"The first meeting of the New Year", what are the provincial party committee secretaries most concerned about?

Text/Yin Qianyun Wang Mengyao

　　The Spring Festival holiday has just passed, and all parts of the country have begun to deploy all-out efforts to "get off to a good start".

　　The reporter found that so far, Guangdong, Liaoning, Anhui, Yunnan, Jiangxi and other provinces have successively held the "First Meeting of the New Year" to sound the clarion call for the start of construction in the Year of the Dragon and reveal the new trend of local development this year.

Focus on new quality productivity and lay out new tracks

　　Observing the "first meeting of the New Year" in various places, we can't do a good job in economic work without the word "new". Developing new productive forces and opening up new tracks have become the meaning of the topic.

　　As the first major province in the country with a GDP exceeding 13 trillion yuan, Guangdong has a good momentum of developing new productive forces. On February 18, Guangdong held a province-wide high-quality development conference. Huang Kunming, Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, said at the meeting that the core essence of new quality productivity is to use technological innovation to drive productivity to a new qualitative state, promote industrial technological innovation, and develop new products. Quality productivity will be Guangdong’s strategic move and long-term policy.

　　It is understood that Guangdong Province will launch a number of new major scientific research projects this year to promote technological transformation of 9,000 industrial enterprises and promote the digital transformation of 9,200 industrial enterprises above designated size.

　　He Daixin, director of the Fiscal Research Office of the Institute of Financial Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the thinking model and conceptual framework of new productive forces provide ideas for various places to find new economic growth points and achieve high-quality development.

Optimize the business environment and support the private economy

　　Judging from the theme of the conference, the "first meeting of the New Year" in many places will focus on the business environment, showing attention to and support for the private economy.

　　A symposium with private economic representatives was held on the first working day after the Fujian Festival to listen to the opinions and suggestions of private entrepreneurs across the province. It was proposed at the meeting that we should continue to optimize the business environment and build Fujian into a blessed place for private economic development. Focusing on the concerns of private enterprises, we will promote the implementation of a number of landmark measures in terms of market access, government services, rights protection, incentives for innovation, and factor acquisition to promote the long-term sustainable and healthy development of the private economy.

　　Liaoning also held a mobilization meeting on the first working day after the Spring Festival to optimize the business environment and win the battle. Hao Peng, Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, emphasized that it is necessary to fight the key battles to optimize the business environment, optimize policy services, make good use of the sword of the rule of law, build a pro-Qing and unified new political and business relationship, and launch more targeted and valuable We must implement high-level policies and measures to equally protect the property rights and legitimate rights and interests of all business entities in accordance with the law.

　　Hao Peng also proposed that we should seize opportunities and win the initiative on new tracks and new battlefields, and quickly make up for the shortcomings of the county economy, private economy, and marine economy, and strive to realize the "Ten Trillion Dream" goal as soon as possible.

　　Anhui's "First Meeting of the New Year" also focused on the business environment, proposing to create a good atmosphere in which everyone values ​​the business environment, everyone is a business environment, and the business environment is emphasized at all times and everywhere. It is worth noting that Anhui has focused on the business environment and high-quality development of the private economy at the "First Meeting of the New Year" for three consecutive years.

Promote major projects and increase investment

　　The construction of major projects is large-scale and has a long cycle, which can effectively absorb investment, expand domestic demand, and promote economic stabilization and recovery. At the beginning of the new year, various localities have also made arrangements to accelerate the construction of major projects.

　　On the first day of work after the Yunnan Festival, a major industrial project scheduling and promotion meeting for the first quarter of 2024 was held to release the orientation of "implementation and getting started" at the beginning of the year. Wang Ning, Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. The meeting pointed out that we must adhere to and improve the scheduling mechanism for major industrial projects, continue to do a good job in the resource economy, park economy, and port economy, continue to increase investment in advantageous projects such as agriculture, tourism, and energy, and integrate the "three major economies" Concepts turned into real projects.

　　Jiangxi's "First Meeting" of the Year of the Dragon also focused on major projects. At the concentrated start of major projects in the province in the first quarter of 2024 and the mobilization meeting of the "10,000,000,000" project held on February 18, Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress Yin Hong, director of the association, issued the start-of-construction order, emphasizing the promotion of project construction and creating more physical workload, releasing a signal that the province is going all out to expand investment in projects.

　　Wang Xiaosong, a professor at the School of Economics at Renmin University of China, said that each province, based on its own actual development conditions, focuses on the most important and urgent reform and development directions of the province, and launches a series of targeted and powerful measures, which is conducive to solidly promoting high-quality development and future development and construction. achieve results.