The whole province is striving to create a new atmosphere on the road of high-quality development, and it is really a bonus for enterprises to solve problems.

  Accelerate the promotion of high-quality development, and Guangdong keeps walking.

  The heads of various departments and districts in Guangzhou issued an "invitation letter" to business representatives on the spot; Dongguan Municipal Government’s "No.1 Document" put forward 20 policies and 75 measures to support the manufacturing industry and go all out to grasp the economy; Jiangmen is in full swing to accelerate the construction of key projects and increase efficiency, with an annual planned investment of over 120 billion yuan; Zhongshan vigorously improves the efficiency of government services, starts enterprises at "zero cost", and gets the badge in one hour at the earliest …

  The whole province is forming a trend of catching up with learning and winning the championship, and bravely striving to create a new atmosphere.

  Guangzhou: Major projects take the lead and strive to break through one trillion yuan in fixed assets investment.

  "Here, I will announce my phone number. Welcome to Huangpu to discuss investment. If you have any questions, you can contact me to solve them." At the first branch of the High-quality Development Conference held in Guangzhou on February 1st, Wang Datong, executive deputy head of Huangpu District, announced his contact information to the entrepreneurs attending the conference.

  A warm-hearted move makes enterprises feel more belonging, and it is also a source of confidence for future development. Not long ago, Guangzhou issued a "military order" to strive to exceed 1 trillion yuan in fixed assets investment this year, and it is necessary to take the lead in the overall situation of high-quality development in the whole province.

  On the day of the event, not only the responsible persons from the departments of development and reform, industrial letter, and self-regulation expressed their opinions, but also the relevant responsible persons from Huangpu, Nansha, Baiyun and other districts introduced the policies of each district on the spot, and even directly issued an "invitation letter" to the business representatives present.

  Huangpu District will give full play to the working mechanism of special classes and trust preparation this year, realize the start of more than 180 projects throughout the year, promote more than 200 enterprises to carry out technological transformation, and complete industrial investment of over 65 billion yuan; Nansha District comprehensively promotes the joint special class mechanism for parallel examination and approval of major projects, and explores more matters in the field of engineering construction to be included in the "one thing" management list; Zengcheng District will provide "mother-like" services for enterprises and improve the working mechanism for the preparation of "life cycle services" for industrial projects.

  "Taking this opportunity, I sincerely hope that more entrepreneurs will know about Huadu, invest in Huadu and take root in Huadu, and work together to plant new advantages of high-quality development in Qian Fan’s competition and struggle, and draw a beautiful blueprint for’ Guangzhou North Growth Pole’." Wang Yong, executive deputy head of Huadu District, said.

  Based on the present, what is most needed is hard work. Chen Xu, member of the Party Committee and deputy director of Guangzhou Development and Reform Commission, introduced that in 2023, Guangzhou will accelerate the construction of 1,722 projects with a total investment of about 6.6 trillion yuan and an annual planned investment of 526.1 billion yuan, and make every effort to push the total investment in fixed assets in the city to exceed 1 trillion yuan. At the same time, in order to solve the funding problem of the project, accelerate the establishment of the Guangzhou Infrastructure Industry Development Fund, promote the securitization of existing assets to the greatest extent, maximize the vitality of social investment, and strive for the world’s capital to invest in Guangzhou and invest in Guangzhou.

  "We strive to provide assessment, diagnosis, consultation, training and transformation services for more than 1,000 industrial enterprises every year, cultivate a number of enterprises with’ chain owners’,’ individual champions’ and’ specialization and novelty’, promote the construction of a number of benchmark demonstration industrial parks, fully empower Guangzhou’s new industrialization construction and help the high-quality development of manufacturing." Gao Yuyue, deputy secretary general of Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government and director of the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, said.

  If the investment is stable, the industry will flourish. "This year, we will focus on engineering construction, procurement of advanced foreign equipment and technology introduction, and ensure that the first phase of the project will be put into production in the second half of 2024, reaching the capacity of manufacturing 12-inch integrated circuit chips with a monthly output of 20,000 pieces." He Shaoping, vice president of Guangzhou Zengxin Technology Co., Ltd. revealed that in 2024, Zengxin will start preparations for the second phase of 20 billion yuan of new investment projects.

  Dongguan: "No.1 Document", 20 new policies, supporting the real economy and striving for manufacturing loans exceeding 330 billion yuan.

  By the end of 2025, there will be no fewer than 25 manufacturing enterprises with revenues exceeding 100 billion yuan, and no fewer than 7 manufacturing industrial clusters with output exceeding 100 billion yuan, and the added value of advanced manufacturing industries will account for no less than 50% of the regulated industrial added value … On February 1, 2023, the No.1 Document of Dongguan Municipal Government, Several Measures on Persisting in Taking Manufacturing as the Master to Promote the High-quality Development of the Real Economy (hereinafter referred to as "Several Measures") was released. The "Several Measures" focuses on five major aspects: "big industry, big platform, big project, big enterprise and big environment", and puts forward 20 policies and 75 measures around three major aspects: manufacturing pillar, manufacturing transformation and manufacturing bail-out, involving about 1.5 billion yuan in reward and compensation policies for industrial cultivation and enterprise development.

  The "Several Measures" proposes to focus on large industries to reshape the system structure, enhance the core competitiveness of industries, and clearly propose to promote the energy level improvement of strategic emerging industries. The goal is to take the lead in breaking through the scale of 100 billion yuan by the end of 2025 on the existing basis, with no less than seven manufacturing industrial clusters with an output value exceeding 100 billion yuan. By the end of 2025, the investment in new strategic emerging industries in the city will be no less than 200 billion yuan.

