Report on the Work of the Jiaxing Municipal Government(2023)
Report on the Work of the Government
Delivered at the Third Session of the Ninth Municipal People’s Congress of Jiaxing February 27, 2023
Fellow Deputies,
On behalf of the Municipal People’s Government of Jiaxing, I will now report to you on the work of the government for your deliberation and approval and also for the comments from the members of the Municipal Committee of Jiaxing of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and from other comrades attending the session without voting rights.
I. AReview of Our Work in 2022
2022 was an extraordinary year. In the face of unexpected impacts and challenges, the Municipal People’s Government of Jiaxing followed the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implemented the guiding principles of the Party’s 20th National Congress, conscientiously carried out all work deployments made at the Party’s15th Provincial Congress of Zhejiang and the Party’s 9th Municipal Congress of Jiaxing as well as at the first session of the 9th People’s Congress of Jiaxing under the correct leadership of the Party’s Municipal Committee of Jiaxing while coordinating Covid- 19 pandemic prevention and control with economic and social development as well as the development with security, overcame difficulties, worked hard and achieved new progress in building a model city of common prosperity and a pioneering city of socialist modernization.
We reached the work target of “preventing Covid- 19” and weathered the major test during the fight against the pandemic. Placing the people and their lives above all else, we comprehensively implemented the policies and guidelines issued by the CPC Central Committee for the Covid- 19 prevention and control, took effective measures in response to the Covid- 19 outbreaks and implemented a special closed-loop production mode for enterprises in an innovative way. Our precise and intelligent Covid- 19 control indexes took the lead in Zhejiang, and our 11 experiences in Covid- 19 response were promoted throughout the province. We adjusted and optimized Covid- 19 prevention measures timely based on the changes of situations, highlighted the improvement of medical treatment capacity and the vaccination for key groups of people, gave “Covid- 19 prevention packages” to the elderly over 60 years old and achieved a smooth transition from “preventing infection” to “maintaining health and preventing critical cases” and people’s life safety and physical health were fully guaranteed.
We implemented the work “stabilizing the economy” and promoted economic stable and high-quality development under deep pressure. We promptly implemented the national and provincial policies for stabilizing the economy, implemented the “100-day Campaigns with Ten Themes” on the stable economic progress and quality improvement through extraordinary measures to promote economic stabilization and improvement. The gross domestic product (GDP) reached 673.95 billion yuan, a growth of 2.5% year on year, and the total fiscal revenue and general public budget revenue reached 103 billion yuan and 59.6 billion yuan respectively, both ranking third in Zhejiang. We took the lead in carrying out digital and green transformation of the manufacturing industry, driving the investment in it to 93.36 billion yuan, ranking second in Zhejiang. The added value of the manufacturing industry of the core industries of the digital economy, high-tech industries and strategic emerging industries accounted for 20.7%, 70.5% and 44% of that of the industrial enterprises above the designated size respectively, all being in the
lead in Zhejiang. The added value of the industrial enterprises above the designated size reached 281.56 billion yuan, ranking third in Zhejiang.
We implemented the request of “keeping safe development” and maintained harmony and stability in face of challenges. We launched the campaigns eliminating risks and guaranteeing safety, conducted the large-scale inspections of workplaces to prevent hidden risks and dangers, and reduced the numbers of accidents and death tolls by 28% and 27.8% respectively. We successfully completed major security tasks to ensure the safety of the Party’s 20th Congress and the World Internet Conference, and achieved the targets of safe and secure development for the 17th consecutive year. Under the rising pressure of keeping the balance between fiscal revenue and expenditure, we arranged 65.92 billion yuan for improving people’s well-being, which accounted for 79.6% of the general public budget expenditure. We implemented in an innovative matter “Ten Ways for Farmers to Achieve Common Prosperity” and “Ten Ways to Assist the Needy” and earned us the first prize in constructing a national model city in health. Jiaxing ranked first in Zhejiang for the ninth consecutive year in the assessment of public culture serving modern development, and people’s senses of fulfillment, happiness and security were enhanced continuously.
In summary, we accomplished seven major tasks over the past year:
First, we made every effort to stabilize enterprises and promote growth and continued to strengthen the economic foundation. We insisted on implementing the policies and measures in a comprehensive, efficient and precise manner to ensure that they were put into effect quickly and effectively. We provided targeted supports and assistance for enterprises, formulated and implemented 26 policies for relieving enterprises’ difficulties, 40 ones for stabilizing economic development and 30 ones for promoting industrial stability and upgrading. We removed the barriers preventing the implementation of the policies beneficial to enterprises, launched the campaigns “10,000 Officials Helping 10,000 Enterprises” and “Assisting Top 100 Manufacturing Enterprises”, and implemented the value-added tax (VAT) credit refund policy as quickly and fully as possible. 22.96-billion-yuan VAT credit refunds were achieved, ranking third in Zhejiang, and 33.35-billion-yuan corporate burdens were cut, strongly helping market entities cope with challenges and boost confidence. The investment in projects was well supported. We seized the opportunities of implementing preferential policies, established a dynamic mechanism for the reserve of major projects, set up special funds for projects’ preliminary work, had 14 major projects included into the “14th Five-Year Plan” of the country and 282 ones into “Six 100-billion-yuan Major Projects” of Zhejiang, ranking second in Zhejiang in terms of quantity. We issued 29. 14-billion-yuan special local government bonds, 2.8 times more than those of 2021, and obtained 6.76 billion yuan through policy-based and developmental financial instruments. We provided 733 more hectares of land for major projects, an increase of 95%. Five projects were included into the national energy consumption list, accounting for half of the total of Zhejiang. The investment in fixed assets reached 292.5 billion yuan, an increase of 7.2%. The export grew rapidly. We deepened the precise service for foreign trade enterprises, took the lead in Zhejiang in organizing enterprises to strive for foreign orders and expanding international markets, organized foreign enterprises to charter airplanes to participate in overseas exhibitions, launched the campaign “100 Exhibitions Assisting Enterprises”, and achieved a total import and export volume of 440 billion yuan, an increase of 16.3%. We intensified efforts to in consumption recovery and revitalization and held various activities to boost consumption. We issued 540-million-yuan
consumption coupons to support the recovery and growth of the consumption in catering, accommodation, tourism and retail and expand the consumption of new energy vehicles and green intelligent appliances. Tongxiang was honored as a provincial model city for nighttime economy. Jiaxing’s reliable consumption indexes ranked first in Zhejiang.
