Speech at the conference on attracting investment (1);
Comrades:
This regional open economic work conference is an important meeting to thoroughly implement the spirit of the provincial business work conference and the plenary session of the municipal party Committee and district Committee, sum up experience, analyze the situation, clarify tasks and deploy work. Just now, Comrade Xue Jiannan summed up last year's work on behalf of the district party committee and district government, and put forward requirements for this year's work. The five comrades made speeches and expressed their attitudes, and they all spoke very well, which fully showed that everyone was in a good mental state and had confidence in doing a good job this year. I hope that after the meeting, we will conscientiously implement the spirit of the meeting and promote a new breakthrough in the open economy of our region in the new year. Below, I will make three more comments:
First, the ideological understanding must be further improved
Unifying thoughts and raising awareness is always an important prerequisite for us to do a good job. As an important engine of economic development in our region, open economy must make more contributions to the transformation and development in the face of the new situation and tasks in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan. The whole region must further raise awareness of the importance and urgency of developing an open economy.
First, accelerating the development of an open economy is the key to achieving leapfrog development. The Ninth Plenary Session of the Second Session of the District Committee made a strategic decision to build a national innovative science and technology park, a development zone led by emerging industries and a modern ecologically livable new city with promoting transformation as the main line and benefiting people's livelihood as the foundation during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, and clearly put forward that economic internationalization and opening up are one of the five strategies that must be adhered to during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period. This is put forward from the reality of our region, because in the face of the current trend of economic globalization and regional economic integration, if we want to speed up development, we must make full use of the international and domestic markets,
The two kinds of resources attract foreign factors to the maximum extent, add new growth poles, inject new impetus and establish new support points for development. Opening wider to the outside world can further promote reform, give play to comparative advantages, innovate institutional mechanisms, and enhance the motivation and vitality of economic development in our region. Secretary Fan of the Municipal Party Committee has always said that there will be no great development without big investment. As the standard-bearer and vanguard of Changzhou's accelerated transformation and upgrading, our high-tech zone must walk in front of the city to reflect our achievements. It depends on development, and development depends on investment. Where does the big investment come from? In addition to their own investment, the introduction of foreign capital is always a major way. From the practice of our own development and the experience of Suzhou, Wuxi, Kunshan and other advanced areas, the key to a place's rapid economic growth and leapfrog development is to introduce a large number of foreign capital. The endogenous development of a region relying on its own strength can only be a regular and steady development. To achieve leapfrog development, it is necessary to have unconventional investment. Only by increasing investment can we increase new unconventional investment. It can be said that in the next few years, the speed of accelerating development in our region depends on the progress of opening up, and the level of transformation and upgrading depends on the level of opening up. Developing an open economy is always the most direct, effective and key way to accelerate the development of high-tech zones and reflect their due diligence. Without the new development of open economy, there will be no new leap in the economic and social development of high-tech zones.
Second, accelerating the development of an open economy is an effective way to change the development mode. To maintain sound and rapid development and realize modernization in an all-round way, we must take the road of scientific development, which inevitably requires innovating development concepts, changing development ideas, further adjusting economic structure and accelerating the transformation of economic development mode. At present, the economic structure of our region is still dominated by traditional industries such as equipment manufacturing and new chemical materials, and the mode of economic growth is still relatively extensive. The output value of high-tech industries in the region only accounts for 62% of the total industrial output value above designated size, among which photovoltaics are emerging.
Industry accounts for only 20%, which is far behind the advanced regions. The core issue of transforming the mode of economic development is to accelerate the development of high-tech industries, and promote the adjustment and upgrading of industrial structure by developing emerging industries such as photovoltaics, creativity, biomedicine and new energy vehicles. However, it is impossible for us to stop development and adjust the economic structure. We must persist in realizing structural adjustment and the transformation of growth mode during development. In this process, the most effective way is to attract investment, introduce major projects, gather emerging industries, make adjustments in development, and realize new adjustments by introducing new increments. Only in this way can we speed up the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure and realize the major adjustment and promotion of the industrial structure.
