To achieve the above goals, the Guidance Opinions put forward 10 key areas of reform to further advance the opening up and economic and social reform of the Yangtze River Delta Region:

1. Struggle for the establishment of a service-dominant industrial mix by means of accelerating the development of service industry and improving service industry development environment.

2. Struggle for the establishment of world-class level manufacturing base through comprehensive industrial mix optimization and upgrade, high-tech and pillow industries expansion and strengthening, layout optimization and competitiveness optimization.

3. To take an overall consideration of urban and rural development, strive for modern agricultural development, speed up the improvement of agricultural production, operation, logistics and service systems, deepen rural reform and advance the socialist new countryside construction.

4. Strive for independent innovation, establish regional innovation system with international competitiveness, create policy environment that encouraging independent innovation, and strengthen newly type talent cultivation and introduction, speed up the establishment of new type region.

5. Follow a new urbanization path, build up a comprehensive city and village system, improve and upgrade city functions, improve city and village planning and construction management level, build up world class level city groups with high international competitiveness.

6. Actively implement the integration construction of major infrastructure, improve transportation system, build up regional energy security system, improve irrigation infrastructure, improve information infrastructure, and increase the support ability of regional development.

7. Push forward construction energy conservation and environment friendly society, improve land conservation and intensive cultivation, implement comprehensive energy conservation and emission reduction, strengthen environment protection and eco-system construction, and increase sustainable development ability.

8. Strengthen construction of cultural and social cause, speed up improvement of employment and social security system, strengthen administration and service of non-local citizens and promote coordinate development of economy and society.

9. Give priority to tough issues during reform, vigorously implement administrative system reform, continue non-state owned economy development and state owned enterprises reform, accelerate process of marketization, and build up standard transparent legal environment, continue major pilot reform, take the lead to establish perfect socialist market economy system.

10. Improve open economic system, accelerate transformation of foreign trade growth model, focusing on quality improvement of foreign capital utilization, step up the "going global" strategy, upgrade opening up level comprehensively.

Supportive measures on implementation of various missions are clearly stated in the Guidance Opinion. First, strengthen overall coordination. Based on the requirement of Guidance Opinion, the two provinces and one municipality need to study and formulate feasible implementation plan, implement various tasks, carry out practical research, and learn experience and report to the State Council on major issues. NDRC will take the lead to work out the Regional Planning on the Yangtze River Delta Region, coordinate well with other plans, and organize the implementation and supervision of various policies and measures. State Council related departments should speed up function transformation, increase service awareness, put forward specific measures to support and promote the opening up and economic and social development in the region.

Second, improve cooperation mechanism. Facing new situation, new model of regional economy management need to be explored following the principle that many parties are involved with government provides the guidance, enterprises play the major role according the market principle so as to further improve cooperation mechanism, strengthen infrastructure construction, industrial distribution, eco-system environment protection cooperation and coordination. To actively promote Pan-Yangtze River Delta Region cooperation, economic coordination and technology and talent cooperation need to be enhanced to drive and help the development of mid and western regions. And economic contact and cooperation should be promoted with Hong Kong, Marco and Taiwan.

The Guidance Opinions emphasize that it is an issue concerning the overall national opening up and modernization that whether the delta region could achieve good and fast development. The two provinces, and the municipality and relevant departments of State Council should strengthen cooperation, unite and fight together, strive for a leap forward development of the delta region by creating new advantages at a high starting point through innovative working.