Riding on the momentum and promoting high-quality development
-- Written at a time when the economy and society are fully restored to normal operation
Our reporters are Shen Shaotie, Ding Yiting, and Han Xin
During the first "May Day" holiday after the smooth transition of epidemic prevention and control, "mobile China" is full of vitality——
The crowd is surging. The country's railways, highways, waterways and civil aviation send about 54 million passengers per day, an average daily increase of 162.4% over the same period last year.
Tourism heats up. 274 million domestic tourist trips, a year-on-year increase of more than 70%; The tourism revenue exceeded 148 billion yuan, recovering to 100.66% of the same period in 2019.
The market picked up. A total of nearly 1.5 billion express parcels were collected nationwide, with an average daily collection volume of 11.64% over the same period last year, and sales of automobiles and home appliances increased by 20.9% and 13.9% respectively.
The Politburo meeting held on April 28 held that since the beginning of this year, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, all regions and departments have better coordinated the overall situation at home and abroad, better coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and better coordinated development and security. Market demand has gradually recovered, economic development has shown a good trend, and economic operation has achieved a good start.
The accumulation of positive factors has increased, and economic development has shown a good trend
Melting, die casting, machining, painting... In the No. 6 factory of CITIC Dicastal Aluminum Wheels in Qinhuangdao, the production line is running at full capacity, and the finished automobile wheel products are rolling off the production line one after another.
"The company continued to optimize the customer structure and expand the market scale, and the sales revenue in the first quarter increased by 12% year-on-year." Zhu Zhihua, general manager of CITIC Dicastal, said that this year, the company has actively made efforts to globalize, and factories in Mexico and Morocco have been put into operation, "It is expected that the annual production capacity of aluminum wheels will be expanded from 80 million to 85 million, which can meet the strong market demand at home and abroad." ”
The epidemic prevention and control has turned around quickly and steadily, the order of production and life has been restored at an accelerated pace, production demand has stabilized and rebounded, employment prices have generally stabilized, business entities are expected to improve significantly, and positive factors have accumulated more... Since the beginning of this year, the familiar scene has returned, and China's economy has become warmer.
-- Major projects have been vigorously promoted.
At 9:37 a.m. on April 28, with the last pin punched in, the Lingdingyang Bridge, one of the key control projects of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage, successfully closed the dragon and launched a sprint to complete and open to traffic next year.
In early May, Lenovo Group's Southern Intelligent Manufacturing Base, which lasted one and a half years and invested more than 2 billion yuan, was completed in Shenzhen Science City, with an annual output of 16 million units, nearly 100,000 configurations, and an output value of more than 50 billion yuan of intelligent products.
The construction of the Pinglu Canal is in full swing, the Guinan's high-speed railway has realized the power transmission of the entire catenary, and China Mobile has added more than 100,000 5G base stations... In the first quarter of this year, the country's fixed asset investment increased by 5.1% year-on-year, of which infrastructure investment increased by 8.8% and manufacturing investment increased by 7%, which played a key role in stabilizing growth.
——Market vitality continues to recover.
Popular scenic spots are bustling. In Anji, Zhejiang, new cultural tourism experiences such as making tea around the hearth, outdoor camping, and studying farms have attracted tourists to check in; Beijing Yanqing, Badaling Great Wall Scenic Area normalized open night tour of the Great Wall to welcome the peak of passenger flow... Data show that during the "May Day" holiday, the sales of key retail and catering enterprises nationwide increased by 18.9% year-on-year.
The cinema line is very popular. At 10 a.m. on April 30, there was a long queue at the ticket gate of Wanda Cinema in Jinan, Shandong, and Gao Chao, manager of Wanda Cinema Shimao store, said: "Good films are piled up, and more than 3,000 tickets were sold on the first day." According to statistics, this year's "May 1st file" movie box office exceeded 1.5 billion yuan, and the number of moviegoers exceeded 37 million, becoming the third highest box office "May 1st file" in Chinese film history after 2019 and 2021.
With the intensification of relevant measures to improve efficiency, market vitality and residents' willingness to consume have been further improved, promoting the continuous recovery of consumption. In the first quarter, the total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 5.8% year-on-year, and catering revenue increased by 13.9% year-on-year.
-- Steady improvement of foreign trade import and export.
