Shanghai One Week: From "Opening Up Ideas" to "Opening Up Space" Support | Matching | One Week

The economic data for the first half of the year was released last week. According to the unified calculation of regional GDP, Shanghai achieved a regional GDP of 2139.17 billion yuan in the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 9.7% at comparable prices.

According to various data, the market demand in Shanghai gradually recovered in the first half of the year, production and supply continued to increase, employment prices remained generally stable, and the overall economic operation rebounded.

On July 21st, Shanghai held a mid year "representative meeting" to report on the work situation for half a year. The day before, on the day the economic data was released, the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee held a meeting to listen to the report on the economic and social development situation in the first half of the year and the key work in the second half of the year, and made analysis and deployment.

At the meeting, it was pointed out that greater efforts and more practical measures should be taken to ensure the implementation of various work tasks in the second half of the year, better guide expectations, and boost confidence. Continuously stabilizing growth, expanding domestic demand, promoting consumption, focusing on stabilizing the basic situation of foreign investment and foreign trade, vigorously promoting industrial transformation and upgrading, and strengthening the cultivation and optimization of industrial ecology. Efforts should be made to effectively address key livelihood issues, accelerate the implementation and promotion of the People's Livelihood Project, and do a good job in assisting enterprises, stabilizing jobs, and promoting innovation and entrepreneurship.

Behind the above requirements, each one has specific work directions. During this process, it also involves specific development concepts and work methods.

For example, the pronunciation of half year data involves knowledge.

In order to boost consumption, specific group structures should be analyzed, such as external consumption data, youth consumption data, etc., starting from regional realities and focusing on urban characteristics, seeing people and groups, in order to accurately identify problems and provide targeted policy measures.

As an international metropolis, many economic data in Shanghai should not only be based on its own volume changes, but also be compared domestically and even globally, to see its share and trend in the global market - behind this, it points to true international competitiveness.

Behind these "pronunciations" lies a consideration of the development path. Since July, Shanghai has emphasized the importance of further deepening high-level reform and opening up and promoting high-quality development on several major occasions, and has made multiple specific deployments.

At the quarterly work meeting of the Municipal Party Committee at the beginning of the month, Chen Jining stated that Shanghai is currently in a critical stage of urban renewal and industrial transformation. We need to take solid steps in structural adjustment, seize new opportunities and window periods, and make long-term contributions.

The Opinions of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China on Deepening the Study and Implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Deepening High-level Reform and Opening-up and Promoting High-quality Development, adopted by the Third Plenary Session of the 12th Municipal Party Committee, clarified the specific reform and breakthrough tasks, and gave the road map, timetable and timetable, strengthen work linkage, strengthen supervision and inspection, and pay close attention to implementation with a strict style ".

Based on the above requirements, many major strategies will be further accelerated in the next six months. During last week's meeting of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, when listening to the work related to the pilot of comprehensive reform in Pudong, it was pointed out that we should focus on establishing a new open economic system that is in line with international rules, strengthen coordination between the upper and lower levels, and promote overall development. We should better release the traction and driving role of major reform measures, and accelerate the formation of typical cases and large-scale applications.

At the meeting, Chen Jining once again emphasized the issue of the effectiveness of policies reaching enterprises, requiring a shift in thinking and optimization of the discourse system when interpreting policies, and effectively responding to the difficulties, pain points, and bottlenecks of enterprises. "We need to strengthen policy promotion and interpretation, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of enterprise entities, and effectively play the role of market mechanisms," he said.

For Shanghai today, the transformation of thinking patterns is an important way to solve problems in many fields.

At the beginning of last week, Chen Jining led a delegation to Shigatse, Xizang, to discuss with the Xizang Autonomous Region the plan of counterpart support, visit the cadres and talent representatives of Shanghai's Tibetan aid, and investigate the Tibetan aid projects in Shanghai.

He expressed during the symposium that on the new journey, he hopes that Shanghai and Tibet can promote experience exchange and complementary advantages according to their respective positioning, strengthen cooperation in maintaining national security and ethnic unity, enhance cooperation in cultural tourism development, strengthen coordination in the circulation of characteristic products and commodity consumption, jointly promote the development of border trade, support more cultural exchange and tourism promotion, and achieve more "collectibles entering Shanghai", working together to promote Shanghai Tibet cooperation to a new level.

Two days after returning to Shanghai, the 2023 Shanghai Special Products Exhibition and Sales Fair will open at the Shanghai Exhibition Center. Chen Jining recently visited the exhibition site and met with the party and government delegation from Kashgar, Xinjiang. He stated that he would base himself on "the requirements of the central government, local needs, and the capabilities of Shanghai", closely combine Shanghai's comprehensive functional advantages with Kashgar's geographical resources, strengthen the overall planning and work coordination of industrial cooperation, and continuously stimulate the endogenous development momentum of Kashgar.

Both Shanghai's aid to Tibet and Xinjiang have a long-standing tradition. Nowadays, the work of counterpart support is also required to inject new connotations - focusing on exploring the respective needs and advantages of Shanghai and its counterpart support areas, strengthening coordination in the market, industry, talent, and other aspects, promoting supply and demand docking, production and sales linkage, and brand expansion.

The meeting of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee on the 20th emphasized that Shanghai and its corresponding regions should "strengthen complementary advantages and deepen two-way empowerment.".

Obviously, targeted support is no longer a simple one-way output - as mentioned several times, foreign trade is not only an opportunity for targeted support to open up regions, but if it can effectively connect and empower, it can also expand Shanghai's open sector and open up new market space; The transformation and upgrading process of some traditional industries can also be connected with counterpart support, providing resources and support to each other.

The process of two-way empowerment itself is a process of unblocking the domestic economic cycle. For Shanghai, this is also a process of further expanding the development sector and exploring potential opportunities - opening up ideas, to some extent, is just opening up development space.