  It is found that the investment in strategic emerging industries in Dongguan has been "accelerating". The data shows that in the first three quarters of 2022, the city completed 37.484 billion yuan of investment in strategic emerging industries, accounting for 43% of the city’s major project investment. Under the tuyere, emerging industries such as new energy storage, core components of new energy vehicles, semiconductors and integrated circuits, and new materials are constantly developing in Dongguan, and gradually become new kinetic energy to promote economic development.

  Li Ding, an economics researcher at Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences, gave a positive evaluation of Dongguan’s development of strategic emerging industries. Li Ding suggested: "Dongguan should walk on two legs and learn from the experience of manufacturing development in the past. On the one hand, it should attract investment to introduce large projects, on the other hand, it should cultivate local leading enterprises and establish its own leading supply chain system to make the industry more rooted."

  The goal of industrial pillar put forward in "Several Measures" has aroused strong repercussions in the business community. He Simo, founder and chairman of the Board of Directors of EasyTech Group, said that with the evolution and deepening of global digitalization, carbon emission reduction and the implementation of China’s strategic national policy, industrial digitalization and high-end manufacturing industry of new energy represented by new energy storage of sodium batteries have ushered in a new round of golden opportunities. Driven by the favorable policy of "No.1 Document", strategic emerging industries in Dongguan will intensify scientific and technological innovation and industrialization, which will contribute more to the high-quality development of provinces and cities with better performance.

  In promoting industrial transformation, the "Several Measures" emphasizes that to support scientific and technological innovation in manufacturing industry, it is necessary to speed up the construction of the whole process innovation ecological chain of "source innovation+technical research+achievement transformation+technology and finance+talent support". Construction of "the city’s major science and technology project library", support the city’s major science and technology projects to accelerate the transformation of results, and give the highest reward of 5 million yuan for outstanding industrialization performance. The ratio of R&D to GDP is important and stable at around 4%.

  The "Several Measures" also proposes to support the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry and support key enterprises to transform and upgrade the "Lighthouse Factory" of the World Economic Forum. In 2023, no less than 20 smart factories (workshops) will be identified, and the maximum subsidy will be 10 million yuan, which will drive no less than 1,000 industrial enterprises to implement transformation. Guide the digital empowerment center to transform into a public service platform.

  In addition, the "Several Measures" focus on industrial bail-out, and propose to support manufacturing enterprises to grab orders to expand the market and help manufacturing enterprises stabilize production and reduce costs.

  In terms of supporting manufacturing enterprises to grab orders and expand the market, the "Several Measures" proposed that in 2023, enterprises should be organized to participate in domestic and foreign exhibitions such as "Guangdong Trade National" and "Guangdong Trade Global" and export products should be transferred to domestic trade promotion activities for no less than 150 times. Give a subsidy of up to 500,000 yuan to industrial enterprises that hold new product launches, publicity and promotion meetings, order fairs and dealer conferences.

  In terms of helping manufacturing enterprises to stabilize production and reduce costs, in addition to rent reduction and other measures, Several Measures also propose to integrate and set up a special fund for financing risk compensation of small and medium-sized enterprises, and guide banking institutions to provide supply chain financing support such as order warehouse receipts and accounts receivable for small and medium-sized enterprises, and strive to exceed 330 billion yuan in the scale of manufacturing loans in the city in 2023.

  "Several measures have given the market a shot in the arm." In the view of Deng Zhihua, chairman of Dongguan Xianjin Health Beverage & Food Co., Ltd., the promulgation of "Several Measures" reflects that the government regards promoting high-quality development as the number one task, goes all out to grasp and promote the economy, and provides real assistance to enterprises from policies to rewards, so that enterprises can see the direction of development and have confidence in development.

  Zhongshan: It takes only one hour to start a "zero cost" business.

  At 9: 00 a.m. on February 1st, Li Na, the legal representative of Zhongshan Medical Products Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd., came to the government affairs service hall of Shiqi Street in Zhongshan City, registered the information needed for the newly-started enterprise, and received the company’s business license and four seals within one hour. This set of seals is also the first set of free seals issued after the official implementation of the "Implementation Plan for Free Engraving of the First Set of Seals of Newly Established Enterprises in Zhongshan City".

  "This is the fastest time since I applied to start a company!" Li Na said, "It is both economical and convenient. Once the information is registered and filled in, the seal will be taken immediately."

  According to the Implementation Plan for Free Engraving of the First Seal of Newly-established Enterprises in Zhongshan City, enterprises newly registered with the approval of Zhongshan Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Department, including limited companies, joint stock companies, partnerships, sole proprietorship enterprises and non-corporate enterprises as legal persons, can enjoy free engraving service of the first seal, covering one seal of legal name, one seal of finance, one seal of invoice and one seal of legal representative.

  Li Qinghua, chief of the business facilitation section of Zhongshan Municipal Market Supervision Bureau, said that the implementation of "government pays" to provide free seal engraving service for enterprises in Zhongshan is an important measure to further optimize the business environment, so that enterprises can easily start business at "zero cost" and facilitate market access for enterprises to the greatest extent.

  At present, the free seal engraving service can be handled at all government service centers at Zhongshan Town level. Next, Zhongshan will also launch a free engraving management system on the "one photo pass" service platform. After the function is launched, the applicant can apply for engraving online, and then collect it by mail, realizing the "zero running" of starting a business and engraving for free.

