National Development and Reform Commission: Comprehensive Remediation of “Intrinsic” Competition and Cultivating New Momentum for Development to Deepen and Expand “Artificial Intelligence +” Actions

The Zhitong Finance App learned that from December 12 to 13, the National Development and Reform Work Conference was held in Beijing. The conference emphasized doing a solid job in the key tasks of development and reform next year. Comprehensively rectify “internal rolling” competition and cultivate new momentum for development. Improve production capacity management and major infrastructure regulation in key industries, vigorously cultivate and expand emerging industries and future industries, cultivate and expand several emerging pillar industries, deepen and expand the “Artificial Intelligence +” campaign, make up for shortcomings in the science and technology service industry, improve the low-altitude economy industry ecology, and further promote the high-quality development of the digital economy.

The conference emphasized doing a solid job in the key tasks of development and reform next year. Take more measures to stop the decline and stabilize investment. Give full play to the role of various types of government investment funds such as “dual” construction and the addition of local government special bonds, appropriately increase the scale of investment within the central budget, continue to play the role of new policy financial instruments, and continuously improve investment efficiency. Plan and implement major engineering projects for the “15th Five-Year Plan”. Further clarify investment rules, do a solid job in the early stages, and strengthen investment project scheduling. Deeply implement a number of measures to promote the development of private investment to effectively stimulate the vitality of private investment.

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Deeply implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the Central Economic Work Conference and push for a good start to the “15th Five-Year Plan” development and reform work -- the National Development and Reform Work Conference was held in Beijing

From December 12 to 13, the National Development and Reform Work Conference was held in Beijing. The conference adheres to Xi Jinping's ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, comprehensively implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress and the 20th Plenary Session of the Party, earnestly implements the decisions and arrangements of the Central Economic Work Conference, summarizes development and reform work in 2025 in accordance with the deployment requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and studies and deploys key tasks for development and reform in 2026. Zheng Zhajie, Party Secretary and Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, made a work report. Party members of the Committee attended the meeting.

The conference pointed out that this year has been an extraordinary year. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, China's economy is putting pressure on moving forward, developing towards new excellence, and achieving effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth. The goals and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan are about to be successfully completed. The development and reform system resolutely implements the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and solidly pushes forward all tasks. The first is to do a good job in economic analysis and policy research, strengthen research and judgment on the economic situation, strengthen countercyclical adjustment, promote the introduction of policy measures to stabilize employment and stabilize the economy, and continuously optimize the consistency assessment of macroeconomic policy orientations. The second is to prepare medium- to long-term plans and annual plans, draft the “Outline” of the “15th Five-Year Plan”, promote the preparation and implementation of plans in key areas, strengthen guidance on local planning preparation, and prepare and implement annual plans with high quality. The third is to do a good job in investment management and project construction, coordinate the use of investment and other funds within the central budget, solidly push forward “dual” construction, step up support for “two new” tasks, establish and invest in new types of policy financial instruments, and further promote the development of private investment. Fourth, do a good job in reform and innovation, further promote the construction of a unified national market, carry out in-depth actions to clean up market entry barriers and systematic rectification of outstanding issues in the field of bidding and bidding, step up the resolution of structural contradictions in key industries, promulgate and implement private economy promotion laws, accelerate research on key core technologies, implement the “Artificial Intelligence +” campaign in depth, continuously improve the quality of the use of foreign capital and overseas investment, and promote joint construction of the “Belt and Road” with high quality. The fifth is to do a good job in comprehensive coordination and comprehensive balance, promote the deepening implementation of regional strategies and integrated regional development in an integrated manner, support major economic provinces to take the lead, promote coordinated urban and rural development in an orderly manner, further promote new people-centered urbanization, actively and steadily promote carbon neutrality, effectively guarantee energy supply, make every effort to stabilize employment, ensure stable supply and prices for important livelihood commodities, and steadily strengthen basic public services.

