Start the "14th Five-Year Plan" and embark on a new journey.

2021 is a year of special importance in the process of my country's modernization drive, and the reform and development of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises lie on their shoulders.

To promote high-quality development, what are the new measures of state-owned central enterprises?

Grasping the reform time window, how will the three-year reform of state-owned enterprises be implemented?

In order to achieve self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology, how can central enterprises bite down the "hard bones"?

　　The meeting of the heads of central enterprises held in Beijing recently studied the situation and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and deployed key tasks for 2021.

The signal released by the meeting indicated that state-owned central enterprises will thoroughly implement the new development concept and put their own work into a new stage and construct a new pattern to plan and promote, and will better serve the overall development of the party and the country.

Create an "upgraded version" that improves quality and efficiency

　　If a company is strong, a country will be strong, and if a company prospers, a country will prosper.

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China emphasized that state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises should be strengthened and optimized.

　　Data show that in 2019, the total assets of enterprises under the supervision of the state-owned assets system across the country reached 201.3 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.5 times compared with 2012; in 2020, there will be 80 Fortune 500 companies.

However, from the perspective of international benchmarking, compared with world-class companies, large Chinese companies still have gaps in profitability and core competitiveness.

For state-owned central enterprises, it is more urgent to become stronger and better, which is also an important foundation and prerequisite for further expansion.

　　"During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, the high-quality development of state-owned state-owned central enterprises will reach a new level." Hao Peng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council pointed out that in order to better guide and promote the realization of high-quality development, adhere to problem-oriented and goal-oriented development. The main business objectives of central SOEs are based on the framework of last year, adding a "full-staff labor productivity" indicator to form an indicator system of "two benefits and four rates".

　　It is reported that the "two benefits" indicator is to strive for the simultaneous growth of total profit and net profit. The main consideration it puts forward is that the growth of the efficiency of central enterprises must match the growth rate of the national macroeconomic, and at the same time consolidate asset quality for enterprises, complement their development shortcomings, Make room for better energy storage growth.

The "four rates" indicators include operating income profit margin, asset-liability ratio, R&D investment intensity, and overall labor productivity. The main considerations put forward are to continue to promote marginal improvements in operating efficiency and development quality, consolidate the basis for risk prevention, and promote sustainable and healthy development. .

　　Feng Liguo, a researcher at the National Economic Engineering Laboratory of Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, believes that pursuing efficiency, improving efficiency, and creating value are the basic requirements for enterprises as market players.

The world economic situation in 2021 will remain complex and severe, the recovery will be unstable and uneven, and there will be many hidden risks.

Under this circumstance, it is imperative for state-owned enterprises to anchor high-quality development, do their best, and build an "upgraded version" that improves quality and efficiency.

Strive to become the main theme

　　Currently, the reform of state-owned enterprises has entered a critical stage.

As a concrete construction plan for further implementing the “1+N” policy system and top-level design of the state-owned enterprise reform from 2020 to 2022, the three-year action of state-owned enterprise reform focuses on seeing actions and improving practical results, and various tasks are being advanced in a solid and orderly manner.

Following a good start in 2020, the three-year action of state-owned enterprise reform has entered a critical period of "doing things", and it will become the main theme of 2021.

　　"2021 is a critical year for the three-year action of the reform of state-owned enterprises. Whether the main tasks can be implemented and effective will directly determine whether the expected goals can be fully achieved in 2022." Hao Peng emphasized that the reform of state-owned enterprises will be implemented in the new year. In the three-year action, we must focus more on key tasks, focus more on stimulating vitality, and focus more on grassroots innovation.

　　It is understood that in 2021, the key tasks of the three-year action for the reform of state-owned enterprises include focusing on improving the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, deepening the reform of mixed ownership, and improving the market-oriented operating mechanism, and focusing on clarifying the responsibility boundaries of governance entities. , Realize that the board of directors should be built and equipped to build a strong, mixed-ownership enterprise conversion management mechanism, commercial enterprises' public service classification accounting and classification assessment and other key difficult issues, strive to break through, focus on the social management of retirees and the collective reform of the factory Wait for the finishing work to ensure the successful completion.

　　In order to ensure effective implementation of the three-year action for the reform of state-owned enterprises, the SASAC will strengthen supervision and promotion through the online supervision system in 2021, and incorporate the implementation of the three-year action into the performance appraisal.

The central SOEs will compare the tasks and requirements one by one and pay close attention to ensuring that substantive breakthroughs and progress are made in important areas and key links.

Concentrate on speeding up scientific and technological research

　　Self-reliance in science and technology is the strategic support for national development.

The 2020 Central Economic Work Conference emphasized that enterprises must play a major role in technological innovation.

　　Looking back on 2020, a series of “central enterprise creations” such as Tianwen No. 1 moving in pursuit of dreams, Chang'e No. 5 flying to the moon to fetch soil, Struggle No. 10,000 meters exploring the sea, and completion and opening of Beidou No. 3 have attracted worldwide attention, further demonstrating China's strength.

　　In recent years, central SOEs have achieved remarkable results in increasing investment in scientific and technological research and development, improving the quality of scientific and technological achievements, and focusing on key issues in major countries.

In 2018, the research and experimental development expenditures of central enterprises increased by 13.4% year-on-year.

In 2019, the R&D expenditure of central enterprises reached 819 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.5%.

In 2020, state-owned central enterprises will withstand the pressure and promote funding, talents, and policies to favor key enterprises and key projects.

　　To build a new development pattern and achieve self-reliance in science and technology, we must give full play to the advantages of the new nationwide system under the conditions of the socialist market economy.

State-owned enterprises must be the main force and vanguard of technological innovation, and put the work of solving "stuck neck" technologies and key core technologies in a more important position.

　　"As a national strategic scientific and technological force, central enterprises must strengthen the awareness of innovation subjects, optimize the structure of R&D expenditures, and promote scientific and technological innovation to continuously achieve breakthrough and landmark major results." Hao Peng emphasized.

　　According to the deployment, in 2021, central SOEs must focus on tackling key core technologies and improve their technological innovation capabilities.

Focusing on the national strategy and high-quality development needs, deploy a number of key industrial technologies, cutting-edge leading technologies and application basic technologies at different levels and by fields, and increase efforts to tackle key problems in weak links in the industry.

　　The advancement of scientific and technological innovation depends on talents and mechanisms.

In 2021, central SOEs will introduce more world-class talents and focus on cultivating leading talents in science and technology and high-level innovative teams.

Implement the various supporting policies for scientific and technological innovation issued, and give scientific research personnel greater autonomy.

(Economic Daily-China Economic Net reporter Zhou Lei)