New Year's spell "opening". On the first working day after the Spring Festival holiday, many places across the country held meetings to make arrangements for economic work.
According to incomplete statistics, as of February 20, 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, including Guangdong, Shanghai, Anhui, Shandong, Hebei, Fujian, Jiangsu, Chongqing, Gansu, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Guangxi, have held the "first meeting of the new year". In the local meetings, "high-quality development", "optimizing the business environment" and "attracting investment" have become high-frequency words for the deployment of economic development, releasing a strong signal of "fighting the economy" at the beginning of the year, striving to achieve a "good start" and ensuring "stability throughout the year".
High-frequency word 1: high-quality development.
As the first province in the country with a GDP exceeding "13 trillion yuan", following 2023, Guangdong Province's "First Meeting of the New Year" this year will once again focus on high-quality development. The conference emphasized the promotion of industry and science and technology, comprehensively enhance the ability of high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, and constantly shape new momentum and new advantages for development.
Similarly, as an economically strong province, high-quality development has also become one of the priorities of Jiangsu this year. On February 18, Jiangsu Province held a work promotion meeting to build an industrial science and technology innovation center with global influence, focusing on two major articles: scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and building a stronger engine for Jiangsu's high-quality development.
The key to achieving high-quality development lies in people. Zhejiang Province held a conference on the province's continuous promotion of the "88 Strategy" and the building of a team of high-quality cadres, high-level innovative talents and entrepreneurs, and high-quality workers. The meeting emphasized that focusing on the implementation of "shaping new advantages for development with scientific and technological innovation", we will promote the work of educational and technological talents in an integrated manner, promote the deep integration of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain, and do everything possible to stimulate the vitality of innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity of all kinds of talents, so as to create new momentum and new advantages for the high-quality economic and social development of Zhejiang.
High-frequency word 2: optimize the business environment.
Shanghai, Fujian, Hebei, Anhui and other places will focus on optimizing the business environment as the focus of the "first meeting of the new year".
Shanghai has held a conference on optimizing the business environment for seven consecutive years, and this year it has once again issued an updated version of the relevant action plan. This year's conference on optimizing the business environment 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".
The "first meeting of the new year" in Fujian Province and Anhui Province highlighted the private economy. The meeting in Fujian Province invited representatives of the private economy to the venue to listen to their opinions. At the meeting, it was required that the party committees at all levels in the province should benchmark first-class standards, adhere to the problem orientation, continue to optimize the business environment, and effectively build Fujian into a blessed land for the development of the private economy.
Anhui Province commended 100 outstanding private enterprises and 100 outstanding private entrepreneurs in the province at the meeting. At the same time, the meeting emphasized the need to pay great attention to the construction of the business environment, stimulate the vitality of the development of the private economy, and add strong momentum to the comprehensive construction of a modern and beautiful Anhui.
In addition, Shaanxi, Jilin, Liaoning and other places have made arrangements for optimizing the business environment. It is worth noting that Hebei, Anhui and other places have taken the optimization of the business environment as the theme of the "first meeting of the new year" for many years.
High-frequency word three: investment promotion.
Focusing on investment promotion, Shandong, Hunan and Shaanxi "the first meeting of the new year" issued relevant requirements and stepped up planning and layout.
Shandong Province held a provincial high-level opening up and high-quality investment promotion conference to mobilize the whole province to forge ahead and take active actions, deepen the opening up, expand the investment promotion, beat the war drum of Shandong's high-quality development, and play a strong voice for the construction of a strong socialist modern province in the new era.
The busy Qingdao Port Container Terminal (drone**) taken on February 11, 2024 by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ziheng.
The provincial investment promotion work conference held in Hunan Province emphasized that all departments at all levels in the province should focus on attracting investment, fighting the economy and promoting development, as a specific action to emancipate the mind with one hand and implement it with the other hand this year.
On the first working day of the Year of the Dragon, Shaanxi Province held a deepening of the "three years" activities and investment promotion meeting, requiring investment promotion to be placed in a more prominent position, based on resource endowment and characteristic advantages, adhering to the province's overall planning, dislocation investment, and collaborative investment, and striving to attract more high-quality projects.
At the beginning of the year, we can't afford to wait, slow down, or sit still.
It will be dry at the beginning of the year. A good start to the new year is related to the economic development of the whole year. The "first meeting of the new year" in various places has attracted widespread attention because of its characteristics as a "weather vane" and the role of "mobilization order".
In terms of quantity, a number of provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions held meetings on the deployment of economic work immediately after the Spring Festival holiday, reflecting the strong will of all parts of the country to work in unison, fight for the economy and seek development. The work is deployed in advance, the policy is forward, the project is moving forward, and all localities are striving for a "good start" is also related to the "stability of the whole year" of economic work.
From a geographical point of view, the "first meeting of the new year" is held in the areas covering the east, west, north, south and central, both the economically developed Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta region, as well as the underdeveloped central and western regions.
From the content point of view, local meetings have focused on a series of major themes such as "high-quality development", "optimization of the business environment", "investment promotion", "new quality productivity", "private economy" and "expansion of opening up", which has given enterprises a "reassurance", and also promoted a number of high-quality projects to land as soon as possible and form output value, providing strong support for local economic development.
Start a good year, start a good step. At the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, many places anchored the goal with the spirit of "can't wait, can't wait, can't sit still", got up and marched, and struggled forward, and "spelled" a new future for the year's economic work with a "hot and hot" attitude.