collaboration" for event handling. At the same time, Longgang is building a comprehensive service system for socialized cooperation, transferring government functions to industry associations and social organizations, achieving full transferability, transforming "government monopoly" into "social participation", and "spending money to support people" into "spending money to do things", paving the way for a new path of "government led, social participation, and diverse governance". As of now, 83 matters such as environmental management and safety management have been transferred, with a total of 17 social organizations, 59 enterprises and institutions, and 6 universities undertaking them. The fifth anniversary evaluation report of Longgang's "withdrawal of towns and establishment of cities" released at the meeting pointed out that in the past five years, a total of 77 industrial projects worth over 100 million yuan have been attracted and implemented, with a total investment of 49.25 billion yuan, and the number of enterprises above designated size has exceeded 500. The total number of registered business entities in the city is 108000, which has nearly doubled compared to 2019, with an average annual growth rate of 14.35%. The number of market business entities per 10000 people ranks among the top 3 in Zhejiang Province, with an average of 1 "boss" per 4 people. The report shows that Longgang City spends more than 80% of its annual fiscal revenue on people's livelihood expenses, promotes "full urbanization" as a priority, vigorously implements public service improvement actions, and creates a high-quality life with "high-quality balance". At present, the construction of the "Education Community," "Medical Community," "Health Community," and "Cultural Community" in Longgang City is fully underway, and a "15 minute public service circle" has been basically built for the entire area. At the same time, in order to continuously improve the living environment and enhance the quality of the city, Longgang has implemented the development strategy of "embracing the river and facing the sea", and is fully committed to creating a new spatial pattern of "one axis, one belt, one new city", and building an ecological and happy city that is livable, business friendly, and tourist friendly. In the past five years, there have been over 80000 new permanent residents, with nearly 500000 permanent residents in the city. Among them, 25% are young people aged 14-35, exceeding the provincial average of 22%. At the conference, the recent major projects were introduced, with 52 projects starting in the second half of 2024 and a total investment of over 30 billion yuan. A number of key livelihood projects, including Longgang Campus of the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Longgang Senior High School affiliated with East China Normal University, Longgang Operation Hall of the National Library, and Longgang South Interchange of the Yongguan Expressway, were officially put into use on the same day. Nowadays, Longgang's GDP has an average annual growth rate of 5.9%, ranking among the top 2 in Wenzhou and the top 5 in Zhejiang for two consecutive years, with a total value exceeding 40 billion yuan; The ratio of disposable income of urban and rural residents has decreased from 1.92 to 1.79, and the comprehensive strength has risen to the 34th place among the top 100 counties with development potential in China. Make it difficult but strive for its long-term goals. The Third Plenum of the 20th Central Committee pointed out that "reform and opening up is an important tool for the Party and the people to catch up with the times in great strides. In the past, the pace of reform of Longgang people has never stopped. It is believed that in the future, more "new blood" will be attracted to join this reform city, and the development path of improving reform, development and people's livelihood will be continuously explored, which will be recorded in the history of Chinese path to modernization reform. (New Society)