The Information Office of the Jiangsu Provincial Government held a press conferences Tuesday morning to brief the media on the province’s achievements and next steps of work in deepening reform and opening up.
In recent years, Jiangsu has made every effort to promote streamlining administration and delegating power, taking the lead in clearing and standardizing intermediary services for administrative approval by provincial departments nationwide, cancelling 1344 administrative power adjustments and reducing to 2.26% the proportion of provincial-level approval matters.
At the same time, Jiangsu has encouraged and guided the common development of various forms of ownership, continued to deepen the reform of state-owned enterprises, and comprehensively completed 138 reform tasks in the three-year action plan for state-owned enterprise reform.
Jiangsu has also established a sound institutional system to support the high-quality development of the private economy, as is evidenced by the inclusion of three private enterprises on the Fortune 500 ranking and 24 private enterprises in China's top 500.
“Jiangsu has maintained growth or stability in the scale of state-owned economy, private economy, and foreign-funded economy, which has worked together to improve quality. In the next step, we will deepen streamlining administration and delegating power, combine decentralization with management, optimize services, strengthen administration in accordance with the law, and strictly and impartially administer justice, further stimulating the vitality and creativity of various business entities for development”, Zhang Shixiang, Deputy Director of Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said.
Since the beginning of this year, the external environment has become more severe and complex, leading to unprecedented pressure on open and high-quality development. Foreign trade imports and exports have been increasing month on month for three consecutive months, and the actual scale of foreign investment utilization has remained the first in the country.
“At present, we are conducting research with relevant departments in the province and have preliminarily determination to carry out a series of special actions in key areas such as optimizing the opening layout, innovating foreign trade development, strengthening and extending the industrial chain, building high-end platforms, institutional openness, unblocked open channels, digital open hubs, and international exchange and cooperation. We will accelerate the construction of a two-way open hub with global convergence, and strive to create new advantages in Jiangsu's opening up to the outside world”, Jiang Xin, Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce, said.
