the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to analyze and study the current economic situation and economic work, and reviewed the national talent development plan during the 14th Five Year Plan period. The general secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping presided over the meeting
China Central Television network news (news broadcast): the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting on April 29 to analyze and study the current economic situation and economic work and review the national talent development plan during the 14th Five Year Plan period. General secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping presided over the meeting.
The meeting held that since the beginning of this year, in the face of the complex situation of the superposition of Centennial changes and century epidemics, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, all regions and departments have effectively coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, China’s economic operation has generally achieved a stable start, and the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and winter Paralympic Games have been successfully held. The achievements are hard won.
The meeting pointed out that the covid-19 pneumonia epidemic and the crisis in Ukraine have led to an increase in risks and challenges, an increase in the complexity, severity and uncertainty of China’s economic development environment, and new challenges in stabilizing growth, employment and prices. It is very important to do a good job in economic work and effectively ensure and improve people’s livelihood. We should strengthen confidence, overcome difficulties and ensure that the major policies of the Party Central Committee are implemented in place.
The meeting stressed that the epidemic should be prevented, the economy should be stable and development should be safe, which is the clear requirement of the Party Central Committee. According to the new characteristics of virus variation and transmission, we should effectively coordinate the epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, unswervingly adhere to the people first and life first, adhere to external defense input and internal defense rebound, adhere to dynamic zeroing, protect people’s life safety and health to the greatest extent, and minimize the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development.
The meeting called for strengthening macro policy adjustment, stabilizing the economy, striving to achieve the expected goal of economic and social development throughout the year, and maintaining the economic operation within a reasonable range. We should speed up the implementation of the established policies, implement policies such as tax rebates, tax reductions and fees, and make good use of all kinds of monetary policy tools. We should pay close attention to planning incremental policy tools, strengthen camera regulation, and grasp the advance and redundancy of policies under the guidance of objectives. We should make every effort to expand China’s demand, give play to the key role of effective investment, strengthen the guarantee of land, energy use and environmental impact assessment, and comprehensively strengthen infrastructure construction. We should give play to the leading role of consumption in the economic cycle. We should stabilize market players and implement a package of relief and assistance policies for industries, small, medium-sized and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households seriously affected by the epidemic. We should do a good job in ensuring the supply and price of energy resources, and pay close attention to the preparation of spring ploughing. We should effectively ensure and improve people’s livelihood, stabilize and expand employment, organize the supply of important people’s livelihood commodities, ensure the operation of urban core functions, steadily control the situation of safe production, and maintain the overall stability of society. We should stick to a game of chess throughout the country, ensure smooth transportation and logistics, and ensure the normal operation of key industrial chains, supply chains, anti epidemic and supply guarantee enterprises and key infrastructure.
The meeting stressed the need to effectively control key risks and hold the bottom line of no systemic risk. We should adhere to the positioning that houses are used for living rather than speculation, support all localities to improve real estate policies based on local conditions, support rigid and improved housing demand, optimize the supervision of commercial housing pre-sale funds, and promote the steady and healthy development of the real estate market. We should respond to market concerns in a timely manner, steadily promote the reform of the stock issuance registration system, actively introduce long-term investors, and maintain the smooth operation of the capital market. We should promote the healthy development of the platform economy, complete special rectification of the platform economy, implement normalized supervision, and introduce specific measures to support the standardized and healthy development of the platform economy.
The meeting pointed out that we should stick to running our own affairs, speed up the construction of a new development pattern, unswervingly deepen the supply side structural reform, solve problems in development with reform methods, accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and build a strong and resilient national economic circular system. We should adhere to expanding high-level opening to the outside world, actively respond to the demands of foreign-funded enterprises for convenience in doing business in China, and stabilize the basic market of foreign trade and foreign investment.
The meeting stressed that leading cadres at all levels should have a sense of responsibility of “always feel at ease” in their work, act as, be realistic and pragmatic, and prevent all kinds of “black swan” and “grey rhinoceros” incidents. Party committees and governments at all levels should unite and lead the cadres and the masses to make concerted efforts and work tenaciously, and take practical actions to welcome the victory of the 20th CPC National Congress.
The meeting pointed out that the preparation of the national talent development plan during the 14th Five Year Plan period is an important work deployed by the CPC Central Committee, a specific measure to implement the spirit of the central talent work conference, and an important special plan of the national 14th five year plan. We should comprehensively strengthen the party’s leadership over talent work, firmly establish the strategic position of talent leading development, and cultivate, introduce and make good use of talents in an all-round way.
