＂Fully confident, capable and qualified to overcome the immediate difficulties＂ —— National Development and Reform Commission responds to the hot spots of economic operation
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 20th Title: "Fully confident, capable and qualified to overcome immediate difficulties" — — National Development and Reform Commission responds to hot spots of economic operation
Xinhua News Agency reporter An Bei
Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, China’s GDP in the first quarter dropped by 6.8% year-on-year. How to treat China’s economic trend? How to promote "new infrastructure"? Is the basic foreign capital market stable? What is the price trend? The National Development and Reform Commission held a press conference on the 20th to respond to the hot issues of economic operation.
The impact and influence of the epidemic situation are phased.
Yan Pengcheng, director of the National Economic Comprehensive Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that the analysis of the economic situation in the first quarter should be comprehensively measured in the context of the impact of the epidemic. This is not a normal reflection of the fundamentals of China’s economic development, but the result of sudden and serious events.
"In the process of epidemic prevention and control, we will inevitably pay a certain price, but life is priceless. Compared with the life safety and health of the people, the short-term pressure on the economy must be borne and worth paying." He stressed that overall, the epidemic has not changed and will not change the long-term positive fundamentals of China’s economy, and the impact and impact brought by the epidemic are phased.
Yan Pengcheng said that since March, physical indicators such as electricity consumption and freight volume have obviously recovered, and domestic demand such as investment and consumption has also recovered. A strong domestic market will play a supporting role, and there is still a lot of room for macro hedging policy and it will continue to exert its strength.
According to the data of the day, from April 1 to 15, the national power generation increased by 1.2% year-on-year, achieving positive growth.
Yan Pengcheng said that the next step will be to launch a number of more powerful and targeted policy measures in finance, investment and consumption, employment and people’s livelihood, and strive to help enterprises tide over the difficulties, improve their ability to survive and develop, and effectively stabilize economic operation. "We are fully confident, capable and qualified to overcome the immediate difficulties and push economic development back to normal track as soon as possible." He said.
Outline the development path of "new infrastructure"
The construction of new infrastructure has been widely concerned by the society. Wu Hao, director of the High-tech Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that the preliminary study believes that the new infrastructure is an infrastructure system that is guided by new development concepts, driven by technological innovation, based on information networks, and provides services such as digital transformation, intelligent upgrading and integration innovation for high-quality development needs.
He introduced that the current new infrastructure mainly includes three aspects:
The first is information infrastructure, which mainly refers to the infrastructure based on the evolution of a new generation of information technology, such as communication network infrastructure represented by 5G, Internet of Things, industrial Internet and satellite Internet, new technology infrastructure represented by artificial intelligence, cloud computing and blockchain, and computing infrastructure represented by data centers and intelligent computing centers.
The second is converged infrastructure, which mainly refers to the deep application of Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies to support the transformation and upgrading of traditional infrastructure, and then forms converged infrastructure, such as intelligent transportation infrastructure and smart energy infrastructure.
The third is innovation infrastructure, which mainly refers to infrastructure with public welfare properties that supports scientific research, technology development and product development, such as major scientific and technological infrastructure, science and education infrastructure, and industrial technology innovation infrastructure.
"With the technological revolution and industrial transformation, the connotation and extension of new infrastructure are not static and will continue to be followed up." Wu Hao said.
He said that the next step will be to strengthen the top-level design and study and introduce relevant guiding opinions to promote the development of new infrastructure; Optimize the policy environment and revise and improve the access rules that are conducive to the sustained and healthy development of emerging industries; Do a good job in project construction, accelerate the deployment of 5G networks, promote the optimization and upgrading of fiber-optic broadband networks, accelerate the construction of national integrated big data centers, steadily promote the "digital+"and "smart+"upgrades of traditional infrastructure, and deploy innovative infrastructure ahead of schedule; Strengthen departmental coordination, stimulate the enthusiasm of various subjects for investment, and promote technological innovation, deployment and construction, and integrated applications to promote mutual progress.