  Over the past year or so, Zhongshan has deployed more than 160 reform measures to optimize the business environment. Nowadays, it takes only 0.1 working day on average to start a business in Zhongshan, and you can get it within 1 hour at the earliest for free engraving. More than 1,700 businesses can be handled at your fingertips, 100 high-frequency services can be approved in seconds, and more than 300 matters such as business start-up and real estate registration can be handled in one thing. Over the past year or so, nearly 24,000 enterprise demands in the city have been answered immediately, and it took an average of 4.2 days to be solved. Town cadres visited more than 4,000 regulated enterprises, and enterprise demands went directly to the desks of municipal party committee secretaries and mayors through the "through train for secretaries and mayors". Since 2022, 101,600 new market entities have been registered in Zhongshan, with a year-on-year increase of 24.09%.

  Jiangmen: This year, the planned investment of 665 key projects in the city exceeded 120 billion yuan.

  A few days ago, according to the news of Jiangmen Development and Reform Bureau, Jiangmen arranged 665 key official projects this year, with an annual planned investment of 123.48 billion yuan, an increase of 6.4%. Among them, there are 128 provincial key official projects, with an annual planned investment of 49.19 billion yuan, an increase of 13.8%.

  In terms of fields, Jiangmen’s investment in industrial projects grew the fastest this year, and the proportion remained the first, increasing year by year. Driven by leading projects such as Longji Green Energy and Zhongchuang Singapore Airlines, investment in new generation information technology increased by 52.5% and investment in new materials industry increased by 21.8%, showing a good momentum of manufacturing industry, and investment in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery projects also increased by more than 50% for the first time. Investment in infrastructure increased by 15.7%, investment in supporting facilities in parks serving large industrial clusters doubled, and investment in railways, science and technology, environmental protection and other projects increased substantially.

  By stages, there are 311 projects in Jiangmen this year, and 178 projects have been put into production. Among them, the number of projects put into production increased by 32, and the annual investment accounted for 46.6%, both of which increased significantly. 101 industrial projects are expected to be put into production this year. 159 new projects were started, and the foundation of the real economy was further consolidated.

  In terms of scale, there are 333 projects with an investment of more than 500 million yuan in Jiangmen this year, with an investment of 99.26 billion yuan. Among them, there are 32 projects with more than 5 billion yuan, 161 projects with 1 billion to 5 billion yuan and 140 projects with 500 million to 1 billion yuan.

  In the next step, Jiangmen will vigorously promote the construction of key projects to speed up and increase efficiency, and further promote the reform of the business environment. At the same time, every second counts to promote the quick start and early production of key projects, strive for state support for the implementation of major projects such as Guangfo Jiangzhu Intercity, Taishan Nuclear Power Follow-up Unit and LNG Strategic Reserve Base, and go all out to ensure the key project elements.

  Huizhou: Blowing the "Charge" of major projects, the industrial investment target will increase by more than 20% this year.

  Recently, the mobilization meeting of Huizhou’s "three-year project aims at two-year work" project construction and the first meeting of the 2023 major project construction headquarters were held. Huizhou blew the "charge number" of major project construction, and made every effort to promote the start of construction, grab the progress and strengthen the guarantee.

  In June last year, Huizhou established a special class operation system of "1+6+1" major project construction headquarters to promote project construction to speed up and improve efficiency. The data shows that Huizhou’s GDP increased by 4.2% and fixed assets investment increased by 8.8% last year, ranking first in the province. Among them, industrial investment was 139.7 billion yuan, up 42%, ranking second in the province in terms of total amount and growth rate.

  In Daya Bay Petrochemical Zone, the ExxonMobil Huizhou ethylene project with a total investment of about 10 billion US dollars was fully promoted, and the staff of Hengli (Huizhou) PTA project with a total investment of 15 billion yuan stuck to their posts and rushed into production during the Spring Festival holiday; In Huicheng District, Huizhou Central People’s Hospital is building a provincial-level regional medical center, and the No.1 Highway (Huixia Expressway) project is under construction … At present, Huizhou is based on the real economy, insisting on the manufacturing industry as the master, continuously expanding effective investment and promoting high-quality development. Huizhou plans to increase investment in fixed assets by more than 15% this year, including industrial investment of more than 168 billion yuan, an increase of more than 20%.

  It is reported that there are 179 projects in Huizhou listed in the provincial key construction project plan (draft) in 2023, with a total investment of 679 billion yuan and an annual planned investment of 108.5 billion yuan, up 23% year-on-year, ranking third in the province, second only to Guangzhou and Shenzhen. At the same time, Huizhou listed five "project lists", such as the list of key construction projects in provinces and cities, the list of "three-year projects aiming at two-year projects", the list of local government special bond projects, the list of policy development financial funds, the list of funds in the central budget and the list of provincial special funds.

  The beginning is a decisive battle, and the beginning is a sprint. Huizhou will continue to solve the problems in project construction, make efforts to strengthen land use security, ease financial difficulties, meet employment needs, deepen examination and approval services, and make great efforts to create a first-class business environment.

  Zhaoqing: State-owned assets launch "Project Construction Year" to seize the golden season and window period.

  At Xinjiwan Wharf in Zhaoqing Port, the hook machine rumbled; In the starting area of large-scale industrial cluster in Guangdong Province (Zhaoqing), cranes are busy … After the Spring Festival holiday, the construction sites of various projects in Zhaoqing are in full swing.

