Hot Topics in the Full Text of the Government Work Report of the Two Sessions of Hebei Province in 2018
As proposed by the 12th Plenary Session of the 8th Provincial Party Committee, the “13th Five-Year Plan” is to build an economically strong province and beautiful Hebei The critical stage is a decisive period for building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, a critical period for comprehensively deepening reforms, and an acceleration period for further promoting the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei. How to make good use of this period with the greatest concentration of major opportunities in the history of Hebei's development to achieve Hebei's development has become the focus of the representatives and committee members' thinking.
As the saying goes, a good start is half the battle. In the first year, what kind of cognition and actions should be taken to take a solid step towards winning the key battle of Hebei's development? Walking into the representatives and committee members, the reporter found that everyone's focus is inseparable from the issues that frequently appear in the context of China's economic development. Hot words such as "new normal", "supply-side structural reform", and "five major tasks".
1. What to do under the "new normal"
Representatives from the business community who participated in this year's Two Sessions of the province talked about the current economic situation and said that there is great downward pressure. Especially in traditional industries, the combination of sluggish market performance, increased environmental constraints, increased labor costs and other factors has created many difficulties.
"This is the performance of the new economic normal." When it comes to the development trend in the next five years or even longer, most of them concluded like this.
What does the "new normal" mean?
"It means that if we don't step up the transformation, we will reach a dead end." Representative Zheng Xiaoqiang, deputy general manager of Yingli Group, said.
During the interview, everyone agreed that in recent years, the investment driven by rapid urban development has led to the problems of overweight industrial structure, extensive operation and serious pollution in our province that have not been effectively solved. Although this extensive economic development model once played a major role in our province and accelerated the pace of industrial development, the construction of big cities has now slowed down. With the decentralization of urban functions, market demand has declined. According to the extensive development model The method continues, not only are the conditions in the province not supportive, but the domestic conditions are not supportive either.
"Hebei must completely abandon the unrealistic idea of ??relying on excess production capacity to reproduce high growth. Transformation and upgrading is an unavoidable and unavoidable hurdle. If we do not seize the opportunity to make adjustments, the problems will be difficult to recover from. It will lead to strategic passivity during the 'Thirteenth Five-Year Plan' period," the provincial economic work conference once judged.
Experts pointed out that to grasp the focus and starting point of "being able to act" under the new normal is to change from focusing on how fast the growth rate is in the past to focusing on how good the quality and efficiency are, and " "Speed ??complex" and "gear-changing anxiety" have been transformed into pragmatic measures to promote good and rapid development of the province.
It is precisely in view of this that the "Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the National Economic and Social Development of Hebei Province" reviewed and approved by the 12th Plenary Session of the Eighth Provincial Party Committee "Recommendations", when elaborating on the development guiding ideology of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", it was specifically proposed to "accelerate the formation of institutional mechanisms and development methods that lead the new normal of economic development."
What should Hebei do under the "new normal"?
Representatives participating in this year's two sessions of the province believe that the province's economic work conference held not long ago has adapted to the new normal and led the way. The new normal puts forward the focus of work, which mainly includes improving the quality and efficiency of development, promoting industrial transformation and upgrading, strengthening supply-side structural reform, cultivating new development momentum, increasing pollution control, ensuring and improving people's livelihood, etc.
“The focus reflects the focus on improving quality and efficiency.” Committee member Wu Yiqing from Hebei University of Economics and Business believes that the reason why our province’s current economic development is facing difficulties and problems is that investment and consumption are very important. , The driving force of exports is weakening, but the driving force of reform, opening up, and innovation has not increased. Therefore, efforts must be made to cultivate and activate new driving forces for economic development.
2. How to promote "supply-side structural reform"
"Why do so many Chinese go abroad to purchase Japanese toilet seats, Korean cosmetics, and Australian milk powder? In the final analysis, it is still The quality of some similar domestic products cannot meet the demand. "When talking about "Double 11" consumption, representative Tan Zenghua, chairman of Qiangjiu Group, thought of Chinese people shopping overseas. He said that supply-side structural reform is actually closely related to people's lives.
Analysts believe that with the development of my country’s economy so far, the shortcomings of insufficient supply side have emerged. With investment facing diminishing marginal returns and exports facing the test of unstable external environment, stimulating domestic consumption demand has become the three driving forces for economic growth. The most important of the carriages. However, the rapid growth of online consumption and outbound consumption shows that domestic consumption demand has been sufficiently stimulated. The key is that it has not been transformed into domestic demand that drives economic growth, and much consumption power has been transferred to external demand. Without strengthening supply-side structural reform, it will be impossible to gather momentum for economic growth.
Reform is imperative, how does Hebei advance it?
“Strengthening the supply-side structural reform is the only way to alleviate the current contradiction between economic supply and demand. For Hebei, the current existing The problem of weak demand is also the problem of insufficient supply and demand, especially structural problems, which are mainly reflected in product structure, industrial structure, spatial structure and other aspects," said Commissioner Wu Yiqing.
