Increased capital efficiency
Concentrate on doing great things
In order to maximize the benefits of limited financial funds, break the pattern of solidified fiscal expenditures, and comprehensively clean up ineffective financial funds, Anhui has carried out zero-based budget reform.
With the advancement of reform, the coordination between government departments has been significantly improved, and the limited financial resources have been accurately invested in important matters of people's livelihood development. For the main players of the market economy, this reform is ushering in new opportunities for them.
Just a few days ago, the flexible screen manufacturer in Hefei started the world's first 8.6 generation line with independent intellectual property rights.
Gao Yuanfeng, Director of Public Affairs of Hefei Visionox Technology Co., Ltd.: The world's highest flexible screen generation line is already running the 6th generation line, which is processed on a 1.6-meter by 1.85-meter glass substrate, and the 8.6-generation line is twice as large as this. This means that we can cut more displays, and we can also cut larger displays, with a total planned investment of 55 billion yuan.
Gao Yuanfeng told reporters that at present, the global emerging display industry cycle is showing an obvious upward trend, and OLED technology is ushering in a golden age and a critical window period. In the mainland display industry, the medium-sized OLED market is on the eve of an outbreak. Their new production line will break the traditional industrial ecological display technology used in the past and apply the domestic intelligent pixelation technology solution for the first time.
Gao Yuanfeng, Director of Public Affairs of Hefei Visionox Technology Co., Ltd.: In recent years, we have shown that with the development of the industry to the deep water area, the investment in some source technological innovation is relatively large. Especially for enterprises like ours with relatively large investment, capital intensive and technology intensive, we also urgently need financial support from all sides.
The investment of 55 billion yuan has been pressed on the company, although they have also received policy support in the past, but the amount of funds is small, and the changes have started last year.
Gao Yuanfeng, Director of Public Affairs of Hefei Visionox Technology Co., Ltd.: A few years ago, it was about one million yuan or one hundred thousand yuan. It is an encouragement to us and an honor. Now the science and technology department, the financial department, etc., concentrate some funds to support our source innovation or basic process innovation, the amount of funds has reached the level of tens of millions of yuan, which is very helpful to us, and truly alleviates the difficulties of our enterprise funds.
From 100,000 to 10 million, why can enterprises get such opportunities?
On the list of policies, we find the answer. Anhui will be the provincial science and technology major projects, unveiling the leader, the Yangtze River Delta joint research and other policies into a "provincial science and technology innovation plan project", led by the science and technology department, the total amount of funds from the original annual about 400 million yuan, directly strengthened to 1 billion yuan, the direction of support from 40 in 2022 to 22 in 2023, the average support intensity of a single project is 5.7 times that before the reform. This made Duan Calamus, a staff member of the science and technology department who once had reservations about reform, fall to the ground with a stone.
Duan Jiangpu, director of the Department of Science and Technology of Anhui Province for Major Tasks and Strategic Science and Technology Force Construction: It turns out that the most lacking may be the amount of our financial funds. After the reform, we supported Visionox's major projects with 57.8 million yuan, which was unimaginable before the reform.
Wu Jinsong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Anhui Provincial Department of Science and Technology: How many years have we wanted to do what we haven't done, we can do it last year. Everyone has worked together, and there is a special team to take the lead and cooperate. Money, finance is unified, projects are carried out by everyone, and the integrity, systematization and coordination between departments have been improved.
Support scientific and technological innovation
Mobilize the power of the market
Not only have various departments been twisted into a rope, but in the course of reform, Anhui has also given full play to the role of the market, allowing financial funds to play a role in allocating thousands of pounds.
Gu Jianfeng, director of the Anhui Provincial Department of Finance: It turns out that these money are directly subsidized, we call it "sprinkling pepper noodles", or "sprinkling sesame salt", it turns out that it is sprinkled out every year. After we draw it back now, we will make it into the government's industrial guidance fund, and we will concentrate more than 8 billion yuan a year.
Gu Jianfeng told reporters that they actively play the role of financial funds to guide and leverage, and newly established the "Emerging Industry Guidance Fund", using the method of "Guidance Fund + Parent Fund + Sub-Fund", and plan to use five years to coordinate 50 billion yuan, leverage 150 billion yuan of social capital, and make a total scale of 200 billion yuan of fund jungle.
