China News Service, Beijing, March 26 (China News reporter Zhang Ni) Shortly after the end of the National Two Sessions, the 2024 Annual Meeting of the China Development Forum came as scheduled, attracting more than 110 people, including executives from dozens of foreign companies. Foreign representatives attended the meeting. Focusing on the word "new", ministers and deputy ministers of many Chinese ministries and commissions attended the forum and delivered speeches, conveying China's "new" voice to the world.
On March 24, the 2024 annual meeting of the China Development Forum opened in Beijing. Photo by China News Service reporter Sheng Jiapeng
New tasks → new industries
This year's Chinese government work report lists "vigorously promoting the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerating the development of new productive forces" as the first of the ten tasks of the government in 2024.
Where is the focus of developing new productive forces? At this forum, we can get a glimpse of it from the speeches of the ministers.
Zheng Shajie, director of the National Development and Reform Commission, pointed out at the annual meeting that this year the National Development and Reform Commission will focus on promoting "four accelerations": accelerating the construction of innovation capabilities, including the implementation of a number of major scientific and technological projects, strengthening the main status of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, etc.; accelerating Transform and upgrade traditional industries, including implementing actions to enhance the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry, technological transformation and upgrading projects, and promoting high-end, intelligent, and green development of manufacturing; accelerating the cultivation and expansion of emerging industries, including promoting the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, Implement the "Data Elements .
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Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that in the future, China will cultivate and expand emerging industries of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, strive to build a green and low-carbon supply chain, strengthen the construction of ecological and environmental science and technology platforms, carry out the reserve of cutting-edge leading technologies such as new energy and key technological research, Carry out collaborative demonstrations of technological achievements such as collaborative governance and in-depth governance of pollution reduction and carbon reduction.
"China should aim at the forefront of artificial intelligence, accelerate the production of original and breakthrough major scientific research results, and explore multiple paths for the development of general artificial intelligence." Wu Zhaohui, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, focused on the topic of artificial intelligence.
Finance Minister Lan Foan also made it clear at the meeting that future fiscal support for high-quality development will focus on supporting the accelerated development of new productive forces and supporting the expansion of effective demand.
He emphasized that the next step will be to strengthen policy integration, increase support for innovative development, promote self-reliance and self-reliance in high-level science and technology, coordinate the promotion of the upgrading of traditional industries, the growth of emerging industries, and the cultivation of future industries, develop new productive forces according to local conditions, and create new momentum and new advantages for development. .
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New process → new opportunities
"Opportunity" is also a high-frequency word in this forum. China's development not only benefits itself, but also brings opportunities to the world.
"Looking to the future, China's advancement of the new industrialization process and the acceleration of the construction of a modern industrial system will release huge development momentum, provide broad space for deepening international cooperation in industrial and supply chains, and will also provide important opportunities for companies from all over the world to innovate and start businesses in China." The words of Jin Zhuanglong, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, illustrate the logical relationship.
He said that China will continue to expand high-level opening up, comprehensively lift restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation with companies around the world, jointly promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial and supply chains, and jointly build a safe, stable, smooth, efficient, open and inclusive , a mutually beneficial and win-win global industrial chain supply chain system.
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Vice Minister of Commerce Guo Tingting believes that China has taken the initiative to open its market to other countries around the world and continues to expand cooperation opportunities, and the potential of China's ultra-large market continues to be released. At the same time, China will continue to unleash huge demand in new urbanization, advanced manufacturing, and green and low-carbon transformation.
She said that China is currently implementing the comprehensive lifting of restrictions on foreign investment in the manufacturing sector and promoting the opening up of telecommunications, medical and other fields.
"We will continue to tap and release the potential of domestic demand, enhance the linkage effect of the two domestic and international markets and resources, provide more trade and investment opportunities, and allow enterprises from all countries to share development dividends." Guo Tingting emphasized.
Liu Liehong, director of the National Data Administration, also bluntly said that domestic and foreign companies are welcome to actively participate in the construction of China's data element market and share development dividends.
New topic → new cooperation
New industries and new opportunities bring new topics. How to solve new problems on the development path? Cooperation is the best answer.
At the forum, Jin Zhuanglong made it clear that he actively supports foreign-funded enterprises to set up R&D centers in China and jointly carry out technology R&D and industrial applications with Chinese enterprises. At the same time, foreign-invested enterprises and their established R&D centers are encouraged to undertake major research projects to provide better services and guarantees for scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors from all over the world to innovate and start businesses in China.
Wu Zhaohui emphasized that we should jointly carry out technology research and development and product development, deepen global artificial intelligence governance and cooperation, build regional, global, and multi-level artificial intelligence governance cooperation platforms and mechanisms, and jointly negotiate to form new international governance rules with broad consensus.
Zheng Shanjie also revealed at the forum that this year the National Development and Reform Commission will focus on strengthening "three cooperations": strengthening international scientific and technological cooperation. Support foreign-funded science and technology enterprises to jointly carry out scientific and technological research with domestic scientific research institutions or enterprises, thoroughly implement the "Belt and Road" scientific and technological innovation action plan, jointly create an innovation ecosystem, and strengthen personnel exchanges and cooperation. Further improve the convenience of personnel exchanges between China and foreign countries, provide convenience for foreigners to work, study, and travel in China; strengthen investment, economic and trade cooperation. Steadily expand institutional opening-up, further promote high-level opening up of cross-border service trade and investment, etc.
As Zheng Shanjie said, China not only strives to develop itself, but is also willing to join hands with everyone. (over)