"Leather Shoes" For "Running Shoes" To Enhance The Competitiveness Of Cities

The Fifth China Investment Environment Forum closed yesterday. 300 experts and scholars, such as Zhang Chunlin, actively offered suggestions and suggestions. After two days of in-depth discussion, the Fifth China investment environment forum, jointly sponsored by the Chengdu Municipal People's government, the world bank, the National Information Center, the international cooperation center of the National Development and Reform Commission and the propaganda and education center of the Ministry of land and resources, was solemnly closed in Chengdu yesterday.

In the forum, more than 300 experts, scholars and business representatives from around the world focused on the theme of "government innovation", "urban and rural co-ordination" and "urban competitiveness".

Delegates generally agreed that this forum not only promoted the development of Chengdu's investment environment, but also played a role in promoting the competitiveness of China's western region and even China's competitiveness.

At yesterday's meeting, Fan Qimiao, chief economist of the finance and private sector of the world bank college, used an ingenious story to sum up the importance of competitiveness in the development of cities and enterprises.

The story is about an economist and a lawyer who go hiking on weekends and meet a hungry tiger halfway up the mountain.

At the end of the crisis, economists quickly changed the heavy leather shoes on the feet into light running shoes, while the lawyer friends asked him, "what's the use of changing shoes? Can you run over the tiger?"

But economists say, "I don't need to run a tiger, I just need to run over you."

Fan Qimiao said, this story tells us that our competitiveness is dynamic, we must constantly create advantages to win in fierce competition.

For the western region, in the process of enhancing the competitiveness of the city, it is facing more challenges than the eastern region. Therefore, the western cities should make efforts in independent innovation, especially in the government's continuous innovation. In improving the investment environment, the western coastal areas should do more, faster and better than the southeast coastal areas to make up for the congenital deficiency caused by natural endowments.

Fan Qimiao's story won the cheering of the hall, and the profound implication of the story was even more enlightened.

A fierce brainstorming ended in such a relaxed atmosphere.

The government should attach importance to the environment of fair competition. Zhang Chunlin, chief economist of the World Bank China Representative Office, "the key to improving the investment environment is to improve the functions of the government. So what should the government do?"

Yesterday morning, in the Jinjiang Hall of the five floor of the new international conference and Exhibition Centre in Chengdu Century City, the second round forum of the China investment environment forum was held on the theme of "regulatory reform, government innovation and improvement of investment environment".

Zhang Chunlin, chief economist of China Representative Office of the world bank, keynote speech on "pforming government functions and improving the investment environment" aroused heated discussions among the participants.

The government should first promote social equity. "The government should do several things to do what people and market mechanisms are unwilling to do, do what they can not do, or do bad things."

Zhang Chunlin said that this principle is actually one of the secrets of the success of China's reform in the past 30 years.

In the process of changing government functions, the first thing that the government should do is to promote social equity, which is the natural mechanism of market mechanism.

Zhang Chunlin said that in promoting social equity, the government is faced with three tasks: first, the government must eliminate absolute poverty; second, to protect equal opportunities and ensure fair process; third, income redistribution.

He pointed out that promoting social equity is a very important and fundamental aspect to the investment environment.

In addition, the level of fairness also determines whether a country or region can provide a healthy and well educated workforce.

The government must create a fair competition environment in addition to promoting social equity and creating a fair competition environment.

Zhang Chunlin said that the implementation of contracts in the market economy and the implementation of private pactions depend on whether there is a fair competitive market environment.

He said that the government should provide public services and public goods, such as the sound government of the rule of law.

In addition, other areas where the market mechanism can not play a role, such as the protection of the ecological environment, the supervision of monopoly industries, and the supervision of quality, are all aspects that require the government to strengthen its functions.

The most important significance of strengthening the government functions in these areas is to ensure fair competition to promote economic efficiency.

To create a fair competition environment, of course, we should not undermine the level playing field.

"Many places have" ten small giant enterprises this year, "and" what bases should be built? "

In fact, the government does not realize that when it focuses on supporting some enterprises, it is actually discriminating against other enterprises. "

Zhang Chunlin believes that the creation of Chinese jobs will ultimately depend on ordinary private enterprises. The government should attach great importance to these vulnerable SMEs and provide a fair competition environment for the enterprises run by ordinary people.

