The tide of the times is rushing forward.
We have reached the end of 2022. As 2023 is approaching, the Central Economic Work Conference clearly stated: "Unswervingly deepen reform and expand opening up" and "rely on innovation to cultivate and expand new driving forces for development"...
Only reformers advance, only innovators are strong, and only reform and innovators win. In the coming year of 2022, new technologies, new scenarios, new applications...the reform and innovation factors of the economic world have been fully activated. Breaking down institutional barriers and seizing the future track have become the common choice of major economic provinces without exception.
As one of the important origins of China's reform and opening up, and a national innovation-driven development province with a place in the national innovation map, what story has Sichuan written in the new journey of comprehensively building a socialist modern Sichuan?
Stronger Power
html On November 4, the first day of work after the New Year’s Day , Sichuan Province’s major projects in the first quarter of 2022 started intensively. Among them, the Sichuan-Chongqing Gaozhu New District Science and Technology Innovation Base project is very eye-catching.
A corner of Gaozhu New District in Sichuan and Chongqing under aerial photography.
Gaozhu New District is the first provincial-level new area jointly approved by Sichuan and Chongqing. It is also an important measure for the two places to implement the major strategic deployment of promoting the construction of Chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle . In January 2021, the provincial and municipal governments of Sichuan and Chongqing jointly approved the establishment of an "experimental field" to explore the appropriate separation of economic zones and administrative zones. In the past two years, a number of policies and measures to support the reform, innovation and development of Gaozhu New Area in Sichuan and Chongqing have been reviewed and approved, a number of key projects have been signed and implemented, and Gaozhu New Area has grown rapidly.
htmlOn August 18, at the press conference of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China on the theme of "China in These Ten Years·Sichuan", when mentioning the six major characteristic reforms that Sichuan has achieved breakthroughs in the past ten years, the major reform of the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle was mentioned first.
From the rural reform more than 40 years ago, to the comprehensive innovation reform pilot zone in recent years, and then to the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle, reform has always been the strongest driving force to push Sichuan's economic ship forward.
This kind of motivation can overcome the rapids and treacherous shoals, and overcome the high winds and waves. In 2022, when various risks and challenges are intertwined, as a "key move", reform is needed for development, is expected by the grassroots, and is more desirable for people's livelihood.
This year, the reform of the science and technology system started again and became the "tinder" that ignited the innovation engine. From the unveiling of a new pilot R&D platform across colleges and universities in early January to the summary of non-asset management reforms before the transformation of job-related scientific and technological achievements at the end of December, Sichuan continued to solve the problems of "dare not to transfer" and "no mature results to transfer", marking 2022 as "the year of deepening the reform of ownership of job-related scientific and technological achievements".
This year, reforms in key areas and key links such as factor marketization and "heroes based on average acres" were further advanced. On June 22, three plots of 16.79 acres were successfully traded at the Chengdu Agricultural Exchange Ziyang Exchange for 5.852 million yuan, achieving a "zero breakthrough" in the public entry of Ziyang City collective commercial construction land into the market. As one of the only three prefecture-level cities in the country to promote the reform of the rural homestead system, Ziyang City uses collective commercial construction land to enter the market and explores experience in revitalizing idle rural homestead land.
In this year, the three-year reform of state-owned enterprises came to its final year. The Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission released the report card: the main tasks of the reform have been basically completed. The "1+6" major special reform, as a landmark and leading work, strives to promote strategic reorganization and professional integration in key areas such as transportation, ecological environmental protection, tourism, and civil aviation. Shudao Group, formed by Sichuan Communications Investment and Sichuan Railway Investment, has become a trillion-dollar leading enterprise in Sichuan Province. In the 2022 Fortune 500 list released by Fortune magazine, Shudao Group made the list for the first time, becoming the first state-owned enterprise in Sichuan Province to be listed on the Fortune 500 list.
The private economy uses reform to solve problems.html In October, the "Sichuan Province County Private Economy Reform Pilot Plan" was issued. Focusing on five aspects: financing credit enhancement, cost reduction and burden reduction, direct benefit to enterprises, transfer of enterprises to regulations, and diversified dispute resolution, policy measures are explored to break the key bottlenecks in the development of county private economy, and efforts are made to transform and form a batch of original reform experiences that can be replicated and promoted.
