On November 1, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the forum of private enterprises, sending out the strongest voice of vigorously supporting the development and growth of private enterprises in the new era. Recently, Che Jun, Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee, received an exclusive interview with reporters on how to better promote the innovative development of private economy.

Q: Zhejiang is a province with a large private economy and a strong private economy. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech will certainly have a significant and far-reaching impact on the development of Zhejiang's private economy. How do you feel about this?

Che Jun: The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has always attached great importance to the healthy development of the private economy, and has always supported private enterprises to become bigger and stronger. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, especially recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping has delivered a series of important speeches and made a series of major decisions on private economy. In particular, the important speech made by General Secretary Xi Jinping at the private enterprise forum, which was clear and forceful, gave the strongest voice in the new era to vigorously support the development and growth of private enterprises. It was a special important speech on special objects in a special period, a calming needle to adhere to the "two unswerving" principle, and a relief to the "growing pains" of the private economy The sunshine and rain that nourish the healthy growth of the private economy is the powerful east wind that promotes the private economy to create brilliance again and inspires private entrepreneurs to make new contributions, pointing out the direction of the development of the private economy in the new era and providing fundamental guidance. The important speech of the General Secretary has caused great repercussions in Zhejiang, especially in private enterprises, and has injected strong impetus into the development of Zhejiang's private economy.

The development of Zhejiang has achieved today, and the private economy has made great contributions. If the private economy is strong, Zhejiang will be strong; if the private enterprises are good, Zhejiang will be good. As a pioneer of reform and opening up and an important birthplace of China's private economy, Zhejiang needs to have higher requirements and standards in learning and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, to achieve a deeper understanding and more practical measures, to make the private economy fragrant and well done, and to solidly promote the new development and leap of the private economy.

Q: What measures has Zhejiang taken to implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and ease the concerns of private enterprises?

Che Jun: Due to changes in the external environment, internal transformation and upgrading and other reasons, some enterprises in Zhejiang, like the whole country, have encountered difficulties in development, problems in progress and troubles in growth. In this regard, the provincial party committee and the provincial government firmly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, resolutely implement the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, focus on promoting private enterprises, and comprehensively implement the requirements of the central government's "six stabilities", with greater efforts to encourage, guide Support and assist the development of private enterprises. To this end, we have launched a number of initiatives:

To implement the central policy, while comprehensively implementing a series of policies such as the national policy of simplifying administration, tax reduction and burden reduction, a series of policy documents such as Zhejiang enterprises' burden reduction, small and micro enterprises' growth, stabilizing foreign trade, new investment policy, new talent policy, and risk mitigation were precisely introduced, so as to timely deliver the central care and warmth. Improve the way of policy implementation, strengthen the supervision and inspection of provincial departments to implement the policies and measures of the central and provincial party committees to support the development of private economy, not only summarize and promote typical experience, but also seriously supervise and hold accountable to ensure that the decisions and arrangements of the central, provincial party committees and provincial governments are implemented and effective.

To provide targeted assistance to enterprises, provincial, municipal and county level linkage was carried out, and "five hundred" activities were organized, such as "one hundred party and government leaders at the city and county level and private enterprises held discussions", "one hundred department directors accurately served one hundred leading enterprises", "one hundred directors read policies at the grass-roots level", "one hundred presidents walked into enterprises", "one hundred private leading enterprises paired up", Organize leading cadres at all levels to run all key enterprises to cheer up and solve problems for private enterprises. More efforts have been made to simplify administration, delegate power, reduce taxes and reduce burdens. On the basis of the cumulative reduction of burdens of 300 billion yuan since 2016, a new round of enterprise burden reduction policies has recently been introduced, striving to reduce another 150 billion yuan of burdens for enterprises throughout the year.

Solve the problem of enterprise liquidity, firmly fight the battle to prevent and resolve financial risks, and continue to resolve the "two chain" risks of enterprises. Focusing on solving the problem of difficult and expensive financing of private enterprises, a new provincial financing guarantee company was established. The provincial government increased the capital of the provincial guarantee group by 5 billion yuan, and supported the financing of small and micro enterprises and the issuance of bonds by leading backbone enterprises. A provincial support fund for the steady development of listed companies was newly established, with an initial financing of 10 billion yuan, to resolve the risk of equity pledge and support the healthy development of listed companies. At the end of September, the non-performing loan ratio dropped to 1.27%.

We will implement proactive fiscal policies, focus on the three major challenges and the ten major action plans for enriching the people and strengthening the province, explore and build a fiscal policy system that focuses on concentrating financial resources on major issues, especially focusing on key areas such as the digital economy, "Phoenix Action" and financial stability, build a government industrial fund version 2.0, and vigorously support the innovative development of private enterprises.

