A Reporter Asked: The NDRC Guidance On Industrial Pfer In The Central And Western Regions

Recently, the State Council's Guiding Opinions on undertaking industrial pfer in the central and western regions (officially issued by the State Council [2010]28, hereinafter referred to as "guiding opinions") was officially issued.

This is an important way to accelerate the adjustment of economic structure and the pformation of the way of development. It is a major task to carry out the development of the western region and to promote the strategy of the rise of the central region. It is of great significance to promote the formation of a more reasonable and effective regional industrial division pattern and promote the coordinated development of the region in the whole country.

In order to fully understand the drafting background, general requirements and main tasks of the guiding opinions, the reporter interviewed the responsible person of the national development and Reform Commission.

Q: the background and significance of formulating the guiding opinions?

Answer: industrial pfer is an irreversible trend driven by global economic integration.

In recent years, China's regional economic development pattern is undergoing profound adjustment.

The eastern coastal areas such as the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the Bohai rim are relatively saturated capital, and the supply of land, labor and energy is tightened. The contradiction between resources and environment is increasingly prominent. The extension mode is difficult to sustain. In addition, the impact of the international financial crisis and the intensification of competition among neighboring countries make it urgent to accelerate economic restructuring and upgrading.

The infrastructure in the central and western regions has been gradually improved, the cost of elements is obvious, and the industrial development space is larger.

Under this background, it is a policy orientation and important task for promoting the regional coordinated development to push the industry of the eastern coastal areas to accelerate the gradient pfer to the central and western regions and form a more rational and effective pattern of regional industrial division of labor.

To guide and support the central and western regions to undertake industrial pfer is conducive to giving full play to the advantages of the central and western regions such as resources and labor force, further expanding the industrial scale, accelerating the industrial and population gathering, stabilizing and expanding employment, stimulating the domestic demand potential, accelerating the industrialization and urbanization process, enhancing the self-development ability of the central and western regions, and making greater room for the development of the eastern region, providing stronger supply of factor supply, alleviating resource constraints and cost pressures, which is conducive to further strengthening the institutional and self innovation advantages of the eastern region, enhancing the quality of development and international competitiveness, and also of great significance for promoting the rational division of labor and regional benign interaction, promoting industrial structure adjustment and upgrading, and maintaining the steady and rapid development of the national economy.

Q: what are the basic considerations in formulating the guiding opinions?

A: in recent years, the central and western regions have made remarkable achievements in actively undertaking industrial pfer, but there are also problems such as the development environment needs to be optimized, the cooperation mechanism needs to be perfected, and the pfer order needs to be standardized. In particular, there are some inappropriate administrative actions such as hard targets and "matching" in some investment promotion activities in some places.

The guiding ideology is aimed at promoting the sound and rapid development of the central and western regions and promoting the strategic adjustment of economic structure and changing the mode of economic development under the new situation. From the perspective of supporting and promoting, guiding and standardizing, it emphasizes the guiding ideology and basic principles of undertaking industrial pfer in the central and western regions, defines key tasks, and puts forward corresponding supporting policies, which is a programmatic document guiding the central and western regions to undertake industrial pfer at present and in the coming period.

The guiding opinions put forward that the central and western regions undertaking industrial pfer must adhere to market orientation, reduce administrative intervention, adhere to local conditions, strengthen classified guidance, persist in ecological environment protection, strictly enforce industrial access, persist in deepening reform, and innovate institutional mechanisms, and always highlight "five efforts", namely, strive to improve investment environment, promote industrial concentration and layout, and enhance supporting service level; strive to develop in the process of undertaking, improve independent innovation capability, and promote industrial optimization and upgrading; focus on strengthening environmental protection, economize and intensive use of resources, and promote sustainable development; and strive to guide labor force to pfer employment in the near future and promote industry and industry.

Q: what are the key tasks for the central and western regions to undertake industrial pfer? {page_break}

Answer: undertaking industrial pfer is a complex systematic project involving all aspects.

In order to enhance the pertinence and effectiveness, the guiding opinions have clarified the key work in 6 aspects: first, take advantage of the local conditions to undertake the development of advantageous and characteristic industries.

Starting from the actual situation of various localities, based on comparative advantages, we should rationally determine the key points of industrial undertaking development, avoid industrial duplication and low level duplicated construction. The key point is to vigorously undertake the development of labor-intensive industries, energy mineral development and agricultural products processing industry, and promote the pformation and upgrading of processing trade.

The two is to promote the centralized layout of the undertaking industries.

We should strengthen overall planning, rationally adjust the industrial layout, promote the centralized layout of the undertaking industries, cultivate and expand a number of key economic zones, play the scale effect and enhance the ability of radiating and driving.