The basic disk of foreign investment is generally stable.
Recently, the news about the withdrawal of foreign capital from China has aroused concern again. "The epidemic has had a huge impact on the world economy. In this special period, countries need to join hands to stabilize the global industrial chain supply chain. What the government has to do is to help enterprises overcome difficulties and tide over difficulties, rather than increasing uncertainty. " Yuan Da, spokesman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that with China’s rapid control of the epidemic and comprehensive promotion of resumption of work and production, the basic situation of foreign investment is generally stable, the production and operation of foreign-funded enterprises in China are gradually becoming normal, the completion of orders is constantly improving, the confidence of foreign investors is gradually increasing, and a number of new foreign-funded projects are about to land, which fully demonstrates the stability and tenacity of China’s investment environment.
Yuan Da said that foreign-funded projects and enterprises will be further promoted to resume production, and all policies for aiding enterprises are equally applicable to domestic and foreign-funded enterprises; Introduce a negative list of foreign investment access in 2020 to further relax foreign investment access; Introduce the 2020 edition of the catalogue of industries to encourage foreign investment, and encourage items to increase rather than decrease; Continue to do a good job in landing major foreign-funded projects; Fully implement the foreign investment law and its implementing regulations. "On the basis of implementing the first three batches of major foreign investment projects, the fourth batch of major foreign investment projects will be launched this year." He said.
The international epidemic continues to spread, which objectively leads to the decline of overseas demand, and some enterprises stop production, which has a great impact on China’s industrial chain supply chain.
Focusing on ensuring the stability of the industrial chain supply chain, Wu Hao said that the key point is to speed up the resumption of work and production, and promote the stability of the industrial chain supply chain through leading enterprises and backbone enterprises; Accelerate the realization of resuming production and reaching production, do a good job in the article of domestic big cycle, adapt to new demand, lead new demand and create new demand with high-quality supply; Deepen international cooperation and provide convenience for important and urgently needed business, logistics, production and technical service personnel on the premise of ensuring prevention and control requirements.
"In the medium and long term, this epidemic may have a certain impact on the adjustment of the international industrial chain, but the general trend will not change." Wu Hao said that China’s institutional advantages and the advantages of a complete industrial system will be further highlighted, and it will actively create new growth points for international cooperation and promote the stability and development of the global industrial chain supply chain.
The price increase is expected to continue to fall.
After a year-on-year increase of more than 5% for two consecutive months, the national consumer price (CPI) rose by 4.3% year-on-year in March, which was 0.9 percentage points lower than that in February and 1.2% lower than that in the previous month.
"The impact of the epidemic on China’s consumer prices is short-term, and the foundation for the stable operation of China’s prices is still solid." Yan Pengcheng said that with the further recovery of the production and living order of the whole society, the CPI increase is expected to continue to fall, and the whole year will show a trend of "high before and low after".
He said that since the beginning of this year, China has strengthened the supply and price stability of pork, strengthened the supply of grain and oil market, and strengthened the protection of people’s livelihood. During the epidemic period, the actual temporary price subsidies distributed in various places totaled 9.3 billion yuan, and it was clear that from March to June, on the basis of the existing protection objects, the scope of protection was expanded and the temporary price subsidies were doubled, which is expected to benefit more than 67 million people.
Yan Pengcheng said that the next step will continue to do a good job in ensuring the supply and price stability of important people’s livelihood commodities, and strengthen price monitoring, forecasting and early warning; Support the pig breeding industry to resume production and expand production, encourage the increase of poultry meat and aquatic products, and strengthen the management of spring ploughing and sowing of crops such as grain and vegetables; Actively develop cold chain logistics, strengthen the public welfare attribute of agricultural products market, and reduce the loss and cost of logistics, transportation and market transactions; Continue to do a good job in the central frozen pork reserve; Supervise and guide all localities to implement the phased policy of raising the price of temporary subsidies and expanding the scope, and distribute subsidies to the needy people in full and on time.