Deepening the reform of "running at most once", a total of 1449 work items at the provincial, municipal and county levels have been fully standardized, which can achieve "running at most once" accounting for 100%, 99.6% and 99.2% of the total work items at the same level. The pilot reform of "separation of certificates and licenses" has been comprehensively promoted in Zhejiang Free Trade Zone, Zhoushan Islands New Area and 29 national development zones, and comprehensively promoted the integration of multiple certificates, joint handling of certificates and licenses, parallel approval, etc. Develop operational guidelines for enterprise investment approval, improve the online approval and supervision platform, and promote the implementation of approval before the commencement of general enterprise investment projects at most once and 100 days at most. Use the reform of "running at most once" to pry other reforms, deepen the reform of "heroes are equal per mu", strengthen the breaking of various "rolling doors", "glass doors" and "revolving doors", strengthen the safety protection of enterprises' families and property, accelerate the establishment of a new type of friendly political and business relations, and create a fair competitive environment. The reform has greatly stimulated the vitality of market players, and new enterprises in the first three quarters increased by 19.3%.

Q: What are the new practices of Zhejiang in addition to loosening restrictions and easing worries and strengthening and optimizing the private economy?

Che Jun: Transform and upgrade the traditional industries, vigorously promote the technological transformation of "Internet+", "standardization+", "robot+", and increase the added value of 10 traditional manufacturing industries such as textile by 5.1% and profit by 25.1% in the first three quarters; Strengthen the construction of small and micro enterprise parks, and strive to add 50 industrial innovation service complexes and build 200 small and micro enterprise parks by the end of the year. We comprehensively renovated "low scattered" enterprises with an average tax of less than 10000 yuan per mu, eliminated 1204 enterprises' backward production capacity in the first three quarters of the province, and renovated 24000 "low scattered" enterprises (workshops).

Focus on supporting the digital economy, fully implement the "No.1 Project" of digital economy, formulate and issue the construction plan of the national digital economy demonstration province and the five-year doubling plan of digital economy. In the first three quarters, the added value of the core industries of the digital economy increased by 14.8% year on year, accounting for 9.7% of GDP. Take the digital economy as the leader to lead the new economy and new momentum, accelerate the implementation of the new science and technology policy and the new talent policy, speed up the construction of Zhijiang Laboratory and West Lake University, speed up the construction of Hangzhou West Science and Technology Innovation Corridor and G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, speed up the construction of the national independent innovation demonstration zone, practically increase the efforts to attract talents, cultivate talents and use talents, and strive to create the best entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem.

In addition, Zhejiang implemented the "new investment policy", continued to improve the timeliness of enterprise investment project approval, comprehensively promoted the "standard land" system, and promoted the construction of major projects to expand effective investment to adjust the structure and increase the stamina. In the first three quarters, private investment grew by 17.2% year on year, and investment in high-tech industries grew by 22.8%. On October 19, the centralized commencement ceremony of major projects was held again, with 567 projects under centralized commencement and a total investment of 813 billion yuan; We formulated the implementation opinions on dealing with trade frictions to ensure the stable growth of foreign trade, and defined 10 specific measures. In the first three quarters, the import and export of the province increased by 12.5%, of which the export growth was 9.7%, accounting for 19.1% of the national export growth; We formulated and implemented several suggestions on promoting the growth of foreign investment, and accelerated the construction of high-quality foreign investment clusters. In the first three quarters, the actual utilization of foreign investment in the province increased by 8%; We will implement major initiatives such as the creation of assured consumption demonstration and the project of reassuring consumption to remedy weaknesses, and actively foster and expand consumption for the elderly and tourism. In the first three quarters, the province's total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 9.7% year on year.

Q: How to promote the private economy to make new achievements in writing the chapter of socialism with Chinese characteristics in Zhejiang in the new era?

Che Jun: Next, we will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, consciously practice the new expectations of "working in practice and never ending, walking in the forefront, seeking new articles, standing on the forefront and showing responsibility", comprehensively implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, adhere to the general tone of progress while maintaining stability, and adhere to the new development concept, Firmly establish the bottom line thinking, sense of hardship and risk awareness, be prepared to deal with various difficulties and risks, further do a good job of "stabilizing employment, finance, foreign trade, foreign capital, investment and expectations", further stimulate the vitality and innovation of the private economy, promote sustainable and healthy economic and social development, and make more contributions to the overall situation of the country.

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