The heads of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Regional Coordinated Development and the National Development and Reform Commission answered questions from reporters on several policies and measures for further high-quality development

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Officials from the Office of the Central Leading Group for Regional Coordinated Development and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) answered reporters' questions on several policies and measures to further support the high-quality development of Tianjin Binhai New Area

Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Weiwei

The reporter learned from the National Development and Reform Commission on the 2nd that recently, after the study and deliberation of the executive meeting of the State Council, a number of policies and measures to further support the high-quality development of Tianjin Binhai New Area have been issued and implemented. Focusing on the background and highlights of the introduction of policies and measures, the responsible persons of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Regional Coordinated Development and the National Development and Reform Commission answered questions from reporters.

Q: What is the background and consideration for the formulation of policy measures?

A: Tianjin Binhai New Area is an important strategic fulcrum to serve the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited Tianjin and Binhai New Area many times and made important instructions. The Office of the Central Leading Group for Regional Coordinated Development and the National Development and Reform Commission thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and instructions, and in accordance with the work deployment of the Central Leading Group for Regional Coordinated Development, formed a special working group to go to Binhai New Area for field research many times, organized expert discussions, listened carefully to the opinions and suggestions of all parties, and studied and planned policies and measures to support high-quality development.

There is a good foundation and space to support the high-quality development of Tianjin Binhai New Area. On the one hand, in recent years, under the guidance of reform and opening up and the foundation of the real economy, Binhai New Area has improved the quality and efficiency of development, improved the quality of urban functions, and achieved positive results in various undertakings. On the other hand, Binhai New Area can play a more important role in the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, further strengthen policy convergence and project co-construction with relevant regions in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, give full play to the advantages of location and industry, and strive to make new breakthroughs in key areas such as building a modern industrial system, optimizing and improving port and shipping functions, and deepening the reform and innovation of the pilot free trade zone.

To this end, we focus on giving full play to the comparative advantages of Tianjin Binhai New Area, put the support for the high-quality development of Binhai New Area in the implementation of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy, and work with relevant departments and local governments to study and put forward specific measures that are targeted, feasible and effective, and form policy measures.

Q: What are the overall requirements of the policy measures? What are the main areas of focus to solve?

Answer: It is necessary to thoroughly implement the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy, promote Binhai New Area to accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system supported by the real economy, strive to improve the shipping service function, promote the integrated development of port, industry and city, further stimulate market vitality and development momentum, and strengthen the dislocation linkage development of Tianjin Binhai New Area, Hebei Xiong'an New Area, and Beijing urban sub-center. The policy measures focus on the problems to be solved and the targeted support measures proposed mainly include:

The first is to focus on further enhancing the ability of scientific and technological R&D transformation, leading industrial development with scientific and technological innovation, relying on advantages to develop new quality productivity, and working with Beijing and Hebei to improve the R&D transformation capacity of advanced manufacturing, build a major scientific and technological innovation platform, and cultivate and expand strategic emerging industries such as aerospace and information technology.

The second is to focus on further strengthening the role of sea and air ports as hubs, optimizing and improving port and shipping functions, strengthening resource allocation capabilities, enhancing the radiation capacity of Tianjin Port, promoting the upgrading of port supporting facilities and services such as cold chain logistics, and accelerating the construction of regional aviation hubs.

The third is to focus on further improving the quality and efficiency of financial empowerment for the development of the real economy, promoting high-quality financial development, enhancing the international competitiveness of leasing, commercial factoring and other industries, encouraging financial institutions to improve financial products and services of science and technology, and providing high-quality services for local economic development.

Fourth, we will focus on further accelerating the pace of reform and innovation, strengthening the integration of reform systems, expanding high-level opening-up, supporting the linkage development of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone with the Beijing and Hebei Pilot Free Trade Zones, and building a new system of high-level open economy.

Fifth, we will focus on further improving urban service functions, practicing the concept of people's cities, accelerating the construction of beautiful and livable cities, supporting the introduction of Beijing's high-quality education and medical resources, promoting the construction of ecological and smart cities, revitalizing urban stock assets and resources, and enhancing risk prevention and safety assurance capabilities in the fields of ecological environment and production management.