Jiajiang County innovatively explores the industrial "epidemic prevention bubble" management model. The picture shows the ceramic tile production line of Jiajiang County Ceramics Enterprise.
The reform exploration that started among the people is in the ascendant. In May this year, when the Sichuan Daily all-media front-line field research team visited Jiajiang County, Leshan City, they discovered the innovative and explored industrial "epidemic prevention bubble" management model here. "The biggest breakthrough is to change the smallest unit of epidemic prevention." Xu Tianyi, secretary of the Jiajiang County Party Committee, said that the "epidemic prevention bubble" regards enterprises as the smallest unit of epidemic prevention and control, instead of simply stopping or closing them down. Coordinating epidemic prevention and production, the "epidemic prevention bubble" model was later fully promoted in Sichuan's industrial field.
Wider space
One after the other, the two pieces of news that run through 2022 are thought-provoking.
It’s the beginning of the new year. At 0:10 on January 1, Sichuan's first " Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement " (RCEP) certificate of origin was issued, marking the first time that RCEP was implemented in Sichuan and becoming a new milestone in Sichuan's foreign trade development. On the same day, RCEP, the world's largest free trade agreement, officially came into effect. Sichuan no longer only looks at its comparative advantages with domestic provinces, but also competes with all regions of RCEP member countries, where opportunities and challenges coexist.
Another incident occurred at the end of the year. On December 5, 40 people from 31 foreign trade companies in Sichuan flew to Europe to carry out a nine-day economic and trade promotion activity to grab overseas orders. This is the first business charter event organized by Sichuan in the past three years. Almost at the same time, "order-grabbing groups" from Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other places also chartered flights and organized groups to go overseas. This time, Sichuan and the eastern coastal areas of Sichuan are in step with each other, sending a signal of joint efforts between government and enterprises and active response.
Sichuan is not along a border or close to the sea. To seize the opportunity in the new round of development, it must seek power from reform and vitality from opening up. From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, Sichuan took the initiative, continuously expanded its open space, and strived to stand at the forefront of opening up.
Liu Xinyu, a Sichuan businessman who is engaged in the import and export of honey business, lamented after participating in the Sichuan business charter "Group Overseas" event that the development of his company has not changed much, but the world is no longer what it was three years ago. Compared with before the epidemic, the company's order volume has dropped by 30%. After three years of epidemic, coupled with the impact of the world economic downturn, "weakening foreign demand and insufficient orders" have become problems faced by many foreign trade companies.
How to get through the fog? This year, Sichuan firmly grasped the advantages of open channels, open platforms, and open economy, and the momentum of opening up was stirring in the land of Bashu.
html At 10 a.m. on April 8, a fully loaded "Sichuan Western Land-Sea Corridor train" departed from the Western Railway Logistics Park of Suining High-tech Zone.
channel makes the road to opening wider - html On April 8, a China-Laos international train sailed from Chengdu (Shuangliu) Air-rail International Intermodal Transport Port to Vientiane, Laos. At the same time, trains on the New Western Land-Sea Corridor also departed simultaneously in Zigong, Guangyuan and Suining. "The four cities will launch trains at the same time, adding new support to Sichuan's integration into the New Land-Sea Corridor in the West." said the relevant person in charge of the Sichuan New Land-Sea Corridor Development Co., Ltd. On June 28, the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission recommended Port and Shipping Investment Group Co., Ltd. to participate in the construction of a cross-regional comprehensive operation platform for the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, which will comprehensively promote new results in the construction of infrastructure in the channel, organization and cultivation of cargo sources, and comprehensive improvement of quality and efficiency. Seizing the major opportunities in the construction of the New Land-Sea Corridor in the West, Sichuan's road to opening up will become wider and wider.
The platform enables a higher level of openness - html On March 23, the Chengdu Qingbaijiang Railway Port Area of the Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone tested the China-Laos Railway "one order system" + full insurance model, once again ushering in a "first". Such "yet another" innovation has long become the norm in the Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone. This year, the Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone celebrates its fifth anniversary. Over the past five years, the Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone has boldly explored and produced more than 800 institutional innovations. Not only is it a pilot zone, but through the expanding effect of collaborative reform, the Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone has added five new collaborative reform pilot zones this year, and its team continues to grow, with the total number now reaching 13.