The meeting stressed the need to adhere to the key layout and step-by-step promotion, and accelerate the construction of the world’s important talent center and innovation highland. Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Dawan district should adhere to high standards and strive to build into a highland demonstration area for innovative talents. We should speed up the construction of strategic centers and centers for attracting talents, and take effective measures to attract talents. We should vigorously cultivate and use strategic scientists, create a large number of first-class scientific and technological leading talents and innovation teams, create a large-scale team of young scientific and technological talents, and cultivate a large number of outstanding engineers. We should focus on the support and training of basic research talents and provide them with long-term and stable support and guarantee. We should deepen the reform of talent development system and mechanism and build a platform for all kinds of talents to start businesses. Party committees (Party groups) at all levels should strengthen the main responsibility, improve the pattern of the party’s management of talents, comprehensively promote the implementation and effectiveness of major measures for talent work, actively solve problems for employers and talents, strengthen the political guidance and political absorption of talents, and guide talents to love the party, serve the country, devote themselves to the motherland and serve the people.
Other matters were also examined.
Li Keqiang’s first telephone conversation with Norway
China Central Television network news (news broadcast): Premier Li Keqiang spoke on the phone with Norwegian Prime Minister Strehl at the request of the prime minister in Beijing on the 29th.
Li Keqiang said that Norway is an important partner of China in northern Europe. In 2018, Xi Jinping president met with King Harald V successfully, which strongly promoted the development of China Norway relations. We are willing to deepen multilateral relations, strengthen mutual trust and mutual benefit, and strengthen mutual respect and cooperation in multilateral affairs.
Li Keqiang pointed out that China is willing to strengthen economic and trade cooperation and climate change response with Norway, expand the import of advantageous agricultural and fishery products from Norway, and promote the early negotiation of bilateral free trade agreements and Double Taxation Avoidance agreements. China will continue to expand its opening-up and is committed to deepening bilateral and multilateral international cooperation.
Steller said that Norway China relations and economic and trade cooperation have developed well and maintained close communication on multilateral occasions. Norway has long adhered to the one China policy and is willing to deepen cooperation in various fields and strengthen people to people and cultural exchanges with China.
The two sides also exchanged views on the situation in Ukraine.
Li Keqiang expounded China’s principled position.
Wang Yi and he Lifeng attended the meeting.
Ministry of Finance and other departments’ policies help enterprises to rescue
CCTV news (news broadcast): Recently, the Ministry of finance, together with relevant departments, issued nine policies to help enterprises in logistics and other industries to bail out.
In terms of increasing tax incentives for express service industry, it is clear that from May 1, 2022 to the end of the year, qualified express receiving and dispatching income will be exempted from value-added tax. The policy will reduce the burden of relevant enterprises by about 1 billion yuan.
In terms of increasing financing guarantee support, we will promote the national financing guarantee fund to expand the scale of re guarantee cooperation business to more than 800 billion yuan in 2022.
In terms of supporting free nucleic acid and antigen testing services, all localities are required to include employees who go to remote free testing sites as local residents in the scope of testing, enjoy the same policies, and the expenses required are guaranteed by local finance.
Policy support measures also include delaying the payment of social security fees for enterprises with special difficulties and supporting the development of cold chain logistics enterprises in key areas.
local spring ploughing production is stepping up
CCTV news (news broadcast): spring farming is busy at the right time. In recent days, all localities have stepped up the promotion of spring farming production to lay a solid foundation for a bumper harvest of agricultural grain throughout the year.
As a major grain production city in Sichuan, Dazhou has ensured the completion of 8.48 million mu of grain sowing area on schedule through measures such as cultivated land protection and improvement and abandoned cultivated land remediation.
Let farmers grow more and better grain. Guangxi vigorously promotes the belt planting technology of soybean and maize to improve the land yield; Hubei has strengthened the industrialized and intensive seedling raising of rice to increase the seed germination rate by 10%; Jiangxi launched shared agricultural machinery services for farmers in mountainous areas, which greatly improved farmers’ enthusiasm for growing grain.
Now is the key period of wheat pest control. Anhui sent technical experts and prevention and control working groups to go deep into the main wheat producing areas to carry out technical guidance and solve prevention and control problems; Henan vigorously carried out the work of unified prevention and control, and used plant protection drones and helicopters to spray medicine to prevent the occurrence of wheat scab.
In the north, rice seedling raising in Heilongjiang has basically ended, and the sowing of wheat, potato and corn has been fully started; Jilin strives to achieve a conservation tillage area of 32 million mu, laying a good foundation for stable and high grain yield throughout the year.