Third, accelerating the development of an open economy is an important carrier to seize opportunities and give play to advantages. At present, on the one hand, the general trend of accelerating the transfer of world capital and industry to China and the Yangtze River Delta has not changed, nor has the trend of accelerating the development of the Yangtze River Delta regional economy, which is the biggest development opportunity we are facing. On the other hand, the development foundation and competitive advantage of high-tech zones to undertake industrial transfer and participate in regional division of labor and cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta are constantly being strengthened and improved. Especially during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, with the completion and opening of Changtai Expressway and Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway, and the acceleration of the construction of Lu 'anzhou Port Area and the new airport, the traffic location advantage of high-tech zones will be further highlighted, and the conditions for attracting foreign investment will be even more superior. Coupled with the original comparative advantages of good environment and social harmony and a certain industrial base, the conditions for accelerating the development of open economy will be better and better. It can be said that in the next few years, our region is facing rare opportunities for development, and the advantages of accelerating development are becoming more and more obvious. But the opportunity is one thing, and whether we can seize it is another. Whether we can seize the opportunity, give full play to our advantages and accelerate the development of an open economy is the key to our goal of transformation and upgrading. This is a test of our working ability and level. Therefore, in the face of the new situation, we must further emancipate our minds, enhance our sense of opportunity and competition, and consciously put high-tech zones
Look at it in the overall development pattern of the whole city and even the whole province, think about it in the general trend of economic globalization, plan new development ideas with a more open mind, do everything possible, emancipate your mind, use your brains, overcome difficulties, accelerate the development of the open economy, and truly make the open economy a pioneer in accelerating transformation and upgrading and realizing rapid development.
In short, we must firmly develop our confidence, adhere to higher goals and requirements, and strive to achieve the leap-forward development of the open economy on the premise of adhering to Scientific Outlook on Development, and make greater contributions to accelerating transformation and upgrading.
Second, the focus of work must be further highlighted.
This year, we should strive to achieve the goal of strengthening foreign investment, improving foreign trade and expanding foreign trade, achieving the actual foreign investment 10 billion US dollars and the total export value reaching 6 billion US dollars, highlighting the focus of adjusting the structure of attracting foreign investment, strengthening measures, paying close attention to implementation, and comprehensively promoting all the work of an open economy. The focus of the "three foreign affairs" work has been made clear in Comrade Xue Jiannan's speech, and I want to emphasize it again on the top priority of attracting investment, an open economy.
Attracting investment is the leader of "three foreign countries". Without a breakthrough in attracting investment, there will be no great development of the open economy. Without a number of large-scale projects, it is impossible to achieve transformation and upgrading, to shorten the gap with advanced regions, and to achieve leap-forward development. The actual foreign investment of 10 billion USD is a step, and it is also a sign that the development of an open economy in a region has reached a certain height. When we reach the step of 10 billion USD, we can say that our transformation and development will be emboldened, and we will have a solid foundation to realize the expectations of the main leaders of the municipal party committee and the municipal government. Of course, it is still difficult to achieve this goal this year. However, the whole region must focus on achieving this goal, adhere to the "first priority" and always regard attracting investment as the first priority in developing an open economy.
Grasp the hand, always drum up the strength of attracting investment, burn the fire of attracting investment vigorously, make a concerted effort, overcome difficulties, work hard, make great efforts, constantly innovate the concept of attracting investment, improve the way of attracting investment, optimize the environment for attracting investment, strive to improve the level of attracting investment, and strive to achieve new breakthroughs in attracting investment.
First, we must focus on introducing major projects. A big project and a good project will bring a big industry to a place and play a great supporting role in a local economic development. We should keep a close eye on the world's top 500 enterprises, strategic investors and industry leaders, lock in the target, take the initiative to attack, and strive to make another major breakthrough in introducing large projects with over 100 million US dollars, promote large industries with large projects, and promote large-scale upgrading with large projects. Advantageous industries are a "strong magnetic field" for attracting investment. We should combine attracting investment with promoting the development of emerging industries, with the construction of innovative parks and accelerating industrial agglomeration, and with accelerating the development of modern service industries. We should pay equal attention to quantity and quality, win by quality, and pay attention to attracting investment and selecting capital. We should attract investment according to the needs of industrial restructuring in our region, change the previous practice of "picking up a basket is a dish", resolutely put an end to the introduction of "three highs and one low" projects, and strive to increase the proportion of advanced manufacturing and producer services in attracting investment. Adhere to the introduction of capital and technology, talent and management, pay attention to the digestion, absorption and innovation of imported technology, and continuously enhance the ability of independent innovation.