Good data is hard to come by - Chengdu Customs released data. In the first 11 months of this year, Sichuan achieved a total import and export value of 922.05 billion yuan in goods trade, ranking 8th in the country. increased by 8.2% year-on-year, and the growth rate ranked 4th among the top ten. It is reported that Sichuan's foreign trade exports and imports increased year-on-year in the first November, with the scale of Sichuan's foreign trade imports and exports in November hitting a new high for the year. Sichuan's foreign direct investment scale ranks first in the central and western regions and among the top ten in the country; the turnover of completed foreign contracting projects and the amount of newly signed contracts have ranked first in the western region for many years in a row, and the quantity and quality of foreign trade, foreign investment, and foreign economic cooperation have increased.
Greater potential
On November 23, Tianfu Jiangxi Laboratory and Tianfu Jincheng Laboratory were officially unveiled. The four major Tianfu Laboratory who "forged swords for the country" finally "debuted as a group."
In the mid-winter season, Sichuan has received frequent good news in the field of scientific and technological innovation. Looking back on 2022, major changes unseen in a century are accelerating. innovation has become the decisive "quantitative" for success, and promoting innovation-driven development is gaining momentum.
Western (Chengdu) Science City.
High-energy innovation platforms are forming in droves. On the banks of Xinglong Lake, the Western (Chengdu) Science City has gradually become a shining coordinate on China's innovation map - in February this year, Chengdu Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences moved in, and the strategic scientific and technological strength of the Science City has been greatly enriched; the Tianfu Xinglong Lake Laboratory, which was opened a year and a half ago, has shouldered the responsibility of the National Optical Industry The "most powerful brain" National Supercomputing Chengdu Center has completed more than 19 million user computing tasks... From the Tianfu Laboratory, which "made its debut as a group", to the Western (Chengdu) Science City where "big power tools" are growing, to the top three major scientific and technological infrastructures in the country, the inexhaustible power of original innovation is accelerating to gather in the land of Bashu.
core technology accelerates breakthroughs. Looking up at the starry sky, In the Mengtian experimental cabin , the load science experiment cabinet condenses the scientific achievements of the ten electrical engineering institutes for ten years; back on the surface, Chengdu Shuangliu, Southwest Institute of Physics of Nuclear Industry The new generation of " Artificial Sun " shines dazzlingly, plasma current exceeds 1 million amperes. From biological breeding to aviation and gas turbines, from industrial software to integrated circuits , our province's major scientific and technological projects are accelerating to produce a number of disruptive and fissionable results, and spawn a number of innovative products that can seize the forefront of the market.
The source of innovation and entrepreneurship is surging. Enterprises are the main body of innovation, and college students are the new force in entrepreneurship. From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, Sichuan has continuously introduced relevant policies to promote the concentration of innovation elements in enterprises, guide enterprises to continue to increase investment in innovation, and support college students' innovation and entrepreneurship. By the end of this year, the number of high-tech enterprises in Sichuan Province has reached 12,000, and is expected to reach 14,000. The innovation atmosphere continues to condense, and the innovation soil becomes increasingly fertile. Up to now, Chengdu’s “Ke Chuang Tong” innovation and entrepreneurship service platform has brought together nearly 30,000 technology companies and teams, and the cumulative loan amount of Chengdu’s “Ke Chuang Loan” has exceeded 20 billion yuan.
At the end of the year, the Second Plenary Session of the 12th Provincial Party Committee clearly stated that deepening reform and expanding opening up should be the fundamental driving force.
Looking at the whole country from Sichuan, the trend of reform and innovation is irreversible.At the end of the year, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held a meeting and emphasized the need to strive to achieve the "four dares": let cadres dare to act, local governments dare to venture, enterprises dare to do something, and the masses dare to take initiative.
The vitality of innovation and creation in the whole society will surely burst out!
In Pidu, Chengdu, Science and Technology Innovation City, at the construction site of the Science Fiction Museum project, more than 800 workers are working in "three shifts" day and night. Next year, the nebula-shaped Science Fiction Museum will welcome visitors from all directions of the World Science Fiction Conference and help Chengdu become the "Chinese Science Fiction Capital".
Sichuan, with its surging innovation momentum, is making every effort to welcome the spring of 2023.