In the first quarter of this year, China’s chemical fertilizer output was 13.574 million tons, the highest in the same period in five years. Recently, the national development and Reform Commission deployed to invest 1 million tons of national potassium fertilizer to ensure supply and stable price. The Ministry of agriculture and rural areas and the National Health Commission give priority to bringing chemical fertilizer into the scope of key guarantee materials. The supply and marketing cooperatives shall establish an emergency distribution mechanism for ensuring the supply of agricultural materials to ensure that agricultural materials are delivered to the fields in time.
national daily necessities market has sufficient supply and stable price
China Central Television network news (News Network): “May Day” holiday is approaching, and the monitoring of the Ministry of Commerce shows that at present, the supply of daily necessities in the national market is sufficient and the price is stable.
According to the monitoring of the Ministry of Commerce, on April 29, the prices of grain and vegetables in China’s 100 large wholesale markets of agricultural and sideline products decreased by 0.4% and 8.2% respectively compared with a week ago.
Recently, seasonal vegetables in many parts of the country are gradually entering the mature stage. Reporters in Shouguang, Shandong, the country’s largest vegetable distribution center, saw a busy scene in the No. 4 trading hall dominated by “transporting food from the south to the north and transferring food from the north to the South”.
In view of the market demand for the May Day holiday, the Ministry of Commerce has deployed all localities to steadily carry out festival market supply guarantee. Beijing, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Guangzhou and other cities will increase the stock of daily necessities, expand commercial inventory and enrich the variety of commodities.
For the key areas of epidemic prevention and control, the Ministry of Commerce and local governments have established a 24-hour communication and coordination mechanism to smooth the distribution channels of daily necessities, and effectively ensure the supply of goods in the market through measures such as opening the supply, increasing the distribution capacity, extending the business hours and not closing for 24 hours. According to the material needs of residents in the sealed and controlled area, organize e-commerce platforms, increase supply guarantee stations, expand the distribution scope, provide residents with the “last 100 meters” distribution of living materials, and make every effort to ensure the market supply of daily necessities in the areas affected by the epidemic.
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the emergency management department of the office of the Safety Commission of the State Council deployed the safety precautions during the May Day holiday
The office of the safety committee of the State Council and the Ministry of emergency management today (April 29) deployed safety precautions for the National May Day holiday. All localities are required to carry out in-depth work safety inspection, strengthen law enforcement in the fields of road traffic, construction and fire control, improve the disaster weather early warning and response mechanism, and strictly prevent and control forest and grassland fires.
2021 the total number of migrant workers will continue to increase and the living conditions will continue to improve
The National Bureau of Statistics today (April 29) released the monitoring survey report on migrant workers in 2021. The data show that in 2021, the total number of migrant workers in China was 292.51 million, an increase of 6.91 million or 2.4% over the previous year. In terms of income, the average monthly income of migrant workers was 4432 yuan, an increase of 8.8%, of which the average monthly income of migrant workers in manufacturing industry grew the fastest.
in 3 months, China’s international trade in goods and services continued to grow steadily
According to the latest data from the State Administration of foreign exchange, in March, the import and export scale of China’s international trade in goods and services based on the balance of payments was 3871.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15%, with a surplus of 288 billion yuan, continuing a steady growth trend.
from May 1 this year to March 31 next year, China will implement zero import provisional tax rate on coal
In order to strengthen the guarantee of energy supply and promote high-quality development, the Tariff Commission of the State Council decided according to procedures to implement a provisional import tax rate of zero for coal from May 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023.
in the first quarter, culture and related industries increased by 5% year-on-year
According to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics today (April 29), in the first quarter, enterprises in cultural and related industries above Designated Size achieved an operating revenue of 2697.3 billion yuan, an increase of 5.0% over the same period last year. Content creation and production, news and information services and other cultural core areas grew steadily. New cultural formats such as digital publishing and intelligent cultural equipment manufacturing grew rapidly.
the first great country craftsman Innovation exchange conference closed in Shenzhen
Today (April 29), the first great country craftsman Innovation exchange conference closed in Shenzhen, Guangdong. The conference was held in the form of Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) to display and exchange the innovative achievements of craftsmen and employees at all levels online. A total of 495 innovative achievements of employees signed letters of intent for achievement transformation online, involving a total amount of 8.486 billion yuan.
Mars is about to enter winter, and zhurong will face the challenge of dust weather
The Mars electric vehicle will be ready for the cold weather and sandstorm in August, and the probability of anti sandstorm will increase. At present, the Zhurong rover has traveled more than 1.9 kilometers. Tianwen-1 orbiter is carrying out Mars orbiting exploration as planned. At present, the two orbiters are in good condition.
