Gong Zheng, Mayor of Shanghai: Take responsibility for the country and be a pioneer, strive to promote the development of Shanghai during the 15th Five-Year Plan to achieve a good start

　　The grand blueprint for the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" has been drawn, and this year marks the beginning of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan." The start is crucial to the overall situation, and the beginning determines the trend. We must fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party and the spirit of all plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, thoroughly implement the important speech spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's inspection of Shanghai, take responsibility for the country, and bravely be the vanguard, focusing on promoting high-quality development, achieving a good start to the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan," laying a solid foundation for accelerating the construction of a socialist modern international metropolis with world influence, and fully playing the leading and exemplary role in promoting Chinese-style modernization.

　　First, focus on strengthening the leading role of domestic demand and serve the construction of a new development pattern. Adhere to closely combining benefiting people's livelihood and promoting consumption, investing in goods and investing in people, and promote the effective improvement of economic quality and reasonable growth in quantity. This year's citywide economic growth target is about 5%, and in actual work, we must strive for better results and contribute more to national development. First, make greater efforts to boost consumption. Deeply implement the special action to boost consumption and accelerate the construction of an international consumption center city. Optimize the implementation of the old-for-new consumption of consumer goods, further expand service consumption, develop the first-launch economy, nighttime economy, live-streaming economy, silver economy, enrich digital consumption, self-pleasing consumption, cruise consumption supply, and accelerate the release of inbound consumption potential. Carefully organize the "Five-Five Shopping Festival" and other consumption expansion activities to promote the deep integration of culture, commerce, tourism, sports, and exhibitions. Second, increase efforts to expand effective investment. Promote the high-quality construction of "two major" projects, further stimulate the vitality of private investment, and tilt investment towards technological innovation, industrial upgrading, urban renewal, and people's livelihood protection, ensuring the completion of major project investments of 255 billion yuan. Third, focus on stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment. Implement a new round of policies to stabilize foreign trade and special actions to facilitate cross-border trade, support enterprises in actively exploring diversified international markets. Implement the new version of the encouraged foreign investment industry catalog, further enhance the level of regional headquarters of multinational companies and foreign-funded R&D centers.

　　Second, focus on accelerating the construction of the "Five Centers" and continuously enhance urban capabilities and core competitiveness. Adhere to the "Five Centers" as the main direction and important mission, coordinating and guiding all aspects of economic and social development work. Around enhancing the status of the international economic center, accelerate the construction of a "2+3+6+6" modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, promote the digital and intelligent transformation and green transformation of traditional industries, vigorously develop the three leading industries of integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence, focus on building six emerging pillar industry clusters of new-generation electronic information, intelligent connected new energy vehicles, high-end equipment, advanced materials, new energy and green low-carbon, and fashion consumer goods, and layout and cultivate six future industries of future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future energy, future space, and future health. Promote the expansion and quality improvement of the service industry and agglomeration development. Around enhancing the competitiveness and influence of the international financial center, build a global allocation center for RMB assets and a risk management center, explore the construction of an offshore financial system, improve the level of cross-border financial service facilitation, and strengthen the construction of the science and technology financial reform pilot zone. Effectively prevent and resolve financial risks. Around promoting the quality improvement and upgrading of the international trade center, solidly do a good job in the city service guarantee work for the ninth CIIE, vigorously develop digital trade, offshore trade, green trade, cross-border e-commerce, accelerate the construction of bulk commodity resource allocation hubs, and support leading and chain master enterprises to establish global supply chain management centers. Around enhancing the resource allocation capacity of the international shipping center, deepen the reform of the Shanghai Shipping Exchange system, support the digital innovation development of shipping trade, promote the construction of international green shipping corridors, and open and densify international aviation long-distance and "Belt and Road" routes. Around strengthening the source function of the international science and technology innovation center, support national laboratories to better play the role of the "general platform, general chain leader" in science and technology innovation, support high-level research universities and research institutes to explore mission-oriented organizational management systems, deepen the construction of the basic research pilot zone, and implement the new national system for tackling key core technologies.