Taking the Industrial Park as an important carrier and platform for undertaking industrial pfer, it is necessary to guide the pfer industry to concentrate on the park, strengthen the management of industrial parks, prevent blind spots and new parks, promote the standardization, intensification and characteristic development of the industrial parks. The three is to improve the environment for undertaking industrial pformation.

We should break the regional blockade, eliminate local protection, improve the pportation infrastructure of the undertaking areas, strengthen the support of public services, improve the business environment, facilitate investment and trade facilitation, guide the rational flow of production elements across regions, and continuously enhance the initiative of the central and western regions to undertake industrial pfer.

Four is to strengthen resource conservation and environmental protection.

Industrial pfer is not simply duplication, nor can it pfer pollution and backwardness. We must persist in carrying out the capacity of carrying resources and the capacity of ecological environment as an important basis for undertaking industrial pfer. We must strictly enforce the threshold of industrial access, promote resource intensive and intensive utilization, increase pollution prevention and environmental protection, and strive to achieve economic development, clean development and sustainable development, and promote economic development to coordinate with resources and the environment.

The five is to perfect the system of undertaking industrial pfer.

We should further deepen the reform of administration and economic structure, promote regional cooperation to develop in depth, encourage cooperation and build industrial parks, innovate the cooperative development of parks, and create new mechanisms for mutual benefit and win-win efforts, and strive to eliminate institutional obstacles to industrial pfer and acceptance.

In order to explore new ways and new modes of undertaking industrial pfer, we should set up a demonstration area for undertaking industrial pfer in places with better conditions in the central and western regions, and play a typical exemplary and leading role.

Six is to strengthen human resources support and employment security.

We must combine the undertaking of industrial pfer with the promotion of labor migration to promote the pfer of employment from local to local areas in the near future, to achieve industrial concentration and population centralization. We should focus on strengthening vocational skills training, improving employment and social security services, and vigorously introducing high-level talents, so as to provide necessary human resources and intellectual support for undertaking industrial pfer and upgrading industrial quality.

Q: where will the state undertake the industry in the central and western regions?

Answer: in order to further improve the investment environment in the central and western regions and undertake orderly pfer of eastern coastal areas and international industries, the state should give necessary policy support.

To this end, the guiding opinions have identified a number of supportive policies from 6 aspects: finance, taxation, finance, industry and investment, land, commerce and science, education and culture.

Emphasis is laid on the implementation of fiscal discount on loans for public infrastructure projects in the central and western regions that meet the requirements of the state level economic and technological development zones and the high and new technology development zones. In terms of industry and investment policies, it is necessary to revise the directory of industrial restructuring and government approved investment projects; in terms of land policies, it is necessary to prioritize industrial land construction land indicators, explore the flexible land leasing and annual rent system for industrial land; in terms of business policies, it is proposed to set up special customs supervision areas or bonded supervision places suitable for economic development in areas where conditions are ripe, and cultivate and build a number of key places for processing trade gradient pfer; in science and education policies, it is necessary to increase the support for Industrial Park technological innovation system, intellectual property rights and independent intellectual property rights industrialization. For example, in terms of fiscal and taxation policies,

Q: how do we carry out the implementation of the guiding opinions?

A: organizing and implementing the guiding opinions concerns the optimization of the industrial layout and the pformation of the mode of economic development across the country, which is significant and far-reaching.

All regions and departments should further unify their thinking, enhance their understanding, conscientiously strengthen their work guidance and conscientiously implement various policies and measures.

The central and western regions should combine their own realities to formulate specific implementation plans, clarify the division of labor, fulfil their responsibilities, and improve various supporting measures; the eastern coastal areas should also strengthen cooperation with the central and western regions, improve cooperation mechanisms, expand cooperation forms, guide and support local industries to pfer orderly to the central and western regions, and speed up their own industrial restructuring and upgrading.

The relevant departments of the State Council should conscientiously perform their duties, strengthen coordination and cooperation, increase support in policy implementation, project arrangement, and institutional innovation, and guide and help local governments to solve the difficulties and problems encountered in the implementation of the guiding opinions.

The national development and Reform Commission will strengthen the follow-up analysis of the implementation of the guiding opinions in conjunction with relevant departments, do a good job of supervision and inspection, organize regular assessments and promote the healthy development of industrial pfer in the central and western regions.

We believe that through the joint efforts of all parties, the undertaking of industrial pfer in the central and western regions will be carried out in a forceful, orderly, standardized and healthy manner, and gradually form a modern industrial system with a reasonable division of labor, distinctive features and complementary advantages, so as to continuously enhance the self-development ability of the central and western regions.