Jin Guanping: New breakthroughs in promoting the revitalization of Northeast China
The comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast ushered in an important opportunity.
A few days ago, the State Council formally approved the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for the Comprehensive Revitalization of Northeast China", starting from promoting the formation of a regional economic layout with complementary advantages and high-quality development, requiring efforts to break institutional and mechanism barriers, vigorously stimulating the vitality of market entities, and vigorously promoting industrial restructuring Optimize, focus on building a regional power system, and promote the comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast to achieve new breakthroughs.
The Northeast region has an important strategic position in the overall development of the country.
Since the Party Central Committee made a major strategic decision to implement the revitalization of old industrial bases in Northeast China in 2003, with the support of a series of policies and measures, positive progress has been made in the economic and social development of Northeast China.
At the same time, some long-standing deep-seated problems are superimposed on cyclical factors and changes in international and domestic demand, which have increased the downward pressure on the economy of the Northeast region and faced new challenges in development.
In this context, the "Implementation Plan" was promulgated, clarifying the mission statement, timetable, and roadmap for the high-quality development of the Northeast region in the next five years.
The Northeast has unique advantages in my country’s regional economic development. In addition to its geographical advantage in the central area of Northeast Asia, the Northeast also has the advantages of high food production, abundant energy resources, and solid industrial foundation. It has a number of advantages in the fields of equipment manufacturing, petrochemicals, and metallurgy. Industry leader.
In addition, the Northeast also has a number of key open platforms such as Changchun, Dalian Jinpu, Harbin, three national-level new areas, and China-Korea (Changchun) International Cooperation Demonstration Zone.
At present, the Northeast economy is showing a steady and improving trend, but it is still in a critical stage of climbing over the hurdles.
In the first half of this year, the economic growth rates of the three northeastern provinces all achieved rapid growth, of which Jilin and Heilongjiang both achieved double-digit growth.
However, the industrial structure of Northeast China is still dominated by heavy chemical industry, the industry has obvious shortcomings, and the task of transformation and upgrading is relatively heavy.
To this end, we must fully seize the current precious development opportunities and make greater progress in promoting the revitalization of Northeast China in the construction of a new development pattern.
More efforts must be made to deepen reforms, continue to promote reforms in key areas, promote a better integration of effective markets and effective governments, optimize the business environment, and continuously stimulate the vitality of market players.
At the same time, deepen the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, and enhance the market competitiveness of state-owned enterprises.
Maintain fair competition and promote the sustained and healthy development of the private economy.
Attract more companies and talents to develop in the Northeast.
It is necessary to accelerate the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure, increase support for agriculture, combine the construction of national grain bases with new urbanization, and vigorously develop modern agriculture.
Guide enterprises to make good use of national policies such as the deduction of R&D expenses to increase investment in innovation, use market-oriented means to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of equipment manufacturing and other industries, cultivate and expand emerging industries, and form an industrial structure that complements and integrates large and medium-sized enterprises to promote innovation, creation and development. Scientific and technological achievements are transformed locally.
It is necessary to give full play to the development advantages of the Northeast region and do a good job in opening up to the outside world.
We will further promote the construction of major cross-border infrastructure projects, relying on key functional platforms such as state-level new zones, free trade pilot zones, and border development and opening pilot zones, and adopt greater opening-up measures.
Develop coastal economic belts, expand border economic and trade cooperation, and actively participate in the economic cycle of Northeast Asia.
Seize the new opportunity of signing RCEP to enhance competitiveness in international economic and trade cooperation.
The revitalization of old industrial bases is a common problem encountered in the industrialization process of many countries, and it is also a worldwide problem.
In the process of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast, we must always adhere to a long-term perspective, respect objective laws, maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses, and strive to create a new development path with higher quality, better efficiency, and better structure.
(Source of Jin Guanping: Economic Daily)