Speed up the construction of a unified national market by making breakthroughs simultaneously.
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A few days ago, "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a National Unified Market" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions") was released. The "Opinions" clarified the overall requirements, main objectives and key tasks of accelerating the construction of a unified national market from a global and strategic perspective, which quickly attracted social attention.
At present, why should China speed up the construction of a unified national market? How to understand the national unified market? How to promote the "Opinions" to be implemented and see actual results?
Promote China’s market from big to strong.
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"It should be noted that the rapid development and extensive penetration of next-generation information technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence are destroying all kinds of market barriers and barriers, which is of revolutionary significance for building a unified national market." Wang Yiming, vice chairman of China International Economic Exchange Center, said.
According to Zhong Maochu, a professor at the Institute of Economics of Nankai University, the national unified big market is a product such as land, labor, capital, technology, data, resources, and goods and services, which has formed an unmanned market among different regions, industries, groups, large and medium-sized enterprises, state-owned enterprises and private enterprises nationwide.
In recent years, important progress has been made in the construction of the national unified big market, but there are still some problems that hinder the construction of the national unified big market in practice.
Wang Yiming introduced that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has adhered to the direction of socialist market economy reform, promoted market-oriented reform in breadth and depth, constantly improved systems of property rights protection, market access and fair competition, promoted price reform and market-oriented reform of important production factors such as land, capital, labor force, technology, knowledge and data, eliminated market barriers, and accelerated the formation of a modern market system.
"The scale of China’s domestic market ranks among the best in the world, and the scale advantage of commodity market is obvious. The scale of capital, technology, data and other factor markets is expanding rapidly, but market segmentation and local protection are more prominent, market competition is insufficient, the development of factor markets is lagging behind, and the market operation efficiency is not high. The supervision method needs to be innovated." Wang Yiming said.
In this regard, the "Opinions" propose to speed up the establishment of unified national market system rules, break local protection and market segmentation, open up key blocking points that restrict the economic cycle, promote the smooth flow of commodity elements and resources in a wider range, and accelerate the construction of an efficient, standardized, fair competition and fully open national unified market.
As the relevant person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission said, the Opinions provide a program of action for building a unified national market in the coming period, which will certainly have an important impact on deepening reform and opening up under the new situation, making better use of the tremendous advantages of exerting, consolidating and enhancing China’s market resources, and comprehensively promoting the transformation of China’s market from large to strong.
Dong Yu, executive vice president of Tsinghua University China Institute of Development Planning, believes that at present, the difficulties and challenges in economic work are increasing. The central government’s layout will accelerate the construction of a unified national market, which will play a vital role in stabilizing the confidence of market players and thus stabilizing the overall development.
Building a high-level market circulation system
At present, some people have misunderstandings about the connotation, goal and realization path of the national unified market. For example, some people think that "building a unified national market means the return of the planned economy". This is a representative erroneous view.
"We must realize that the biggest comparative advantage of China’s economic development today is its large-scale domestic market and strong domestic demand potential." Yao Jingyuan, a special researcher in the State Council Counselor’s Office, said that building a unified national market is not a return to the planned economy, but a strong support for building a high-level socialist market economic system.
Chen Weiwei, an associate researcher at the Institute of Economic System and Management of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that the most striking feature of the planned economy is that enterprises produce according to the planned instructions, and their products are distributed and sold through unified channels. The purpose of building a unified national market is to get rid of market barriers and maintain fair competition. The logic behind it is to build a national big market with unified rules and regulations for all kinds of market entities and encourage diversified market entities to enter the market for fair competition; Industry authorities and local governments should not "bias", but really give "unique skills" and responsible enterprises a broader stage, and really let market price signals play a role in optimizing the allocation of resources.
"It can be seen that building a unified national market is not about unifying market players, distribution channels, goods and services, market prices, and nationalization." Chen Weiwei said.
Guo Liyan, a researcher at China Macroeconomic Research Institute, believes that a strong domestic market not only refers to a larger scale, but also refers to a modern market circulation system with more complete institutional rules, more optimized structural levels and stronger influence and attraction. This is the core energy to actively allocate domestic and foreign factor resources, a powerful engine to drive high-quality economic development, and a complete system to promote the dynamic balance between supply and demand of the national economy at a higher level and level.
"China has obvious advantages of super-large scale and overall market, which is an important advantage and key support for China to actively participate in reshaping the global competition pattern." Guo Liyan said that the "key measure" to comprehensively stabilize the smooth circulation of the domestic economic system is to speed up the construction of a unified national market, further cultivate and stimulate the potential of the domestic market, and resist the challenges of external uncertainty with maximum certainty.
Break all kinds of closed small markets
"The market is the bridge connecting supply and demand, the space for enterprises to compete and play games, and the realization of products and services ‘ The most thrilling leap ’ 。” Chen Weiwei said that at present, China’s domestic market is large but not strong, and there is still great potential to be tapped. Building a unified national market can give full play to the advantages of China’s ultra-large-scale market, cultivate local world-class enterprises, attract resources with global advantages, and enhance the international discourse power of China’s market.
In terms of the main objectives, the Opinions clearly state that the domestic market will continue to be efficient, smooth and scale-expanding, and a stable, fair, transparent and predictable business environment will be accelerated, so as to further reduce market transaction costs, promote scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading, and foster new advantages in participating in international competition and cooperation.
It is understood that the National Development and Reform Commission and the General Administration of Market Supervision will work with relevant departments to establish and improve the departmental coordination mechanism to promote the construction of a unified national market and increase overall coordination. At the same time, clarify the phased work objectives, solve outstanding problems, and promote the reform measures to be effective as soon as possible.
"The key is to persist in making breakthroughs at the same time and pressing ahead. For the outstanding contradictions and problems facing the reform, we must resolutely break it and escort the overall stability with the point of reform." Dong Yu said that in order to standardize market intervention and create a stable, fair, transparent and predictable business environment, it is necessary to truly implement the concept of taking the needs of market participants as the guide and practicing the principle of simplicity, create a good ecology for all kinds of market participants to invest and start businesses, and make the process of building a unified big market become a process of constantly standardizing government behavior and reducing market intervention.
In Wang Yiming’s view, it is necessary to promote the construction of a unified national market through reform and innovation. To unify the rules of the market system, we should adhere to the problem-oriented principle and make innovations at the same time. We should not only deepen the reform, but also strengthen the unity of the rules of the system and the consistency of supervision and law enforcement on the basic components such as property rights system, market access, fair competition and market supervision, and also speed up the elimination of various regulations and practices that hinder the unified market and fair competition.
Guo Liyan said that all localities and departments should improve their positions, focus on the overall situation, obey the overall situation, give full play to the advantages of the whole country in playing a chess game and concentrating on major events, and resolutely get rid of the wrong understanding and practice of "warlord separatism" among regions and engaging in local small circulation in their own way, get rid of all kinds of closed small markets, and open up the economic cycle between different regional spaces such as "blocks", "provinces" and "cities" and "urban and rural areas".