Second, we further implemented the “First Strategy”, i.e., Jiaxing’s integration into the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta to lead and promote the high-quality development. Our urban functions and core competitiveness continued to be enhanced. We systematically planned the path of building an important central city of the urban agglomeration of the Yangtze River Delta, and had 128 projects included into the major projects of the “14th Five-Year Plan” of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. The construction of major transportation projects were accelerated. Such projects that local people have been longing for have been put under construction as Nantong-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Ningbo High-speed Railway, Jiaxing Airport, Shanghai-Pinghu-Haiyan Intercity Railway, and four highways connecting the urban areas of Jiaxing to its four counties and county-level cities, Jiaxing-Fengnan Railway, Jiashan-Xitang Railway and Suzhou-Taizhou Expressway (the section within Jiaxing). The first transport artery based on sea and railway transportation was put into operation, and the container throughput of Jiaxing Port totaled 2.85 million TEUs, an increase of 28.4%, and ranked first among top 20 ports of the country in terms of the growth rate of container throughput. The role of the sea-river inter-modal transport was fully played, and Jiaxing was built into a national production service-oriented logistics hub city. The construction of the demonstration zone of the green and integrated ecological development of the Yangtze River Delta showcased significant achievements. National Development and Reform Commission issued a plan to construct Jiashan County into a high-quality pilot development demonstration zone. The Smart Oasis of Zhejiang University of the Yangtze River Delta and Xiangfu Laboratory began to operate. We successfully hosted the on-the-site conference and the developer conference for the third anniversary of the demonstration zone construction of the green and integrated ecological development of the Yangtze River Delta. We further implemented the action plan for jointly constructing the Hongqiao International Open Hub, accelerated the construction of “Three Zones and One Platform” and 12 achievements were selected as practice and innovation cases. The pace of the coordinated development of the whole city was accelerated. The land and space planning “three zones and three lines” were approved. We improved the overall mechanism for attracting major projects, accomplished 14 land improvement projects, reclaimed 733 hectares of land and dismantled the toll gate located in Jiaxing of the National Highway No. 320, ending the toll collection of the national highways located in Jiaxing. The construction of such platforms has taken on new looks as the New City of Canal Bay in Xiuzhou, International New Town of Qiantang in Haining and New City of Phoenix Lake in Tongxiang.
Third, we strengthened innovation-driven development and achieved breakthroughs in industrial transformation. We pushed ahead with sci-tech innovation and industrial upgrading and increased the fiscal expenditure on science and technology by 18.7%. The sci-tech innovation momentum was further strengthened. We jointly established the Sci-tech Achievement Commercialization Fund of the G60 Sci-tech Innovation Valley, started the construction of the national key laboratory Institute of Flexible Electronics Technology of Tsinghua, Zhejiang, cooperated in building the Yangtze River Delta Branch of China Special Equipment Inspection & Research Institute and the Road-Air Collaborative Three-Dimensional Traffic Research Institute.
The construction plan for the International Cooperative Educational Model Area of Zhejiang University was approved by three ministries of the state. China Nanhu Youth Innovation City was put into operation. Three more people were selected as the experts of “Kunpeng Action” Plan of Zhejiang. The numbers of Jiaxing’s overseas engineers and high-skilled talent both ranked the first in Zhejiang. Jiaxing won again “Sci-Tech Innovation Tripod” of Zhejiang and was approved as a national pilot zone of the sci-tech innovative financial reform. The High-Tech Industrial Development Zone of Xiuzhou was upgraded as the High-Tech Industrial Development Zone of Jiaxing with the approval of the State Council. The competitiveness of the manufacturing industry continued to be enhanced. We implemented the “135N” Plan for fostering advanced manufacturing industry clusters. The added value of new materials manufacturing sector and the output of new energy vehicles both ranked first in Zhejiang. We supported leading enterprises to be stronger. The number of ten-billion-yuan companies increased by two. We fostered 70 enterprises as “little giants” that are specialized and sophisticated and produce new and unique products, 2. 1 times the total of the previous three years. 11 more companies went public, making the total reach 80. Jushi Group won the “Gold Award of the Patents of China”, the first in Jiaxing. We continued to implement the campaign “Release of Caged Birds and Rebirth of Phoenixes”, and upgraded 2,284 high-consumption but low-efficiency enterprises and reclaimed approximately 1,867 hectares of land not used efficiently, according for 163% and 138% of the annual plans respectively. The added value and tax revenue of every 666.7 square meters of land of the industrial enterprises above the designated size respectively increased by 301,000 yuan and 54,000 yuan, with the total reaching more than two million yuan and 300,000 yuan respectively for the first time. The service industry was expanded and improved. We deepened the construction of “100 Projects and 100-billion-yuan Projects” of the service industry and established five more provincial-level innovative development zones of the modern service industry. Specialized markets in Jiaxing each with an annual turnover over ten billion yuan totaled seven. The balances of deposits and loans of financial institutions reached 1.37 trillion yuan and 1.43 trillion yuan respectively, a respective increase of 13.7% and 16.8% over the previous year. We created a national leading cold chain logistics base and built Jiaxing into a provincial leading city in serving digital life. The development of modern agriculture was accelerated. We deeply developed technology and machinery-supported agriculture, formulated the implementation suggestions on revitalizing the seed industry and strengthened the protection and development of characteristic agricultural brands. Two rice brands were selected as national brands of the super rice. We constructed and upgraded 4,400 more hectares of high-standard farmland and built five new provincial-level future farms. The model of draining no water directly from farmlands was adopted across the province. We ranked first in the assessment of farmland protection in Zhejiang and won the incentive in strengthening technology and machinery-supported agricultural development in Zhejiang.
Fourth, we strengthened reforms to effectively stimulate development vitality. We insisted on reform-led restructuring of systems and mechanisms to greatly enhance economic and social development quality, driving forces and efficiency. Digital reforms proceeded steadily. We deeply implemented 75 “one-matter” integrated reforms beneficial to the people and enterprises. 95 provincial-level major applications were put into operation. The app “Intelligent TCM” was used nationwide. Nine apps such as “Neighborhood Sports” and “Smart Logistics” were selected as pilot cases for the project “Innovated in a Region, Shared in the Whole Province” . Six reforms won the provincial reform breakthrough awards. New progress was achieved in opening up. We
deepened the construction of the provincial pilot aggregation zone of high-quality foreign investment and created one of the first RCEP high-level opening and cooperative demonstration zones of Zhejiang. Jiaxing was approved as a pilot city for QFLP. The actual utilization of foreign capital reached USD 3. 16 billion, and 22 foreign-invested projects were listed as the key projects of the Ministry of Commerce, ranking first in Zhejiang in terms of quantity. The business environment continued to be improved. We deepened the reform of streamlining administration, delegating power, improving regulations and upgrading services, conducted the pilot reform of monitoring the business environment in the administrative service center in Zhejiang and implemented widely the mechanism of repairing corporate bad credit records. The practices of the QR codes of cargo vehicles and intelligence governance of enterprises’ risks were selected as the innovative cases for the business environment improvement of Zhejiang. Jiaxing was built into one of the pilot cities of the first national leading cities in intellectual property, made solid progress in the reform of administrative law enforcement and administrative reconsideration system of “comprehensive integration” and continued to rank the second in Zhejiang in the business environment evaluation.
Fifth, we highlighted ecological environment improvement and the construction of Beautiful Jiaxing was accelerated. We acted on the idea that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, improved urban and rural environment of the whole city so that Jiaxing became more and more habitable, suitable for business and tourism-friendly. The ecological environment continued to be improved. We worked hard for the blue sky, clear water, pollution-free land and harmless disposal of wastes. We won the silver “Dayu Ding” in water quality improvement. Jiaxing was built into a national key city for the establishment of the system of recycling waste materials and one of the first provincial “zero-waste cities” . Jiaxing’s model of sorting household wastes was popularized throughout the province, and all of our districts, counties and county-level cities were built into provincial-level demonstration zones of ecological civilization. Jiaxing was named an excellent city in the assessment of the construction of Beautiful Zhejiang and was honored as one of the first “Charming Cities of Biodiversity” . Our urban functions were further enhanced. We integrated the construction of a modern city and a historical and cultural city. Nine areas were honored as provincial-level pacesetters of urban landscapes such as Lakefront of South Lake and New District of Grand Canal. A group of provincial-level future communities were constructed. Jiaxing was selected as one of the national first pilot cities in terms of intelligent construction and honored as a national “Gigabit City” . We continued to promote urban organic renewals and completed the relocation and upgrading of 1.208 million square meters of old residential areas, benefiting 11,400 households. We strengthened urban delicacy management, formulated a delicacy management standard system, and constructed 47 “urban reception rooms” and model roads and blocks clean enough to be sat directly. The construction of beautiful towns and villages was comprehensively promoted. We continued to promote the project “Thousand &Ten Thousand” and comprehensive environmental renovation of towns, improved the planning and construction system of the beautiful countryside, built 13 model towns and 23 characteristic villages into provincial-level ones, put into operation seven new tourist routes to the beautiful countryside and constructed and upgraded 470.6 kilometers of rural highways. 33 villages were listed as provincial-level pilot future villages.
