读书嘉宾：王立非，毕业于南京大学、获英语语言文学博士学位，现任北京语言大学高级翻译学院教授、博士生导师、学术委员会主任、国际语言服务研究院院长、语言资源高精尖创新中心特聘研究员。享受政府特殊津贴，曾赴联合国工作和美国加州大学伯克利分校访学。兼任中国对外贸易经济合作企业协会商务英语专业委员会会长、中国语言服务40人论坛联席主席、中国专门用途英语研究会副会长、中国世贸组织研究会理事、全国语言与术语标准化委员会专家、全国高校外语教育联盟跨学科委员会委员。已发表CSSCI期刊论文多篇，著有《商务英语名物化研究》、《商务英语论要》、《语言服务产业论》、《企业走出去语言服务蓝皮书》、《战疫应急语言服务报告》等，主编《商务语言与文化研究学术丛书》、《新时代语言服务研究文库》、《新世纪商务英语专业本科系列教材》，译有《非洲投资者报告》、《商务写作与沟通圣经》等。主持国家社科基金项目、教育部人文社科项目、北京市社会科学重点项目和北京市虚拟仿真实验教学项目等。曾两次荣获北京市优秀教学成果二等奖和北京市哲学社会科学优秀成果二等奖。

英文文本：

Coordinated Quality Development Across Regions

The guidelines for promoting coordinated, quality development across regions are:

• adjust and improve regional policies in accordance with the objective laws of economics;

• give full play to the comparative strengths of different regions,and promote the rational flow and concentration of resources;

• stimulate innovation-driven development and enhance the dynamics for quality growth;

• increase the economic and population carrying capacity of regions with development edges, including leading cities and city clusters;and

• strengthen the capacity of other regions for food, eco-environmental and border security.

Our economy is transitioning from rapid growth to quality development, which has set new requirements for coordinated regional development. We cannot simply expect all regions to reach the same level of growth. Instead, each region should optimize its economic structure and growth model in light of local conditions. It is necessary to have a number of new growth drivers for quality development,such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta in particular, and some important city clusters.Imbalances are common, and we should pursue a relative balance between regions –this is a dialectical approach to coordinated regional development. In order to achieve this goal, we must follow four principles:

First, we should respect the objective laws of economics. It is natural that industry and population gather in regions with comparative advantages, where city clusters emerge to serve as the main engines for growth and higher overall efficiency of the economy. We need to remove obstacles to the natural flow and concentration of resources, and enable the market to play the decisive role in resource allocation for higher efficiency. That said, Beijing, Shanghai and other mega cities should keep the size of their population at a level based on their available resources and principal functions.

Second, we should give full play to the comparative strengths of different regions. Regions with conditions favorable for economic development should take on more industries and population and play a stronger role in creating economic value. Regions of eco-environmental importance should be effectively protected and their eco-functions reinforced. For the purpose of national security, border regions should enhance their capacity for development so that their population and economy can grow, laying the foundation for national unity and border stability.

Third, we should make the best use of our territorial space. We need to implement and improve the strategy of functional zoning,refine the configuration of functional zones, and formulate and implement targeted policies for key development zones, ecologically fragile zones, and zones with abundant energy resources. In so doing, we will form a rational process of territorial development strictly based on functional zoning.

Fourth, we should guarantee people’s well being. One basic requirement of coordinated regional development is to ensure equal access to essential public services and a balanced distribution of infrastructure. We should improve supporting policies involving land, household registration and transfer payments, enhance the carrying capacity of city clusters, and promote the stable settlement of the migrant population. To help rural people settle in urban areas, we should be results-oriented, do solid work, and ensure that people can move out and settle down easily. We need to ensure equal access to public services in regions which serve the strategic functions of security and eco-environmental protection.