Second, we should give full play to the role of "attracting foreign investment by the people". Enterprises are the main body of attracting investment. Our district has a number of superior private enterprises with broad development prospects, obvious brand effect, good credit and high return rate, many traditional superior products, and a large number of stock assets and production factors. We should continue to strengthen policy research and guidance, give play to the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of enterprises to attract investment, and encourage and motivate entrepreneurs to go out and take the initiative.
Attract foreign investment, take the initiative to graft and integrate with world-class enterprises, especially the world's top 500 enterprises. In the past few years, our district has made some new breakthroughs in "attracting foreign investment by the people", such as Trina Solar's listing on the New York Stock Exchange, which achieved leap-forward development, and its sales jumped to 10 billion steps last year; Another example is Kang Hui Medical's successful listing on the NYSE last year, with a strategic investment of $66 million. At present, some companies such as Pacific Minock have this intention. As enterprises, especially some private enterprises with advantages, we should further emancipate our minds, take the initiative to play a vital role in attracting investment, vigorously implement the transformation of enterprises into shares, establish a modern enterprise system, be willing to take out high-quality assets to attract investment and reorganize, be brave in accepting mergers and acquisitions of large enterprises and groups at home and abroad, and realize the fission expansion and economic multiplication of enterprises through "attracting foreign investment with strength" and "attracting foreign investment with excellence" to further become bigger and stronger.
Third, efforts should be made to accelerate the platform construction. The "Proposal" of the 12th Five-Year Plan of the District Committee proposes to "vigorously promote the construction of four emerging industrial parks, namely photovoltaic, cultural creativity, biomedicine and new energy vehicles, and strive to build two pillar industrial belts, namely, equipment manufacturing in huanghe road and new chemical materials along the Yangtze River, and upgrade two characteristic industrial parks, namely, automobile and motorcycle fittings in Meng He and knives and tools in Xixia Villa". We should adhere to the principle of centralized, intensive and agglomeration development, improve planning, integrate resources, speed up infrastructure construction, strengthen ecological environment construction, comprehensively improve the level and level of each park, and effectively enhance the carrying capacity of attracting foreign investment and agglomeration industries. The four emerging industrial parks should do a good job in demolition and reconstruction, optimize the environmental layout, improve the supporting capacity of infrastructure, improve the service level, and give full play to the leading role of parks in attracting investment.
Fourth, we should focus on innovative ways of attracting investment. In recent years, our district has accumulated some good ways and means in the practice of attracting investment. We should conscientiously sum up and inherit good practices and experiences. At the same time, we should constantly explore and not, according to the changes in the situation, with the aim of improving the effectiveness.
Innovating ways and means of attracting investment. Further highlight the differentiated investment promotion strategy, focus on Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, actively expand Taiwan Province and Southeast Asia, strengthen the source investment promotion, actively explore the market-oriented investment promotion mechanism, and continuously enhance the pertinence, initiative and effectiveness of investment promotion. It is necessary to intensify the efforts to attract investment from the regional headquarters of multinational companies in Shanghai, so as to make Shanghai an important base for attracting investment and an important channel for us to expand opening up. This year, all investment promotion activities, including leaders going abroad, should pay attention to effectiveness, carefully organize and participate in the Shanghai Week series activities in the whole city and the investment promotion activities in the United States, the European Union and Japan, and arrange a number of good projects in advance, so as to achieve the greatest effectiveness by careful organization, lean team and careful calculation.
