Promoting stable and long-term economic development with the "Four Stables" of fiscal work
Yangcheng Evening News reporter Tang Heng
The Central Economic Work Conference held in December last year emphasized: "The economic work in 2022 must be at the forefront and seek progress while maintaining stability."
In 2022, how will the financial work of Guangdong Province be carried out, and which aspects will it focus on?
Dai Yunlong, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance, accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News.
He introduced that in 2022, Guangdong Provincial Finance will continue to improve the implementation of the fiscal transfer payment mechanism and policy system that promotes coordinated regional development, insist on ensuring basics and promoting development, establish a financial management system that is conducive to promoting common prosperity, and support the in-depth promotion of "one core". “One Belt, One District” construction will improve the balance and coordination of regional development.
Including promoting the coordination and balance of regional financial resources, strengthening the support of special fiscal and taxation policies, and deepening the reform of the provincial financial system.
Actively launch fiscal policies that are conducive to economic stability
Yangcheng Evening News: How does Guangdong's fiscal policy in 2022 reflect stability and progress while maintaining stability?
Dai Yunlong: The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party will be held this year, which is a major event in the political life of the party and the country. It is of great significance and responsibility to do a good job of financial work throughout the year.
Guangdong's financial department will consciously assume the responsibility of stabilizing the macro economy, implement the requirements of "proactive fiscal policy must improve efficiency, pay more attention to precision and sustainability", adhere to the principle of stability and seek progress while maintaining stability, and actively launch policies that are conducive to economic stability. Fiscal policy, strive to use the "four stability" of fiscal work to promote the steady and long-term economic development of Guangdong.
The first is to highlight the "stable" operation of fiscal revenue and expenditure.
Strengthen the overall planning of financial resources, actively revitalize the government's capital resources and assets, and improve the level of revenue organization and management; optimize the structure of fiscal expenditures, and insist on taking the lead in "tight days"; precise and detailed preparation of the 2022 budget draft provides support for accelerating expenditure progress.
The second is to highlight the "stable" financial security.
Guarantee the intensity of fiscal expenditure, and focus on ensuring the "1+1+9" work deployment; implement the requirement that policy efforts should be appropriately advanced, and plan in advance the work of adding new bond project reserves; Solidly promote a series of fiscal measures for common prosperity; improve the balance and coordination of regional development, and promote the high-quality construction of a "one core, one belt, one area" regional development pattern.
The third is to highlight the "stability" of fiscal risk prevention and control.
Resolutely implement the pilot work of no hidden debts in the whole region to ensure that the results are impeccable and can withstand the test of all parties; insist on doing our best and do what we can, and resolutely prohibit the use of financial funds to build image projects and performance projects; strengthen the financial guarantee at the county level in underdeveloped areas , to secure the bottom line of the "three guarantees" at the grassroots level.
The fourth is to highlight the "steady" pace of fiscal reform.
Promote the implementation of a new round of reform of the budget management system, innovate the investment and financing mechanism for major projects, pay more attention to the systematization, integrity, and synergy of the reform, and use fiscal reform to boost the efficiency of government governance.
Yangcheng Evening News: How can Guangdong's finance strengthen the employment priority orientation in promoting high-quality development and support the employment driving force of economic growth?
Dai Yunlong: In recent years, Guangdong Province has issued the "Several Policies and Measures for Further Stabilizing and Expanding Employment" every year. In 2021, the 3.0 version of "Nine Measures for Promoting Employment" will continue to be implemented in depth, and the implementation of stable job returns, work-based training, and unemployment insurance expansion will continue to be implemented. and other policies to reduce burdens, stabilize jobs and expand employment.
In 2022, the provincial finance will continue to allocate 1.988 billion yuan of provincial-level special funds for promoting employment and entrepreneurship development, comprehensively strengthen the employment priority policy, coordinate the promotion of employment for key groups such as college graduates, and take multiple measures to stabilize and expand employment.
Three levels of point, line and surface to support the development of manufacturing industry
Yangcheng Evening News: The meeting proposed to enhance the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. How can Guangdong's finance support and promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry?
Dai Yunlong: In recent years, in order to speed up the construction of a strong manufacturing province and help promote the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry in the east, Guangdong's finance, based on its own laws of manufacturing development, has clarified the core policy of financial support for industrial and informatization development, and strives to build a normalized financial support. The policy system, from the three levels of point, line and surface, supports the development of Guangdong's manufacturing industry.
The first is to focus on the "point" layout, and focus on implementing tax and fee reductions to optimize the business environment.
Increase support for manufacturing and scientific and technological innovation, increase the proportion of additional deductions for manufacturing enterprises to 100%, and encourage enterprises to increase investment in research and development; fully implement the national policy of tax reduction and fee reduction, and the province will accumulate new The increase or reduction of taxes and fees has exceeded 600 billion yuan.
With this strong support, the added value of advanced manufacturing in Guangdong Province increased by 18.1% year-on-year, with an average growth of 4.9% in the two years; the added value of high-tech manufacturing increased by 10.7% year-on-year and an average growth of 3.4% in the two years.
The second is "online" coordination, and give full play to the policy orientation of fiscal funds to support the good and the strong.
Provincial financial funds "concentrate financial resources for major events", with 8.842 billion yuan allocated from 2020 to 2022, mainly to support industrial enterprises to implement technological transformation projects in line with national and provincial industrial policies, such as improving quality and efficiency, and setting up a special project for the development of advanced manufacturing industries in 2021 Funds, with a total amount of about 50 billion yuan, will focus on supporting advanced manufacturing projects in Guangdong during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period; supporting the development of the entire upstream and downstream industrial chains.
