In recent years, characteristic towns in my country have gradually embarked on a rational development track, and a number of boutique characteristic towns with special and strong industries, integrated functions, small and beautiful forms, and new and lively mechanisms have emerged. The development of characteristic towns shows quality Benefits are more prominent, types are more innovative and diverse, and policies and measures are gradually adjusted and optimized.
At the same time, there are still some “false characteristic towns” that have misused concepts or remain on paper, lack of investment entities, and have not started construction in some areas. Some characteristic towns do not have adequate demonstration of characteristic industries and their industrial characteristics are not obvious. , Small scale, short chain, poor technology, and lack of leading leading enterprises, it is difficult to form agglomeration effect and characteristic industrial clusters in the future.
In response, the "Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Forwarding the Opinions of the National Development and Reform Commission on Promoting the Standardized and Healthy Development of Featured Towns" was formally issued a few days ago, which clearly defines the concept and development positioning of characteristic towns, and strengthens the development of characteristic towns. The top-level design, sound incentive and restraint mechanism, and standardized management mechanism are deployed in order to effectively promote the high-quality development of characteristic towns in an orderly and effective manner, and provide a starting point for comprehensively doing the "six stability" work and implementing the "six guarantees" task. Provide support for the implementation of strategies for expanding domestic demand and new urbanization strategies.
Regarding characteristic towns, these should be known
Connotation of characteristic town
Featured towns are the product of modern economic development to a certain stage, and are micro-industry clusters with a planned area of generally several square kilometers.
Featured towns are neither administrative towns nor traditional industrial parks. They have distinct high-end industrial characteristics, multi-functional features of industry-city and cultural integration, and intensive and efficient use of space. They are promoting economic transformation and upgrading and new urbanization. Play an important role in
Main functions of characteristic towns
A new platform for high-quality economic development, a new space for the construction of new urbanization, a new fulcrum for the development of urban and rural integration, and a new carrier for traditional cultural heritage protection.
The main task of the characteristic town
Consolidate efforts to develop leading industries, promote cultural integration between industry and city, highlight the dominant position of enterprises, promote entrepreneurship to drive employment, improve industrial supporting facilities, and carry out reform and exploration experiments.
List management system implemented in characteristic towns
From the date of promulgation of the "Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Forwarding the Opinions of the National Development and Reform Commission on Promoting the Standardized and Healthy Development of Featured Towns", a comprehensive list management of feature towns across the country will be implemented with each province as a unit.
The provincial people's governments shall, in accordance with the principles of strict standards, strict control of quantity, unified management, and dynamic adjustment, clarify the list of characteristic towns in their provinces, and give preferential support based on the best.
The people's governments at the city and county level shall formulate detailed and operable work measures based on local conditions and scientifically formulate plans for characteristic towns.
Those not included in the list of characteristic towns in each province shall not start construction of characteristic towns by themselves.
The characteristic towns previously named by relevant departments of the State Council or industry associations, local people's governments at all levels, and market entities must be re-examined and included in the list of characteristic towns in various provinces that meet the requirements, and those that do not meet the requirements will be cleaned up or renamed in a timely manner.
The relevant departments of the State Council or industry associations do not name or evaluate characteristic towns.
The National Development and Reform Commission will establish a national characteristic town information database with relevant departments to strengthen the guidance, supervision and dynamic management of the list of characteristic towns in each province.
The development of characteristic towns strictly adheres to the "five bottom lines"
The first is to strictly save and intensively use land. In principle, the planned area of a single characteristic town shall be controlled within 1 to 5 square kilometers (the upper limit of the planned area of cultural tourism, sports and agricultural pastoral characteristic towns can be appropriately increased), and a reasonable proportion of production and living ecological space shall be maintained , To maintain a clear four-dimensional range, relatively independent space, and strictly observe the three control lines of ecological protection red line, permanent basic farmland, and urban development boundary.
The second is to strictly control the entry of high-energy, high-pollution, and high-emission enterprises, and plan and build environmental sanitation facilities simultaneously.
The third is to strictly guard against local government debt risks. In principle, county-level government debt risk warning areas are not allowed to build characteristic towns through government debt.
The fourth is to strictly control the trend of real estate in characteristic towns. Except for the original traditional houses, the proportion of residential land in characteristic town construction land shall not exceed 1/3 in principle.
Fifth, strictly observe the bottom line of safe production and safeguard the safety of people's lives and property.
For characteristic towns that violate laws and regulations, especially those with weak leading industries and long-term ineffectiveness, rectification should be urged; those that violate laws and regulations and occupy land and damage the ecological environment should be promptly stopped and rectified within a time limit; lack of investment entities and cannot be effective Those under construction and operation, as well as those simply carrying out large-scale real estate development in the name of "characteristic towns", must be resolutely eliminated.
The National Development and Reform Commission will work with relevant departments and units in accordance with the relevant provisions of the “Notice of the General Office of the State Council to Forward the Opinions of the National Development and Reform Commission on Promoting the Standardized and Healthy Development of Featured Towns” to strengthen monitoring and supervision and standardize corrections, and urge relevant regions to promptly handle characteristic small For violations of laws and regulations in the process of town construction, interviews and notifications are made to areas where work is not adequate.
There will be 3 incentive policies for the construction of characteristic towns
There will be three incentive and guiding policy measures for construction projects in characteristic towns that meet the requirements.
One is to strengthen guidance and guidance.
Relevant departments of the State Council will organize and formulate guidelines for the development of characteristic towns, put forward universal operational guidelines in terms of planning and layout, development of leading industries, integration of industry and city, and construction of public facilities, and guide the cultivation of a number of exemplary characteristic towns. Refine typical experience and play a leading role.
The second is to strengthen capital protection.
The construction of characteristic towns has been gradually incorporated into the funding support system for the new urbanization construction.
Mainly: increase the support of the central budget for the construction of characteristic towns; support the issuance of special local government bonds for the construction of industrial supporting facilities, public service facilities, municipal public facilities and other projects with certain income in characteristic towns, and encourage local governments Arrange provincial special funds to support the development of characteristic towns; establish a long-term mechanism for government-bank-enterprise docking, support qualified investment and operation companies in characteristic towns to issue corporate bonds, and encourage development, policy and commercial financial institutions to control debt risks Under the premise, increase medium and long-term loans.
The third is to strengthen land support.
Encourage to reasonably meet the land demand for the development of characteristic towns by optimizing the allocation of new construction land plans and accelerating the organization of direct market transactions for rural collective operating construction land.
Reporter: Gu Yang