“Leave it in a nutshell, make it simple and concise, and let the people understand it,” Huang Shouhong, head of the government work report drafting team and director of the State Council Research Office, commented on the government work report, which attracted nationwide attention, at a briefing held by the State Council Information Office today.
Zheng Gongcheng, a deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the China Society of Social Security, felt deeply about this. He noticed that the government work report focused on the development of high-quality education, stabilizing employment and increasing income, improving medical insurance and pension levels, and increasing the supply of elderly care and childcare services. All-round deployment.
Gong Liutang, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of Beijing Technology and Business University, found that the government work report prioritized "vigorously promoting the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerating the development of new productive forces" when deploying this year's work. This layout has changed from the past. .
Huang Shouhong explained that the "outline" and "necessities" of this year's government work report focus on embodying the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, and adhere to high-quality development as the main thread throughout it. The whole article focuses on the central task of economic construction and the high-quality development. The first important task is to "connect the antenna above and the ground below".
Accelerate the start of the new digital economy track
When the government work report deploys tasks for the year, the first item is usually related to macroeconomic policies.
In Gong Liutang's view, this year's government work report prioritizes the development of new productive forces. This not only means that my country's economic growth rate of about 5% this year will be supported by new productive forces, but also that the goal of realizing Chinese-style modernization in the future also requires new productive forces. Boosting quality productivity.
When analyzing the supporting conditions for my country's GDP growth to reach 5.2% in 2023, Huang Shouhong said that this report card has some achievements that can be quantified or perceived, such as new industries, new business formats, and new models constantly emerging, and transportation becoming more convenient. , there are more products and services to choose from, etc., but there are also many internal and deep-seated supports, such as changes in concepts, continuous improvement of systems, improvements in work styles, accelerated changes in development methods, etc.
As an economist, Gong Liutang believes that developing new productive forces means further increasing total factor productivity by improving the level of scientific and technological innovation, thereby promoting sustainable economic development.
He believes that the key to developing new productive forces is to attach importance to original scientific and technological achievements and basic research, so as to continuously provide endogenous driving force for economic development.
When deploying the task of developing new productive forces, the government work report specifically mentioned the need to "deeply promote the innovative development of the digital economy", including the launch of the "artificial intelligence +" action.
Zhou Hongyi, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and founder of 360 Group, said that creating new productivity means relying on technological innovation to transform productivity.
Specific to his industry, he uses digital technology to convert old and new driving forces and promote high-quality development of traditional industries.
"Artificial intelligence" is a topic that Zhou Hongyi has paid close attention to recently. He said that in addition to keeping up and catching up on general large models, Chinese enterprises must also find ways to integrate large models with various enterprises, especially the protagonists of new industrialization - Combined with the manufacturing industry, the large model will be developed in the direction of industrialization, industryization, verticalization and in-depth customization.
In his view, our country has the most complete industrial chain, the most complete industrial categories, and the most corporate scenario dividends in the world. As a productivity tool, large models can be combined with traditional industries for "digital transformation and intelligent transformation" to become the basis for industrial digitalization. An important enabler, accelerating the formation of new productive forces powered by artificial intelligence.
Lin Yifu, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, said that the advantage of my country's current economic development is that in the new economic track represented by artificial intelligence and the digital economy, my country is on the same starting line as developed countries.
Liu Junlai, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a professor at China University of Geosciences (Beijing), focuses on talent training topics related to new quality productivity.
He said that the goal of accelerating the development of new productive forces has created conditions for the cultivation of high-quality talents and also put forward new requirements.
He suggested that in the face of the rapid development of new productive forces, higher education needs to continuously improve and innovate the education system, further improve the curriculum system with strong foundation and emphasis on cutting-edge knowledge, build a practical teaching system that focuses on ability training and innovation and entrepreneurship education, and build a school-enterprise Cooperation base, continue to build excellent teaching staff, and promote the formation of an industry-university-research cooperation mechanism that is conducive to the transformation of advanced results.
Rejuvenating the country through science and education is included in the government work report as a special chapter
Many representatives from the education and science and technology circles noticed that when the government work report deployed this year's tasks, the second of the 10 tasks was to "deeply implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and strengthen the basic support for high-quality development." This is This is rarely seen in past government work reports.
Huang Shouhong said that this year’s government work report fully implements the deployment of the Party Central Committee, and 9 of the 10 tasks are consistent with the key points deployed by the 2023 Central Economic Work Conference.
“Taking into account the fundamental and strategic position of education, science and technology, and talents in the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country, and considering that the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China takes education, science and technology, and talents into consideration as a whole, science and education are added to the report. The content of rejuvenating the country”.