Not long ago, at Haitong Terminal in Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port Area, with the ro-ro ship "Radiance Elite" docking in port, more than 1,100 domestic new energy vehicles entered in an orderly manner and were ready to go to the Southeast Asian market. In the first quarter, Shanghai Port exported 167,000 electric manned vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 30.3%.
Since the beginning of this year, the mainland's foreign trade imports and exports have made a steady start. In the first quarter, the total import and export value of goods trade was 9.89 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.8%, of which the total export of green and low-carbon products such as electric manned vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar cells was 264.69 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 66.9%.
The improvement of China's economic operation is presented in a picture of production and life, and it is also contained in a bright data curve.
Logistics accelerated, and demand gradually warmed up. According to data from the Lalala platform, since the beginning of the year, the platform's freight completion volume has maintained rapid growth, of which the growth rate in February, March and April reached 112%, 50% and 61% respectively.
Transformation has accelerated, and supply has steadily increased. At present, the three major functional systems of industrial Internet network, platform and security have been completed, and the scale of core industries has exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.5% over the previous year.
The market is improving and is expected to continue to improve. In the first quarter, China's SME Development Index was 89.3, a sharp increase of 1.3 points over the fourth quarter of last year, the highest increase since the fourth quarter of 2020; in April, the expected index of enterprise production and operation activities was 54.7%, continuing to be at a high level, enterprises continued to recover and develop, and market development confidence was stable.
Efficiently coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and gradually resume normal operation in all walks of life
During the "May Day" holiday, the airport station was crowded, the business scene area was full of people, and the national epidemic prevention and control situation was generally stable. National fever clinic surveillance data shows that the recent national epidemic situation is generally in a low level of fluctuation, especially in early April, the epidemic fell to the lowest level since December 2022.
Adjust the new crown virus infection from "Class B tube" to "Class B tube" in accordance with the law, shift the focus of work from "infection prevention" to "health and serious disease prevention", ensure the masses' medical treatment and medicine, and focus on the prevention and control of the elderly and groups suffering from underlying diseases. In the past four months, the national epidemic situation has gradually stabilized, there has been no large-scale epidemic, and all walks of life in society have gradually resumed normal operation.
The Great War Test Refines Real Gold. Looking back on the course of fighting the epidemic and preventing the epidemic for more than three years, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, we have fully implemented the requirements of epidemic prevention, economic stability, and development security, and embarked on a correct path of accurate and efficient coordination of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, which fully demonstrated the extraordinary ability of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics to organize and mobilize, coordinate and implement it.
——Over the past three years, in the face of the continuous mutation of the new coronavirus, we have always insisted on dynamically optimizing and adjusting prevention and control measures according to the situation, the stability of prevention and control strategies, the flexibility of prevention and control measures and the confrontation with the virus, and always grasped the strategic initiative of epidemic prevention and control.
In early 2020, the epidemic hit Hubei and Wuhan. Considering that most of the cases at that time had pneumonia, the mainland included the new coronary pneumonia as a statutory Class B infectious disease in accordance with the law, and adopted prevention and control measures for Class A infectious diseases. Implement an unprecedented large-scale public health response across the country, and take the most comprehensive, rigorous and thorough prevention and control measures. After three months of arduous struggle, the Wuhan defense war and the Hubei defense war have achieved decisive results, effectively containing the spread of the epidemic on a large scale.
In April 2020, the mainland entered the stage of normalized epidemic prevention and control. In the face of the import of original strains and variants such as alpha, delta and Omicron, the mainland adhered to the general strategy of "external prevention of import, internal defense against rebound" and the general policy of "dynamic zeroing", promoted the new crown vaccination work, accelerated the preparation of therapeutic drugs and medical resources, continuously upgraded and improved normalized epidemic prevention and control measures, and effectively handled more than 100 cluster epidemics.
In November 2022, with the full vaccination rate of the whole population exceeding 90%, the medical and health emergency system combining peacetime and wartime has been continuously improved, residents' knowledge of epidemic prevention and control has been increasing, and the scientific evidence of the weakening of the pathogenicity of the Omicron variant has become more and more sufficient, the mainland has successively issued "20 Articles" and "New Ten Articles" to further improve the scientificity and accuracy of epidemic prevention and control.
