Editor's Note
2021 is the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the key year of the three-year reform of state-owned enterprises. At the critical juncture of the historical convergence of the "two hundred years" goal, it is of very great and far-reaching significance to carry out the study and education of party history.
In order to strengthen the guidance of party building and promote the close integration of party history study education and promoting the high-quality development of state-owned enterprises, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the Henan Provincial Government and the Dahe CaiFang jointly launched a series of planning reports on "Learning From a Hundred Years of Party History and Promoting the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises".
Since May 31, the report of Dahe Caifang "Learning from the Century-old Party History and Promoting the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises" was officially launched, and it was disseminated through new media platforms such as dahe Caifang's wisdom all-media matrix, Xinhua Finance's "Yu Caijing", and the official WeChat of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the Henan Provincial Government. Today launched a series of reports on the interview of Wang Sen, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Henan Water Investment Group.
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[Dahe News, Dahe Caifang] (Reporter Wang Leibin, Wen Ma Tengfei, photography and video editing) From 2009 in Zhengzhou Jingsan Road Rental Office, more than 20 employees, to 91 holding companies, the number of employees has grown to nearly 4,000 people... After more than 10 years of development, relying on the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the market-oriented operation mechanism of enterprises, Henan Water Investment Group has created a national sample of high-quality development.
On June 3, Wang Sen, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Henan Water Investment Group, who had just returned from research in Guangshan County, Xinyang City, accepted an exclusive interview with Dahe Bao and Dahe CaiCufang, describing the key role played by party building in the development process of Henan Water Investment Group, and proposing the methodology of Henan Water Investment Group on how party building leads the development of enterprises.
"The party flag is red and the enterprise is booming." Henan Water Investment Group started from 150 million yuan in cash and developed to an asset scale of nearly 80 billion yuan today, which is inseparable from the correct leadership of the party and the strong support of the provincial party committee and the provincial government. We strive for the end of the '14th Five-Year Plan', double the scale of assets, and rebuild a Henan Water Investment Group. Wang Sen said.
"Red" and "green" are mirrored
Promote reform and development with party history education
"Since the beginning of this year, Henan Water Investment Group has carried out a series of party building activities closely around the centenary of the founding of the party and with the study and education of party history as the starting point. For example, a party history study and education propaganda group has been set up, the activity of 'one hundred people in the history of the party in a hundred years' has been carried out, and red education resources have been fully tapped. Wang Sen introduced that in the near future, Henan Water Investment Group will also organize a series of activities such as micro-party class competitions and party history knowledge competitions to further promote the study and education of party history.
It is understood that Henan Water Investment Group has always adhered to the principle that "wherever the business develops, the party organization will be built, the party member activities will be carried out, and the vanguard and exemplary role of party members will be brought into play", and truly realize the "two full coverages" of the party organization and the party's work.
Wang Sen told reporters that in the process of development, Henan Water Investment Group has always adhered to the development idea of "red" and "green", "red" is the red engine led by party building; "green" is the innovation-driven green industry.
In addition, Henan Water Investment Group has created a party building work system of "three embedded and five integrations", "three embedded", that is, consciously embedding party organizations into the enterprise decision-making system, implementation system and supervision system. "Five integrations" is to insist on integrating party building work into corporate governance, into mechanism innovation, into central work, into corporate culture, and into comprehensive development. Through the "three embedded and five integration", the leadership core role of party organizations in taking the direction, managing the overall situation and ensuring implementation in operation and management has been further strengthened, and a strong political guarantee has been provided for the high-quality development of Henan Water Investment Group.
Henan Water Investment Group also combines the study and education of party history with the implementation of the three-year action plan for the reform of state-owned enterprises, profoundly grasps the spiritual essence and practical requirements of the new development stage, new development concept, and new development pattern, and earnestly transforms the results of party history study and education into a powerful driving force for promoting reform and development.
"Through the study and education of party history, we should further deepen our understanding of the historical orientation of the development of the cause of the party and the state, further deepen our understanding of the new opportunities and new challenges facing the new stage of development, and make us focus on boldly breaking through and boldly trying in the institutional mechanism of state-owned capital investment companies, the reform of mixed ownership, and the market-oriented mechanism, so as to break through the bottleneck restricting high-quality development with reform, enhance the vitality of development with reform, and enhance the ability to prevent and defuse major risks with reform." Wang Sen said.
Market-oriented thinking helps enterprises accelerate their running
From 150 million yuan in cash to nearly 80 billion yuan in total assets
The south-to-north water diversion project has now benefited more than 20 million people in Henan; the irrigation district project on the north bank of the Yellow River Xiaolangdi will mainly solve the problems of farmland irrigation and urban water supply on the north bank of the Yellow River; the Jihuai Project (Henan section) will greatly alleviate the problems of water shortage, water ecological restoration, and water environment improvement in eastern Henan.
In order to give full play to the role of the market in allocating resources, over the years, Henan Water Investment Group has been practicing General Secretary Xi Jinping's new era water control policy of "water conservation priority, spatial balance, systematic governance, and two-handed force" with practical actions, actively participated in the construction of many projects such as the four waters and the same governance of the four waters and the quality improvement project in our province, and cooperated with more than 60 cities and counties, with more than 80 investment projects and a contract amount of more than 90 billion yuan.