This chapter mentions the need to "cultivate and make good use of talents in all aspects", including "increasing support for young scientific and technological talents."
In this regard, Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun responded to the topic of young scientific and technological talents in today's "Minister's Channel".
He said that young scientific and technological workers should be boldly used, strengthened training, and provided good services and guarantees.
Provide opportunities and platforms for young people in major national scientific and technological tasks.
80% of the National Natural Science and Technology Fund projects have been undertaken by young people under the age of 45. Young people are involved in many major national science and technology projects. In major projects such as Beidou Navigation, Lunar Exploration Project, and China Sky Eye, many project teams The average age is just over 30 years old.
Yin Hejun said that for young scientific and technological talents engaged in basic and cutting-edge cross-research, it is necessary to find ways to increase the intensity of stable support and reduce the frequency of some assessments as much as possible so that they can concentrate on scientific research without distractions.
Wang Zhongliang, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of Tianjin Urban Construction University, is very excited about the inclusion of a separate chapter on the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education. "This is an important guidance for our education sector and another improvement in the connotation of rejuvenating the country through science and education in the new era."
"Education is the foundation for rejuvenating the country, and science and technology is the foundation for strengthening the country. The government work report links the internal logic of education and science and technology." Wang Zhongliang said that the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed the trinity of education, science and technology, and talents. "Science and technology rely on talents." , Talents rely on education and are promoted in an overall manner."
"The era of educational equity and innovative education has arrived." He said that the new era has put forward new requirements for education: on the one hand, it is not only necessary to "study well", but also to "study well"; on the other hand, high-quality development The core is innovation, and more emphasis is placed on the innovation of education, which is an inherent requirement of Chinese-style modernization.
Wang Zhongliang believes that rejuvenating the country through science and education is included in the government work report as a special chapter, which also allows educators to think about how to consider and arrange the entire process of talent training in the context of both educational equity and innovative education.
He said that education should train people towards the goal of building China into a modern and powerful socialist country by the middle of this century. "Many original models have to be changed accordingly, and this impact is huge."
1.6 million suggestions filled with people’s expectations for people’s livelihood
When interpreting the government work report, Huang Shouhong provided a set of data. The drafting team solicited public opinion through the Internet and media, and received more than 1.6 million comments from netizens, an increase of 82% over last year.
The China Government website selected 1,150 representative suggestions and forwarded them to the drafting team.
"The content is very detailed, with reasons and suggestions. Some netizens even put forward the feasibility analysis of policy suggestions and the timing of their introduction. They are very thoughtful." Huang Shouhong said that among the netizens who left messages, the oldest is 82 years old and the youngest is 82. 12 years old.
The government work report responds to people's livelihood concerns to the greatest extent possible.
One figure that has attracted great attention from the media is that it is planned to increase the monthly minimum standard of basic pension for urban and rural residents by 20 yuan.
Huang Shouhong said that 20 yuan means an increase of 19.4%. There are now 170 million elderly people across the country enjoying pension insurance benefits for urban and rural residents.
"This should be the most intensive in recent years." Zheng Gongcheng said that the pace of improvement in the past was slightly smaller.
In fact, the basic pension level for urban and rural residents has always been low.
He believes that from this year's measure, it can be seen that the national level has seen this problem, and under the circumstances of relatively tight finances, it has made greater efforts to increase residents' pensions than last year, which reflects that the party and the government have taken effective measures to ensure Older people's later life.
Zheng Gongcheng believes that the 20 yuan reflects the profound meaning of people's livelihood and shows the confidence and confidence of the country's development.
In terms of education, the government work report proposed to improve the conditions for running rural boarding schools.
Huang Shouhong said that there are more than 30 million boarding students in compulsory education nationwide, and some are left-behind children.
Although the conditions of rural boarding schools have improved greatly in recent years, there are still some weak links.
In order to allow these children to read well and go to school well, this year's government work report puts forward requirements for this weak link.
The "urgency, difficulty, and anxiety" of the people are reflected in the warmth of people's livelihood in the government work report.
In terms of medical and health care, the government work report proposed that basic medical financial subsidies will continue to be increased this year, and the per capita financial subsidy standard for urban and rural residents' medical insurance will be increased by 30 yuan, reaching 670 yuan per person per year.
The report also addresses issues such as difficulty in medical treatment and difficulty in reimbursement reported by the public, emphasizing the implementation and improvement of settlement for medical treatment in other places, improving medical services with patients as the center, and promoting mutual recognition of inspection and test results.
Report from this newspaper, Beijing, March 5
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Liu Shixin, Yin Xining, Hu Chunyan Source: China Youth Daily