Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 20: News analysis: Let consumers "be able to consume", "be willing to consume" and "dare to consume" - focus on four major points of consumption upgrading
Xinhua News Agency reporter An Bei
The upgrading of consumption quality is the "pillar" of China's stable economic operation, the "booster" of high-quality development, and the direct embodiment of meeting the people's needs for a better life. Several Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Improving the Consumption Promotion System and Mechanism to Further Stimulate the Consumption Potential of Residents was released on the 20th, drawing a "blueprint" for promoting consumption upgrading.
How to solve the system and mechanism obstacles that restrict the expansion and upgrading of consumption? How to foster new growth points of consumption? How to make consumers "able to consume", "willing to consume" and "dare to consume"? The reporter interviewed relevant people and sorted out four points of view.
Highlight 1: Food and clothing are safe and secure. Vigorously develop the housing rental market
In the field of food, clothing, housing, transportation and other physical consumption, the opinion points out that it is necessary to ensure that market entities provide safe and secure food, clothing and consumer goods. Vigorously develop the housing rental market, especially long-term rental. We will encourage the development of a shared, economical and socialized automobile circulation system, and completely abolish the policy of restricting the relocation of second-hand cars. And put forward the development direction of information consumption and green consumption.
From January to August this year, the total retail sales of social consumer goods reflecting physical consumption increased by 9.3% year on year. "Last year, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 36.6 trillion yuan. On such a large total plate, the growth rate of more than 9% is not low, and the scale of physical consumption in China is still expanding." Liu Yunan, inspector of the Comprehensive Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said.
Wang Yun, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomics, said that to build a more mature consumer segment covering high, middle and low grades, on the one hand, efforts should be made to ensure the basic consumption economy, benefits and safety, improve the quality of general consumer goods and services, and ensure that the basic consumption needs of residents are well met; On the other hand, it is necessary to cultivate medium and high-end consumer markets, form new supply through institutional innovation, technological innovation and product innovation, and form new consumption growth points with strong growth driving force.
Highlight 2: Fully liberalize the elderly care service market and strictly implement the construction of kindergartens in urban communities
In recent years, China's demand for service consumption is strong. "The growth of residents' consumption in China is at the stage of dual wheel driving of service consumption and commodity consumption, and service consumption is the field with the fastest growth, the most hot spots and the greatest potential of residents' consumption at present," said Wang Wei, director of the Market Economy Research Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council.
In the field of service consumption, a series of deployment arrangements were proposed——
Culture, tourism and sports consumption, accelerate the development of digital publishing and other emerging digital content industries. Promote the standardized development of theme parks. Support the development of popular consumption of cruise ships, yachts, self driving vehicles, RV, general aviation, etc. Promote the market-oriented operation of sports event TV broadcasting.
The healthy elderly care household service consumption supports social forces to provide multi-level and diversified medical and health services on the premise of effectively guaranteeing basic medical care and health services. Fully liberalize the elderly care service market. We will improve the ways and means of government subsidies for the operation of pension service institutions, and shift from "brick" and "bed" to "head".
Education, training and child care consumption, and strict implementation of the policy of building kindergartens in urban communities. Kindergarten teachers are fully employed with certificates. Adhere to the unity of social and economic benefits, and correct all kinds of education and training activities that aim at utilitarianism and encourage the tendency of advanced education and exam oriented education.
"China's consumption structure is changing from material consumption to service consumption." Chi Fulin, president of the China (Hainan) Reform and Development Research Institute, said that the key is to increase the opening of the service market and solve the contradiction of serious shortage of supply.
Ou Xiaoli, Director of the Social Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that China will improve the policy system to deal with population aging, attract social forces to actively participate, and continue to expand the supply of high-quality elderly care services.
