On January 30, Huai'an Municipal Government held the first press conference in the New Year to release and introduce relevant policies, measures and special actions of the "1+5" combination. In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the first session of Huai'an in the New Year, laying a solid foundation for "a good start" in the first quarter, the Municipal Government launched a "1+5" combination. "1" refers to the formulation and promulgation of the Detailed Implementation Rules for Policies and Measures of Jiangsu Provincial Government to Take the Lead in Overall Improvement of Economic Operation, while "5" refers to 5 special actions including "Project and Environment-Orientation" the first 2023 centralized commencement activity for major and grand projects, "Sincere Huai'an Embracing a Shared Future" investment promotion, "Satisfactory Consumption in Happy Huai'an" series activities, "Warmth in Huai'an · A Shared Future" joint recruitment events of government, universities and enterprises, and "Financing Benefiting Huai'an For a Shared Future" financing matchmaking actions of government, banks and enterprises.
Introducing a policy to promote development
On January 16, the Provincial Government issued Policies and Measures to Take the Lead in Overall Improvement of Economic Operation (hereinafter referred to as "Policies and Measures"), after which Huai'an took the lead promptly in Jiangsu Province to introduce Opinions on Implementation of Policies and Measures of Jiangsu Provincial Government to Take the Lead in Overall Improvement of Economic Operation (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions on Implementation"), aiming to carry market entities through difficulties to the greatest extent and accelerate the recovery of development, constantly improve the sense of gain and satisfaction of enterprises, and make every effort to take the lead in an overall economic turnaround, thus achieving effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity.
The Opinions on Implementation clearly state that policies and measures that have made clear quantitative requirements in Policies and Measures will not be repeatedly introduced and will be implemented in strict accordance with the specified standards and time limits without compromise. The relevant municipal departments are working hard to formulate service guidelines to clarify the handling process, service objects and application requirements, etc., and implement various policies and measures in a detailed manner in accordance with the way of application-free access, online application, and agency direct access, so as to directly reach the grassroots and directly benefit market entities. At the same time, cell phone numbers of comrades in charge of Policies and Measures in relevant departments and offices of the city are announced to enhance the convenience and accuracy of the market entities' access to policies.
The principle requirements of Policies and Measures are detailed and quantified in Opinions on Implementation combined with the actual situation of Huai'an. The Opinions on Implementation put forward eight items, including strengthening fiscal and financial support, increasing assistance to enterprises and stabilizing employment, helping ease enterprises' burden, boosting the consumer market, actively expanding effective investment, steadily developing foreign trade and foreign investment, promoting the steady and healthy development of the real estate market, and improving the quality and efficiency of government services, which considers both the whole year and the current situation. The Opinions on Implementation will propose policies and measures of "making a good start" in the first quarter and achieving "half the time, half the task".
In order to ensure that policies and measures are put into practice, the Opinions on Implementation also establish a city-county linkage mechanism. A joint meeting mechanism and a policy evaluation mechanism at the municipal level are established, with the monthly monitoring and quarterly scheduling of economic operation strengthened, to improve the efficiency and accuracy of policy implementation. At the county and district levels, the corresponding working mechanism shall be established by referring to the municipal practices, and efforts shall be made to promote the lower level to solve problems in a timely manner.
In the past year, under the strong leadership of Municipal Committee of the CPC and the Municipal Government, Huai'an conscientiously implemented the central and provincial policies and measures for stable growth, actively and effectively responded to multiple difficulties and challenges far exceeding expectations, and promptly issued policy packages such as "45 items" to help ease enterprises' burden, "20 items" and "15 items" to stabilize growth, so as to present a good situation of overall stability, enhanced momentum, and expected improvement in economic and social development. The annual GDP reached 474.242 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 3.6% which ranked the fourth in the province.
Starting with five actions
Projects are the key to economic development. For three consecutive years, Huai'an has taken the conference on tackling major and grand projects and optimizing business environment as the first session in the New Year. Huai'an has reached a high degree of consensus in thought and firmly grasped the implementation in action, and the project tackling has taken off from a comprehensive momentum to a breakthrough. This year, Huai'an, unswervingly adhering to "Project and Environment-Orientation" and playing the "strongest voice" in the project tackling, will hold "Project and Environment-Orientation" the first 2023 centralized commencement activity for major and grand projects in early February. On the occasion, the main venue will be located in Lianshui Economic Development Zone, with more than 200 projects participating in the commencement activity.
Investment attraction should focus on not only major and grand projects, but also an overwhelming number of high-quality small and medium-sized science and technology projects. To launch the "Sincere Huai'an Embracing a Shared Future" investment promotion, Huai'an will hold Huai'an (Zhejiang) Investment Environment Promotion Conference in Hangzhou in March, and hold signing activities of industrial projects after visiting heads of enterprises with major and grand projects under negotiation and enterprises having invested in major and grand projects in Huai'an, and relevant heads of Zhejiang universities, chambers of commerce and associations.
Leveraging the influence of the provincial brand "Jiangsu New Consumption" and the brand effect of Huai'an as an "International City of Gastronomy", Huai'an launches "Satisfactory Consumption in Happy Huai'an" series activities, and organizes six activities, namely, sales competitions for trade circulation enterprises above designated size, promotions in key supermarkets, food consumption expansion, bulk consumption promotion, online consumption promotion, and "one special offer for one county" promotion activity, which center on six elements of "food, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment" and cover eight industries such as automobiles and household appliances. With 10 counties and districts (parks) interlinked, Huai'an gathers more than 10,000 high-quality enterprises in the city to plan and arrange more than 100 preferential activities, which is expected to yield profit concessions of more than 5 billion yuan and drive the consumption potential of 10 billion yuan.
Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood and the most basic support for economic development. Huai'an, vigorously implementing the employment priority strategy, will launch the "Warmth in Huai'an · A Shared Future" joint recruitment events of government, universities, and enterprises in early February to introduce policies and measures of "stable employment" and relevant work arrangements. "Jiangsu Employment Loan" will be provided for 5 companies that have applied for, and 5 provincial labor brands will be awarded relevant titles. There will be 5 contracts signed for university-enterprise matchmaking, 5 contracts signed between human resource service agencies and enterprises, and 5 contracts for employee-sharing enterprises on the spot. At the same time, more than 10 employment service activities will be jointly held in the city and counties to promote the transfer and employment of workers and serve enterprises to "stabilize employment".
All types of market entities will be provided with financial services and guarantees of financing demands in an all-round and multi-channel way to provide a solid financial guarantee for "a good start" in the first quarter. To carry out the "Financing Benefiting Huai'an For a Shared Future" financing matchmaking actions of government, banks and enterprises, Huai'an held the municipal government-bank-enterprise financing matchmaking conference supporting major industrial projects in mid-January, where 25 financial institutions signed contracts on site with 25 major industrial project construction units, reaching a financing agreement of 38.506 billion yuan; Huai'an regularly carries out online financing matchmaking activities, promotes Huai'an comprehensive financial service platform and the "loan on code" enterprise benefiting platform, drive financial institutions to launch more financial products, especially credit loans, and improve the quality and efficiency of platform matchmaking; Huai'an also carries out matchmaking service activities for listed backup enterprises, organizes relevant units to send services to enterprises and hold round-table meetings as well as listing training camps, and launches an application called "Listing Services for Huai'an Enterprises", thus providing enterprises with full-lifecycle financial services and speeding up the pace of enterprise listing.