Guangdong'S Economic Leap Over The Past 70 Years: GDP From 2 Billion 30 Million To 10 Trillion, Insisting On Reform And Opening Up And Innovation Drive.

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In retrospect of the 70 years of the founding of the people's Republic of China, Guangdong is undoubtedly a typical epitome and representative of the great economic province.

On the morning of June 3rd, the State Council held a press conference. Ma Xingrui, deputy secretary of the Guangdong provincial Party committee and governor of Guangdong, Minister of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong provincial Party committee and propaganda department, and Zhang Hu, vice governor of Guangdong, introduced Guangdong's reform, opening up and innovation and development, and answered questions.

This year, GDP will exceed 10 trillion yuan mark, and the first general public budget revenue in the country is more than trillion yuan. The total volume of foreign trade and imports accounts for about 1/4 in the whole country, ranking the first in 33 consecutive years, and 4.75 Industrial Enterprises above Designated Size in the province. The total value of electronic information industry accounts for 34% of the whole country. Ma Xingrui made a simple summary of the outstanding points of Guangdong's development from many angles. He also said that Guangdong had no special resource endowments and no foundation for development. It can be achieved through the institutional advantages, political advantages and the advantages of reform and opening up.

In addition, in view of the present and future development, Guangdong has already made clear the development ideas and key deployment. Among them, "worthy of attention" includes the province's efforts to promote the construction of the bay area of Guangdong, Hongkong and Macau, to focus on promoting innovation driven development and to coordinate the coordinated development of urban and rural areas.

Ma Xingrui said that Guangdong will inevitably be affected, but the overall controllability, the current Guangdong enterprises and the market economy is relatively full of vitality, has undergone the 2008 global financial crisis and other tests, has a certain resilience and ability to resist risks, and has the ability to solve the problem of supporting development. Moreover, Guangdong will further expand its opening up, relax market access, open up foreign markets and promote innovation.

Guangdong enterprises and market economy are more vigorous.

In 2018, Guangdong's GDP was 9 trillion and 700 billion yuan, ranking the highest in the past 30 years. Compared with 1949, it turned out to be a global change. At that time, the figure was only 2 billion 30 million yuan, that is, 4778 times. This year, Guangdong GDP will also exceed 10 trillion yuan.

Guangdong's development achievements are also reflected in many details. For example, local general public revenue (at comparable prices) increased from 320 million yuan in 1950 to 1 trillion and 200 billion yuan in 2018, becoming the first super trillion yuan Province in the country. In 2018, the total import and export volume of the province accounted for 1/4 of the whole country for 33 consecutive years, ranking the first in the country for 33 consecutive years. The total utilization of foreign capital accounted for 1/5 in the whole country. A world-class manufacturing base was formed, and 4.75 Industrial Enterprises above designated size were established in the world. From the traditional manufacturing industry to the advanced manufacturing industry, the modern industrial system with more complete categories and relatively complete support was basically built. The total output value of the electronic information industry accounted for 34% of the whole country.

In addition, the outside world is more concerned about the question of how to predict the current and future development situation in Guangdong and further plan, deploy and promote economic and social development on this basis. At the press conference, Ma Xingrui gave the answer to this question.

"The world is facing a great change in the past hundred years, and the international economic order is facing unprecedented challenges." He said that Guangdong will firmly carry out its own affairs and be prepared to meet all difficulties and challenges. "We have solid foundations for 70 years of new China, 40 years of reform and opening up, especially since the eighteen largest market. We have strong market development capacity and rich experience to deal with challenges and risks."

When asked about the impact of the escalation of Sino US trade friction on Guangdong, Ma Xingrui admitted that Guangdong is a major province of foreign trade and economy. Guangdong accounts for about 1/5 of China US trade volume. At present, the Guangdong enterprises and the market economy are more vigorous and have been tested by the international financial crisis in 2008. They have a certain resilience and ability to resist risks. They still have the ability to solve the problem of supporting development.

Wan Lu, Associate Research Fellow of the Guangdong Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, analyzed the twenty-first Century economic report. Guangdong is based on the active market economy of "big powers + open", which makes its room for maneuver larger. After the financial crisis in 2008, one is that the government and enterprises have the psychological preparation for dealing with sudden changes and even crises in the market. Two, the government's macro management and enterprise's micro adjustment also have some experience. Three, there are methods, which are reflected in the short term, paying attention to the government, paying attention to the effective market in a long term, and combining the two scientifically.

"This means that in the past 70 years of development, Guangdong has made great achievements not only in the material level, but also in the exploration of the socialist market experience with Chinese characteristics as a leader of development." Added Wan Lu.