The Xuchang Urban Water System Connection Project and the Ruzhou City Central Park, invested and constructed by Henan Water Investment Group, have long become typical cases in the country;
The new concept sewage treatment plant located in Sui County, Shangqiu City, has become a landmark project of Henan Water Investment Group;
The water environment governance and ecological restoration project in Pingyu County have completely changed the local water environment problems;
The "Danjiang Shuirun Qingfeng" urban and rural water supply integration project in Qingfeng County, Puyang City, has realized the "same water source, the same planning, the same water quality, and the same service" of urban and rural water supply.
In Wang Sen's view, the most fundamental reason why Henan Water Investment Group has been able to develop rapidly and achieve a series of fruitful results over the past 10 years is the market-oriented thinking that enterprises have been practicing. Who would have thought that this local state-owned enterprise with an important mission and a large scale of assets was once trapped in financing at the beginning of its establishment.
The construction of water conservancy projects must be guaranteed by sufficient funds. Faced with the dilemma at that time, Wang Sen proposed when he took over as chairman of Henan Water Investment Group to innovate the model and revitalize assets.
Coinciding with 2012 Chinese Minmin Bank, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Water Resources, the China Banking Regulatory Commission, the Securities Regulatory Commission, and the Insurance Regulatory Commission jointly issued the Opinions on Further Improving Financial Services for Water Conservancy Reform and Development, allowing reservoir assets and irrigation district assets to be used as collateral loans. After hearing this news, Wang Sen was very excited, but how to use reservoir assets as collateral, there is no mature experience to learn from.
Wang Sen went to the relevant departments of the Sasacy Commission of the provincial government at that time, communicated with them many times, and asked them to issue a warrant that could be used for mortgage loans in accordance with the relevant policies of the document. After some communication and consultation, the Sasacy Commission of the provincial government agreed to issue a state-owned asset warrant with a face value of 2 billion yuan to the reservoir assets managed by Henan Water Investment Group. With this warrant, Henan Water Investment Group went to the bank to raise 1 billion yuan of funds, effectively solving the funding problem in the development process of the water investment group. Henan Water Investment Group also set a precedent for reservoir asset financing.
Driven by the market-oriented thinking, Henan Water Investment Group has the courage to try, forge ahead, and use almost all financing tools. By the end of 2020, a total of 160.708 billion yuan of financial credit has been obtained, and 80.554 billion yuan of financing has been realized. In particular, in 2020, the main credit of Henan Water Investment Group has been rated as A- and A3 by the international authoritative credit rating agencies Fitch and Moody's, marking that after the national water conservancy investment company in China's water conservancy industry, the local state-owned water conservancy investment company has also officially entered the "A range" of international rating. At the same time, Henan Water Investment Group successfully issued a five-year offshore senior unsecured fixed interest bond with a coupon rate of 2.80% in the international capital market, setting a new low yield for overseas bonds of state-owned enterprises in Henan Province, highlighting the strength and image of state-owned enterprises in Henan Province.
In order to explore the market-oriented mechanism of water resource allocation in Henan Province, in 2017, Henan Water Investment Group established the Provincial Water Rights Collection, Storage and Transfer Center, which opened a precedent for the market-oriented operation of water rights trading in the South-north Water Diversion Project and laid a good practical foundation for the development of the water rights trading market in our province.
In addition, Henan Water Investment Group has explored the integration mode of "investment, financing, construction, management and transportation" of water conservancy projects according to local conditions, overcome the problem of "rebuilding light pipes" in the past, realized the sustainable operation of water conservancy projects, and promoted the market-oriented reform of water conservancy in Henan Province.
Through exploration and innovation, today, Henan Water Investment Group has developed into a large-scale enterprise group with 91 holding companies, nearly 4,000 employees and assets of nearly 80 billion yuan, enjoying high visibility and strong influence in the country, and the overall scale has jumped from the fourth square to the first square in the country.
Create a scientific water control system
Explore and solve Henan's water problem with systematic thinking
Henan Water Investment Group has been established for more than 10 years, and has been committed to becoming the operation manager of water assets, the integrator of water resources, the innovator of water control technology and the forerunner of solving Henan water problems. Therefore, in addition to market-oriented development, innovation-driven, and revitalization of assets, there is also an important achievement that promotes the popularization of scientific water management in the province.
Taking river pollution control as an example, the previous common practice was to dig up silt, remove weeds, plant trees, etc., but after two or three years, or even after a heavy rain, it returned to its original state. In response to these problems, Henan Water Investment Group put forward the concept of systematic water management.
"When building the Pingyu project, we put forward the 'joint management of water and soil', and carried out the traceability of the river pollution section in accordance with the concept of 'pollution in the river, roots on the shore', and achieved very good results." Wang Sen said.
In terms of benefits, in the Pingyu project, 17 technologies such as ecological pollution interception, in situ ecological restoration, and solid waste recycling have been put into application, saving about 400 million yuan in project investment compared with traditional methods.
