Innovation Stimulates Market Vitality, Openness Promotes Foreign Trade Growth Against the Trend —— Interview with Fan Ruiping, Standing Committee Member of Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and Secre
1-mdash this year; In July, there were 355,000 new market players in Chengdu, up by 21.7%, and the total import and export volume was 389.83 billion yuan, up by 24.9%. How does Chengdu play a role in coordinating epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development? What are the pioneering innovations in the process of doing a solid job in the "six stabilities" and fully implementing the "six guarantees" task? The reporter interviewed Fan Ruiping, member of the Standing Committee of Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and secretary of Chengdu Municipal Party Committee.
Reporter: As one of the cities with the earliest resumption of work, production and market, and the best recovery of order and vitality, what effective measures has Chengdu taken?
Fan Ruiping: In the face of the impact and challenges of the epidemic, we thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of the important speech and instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, and always put the people’s life safety and physical health first to ensure that the epidemic prevention and control is strong and orderly, the market supply is stable and orderly, the city runs healthily and orderly, and the overall social situation is stable and orderly.
We adhere to the combination of professional prevention and control and social prevention and control, do a solid job in customs inspection, community investigation and professional isolation treatment, and resolutely cut off the source of infection. Relying on the community development and governance system established in previous years, we quickly organized 489,000 people to conduct three rounds of carpet and meticulous investigations on 4,370 communities in 11 days, knocking on the doors of more than 8 million households and conducting investigations for more than 19.93 million people, thus achieving a clear base and a clear situation.
Protecting the main body of the market is to protect social productive forces. As early as the second day of the first month, in accordance with the unified arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the Sichuan Provincial Committee, on the basis of accurate and effective prevention and control of the epidemic, we began to study the issue of enterprises’ resumption of work and production in different industries. On February 6, 20 policies were issued, focusing on solving the problems of insufficient epidemic prevention materials and tight employment of raw materials in enterprises. Subsequently, 33 opinions and other measures were introduced to strive to achieve the annual economic and social development goals, and 2.55 billion yuan of subsidy funds were arranged to implement the epidemic prevention and control and stable economic operation policies. On February 26th, all 3588 industrial enterprises in Chengdu resumed their work. At the end of March, the service industry resumed trading.
At the most difficult time for enterprises to return to work and resume production, we organized the action of "sending policies, helping enterprises, sending services and solving problems". Eight industrial special classes and more than 10,000 service specialists continued to wait for services, one-on-one to solve practical difficulties such as blocked supply chain for enterprises, so that enterprises could quickly restore confidence. In the first half of the year, more than 15,000 problems were solved, corporate taxes and social insurance premiums were reduced or exempted by 49.57 billion yuan, electricity, water and gas costs were saved by more than 500 million yuan, and financial institutions were guided to provide financial support of 61.9 billion yuan.
Reporter: The epidemic has had a great impact on the industrial chain supply chain. How can Chengdu solve this problem?
Fan Ruiping: Both the government and enterprises realize that maintaining the stability of the industrial ecosystem and the safety of the supporting chain of enterprises is a top priority, and building industrial functional zones is the fundamental solution to this problem. Chengdu has integrated 112 industrial parks, focused on leading industries, and formulated a panoramic view of the industrial chain, a path map of industrial ecological development, and a list of key enterprises and supporting enterprises. It has built 66 industrial functional zones with integrated production and city and balanced occupation and residence, and 14 industrial ecological circles with high efficiency, cooperation and openness.
After the outbreak, we focused on the construction of industrial ecological circle, promoted the strong chains such as integrated circuits, intelligent terminals, automobiles and high-end equipment to complement each other, further accelerated the gathering of advanced production factors and the urbanization of industrial supporting chains, and released a list of product capabilities and demands of three batches of enterprises. Since March, the production and sales rate of industrial enterprises has continued to rise to 100.1%, 2.9 percentage points higher than that of the whole country. Electronic information is a pillar industry in Chengdu, with an output value of over 800 billion yuan last year. Thanks to the agglomeration of production factors and the urbanization of industrial facilities, BOE, Intel and other enterprises have maintained stable operation and increased orders against the trend in the epidemic. 1-mdash this year; In July, the added value of computer and office equipment manufacturing in Chengdu increased by 17.9%. In the first half of the year, industrial functional zones gathered more than 90% newly introduced projects in the city, which was more than 90% consistent with the "two maps and one table", with 180,000 new market players, accounting for 63.8% of the city.
Open innovation is the biggest variable and the strongest kinetic energy for the development of Chengdu in the new era. Looking eastward, Chengdu is an inland hinterland; Looking west and south, Chengdu is the frontier of opening up. Chengdu International Train connects 17 domestic cities such as Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen and Qingdao to the east, and covers 55 node cities in Europe and Asia such as tilburg in the Netherlands to the west and south. Shuangliu International Airport is the fourth "50 million class" airport in China.
