Play the national unified market game well, develop the market nationwide

At the recent routine policy briefing of the State Council, relevant officials from the National Development and Reform Commission stated that with the joint efforts of all parties, the construction of a unified national market has achieved initial results, social consensus has been further strengthened, and the implementation path of key tasks has been further clarified. The deployment of major reforms to accelerate the construction of a unified national market has played a positive role in stabilizing development expectations, releasing market vitality, reducing transaction costs, and promoting smooth circulation. As the fundamental support and inherent requirement for building a new development pattern, the construction of a unified national market is closely related to the effectiveness of the current supply side structural reform. It is an important breakthrough to solve the problem of insufficient independent innovation capacity in China, as well as an important policy focus for coordinating regional resource integration, achieving regional coordinated development, and higher-level opening up to the outside world. It has an important position of "pulling one hand to move the whole body".

Building a unified national market is conducive to stimulating innovation momentum, accelerating the pace of technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and solving the core problem of industrial chain bottlenecks. Generally speaking, export-oriented developing countries often join the global production system led by developed countries by producing technologically mature or labor-intensive products with low cost advantages. Due to the fact that developing countries generally do not have a consumption market and structure that matches their production capacity in the early stages of development, they often face huge demand from developed countries in the terminal market, and are ultimately locked in low value-added and high substitutability processing and manufacturing links, which is the current "bottleneck" problem. The advantage of establishing a unified domestic market is that a unified and orderly domestic market can fully integrate the advantages of China's super large population, forming a super large domestic demand market. A strong domestic market capacity can break the "micro profit" production chain under the huge demand from foreign countries, create long-term stable development expectations for domestic business entities, support the innovative research and development behavior of domestic enterprises, and form a positive cycle of independent innovation. In addition, due to the market scope determining the breadth and depth of division of labor, China's super large-scale market advantage can promote the refined development of industrial division of labor, improve the level of specialized production of micro entities, and create leading enterprises and hidden champions in the industry; It can also leverage economies of scale and agglomeration, enhance the advantages of Chinese manufacturing in terms of category, scale, and cost, further reduce innovation costs, and ultimately form a unique advantage that is both flexible and specialized, as well as large-scale production, consolidating new advantages and momentum for China's industrial development under the new development pattern.

Building a unified national market is also conducive to promoting regional coordinated development, further optimizing resource allocation in each region, and playing a good game of national unity. This move aims to overcome local protectionism, break regional separatism, eliminate market barriers, improve economic development efficiency, and consolidate the foundation of high-quality economic development in China. On the one hand, the establishment of a unified national market can reflect market supply and demand information through the free flow and entry and exit of goods and factor resources in the national economic cycle, guide the rational flow and efficient allocation of resources between regions, break the "surge" phenomenon of local investment under previous market fragmentation, eliminate fiscal waste and ineffective investment, and achieve overall economic efficiency improvement from the perspective of "national unity". On the other hand, it is conducive to breaking down the barriers between industries entering and exiting different regions, driving the restructuring of regional industrial chains through the free flow of enterprises, effectively promoting the orderly transfer and acceptance of industries between regions, upgrading from local industrial clusters to industrial chain clusters in larger regions, and ultimately promoting coordinated development between urban and rural areas and regions through high-quality integrated development of industries, narrowing the development gap between regions, and achieving a high-quality economic development model of supply and demand balance.

Building a unified national market is more conducive to promoting the formation of a new development pattern of mutual promotion between domestic and international dual circulation, and achieving a higher level of opening up to the outside world. This can break down the development barriers in various regions and open up the resource endowments of each region to enterprises nationwide. Essentially, it is to better achieve internal opening up, and a higher level of internal opening up will also promote a higher level of external opening up. By fully implementing the national treatment and negative list management system before foreign investment access, strengthening intellectual property protection, and creating a rule of law based business environment, China can reduce implicit trade barriers, further attract high-level foreign investment to join the trend of China's economic development, and achieve a positive interaction between domestic circulation and international circulation. Relying on the new comparative advantage of a unified domestic market, China can participate in globalization from passive integration into global division of labor to active participation in global trade and investment rule formulation, thereby integrating global factor resources and contributing Chinese wisdom to the development of the world economy.

To further build a unified national market, it is necessary to establish a unified national market foundation system. Adhere to starting from the property rights system, market access system, social credit system, and supervision and management system, treat all types of business entities equally and equally, and provide institutional guarantees to break the division between factor markets and commodity markets, and maintain a unified and fair competitive environment. We also need to establish a material foundation for high standard market connectivity. Improve the construction of modern circulation system, promote the construction of national logistics hub network, enrich market information exchange channels, and create a unified trading platform, forming a cross regional and multi-level unified infrastructure and information transmission network. We should actively embrace emerging technologies and use technology to lead the continuous deepening of the construction of a unified market. By utilizing digital and intelligent innovative cooperation methods among business entities, we aim to enhance the scope and efficiency of market connectivity, break through various "data silos", optimize the spatial allocation of innovation factors, and gather momentum for China's development.