Fifth, we should focus on optimizing the investment environment. A good investment environment is an important link to attract and retain investors. All levels and departments should take optimizing the investment environment and promoting the development of open economy as a major task, attach great importance to it and do a good job. First of all, we must create an efficient and convenient government environment. To a certain extent, the competition of attracting investment shows the competition of service level between governments. Where the government can provide good services for enterprises, capital will flow and gather. To improve work efficiency and service level, the key is to change government functions and improve the style of government organs. Years later, the district party committee and the district government will hold a general meeting to deploy and carry out a series of work style construction activities in the organs of the whole region. It is necessary to further enhance the sense of responsibility, service and efficiency of organs and cadres through the construction of their work style, and strive to make due contributions to attracting investment. To form a good atmosphere in the whole society in which everyone is an investment environment and everyone is related to the regional image, government officials should contribute to improving the investment environment. If anyone damages the image of high-tech zones and destroys the development environment, they should be seriously criticized and dealt with. Secondly, we should create a harmonious and stable social environment. Living in peace can make you happy. Now there are more and more foreign investors.
Pay attention to the social harmony and stability of a region. Social stability and harmony are our advantages, and many investors are satisfied with the social environment of the high-tech zone. Of course, some places in our region have also experienced the phenomenon of interfering with the production and operation of enterprises. We must strike hard at these, resolutely crack down on the black sheep, severely punish them according to law, and never tolerate them. It is necessary to continue to deepen the construction of a peaceful New North and a new North ruled by law, and create an honest and trustworthy market environment, a fair and just legal environment, and a harmonious and stable living environment. It is necessary to create a national eco-industrial park as a starting point, further beautify the urban environment, improve urban functions, and provide investors with a beautiful living environment. Third, we should create a good business environment. With the goal of facilitating the production and operation of enterprises and reducing the business cost of enterprises, we will accelerate the development of producer services such as finance, venture capital and modern logistics, and life services such as commerce, real estate, culture, education, leisure and entertainment, and strive to improve the business supporting environment. Vigorously cultivate and develop intermediary organizations such as lawyers, auditors, accountants, consultants and planners, speed up the establishment of standardized management and efficient operation of industry associations and market intermediary service systems, and provide all-round services for attracting investment.
While paying close attention to attracting investment, we should also continue to do a good job in foreign trade export. Foreign trade is an important part of the work of "three foreign countries". At present, the dependence on foreign trade exports in our region is close to 65%, and more than one-fifth of the markets for industrial products are overseas. Foreign trade has become the basis for the development of export-oriented economy in our region. As the saying goes, the foundation is unstable and the ground shakes. It is necessary to ensure the steady growth of exports as the top priority of this year's export-oriented economic work, and strive to break a new path of foreign trade development. First, we must persist in stabilizing exports and promoting upgrading simultaneously. On the one hand, based on the current situation, we should continue to develop labor-intensive industries with comparative advantages through strong comprehensive policies and measures, give play to the advantages of cheap and good quality products, and further expand the international market share; On the other hand, we should focus on the long-term and firm.
We will unswervingly implement the strategy of promoting trade through science and technology, promoting trade through brands and winning by quality, actively compete for international high-end markets, and strive to achieve the dual goals of maintaining steady and rapid export growth and accelerating transformation and upgrading, laying a solid foundation for a longer and higher level of development. Second, we must adhere to both traditional markets and emerging markets. Adjusting and optimizing the export market structure is of great significance for us to avoid risks and stabilize exports. Efforts should be made to consolidate the traditional market, actively guide enterprises to accelerate the construction of independent international marketing networks through innovative marketing methods, reducing trade links and strengthening after-sales service. It is necessary to make full use of the characteristics of low development cost and great demand potential of emerging markets, implement the market diversification strategy in depth, strive to increase the share of emerging markets such as ASEAN, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and accelerate the formation of a new market distribution pattern with prominent focus, scattered risks and diversified channels. It is necessary to increase the support of enterprises to expand the market, actively organize enterprises to participate in key exhibitions at home and abroad, promote qualified enterprises to set up overseas outlets, and encourage enterprises to go abroad to solicit business promotion. Third, we must adhere to both trade in goods and trade in services. Service trade is a new growth point of foreign trade export in our region in the future. We should firmly seize the favorable opportunity of the rapid development of creative industries such as Internet technology, animation games, culture and entertainment in our region, speed up the formulation and improvement of the development plan of service outsourcing industry in our region, actively cultivate leading enterprises in service outsourcing, establish a training system for service outsourcing talents, and strive to build the creative industry base into a service outsourcing base in our city.
