China News Service, Beijing, March 12 (Reporter Yuan Xiuyue Shao Meng) On March 11, the two sessions concluded.
In a critical period when the world economy is switching between old and new driving forces, the word "new" will appear frequently in the National Two Sessions in 2024, sending multiple signals to the outside world that China is seeking progress while maintaining stability, constantly innovating, and facing the future.
On March 11, the second session of the 14th National People's Congress held its closing meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
The layout is more advanced
"In the next one to two years, we will break through the research and development of solid-state batteries with a capacity of 600 watt-hours per kilogram. With one charge, electric vehicles can run more than a thousand kilometers." At the "Representative Channel" in the second session of the Two Sessions, 30 people have been deeply involved in the battery field for 30 years. Chen Jun, a long-time National People's Congress representative and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shared the significant progress in my country's lithium battery research and development.
In 2023, the "three new categories" of foreign trade, including electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products, performed well, with exports increasing by nearly 30%, and became a hot topic during the two sessions in 2024.
Frontier fields such as artificial intelligence+, future industries, and quantum technology have also been hotly discussed because they were included in the government work report.
From "three new things" to "future industries", emerging industries that are overtaking in corners have demonstrated the positive results of China's manufacturing transformation and upgrading, and have also become new heights of competition and new growth engines.
In this year's government work report, the word "new" appears more than a hundred times, among which "accelerating the development of new productive forces" is listed first among this year's top ten tasks and has become a top priority.
Some commentators pointed out that increasing innovation and nurturing and strengthening emerging industries is China's strategic choice to proactively adapt to and lead a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, drawing a roadmap for China's "new" development and future layout.
Confidence is stronger
"I once visited a company in Hunan. This company can produce an excavator every six minutes and an aerial work machine every seven and a half minutes." "Committee Channel" in the third session of the Two Sessions At the meeting, Lu Jin, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China National Gold Group Corporation, praised outstanding private enterprises on the spot.
On the road to advancing Chinese-style modernization, it is necessary to stimulate the vitality of various business entities.
Last year, the Party Central Committee and the State Council issued documents to promote the development and growth of private enterprises. This year's government work report continues to launch new measures based on the concerns of enterprises, improve the long-term mechanism to prevent and resolve arrears, increase the proportion of loans to private enterprises, and expand the scale of bond issuance and financing. etc., to do practical things, encourage motivation and strengthen confidence for the development of private enterprises.
At the same time, China also uses the two sessions to communicate with the world and inject development confidence into the world.
In the past period of time, China has issued a series of measures to optimize the business environment, such as the "24 Measures for Foreign Investment", which have attracted great attention from foreign companies.
During the two sessions, China continued to release signals of opening up and provided "reassurance" to foreign companies: it implemented visa exemptions on a trial basis for six countries including Switzerland, comprehensively canceled restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector, and implemented national treatment for foreign-invested enterprises... This series of measures once again illustrates , China's door to opening up is opening wider and wider, and high-level, institutional opening up is becoming more and more valuable.
People’s livelihood is of better quality
"This is based on comprehensive consideration of various factors, including domestic and international situations, including needs and possibilities. It can be said that it is based on the current situation and is formulated with a long-term perspective." Huang Shouhong, head of the government work report drafting group and director of the Research Office of the State Council, said This was stated when setting the economic growth target of around 5% this year.
Ensuring and improving people's livelihood is a long-term task with only continuous new starting points.
Last year, the target for new urban employment was "about 12 million people", but this year it was changed to "above"; this year the minimum monthly basic pension for urban and rural residents was increased by 20 yuan, which was the largest increase in recent years; the increase in consumer prices was set at About 3%; energy consumption per unit of GDP is reduced by about 2.5%...
Improving people's livelihood is also a driving force for economic development. The new package of goals set in the new year can not only improve people's livelihood and well-being, but also stimulate the huge domestic demand potential.
The addition and subtraction of numbers is a result of careful planning and collective efforts, as well as a long-term perspective and continuous innovation.
The annual Two Sessions are not only a window for the outside world to observe the direction of China's policies, but also record China's road to reform and opening up.
It is not easy to make a fuss about the word "new". Every "new" contains the power and actions of a big country.
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