China News Service, Shanghai, January 15 (Reporter Chen Jing) The first meeting of the 16th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress closed on the 15th. At the subsequent press conference, Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng said that the past In 2022, Shanghai's economy has stepped out of a V-shaped rebound; this year, the city's economic growth target is expected to be above 5.5%.
He pointed out that Shanghai has undertaken a series of major national strategic tasks, and the spillover benefits are being released at an accelerated pace.
"Last year we introduced a large number of policies to stabilize growth and promote development, and the policy effects continued to show. Coupled with objective reasons such as the relatively low base last year, we have sufficient support and sufficient confidence to achieve this goal." Gong Zheng "We hope to create better conditions for fuller employment and more stable prices through reasonable growth in volume, further boost market confidence, and stabilize social expectations."
According to Gong Zheng, last year, Pudong New Area’s economic growth was about 2 percentage points faster than the city’s, accounting for more than 36%; the main economic indicators of the Lingang New Area of the Free Trade Zone maintained a double-digit high-speed growth, and the number of signed projects reached 1,380. , involving a total investment of 774.5 billion yuan.
Last year, Shanghai's actual foreign investment reached 23.5 billion US dollars, which has been stable at more than 20 billion US dollars for three consecutive years; 60 new regional headquarters of multinational companies and 25 foreign-invested R&D centers have been added.
Gong Zheng revealed that Shanghai has launched and implemented a number of action plans with an eye on seizing the four new track industries of digital economy, green and low-carbon, metaverse, and smart terminals.
Shanghai also has a forward-looking layout of future industries in 16 fields in the five directions of future health, future intelligence, future energy, future space and future materials.
Gong Zheng said that since March last year, Shanghai has successively introduced and implemented three rounds of policies related to stabilizing growth and helping enterprises to bail out. Various market entities have reduced taxes and fees for the year and the cumulative amount has exceeded 300 billion yuan.
The survey shows that more than 60% of the companies surveyed have directly benefited from the policy.
By the end of last year, Shanghai's surveyed urban unemployment rate was controlled at around 4.5%; with the number of college graduates in the city hitting a new high, the employment rate reached 94.3%.
Gong Zheng said: "We are rushing to formulate a new round of policy measures and action plans to help companies bail out, expand demand, and boost development confidence, increase policy supply, and improve policy synergy." Shanghai will formulate and implement policies to optimize the business environment. Version 6.0 continues to introduce a number of reform measures with high gold content and a strong sense of gain for market players to stimulate market vitality and endogenous motivation for development.
"We will implement the new catalog of industries encouraging foreign investment, formulate policies to encourage the reinvestment of profits of foreign-funded enterprises, and guide foreign investment to invest more in advanced manufacturing, modern service industries, high-end service industries, high-tech, energy conservation and environmental protection, digital economy and other fields, Continue to create the first choice for foreign investment in the new era and the gathering place for high-quality foreign investment." Gong Zheng said.
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