The government should not interfere in enterprise decision making. Zhang Chunlin suggested that the government should not replace entrepreneurs to make decisions in operation or investment.

He pointed out that in the past planned economy era, many investment decisions were decided by the government, such as what kind of industries and industries the funds invested in, what products they produce, although they have changed now, in fact, the government is still involved in and even dominates these investment decisions.

"In many areas, we see that the government uses its own control over land, control of resource credit, and control of other infrastructure to achieve its investment priorities and investment intentions."

He pointed out that the government's intervention in the operation or investment decisions of enterprises is a great loss to the economic benefits.

The Chengdu voice government is eager to hear the real needs of enterprises. Zheng Heping, Deputy Secretary General of the Chengdu municipal government and deputy director of the Chengdu Investment Promotion Committee, reform the tedious administrative examination and approval system, vigorously promote parallel examination and approval, implement the government affairs open, and open the 800 free investment consulting phone in the country.

To create the best investment environment, Chengdu always dares to go ahead and try first.

However, the communication between enterprises and the government seems to be difficult to achieve the best results.

"The construction of standardized service oriented government can be said to be in the forefront of the country. In terms of system design, we have many channels to collect information from enterprises, but the smooth communication of information is not very good," said Chengdu.

Zheng and Ping Tan Chen, some enterprises seem to be under the "hidden rules" restrictions, when communicating with the government, do not dare to reflect their problems, dare not express the real needs.

Zheng Heping said that the communication between the government and enterprises needs not only the initiative of the government, but also the courage and initiative of the enterprises to express their real needs, because the government needs real needs to make the correct judgments and decisions.

Zheng Heping said that Chengdu has always attached importance to the implementation of grass-roots units, and will continue to strengthen training for all aspects of staff in the future. The government will advocate advancing services for enterprises under the premise of not interfering in the operation of enterprises.

Next, the Chengdu Investment Promotion Commission will further study the overall investment environment of Chengdu, and further tap the comparative advantages of Chengdu.

Zheng Heping believes that if the development of local SMEs is not good, it is difficult to attract foreign capital.

To this end, he said that governments at all levels should do their best to support and serve SMEs in their respective areas.

The new tax rate does not have much impact on foreign enterprises. KPMG representative: as one of the four largest international accounting firms, we are involved in many foreign investors' investment in China.

The new tax rate has been introduced in China since 2008, and domestic and foreign capital will be treated equally.

Many foreign enterprises believe that the cancellation of the original offer will have a great impact on their investment choices.

We want to know whether Chengdu will fully implement the new tax rate, or will there be any difference?

And whether there will be any social security problems.

An American business representative: our company has invested in other provinces and cities for 4 years. Now we want to enter Chengdu. Do we know whether there is still a discount for the newly entered foreign-funded enterprises?

Chengdu city tax bureau: the two methods combined to reduce domestic capital from 33% to 24%, in fact, to allow domestic investors to enjoy more concessions, and there is no great impact on foreign enterprises. Especially, two exemption and one subsidy are still favorable for foreign enterprises.

And whether the new foreign-funded enterprises can enjoy the preferential treatment will not be determined until next year as the implementation details have not yet been issued.

With regard to information communication, Chengdu's government affairs are open to the public. It can deliver information to taxpayers in time. Taxpayers can also learn about tax policy information through tax hotlines, online tax service offices, self-service systems, etc.

The representative of KPMG is the same as the foreign investment enterprise in the social security system. After the introduction of the new labor law, the implementation of social security is stronger, but it is usually felt that domestic enterprises are not strictly enforced, while foreign-funded enterprises must be strictly enforced, which will have a great financial impact on foreign-funded enterprises.

I wonder if there is such a situation in Chengdu?

Chengdu labor and Social Security Bureau: for the problems raised by the representative of KPMG, we think this kind of worry is unnecessary in Chengdu.

Because in recent years, Chengdu has been implementing a unified policy in this regard, and the domestic capital of foreign investment is a policy on the basis of social security payments.

Our basic point is: social security is the basic rights and interests of laborers, and the rights and interests to work in foreign capital should be protected.

Reporter Tao Ling Wang Ling Intern Yang Yan photographer Yang Tao