He gave an example that the supply of bulk agricultural products in our province is sufficient and even difficult to sell, but the supply of green agricultural products and organic food is insufficient. Our province's steel output has ranked first in the country for many years. However, while there is a large surplus of ordinary steel, special steel for high-end equipment is heavily dependent on imports. In addition, service industries such as tourism, education, medical care, elderly care, culture and entertainment generally have low-end and homogeneous supply problems, and cannot well adapt to the quality, fashion, and personalized needs of consumption.
"On the surface, the prominent problem affecting our province's economic growth is insufficient demand, but in essence it is a mismatch between supply and demand and low quality of supply. Only by making up our minds to carry out reforms from the production and supply side, and from the past emphasis on demand Gradually transform into the simultaneous development of supply and demand, especially active and proactive supply-side structural reforms, in order to achieve a jump from low-level supply and demand balance to high-level supply and demand balance and promote industrial products to move towards mid-to-high-end." Wu Yi. Committee member Qing thinks.
“The Central Economic Work Conference has comprehensively elaborated on the supply-side structural reform from theoretical thinking to specific practice, and made full-chain arrangements from top-level design, policy measures to key tasks. This means As relevant major policies will be launched one after another, how to make good use of the policy dividends is an issue that Hebei needs to pay attention to, and it must take concrete actions to connect and implement them well," a representative said.
Regarding promoting the implementation of reform measures, experts explained: "Reform and opening up is the 'key move' to solve all problems in our province. In the past two years, the central government has introduced many reform measures, and our province still needs to implement them . Next year, we must vigorously promote the implementation of various reform measures and improve the implementation mechanism. The provincial, municipal and county levels must focus on reform, solve the "middle obstruction", and open up the "last mile" to ensure that the reform is effective. ”
< p> The provincial economic work conference also pointed out that to implement the requirements of the central government, Hebei has both the problem of inadequate supply and weak demand. Both the supply side and the demand side must be grasped and hard, especially the supply side. Structural reforms are tough.Followers also noticed that in order to promote the supply-side structural reform of our province, the provincial economic work conference proposed six major working principles that must be grasped, namely, overall planning and grasping the balance point, and actively seeking national policy support. , Help enterprises reduce costs, promote the implementation of reform measures, improve the market economic environment, and effectively prevent and resolve various risks, etc.
3. How to grasp the "five key tasks"
Representatives participating in the two sessions of the province this year mentioned the "five key tasks" of this year's economic work at the Central Economic Work Conference held not long ago. mission" is impressive.
The "five key tasks" are "reducing overcapacity, destocking, deleveraging, reducing costs, and making up for shortcomings."
The bigger reason may come from a real sense of crisis.
"What's your first thought when you see 'overcapacity reduction'? It's steel, especially the steel industry in Hebei." A representative from a steel company told reporters that to implement the "five key tasks", The steel industry will face new structural adjustments, and they will bear the brunt.
Some representatives and members believe that promoting supply-side structural reform, especially resolving excess production capacity and disposing of "zombie companies", will inevitably bring some impacts, and these impacts are likely to extend from the economic field to social field.
“In the process of promoting supply-side structural reform, it is impossible for everyone to be happy. Industries will wax and wane, companies will survive and the fittest will survive, and jobs will change.
In particular, some companies that are worried right now may become even more worried and even close down, causing employees to lose their jobs and reduce their income. But this labor pain is metabolism and the rebirth of a phoenix, and it is worth it!" said a committee member.
To implement the "five key tasks" determined by the central government, our province has also proposed that we must maintain stability strategically Seek progress, grasp the balance point, and fight a protracted war; tactically, we must adhere to key breakthroughs, seize key points, and fight a war of annihilation. We must focus on achieving "obvious progress" in seven aspects, including industrial transformation and upgrading and new urbanization. , county economy, expanding opening up, ecological environment, technological innovation, deepening reform, etc.
It is understood that according to the established "6643" task target, our province's cement and flat glass have exceeded the reduction task two years ahead of schedule. , the next step will be to focus on steel and coal, and implement the reduction tasks to cities, counties, enterprises and equipment. At the same time, our province will take the disposal of "zombie enterprises" as the "narrow tip" to resolve excess production capacity, according to the main body of enterprises. , government promotion, market guidance, and legal disposal, and actively and steadily carry out the work
Based on the reality of Hebei, in addition to clarifying the industrial transformation and upgrading, our province must focus on resolving excess production capacity. We will also combine destocking with household registration system reform and urbanization development.
According to estimates, in accordance with the urbanization rate target proposed by our province’s “13th Five-Year Plan”, an average annual increase of 1.9 percentage points is required. This means that more than 1.4 million people move into the city every year, and housing demand alone drives investment of more than 130 billion yuan.
Member Wu Yiqing believes that the "five key tasks" have many specific contents, but the root cause is the system. The fundamental solution to all problems must rely on reform and innovation.
Indeed, to reduce the institutional transaction costs of enterprises, reduce tax burdens, and reduce capital costs, we must reduce administrative approvals and reform the fiscal, taxation, and financial systems to expand their effectiveness. To make up for the shortcomings through investment, we must reform the fiscal, taxation, financial, investment and financing systems to solve the problem of "where does the money come from and where is it invested?"