The conference emphasized that the development and reform system should deeply understand the important connotations of the “five essentials” proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping at the Central Economic Work Conference, accurately grasp the general requirements for next year's economic work, and do a solid job in the key tasks of next year's development and reform in line with functions. The first is to prepare and implement the “15th Five-Year Plan”. Deeply understand the strategic intentions of the Party Central Committee, insist on adapting to local conditions, improve the quality of planning, strengthen the review and coordination of plan content, and implement the various decisions, arrangements and work requirements determined by the “Proposal” of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. At the same time, we will strengthen economic monitoring, early warning and analysis, improve the policy toolbox, strengthen the management of expectations, do a good job of linking policies and work between this year and next, and push forward policies to achieve a good start. Second, take more measures to stop the decline in investment and stabilize it. Give full play to the role of various types of government investment funds such as “dual” construction and the addition of local government special bonds, appropriately increase the scale of investment within the central budget, continue to play the role of new policy financial instruments, and continuously improve investment efficiency. Plan and implement major engineering projects for the “15th Five-Year Plan”. Further clarify investment rules, do a solid job in the early stages, and strengthen investment project scheduling. Deeply implement a number of measures to promote the development of private investment to effectively stimulate the vitality of private investment. Third, to boost consumption, we need to come up with new practical measures. Optimize and implement the consumer goods trade-in policy, actively expand service consumption, speed up the clean-up of unreasonable restrictive measures in the consumer sector, and promote the upgrading of consumer supply. Fourth, comprehensively rectify “internal rolling” competition and cultivate new momentum for development. Improve production capacity management and major infrastructure regulation in key industries, vigorously cultivate and expand emerging industries and future industries, cultivate and expand several emerging pillar industries, deepen and expand the “Artificial Intelligence +” campaign, make up for shortcomings in the science and technology service industry, improve the low-altitude economy industry ecology, and further promote the high-quality development of the digital economy. The fifth is to further comprehensively deepen reforms. Research and formulate regulations for the construction of a unified national market, and work together to promote the integrated reform of “entry, scenario, and elements”. Continue to rectify key issues in investment promotion, bidding, etc., and resolutely break down all kinds of barriers and barriers. Make greater efforts to develop the private economy and vigorously promote the construction of a system supporting the private economy to promote the law. The sixth is to further expand high-level opening-up to the outside world. Steadily expand institutional openness, coordinate “introduction” and “going global”, and promote joint high-quality development of the “Belt and Road”. The seventh is to accelerate the overall green transformation with dual carbon as the lead. Steadily implement a dual control system for total carbon emissions and intensity, improve supporting systems, strengthen evaluation and assessment, and strictly control the addition of “two high” projects. Eighth is to make greater efforts to guarantee employment and improve people's livelihood. Promote employment income through multiple channels, raise the level of public services, ensure a stable quantity and price of people's livelihood products, and effectively improve people's livelihood and welfare. The ninth is to adapt to changes in the population situation and optimize the allocation of public resources. Coordinate planning to promote high-quality population development, accelerate the improvement of public resource allocation mechanisms adapted to population changes, and strengthen the forward-looking layout of educational resources. At the same time, we will solidly promote urban-rural integration and coordinated regional development, continue to promote the construction of a new type of people-centered urbanization, step up the implementation of regional strategies, accelerate the promotion of interregional linkage and integrated development, promote rural revitalization in an orderly manner and regionalization, and promote the revitalization and development of special types of regions. Better coordinate development and security, continuously improve food security and safety capabilities, continue to promote the construction of energy production supply, storage and marketing systems, enhance the resilience of the industrial chain supply chain, and actively and steadily resolve risks in key areas.

The conference emphasized the need to do a good job in key tasks at the end of the year and the beginning of the New Year, take care of the production and life of people in need, make every effort to keep warm and supply during the heating season and protect the supply of important livelihood commodities, take good care of autumn and winter production, strengthen the guarantee of coal, electricity, oil and gas transportation during the peak season, and organize and coordinate the Spring Festival travel season. The conference also responded to local concerns about key economic and social development issues.

The meeting called for the development and reform system to unite more closely around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, further deeply understand the decisive significance of “two determinations”, continuously strengthen the “Four Consciousness”, establish and implement a correct view of political performance in accordance with the arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, insist on seeking truth from facts, adapt to local conditions, insist on implementation and seeking practical results, and push all development and reform tasks to a new level with the nail spirit to ensure “ten” “Five Five-Year Plan” to achieve a steady and steady one A good start.

Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General of the National Development and Reform Commission, comrades in charge of various departments, departments, bureaus and offices, comrades in charge of the Commission's Discipline Inspection and Monitoring Team, comrades in charge of the National Bureau of Food and Material Reserves, National Energy Administration, National Data Administration and relevant departments and bureaus, comrades mainly responsible for each subsidiary unit, comrades in charge of the relevant research institutes of the National Development and Reform Commission of the National Development and Reform Commission of the National Development and Reform Commission, provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government. Comrades in charge of relevant departments and comrades in charge of relevant enterprises and financial institutions attended the meeting.

This article was edited by the National Development and Reform Commission, Zhitong Finance Editor: Chen Wenfang.