  In order to promote the project construction, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Zhaoqing City proposed that this year, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Zhaoqing City will carry out the "Project Construction Year" in a down-to-earth manner, seize the golden season and window period of project construction, and speed up the construction of projects under construction.

  Among them, the city’s state-owned assets system has built 24 key projects throughout the year, with a total investment of over 10 billion yuan. It will concentrate on accelerating the construction of five whole industry chain projects, namely, new energy materials, Xijiang "golden waterway", national reserve forest, industrial parks and modern agriculture, and plans to complete the investment of nearly 3.5 billion yuan this year; At the same time, focus on the main business, speed up all work, realize the early completion of projects under construction, achieve effective production, actively plan a number of investment and development projects, and explore and create more new growth points.

  Guangdong (Zhaoqing) large-scale industrial cluster is one of the seven large-scale industrial clusters in the province. Zhaoqing Xijiang Industrial Investment Co., Ltd. is making every effort to promote the construction of the first phase (the first bid section) of the Dinghu Lotus-Fuxi Urban Management Starting Area Project, with an accumulated investment of 150 million yuan throughout the year. According to reports, Xijiang Company will build a whole industrial chain integrating "project agent construction+material trade+park operation+capital service" to speed up the construction of agent construction projects. It is estimated that by the end of 2023, the cumulative output value of agent construction projects will be 398 million yuan.

  As the core hub of the "Golden Waterway" of Zhaoqing Xijiang River, on November 30th last year, four public comprehensive wharf projects in Zhaoqing New District, namely Xinjiwan, Fengkai Changgang, Deqing Jiucheng and Yuecheng, started construction at the same time. This year, Zhaoqing Transportation Group will ensure that the total investment will reach 50% and the total investment will exceed 2 billion yuan during the year, and strive to achieve "more than half the time and more than half the task".

  In terms of national reserve forest, Zhaoqing Water Group will achieve the goal of afforestation of 38,000 mu and logging of 28,000 mu by the end of this year, and generate revenue exceeding 50 million yuan. With the help of "digital water", we will build an intelligent management platform and use modern information technology to implement dynamic supervision of forest resources.

  The relevant person in charge of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Zhaoqing City said that it will turn the blueprint into reality with the theory of quality and benefit, and take specific projects as the starting point to fully promote the speed and efficiency of project construction.

  Shaoguan: vigorously implement the "three major strategies". The regional GDP is expected to increase by 6% this year.

  According to the news of the fourth session of the 15th Shaoguan Municipal People’s Congress held on February 1st, in 2022, Shaoguan City overcame multiple difficulties and achieved a regional GDP of 156.4 billion yuan, an increase of 0.2%. The GDP of Shaoguan area is expected to increase by 6% this year.

  Next, Shaoguan will vigorously implement the "three strategies" of establishing an ecological city, strengthening an industrial city and enriching a county-level city, and carry out the "six actions" of green beauty Shaoguan, tackling key problems in industry, talents in science and education, optimizing business environment, ensuring factors and revitalizing resources, and promote the "three major improvements" in infrastructure level, grass-roots governance level and people’s livelihood, fully integrate into Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, vigorously deepen reforms, optimize business environment, and focus on. Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry, focus on promoting consumption and investment expansion, strengthen the construction of ecological civilization, promote strong counties to promote towns and villages, make every effort to build demonstration zones for industrial transformation and upgrading of national old industrial cities and resource-based cities, and strive to promote high-quality development.

  Shaoguan will build a large industrial undertaking platform, and plan to build a provincial key main platform and six characteristic industrial parks from a high starting point, so as to build the first batch of provincial key supporting industrial undertaking main platforms of the order of "10,000 mu and 100 billion yuan". A new round of industrial investment promotion was launched, and the actual investment was over 27 billion yuan in the whole year. Cultivate and expand emerging industrial clusters, and build a big data electronic information industry with an output value exceeding 100 billion yuan, an advanced equipment manufacturing industry, and a biomedical industry with an output value exceeding 50 billion yuan. Transform and upgrade traditional advantageous industries, complete technical transformation investment of more than 5 billion yuan, and start Xinfeng and Lechang pumped storage projects with a total investment of more than 20 billion yuan. We will promote the "high-quality development project of 100 counties, 1,000 towns and 10,000 villages", implement a number of billion-dollar projects and accelerate the construction of 12 provincial-level modern agricultural industrial parks under construction. Promote the ecological construction of Lvmei Shaoguan, complete 300,000 mu of forest tending, complete 3,600 mu of ecological restoration of mines left over from history, and further promote the construction of Nanling National Park and Danxia Mountain National Park. We will promote the improvement of infrastructure and accelerate the construction of 295 key projects with a total investment of over 230 billion yuan and an annual investment of over 31.5 billion yuan.

  Yangjiang: This year, the first large-scale green loan of 577 million yuan was issued to support high-quality development.

  Recently, Yangjiang Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China successfully issued a pre-project loan of 577 million yuan to the first green mine building materials project in Yangjiang-the building gneiss mine project in Fenghuangling mining area, Xitou Town, Yangxi County, which is the first large-scale project loan in Yangjiang this year.

  China Power Construction Group is one of the top 500 enterprises in the world. In recent years, it has actively integrated into and served the strategic layout of major national regions, and given full play to the core advantages of the green building materials industry. It has successively invested and built several large-scale green mine bases in Yunfu Yun ‘an, Zhaoqing Guangning, Jiangmen Taishan, Yunfu Yunan and Guangzhou Huadu, and is a leader in the development of domestic green building materials industry.

