On November 3, the 2022 press conference on the top 100 private enterprises in Hubei was held in Wuhan. Liu Haijun, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Provincial Department of Economic and Information Technology, reported on the province's support for the development of private economy, .
Liu Haijun said that in recent years, the whole province has thoroughly studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the development of non-public economy, implemented the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on supporting the development of the private economy, adhered to the "two unshakable", focused on improving the policy system, improving service level, optimizing the development environment, promoting the accelerated growth of private market entities, firmly supporting half of the province’s total economic output, and making positive contributions to Hubei’s post-epidemic recovery, returning to the main track, and running at an acceleration.
Liu Haijun said that five aspects of work have been done in supporting the development of the private economy:
First, optimize the business environment and support private enterprises to increase the incremental quality. insists on taking the construction of the business environment as the key tool to support the development of the private economy, promote the accelerated development of the private economy, and achieve good results. In the first half of this year, the added value of the private economy in the province reached 1344.2 billion yuan, and increased by 6% year-on-year, accounting for 54.9% of GDP. The small and medium-sized enterprise growth project has been continuously implemented. As of the end of September this year, the total number of private market entities in the province reached 7.1349 million, accounting for 98.8% of the total number of market entities. Among the top 500 private enterprises in China in 2022, 19 enterprises in our province were shortlisted, with 3 new ones from the previous year, ranking 7th in the country and ranked first in the central region for five consecutive years. As of the end of September this year, there were 16,124 private industrial enterprises above the designated size in the province, accounting for 93.05% of all industrial enterprises above the designated size, becoming the support force for the stable growth of the province's industrial industry.
The second is to strengthen guidance and incentives and promote the technological transformation and upgrading of private enterprises. has carried out in-depth "technical transformation and energy improvement, manufacturing renewal" action, " integration of industrialization and industrialization " standards, and "Ten Thousand Enterprises to the Cloud" project to support private enterprises to accelerate digital, intelligent and networked transformation and upgrading. In 2021, the provincial-level high-quality development special project supported 590 private enterprise projects, with support funds of 1.227 billion yuan, accounting for 81.8% of the total special funds; the first two batches of this year have supported 650 private enterprise projects, with support funds of 1.134 billion yuan, accounting for 85.6% of the special funds.
Third, highlight the leadership of science and technology and cultivate the soil for innovation of private enterprises. supports private enterprises in our province to accumulate technical advantages in five major advantageous industries such as optoelectronic information, new energy and intelligent connected vehicles, , life and health, high-end equipment, Beidou , as well as artificial intelligence , quantum information, new energy and new materials, and promote the innovative development of characteristic and advantageous industrial chains with the "chain length + chain owner + chain creation" mechanism. The number of high-tech enterprises in the province increased from 1,577 in 2012 to 14,560 in 2021, an increase of nearly 9 times. Among them, the number of private high-tech enterprises exceeded 10,000, accounting for more than 70%.
4 is to focus on specialization and specialization, and cultivate the unique advantages of private enterprises. has established and improved a specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprise cultivation database, deeply tapping potential and precise services, and the number of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in our province has increased significantly. A total of 473 national-level specialized and new "little giants" have been cultivated, accounting for 5.26% of the total number of the country; of which 385 private enterprises have been employed, accounting for 81.4%.
Fifth, it is necessary to clear away pain points and bottlenecks and help private enterprises to alleviate their difficulties. carried out in-depth practical activities of party members and cadres to "go to the grassroots, observe people's conditions, solve people's worries, and warm people's hearts" and enterprise assistance activities of "solving problems, stabilizing growth, and promoting development", and promote the continuous efforts and implementation of policies that benefit enterprises. The "Several Measures on Further Supporting the Relief and Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Individual Industrial and Commercial Households" and the "Several Measures on Strengthening Financial Assistance to Enterprises to Alleviate the Difficulty and Expensiveness of Finance" are issued to support private enterprises to recover after the epidemic, alleviate the problem of difficulty and high cost of financing, and continue to promote large-scale tax reduction, tax refund and fee reduction. Establish a "Provincial non-public enterprise complaint service platform" and "Provincial small and medium-sized enterprise appeal response system" to become a bridge and link to listen to corporate voices and respond to corporate concerns.
Liu Haijun said that the next step will be to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, take the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the private enterprise symposium as the fundamental guideline, and always adhere to the “two unshakable”, promote the increase in total, expand the scale, improve the quality and efficiency of private enterprises, promote the high-quality development of the private economy, and make greater contributions to Hubei’s acceleration of the construction of a pilot zone for building a new development pattern across the country.
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