It has been 18 years since the proposal of the "Rise of the Central Region" strategy in 2004. As a central region composed of 6 provinces, it is at the junction of the east-west transition and the north-south transition in my country, and is a stage transition zone that undertake

has a history of 18 years since the proposal of the "Rise of the Central Region" strategy in 2004.

As the central region of , , consisting of 6 provinces, is at the junction of the east-west transition and the north-south transition in my country. It is a stage transition zone that undertakes the professionalism of success.

, and in the central part there are also top ten provinces in the country such as Henan, Hubei, and Hunan, and the scale is not too low.

However, from the actual situation, the central region is too broad, spanning the two major regions of my country's north and south, and the eastern and central provinces are involved, and each province also has its own considerations.

For example, Shanxi Province is located in the northernmost part of the central region. Its economic structure and cultural customs are very different from the rest of the central region. For example, Anhui Province, located in the easternmost part of the central part, finally squeezed into the Yangtze River Delta , which I long thought of.

In fact, the core provinces in the central region are only Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi. These four provinces actually have their own plans.

From the national geographical partitioning, Central China includes three provinces, namely Henan, Hubei and Hunan. In the national regional economic structure, Henan belongs to the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration , and Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi have proposed the Middle Reach Urban Agglomeration . Whether it is this circle or that group, there are two provinces in the central region that cannot be avoided. This is Hunan and Hubei, also known as the Two Lakes region.

Historically, , two lakes, were in the same political system for a long time. They both belonged to Jingzhou, one of the nine provinces, and later they belonged to both , Huguang Province, .

The lake among the two lakes refers to Dongting Lake. Yangtze River passes through the area between the two lakes, so the core area of the two lakes is the two lake plain, namely Jianghan Plain and Dongting Lake Plain .

Because the two lakes are closely connected in history, and the geographical environment and language customs communicate with each other, the rise of the two lakes will also open a new chapter in the rise of the central region.

Although Hubei and Hunan are among the top ten cities in GDP in the country, they rank relatively low and are very different from the top provinces.

Take the data in the first three quarters of 2022 as an example. Hubei was 3729.8 billion and Hunan was 3533.2 billion, still ranks 8th and 9th in the country.

But not to mention the top two Guangdong and Jiangsu, even the fourth-place Zhejiang, the gap is about 2 trillion.

However, the same data for the third quarter, a positive signal was transmitted.

In the first three quarters of 2022, the actual growth rate of national GDP was 3.0%. Looking at the top ten provinces, there are 7 provinces that exceed the national average growth rate. So which ones are lower than the growth rate? They are Guangdong, Jiangsu and Sichuan respectively.

Guangdong and Jiangsu are the two representatives of my country's coastal economy, both of which are lower than the national average growth rate. The reason behind this is intriguing.

Look at the 7 provinces that exceeded the average growth rate. Fujian Province ranked first, with the actual growth rate reaching 5.2%.

Fujian is also a very unique province. It does not belong to any economy , and its economic system is self-contained. Although it is also a coastal province, the dependence of extroverted economy is much lower than that of Guangdong and Jiangsu.

Apart from Fujian, the two lakes are the most impressive. Among them, the actual growth rates of Hunan and Hubei are 4.8% and 4.7% respectively. Not only is it far higher than the national average, but it also occupies the second and third places in the growth rate.

The actual growth rate does not reflect the momentum of the two lakes catching up with development. The increase in the nominal growth rate is a more intuitive reflection.

The increase in Hubei in the first three quarters was 256.734 billion, and Hunan was 211.06 billion. This increase was higher than that of Sichuan Province, which ranked first, and was about the same as the increase in Zhejiang and Henan.

This shows that the two lakes are speeding up to catch up, and the ranking may further improve by time.

The two lakes are showing a momentum of joining hands. What are the deep reasons behind this? What kind of leading role will it play in the development of the central region?

The reason why coastal areas can develop is because with the deepening of my country's economic opening up, the coastal areas have used the transportation advantages of port terminals and terminals, and industries have quickly gathered.However, with the changes in the overall environment, on the one hand, the momentum of exports has weakened, and on the other hand, various costs in coastal areas are also increasing.

plus the country has issued a series of land indicators, energy consumption indicators, emission indicators, etc., which has forced the transformation and upgrading of coastal industries to transfer to the central and western regions.

At the same time, with the in-depth excavation of the domestic circulation, the two lakes are located in my country's geographical center, with all advantages in ports and railways, and the logistics advantages of the coastal areas are transferred to the two lakes.

So this is not only the spring of the two lakes, but the spring of the rise of the entire central region has arrived. The two lakes are just pioneers, and the rest of the provinces will also usher in new opportunities for leapfrog development in the future.