  In July, 2022, Zhongdian Jianchangjiu New Materials (Guangdong) Co., Ltd., which is controlled by China Dianjian Group, won the mining right of building gneiss mine in Fenghuangling mining area, Xitou Town, Yangxi County for 1.61 billion yuan. The whole mining area is developed in three phases, with an overall planned area of 21.08 square kilometers and an estimated total resource of 1.68 billion cubic meters. The initial planned annual production capacity is 40 million cubic meters, supporting 105 million tons/year of ports. The first phase of the mining area has a resource reserve of about 200 million tons, a total construction investment of about 5.2 billion yuan, and a construction and operation period of 9 years. It is mainly composed of three parts: mining, sand and gravel factory and long-distance transportation corridor, with an annual production of 30 million tons. It is a green building materials base integrating mining, transportation, processing and sales, which is of great significance to promoting the high-quality development of local and enterprises.

  In addition, the mining area is located in Xitou Town, Yangxi County, Yangjiang City, with Maoming and Zhanjiang in the west and Jiangmen and Zhuhai in the east. It can radiate Greater Bay Area by sea and serve the infrastructure construction in Greater Bay Area. The mining area is also close to the Yangjiang Port Bridge which has started construction and the planned operation area of Fengtou Island in Yangjiang Port, and can be exported to Southeast Asia and other places by sea in the future.

  Qingyuan: Last year, the total value of foreign trade imports and exports reached 55.26 billion yuan, achieving positive growth for eight consecutive years.

  According to Qingyuan Customs, in 2022, the total import and export value of Qingyuan’s foreign trade was 55.26 billion yuan, an increase of 3% over the same period of last year. The value of foreign trade in the whole year reached a record high, achieving eight consecutive increases since 2015.

  Since last year, Qingyuan has continued to exert efforts around key industries to promote high-quality development, and its export scale has steadily increased. The export of labor-intensive products was 10.23 billion yuan, an increase of 11.6%; The export of agricultural products was 380 million yuan, an increase of 13%; The export of unwrought aluminum and aluminum products was 910 million yuan, an increase of 69.1%.

  "Last year, the export volume and amount of our products both increased significantly year-on-year, and overseas orders in the first quarter of this year are expected to increase further." Shanhong (Qingxin) Agricultural Products Co., Ltd. is a food production enterprise specializing in the processing of hemp bamboo shoots in Qingyuan. Thanks to the RCEP policy, Chen Weiting, the manager of the company, is full of confidence in continuing to explore overseas markets.

  In 2022, Qingyuan Customs issued a total of 715 preferential certificates of origin under RCEP, which were mainly exported to the Japanese market. The export categories were footwear products and bamboo shoot products, helping 19 enterprises in Qingyuan to enjoy the benefits of exporting goods of about 415 million yuan.

  In the past year, Qingyuan’s trading partners have become more diversified. The top three trading partners are ASEAN, the United States and the European Union, and their imports and exports to ASEAN, the United States and the European Union are 14.39 billion yuan, 6.68 billion yuan and 5.45 billion yuan respectively, up by 11.2%, 0.7% and 13.2% respectively. At the same time, the vitality of market players was further released. In 2022, the import and export of private enterprises in Qingyuan was 31.17 billion yuan, an increase of 4.3%; The import and export of foreign-invested enterprises was 24.03 billion yuan, an increase of 3.1%.

Promote the deep integration of digital economy and modern service industry

    Core Tip: As a new economic form, the digital economy is developing continuously and rapidly, and the breadth and depth of its integration with various fields of economy and society are constantly expanding, which has injected new kinetic energy into the high-quality development of the service industry and provided new support for the fair distribution of social wealth. "Digital dividend" can promote development and income, optimize the allocation of factors, and increase social wealth. However, while enjoying the "digital dividend", we should also be alert to the imbalance between development and distribution caused by the "digital divide". Fiscal policy can promote the deep integration of digital economy and modern service industry by optimizing fiscal expenditure structure, implementing tax subsidy policy, improving social security system and strengthening new infrastructure construction, and help realize the goal of common prosperity.

    Abstract: As a new economic form, the digital economy is developing rapidly and continuously, and the breadth and depth of its integration with various fields of economy and society are constantly expanding, which has injected new kinetic energy into the high-quality development of the service industry and provided new support for the fair distribution of social wealth. "Digital dividend" can promote development and income, optimize the allocation of factors, and increase social wealth. However, while enjoying the "digital dividend", we should also be alert to the imbalance between development and distribution caused by the "digital divide". Fiscal policy can promote the deep integration of digital economy and modern service industry by optimizing fiscal expenditure structure, implementing tax subsidy policy, improving social security system and strengthening new infrastructure construction, and help realize the goal of common prosperity.

    Keywords: digital economy, service industry and common prosperity fiscal policy

    【 Chinese Library Classification Number 】 D669 【 Document Identification Code 】 a

    In 2023, the Central Economic Work Conference comprehensively summarized the economic work in 2023, profoundly analyzed the current economic situation, and made a systematic arrangement for the economic work in 2024, proposing to "lead the construction of modern industrial system with scientific and technological innovation" and emphasizing "to vigorously promote new industrialization, develop digital economy and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence". On the historical journey of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the digital economy, as a new economic form, has developed continuously and rapidly, and the breadth and depth of its integration with various economic and social fields have been continuously expanded. It has become an important engine for expanding domestic demand, promoting high-quality development and fair distribution of social wealth. A proactive and sustainable fiscal policy can provide an important guarantee in releasing the "digital dividend" and bridging the "digital divide", and help the digital economy and modern service industry to deeply integrate.

