Author: Zhu Yanran

  On the first working day of the Year of the Rabbit, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places held the "First Meeting of the New Year" to deploy the key tasks of economic work for the whole year, cheer up and boost confidence, and sounded the charge to fight for the economy .

  At the same time, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Liaoning and other places successively issued No. 1 documents focusing on stabilizing growth, promoting reform, bailing out market players, optimizing the business environment, etc., and re-planning and redeploying this year's economic work.

For example, on the 28th, Shanghai issued the "Shanghai City Action Plan for Strengthening Integrated Innovation and Continuously Optimizing the Business Environment", and Liaoning Province issued "Several Policy Measures to Further Stabilize the Economy".

  The executive meeting of the State Council held on the 28th made it clear that it is necessary to thoroughly implement a package of policies and follow-up measures to stabilize the economy, promote the construction of major projects, equipment renovation and transformation to form more physical workloads, and implement policies such as value-added tax reductions and exemptions that were originally scheduled to continue.

Adhere to the "two unwavering" and protect the rights and interests of private enterprises in accordance with the law.

Support the sustainable and healthy development of the platform economy.

Work together from top to bottom to consolidate and expand the momentum of economic recovery.

  Pang Ming, Chief Economist of Jones Lang LaSalle Greater China, said in an interview with China Business News that many places have shown their determination to fight for the economy.

With the orderly implementation of various measures to optimize epidemic prevention and control, and the continuous promotion of a package of policies to stabilize the economy and the full implementation of subsequent measures, various departments and regions are seizing the window period, the opportunity period, and the tough period to sprint. Visible, overall, positive improvement.

  What is the focus of the "New Year's first meeting"

  January 28 is the first working day of the Year of the Rabbit in the lunar calendar. Guangdong Province held a provincial high-quality development conference.

The number of participants in the main venue of the conference reached 1,000, including more than 500 participating companies.

At the same time, the conference was held in cities, counties (cities, districts) across the province in the form of live video broadcast, with 25,000 participants in the sub-venue, which is the largest conference held in Guangdong Province in recent years.

  "Nanfang Daily" published an article titled "Spring is everywhere in Lingnan—Written on the occasion of the province's high-quality development conference" on the front page of the day.

The article pointed out that on the first day of work after the Spring Festival, the province's high-quality development conference was held in Guangzhou, which shows that high-quality development plays an important role in the overall work of Guangdong, and that the provincial party committee and the provincial government seize time, seize opportunities, and actively mobilize The entire province has quickly invested in high-quality development with heart and forceful actions.

  Huang Kunming, secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, said at the meeting that the plan for a year lies in spring.

Today, representatives from various cities, units, and various aspects are arranged to make speeches, in order to express their determination to compare their energy, to compare their courage and ability to take the lead, to show the momentum of the beginning, the atmosphere of the new year, and to create an upsurge of concerted efforts to grasp development in the whole province.

Guangdong has a large population and tight resource constraints. Facing the fierce competition of "chasing each other", it is impossible for economic development to continue to fight for land, price, and labor. Only through high-quality development can "breakthrough" be achieved.

  In response to the 2023 economic development goals, the secretaries of the 21 prefecture-level and above municipal committees in Guangdong Province have all issued "military orders."

For example, Lin Keqing, secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, said that Guangzhou plans to achieve a GDP of more than 3 trillion yuan in 2023, an increase of more than 6%, and realize the "three 1 trillion" goals in investment, consumption, and import and export.

In 2022, the total GDP of Guangzhou will be 2.88 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1%.

  On the 28th, Anhui Province also held the "First Meeting of the New Year" to continue to deepen the "one reform and two reforms" and comprehensively improve work efficiency.

The specifications are equally grand, and the conference is held in the form of a teleconference, with branch venues set up in cities and counties (cities, districts) under the jurisdiction of each province, from the provincial level to the township.

In the main venue of the Anhui Grand Theater, about 900 party and government cadres and representatives of market entities attended the meeting.

  Zheng Shanjie, Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, said that the first meeting of the new year, the Provincial Party Committee did not mention new slogans, but injected new connotations.

The purpose of the meeting is to establish a model, establish a direction, commend and encourage enterprises and units that have made outstanding contributions to Anhui; clarify their attitude and determination, and demonstrate the strong will of the provincial party committee to persevere in their work style; boost their spirits, improve their efficiency, and promote the province to return to its original position Get off to a good start.

  On the same day, Anhui Province also released the "Implementation Plan for Further Revitalizing Stock Assets and Expansion of Effective Investment", which requires that the assets of infrastructure projects with large stock, good current income or great growth potential should focus on making good use of financial tools and revitalize them.