On December 26, 2022, after comprehensively assessing factors such as virus mutation, epidemic situation and mainland prevention and control foundation, the National Health Commission issued an announcement that from January 8, 2023, the new coronavirus infection will be adjusted from "Class B tube" to "Class B tube" according to law.
——Over the past three years, in the face of the uncertainty of the epidemic, we have efficiently mobilized national resources to ensure the needs of the masses for epidemic prevention materials, daily necessities and medicines, and done our best to protect people's lives and health.
In January 2020, Wuhan, with a population of more than 10 million, lacked medical resources, shortage of epidemic prevention materials, and urgent living materials. 346 national medical teams, 42,600 medical staff and more than 900 public health personnel rushed to the frontline of Hubei and Wuhan to fight the epidemic. A large number of N95 masks, medical protective clothing, and ventilators were shipped to Hubei and Wuhan. Heilongjiang rice, Inner Mongolia beef, Xinjiang milk, Shandong vegetables and fruits... All localities have sent daily necessities to Hubei, and within 20 days, a total of 1,165,400 tons of epidemic prevention and production and living materials have been delivered to Hubei.
In mid-December 2022, the demand for medicines surged, and the supply of anti-epidemic drugs faced many challenges. The mainland has given full play to its institutional advantages of concentrating on major matters and rapidly expanded the production capacity of related drugs. Within one month, the daily output of ibuprofen and paracetamol increased by more than 4 times, the daily production capacity of antigen detection reagents expanded from 60 million to 110 million, and the daily output of finger-clip oximeters increased from 115,000 to more than 250,000, effectively alleviating the situation of short supply. In addition, relying on efficient cooperation between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, timely opening up logistics blocking points, the "rice bags" and "vegetable baskets" of the people across the country ensure stability.
At the end of 2022, in the face of the surge in the number of infections, fever clinics in hospitals above grade II and primary medical and health institutions across the country should be opened, and the number of intensive care beds nationwide should be expanded from 198,000 to 404,000. In more than one month, more than 200 million people have been diagnosed and treated, and nearly 800,000 critically ill patients have been effectively treated.
Promote the effective improvement of quality and reasonable growth of the economy
The development scene of the "May Day" holiday shows the vigorous vitality and great potential of China's economy, and reflects the solid pace of China's high-quality development in the new era. Over the past three years of fighting the epidemic, we have adhered to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, implemented the new development concept in a complete, accurate and comprehensive manner, accelerated the construction of a new development pattern, optimized epidemic prevention and control measures according to the situation, and made China's economy stronger and more resilient——
In 2020, the epidemic was fierce, and the mainland took the lead in controlling the epidemic, resuming work and production, and turning economic growth from negative to positive, becoming the only major economy in the world to achieve positive growth.
In 2021, the mainland's GDP grew by 8.4%, accounting for more than 18% of the world's economic scale. We have built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way as scheduled and achieved a good start in the 14th Five-Year Plan.
In 2022, the "triple pressure" will continue to emerge, and the mainland will calmly respond to the impact of factors that exceeded expectations, drawing a "V" shaped recovery curve, with GDP growth of 3%, faster than most major economies.
In the first quarter of 2023, the epidemic prevention and control took a rapid and stable turn, the order of production and life was restored at an accelerated pace, GDP increased by 4.5% year-on-year, an increase of 1.6 percentage points over the fourth quarter of the previous year, and many international organizations and investment institutions raised their economic growth expectations for this year.
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting on April 28 to emphasize that "combining the effectiveness of policies with stimulating the vitality of business entities will form a strong driving force for promoting high-quality development" and "riding on the momentum to promote the effective improvement of quality and reasonable growth of the economy."
At present, the endogenous driving force of the mainland economy is gradually strengthened, and the economic growth of the whole year is expected to gradually recover, and at the same time, we must see that many difficulties and challenges still need to be overcome to promote high-quality development. In the next step, we must strengthen our confidence and spirit, make concerted efforts to work hard, and strive to make a good start for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.
-- Strengthening industries, expanding domestic demand, and promoting sustained improvement in economic operation.
On the coast of the Bohai Sea, in the Dalian Kede CNC production workshop, high-end five-axis linkage CNC machine tools are stepping up debugging. "The net profit in the first quarter increased by more than 200% year-on-year, and orders have been scheduled for the middle of next year." Chen Hu, general manager of the company, said that the company will increase investment for the research and development and manufacturing of core functional components of high-end machine tools.