    New Opportunities: "Digital Dividend" Promotes Development and Income Increase

    Common prosperity of all people is the essential requirement of Chinese modernization, and common prosperity has two themes: efficiency and fairness. In the new stage of development, the medium and high-speed economic growth and the emphasis on fair and just social wealth distribution are indispensable. The application of disruptive technologies and cutting-edge technologies enables the transformation and upgrading of the service industry to innovate and develop a number of new formats and models that adapt to the characteristics of the digital economy era and become a new kinetic energy to lead the high-quality economic development.

    In terms of scale, the digital economy promotes the growth of output value and absorbs employment. At present, the service industry has become the largest industry in China’s national economy and has an increasingly important influence. Digital economy accelerates the integration into the whole chain production and consumption of service industry, which greatly promotes the potential growth of service industry. According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, the contribution rate of service industry to the national economic growth in 2022 was 41.8%, which boosted the GDP growth by 1.3 percentage points. In the first half of 2023, the contribution of service industry to economic growth reached 66.1%. The vigorous development of the service industry has absorbed a large number of jobs. International experience shows that the employment-driven efficiency of the tertiary industry is about 20% higher than that of the secondary industry. With the proportion of service industry in GDP increasing steadily, at present, China’s GDP growth of 1 percentage point can create about 2 million new jobs. Promoting the deep integration of digital economy and modern service industry can produce a strong resource agglomeration effect and improve the total factor productivity of service industry. The continuous development of service industry will support the gradual improvement of employment, boost household income and consumer confidence, and help promote common prosperity.

    From the format, the digital economy promotes industrial upgrading and optimizes distribution. According to the Digital China Development Report (2022) issued by the National Internet Information Office, the scale of China’s digital economy reached 50.2 trillion yuan in 2022, a nominal increase of 10.3% year-on-year, accounting for 41.5% of GDP. ③ The scale expansion trend of digital economy is obvious. The deep integration of digital economy and modern service industry will reshape the productivity, improve the labor productivity of service industry, conform to the trend of diversified expansion of service industry, and promote the innovation drive at many levels such as employment form, product category and service characteristics. Mobile Internet, big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, etc. are more and more closely connected with modern service industries, resulting in a number of emerging industrial clusters, and new models such as digital medical care, digital travel, digital education and unmanned economy are constantly emerging, extending the boundaries of value creation by practitioners. Digital technology usually has the characteristics of high penetration, and the flow of various production factors within and between industries is accelerated, which can be integrated with traditional service industries to form new formats and models, tap potential value and create new added value, and promote resource sharing and output improvement of the overall economy. The participation of data elements will further optimize the income distribution pattern, give birth to a shared economic platform, improve the employment model, enhance the value of human capital by relying on information, and achieve a fairer distribution of wealth.

    From the cost point of view, the digital economy alleviates "cost disease" and creates new wealth. Some economists, represented by W.J.Baumol, believe that in the process of service industry development, because its technological progress is usually slower than that of manufacturing industry, the relative cost of service industry will increase with time. From this, we can draw a conclusion that the continuous expansion of service industry will slow down the growth rate of the whole economy, which is called "Baumol’s cost disease". This model explains the trends and laws of industrial transformation in major economies in the last century, and also has reference significance for the development of service industry under the current digital economy. The continuous development of digital technology can alleviate or even overcome the "cost disease" of service industry: new technology is conducive to reducing transaction costs, reducing the impact of information asymmetry, promoting economies of scale, realizing economies of scale and multiplication effect; Through new career combination, career reengineering and career innovation, we will continue to expand new career associations and open up new employment boundaries, and reshape and integrate old development factors and resources with traditional careers, so as to further connect with the global value chain and realize the synchronous growth and fair distribution of income, wealth and economic development, thus balancing efficiency and fairness in development, not only "making a big cake" but also "dividing a good cake" and finally achieving common prosperity.

    From the layout point of view, the digital economy helps the coordinated development of industries and the integration of regional resources. The core production factor of digital economy is data. Its fluidity and accumulation make the importance of regional factors of industrial agglomeration decline, service producers no longer rely on upstream and downstream production areas and markets for layout, and the dispersion trend of digital economy enterprises is relatively stronger. Distributed production is conducive to breaking regional division and local protection, and the development of online platform is helpful to integrate resources and help build a unified national market. The production, exchange and consumption of digital technology services have gone deep into urban and rural areas, and the value chain layout has become more fragmented and regionalized. In particular, regional brands represented by online celebrity products in rural areas have broken down information barriers, which has spawned new formats of rural manufacturing and service, created new jobs and created new jobs. Private enterprises have gained more market access opportunities and a level playing field, which has driven more residents to start businesses and become rich. The deep integration of digital economy and modern service industry will promote the further equalization and coordination of industrial layout, strengthen the mobility of factors, improve labor productivity, create a good new format and participate in the initial distribution; The shortcomings of inter-regional public services are supplemented, the government’s service capacity is improved, the inter-regional adjustment of taxation and transfer payments is strengthened, and redistribution is improved; The atmosphere in which the main beneficiaries of the digital economy give back to the society has gradually formed, and the interregional social welfare undertakings have made great progress through digital technology, enhancing the importance of the third distribution.

    New challenge: the "digital divide" easily leads to the imbalance between development and distribution.

    While the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation have brought development dividends, the "digital divide" has also expanded to a certain extent, showing problems such as the formation of information cocoon, the intensification of information asymmetry, the lack of motivation for industrial sustainable development, and the difficulty in timely follow-up of policies and regulations.