Sixth, we prioritized the improvement of people’s well-being and solidly advanced common prosperity. We always took the improvement of people’s well-being as the fundamental goal of
our development and accelerated efforts to obtain 22 landmark achievements in common prosperity. Jiaxing was selected as the only pilot city of Zhejiang in rural integrated reform for strengthening rural development and enriching people. Rural residents’ incomes remained the highest in Zhejiang for the 19th consecutive year, and the income ratio between urban and rural residents shrank to 1.56:1. The employment and social security systems continued to be improved. We implemented such policies as postponing the payment of employees’ social insurance premiums and refunding unemployment insurance premiums, issued 440 million yuan to support employees not to leave office, created 146,000 new urban jobs, raised the minimum living allowance standard to 1,070 yuan per person a month, and became the first city of Zhejiang to achieve online inter-provincial settlement of outpatients’ bills of slow and special diseases. 2.76 million people participated in the insurance program “Free of Worrying about Serious Illness” and four projects were selected as pilot common prosperity projects such as instituting a long-term care insurance system. The development of social undertakings were accelerated. We continued to promote educational equity and high-quality improvement, constructed 23 new primary and secondary schools and kindergartens able to enrol 18,000 children and built 13 schools into provincial-level high-level vocational education schools. Jiaxing University enrolled its first graduate students. Haiyan was selected as a national-level county in the balanced development of compulsory education. We continued to enhance medical services and started to construct the International Medical Center of the Yangtze River Delta. The First Hospital of Jiaxing and the Second Hospital of Jiaxing were rated as national-level “Grade A+” public hospitals. The construction of all town-based medical institutions were up to the national standard. We strengthened the elderly care services and infant and child care services and provided 1,234 more beds for community-based elderly care and the care service for 6,500 more infants and children. We optimized public cultural service supplies, hosted in Jiaxing the high-quality exhibition of the Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings and built 899 urban-rural integrated “10-minute quality cultural life circles” . The opera Red Boat won the national Award of the Best Works. Social governance was more effective. We deepened the modernization of social governance of the whole city, upgraded the primary-level governance system made up of “one center, four platforms and one grid” and improved the system for easing and settling public complaints. We maintained the stable and sound development of the real estate market. The experience of the construction “Intelligent and Safe Sub-districts” was popularized nationwide. We made effective measures for flood and typhoon prevention, and successfully defended against the typhoons Hinnamnor and Muifa. Efforts were made to improve people’s well-being. We improved the mechanism for planning, promoting and supervising the matters concerning people’s well-being, and completed the construction of the ten projects of improving people’s livelihood set forth by the First Session of the Ninth Municipal People’s Congress of Jiaxing. Free physical examinations benefited 228,000 people. We covered medical supplementary insurance for 23,000 low-income farmers, renovated the accessibility facilities for 642 households of the disabled, upgraded 49 produce markets, built 12,000 public parking spaces, installed 9,008 air conditioners for 183 schools and constructed 115 smart reading rooms and 100 community-based sports centers, which all indicated that we had fulfilled our commitments to the people.
Seventh, we strengthened the self-construction of the government, and the government’s governance efficiency was improved. We were responsible to the Party, served the people heart and soul, and fulfilled our duties in accordance with the law and continuously transformed
government functions to improve service efficiency. We strengthened ourselves politically and the Party building in the government system, promptly studied and fully acted on the guiding principles of the important speeches and instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, firmly defended the establishment of both Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party’s Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and firmly upheld Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party’s Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and upheld the Central Committee’s authority and its centralized and unified leadership. We upheld the rule of law, improved government work rules and strictly implemented major administrative decision-making procedures. Jiaxing ranked third in Zhejiang in terms of the transparency indexes of government affairs. Jiaxing was built into a national model city in constructing a rule-of-law government. In compliance with the law, we subjected ourselves to the oversight of people’s congresses and democratic oversight from the CPPCC, and carefully handled 254 proposals from the deputies of the Municipal People’s Congress of Jiaxing and 309 proposals from the members of the Municipal Committee of Jiaxing of the CPPCC. We intensified efforts to improve the government’s capacity, promoted the establishment of reform-oriented organizations and the work mechanisms for comprehensive planning and implementation, and continuously improved officials’ competence in promoting high-quality development, serving the people and preventing and resolving risks. 43 pilot projects at and above the provincial level were approved. We focused on improving work conduct and vigorously carried forward the team culture that values down-to-earth style and pioneering and striving-for-excellence spirit and encourages people to dare to think big but take action and make sure they can deliver. We established the competitive and supervisory mechanisms for prioritizing key tasks to create a strong atmosphere of learning from others and strive for excellence. 15 projects received the encouragement from the provincial government. We remained committed to improving Party conduct and upholding integrity, practiced full and rigorous self-governance, strictly complied with the central Party leadership’s eight-point decision on improving work and detailed implementation rules, did more to improve Party conduct, build a clean government and fight corruption, and steadily fostered and developed a political atmosphere of integrity within the government system.
In 2022, new progress was made in national defense mobilization, civil air defense, coastal defense, ex-servicemen affairs and mutual supports between civilians and the military and; and new achievements were made in the work on Mountain-Ocean Collaboration Project, the collaboration between the eastern and western regions, paired assistance, ethnic groups, religions, overseas Chinese, Taiwan affairs, philosophy, social sciences, historical annals, archives, meteorological administration, earthquakes, trade unions, women, children, juveniles, the elderly, charity, Red Cross and the disabled.
Fellow deputies, the achievements of the past year did not come easily. We owe our achievements last year to the sound guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, to the correct leadership of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee, the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province and the CPC Jiaxing Municipal Committee, to the strong support from the Municipal People’s Congress of Jiaxing and the CPPCC Municipal Committee of Jiaxing and the joint efforts of the people of the whole city. On behalf of the Municipal People’s Government of Jiaxing, I would like to express sincere gratitude to the people of the whole city, the deputies of the Municipal People’s Congress of Jiaxing, the members of the
CPPCC Jiaxing Municipal Committee, the senior comrades having retired, democratic parties, people’s organizations, the People’s Liberation Army and armed police forces stationed in Jiaxing, police and fire fighters, and to the overseas Chinese and international friends who have supported our development.
We are also well aware that some of the goals set at the first Session of the 9th Municipal People’s Congress of Jiaxing have not been reached partly due to the impact of the Covid- 19 and external environment. In the work of government there is still room for improvement: The foundation for stable and high-quality economic progress is not yet solid enough. The supporting capacity of sci-tech innovation needs to be strengthened. The development of the advanced manufacturing industry needs to be improved at a faster pace. There is a gap between our work and the requirements of high-quality development. The advantages of Jiaxing’s location have not been fully utilized. More efforts in major infrastructure construction needs to be intensified, and urban functions, core competitiveness and quality need to be enhanced. Ecological environment governance needs to be continuously strengthened and green and low-carbon development is still a long-term and arduous task. Public services like education, healthcare, elderly care and childcare cannot fully meet people’s needs. There are still many weak points in improving people’s well-being, social governance and workplace safety. The effectiveness of the work conduct in the government still needs continuous optimization. We will attach great importance to those problems and take effective measures to solve them.
