On the first working day of the Year of the Dragon, start work with hard work!

　　On the first working day of the Year of the Dragon, everyone from a household to a city is starting work and embarking on a new year's journey.

　　This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of New China and is a critical year for the implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan". On the first day of construction in the Year of the Dragon, various places fired the "starting gun", releasing a strong signal to focus on the "hard truth" of high-quality development and implement it with hard work.

To work hard, you must dare to be the first.

　　On February 18, Guangdong held a province-wide high-quality development conference in Shenzhen, the "city of innovation". This conference, held in the form of a live broadcast, aimed at the theme of mutual promotion of industry and technology.

　　These themes inevitably remind people that at the Central Economic Work Conference held at the end of last year, "leading the construction of a modern industrial system through scientific and technological innovation" was listed as the first of the "nine major tasks" in 2024.

　　Economically large provinces must take the lead. Guangdong's comprehensive regional innovation capabilities have ranked first in the country for seven consecutive years, and the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou Science and Technology Cluster" has ranked second in the global innovation index for three consecutive years. In addition, about 90% of Guangdong's scientific research institutions, 90% of scientific researchers, and 90% R&D funding and 90% of invention patent applications come from enterprises.

　　As the country's first "13 trillion province", Guangdong is committed to "building an industrial science and technology innovation center with global influence". Now it proposes to "strive to build a new modern modernization that relies on innovation to advance, rely on innovation to be strong, and rely on innovation to win." Guangdong".

To work hard, you must practice your inner strength.

　　Looking across the country, on the first day of the new year, Shanghai, Anhui, Liaoning, Shandong and other provinces are focusing on business environment work and making key arrangements.

　　On February 18, the "Shanghai City Adhere to Benchmarking Reform and Continuously Create a World-class Business Environment Action Plan" was officially unveiled. This is the 7.0 version of the business environment action plan released by Shanghai for the seventh consecutive year. The 150 hard and practical measures have been very popular. Attention from the outside world.

　　It is worth mentioning that the 2023 Optimizing Business Environment White Paper released by Shanghai at the beginning of this month shows that throughout 2023, 535,500 new business entities will be established in Shanghai, a year-on-year increase of 29.1%. As of the end of December 2023, the city had a total of 3.4176 million operating entities, including 2.8917 million enterprises, with 116.8 enterprises per 1,000 people, ranking first among provincial administrative divisions in the country.

　　Also on February 18, Shandong, a major northern economic province, held a province-wide high-level opening up and high-quality investment promotion conference. Why is it opening up and attracting investment at the beginning of the new year? An article published in Dazhong Daily, the organ of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, said that at present, the world economy is in a sluggish state, the international environment has become more complex and severe, and uncertainties have increased. In the face of uncertainty, we can only start from certainty and hedge against uncertainty with our own deterministic development.

　　To cope with challenges, the key is to cultivate internal strength. "For market entities, the business environment is not an empty slogan. It is contained in each 'grassroots' entrepreneurial story, reflected in the efficiency of enterprises, and also reflected in the social atmosphere of 'don't ask for help when things go wrong.'"

　　Indeed, under market economy conditions, wherever the environment is good, capital and factors will go. The Central Economic Work Conference requires that we continue to build a market-oriented, legal and international first-class business environment and create the "Invest in China" brand. In the face of new risks and challenges, practicing internal strength and standing firm are the prerequisites for withstanding pressure and moving forward. This is true for Shandong and the whole country.

To work hard, we must also emancipate our minds.

　　Hunan, Heilongjiang and other provinces have targeted the "first priority at the beginning of the new year" to promote the cadres to continue to emancipate their minds, change their concepts, and enhance their entrepreneurial spirit and true skills.

　　The "Hunan Daily" published on February 18 published on the front page "Notice of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China on launching a major discussion on emancipating the mind in the province", which attracted many netizens to forward the discussion.

　　Some of the "pain points" mentioned in the notice are particularly eye-catching, such as reversing the "only the best" thinking of "not fearing dissatisfaction of the masses, fearing that leaders will not pay attention"; reversing the tossing of "doodles on cakes" in decision-making and "turning over pancakes" in implementation Practice: pay close attention to bottleneck constraints such as excessive non-staff personnel in some government agencies and institutions, overstaffing, heavy financial support burden, etc.

　　Formalism and bureaucracy have always been deeply hated by the masses. Whether it was the Central Economic Work Conference held at the end of last year, the plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held at the beginning of this year, or the meeting of the special working mechanism to rectify formalism at the central level and reduce the burden on the grassroots, etc., they all made key arrangements for correcting formalism and bureaucracy.

　　Emancipating the mind is a main thread running through China's reform and opening up. Netizens praised Hunan's move, which also reflects the whole society's expectations for breaking the ice with ideas to lead reform breakthroughs.

　　The key to the “critical year” lies in implementation.

　　More than two months ago, the Central Economic Work Conference mentioned "implementation to the letter", "implementation with vigor and resoluteness", "seeking truth and pragmatism for implementation" and "dare to do good and implement". This is both action and action for promoting high-quality development. A guide is also a method guide.

　　The Third Plenary Session of the State Council held on February 18 emphasized that we should strive to seize work opportunities, strive to achieve practical results as soon as possible, win the trust of the people with practical results, and ensure that the final results are in line with the decision-making intentions of the Party Central Committee.

　　(China News Service WeChat official account)