Third, efforts should be further intensified.
Opening to the outside world is a long-term basic policy and a strategic work that concerns the overall situation. We must put the opening to the outside world in a very prominent position, earnestly strengthen leadership and ensure the completion of the objectives and tasks.
(1) Effectively strengthen organizational leadership. To develop an open economy, all levels need to attach great importance to it and make every effort to promote it, and whether the leaders attach importance to it, especially the top leaders, and their energy.
Whether it is centralized or not and whether the work is in place is very important to the effectiveness of attracting investment. Towns, streets and parks, especially the main leaders, must earnestly strengthen their leadership, always pay attention to the development of open economy, analyze the situation, grasp the trend, and study and solve major problems in time. It is necessary to further strengthen the leadership responsibility system, further strengthen the "number one" responsibility system for attracting investment, and clarify responsibilities step by step by decomposing tasks at different levels, so that everyone has a burden and everyone has pressure, forming a vivid situation in which everyone is responsible for attracting investment and each contributes to attracting investment. Opening to the outside world is a systematic project, involving all aspects of work. All levels and departments should firmly establish a sense of the overall situation and a sense of playing chess, combine their own work reality, define their tasks, do their own jobs, coordinate as a whole, cooperate closely, play their due role, and form a strong synergy to promote the development of open economy. It is necessary to further improve the policy, study and improve the assessment and reward mechanism of the open economy, and intensify the assessment, so that the assessment and reward can really effectively promote the implementation of the work.
(2) Pay close attention to the project. The negotiation and signing of imported projects is only the first step, and there are many links such as project promotion, landing, construction and production. Only when the project is put into production can it be truly introduced, and it can produce benefits and productivity. It is necessary to take the project as the starting point and the foothold of developing an open economy, and pay close attention to the promotion and landing of the project. This year, in the work style construction activities of organs in the whole region, it is necessary to carry out the "year of promoting major projects" in depth and further create a good investment environment centered on projects. It is hoped that all levels and departments will refine their responsibilities according to the overall arrangement of the whole region, adhere to the reality, discharge specific activity plans, put forward practical measures, and accelerate the project. It is necessary to further strengthen the system of project responsibility system, major project coordination mechanism and project tracking and supervision mechanism. District leaders should take the lead in promoting the contact with key foreign-funded projects, achieve real contact, real supervision and real coordination, and effectively help solve the difficulties and problems existing in the project promotion. each
Towns, streets, parks and relevant departments should also establish a corresponding system of leadership contact with foreign-funded projects, and strive to ensure that each foreign-funded project has a leader and a special person to contact, and each foreign-funded project has a special person to follow up every link from project approval, registration to construction and completion acceptance, so that every major foreign-funded project can enter a "green channel" that is rapidly advancing.
(3) Pay close attention to team building. To speed up the development of open economy, what we lack most are talents with new ideas, broad horizons and strong abilities, especially compound and open talents who are familiar with business and have pioneering and innovative abilities. It is necessary to adhere to the principle of "taking me as the main body, introducing on demand, properly flowing and stressing practical results", and speed up the cultivation and introduction of open economic professionals who are familiar with trade rules, master foreign-related laws, understand advanced technology, master foreign languages and have a certain industrial background. Further improve the talent policy in our region, innovate the talent management mechanism, improve the working methods of talents, strive to introduce a number of high-level talents who have entered the "_ _" list of countries, provinces and cities, and encourage all kinds of talents at home and abroad to make contributions to our region. At present, we should pay special attention to the construction of investment promotion team, establish a high-quality investment promotion and business negotiation team as soon as possible through various forms, especially through marketization, and change the low-level investment promotion of "relying on feelings and luck". All departments at all levels should show more concern, support and care for investment promotion personnel, especially comrades working in the front line, and strive to create necessary working conditions for them.
Comrades, the new situation and new tasks are inspiring. The whole region should act quickly, further emancipate the mind, invigorate the spirit, explore and innovate, seize opportunities, work hard, and strive to promote the development of open economy in our region to a new level and make new and greater contributions to creating a new situation in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan"!