The third is to make efforts on the "face" and introduce social capital to support the implementation of the "six major projects".
To support 20 strategic industrial clusters as the top priority to support the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, relevant policies will be formulated precisely.
The Provincial Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fund, the Provincial Industrial Development Fund, and the Provincial Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund have been established successively to guide social capital to increase investment in the manufacturing sector, better play the guiding and amplifying role of financial funds, and enhance the overall and core competitiveness of the industry. .
In the next step, the Provincial Department of Finance will make good use of financial funds such as special funds for the development of advanced manufacturing industries and various policy funds, highlight the accuracy and effectiveness of financial expenditures, strive to improve the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry, and enhance the autonomy of the industrial chain and supply chain. controllability.
The reform of ecological protection compensation system will be deepened
Yangcheng Evening News: How does Guangdong's finance implement supporting policies and fully promote carbon neutralization?
Dai Yunlong: The Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance closely focuses on the key path deployment work to promote carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and ensure the completion of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality phase tasks.
One is to increase financial investment.
During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the cumulative arrangement of finance at all levels in Guangdong was directly used to support carbon peaking and carbon neutralization funds of 2 billion yuan.
The second is to promote the construction of a market for the paid use of carbon emission rights.
Give full play to the leveraging role of fiscal funds, and promote the formation of a four-in-one carbon emission trading system of "forward trading + quota trading + custodial repurchase + mortgage financing".
The third is to support the development of forest carbon sinks.
Implement the afforestation guarantee model of "first planting and then supplementing", directly linking financial funds to the annual afforestation and tending situation, accurately guiding and promoting cities and counties to improve the success rate of afforestation, and consolidate and improve the effect of carbon reduction and carbon reduction.
The fourth is to ensure the innovation of carbon products.
From 2019 to 2021, on the basis of the "green carbon" of forestry carbon sinks, a total of more than 2 billion yuan will be invested to promote five major marine ecological restoration projects, effectively enhancing the carbon sink functions of higher plant habitats such as mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrass beds. Broaden the path for carbon peaking and carbon neutralization.
In 2022, Guangdong will deepen the reform of the ecological protection compensation system, increase the vertical ecological compensation for the northern ecological development area, improve and expand the horizontal ecological compensation mechanism in the upstream and downstream of the river basin, and support the ecological area to accelerate the realization of high-quality development in high-standard protection.
Balanced transfer payments will be stepped up this year
Yangcheng Evening News: In terms of regional development, how will Guangdong enhance the balance and coordination of regional development in the province through financial means?
Dai Yunlong: In 2021, the Provincial Department of Finance will actively improve the sub-provincial financial system that is in line with the regional development orientation, raise funds through multiple channels, continue to increase financial resources, and promote balanced and coordinated regional development.
The first is to highlight the bottom line and increase financial resources to stabilize the "three guarantees" of cities and counties.
Increase the intensity of balanced transfer payments, arrange balanced transfer payments of 54.1 billion yuan, an increase of 7%, and ensure that all cities and counties receive financial subsidies that will only increase; , took the initiative to include 33 provincial-level corresponding funds of nearly 60 billion yuan into the management of the direct mechanism; improve the financial difficulties subsidy and relief guarantee mechanism, arrange temporary relief financial subsidy funds of 18 billion yuan, effectively alleviate the pressure and the outstanding contradiction between revenue and expenditure in difficult areas. rigid spending needs.
The second is to focus on promoting development and support coordinated development with differentiated fiscal policies.
In 5 years, an additional 21 billion yuan will be added to support the revitalization and development of the old Soviet area, and at the same time, a new round of financial policies to support the high-quality development of ethnic areas and promote the development of inter-provincial border areas will be studied; support the northern ecological development area to speed up green development, and arrange financial arrangements for ecological protection areas. Compensation transfer payment of 8 billion yuan; improve the development level of the east and west wings of the coastal economic belt, support the construction of Shantou and Zhanjiang provincial sub-center cities; support the improvement of the main power source function of key platforms in the core area of the Pearl River Delta, and the provincial level will invest a total of 9.8 billion yuan to support Core software research projects and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Quantum Science Center, etc.
The third is to highlight strong overall planning, and enhance the ability of underdeveloped areas to seek and do major things.
Appropriately strengthen the provincial expenditure responsibility, and implement unified classification and classification of basic public services. The provincial level will assume 100% and 85% of the expenditure responsibility for the key old areas, the Soviet and ethnic areas, the northern ecological development area, and the east and west coastal economic belts respectively; 5 The colleges and universities jointly built by the provinces and cities, and 16 municipal undergraduate and vocational colleges in the east, west, and north regions of Guangdong have been adjusted to the provincial level guarantee; Capital funds for major projects such as airports, airports, and ecological environmental protection are exempted from the responsibility for investment in key old areas and ethnic areas of the Soviet Union; the provincial level provides 1:1 matching support for eligible central budget investment projects in eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong, northern Guangdong, and helps the projects to be effectively implemented. implement.
In 2022, Guangdong Province will increase the balance of transfer payments and provide support to areas with weak financial resources, so as to control the per capita expenditure gap of the resident population within a reasonable range.
Implement and implement financial policies to support the development of old Soviet areas, ethnic areas, northern ecological development areas, and inter-provincial border areas, and promote solutions to the people's "urgent and anxious" livelihood issues and key issues affecting the overall development of the region, ensuring that no one is left behind We will fully implement reforms in basic public services, medical care, science and technology, carry out reforms in education, transportation and other fields, appropriately increase provincial expenditure responsibilities, further reduce the burden on cities and counties in underdeveloped areas, and accelerate the formation of fiscal powers and expenditure responsibilities. pattern.
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