People's Daily reporter **
At the beginning of the year, we should fight the economy and seize the good start. On the first working day after the Spring Festival, Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Fujian, Anhui, Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Gansu and other places held the "first meeting of the New Year" to plan the economic work of the new year.
People's Daily Online Finance and Economics found that focusing on high-quality economic development, making a "good start", cultivating new quality productivity, optimizing the business environment, and promoting the development of the private economy have become high-frequency words in various places planning for the development of the new year, releasing a clear signal of taking economic growth as the core work.
The major economic provinces clearly want to "take the lead".
The ** Economic Work Conference held in December 2023 proposed that "major economic provinces should really take the lead and make greater contributions to stabilizing the national economy". People's Daily Online Finance found that "picking the big beam" has become the key word of the "first meeting of the New Year" in many major economic provinces.
Zhejiang province raised its growth target for 2024 to 5 trillion after its GDP jumped to 8 trillion yuan for the first time in 2023About 5%. The meeting made it clear that "major economic provinces should be brave to take the lead", put forward "to run at the beginning, to leap forward at the start", and emphasized that the "No. 1 Development Project" for digital economy innovation and quality improvement, the "No. 1 Opening Project" for the upgrading of the sweet potato economy, and the "No. 1 Reform Project" for optimizing and improving the business environment.
As the country's first "13 trillion province", Guangdong's GDP growth target for the New Year is set at 5%. The provincial high-quality development conference held on February 18 pointed out that Guangdong, as a major economic province and a major manufacturing province, "shoulders an important mission and major responsibility in high-quality development". The meeting proposed that Guangdong must speed up the leap to a new qualitative state driven by scientific and technological innovation, transform the existing productive forces with science and technology, give birth to new qualitative productive forces, and accelerate the construction of an industrial science and technology innovation center with global influence.
Jiangsu, which has the largest number of cities in terms of GDP, also aims to "build an industrial science and technology innovation center with global influence". The work promotion meeting with this theme emphasized that it is necessary to focus on the overall planning of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and focus on the "last mile" of policies, the main body of enterprise innovation, young scientific and technological talents and other key links to accelerate exploration and breakthroughs.
As a major coastal economic province, Shandong's first meeting of the year focused on "opening up and attracting investment". The meeting proposed to "win the initiative of development with the initiative of openness, and win the breakthrough of kinetic energy with the breakthrough of investment promotion".
Optimize the business environment and "speed up again".
The executive meeting held on February 2 pointed out that the construction of a market-oriented, law-based and international first-class business environment is an important measure to cope with the downward pressure on the economy and boost the confidence of business entities.
On February 18, Shanghai, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei and other places focused on optimizing the business environment to hold the "first meeting of the new year", and on the same day, Shanghai and Jilin also issued an action plan to optimize the business environment.
Shanghai, which has held a conference on optimizing the business environment for seven consecutive years, has once again issued an "updated version" of the relevant action plan this year. This year's meeting emphasized that the policies and services benefiting enterprises should be "understood and used by enterprises", and promote "free application, direct and fast enjoyment", and open up the "last mile".
Liaoning, which has been "dead" in the business environment in recent years, will still take this as a "trump card" to promote revitalization and development this year. The meeting not only emphasized the need to fight the key battle of optimizing the business environment, but also "announced" that more targeted and high-value policy measures will be introduced.
After Hebei became one of the five provinces with the most obvious progress in optimizing the business environment in 2023, the first meeting of the new year emphasized that "optimizing the business environment is only in progress, not completed", and persistently grasped and achieved practical results.
Invite the private economy to the "C position".
The first economic work conference held at the end of last year once again emphasized "promoting the development and growth of private enterprises", and proposed to implement a number of measures in market access, factor acquisition, fair law enforcement, and protection of rights and interests.
People's Daily Online Finance and Economics found that this year's "First Meeting of the New Year" in many places invariably invited the private economy to the "C position". In Guangdong, Anhui, Fujian and other places, outstanding private entrepreneurs were invited to the conference site to make suggestions and suggestions on high-quality economic development.
At the site of the "first meeting of the new year" in Anhui, the meeting commended 100 outstanding private enterprises and 100 outstanding private entrepreneurs in the province, and proposed that "we must earnestly do the work of valuing business, securing business, pro-business, warm business, and protecting business." ”
Fujian held a symposium on representatives of the private economy, emphasizing that it is necessary to always adhere to the "two unwavering", constantly innovate and develop the "Jinjiang experience", and accelerate the implementation of the strategy of strengthening the province with a private economy in the new era. At the meeting, 18 entrepreneurs made suggestions, and the secretary of the provincial party committee asked all departments to carefully study and absorb.
To emancipate the mind to promote real grasp and dare to do.
At present, China's economy is still facing some difficulties and challenges. How to break through the barriers of ideology and concepts, and break the conservative behavior pattern, has become the focus of thinking in many places.
Heilongjiang, Gansu, Shanxi and other places focused on the work of ability and style, and put forward requirements such as emancipating the mind, improving ability, changing style, and grasping implementation.
Heilongjiang proposed, "Promote the majority of cadres to continue to emancipate their minds, change their concepts, and enhance the entrepreneurial spirit and true skills of the officers." ”
Liaoning also mentioned the emancipation of the mind, emphasizing that "the great emancipation of the mind will promote the great development of Liaoning, form more breakthrough methods and institutional innovation achievements, and create an environment of bold breakthroughs, bold experiments, and bold work." ”
Hunan issued a notice to carry out a great discussion on emancipating the mind in the province, leading the change of party members and cadres' view of political performance and ability, improving the ability to pay close attention to implementation, and realizing "let cadres dare to act, localities dare to break through, enterprises dare to do, and the masses dare to take the initiative".
Intern Ruonan Zhao also contributed to this article).