II. Main Work Tasks for 2023
2023 is the first year to thoroughly implement the guiding principles from the Party’s 20th National Congress, the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the “ ‘Double Eight’ Development Strategy” and the 40th anniversary of Jiaxing’s establishment as a city, so it is of great significance to all aspects of our work. The overall requirements for this year’s government work are: We must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the guiding principles from the Party’s 20th National Congress, and firmly uphold Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and uphold the Central Committee’s authority and its centralized, unified leadership, and earnestly implement the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, the CPC Provincial Committee of Zhejiang, People’s Government of Zhejiang Province and the CPC Municipal Committee of Jiaxing. We must follow the general principle of prioritizing economic stability and pursuing progress while ensuring stability, keeping fast when possible, fully, accurately and comprehensively implementing the new development philosophy, work to create a new pattern of development, promote high-quality development, faithfully implement the “‘Double Eight’ Development Strategy”, firmly guard the “Red Roots”, better coordinate the Covid- 19 response with economic and social development, place equal emphasis on development and security, vigorously promote innovation, deepen reforms and opening up, make Jiaxing’s contributions to building Zhejiang into a pioneer of the common prosperity of the socialism with Chinese characteristics and a pioneer of achieving modernization in the whole province, strive to take the lead in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and in basically achieving modernization and accelerate efforts to build Jiaxing into an important center city in the urban agglomeration of the Yangtze River Delta to write a new chapter of Jiaxing in contributing to advancing Chinese modernization.
The main projected development targets this year go as follows: The GDP is around 6%; the
R&D investment intensity reaches 3.5%; the growth of fiscal revenue is about 5%; the fixed asset investment increases by 10%; the added value of the industrial enterprises above the designated size grows by 7%; the per capita disposable incomes of urban and rural residents grow with the economic growth; the CPI is controlled below 3%; the urban surveyed unemployment rate stands below 5%; the environmental and energy targets set by the province must be reached.
This year, we will focus on the work of ten key areas:
1. Striving to promote enterprises’ development to unleash market entities’vitality
Competitive enterprises are the foundation for high-quality development. Enterprises thrive, and so do employment and economy. We will attach great importance to benefiting enterprises, take effective measures to cut their burdens, volunteer to help them build confidence and strengthen their development momentum and core competitiveness.
Strengthening the implementation of the policies beneficial to enterprises
We will create conditions for enterprises to enjoy national and provincial tax and fee reduction policies directly, rapidly and solidly, optimize the platforms for enterprises to gain direct access to preferential policies and introduce a slew of effective and targeted measures to maximize the preferential policies on reducing enterprises’ costs and burdens. Our target is to reduce the burden on enterprises by more than 20 billion yuan the whole year. We will provide more supports for small and medium-sized enterprises, for instance, reserve at least 40% of government procurement for them and provide micro and small-sized enterprises with more than 10% of price reductions when government procurement projects are evaluated. We will work closely with enterprises to get through tough times.
Strengthening and optimizing enterprise services
We will solidly carry out special actions to serve enterprises and resolve their problems and complaints timely to ensure that enterprises know well how to handle the matters concerning government services and that governments do not interfere in their business. We will simplify the procedures for enterprises to apply for various licenses and certificates, allow enterprises to use electronic business license for electronic certificates or vice versa, and achieve the target that enterprises can integrate all that they shall report into one annual report. We will strengthen financial services, expand the scales of credit loans, first-time loans and loan renewals without repayment of principal, and ensure that inclusive loans to micro and small enterprises grow at a faster pace than the other types of loans to bring more benefits to enterprises and ease their loan requirements.
Creating the optimum business environment
We will implement the “Reform Project No. 1” for improving business environment, comprehensively enhance government and market environment as well as legal, economic and cultural environment to build up the brand “Jiaxing Enjoys an Optimum Business Environment in Zhejiang” . We will deepen the reform of comprehensive and integrated administrative law enforcement to ensure the law enforcement is strict, fair, strong and warm. We will implement the negative list system for market access, improve the mechanism for enterprise credit restoration and deepen the application of corporate credit in administrative examination and approval and in public resources. We will build a close and clean relationship with businesses and regulate various types of service intermediaries, industrial associations and chambers of commerce which charge enterprises to protect the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises and entrepreneurs in accordance with the law and make market entities invest, operate and start new businesses free
of worry.
2. Striving to expand investment and promote consumption to continuously enhance development momentum
We will seize the important opportunity of expanding effective investment, focus on major projects, implement high-quality economic development measures accurately and efficiently and fully play the key role of investment and the fundamental role of consumption.
Prioritizing the construction of major project
We will continue to adhere to the view that projects drive development, vigorously implement the Program “‘1,000 Major Projects’ and ‘One-trillion-yuan Investment’” of Zhejiang and the “551” Project of Jiaxing, expand effective investment and the investment in major projects, optimize investment structures and enhance investment efficiency. We will accurately plan investment projects, make in-depth preparation for them, reserve more than 1,000 major projects with an investment of over one billion yuan each to ensure the smooth transition from one project to another. We will tackle difficulties for major projects, accelerate efforts to start the construction of major projects, strengthen investment competitions and the publicity of projects to generate more “tangible workloads” . We will continue to strengthen the provision of production factors, actively strive for more government special-purpose bonds, policy-based developmental financial instruments and construction land, make innovation in investment and financing models, put into good use budgetary funds, regulate and overhaul cross-town land supplies to ensure the needs of major projects.
Making greater efforts to attract projects
We will coordinate the attraction of large projects and domestic investment, accelerate the construction of the investment attraction pattern serving the whole city, improve the network for attracting investment from key regions and strengthen the construction of investment attraction teams. We will leverage the 10th anniversary of the World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen to attract investment from Fortune Global 500, China’s Top 500, large central enterprises and industry-leading enterprises, conduct industrial chain-based and capital-based investment attraction, attract investment through attracted investment and intensify efforts to attract foreign-funded manufacturing projects and high-quality service projects to enhance Jiaxing’s reputation as a high-quality foreign-funded aggregation zone in Zhejiang. We will provide more services for local leading enterprises’ investment, support enterprises to enlarge investment and expand production to bring more large-scale and high-quality projects to Jiaxing.
Issuing various measures to increase consumption
We will seize the opportunity of the recovery of consumption to promote the rapid recovery of the spending on accommodation, catering, tourism and bulk commodities such as new energy vehicles, home furnishings and household appliances and strive to achieve a 4.5% growth in total retail sales of consumer goods. We will unleash the consumption potential, leverage the advantages of such brands as Haining Leather, Tongxiang Woolen Sweaters and Pinghu Luggage, encourage innovation in consumption models and scenarios, upgrade pedestrian streets, business districts and specialized markets, vigorously develop night-time economy and make more efforts to build Jiaxing into a safe consumption demonstration city and a regional consumption center city. We will take solid steps to advance the steady and sound development of the real estate market, adopt measures to meet people’s demand for buying their first home or improving their housing to effectively stabilize land prices, housing prices and people’s expectation.
