Three keywords to watch "the first meeting of the New Year" and release important signals

　　China News Service, February 19 (Reporter Li Jinlei) The Year of the Dragon has begun, and many provinces have held the "First Meeting of the New Year." High-quality development, business environment, and private economy are high-frequency keywords, releasing important signals.

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high quality development

　　Spring comes early if people are diligent. On February 18, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government held a province-wide high-quality development conference in Shenzhen. This is the second consecutive year that Guangdong’s “First Meeting of the New Year” has focused on the same theme.

　　As China's largest economic province, Guangdong will become the country's first province with a GDP of 13 trillion in 2023. Standing at a new starting point, it continues to focus on high-quality development, which shows its determination and has a benchmark significance.

　　“Today, we have arranged for relevant departments at the municipal and provincial levels as well as representatives from the business community and science and technology education circles to give speeches. This is not only to clarify goals and determination, but also to clarify ideas and methods. It will create a strong atmosphere of learning, catching up, and striving for excellence, and inspire the whole province. They have the enthusiasm to get to work early, go to the fields more often, and do backbreaking work.”

　　At the conference, 21 municipal party committee secretaries made speeches one after another and issued a "military order."

　　How to continuously enhance the “hard power” of high-quality development? Guangdong gave four "needs" to solve the problem: regard talents as treasures, work together with enterprises, use the market to create momentum, and seek vitality from reform.

　　On the same day, Shandong held the "First Meeting of the New Year" to attract high-quality investment. The Shandong Province High-level Opening and High-quality Investment Promotion Conference pointed out that currently, Shandong is in a critical period of building a green, low-carbon and high-quality development pioneer area, and it is more necessary than ever to expand opening up and pay close attention to investment promotion.

　　How to attract high-quality investment? Shandong has made it clear that "high" should be based on the vision and concept, methods and mechanisms, industrial level and project quality of the attraction. It is necessary to innovate investment promotion methods and accurately carry out door-to-door investment promotion, industrial chain investment promotion, business-based investment promotion, park investment promotion, capital investment promotion, family investment promotion, festival investment promotion, etc., in order to achieve practical results.

  Data map. Photo by Li Heping

Optimize the business environment

　　Building a market-oriented, legal and international first-class business environment is an important measure to cope with the downward pressure on the economy and boost the confidence of business entities. Many provinces regard optimizing the business environment as an important "homework" in the new year and have made further arrangements.

　　On February 18, Liaoning held a mobilization meeting in Shenyang to optimize the business environment and win the battle. The overall mobilization was carried out with the theme of optimizing the business environment and winning the battle.

　　Liaoning requires that the key battle of optimizing the business environment must be fought, and the optimization of the business environment should be regarded as a "truck" to promote revitalization and development, optimize policy services, make good use of the sword of the rule of law, build a new political and business relationship that is close to the Qing Dynasty and unify, and launch more targeted Policies and measures with strong nature and high value, equally protect the property rights and legitimate rights and interests of all types of business entities in accordance with the law, create a good environment and social atmosphere that respects business, is pro-business and secure business, and strives to create an "upgraded version" of the business environment, with first-class The business environment empowers high-quality development.

　　On the same day, Jilin held a conference on optimizing the business environment and accelerating project construction in the province for the fourth consecutive year, proposing to comprehensively invigorate the social environment, adhere to emancipating the mind, being open and inclusive, and opening up and invigorating, further activating the diverse subjects of "living" and bringing together "living" "The strong momentum of "living" will expand the broad space of "living", strengthen the service support of "living", maintain the mental state of "living", and strive to create a strong atmosphere of bold exploration, entrepreneurship and tolerance of failure in the whole society.

　　Shanghai held the 2024 Business Environment Optimization Conference on February 18, emphasizing that there is no best business environment, only better, and optimizing the business environment is always on the way.

　　Shanghai requires that employees increase their initiative in work and predictability of services, regularly contact and visit enterprises, find and solve enterprise problems in a timely manner, polish the brand of "waiter" even brighter, and truly "response to requests and do not disturb anything".

　　On the same day, the "Shanghai City Adhere to Benchmarking Reform and Continuously Create a World-class Business Environment Action Plan" was officially released, proposing new measures after the upgrade, including iterative upgrades and promotion of "Shanghai Enterprise Services One-stop Service", promotion and implementation of "Key Enterprises" "Service package" mechanism to actively respond to the personalized demands of enterprises, etc.

　　Hebei also held a province-wide conference on optimizing the business environment on the same day. It was made clear that optimizing the business environment should be regarded as the "top priority" project. The main responsible comrades will personally work on it to further find gaps and make up for shortcomings, and pay close attention to the issues that are strongly reported by enterprises in the region. Start from small incisions to break through bottlenecks in the business environment.

  RMB information map. Photo by China News Network reporter Li Jinlei

Private Economy

　　Promoting the development and growth of private enterprises and boosting private economic confidence are of great significance to stable economic growth.

　　Private entrepreneurs take the C position in the "First Meeting of the New Year". On February 18, Anhui held a conference on creating a first-class business environment and promoting high-quality development of the private economy. The conference commended advanced enterprises and encouraged private enterprises and private entrepreneurs.

　　Anhui proposed to unswervingly support private enterprises to stick to their main businesses and strengthen their industries, accelerate the construction of a good ecology for the coordinated development of large and medium-sized enterprises, increase support for leading enterprises, and promote the "overwhelming" development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

　　On February 18, Fujian, a province with a major private economy, held a symposium of representatives of the private economy and called for "effectively building Fujian into a blessed land for private economic development."

　　Fujian requires that we refrain from formalism and bureaucracy, effectively reduce the burden on the grassroots and reduce the burden on enterprises, let policies find enterprises, make services more precise, avoid multiple services and repeated inspections, and allow grassroots cadres to devote more energy to serving enterprises and promoting development superior.

　　Zhu Keli, executive director of the China Information Association and founding director of the Guoyan New Economic Research Institute, told Sino-Singapore Finance reporters that when spring returns to the earth and construction begins in the Year of the Dragon, many provinces have held the "First Meeting of the New Year" in full swing. Not only It is the layout and mobilization of economic work in the new year, and it is also a clear declaration and action plan for the future development path.

　　Zhu Keli believes that each province has proposed specific and feasible policy measures based on its own actual situation. From leading the modern industrial system with scientific and technological innovation to building a pro-Qing government-business relationship, this releases a strong signal of innovative development, which not only demonstrates the government's determination and strength to promote high-quality development, but also lays a solid foundation for economic and social development in the new year. It will further stimulate the vitality and creativity of market operating entities, inject new momentum into economic development, and continue to promote the improvement of new productivity. (over)