On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Ganzi 1000 kV UHV substation at an altitude of more than 3,400 meters began construction. "This is the highest UHV substation currently under construction in mainland China, with a project investment of more than 2.6 billion yuan, which can transmit about 12 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity per year after completion." Feng Han, director of the construction department of the State Grid Sichuan Company, said.
Continental has the world's largest and most complete manufacturing system, and the world's largest and most potential market. Accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system and step up the implementation of major engineering projects, and economic operation will continue to improve.
-- Deepening reform, promoting opening up, and promoting the continuous enhancement of endogenous momentum.
"Take the land and start working! In only 20 days, the first phase of the project obtained the land use certificate, work regulation certificate, construction permit and real estate title certificate. Sun Qihai, deputy general manager of Zhejiang Hulk Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., introduced that the company's intelligent electrical control system project construction is in full swing, and after reaching production, it can achieve an annual operating income of more than 600 million yuan.
"We will be more determined to develop the Chinese market." Li Houge, general manager of LG Display Optoelectronics Technology (China) Co., Ltd., said that the company has been rooted in Guangzhou for 17 years, and on average, every 6 years, it will make strategic investments related to display production.
By comprehensively deepening reform, expanding high-level opening-up, promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and stabilizing the basic situation of foreign trade and foreign investment, China's economy will be more vigorous and the space will be broader.
– Stabilizing growth, promoting employment, and promoting the continuous improvement of social expectations.
"The continuation of the preferential policy of super-deduction of R&D expenses has strengthened the confidence of enterprises in development. This year's deduction is expected to reach about 20 million yuan, and we have more funds to invest in technology research and development. "The executive meeting of the State Council held on March 24 made it clear that the policy of increasing the pre-tax super-deduction rate for R&D expenses of enterprises in eligible industries from 75% to 100% was implemented as an institutional arrangement for a long time, which made Zheng Lixun, chairman of Jiangxi Zhengshun Environmental Protection Additives Company, feel warm.
Shanxi Province will include "full coverage of counties and counties of the public welfare gig market" into the provincial government's livelihood facts in 2023, further expand flexible employment channels, so that gig workers and other jobs no longer "stand on the road", and make employment services warmer.
Enterprises are the main body of innovation, and employment is the foundation of people's livelihood. Small-scale taxpayers with monthly sales of 100,000 yuan or less are exempt from VAT; Extend the policy of reducing unemployment and work-related injury insurance premiums until the end of 2024; The central government will arrange 66.8 billion yuan in employment subsidy funds, an increase of 5 billion yuan, to support the implementation of employment and entrepreneurship support policies in various localities; Help key groups such as migrant workers and poverty alleviation to find employment and start businesses... The implementation of various policies to benefit enterprises and the people is expected to continue to improve.
-- Preventing risks, ensuring safety, and promoting the continuous resolution of hidden risks.
Emergency and fever clinics are open 24 hours a day, and patients who come to seek medical treatment need to do a good job of personal protection... During the "May Day" holiday, Beijing Friendship Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University did not relax the string of epidemic prevention and control, and the hospital's diagnosis and treatment were in order. In order to cope with the possible epidemic during the holiday, the National Health Commission requires that hospitals above the second level set up fever clinics in the country, so that all fever clinics should be opened and set up, and at the same time prepare for treatment beds, equipment and facilities. All localities continue to do a good job in the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic, and strengthen the reserve and allocation of new crown-related drugs, reagents, medical equipment and other medical supplies to ensure the demand for possible medical treatment.
Coordinate the reform of small and medium-sized banks, insurance and trust institutions, promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market, and strengthen the management of local government debt... Playing chess first, playing the active battle, and effectively preventing and resolving various risks and challenges, we will firmly adhere to the bottom line of safety in the new development pattern and achieve a benign interaction between high-quality development and high-level security.
"China's economy is resilient, full of potential and vitality, and its long-term good fundamentals remain unchanged." By uniting more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, better coordinating the overall situation at home and abroad, better coordinating epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, better coordinating development and security, and riding on the momentum and moving forward courageously, we will certainly be able to achieve a good start in the new journey.
Source: People's Daily - People's Daily