On July 8, Yin Li, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial
Committee and Governor of Sichuan Province, presided over the 29th Executive
Meeting of the People's Government of Sichuan Province. During the meeting,
guidelines of recent important meetings and documents of the CPC Central
Committee and the State Council were conveyed and studied. Meanwhile,
discussions were carried out to develop pilot free trade zones and pilot areas
for coordinated reform, promote high-quality development of the construction
industry, standardize development of the financing guarantee industry, and
protect ancient and famous trees.
In principle, the meeting approved the "6+1" Overall
Plan for China (Sichuan) Pilot Free Trade Zones and Pilot Areas for Coordinated
Reform. The Plan stipulates the implementation scope and functional
positioning for the seven pilot areas for coordinated reform, including Deyang
City, Ziyang City, Meishan City, Manchong City, Zigong City, Neijiang City and
Wenjiang District (6+1). The Plan calls for local
governments to focus on common institutional experiments such as investment,
trade, finance, innovation and entrepreneurship, and transformation of
government functions, while also attaching importance to local resource
advantages and development potential. In accordance with the "5+1"
modern industrial system (including electronic information, equipment
manufacturing, food and beverage, advanced materials, energy and chemical
industry, plus digital economy), efforts should be made to promote complementary,
coordinated and dislocated development of industries. According to the Plan,
pilot areas for coordinated reform, in parallel with Sichuan Pilot Free Trade
Zone, shall undertake provincial administration authority, and establish an
incentive mechanism that encourages innovation, tolerates failure and allows
for and rectifies errors.
The meeting adopted the Implementation Opinions on Promoting
the High-quality Development of Sichuan Construction Industry. The Opinions
points out the direction and puts forward measures to advance the high-quality
development of construction industry in Sichuan Province, aiming at promoting
the development of prefabricated buildings, actively pushing for green
buildings, developing headquarters economy of the construction industry,
improving project bidding system, accelerating the reform of the organization
and implementation of construction projects, implementing project guarantee
system, innovating project cost management, facilitating standardization of
project quality and safety, enhancing enterprises' innovative ability in
science and technology, supporting the development of private enterprises and
accelerating efforts to train industrial workers.
The meeting, in principle, approved the Implementation Opinions
on Promoting Standard Development of Financing Guarantee Industry. It
specifies that efforts shall be stepped up to accelerate the establishment of a
financing guarantee system with provincial re-guarantee companies as the
leading agencies, state-owned financing guarantee companies as the main body,
high-quality private financing guarantee companies as the supplement, and
banking financial institutions as the support, which mainly serves small and
micro enterprises, "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", and strategic
emerging industries. At the same time, it also calls to steadily innovate
business models, strengthen supervision of science and technology and
whole-process supervision, and ensure that no systemic risks occur.
The meeting agreed to designate Linshui Economic Development Zone
as a provincial high-tech industrial park.
In addition, other issues were also discussed at the meeting.