Economic Observer reporter Shi Zhenfang
The 2024 National People's Congress and the National People's Congress are about to begin. The Economic Observer reporter learned that Zhou Yuan, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the founder and CEO of Zhihu, brought a number of proposals on "new professionals", the high-quality development of the private economy, the development of the large model industry, and the fight against new piracy and infringement.
Among them, for the Internet platform economy, Zhou Yuan put forward his own expectations. He proposed that he hoped to speed up the legislative process of promoting the development of the private economy; At the same time, Zhou Yuan believes that private enterprises are an experimental field for new business formats. For industries that have not yet been included in the scope of supervision, the principle of "nothing prohibited by law can be done" should be followed, and Internet platform enterprises should be supported to explore unknown areas, so as to lay a solid foundation for cultivating future industries.
2024 marks the 30th anniversary of China's full-featured access to the Internet. Over the past 30 years, the Internet has not only reshaped people's work patterns, lifestyles, and even ways of thinking. However, due to multiple factors, Internet platform enterprises are facing the dilemma of lack of confidence, weak market expectations, and unstable development prospects, which restricts the development potential and innovation vitality of enterprises to a certain extent. In this regard, Zhou Yuan's proposal gives three suggestions:
1.Strengthen the protection of policies and regulations, and boost the confidence of Internet platform enterprises in development. First, it is necessary to speed up the legislative process of promoting the development of the private economy. At present, most of the state's regulations on the protection of the development of the private economy exist in the form of policies, which lack the coercive force and authority of legal provisions. Elevating relevant policies to the legal level will help enhance the rigidity and authority of legal safeguards. Second, it is necessary to strengthen the consistency of policy implementation. Since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the first level at all levels has intensively launched policy measures to promote the high-quality development of the private economy, but the phenomenon of different competent departments and different local policies "fighting" and canceling each other still exists, and the introduction of some policies has even had a significant impact on the development of the industry and caused negative public opinion. It is necessary to avoid contradictions between policies and ensure that all policies are in the same direction and work together, so as to improve the actual effect of policy implementation. The third is to scientifically set up regulatory policies. Improve the negative list system for market access, and clarify the areas that are prohibited and restricted from entering. For industries that have not yet been included in the scope of supervision, the principle of "nothing prohibited by law can be done" should be followed, and Internet platform enterprises should be supported to explore unknown areas, so as to lay a solid foundation for cultivating future industries.
2.Improve the mechanism for scientific and technological innovation, and stimulate the enthusiasm of Internet platform enterprises for innovation. The first is to optimize the organization of industrial and scientific and technological support funds and projects, and absorb a greater proportion of scientific and technological innovation Internet platform enterprises and their industrial scientists and entrepreneurs to participate in depth. The second is to implement the preferential policy of supporting projects to ensure that funds and resources can be accurately invested in the projects with the most innovative potential and market prospects. The third is to provide tax incentives and guidance support to reduce the R&D costs of Internet enterprises and stimulate their enthusiasm for continuous investment in R&D. Fourth, through the opening of advanced procurement and application scenarios, we will create more market opportunities for Internet enterprises and promote the improvement of technology iteration and continuous innovation capabilities.
3.Optimize the industrial innovation system and guide Internet platform enterprises to empower the real economy. The first is to encourage Internet platform enterprises to strengthen cooperation with industries related to the real economy, give full play to the technological accumulation of Internet platform enterprises in artificial intelligence, big data and other fields, and promote the real economy to improve its integrated and digital production and operation capabilities. The second is to find the force point of digital and real integration, help small and medium-sized enterprises on the platform to achieve digital transformation, guide platform enterprises to increase resource sharing and data openness, accelerate the transformation of the whole industry chain empowered by data in key industries and regions, and continue to release the creativity of new consumption and new business formats.