Building and perfecting the national unified market and speeding up the construction of a new development pattern

  [In-depth study, publicity and implementation of the spirit of the 20th Party Congress]

  Author: Wang Yonggui Shi Mengting (special researcher of Zhejiang Supreme Leader New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center, president of Zhejiang Gongshang University, special researcher of capital university of economics and business Megacity Economic and Social Development Research Institute).

  The Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a National Unified Market emphasizes that "building a national unified market is the basic support and internal requirement for building a new development pattern". Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly put forward that "we should build a unified national market, deepen the marketization reform of factors, and build a high-standard market system". Speeding up the construction of a unified national market from a global and strategic perspective and giving full play to the advantages of China’s ultra-large-scale market are the only way to promote China’s market from large to strong and achieve high-quality economic development, which is essential to build a new development pattern with domestic large-scale circulation as the main body and domestic and international double-cycle mutual promotion. At present, to build and improve the national unified market and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, we need to continue to focus on unblocking the domestic circulation, promoting the construction of a modern industrial system, fully releasing the potential of domestic demand, continuously optimizing the business environment and promoting high-level opening up.

  Work together to build an efficient and standardized unified big market and better promote the domestic big cycle.

  The word "national" in the national unified market indicates the coverage, that is, to jointly build a unified market with high efficiency, standardization and fair competition across the country, regardless of regions and industries. Only in this way can we promote the rational flow and efficient agglomeration of capital, resources, commodities, services, data and other resource elements throughout the country, truly form a unified national market, improve the degree of market integration, thus unblocking the domestic circulation and comprehensively promoting the coordinated development of urban and rural areas and regions. All regions should identify their own positioning and comparative advantages in the new development pattern, organically link the construction of the new development pattern with the implementation of major regional strategies, regional coordinated development strategies, main functional area strategies, and the construction of free trade pilot zones, further break down local protectionism and market segmentation barriers, promote a better combination of effective markets and promising governments, give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, give full play to the role of the government, jointly build and improve the national unified big market, and highlight all regions and industries in actively participating in the domestic and international double cycle.

  To promote the construction of a unified big market in an orderly manner, the key points of this work mainly include: systematically sorting out and abolishing policies and measures that hinder the free flow of factors, enhancing the initiative and enthusiasm of enterprises in cross-regional mergers, strengthening the ties between regions, giving full play to the comparative advantages of regions, encouraging cooperation and complementarity to achieve common development; Establish an institutional mechanism for multi-sector joint supervision, use digital tools such as artificial intelligence to empower the government to intelligently supervise, break through time and space constraints, and achieve cross-regional and cross-sectoral business collaboration; We will comprehensively promote rural revitalization, smooth the economic cycle between urban and rural areas, promote the free flow of various market factors between urban and rural areas, promote the development of urban-rural integration and regional integration, narrow the income gap between regions, and comprehensively promote the construction of a unified national market.

  Accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system and continuously improve the quality and level of the supply system.

  General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that the new development pattern is based on the modern industrial system, and the smooth economic cycle requires orderly links and efficient and smooth industries. China has a very complete industrial system, with a large scale and a large number of manufacturing enterprises and a large base of potential consumer groups. However, due to the structural imbalance between supply and demand, the ultra-large-scale market demand cannot be completely transformed into effective demand. On the whole, the industrial system faces the coexistence of insufficient effective supply and excessive ineffective supply, which cannot fully release the huge potential consumer market space. The proportion of low-end supply is large, but the high-end supply is insufficient, and the added value of products is relatively low. The position of domestic enterprises in the global industrial chain supply chain value chain needs to be further improved; The independent innovation ability of high-end manufacturing industry is insufficient, and the overall competitiveness of international trade is still not strong enough. To this end, we must take innovation as the first driving force to lead high-quality development, build a self-controllable, safe, reliable and competitive modern industrial system, continuously improve the quality and level of the supply system by accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system, and further promote the market-oriented reform of factors on the basis of meeting the needs of the domestic super-large-scale market, which is conducive to promoting the formation and improvement of a unified national market.

  To speed up the construction of a modern industrial system and constantly improve the unified national market, we should first emphasize the basic role of innovation, realize innovation spillover through efficient and coordinated allocation of high-end elements such as technology, finance, data and human resources, enhance the innovation ability of enterprises in all directions, and continuously promote China’s manufacturing industry to steadily climb to the middle and upper reaches of the value chain; Empower traditional industries to realize modernization with technologies such as digitalization, networking and intelligence, and seize the opportunity of the new round of scientific and technological revolution to further develop new industries, new formats and new models; Continue to create a symbiotic, co-creation, sharing, win-win, healthy and safe digital ecology, make the digital economy stronger and better, and build an internationally competitive digital economy industrial cluster; Cultivate and expand strategic emerging industries, accelerate the research and development and application promotion of cutting-edge technologies such as new energy, artificial intelligence, bio-manufacturing, green and low carbon, and quantum computing, and strive to achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance; Support the development of specialized and new enterprises, build a number of world-class enterprises, continuously promote the development of advanced manufacturing and strategic emerging industries, and create a new engine for high-quality economic development.