3. Striving to implement the “primary strategy” and accelerate efforts to build an important central city in the urban agglomeration of the Yangtze River Delta
We will fully leverage our location advantage, maximize the overlap effect of various strategies, expedite the construction of “seven types of cities” to continuously bolster Jiaxing’s competitiveness in the urban agglomeration of the Yangtze River Delta.
Fully supporting Jiashan to build a national pilot scientific development county and play its role as part of the demonstration zone for the integrated ecological and green development in the Yangtze River Delta region
We will fully implement the national and provincial preferential policies and 19 demonstration tasks, support Jiashan to construct a national innovation-oriented county and a demonstration county of rural revitalization to take the lead in exploring the new path for high-quality development at the county level. We will deeply promote the construction of Jiashan Area of the demonstration zone for the integrated ecological and green development in the Yangtze River Delta region, build such major platforms as New City of Northern Jiashan, Xiangfudang Innovation Center and China-Singapore Industrial Park and achieve institutional innovation results in planning management, ecological protection and flows of production factors to enhance the visibility of Jiashan’s high-quality development.
Accelerating the construction of the “Golden South Wing” of Hongqiao International Open Hub
We will deepen the all-round integration of Shanghai and Jiaxing, especially in infrastructure construction, industrial innovation and public services, and organize a series of activities to introduce Jiaxing to Shanghai. We will actively cooperate in constructing Hongqiao International Central Business District, explore the establishment of the cooperation mechanisms for high-end business, cultural tourism and characteristic exhibitions, accelerate Jiaxing’s integration into Hongqiao International Open Hub, enhance the cooperation levels of such platforms as Pinghu Park of Zhangjiang Yangtze River Delta Sci-Tech City and Haining Zone of Caohejing Hi-tech Park, actively introduce functional and regional headquarters bases and efficiently respond to the overflow effects from China International Import Expo to achieve functional complementation and strengthen each other’s advantages between Jiaxing and Shanghai.
Significantly enhancing urban functions and core competitiveness
We will optimize the spatial layout of the whole city, coordinate the development of Jiaxing’s central urban areas and its counties, county-level cities and towns, improve the level of urban planning, construction and governance and build a livable, resilient and smart city to enhance Jiaxing’s urban driving forces. We will continue to improve the quality of the urban central areas and accelerate the construction of Gaotie New City. We will strive to construct a national pilot city in urban renewal, strengthen the construction of new-type urban infrastructure, renovate old residential quarters and construct the future community “Warm Jiaxing” to create safer and more comfortable living environment for residents. We will promote urbanization based on the urban areas of each county and county-level city and support them to construct modern new cities with strong vitality and distinctive characteristics and modern and beautiful towns of high quality. We will focus on delicacy management of urban areas and continue to promote the construction of a culturally advanced model city at the national level to make the city full of innovation and delightful changes every day.
4. Striving to improve innovation-driven development to build an innovation hub in the core
area of the Yangtze River Delta
We will adhere to the view that science and technology are the primary productive force; talent is the primary resource, and innovation is the primary driving force; and promote the innovation-driven development strategy, and build a talent-driven city and an influential sci-tech innovation center in the Yangtze River Delta.
Intensifying efforts to improve innovation platforms
We will deeply integrate Jiaxing into the construction of the G60 Sci-tech Innovation Valley, launch the construction of “one zone and multiple parks” of the national Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone of Jiaxing, accelerate the construction of International Cooperative Educational Model Area of Zhejiang University, deepen the construction of Yatai Road Sci-tech Belt, enhance the development of the lake-centered sci-tech innovative zones such as Xiangjiadang Lake, Swan Lake and Cuckoo Lake to build a collaborative and complementary innovation community. We will construct major high-standard innovation platforms, support the Yangtze Delta Region Institute of Tsinghua University, Zhejiang, to achieve landmark achievements to celebrate its 20th anniversary, support Nanhu Laboratory to be included into the national key laboratory system, accelerate the development of Nanhu Research Institute of CETC, Yangtze River Delta Research Institute of Beijing University of Technology and Zhejiang Institute of Advanced Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and strengthen the performance evaluation of innovation platforms to build Jiaxing into an important sci-tech innovation center.
Vigorously constructing a pilot reform zone for sci-tech innovation finance
We will actively build a market-oriented and sustainable sci-tech innovation finance service system, explore the establishment of a mother fund for sci-tech innovation finance, encourage commercial banks and insurance companies to establish specialized institutions for sci-tech innovation finance, promote the intellectual property and debt-equity combination financing model, support Jiaxing Bank to be transformed into a characteristic bank for sci-tech innovation finance, and increase the loans to sci-tech innovation enterprises by more than 30 billion yuan. We will implement innovative pilot reform for regional equity markets, strive to set up the service bases in Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Beijing Stock Exchange, strengthen regional cooperation concerning sci-tech innovation finance, establish business incubation and sci-tech service cooperation mechanisms to build Jiaxing into a hub for the commercialization of sci-tech achievements in the Yangtze River Delta, and build an integrated service base for sci-tech innovation finance.
Effectively motivating the vitality of innovation entities
We will make more efforts to double the numbers of hi-tech enterprises and sci-tech small and medium-sized enterprises, support leading enterprises of various industries to establish global R&D centers, deepen the construction of “100 Enterprises & 100 Institutes”, regularly enhance the cooperation among research institutes, enterprises, banks and insurance companies, and make more than 78% of industrial enterprises above the designated size set up their R&D institutions, increase the numbers of national high-tech enterprises, provincial-level sci-tech small and medium-sized enterprises and the sci-tech enterprises as “little giants” by 500 and 1,200 and 10 respectively. We will deepen the construction of the national pilot city for intellectual property protection, strive to build Jiaxing into a national-level intellectual property protection center and increase the number of intellectual property demonstration advantage enterprises by 150. We will continue to implement the talent program of “Stars over the South Lake”, vigorously introduce
and train innovative and high-skilled talent, improve housing, health and children’s schooling services for talent, increase the total number of in-service talent at or above the province level to 480, build five provincial leading innovation and entrepreneurship teams, attract over 100,000 graduates and over 30,000 high-skilled talent to build a city suitable for the development of young people and attract more talent to choose Jiaxing as the city to achieve their dreams.
5. Striving to construct a leading city in intelligent manufacturing and innovation to build an advanced manufacturing base
We will focus on developing real economy and implement “No. 1 Development Project” to improve the quality of digital economy and innovation, deepen the integration between the innovative chain and industrial chain, propel the high-end, intelligent and green development of the manufacturing industry and strive to win the “‘Made-in-Zhejiang’Tiangong Tripod” .
Vigorously developing advanced manufacturing clusters
We will continue to implement the “135N” Plan to foster advanced manufacturing clusters, move faster to construct global new materials clusters, foster and strengthen national-level industrial clusters such as photovoltaics, new energy vehicles and next-generation network communications and encourage each county, county-level city and district to build their own regional industrial clusters with unique advantages to build Jiaxing into a core area of provincial-level characteristic industrial clusters. We will carry out a new round of the campaign “Release of Caged Birds and Rebirth of Phoenixes”, free up low-efficiency land, build a slew of high-quality small and micro-enterprise parks, renovate 1,000 low-productivity and inefficient enterprises, free approximately 1,333 hectares of land not used efficiently to make room for high-quality investment projects and the development of new industries.