"Simply speaking, it's Guangdong's vitality that can withstand pressure." Xu Deyou, deputy director of the economics and Teaching Research Department of the Guangdong provincial Party school, told the twenty-first Century economic report that the vitality of the enterprise level is that after the financial crisis in 2008, most of the surviving enterprises have experienced difficult transformation. Nowadays, many of them have improved significantly in terms of technology and product quality, and their competitiveness has been greatly enhanced. The vitality of the market level is that in recent years, Guangdong has pushed ahead with the reform of "letting go of services", optimized the business environment, and produced more and more high-quality enterprises.

This is indeed the case. Over the past two years, Guangdong has taken the lead in promoting the reform of "digital government" in the whole country. Among them, the application materials for enterprises have been reduced by nearly 56%, and the start-up time is only 5 working days. At present, there are about 11 million 460 thousand individual businesses and enterprises in Guangdong province. Among them, the number of enterprises is close to 5 million households, ranking first in the country.

Persisting in opening wider and innovating independently

What will Guangdong do in the future? Ma Xingrui also systematically introduced this, including promoting the construction of the Great Bay area of Guangdong, Hongkong and Macau by concentrating on the whole province, concentrating on promoting innovation driven development, and persisting in coordinating the coordinated development of urban and rural areas.

In fact, it has been promoted in recent years in Guangdong. For example, Ma Xingrui said that the next step will be to promote the construction of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau Bay area from five aspects, including focusing on the convergence of rules, optimizing the business environment and speeding up the construction of the international science and technology innovation center in Tai Wan.

Wan Lu said that the Tai Wan District will play a basic platform in the future development of Guangdong. It will play a multi-level role in the system innovation platform, the space platform, the innovation platform and the radiation platform, and will play a leading role in the overall situation. It will also become the key to Guangdong's opening up to promote internal connectivity.

In fact, when Ma Xingrui answered how Guangdong will deal with the impact of Sino US trade frictions, it will focus on "opening up". He said that from the government's point of view, it is the only way to further expand the opening up, especially in the construction of the Great Bay area. Two, we should further relax market access and fully implement the national treatment plus negative list management system before foreign investment access. Three, we must constantly open up foreign markets and intensify overseas promotion. At present, Guangdong's foreign trade and economic development is generally stable.

Xu Deyou believes that the expansion of opening up is the necessary and inevitable requirement for the development of Guangdong, and it is no longer just a simple introduction of resources. It is also intended to improve the efficiency of resource allocation. The high quality development of Guangdong's economy also needs further participation in global cooperation and competition.

Wan Lu also said that in the past, Guangdong was integrated into the global manufacturing industry chain through opening up, and now it will further integrate itself into the global value chain and innovation system, and promote win-win cooperation. "At present, Guangdong is relatively qualified to promote two-way opening and cooperation."

Innovation driven development is also a bright spot. In 2018, Guangdong spent more than 250 billion yuan on R & D expenditure. PCT accounted for about half of the total number of international patent applications, and the regional innovation and comprehensive capacity was the first in China. The number of state-level high-tech enterprises reached 4.5, and the value added of advanced manufacturing industry accounted for 56% of the above scale industrial added value, and the contribution rate of the third industry to GDP rose to 58.9%.

"Innovation drive is the driving force for development." Ma Xingrui said that Guangdong is steadfast and calm in dealing with challenges and challenges, strengthening independence and independent innovation, aiming at core competitiveness, key core technologies and basic research, constantly increasing investment in scientific and technological innovation, focusing on improving the regional technological innovation system taking enterprises as the main body, and speeding up industrial restructuring, and promoting the transformation of Guangdong manufacturing to Guangdong's creation and rapid growth to high quality development.

But he also said that although Guangdong's GDP can exceed 10 trillion yuan this year, it still faces the problem of how to achieve high quality development. In response to this, one of Guangdong's coping strategies is to pay more attention to the development of industrial clusters in the development of market economy. In the future, it will take the lead in developing the 4K Ultra HD video industry, vigorously develop the robot industry, vigorously develop the new energy automobile industry, take the lead in developing industrial Internet and vigorously develop the mobile communication industry.

At the same time, when answering questions about Sino US trade friction and innovation, Ma Xingrui also said that in the long run and current development, we must adhere to the road of independent innovation and independent innovation in science and technology innovation, but it is not to close doors to innovate.

In addition, Guangdong's innovation and short board is a basic research and applied basic research. Therefore, efforts should be made to increase efforts. We should also attach importance to providing a relaxed development environment for talents, insisting not to seek all but to use it, encourage enterprises to allocate scientific and technological resources in the world, and pay attention to strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights.

"Innovation is the vitality and driving force of Guangdong's economic development. From the current situation, Guangdong has advantages and weaknesses. In recent years, there are also precise measures to promote innovation capability." Xu Deyou said that innovation and openness are highly related. Innovation capability must be formed and promoted under an open system. Opening up and innovation will help speed up Guangdong's short board of innovation capability, and give play to and contribute to its own advantages, and promote more cooperation and win-win results.