We give full play to the advantages of the Pan-European and Pan-Asian international gateway hub, encrypt international trains on the one hand, and promote the "customer-to-goods" of international (regional) routes on the other hand, which effectively guarantees the stability of the supply chain and promotes the market circulation at home and abroad. In the first half of the year, there were 1,810 international trains in Chengdu, with an increase of 40.9%. The passenger throughput of Shuangliu International Airport ranked first in the country. Chengdu’s trade with countries and regions along the Belt and Road increased by 45.4%, and its trade with Japan and South Korea increased by 33.1% and 49.6% respectively. The total foreign trade volume of high-tech comprehensive insurance zone and railway bonded logistics center (type B) ranks first and second in the country.
Reporter: What innovative measures does Chengdu have to actively expand consumer demand?
Fan Ruiping: Promoting consumption replenishment and releasing consumption potential are key measures to effectively hedge the impact of the epidemic and boost the economy. We innovatively create eight consumption scenarios, such as elegant collection in characteristic blocks and ecological recreation in parks, strengthen the first store economy, night economy and weekend economy, and expand the international consumption network of "buy the world and sell it globally". 1-mdash this year; In July, the retail sales of enterprises above designated size increased by 19.2% through the Internet, adding 136 first stores.
Chengdu is a beautiful and livable park city and an open and inclusive living city. Relying on the key park greenway system built in recent years, we vigorously develop outdoor consumption, and carry out activities such as "Park City Experience Consumption Season", "Tour Greenway Park, Good Fruit in Season", which not only solves the problem of "selling hard" for merchants, but also meets the market supply. In view of the business premises of catering merchants and other issues, we have introduced innovative measures such as allowing temporary occupation of roads, created more than 100,000 new jobs, and recreated the fireworks in the city.
We have also continued to deepen structural reforms on the supply side and promoted product innovation and consumption upgrading. In March this year, Chengdu held the conference of "Scenes for the City, Products for Empowerment" of the new economy, and continuously released 1,000 new products and 1,000 new scenes to the world, creating new experiences for citizens and providing new opportunities for enterprises. On August 20th, the "Longquanshan Forest Park — New ecological opening scenes such as Sancha Lake and Tianfu International Airport have attracted more than 30 enterprises and reached an intentional investment of more than 15 billion yuan.
Reporter: In recent months, a large number of major projects in Chengdu have been started. What measures has Chengdu taken to stabilize investment? In the second half of the year, do a good job in "six stabilities" and "six guarantees". What aspects will Chengdu focus on?
Fan Ruiping: Steady investment means steady growth and stable expectations. We persist in organizing economic work with projects as the center, seize strategic opportunities such as the construction of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu-Chongqing area, plan, package and implement a large number of major projects, and successively publish a number of investment "opportunity lists" such as business opportunities for the Universiade.
Focus on strong functions, fill shortcomings and increase investment. Focusing on Tianfu New District, Chengdu East New District, and "two districts and one city" in China West (Chengdu) Science City, we will accelerate the implementation of the "new infrastructure" traction project to promote construction, and plan to launch 245 major projects such as 5G, data center and artificial intelligence with a total investment of about 1.13 trillion yuan. In the first half of the year, the city introduced 168 major industrialization projects with a total investment of 232.6 billion yuan.
Steadily promote attracting foreign investment. Continue to carry out economic and trade expansion activities such as "Made in Chengdu, Global Travel", build functional platforms such as international exhibitions, explore online digital exhibitions, release major policy dividends such as the negative list of foreign investment access, and accelerate the formation of a new system that is compatible with international investment and trade rules. In the first half of the year, 305 foreign-invested enterprises were newly approved, with foreign investment actually reaching 25.06 billion yuan, and 46 major foreign-invested projects were newly approved or increased by more than 10 million US dollars.
Strengthen investment confidence with a good business environment. Taking the feelings of enterprises and citizens as the first yardstick, and benchmarking international first-class standards and innovative practices in pioneering areas, we formulated the policy of version 3.0 of international business environment, and continued to deepen the reform of "streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services". All 1,553 items of examination and approval services according to applications were "online", the enterprise investment project commitment system was fully implemented, and enterprises started "one-day completion".
In January this year, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader proposed at the sixth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Committee to vigorously promote the construction of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu-Chongqing area. We will keep in mind the entrustment of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, cultivate new machines in the crisis, open up new opportunities in the changing situation, integrate the "double cycle" and sing the "Tale of Two Cities" well, speed up the construction of a park city demonstration area that practices the new development concept, prepare the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" at a high level, plant high-quality livable advantages, enhance the international high-end factor operation ability, enhance the confidence and expectation of the whole society, and win the "double victory" in epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development.