Promoting the digital and green upgrading of the manufacturing industry
We will focus on digitization-driven development, energy conservation and carbon reduction, implement the “digital and green” program to upgrade more than 1,000 projects to achieve digital and green upgrading of all the industrial enterprises above the designated size. We will promote the digital applications in the production processes, build 12 provincial-level intelligent factories and digital workshops and make the industrial robots in service reach 23,000. We will move faster to establish a green manufacturing system, promote circular production models, build 10 provincial-level green factories and 100 pollution-free enterprises to accelerate the high-quality development of manufacturing industries.
Fostering more high-quality enterprises
We will implement the “Eagle Action” to foster top 10 enterprises of the manufacturing industry and construct a number of leading enterprises with strong voice in an industry, implement the plan of fostering the enterprises as “little giants” that are specialized and sophisticated and produce new and unique products, promote the establishment of a service alliance for the enterprises as “little giants” in the Yangtze River Delta and increase the number of the “little giants” at or above the provincial level by 300. We will continue to implement the “100 Listed Companies” Action, support enterprises’ going public and mergers & acquisitions to make over 10 more companies go public this year. We will implement the campaign “1,000 Enterprises to Build Famous Brands” and build 50 enterprises into “Made Zhejiang” enterprises to enhance the influence of our intelligent manufacturing brands.
Bolstering the deep integration between modern service industries and advanced manufacturing industries
We will proactively build a modern service industry system, implement the “Three-year Action Plan” for the producer service industry, continue to strengthen the provincial-level innovative development zone of modern service industries, foster such producer service industries as industrial designs, testing & inspection and modern logistics, vigorously develop the sharing economy, platform-supported economy and headquarters economy, accelerate the construction of a large number of leading modern service industry enterprises and make the added value of the producer service account for 55% of that of the service industry to extend the manufacturing industry to the high end of the value chain.
6. Striving to construct a strong transportation city to build a transportation hub integrating highways, railways, waterways and airways
We will play the role of transportation as the development “pioneer” and intensify efforts to construct major transportation projects to transform our good location into the advantages of high-quality development.
Constructing a high-level railway hub
We will accelerate the construction of Nantong-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Ningbo High-speed Railway, Shanghai-Pinghu-Haiyan Intercity Railway, Jiaxing-Fengnan Railway and Jiashan-Xitang Railway, start the construction of the railway (the section within Jiaxing) connecting XiaoshanAirport and Jiaixng and Xiasha-Changan Railway, accelerate the preliminary work of Shanghai-Zhapu-Hangzhou Railway and the tourism-oriented intercity railway and strive to have Xiuzhou-Haining Railway and Haiyan-Haining Railway included into national railway transportation planning to jointly build the “Yangtze River Delta on rails” . We will promote the expansion and upgrading of Jiaxingnan Railway Station and strengthen the TOD model at railway stations to fully leverage the driving effect of the rail transportation hub.
Constructing a sea-river inter-modal hub
We will improve the transportation system of ports, accelerate the construction of the sea-river inter-modal network made up of “one hub, eight sea-river inter-modal operation areas and ten waterways”, start to upgrade Yuxingnao Waterway and Hangzhou-Shanghai Waterway and inland waterways and remove waterways’ bottlenecks to improve transportation efficiency. We will deepen the cooperation between Jiaxing Port and Ningbo-Zhoushan Port and Shanghai Port, accelerate the construction of 10,000-metric ton berths, and increase the number of the container throughput of the TEUs handled by Jiaxing Port to three million. In order to leverage economic benefits and low-carbon advantages of sea-river inter-modal transport, we will make plans to build inland ports connecting industrial parks and logistics parks to make sea-river inter-modal transport benefit more enterprises.
Constructing a global airport-based logistics hub
We will comprehensively accelerate the construction of Jiaxing Airport and YTO Air Logistics Hub, coordinate the construction of the ports of Jiaxing Airport, vigorously develop core aviation industries and aviation-oriented leading-edge industries, foster modern airport-based logistics industry clusters and strive to build a national-level demonstration zone for the airport-based economy to create a new growth pole for open economy.
Constructing an efficient and convenient highway hub
We will improve the layout of the expressway network, accelerate the construction of Suzhou-Taizhou Expressway (within Jiaxing), start to construct the highways connecting Jiashan with Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway, Haining with Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway and Haiyan
with Hangzhou-Pudong Expressway to further improve Jiaxing’s connection with major cities of the Yangtze River Delta. We will accelerate the construction of urban expressway networks, actively promote the expansion and renovation of congested sections of ordinary national and provincial highways, upgrade rural roads and strengthen the connection among urban major functional areas to facilitate people’s travel.
7. Striving to reform and open up to continuously expand new development space
We will continue to stimulate the vitality of systems and mechanisms through reform and vigorously implement the “No. 1 Open Project” for economic upgrading to strive constantly for new development advantages.
Deepening the reform in key areas
We will further promote in-depth digital reform, improve integrated and intelligent public data platforms, handle online more government affairs, provide online more government services and conduct online governance. 90% of high-frequency government services will be provided across the city. We will implement integrated reforms for the allocation of resources, vigorously improve per-acre yields, optimize the distribution mechanism of the revenue from land sales and promote market-based transactions of the electric power market to improve the utilization efficiency of land, capital and energies. We will deepen the reform of state-owned assets and enterprises, optimize the layout, adjust the structure and upgrade the industry of the state-owned economy, improve performance evaluation mechanisms, reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of state-owned enterprises to further strengthen the competitiveness and innovation ability of the state-owned enterprises. We will further reform the systems and improve the operating system of national defense mobilization.
Enhancing the development of foreign trade
We will work hard to stabilize foreign trade, seize the opportunity of building the high-level open cooperation demonstration zone of RCEP, vigorously foster such business models as cross-border e-commerce, comprehensive foreign trade services, overseas warehouses, etc., actively develop “bonded repair business” of the customs’ special supervision areas, support enterprises to strive for more foreign orders and expand international markets, increase the number of the enterprises with actual export performances by more than 500, keep Jiaxing’s export shares in Zhejiang stable and export growth higher than the average of Zhejiang. We will support leading foreign trade enterprises to strengthen international production capacity cooperation and expand marketing networks to help enterprises to “go abroad” for better development.
Constructing an open platform with core competitiveness
We will amplify the interplay innovation zone of China (Zhejiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone and Comprehensive Bonded Zone of Jiaxing, enhance the construction of international industrial cooperation parks and strive to construct a Jiaxing Port-based comprehensive designated supervision site for inbound goods. We will amplify the function and core competitiveness of platforms and enlarge the scale and enhance the quality of the industrial parks each with 666.7 hectares of land and 100-billion-yuan output value. We will vigorously develop marine economy, foster and strengthen the equipment manufacturing industry, port-based logistics and coastal tourism to build an important economic growth pole on the northern bank of the Hangzhou Bay.
8. Striving to promote rural revitalization to build Jiaxing into a demonstration city in modern rural and agricultural development
We will give priority to agricultural and rural development, deepen the construction of the
national pilot urban-rural integrated development zone and promote agricultural high-quality and highly efficient development to make rural areas livable and business-friendly and farmers prosperous to present Jiaxing’s beautiful pictures of rural revitalization.
Laying a firm foundation for food security
We will implement the food security strategy, prevent arable land from being used not for agricultural purposes and farmland used not for grain production, enhance the capability of grain production, keep grain production areas stable and grain yields and quality steadily rising. We will improve the water conservancy facilities of farmlands and construct all permanent basic farmlands into high-standard farmlands at a much faster pace and make the high-standard farmlands a beautiful landscape of rural areas of Jiaxing.