Up to now, Henan Water Investment Group has invested a total of 695 million yuan to build and renovate 9 sewage treatment plants in the province, and the scale of sewage treatment has reached 400,000 tons / day. Among them, the Suixian sewage treatment plant project was vigorously promoted by Qu Jiuhui, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, in the CCTV-2 CCTV financial channel "China Economic Lecture Hall" program for China's sewage treatment concept plant version 1.0, which initially realized the new concept of "sustainable water quality, energy recovery, resource recycling, and environmental friendliness", and the effluent quality reached the class IV water standard.
According to Wang Sen, in recent years, Henan Water Investment Group has successively initiated the establishment of the Henan Provincial Water Environment Governance and Water Ecological Restoration Academician Workstation, the Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation and Governance, the Henan Provincial Water-Soil Environment Collaborative Governance Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance and the Henan Provincial Water Valley Research Institute, and has carried out more than 10 research projects and more than 40 water treatment technology experiments.
"Through multi-professional intersection, multi-technology integration, and multi-industry collaboration, we have continuously improved the new concept of water management, focused on innovating new technologies for water management, put forward Henan's 'smart water conservancy' and 'smart river chief' schemes, and actively explored 'water investment schemes' to solve water problems in Henan Province." Wang Sen said.
The project "Research and Demonstration of Key Technologies for Urban Water System Governance and Water Ecological Restoration" project initiated by Henan Water Investment Group achieved 4 results and won the second prize of Henan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2019.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Henan Water Investment Group will focus on the six major business sectors of basic water conservancy, urban and rural water affairs, engineering construction, water-related finance, water-related science and technology, and extension business, and strive to build a new business development layout of "taking basic water conservancy as the foundation of strategic development, urban and rural water affairs as the core of strategic development, engineering construction as an important support for strategic development, water-related finance and water-related technology as the booster of strategic development, and extending business as the cultivation and development base of new strategic collaborative business", and promoting the business from "big but not strong" to "high-quality development". Transformation and upgrading.
"One nuclear, two drives" development strategy
Promote high-quality business development
On September 18, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping held a symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in Zhengzhou. On May 14, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Nanyang for investigation and investigation, and held a symposium on promoting the high-quality development of the follow-up project of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
Within two years, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over two "high-quality development forums" in Henan, which fully demonstrated the general secretary's concern and concern for Henan's development and henan's high-quality development. At the same time, it can also be seen that the general secretary attaches great importance to the construction of ecological civilization and water conservancy construction.
"These two high-quality development forums are both water-related and closely related to the development of Henan Water Investment Group, and we are participants and builders of these two major projects, which also makes us feel that the development of the group is more and more closely linked to national security, national strategy and the overall situation of the country, and at the same time feel that the burden shouldered by the group is heavier and the responsibility is greater." Wang Sen said.
Recently, the General Office of Henan Province officially issued the "Several Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Investment and Financing System of Water Conservancy Projects", and Henan Water Investment Group has welcomed new opportunities for development. Wang Sen said that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Henan Water Investment Group will be deployed in accordance with the arrangements of the provincial party committee and provincial government, give full play to its own advantages in water resources allocation engineering, ecological protection and smart water conservancy, pioneering and innovating, taking the lead in making breakthroughs, and actively practicing the spirit of General Secretary Xi's important speech.
The first is to build a number of water diversion and water supply projects that are freely regulated, improve the macro-allocation pattern of water resources, improve the spatial regulation and control capacity of water resources, and promote the province's strategy of "mutual assistance between the north and the south, communication between the east and the west, abundance and drought adjustment, multi-source complementarity, and free regulation".
The second is to closely follow the construction of the "Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-quality Development Demonstration Zone", create a benchmark project that combines ecological protection, rural revitalization and high-quality development of the county economy, drive the overall value of the county and city areas, and effectively improve the sense of happiness and gain of the local people.
The third is to make full use of modern information technologies such as the Internet of Things and big data to develop intelligent management of water supply and water conservation, promote the transformation of the water conservancy industry from traditional operation management to modern services, and realize intelligent management and operation.
The fourth is to build an integrated innovation platform for production, education and research, increase investment in scientific research in water conservancy technology, and give play to the leading and supporting role of scientific and technological innovation.
Wang Sen said that during the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period, with the goal of building "five water investments", we will strive to implement the "one core and two drives" development strategy and achieve the strategic goal of "rebuilding a water investment and high-quality development". By the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the total assets of Henan Water Investment Group doubled to 150 billion yuan, the net assets and operating income reached 2.1 times of the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan", and the total profit reached 1.5 times of the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan".
"Deeply implement the '14th Five-Year Plan' development strategy, accelerate the transformation from infrastructure investment and financing to water-related project investment and financing, from investment and financing services to the integration of design and construction technology, from engineering water management to water ecological restoration and comprehensive treatment of water environment, and improve the quality and efficiency of development." Wang Sen said.
Editor-in-charge: Chen Yuyao | Review: Li Zhen | Director: Wan Junwei