　　Third, focus on promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and cultivate new quality productivity. Promote seamless docking of the innovation chain and industrial chain, continuously activate the talent engine, and transform innovation potential into industrial momentum. First, accelerate the efficient transformation and application of major scientific and technological achievements. Build an innovation ecosystem of "government, industry, academia, research, finance, service, and use," deepen the reform of full empowerment of scientific and technological achievements, support concept verification platforms, pilot platforms, and high-quality incubators to enhance service levels. Strengthen the position of enterprises as the main body of scientific and technological innovation, improve the gradient cultivation system of innovative enterprises, and encourage enterprises to increase R&D investment. Second, promote the intelligent, green, and integrated development of industries. Deeply implement the "Artificial Intelligence+" action, strengthen the layout and construction of computing power facilities, industry corpora, vertical models, and accelerate the intelligent transformation of key industries. Promote the construction of green supply chains in industries such as automobiles and ships, support the innovative development of green industries such as new energy storage. Promote the deep integration of modern service industries and advanced manufacturing industries. Third, promote the integrated development of education, science, and technology talents. Fully implement the high-level education service and strong contribution plan, optimize the layout of future disciplines and frontier fields, and improve the cultivation mechanism of top innovative talents and urgently needed talents in industries. Accelerate the construction of a global talent network system, continuously expand the teams of strategic scientists, leading scientific and technological talents, and various other talents.

　　Fourth, focus on implementing high-level reform and opening up, and enhance the driving force and vitality of high-quality development. Adhere to using the implementation of major national strategic tasks as a guide, deepen reforms in key areas, expand institutional opening, and better test systems, measure pressure, and explore new paths for the country. First, deepen the construction of the Pudong leading area. Continuously promote comprehensive reform pilots, facilitate cross-border investment and financing and settlement, and attract international organizations to accelerate agglomeration. Establish a comprehensive bonded area for science and technology innovation, and deeply implement the large enterprise open innovation center plan. Second, increase efforts to build the free trade pilot zone and Lingang New Area. Promote the further optimization of the layout and enhancement of the level of the free trade pilot zone, and deepen the implementation of high-level institutional opening. Support Lingang New Area in innovatively expanding functions such as offshore trade and cross-border data flow. Third, continuously promote the construction of the Hongqiao International Open Hub. Implement the new round of high-level opening plan for Hongqiao, build a pilot area for enterprises to go global, and promote the composite function and spatial optimization of the core area of the business district. Fourth, build and operate the Oriental Hub International Business Cooperation Zone with high quality. Actively explore a facilitation system centered on the cross-border flow of overseas goods and personnel, and fully organize the China Home Appliance and Consumer Electronics Expo and the first Overseas Investment and Comprehensive Service Exhibition, promoting the agglomeration and development of international professional service institutions. Fifth, deeply promote the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. Implement the construction plan of the Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) International Science and Technology Innovation Center with high quality, accelerate the promotion of key cooperation matters such as joint construction of infrastructure, and collaboratively promote institutional innovation in the demonstration zone for ecological green integrated development in the Yangtze River Delta.

　　Fifth, focus on promoting the construction of a people's city and further improving the quality of people's lives. Deeply practice the important concept of a people's city, start implementing a new round of people's heart projects, solidly promote annual practical projects for the people, continuously enhance people's livelihood and welfare, improve the modernization level of urban governance, and better meet citizens' needs for a better life. Adhere to putting people's livability and comfort first. On the basis of historically completing large-scale old renovation, scattered old renovation, and "bucket toilet" renovation in the central urban area, increase efforts to promote the renovation of urban villages and the complete renovation of old housing. Strengthen party building to lead property governance, continuously improve the multi-level rental housing supply system, and promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market. Adhere to leaving the best resources for the people. Continuously create green ecological spaces of "one river, one belt," and promote the construction of a new round of a thousand parks. Enhance the function of the 15-minute community life circle, and promote the opening and sharing of affiliated spaces of government agencies, enterprises, and institutions to society. Adhere to serving the people with high-quality supply. Strengthen employment assistance for key groups, and promote high-quality full employment. Promote the aging-friendly renovation of home environments, and improve the unaccompanied care service system. Optimize fertility support policies and incentive measures, and vigorously develop inclusive childcare and integrated childcare services. Adhere to better coordinating development and safety. Strengthen the investigation and rectification of risks and hidden dangers in key areas such as construction and fire safety, deepen the overall prevention and control system and capacity building of social security, ensuring that Shanghai remains one of the safest and most resilient cities in the world.

(Compiled by Xinhua News Agency reporters Wang Yongqian and Yao Yujie)