For the transformation of comprehensive transportation hubs, industrial enterprises retreating from cities and entering parks, etc., the transformation and expansion of projects will be implemented as a whole by attracting social capital.

For project assets that have been idle for a long time but have great development and utilization value, focus on introducing professional forces to promote market-oriented operations in an orderly manner.

  The "First Meeting of the New Year" in Zhejiang Province focuses on innovation.

On the 28th, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee held a meeting for the province's in-depth implementation of the "Eight-Eight Strategy" to vigorously promote innovation, deepen reform, and open up.

Yi Lianhong, secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, emphasized at the meeting that it is necessary to accelerate the creation of a high-level innovative province, adhere to the core position of innovation in the overall modernization drive, and implement the "No. 1 Development Project" for digital economy innovation and quality improvement with greater efforts to promote New major progress has been made in the construction of a modern industrial system led by the digital economy.

  Multi-party efforts to promote the overall improvement of economic operation

  At the same time, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Liaoning and other places issued heavy documents one after another, planning and redeploying this year's economic work.

Document No. 1 of the Liaoning Provincial Government "Several Policy Measures to Further Stabilize the Economy in Liaoning Province" (Liao Zheng Fa [2023] No. 1), proposed to strengthen corporate financial credit support, support corporate direct financing, promote consumption recovery, and actively revitalize stock assets. A total of 27 measures have been taken to promote the overall improvement of the province's economic operation, to achieve effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity, and to ensure the victory of the first battle of the three-year action for comprehensive revitalization and new breakthroughs.

  Jiangsu Provincial Government Document No. 1 "Several Policies and Measures on Promoting Overall Improvement in Economic Operation" (Su Zheng Gui [2023] No. 1) was released recently. The 42 policy measures focus on the difficult problems and weak links in economic operation, and strive to break through the blocking points We will fully support and encourage cadres to dare to act, local governments to dare to break through, enterprises to dare to do it, and the masses to dare to innovate, so as to contribute more high-quality increments to the promotion of high-quality economic development.

  Shen Jianrong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said that we have carried out extensive research to gain an in-depth understanding of the stuck points in the economic operation, especially the difficult problems and appeals and suggestions of market players, focusing on the sluggish consumer market, weak investment confidence, decline in foreign trade orders, Issues such as the difficulty of stabilizing and expanding jobs, as well as the appeals and suggestions of some industries such as cultural tourism, transportation and logistics, accommodation and catering, small, medium and micro enterprises, and individual industrial and commercial households that have been greatly affected by the epidemic, introduced more targeted policies and measures. Warm current" warms the main body of the market.

  Focusing on restoring and boosting consumption is of great significance for Jiangsu to take the lead in promoting the overall improvement of economic operation, and it has also become the focus of the above-mentioned measures.

Zhou Xiaoyang, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce, introduced that the focus of the supply side is to speed up the construction of a modern commercial circulation system and promote the benign interaction between supply and demand; the focus of the demand side is to enhance the driving effect of consumption promotion activities and continue to release consumption potential.

Provincial business development funds will focus on supporting these two aspects.

  In terms of stabilizing foreign trade, Jiangsu will make concerted efforts to expand the market and stabilize operations. Jiangsu's provincial business development funds will allocate 700 million yuan to support the work of stabilizing and improving foreign trade.

Specific measures include launching the "100 exhibitions, 10,000 enterprises to expand the market" action, supporting enterprises to participate in more than 100 key overseas offline exhibitions, and encouraging qualified prefectures and cities to increase support for exhibit transportation, business travel and other expenses.

  Shanghai No. 1 document focuses on optimizing the business environment.

2023 is the sixth year for Shanghai to promote the construction of the business environment. On the basis of the previous 5 editions of the plan to optimize the business environment, Shanghai issued the "Shanghai Action Plan for Strengthening Integrated Innovation and Continuously Optimizing the Business Environment" on January 28 (Shanghai Government Office Regulations [2023] No. 1), further enhance the influence and comprehensive advantages of Shanghai's business environment, and continue to create a market-oriented, law-based, and international first-class business environment.

  While maintaining the continuity with the previous five versions, the 6.0 version of the action plan has strengthened the innovation of the business environment system, focusing on further making good use of key areas such as Pudong, Lingang New Area, Zhangjiang, Hongqiao, and the integrated demonstration zone. At the same time, from the perspectives of government affairs environment, market environment, public services, supervision and law enforcement, and legal environment, we will focus on integrated innovation, effectively implement reform measures that are directly felt by market players, and further improve the satisfaction of market players.