Strengthening modern characteristic agricultural development
We will continue to strengthen technology and machinery-supported agricultural development, implement the revitalization plan of the seed industry, enhance agricultural economic development zones and increase the mechanization rate of land plowing and crop planting and harvesting to over 90%. We will protect and develop our featured brands of agricultural products such as Jiaxing Black Pigs, Tongxiang Hangbai Chrysanthemum, Fengqiao Honey Peaches, etc., support each county, county-level city and town to create their own characteristic agricultural brands. We will foster and expand leading agricultural enterprises, upgrade and standardize family farms and farmers’ cooperatives and build agricultural industrialized clusters. We will continue to enhance agricultural brands, strengthen the development and utilization of geographically indicated agricultural products and expand the popularity of the brands like “Jiatian Four Seasons” and “Jiaxing Rice” to enhance agricultural comprehensive competitiveness.
Creating a beautiful and prosperous countryside
We will further implement the “Green Village” Project, promote the modernization of rural infrastructures, and start to construct the demonstration areas of beautiful and prosperous countryside. We will strengthen the protection and use of historical and cultural villages, protect a group of agricultural cultural heritages to create an attractive rural environment. We will actively build life scenarios of future villages and over 20 provincial-level future villages to integrate more future elements into the countryside, making it showcase more charming characteristics of clean rivers and lakes.
Continuously enriching villages and people
We will deepen the integrated pilot reform of enriching rural areas, advance the trials for the reform of rural residential land in a steady and prudent fashion, improve the model of establishing “village-strengthening companies” and “enclave-based cooperation”, enhance the “blood-making” function of villages’ collective economy to ensure that all villages have an annual regular income of over 1.6 million yuan and an annual operational income of over 600,000 yuan. We will thoroughly implement “Ten Measures for Common Prosperity” to encourage farmers to serve as pioneers to achieve common prosperity and invest in projects and obtain dividends with such factors as funds and farmlands, attract and foster a group of new-type farmers and rural entrepreneurs, vigorously develop modern rural industries and create more rural jobs and continue to take the lead in rural residents’ incomes in Zhejiang.
9. Striving to strengthen ecological protection to further enhance Jiaxing’s reputation as a green and low-carbon city of circular economy
We will continue to regard green and low-carbon development as the key element of high-quality development, give priority to ecological protection, green, low-carbon and cost-effective development, consolidate and enhance the achievements in building a national-level ecological civilization demonstration zone.
Highlighting the improvement and restoration of water ecology
We will coordinate the use of water resources, protection of water environment and governance of water ecology, vigorously build a national pilot city for water ecology restoration, continuously carry out such projects as “Clear Water Running around the City, Towns, and Villages”, expand the coverage and improve the quality of the zone free of direct discharge of sewage and keep over 95% of water bodies controlled by Jiaxing up to the standard of Grade III water and above. We will strengthen the protection of drinking water sources, promote the technological improvement of water plants and the upgrading of water supply pipelines to provide our citizens with the best tap water. We will take targeted measures to carry out the restoration of water ecology, deepen the construction of beautiful rivers and lakes and promote the reconstruction of water systems and the improvement of ecological functions of wetlands of the whole city to present Jiaxing’beautiful scenes of clear water and green banks.
Continuously improving environmental quality
We will prevent pollution in a precise, scientific and legal matter, improve the mechanism for promptly discovering and responding to environmental pollution risks, and show our “zero tolerance” to environmental pollution. We will deepen the “Clean Air” Action and intensify efforts to control ozone pollution to improve air quality continuously. We will strengthen the prevention of soil pollution and cut the amount and promote the recycling of solid wastes to build a national city free of wastes. We will improve the protection network for biodiversity, strengthen the supervision of nature reserves, and strive to build Jiaxing into a national-level practice and innovation base for the idea that “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets” .
Promoting green and low-carbon production and lifestyle
We will promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality in a smooth and orderly manner, accelerate the green and low-carbon upgrading in such key areas as the industrial development, transportation and housing construction and reduce the energy consumption intensity of the whole city by more than 4%. We will build a clean and low-carbon energy system, implement the plan of doubling the wind energy and solar energy, expand the comprehensive utilization of the nuclear energy, accelerate the full-chain development of the hydrogen energy industry, and expedite the construction of comprehensive demonstration projects of photovoltaic power, energy storage and virtual power plants across the city to build a new energy industry base in the Yangtze River Delta. We will deepen the construction of a national intelligent pilot city, proactively build zero-carbon communities and a national demonstration city for garbage sorting, construct a green public transportation system, and make the passengers transported by public transportation account for over 30% of all passengers, the public transport lanes account for over 30% of all of the carriageways in the central urban areas, green and low-carbon travels a new trend of the society.
10. Striving to improve people’s well-being to make our common prosperity tangible and accessible
We will improve people’s well-being in the development process, make solid steps to construct the modern basic units for common prosperity and continuously enhance the quality of “Happy Life for the People of Jiaxing”- a brand for improving people’s well-being, to constantly
improve the quality of common prosperity .
Strengthening employment and social security
We will improve the employment service system, provide targeted employment assistance for key groups of people, and create 110,000 new jobs in urban areas. We will work hard to increase the incomes of low-income people and the number of middle-income people and deepen the pilot reform of fiscal and taxation policies supporting family-based common prosperity to strengthen the ability of low-income groups in increasing incomes. We will expand the coverage and improve the standards of social insurances, perfect the commercial medical insurance system and long-term care insurance system, inspire more people to participate in the insurance program “Free of Worrying about Serious Illness”, and ensure 97% registered residents participate in basic old-age insurance programs. We will improve the social assistance system, carry out the action “Ten Ways to Assist the Needy” and improve the mechanism preventing poverty caused by illness or preventing people’s return to poverty due to illness. We will make every effort to ensure the basic living standards for the people in difficulty. We will strengthen housing security, provide 28,000 more units of government-subsidized rental housing. We will optimize the services provided for the elderly and children, take more favorable measures for childbirth, improve the high-quality elderly care service and inclusive parenting service system, provided 2,000 more beds for the elderly home care and the care service for 3,500 more infants and children to strive to build a national pilot child-friendly city.
Prioritizing education development
We will build a high-quality education system, implement the pre-school education improvement plan, pursue the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education, enhance the quality and efficiency of high school education, deepen the integration of vocational education and industries, invest more in constructing schools, attract more high-quality teachers, improve the collaborative education mechanism among schools, families and society, and enhance the education brand “Enjoying Excellent Education in Jiaxing” . We will support Jiaxing University to be upgraded and included into the “double world-class project”, promote the specialized development of Jiaxing Nanhu College, expand the scale and improve the quality of vocational colleges such as Jiaxing Vocational and Technical College and Jiaxing Technician Institute to make education a crucial support for innovation and development. We will improve the lifelong learning service system, establish an inclusive human capital input mechanism to build Jiaxing into a learning-oriented city where everyone learns and everyone can learn anytime and anywhere.
Building Jiaxing into a high-level healthy city
We will continue to fight against the Covid- 19 pandemic, enhance the medical treatment capability, implement the tiered diagnosis and treatment system, increase the vaccination rate, carry out patriotic health campaigns and guide people to be responsible for their own health. We will implement the “Medical Peak” Plan, accelerate the construction of the International Medical Center of the Yangtze River Delta, strive to construct the International Hospital of the Yangtze River of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, construct and put into use the Clinical Center of Public Health of Jiaxing, attract more famous doctors to Jiaxing, continue to improve the medical staff and promote a balanced distribution of medical resources to bring more high-quality medical services to the people. We will actively promote the construction of the national pilot community-based sports and health center, deepen the construction of
community-based sports centers, create a “ten-minute fitness circle” for urban and rural residents, and encourage more people to participate in sports and adopt a healthy lifestyle to build Jiaxing into a friendly city for all age groups.
