(China Focus Face to Face) How will Chinese businessmen lay out a new track during the 14th Five-Year Plan? Xu Rongmao gave it all
China News Agency, Boao, April 21st, title: How will Chinese businessmen lay out new tracks during the 14th Five-Year Plan?
Xu Rongmao gave it all
China News Agency reporter Wu Kan
The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is the first five years of the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. Standing at a new historical starting point, China's opening up and development is looking forward to the extensive participation and enthusiastic support of Chinese businessmen.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, how can Chinese businessmen further participate in the process of China's opening up and create a new situation of win-win development?
Xu Rongmao, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Shimao Group and Chairman of the China Federation of Overseas Chinese Businessmen, received an exclusive interview with China News Service “China Focus Face-to-face” during the Boao Forum for Asia 2021 Annual Conference to explain this.
Excerpts from the interview are as follows:
China News Agency reporter: What new development opportunities will Chinese businessmen usher in during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period? How do you think Chinese businessmen should seize the "14th Five-Year Plan" opportunities to seek a win-win situation for development?
Xu Rongmao: The
"14th Five-Year Plan" has strengthened Chinese businessmen's confidence in the high-quality development of China's economy. It has also provided Chinese businessmen with more opportunities and choices to participate in China's development and construction, and opened up a very broad prospect for the development of Chinese businessmen.
The construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the "Belt and Road" initiative all require the participation of Chinese businessmen.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Chinese businessmen can take advantage of their familiarity with overseas markets and international rules to better serve China's "going out" and "bringing in."
Chinese businessmen can seize the opportunity of economic recovery after the epidemic and focus on high-tech and high-end service industries such as advanced manufacturing, new materials, integrated circuits, aerospace, biomedicine, medical care, cultural tourism, etc., and continue to cultivate new economic growth points; Contribute to the development of the international market for domestic enterprises, bridge the gap between the introduction of international capital and talents, and actively contribute to the new development pattern of large and double cycles, resonate with China's development at the same frequency, and share the dividends brought by China's rapid development.
A reporter from China News Service: During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China will implement wider, broader and deeper opening up. How should Chinese businessmen further participate in the process of China's opening up?
Xu Rongmao: During the
"14th Five-Year Plan" period, Chinese businessmen should seize the opportunity, take the right direction, and take the initiative to transform their resource advantages into a powerful driving force for participating in high-level opening up and promoting high-quality development.
Specifically, Chinese business enterprises should base themselves on the domestic cycle, further tap the potential of domestic demand, and promote industrial transformation and upgrading.
On the one hand, Chinese business enterprises should take advantage of China’s domestic super-large-scale market to adjust their business models and optimize management structures, focusing on the layout of new tracks and new industries; on the other hand, Chinese business enterprises should actively adjust their industrial layout and increase their independence. Innovative capabilities, speed up research on key core technologies in high-end areas, and at the same time encourage high-level talents at home and abroad to participate in technological innovation in fields such as artificial intelligence and industrial Internet.
Chinese business enterprises should also seize the opportunity to restructure the global market and participate in a higher-level open economy.
Chinese businessmen have the advantages of connecting China and foreign countries and the ability to make good use of both domestic and international markets and resources. They should fully grasp the trends and needs of the international market, while preventing risks, increase the development of international markets, accelerate the integration of supply chains, and improve Global resource allocation capabilities; at the same time, actively participate in the construction of domestic free trade zones and free trade ports, and participate in major national development strategies such as the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Data map: On April 17, 2021, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, drone aerial photography of the construction site of the Zhongshan Bridge in the Deep and Middle Passage.
The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor is about 24 kilometers in length. It is a cross-river passage from Shenzhen to Zhongshan and an important transportation hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Jimin
China News Agency reporter: How can Chinese businessmen use their own advantages to play a role in advancing the construction of the "Belt and Road", especially in promoting people-to-people bonds?
Xu Rongmao: The
majority of Chinese businessmen should be pioneers of the “Belt and Road” construction, grasp the international opportunities brought about by the “Belt and Road” construction, broaden the scope of development, and promote cooperation projects to bear fruit in more countries and regions.
As a bridge connecting domestic and foreign companies, Chinese business enterprises can also use their own talents, extensive connections, and integration of Chinese and foreign advantages to provide various resources for Chinese companies going out to help them adapt to the foreign market environment.
The “Belt and Road” is not only limited to trade and project cooperation between countries, but also a connected humanities exchange.
People are connected with each other, culture is first, Chinese businessmen understand Chinese and foreign languages, are familiar with Chinese and foreign cultures, and understand the differences between Chinese and foreign customs and social environments. They play an irreplaceable role in promoting exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations.
Reporter from China News Service: As the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area continues to deepen, Chinese businessmen are facing many opportunities. Please take Shimao Group's deep cultivating experience in the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and give some suggestions for Chinese businessmen to participate in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Xu Rongmao:
Shimao Group has been deeply involved in the construction of cities in the Bay Area. We have deployed in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Huizhou, Jiangmen, Zhaoqing and other cities, planning to build ten more than 200 meters in height. Landmark buildings and a series of high-quality projects.
I believe that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has strong industrial complementarity. Chinese businessmen can seize the broad opportunities for the coordinated development of industries in the Greater Bay Area and diversify their efforts. In addition, technological innovation has become an important driving force for the development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and Chinese businessmen can pay more attention. New business formats and new fields help innovation-driven development.
