China News Service, Shanghai, January 26 (Li Shuzheng and Gao Zhimiao) Shanghai Pudong New Area, which is "testing the system and breaking new roads" for the country, has ushered in a new round of comprehensive reform pilots.
The "Pudong New Area Comprehensive Reform Pilot Implementation Plan (2023-2027)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Plan") was recently issued. On the 26th, many experts and scholars said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Service that "initiality" and "leading" are the highlights of the "Implementation Plan".
The "Implementation Plan" targets the key areas in Pudong New Area that have reform scenarios and have the conditions to take the lead in breakthroughs, and launches a number of substantive measures in aspects such as institutional opening, technological innovation, talent development, business environment, and urban governance.
Wang Guo, director of the Reform and Innovation Institute of the Shanghai Development and Reform Institute, said in an exclusive interview with reporters that the "Implementation Plan" highlights originality and leadership. "Focusing on high-level opening up and high-quality development, and closely focusing on institutional innovation, we will launch a number of pilot reform measures to give full play to Pudong's role as a pioneer in reform and opening up; on the basis of learning from and absorbing the current reform and innovation achievements, we will further deepen breakthroughs , forming mature experience that can be replicated and promoted to amplify the effect of pioneering and trial."
Wang Guo said that the "Implementation Plan" released this time is holistic, strategic and integrated: through comprehensive authorization, it will break the constraints of individual reform and mutual constraints; it is necessary to focus on reforms in key areas and key links. A strategic move to respond to international development trends and domestic development requirements; focus on the coherence of various reform measures and the coordinated linkage of reform means in various fields to maximize the overall effect of reform.
The 23 reform measures proposed in the "Implementation Plan" will give Pudong New Area greater autonomy in reforming key areas and key links. Among them, financial support for scientific and technological innovation is a key area and key link faced by Pudong's comprehensive reform.
Liu Bin, director of the Financial Research Office of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Research Institute (Pudong Reform and Development Research Institute), said in an exclusive interview with reporters that promoting financial support for scientific and technological innovation pilots in accordance with the requirements of the "Implementation Plan" will not only promote the construction of Pudong as an international scientific and technological innovation It will create a central core area and be able to give full play to the advantages of the core area of Pudong International Financial Center, lead the pace of China's financial support for scientific and technological innovation, and better play a demonstration and leading role.
Liu Bin said that the "Implementation Plan" also clarified the key directions of Pudong's financial support for technological innovation in the future, requiring Pudong to take the lead in pilot projects in the capital market, venture capital, corporate mergers and acquisitions, technology insurance, and loans to small and medium-sized enterprises. This is a Comprehensive, multi-field reform pilot work.
Xie Yiqing, associate researcher at the Institute of World Chinese Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said that the "Implementation Plan" clarifies the two-wheel drive of scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation. The former is a new productivity engine for China's future economic development, and the latter provides opportunities for the industrialization of innovation results. Institutional guarantee.
"From promoting basic research innovation to the industrialization of innovation results; from financial technology support for innovation before innovation to intellectual property protection after innovation; and the construction of systems and mechanisms to attract and gather outstanding talents from around the world," in Xie Yiqing's view , Pudong’s new round of comprehensive reform pilot covers the “whole process” of scientific and technological innovation, which has strong leading significance. "This reform pilot is not an attempt at 'one city, one government', but an all-round institutional opening."
"Reform and opening up is the inherent gene rooted in the development of Pudong." Wang Guo said that on the one hand, Pudong promotes institutional opening up such as rules, regulations, management, and standards, which helps to accelerate the establishment of a new open economy that is interconnected with internationally accepted rules. system to better represent the country in international cooperation and competition.
On the other hand, Pudong uses institutional opening to deepen reform and promote innovative development. By benchmarking international high-standard economic and trade rules, Pudong reforms institutional bottlenecks that restrict high-quality development and explores experience for China's institutional opening. (over)