[Authoritative Interview · Riding on the Situation and Going Forward Bravely] Ning Jizhe: Expanding domestic demand and striving to complete the annual goals and tasks
CCTV news (news broadcast): The new crown pneumonia epidemic has been severely impacted, and the world economy has suffered a deep recession. In the first half of the year, the Chinese economy was under unprecedented pressure and challenges. The state promptly introduced a series of policy measures such as tax cuts and fee reductions, and assistance to enterprises to stabilize jobs, which promoted China's economic growth from negative to positive, from decline to rise, and the recovery trend was obvious. In the second half of the year, how can we take advantage of the momentum and promote China's economy to achieve high-quality development? What specific measures and plans does each department have? "News Network" launched a series of reports "Authoritative Interview · Riding on the Situation and Marching Forward". Today (August 5th), come to see our reporter's interview with Ning Jizhe, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission.
In 2020, although China’s economy has experienced unprecedented challenges, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the whole country is united to overcome the difficulties, and has achieved major results in coordinating epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development. . The economy recovered steadily, and the resumption of work and production improved month by month. The economy grew by 3.2% in the second quarter, significantly better than expected.
According to Ning Jizhe's analysis, from the perspective of production, the added value of industries above designated size has been increasing for three consecutive months since April, and the service industry production index has achieved positive growth for two consecutive months. From the demand side, fixed asset investment achieved positive growth in the second quarter, and the decline in total retail sales of consumer goods has narrowed for four consecutive months.
How to consolidate the momentum of economic recovery and take advantage of it? Ning Jizhe said that in the second half of the year, we must firmly grasp the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand. In terms of investment, focus on promoting the "two new and one heavy" construction of major projects such as new infrastructure, new urbanization, transportation and water conservancy, increase public health, emergency material reserves, transportation and energy and other fields to make up for shortcomings, implement urban renewal, and accelerate urbanization Renovation of old communities.
Private investment accounts for nearly 60% of the investment of the whole society and is an important force in stabilizing investment. Ning Jizhe said that in the second half of the year, China will further improve the private investment environment, increase policy support, and support private capital to participate in the construction of short-term areas such as response to the epidemic, public health, warehousing and logistics, and emergency reserves. At the same time, it will guide banks Introduce credit products adapted to the characteristics of private enterprises, and increase the scale and proportion of credit loans and medium and long-term loans.
To expand domestic demand, we must give better play to the fundamental role of consumption in economic growth. In the second half of the year, China will accelerate the promotion of high-quality development of new types of consumption such as smart retail and online education, promote the transformation and upgrading of consumption of automobiles and home appliances, encourage cities with purchase restrictions to appropriately increase vehicle purchase limits, relax restrictions on the purchase of new energy vehicles, and give appropriate measures to the purchase of new energy vehicles. subsidy.
Ning Jizhe said that this year, my country has successively introduced a package of policies to hedge against the downward pressure on the economy. The relevant policies to promote the resumption of work and production include 90 measures in eight areas. In the second half of the year, the focus is to continue to implement these policies, consolidate and expand the economic recovery results, promote high-quality economic development, and strive to complete the annual economic and social development goals and tasks.