The picture shows the aerial photography of Hainan Ecological Software Park.
Photo by Luo Yunfei
China News Agency reporter: The Boao Forum for Asia 2021 annual meeting is being held. How should Chinese businessmen explore cooperation models and actively participate in the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port?
Xu Rongmao:
In the process of building a free trade port, Hainan has continuously provided preferential policies and high-quality services for Chinese businessmen and entrepreneurs to invest and start businesses, and facilitate trade, investment, cross-border capital, and personnel flows.
In the future, with the vigorous development of the free trade port, Hainan will continue to become a "new paradise" for Chinese businessmen to invest and start businesses.
The vast number of Chinese businessmen caring about their homeland is an indispensable force in China's reform and opening up in the new era and the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port.
It is recommended that Chinese businessmen actively grasp the general trend of Hainan's development, seize the vast opportunities in the construction of the free trade port, fully grasp the policy dividends, and strive to become "partners" in the construction of the free trade port.
The majority of Chinese businessmen can actively participate in advantageous industries such as tourism, health care, consumption, exhibitions, etc., and at the same time give full play to their advantages in resources and contacts to connect excellent talents, funds and projects for the free trade port.
China News Agency reporter: After the poverty alleviation task is completed, rural revitalization is being promoted in an all-round way. How can Chinese businessmen continue to help China's rural revitalization strategy? Please share your views based on Shimao Group's experience in poverty alleviation.
Xu Rongmao:
Shimao Group has long been focusing on the field of healthy poverty alleviation, taking healthy poverty alleviation as the starting point, and forming a "driven, fixed-point and precise" healthy poverty alleviation model.
In 2005, Shimao Group established the "China Red Ribbon Fund" with more than 20 companies, which has continued to carry out AIDS prevention and control work for a long time. For more than ten years, Shimao Group has donated more than 100 million yuan and donated more than 100 "Shimao Love Hospitals". Helping medical care in towns and villages; Shimao Group has also signed an assistance agreement for echinococcosis prevention and control with the Tibet Autonomous Region and donated funds for the comprehensive prevention and control of echinococcosis in Tibet.
It is suggested that in the process of helping rural revitalization, Chinese businessmen can more accurately choose different directions such as industry, education, health, and culture according to the needs of different regions, so as to prescribe the right medicine.
For example, helping rural populations improve their ability to become wealthy, helping the construction of "digital villages", introducing high-quality educational and medical resources, and strengthening the exploration and utilization of characteristic rural culture and characteristic tourism are all areas worthy of attention.
Data map: On December 6, 2018, the "Silk Road Landscape Map Exhibition" opened at the Hong Kong Science Museum.
The "Silk Road Landscape Map" was once exodus. Hong Kong entrepreneur Xu Rongmao bought the map and donated it to the Palace Museum.
The picture shows a part of the "Silk Road Landscape Map": Jiayuguan.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Wei
China News Agency reporter: You have invested in the purchase of the "Silk Road Landscape Map" and donated it to China. In recent years, many overseas Chinese have actively mediated for the recovery of lost cultural relics and helped them return to China through multiple channels. What do you think of the actions of overseas Chinese to help the return of cultural relics? What needs to be perfected to build an overseas cultural relics return system?
Xu Rongmao:
I am very concerned about the protection and utilization of cultural relics. It has always been my wish to make a small contribution to the inheritance of Chinese traditional culture.
In 2016, we donated to the Palace Museum "Research Protection Project" of the Palace Museum, and we were fortunate to have a relationship with the Palace Museum; in 2017, we bought back the national treasure "Silk Road Landscape Map" that was lost overseas and donated it to the Palace Museum; with the strong support of the Palace Museum, We built the Shimao Maritime Silk Road Museum in Fujian Province, and it was officially opened to the public in January 2021.
I am very happy to see that many overseas Chinese in recent years have participated in the preservation and cultural inheritance of cultural relics. Some overseas Chinese collectors donated their lifelong collections to domestic museums, and some Chinese have used their own convenience to actively mediate in the recovery of lost cultural relics. , They have contributed to the return of cultural relics through various channels.
In the future, in the process of promoting the establishment of a mature overseas cultural relics return system, the government’s official force and the civil society will also need to be combined. It is recommended that under the premise of effective supervision, further opening to the public welfare non-state collection units to reduce or exempt the collection Import link tax.
At the 3rd CIIE, the pilot exploration of tax incentives for artwork imports opened a new channel for the return of Chinese cultural relics overseas. I look forward to actively expanding the results of the pilot in the future to truly make the return of cultural relics the norm.
China News Agency reporter: In your opinion, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, what aspects should China make further efforts to provide convenient conditions for Chinese businessmen to invest in China and build a better business environment?
Xu Rongmao: The
"14th Five-Year Plan" has created significant opportunities for the development of Chinese businessmen. The majority of Chinese businessmen also look forward to more support from the state in terms of policies, funds, and platforms to provide a more open investment environment and an internationally competitive business environment. Attract Chinese businessmen to invest and start businesses.
It is recommended to further improve the legal and policy environment, provide refined and professional services, build a broader development exchange platform, provide scientific research and entrepreneurial support funds for outstanding talents, and create better opportunities for the development of Chinese businessmen.
At the same time, it is recommended to appropriately relax visa and residence policies, and provide quasi-national treatment for returning Chinese businessmen who invest and start businesses in medical care and children's education.
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