  Expand domestic demand and promote consumption, and fully release the endogenous power of the domestic cycle.

  Socialized reproduction includes four links: production, distribution, exchange and consumption. Among them, consumption is the final link, the key link to satisfy people’s yearning for a better life, and the main engine of China’s future economic growth. Only by comprehensively promoting the expansion and upgrading of the consumer market can the endogenous power of the domestic big cycle be fully released and further promote the construction of a unified national market. At present, China’s economy continues to improve steadily, but it still faces some challenges in restoring and expanding domestic demand. From the supply side, the innovation ability can not fully meet the needs of high-quality development, the supply quantity, quality and supply capacity need to be further improved, and the effective supply of high-end products and services is insufficient, which can not effectively meet the development, enjoyment and upgrading needs of consumers. From the demand side, China has become the second largest economy in the world, with huge market development space, but there is still great consumption potential that has not been fully tapped. It is necessary to further improve the education, medical care and social security systems to improve the consumption tendency of residents.

  By expanding domestic demand, we can fully release the endogenous power of the domestic macro-cycle and improve the unified national market. We must organically combine the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening the structural reform on the supply side to promote a higher level of matching between supply and demand. Therefore, we should attach importance to promoting product and service innovation with scientific and technological innovation, actively cultivate digital consumption, green consumption, experience consumption and healthy consumption, create new consumption growth poles, and meet the needs of consumers for personalization, quality, diversification and upgrading; Increase the supply of high-quality products and support the development of emerging consumption such as new energy vehicles, smart wear and smart home appliances; Taking improving people’s well-being as the starting point and the end result, we will increase residents’ income through multiple channels, improve the convenience and inclusiveness of family finance, and boost residents’ spending power and confidence.

  Continuously optimize the business environment and promote fair competition in the market.

  The release of "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a Unified National Market" emphasizes the improvement of a high-level socialist market economic system to further stimulate the vitality of various business entities. Only by creating a stable, fair, transparent and predictable business environment for all kinds of business entities to invest and start businesses can we promote fair competition in the market, maintain market competition order and stimulate the vitality of market entities. At present, in the process of perfecting the unified national market and building a new development pattern, there are still some problems, such as inadequate implementation of preferential policies for enterprises, difficult and expensive financing for market players, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, and insufficient refinement of the right attribute, protection scope and accountability mechanism of new intellectual property rights under the network environment. We must take many measures to continuously optimize the business conditions of market players and strive to create a market-oriented, rule-of-law and international business environment.

  To create a good business environment, it is necessary to constantly improve the intellectual property protection system, implement the policy of benefiting enterprises involved, make good use of the supporting tools of small and micro loans to reduce the production and operation costs of enterprises; Do a good job in addition and subtraction of administrative examination and approval items, optimize services for addition and subtraction of examination and approval items, and continuously improve the ability and level of "Internet+government services" of various government departments; Build a pro-Qing political and business relationship, use a digital application platform, build an application scenario of administrative monopoly monitoring, and help build a unified national market.

  Promote a high level of opening to the outside world and realize the mutual promotion of domestic and international double circulation.

  The national unified market is a fully open market, and it pursues a high level of opening to the outside world. This means that in the process of building the national unified market, it is necessary to steadily promote the institutional opening of rules, regulations, management and standards, enhance China’s right to speak in the international cycle, and provide assistance to solve the stuck points, blocked points and difficult problems in the domestic cycle through high-level participation in the international cycle.

  To accelerate the construction of a unified national market and promote high-level opening-up from an overall and strategic perspective, we must expand all-round open cooperation with other countries and inject new development momentum into the global economy. Practice the concept of openness and tolerance, absorb and learn from foreign advanced manufacturing experience, and enhance China’s high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement; In the process of creating a market-oriented, rule-based and international first-class business environment, we will strive to promote the effective connection between domestic rules and international rules and attract more high-quality foreign investment; Continuously expand the network of high-standard free trade zones facing the world, and enhance the linkage effect of domestic and international markets and resources; Actively participate in the formulation of international rules, enhance the right to speak internationally, and contribute China wisdom to the development of the world economy.