Providing more high-quality public cultural resources
We will further implement the action “Renaissance of Jiaxing Culture”, implement Jiaxing Culture Research Project, construct the Cultural Belt of the Grand Canal based on high standards, promote the application of the “Seawall & Tide Culture Landscapes” for the World Cultural Heritage project and support the reconstruction of famous historical sites which identify Jiaxing as the source of Jiangnan Culture such as Tianlai Pavilion. We will improve the modern public cultural service system, deepen our cooperation with Zhejiang University in cultural areas, facilitate the exhibition, utilization and research of the Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings, encourage citizens to read, strengthen art popularization and make “five-minute quality cultural life circles” available to all citizens. We will further strengthen the integration of tourism, culture, agriculture and business, and build such brands as “An Attractive Boat Tour to Jiaxing” and “Welcome to Jiaxing, a City with the Best Ancient Towns in China” .
Creating a safe and stable social environment
We will improve the social governance mechanism constructed and shared by all, promote
the social governance model “integrating ‘intelligent governance, self governance, legal governance and ethical governance’ plus ‘round-table governance’”, improve the work on handling public complaints and strengthen the construction of professional mediation teams to build a modern city with advanced social governance. We will intensify efforts to prevent workplace dangers, strengthen safety supervision of key industries and key areas to comprehensively improve intrinsic safety and take strong steps to prevent major and extremely serious accidents. We will take strict measures to supervise the quality of foods and drugs to strive to build a national-level food safety demonstration city. We will strengthen the construction of the emergency management system, continue to implement the Project of Safe Seawalls and enhance the ability in responding to the emergencies of natural disasters arising from typhoons, floods, etc. We will optimize the social security prevention and control system, strengthen the management concerning migrants’ issues and provide more services for them, severely crack down hard on illegal and criminal activities, launch campaigns to combat organized crime and telecommunications and online frauds, work harder to keep the security of major activities such as theAsian Games Hangzhou to construct high-level Safe Jiaxing.
Fellow deputies, to accomplish this year’s heavy work tasks, we must be fully enthusiastic and spirited, always follow the philosophy that “We will fall behind if not strive for the first” and “We must achieve the best in our work” and strive for the first-class standard and excellence to take the lead in every aspect of our work. We must strengthen our sense of urgency and awareness of seizing opportunities and hold the idea that seizing opportunities means having the initiative in hands but missing opportunities means falling behind the times. We must strive to find and take new opportunities from the decisions of the Party’s Central Committee, the CPC Provincial Committee of Zhejiang and People’s Government of Zhejiang Province to achieve greater development. We will focus our work on reform and innovation, integrate reform and innovation into all fields and aspects of our work, further remove institutional and bureaucratic barriers and the bottlenecks caused by the shortage of resources that restrict high-quality development, creatively carry out our work, solve the problems preventing the development through reform,
obtain enduring driving forces through reform to make our work characteristic, outstanding and amazing. We must rally strong forces because only through unity can we achieve success. We must gather wisdom and strengths of all aspects and work hard together to create a favorable atmosphere for common development and concerted efforts.
Fellow deputies, after careful research and extensive solicitation of opinions, we have submitted to this session 12 projects on improving people’s well-being for your deliberation and vote on them. For the projects determined by the Session, we will adhere to the principle that we must do what the people expect and take strong steps to accomplish them with people’s satisfaction as the yardstick to turn people’s expectation of better life into reality.
III. Effectively strengthening government self-improvement
Embarking on a new journey and shouldering new missions, the municipal government will resolutely shoulder the responsibility of the place where the Red Boat set sail, adhere to high political stances, make practical endeavors, follow strict requirements and achieve new progress in building a loyal government, a service-oriented government, a down-to-earth government, a rule-of-law government and a clean government to improve the government’s modern governance capacity.
Always taking absolute loyalty as our primary criterion
We must enhance cohesion and forge the Party’s soul with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly study, comprehend and implement the guiding principles from the Party’s 20th National Congress and never forget General Secretary Xi Jining’s instructions given to Jiaxing. We will continuously improve our capacity for political judgment, thinking and implementation, firmly uphold Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party’s Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and uphold the Central Committee’s authority and its centralized, unified leadership, integrate our commitment to political integrity and implementation of the guiding principles into the whole process of our work and earnestly implement the decisions and deployments of the Party’s Central Committee, the CPC Provincial Committee of Zhejiang, People’s Government of Zhejiang Province and the CPC Municipal Committee of Jiaxing.
Always regarding benefiting the people as our greatest achievements
We will strengthen the concept that “the people’s government serves the people”, prioritize the people in our mind when we make decisions, spend more time getting closer to them, work harder to solve their problems, seek benefits for them, and continuously meet their aspirations for a better life. We must practice fiscal frugality, take the lead in tightening our belts, spare no effort to solve the pressing difficulties and problems that concern the people most, see that every cent is used where it is needed most and urgently.
Always regarding credible actions and responsibilities as our guiding principles
We judge heroes by their hard work and achievements, and carry forward the excellent work style of “doing it immediately and efficiently” . We will not only accomplish visible and tangible tasks but also work to lay foundations and benefit long-term development. We must work diligently, take a fact-based approach, fulfill our duties and ensure that every task is completed successfully. We will create an environment where officials, local governments, enterprises and the people dare to make innovations, serve as pioneers, compete with the strongest and surpass them. We must focus our attention on key points and the settlement of difficulties and make noticeable achievements to constantly create favorable environment for governments to work
steadily and take the lead.
Always regarding the law-based administration as our working criteria
We will firmly keep in mind the rule of law, adhere to legal, scientific and democratic decision-making, ensure the transparency of government affairs, carefully carry out administrative reviews and actively respond to administrative litigation. We must perform our duties in accordance with the law and do not do anything against the law. We must, in compliance with the law, subject ourselves to the oversight of the people’s congress and its standing committee, to the democratic oversight of the CPPCC Jiaxing Municipal Committee, to the oversight of supervisory bodies, the law and the public, to the oversight through public opinions and to the auditing-based and statistics-based oversights, comprehensively put the government work under the rule of law to continuously improve the brand of Jiaxing as a national demonstration government under the rule of law.
Always regarding integrity and honesty as our basic requirements
We will thoroughly implement the requirements of full and rigorous Party self-governance, earnestly strictly observe the central Party leadership’s eight-point decision on improving work conduct, firmly implement Party discipline and regulations, hold the idea that being strict with our officials means our care for them, continue to tackle pointless formalities, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance, with a focus on the first two, and effectively prevent the corruption risks in key positions and crucial areas to make clean governments and honest work conduct become the norm.
Fellow deputies, great achievements can only come from hard work; a bright future can only be secured through solid efforts. Let us rally more closely around the Party’s Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, follow the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, make Jiaxing’s contributions, under the strong leadership of the CPC Jiaxing Municipal Committee, to building Zhejiang into a pioneer province of the common prosperity of the socialism with Chinese characteristics and a pioneer province of achieving modernization in the whole province, strive to take the lead in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and in basically achieving modernization, forge ahead with enterprise and fortitude, accelerate our efforts to build Jiaxing into an important central city in the urban agglomeration of the Yangtze River Delta and write a new chapter of Jiaxing of Chinese modernization.