Q: What are the main new highlights of the policy measures?

A: Based on the development foundation of Binhai New Area, the policies and measures focus on the actual needs of promoting high-quality development, and put forward pragmatic measures that are effective, operable and can be implemented, which are mainly reflected in the following aspects:

The first is to serve the needs of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy and support Binhai New Area to play a greater role. We will actively promote the better integration of Tianjin's advanced manufacturing industry with Beijing's scientific and technological R&D capabilities, support the establishment and improvement of the collaborative innovation mechanism between Binhai New Area and Beijing Huairou Science City, and promote the open sharing of major scientific research infrastructure and large-scale scientific research instruments and computing infrastructure. Strengthen the joint training of talents, and support Binhai New Area and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei universities to jointly build future technology colleges and excellent engineer innovation research institutes in the fields of biomanufacturing and new energy. Promote Binhai New Area to actively undertake the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

The second is to promote industrial transformation and upgrading, improve quality and efficiency, and better build a solid foundation for the development of the real economy. Focusing on the leading industries in Binhai New Area, such as aviation, petrochemical and automobile, we propose to attract the implementation of upstream and downstream supporting projects in the large aircraft industry chain, accelerate the innovation incubation and cluster development of the new aircraft industry, promote the petrochemical industry to move towards the middle and high-end of the industrial chain such as fine chemicals and new chemical materials, and promote the acceleration of the integration of the automobile industry into the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei new energy and intelligent networked automobile industry chain, so as to better promote the cultivation and growth of strategic emerging industries and the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries in Binhai New Area.

The third is to focus on deepening reform and expanding opening up, and build a higher-level development and opening platform. We will support Binhai New Area to accelerate the innovation of its management system, promote the reform of local statistics, relax market access for service industries such as telecommunications and medical care, expand the scope of pilot banks for free trade accounts, encrypt the foreign trade routes of Tianjin Port, accelerate the high-quality development of China-Europe (Asia) trains, build a cross-border aviation materials trading market, actively explore an open economic system, and form more experience and practices that can be replicated and promoted.

Fourth, highlight ecological wisdom and people's livelihood protection, and create a livable and workable development environment. We will promote the exploration of technology research and development, standard formulation, achievement transformation and product application in the field of green and low-carbon in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, support Binhai New Area to explore the construction and operation path of a new smart city with data as the key element, improve the guarantee mechanism for inclusive preschool education, innovate the development model of inclusive childcare services, expand the application scenarios of smart healthcare, and continue to build a beautiful and livable city.

Q: What are the arrangements and considerations for the implementation of policy measures?

A: In the next step, we will thoroughly implement the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and under the overall guidance of the Central Leading Group for Regional Coordinated Development, we will work with Tianjin Municipality and relevant departments to solidly promote the implementation of relevant measures.

The first is to formulate and issue a detailed implementation task list, decompose the key tasks with clear policies and measures into specific work arrangements, clarify the responsible units and completion time limits one by one, and promote the implementation of policies and measures in a list-based and closed-loop manner.

The second is to establish a follow-up and supervision mechanism, regularly schedule the progress of relevant work and carry out retrospectives through promotion meetings, squatting surveys, etc., coordinate and solve the difficulties and problems encountered in the implementation of the work, and ensure that all tasks achieve practical results.

The third is to promote Tianjin to earnestly fulfill its main responsibilities, Binhai New Area to assume specific implementation responsibilities, clarify the timetable and roadmap of various tasks, improve the working mechanisms such as incentive assessment, supervision and inspection, and regular evaluation, and solidly promote the implementation of policies and the implementation of projects.

Fourth, coordinate with relevant departments to strengthen guidance services, give greater support to Binhai New Area in the reform of key areas and key links, and guide the formulation of relevant measures in improving the scientific and technological innovation system, accelerating the development of new quality productive forces, and building a high-standard market system.

Fifth, we will promote the relevant regions of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei provinces and cities and Binhai New Area to strengthen communication and mutual promotion, continuously promote policy convergence and project co-construction, and form a joint force to jointly promote high-quality development.