    First, the difference of digital resources will lead to the "intelligence gap", and the difference of opportunities is not conducive to the fair distribution of wealth. "Digital divide" means the gap between the information rich and the information poor, that is, in the process of global digitalization, the polarization phenomenon caused by the differences in access and use of information network technology, the proportion of data elements and the innovation ability of digital industry among different countries, industries, enterprises, communities and individuals. The "digital divide" can be divided into "access divide", "use divide" and "intelligence divide", which respectively correspond to three different levels of network information infrastructure access, technical skills mastery and data element use. At present, the "digital divide" has emerged and is more focused on the "intelligent divide", that is, the gap between users in the acquisition and use of data and the understanding, mastery, application and innovation of the new round of artificial intelligence technology. Globally, the "digital divide" will aggravate the inequality of individual opportunities: from the perspective of educational opportunities, people have more and better resources to improve their digital literacy in areas with higher digitalization, while in areas with lower digitalization, individuals are even in a state of "off-line" and "semi-off-line"; From the perspective of job opportunities, enterprises in the digital age prefer workers with high digital literacy. The "digital divide" will aggravate the blocking of factor flow between regions, within industries and within industries, leading to the widening of economic income gap and the differentiation of employment patterns.

    Second, the difference in digital transformation will lead to uneven industrial development, and industrial differentiation will lead to uneven income. The different nature of the service industry will lead to great differences in its digital integration and transformation, and the adjustment effect on reducing the cost of the service industry and promoting the rational distribution of factors will also be different. Generally speaking, producer services represented by financial industry, warehousing and logistics industry and real estate industry have strong integration ability with digital technology, which can significantly improve the labor productivity of the industry and drive employment increase and salary increase. The life service industry, represented by catering and accommodation industry, domestic service industry and old-age service industry, has a slow transformation speed and faces many obstacles. Life service industry is directly related to consumer experience. Most of the market players are small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households. Some industries require low technical threshold, weak financial strength, insufficient digital literacy of practitioners and low human capital stock. There are also some industries with strong heterogeneity and irreplaceable service production, which makes it difficult to expand economies of scale and reduce transaction costs. Practitioners who master the production link of digital resource center can get rich profits at less cost, while practitioners in peripheral industries of digital resources bear the rising acquisition and use costs because they rely on increasingly important digital technology, and the income polarization effect is strengthened.

    Third, the difference in digital time series will lead to fluctuations in employment income, and the pain of transformation will easily lead to imbalance in distribution. The deep integration of digital economy and modern service industry is a long-term process, and the substitution effect and income effect play a role at the same time, which has a far-reaching impact on the development model of service industry and the income distribution of employees. Taking time as the axis, the influence of digital time sequence difference on income shows an "inverted U-shaped" curve, that is, the income gap gradually expands in the early stage of transformation, and gradually narrows in the late stage of transformation. On the one hand, in the early stage of the integration of digital economy and service industry, the demand for low-skilled workers in society began to decline due to the influence of technological substitution, resulting in unemployment of related practitioners; On the other hand, with the deep integration of digital economy and service industry, the "digital dividend" is constantly emerging, the digital ability and literacy of the whole society are constantly improving, new jobs are constantly recreated and created, the unemployment situation is alleviated, and the substantial increase in labor productivity makes the income distribution more balanced and the income gap narrowed. From a long-term perspective, the deep integration of digital economy and service industry will promote the realization of efficiency and fairness; However, the pain of short-term transformation will also lead to fluctuations in economic growth and wealth distribution, and market regulation lacks certain initiative in improving the overall digital literacy and skills of society.

    Fourth, the digital regional differences will bring about the imbalance of regional development. As the key production factor of digital economy, data depends on two traditional factors, namely labor and capital, to some extent. Therefore, similar to the regional differences of traditional production factors, the imbalance of data elements between regions will also lead to different degrees of digitalization of industries in different regions. At present, the digitalization process of China’s service industry presents a spatial pattern of development from east to west, from south to north, and from central cities to surrounding cities. As far as development opportunities are concerned, the digital economy in the eastern and southern regions has obvious first-Mover advantages, and digital technologies such as big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing and artificial intelligence have developed slowly in areas with weak digital infrastructure such as the central and western regions. In terms of development potential, the digital economy empowerment effect in the central and western regions is more prominent. Problems such as lack of digital skilled talents, weak investment attraction, and scattered digital asset resources are likely to make some areas miss the development opportunities of digital economy, hinder the improvement of labor productivity, and widen the income gap between regions. For example, in the eastern part of China, digital technology has enabled the development of the service industry, continuously reducing the cost of the service industry, attracting global talents and capital inflows, and even forming a siphon effect.

    New assistance: fiscal policy empowers industrial integration and development, improves quality and efficiency.

