The Spring Festival holiday has just ended, and the "First New Year Meeting" of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities has been held in many places across the country. What is the theme of these first New Year meetings, what areas will they focus on, and where will the economic development focus of various regions be in 2024?
Optimizing the business environment has become a development consensus
The Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Government held a city-wide meeting on the first day after the holiday. The central topic was optimizing the business environment. The conference proposed to focus on the concerns of enterprises, aim at the highest standards and levels, and continue to create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, rule-by-law, and international. On the same day as the meeting and deployment, the Shanghai Municipal Government also officially released an action plan, which includes five major actions and 150 reform measures to continue to create a world-class business environment.
"Continuously optimizing the business environment" is the key word of Fujian's first New Year meeting this year. Focusing on key issues in the development of private enterprises, Fujian will launch some landmark measures in terms of market access and rights protection to further create a social atmosphere for the development and growth of the private economy, thereby promoting the long-term sustainable and healthy development of the private economy.
On the same day, many provinces in Northeast China also highlighted the topic of "business environment." Jilin Province stated that it will continue to do a good job in the two major articles of "liberalization" and "living" and speed up project construction by optimizing the business environment. This year, Heilongjiang will continue to improve the "fast channel" for serving enterprises, smooth the "green channel" for solving problems, and help enterprises become bigger and stronger.
Anhui: Business environment congestion is the focus of this year’s work
During the review, the reporter found that in the first meeting of the New Year this year, Anhui Province has focused on the theme of business environment for the third consecutive year. Why is Anhui so concerned about this topic? What is the focus of this year’s efforts? How to implement it next?
At the first New Year meeting in Anhui, the main person in charge of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee emphasized that a good business environment means productivity and competitiveness, and cannot be overemphasized.
Luo Jianhua, Secretary and Director of the Party Committee of the Anhui Provincial Department of Justice: For three consecutive years, a conference focusing on improving the business environment has been held on the first working day after the Spring Festival in order to declare a clear attitude towards improving the business environment and boost the development confidence of market entities. and vitality, and 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.
The main person in charge of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee said that the blockages in the business environment and the pain points and difficulties of enterprises are the focus of this year's work. They will adhere to the problem orientation, break the rules, and be bold as long as it is conducive to optimizing the business environment.
Yan Hui, Director of the Reform and Business Environment Supervision Division of the General Office of the Anhui Provincial Government: We will implement a list-based closed-loop processing of "enterprise ordering, government acceptance of orders, supervision and follow-up of orders, and settlement of sales orders" for various appeals, and we will do our best to We will respond, solve and provide feedback as soon as possible to ensure that the matter can be solved, the company is satisfied and society recognizes it.
The main person in charge of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee said that there is no best business environment, only better. Optimizing the business environment is a project that will never be completed. How to create a market-oriented, legal and international first-class business environment with higher standards and greater intensity? This year, Anhui Province will launch another batch of pragmatic measures.
Yan Hui, Director of the Reform and Business Environment Supervision Division of the General Office of the Anhui Provincial Government: We will continue to promote reform and innovation against first-class standards, thoroughly implement the national and Anhui Province "Optimizing Business Environment Regulations", and speed up the introduction of the "Creating an Optimizing Business Environment" Benchmarking and Improvement Measures (2024 Edition)" and other more intensive, efficient, first-of-its-kind, pragmatic measures will further deepen the "simplified approval and excellent service" and truly make the work of service enterprises more refined and detailed.
Shenyang, Liaoning: Citizens and merchants come to "find faults" to solve problems and improve services
Not only are they paying attention to the business environment at the "First Meeting of the New Year", many places have already taken action. Liaoning mentioned that it must "fight the key battle to optimize the business environment" and "grasp time, grasp progress, and improve efficiency." In Shenyang, government departments invited citizens and merchants to "find trouble."
On the first day after the holiday, the Shenyang Heping District Government Service Center launched a new service. People who serve the services can apply to become "Government Service Experiencers" and write down their own opinions and suggestions on the service experience. The staff will sort and summarize them to form a platform. Accounts are settled one by one and account cancellation management is implemented.
Citizen Jiang Jie: I think this measure is indeed very good and very convenient for the people. I would also like to listen to everyone’s opinions. If you have any opinions, raise them and then solve the problem.
Liu Weilong, Director of the Business Environment Construction Service Center of Heping District, Shenyang, Liaoning: They can give us valuable opinions, "find faults" and "find faults" for us, effectively change the work style, innovate measures, and let enterprises and the masses truly feel that we are ease of doing business.
Not only are citizens invited to "find faults", in the Shenyang Aquatic Products Wholesale Market, the responsible department has also been actively collecting merchants' problems in the past two days and working out solutions as soon as possible. During the survey, many merchants expressed their desire to improve the logistics and warehousing of frozen products. In response to the problem, the competent authorities plan to focus on establishing a two-way distribution network this year, and plan to adopt an information management system to improve the market's service level in warehousing and logistics.
Merchant Xing Lida: Last year, the annual sales volume was about 2,000 tons. This year, with favorable policies, sales can partially increase.
Not only that, the market is also actively expanding sales channels for merchants. Last year, the market opened up an online e-commerce sales platform. After merchant Wang Baojun settled on the platform, he now has 6,000 fans, and his customers have also expanded to Jiangsu, Guizhou and other places.
Merchant Wang Baojun: We originally didn’t have high expectations for live streaming because my stall is very small, but at the end of last year I received a very unexpected order. A customer ordered 100,000 yuan worth of goods from me. I hope to achieve greater development through the live broadcast platform.
Like Wang Baojun, more and more merchants hope to get on the express train of e-commerce platforms, but not knowing the technology and not being able to carry goods have become new problems before them. At present, the marketing department is already preparing live broadcast training to guide them into the e-commerce industry.
In the next step, Shenyang will also launch a special campaign of "leading cadres entering enterprises" to optimize services with problems in mind.
Che Dongyu, Director of the Business Environment Construction Bureau of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province: Pay close attention to the 18 evaluation indicators of the business environment, adhere to a problem-oriented approach, ensure that shortcomings are broken through one by one, the indicators are effectively improved, and we accelerate the creation of an "upgraded version" of the business environment.
(CCTV reporter Wu Yongjun, Zhao Shuguang, Sun Yuantian, Qiyong, and Li Chengze)