    As an important means of macro-control, fiscal policy can empower industrial integration and development, improve quality and increase efficiency by optimizing fiscal expenditure structure, implementing tax subsidy policy, improving social security system and strengthening new infrastructure construction. From the supply side, government procurement of related digital services can stimulate the supply of related products, and tax incentives and relief policies can reduce the economic burden of service enterprises, increase their investment in innovative research and development, give more opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises to develop, and promote the balanced distribution of social wealth. From the demand side, the proactive fiscal policy stimulates the consumption demand of digital services and related products by expanding public expenditure and reducing the tax burden of consumers, encourages related enterprises to carry out digital transformation, improves the profitability of enterprises, attracts more private investment and creates more jobs. In terms of initial distribution, the stability of the policy can create a good investment atmosphere, encourage more small and medium-sized enterprises to enter the digital service market, and optimize the distribution of factors; In terms of redistribution, the rationality and predictability of tax subsidies will help all people share the fruits of digital economy development, reduce the gap between the rich and the poor through transfer payments, and expand middle-income groups; In terms of the third distribution, the policy inclines to social welfare undertakings and establishes a charitable donation platform, which can enhance the credibility of charitable undertakings and help form a standardized charitable donation market. In short, fiscal policy can promote the deep integration of digital economy and modern service industry. By standardizing market competition and supervision, and promoting the coordination of cross-regional digital service platforms,Safeguarding consumers’ legitimate rights and interests and employees’ reasonable labor remuneration level is helpful to realize the goal of common prosperity.

    First, continue to strengthen fiscal expenditure on science and education and optimize the allocation of resources. Increase the total fiscal expenditure in the field of science and education, keep the proportion of fiscal science and education expenditure in public finance expenditure rising steadily, and stimulate the new kinetic energy of high-quality development of service industry. First of all, optimize the allocation of educational resources, promote the equalization of digital educational resources, and bridge the "digital divide" between urban and rural areas and regions. Financial funds should give priority to areas with weak digital infrastructure, so as to ensure the acquisition and literacy accumulation of digital resources in society as a whole and realize the supply of high-quality digital education resources. Secondly, optimize the expenditure structure of science and education, standardize the use process of scientific research funds, improve the efficiency of fund use, clarify the responsibility of fund use, focus on the use of scientific and technological funds in remote areas, support key digital technology research and technological upgrading in remote areas, and expand the use of spillover effects of scientific and technological innovation. Finally, improve the training system of workers’ digital literacy, optimize the allocation of funds and digital capital investment in primary, secondary and higher education, comprehensively improve the total factor productivity, and form a talent bonus driven by creativity and efficiency.

    Second, the tax subsidy policy cooperates with industrial transformation and encourages enterprises to cooperate and win-win. The integrated development of service industries with different characteristics is conducive to bridging the division of departments. The tax subsidy policy can give good guidance to industrial development, break down the barriers of factor flow, promote the overall improvement of labor productivity in service industries, and realize the basic synchronization of residents’ income growth and economic growth. First of all, reasonably control the corporate income tax and commodity value-added tax rates of producer services and lifestyle services, increase the corporate tax rates of industries in the center of digital resources acquisition, study and consider the taxability of data, strengthen the coordination and linkage between different taxes, standardize the cooperation and competition among service enterprises, and enhance the total social welfare. Secondly, encourage the integrated development of producer services and life services enterprises through appropriate subsidy policies, and guide digital technology to give consideration to both production and consumption. Platform enterprises combine digital technology to promote the integration of consumer networks and industrial networks, and encourage the development of new consumption formats such as food and beverage takeout, fresh e-commerce and instant delivery. Finally, we should strictly investigate tax-related crimes, strengthen anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition, create a good tax business environment, and promote common prosperity with scientific fiscal and taxation policies.

    Third, strengthen social security, firmly grasp the bottom line of people’s livelihood, and coordinate and promote the fairness and justice of social wealth distribution. Social security system is the "safety net" of fairness and justice and the "stabilizer" of common prosperity. A high-quality social security system can help common prosperity by safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood, adjusting income distribution, promoting social justice and realizing people’s sharing of economic development achievements. First of all, improve the unemployment insurance system, expand the coverage of unemployment insurance, optimize the payment standard of unemployment insurance, and implement the dynamic adjustment mechanism of welfare security. Secondly, increase public service posts and facilities, give play to the guiding role of community service in promoting employment, and help low-skilled workers improve their skills and competitiveness. Finally, improve the training system for talents related to new business forms, provide public welfare social education benefits, establish a joint training mechanism in Industry-University-Research, encourage low-and middle-skilled workers to participate in skills training and vocational further study, and enhance their employability, work ability and innovation ability.

    Fourth, accelerate the construction of new digital infrastructure and help regional coordinated development. Accelerating the construction of new digital infrastructure is an important measure to bridge the "digital divide", tap digital value and share digital benefits. The digital transformation of service industry should be based on the perfection of new digital infrastructure construction. First of all, set up special funds, give financial support to the central and western regions where the digital industry foundation is relatively weak, fill the shortcomings of regional resources, promote regional coordinated development, and ensure the balance of spatial development and the fairness of factor distribution. Secondly, make rational use of financing, steadily promote the cooperation between the government and social capital, optimize the capital structure, and improve the efficiency of project construction. Finally, standardize project management, strictly control project audit, strengthen budget performance management, track and supervise the use of funds for key projects, control the construction risks of large-scale projects, and enhance the effectiveness and standardization of the use of financial funds.

    General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "Promote the deep integration of the digital economy with advanced manufacturing and modern service industries." ⑤ To improve the service market system and accelerate the service industry to improve quality and efficiency, we need to make full use of China’s super-large-scale market advantages, empower the modern service industry with the digital economy, promote the innovation of service formats, service models and management models, and give full play to the amplification, superposition and multiplication of digital technology on economic development.

    (作者为对外经济贸易大学政府管理学院教授、博导;对外经济贸易大学政府管理学院本科生于烨飞对本文亦有贡献)

    【注:本文系对外经济贸易大学中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助项目(项目编号:QHZX01、20YQ09)阶段性成果】

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