Pan Youhua, chairman of Anhui Provincial State-owned Financial Capital Investment Management Co., Ltd.: Now the fund manager is in charge of money, and he wants to actively invest in projects and find projects, so the investment progress will also be accelerated. At present, 16 parent funds at the provincial level have been established, with a total subscription scale of nearly 180 billion yuan and nearly 200 parent and child funds. So far, 325 projects have been invested, many unicorn projects, the first set of projects in Anhui Province, early investment, small investment, investment in science and technology.
This high-end equipment company has not only won the favor of the provincial science and technology transformation fund and accelerated the progress of research and development, but also their main perovskite evaporation machine for the preparation of next-generation photovoltaic cells, which has promoted the rapid development of related domestic industries.
Zhu Chengda, deputy general manager of Hefei Xinyihua Intelligent Machinery Co., Ltd.: This pump is a core component of vacuum equipment. In the early stage, it was mainly imported, and now we are supporting domestic pump enterprises, and we will go to research and development together, and make progress together, and strive to realize the localization of all key equipment parts of perovskite as soon as possible. Because we need a lot of parts and components for one equipment, we have supported a lot of local supporting parts processing enterprises, and dozens of them should be available.
In order to manage this money well, government departments have also taken on the responsibility, and in the course of reform, the financial department has set up a new state-owned financial capital supervision department.
Du Rongsheng, Director of the State-owned Financial Capital Supervision Division of the Anhui Provincial Department of Finance: This amplification effect is particularly good among the financial tools, and the effect is very prominent. The money that was originally awarded and subsidized has now become bound to social capital to invest in the industry. What I formed was equity, and if I made money, it would become 60 billion, 70 billion and come back. In addition, it drives the industry, and at the same time drives tax revenue. We found a chain owner to come over, and all the upstream and downstream industrial chains followed. Let's work together to develop this industry well, and at the same time to achieve the preservation and appreciation of capital, so that the entire Anhui industry will rise.
Anhui fiscal zero-based budget reform
The results are beginning to be seen
In Anhui, fiscal zero-based budgeting reform has become a breakthrough, sparking a clear chemical change among government departments.
Lu Zhonglin, Chief Technology Officer of Anhui Xuhe New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.: This is a text message we received from the government's "Enjoy without application" platform this year, and we have enjoyed government financial support of 2.943 million yuan.
In the reform of Anhui, the implementation of enterprise-related subsidy funds "free to enjoy", market entities do not need to submit materials, after receiving the text message, only need to confirm the information online with one click, you can sit and enjoy the funds into the account.
Lu Zhonglin, Chief Technology Officer of Anhui Xuhe New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.: It saves our manpower, material resources and time costs.
Behind the optimization of the business environment is the improvement of government governance efficiency. This system of the financial department will automatically compare the situation of enterprises, last year the system reminded that there were more repeated applications for subsidies, and this year the reminder has become "low social benefits".
Wang Xu, Director of the Budget Performance Management Division of the Anhui Provincial Department of Finance: We have an enterprise library, which will give a portrait of the enterprise, and the policy will look for the enterprise. The enterprise is insensitive, and the audit work is operated by our departments at all levels in the background. Since its launch in March 2023, a total of 12.9 billion yuan of financial funds have been redeemed, benefiting 32,000 enterprises. The time for cashing out is greatly advanced, and some can be received on the same day.
In Anhui, the zero-based budget reform has stimulated chemical changes in government departments, significantly improved the efficiency of government governance, and further optimized the structure of fiscal expenditure. In 2024, Anhui will reduce non-key and non-rigid expenditures by 2.68 billion yuan, an increase of 1.79 billion yuan over the previous year, and concentrate financial resources to do major things, and increase the capital investment in key security items from 75.6 billion yuan to 84.3 billion yuan.
Gu Jianfeng, director of the Anhui Provincial Department of Finance: Because our financial resources have not increased so much, we all have to rely on pooling them bit by bit, and finally we can accomplish a major event and a major event for the people's livelihood. This benefit will now be gradually revealed.
The intensity of technology spending has increased significantly:
- In 2023, Anhui's fiscal science and technology expenditure will account for 6.2% of the general public budget expenditure, ranking third in the country;
- The support intensity of a single project for scientific and technological research has been increased by about 5 times, and the provincial support funds for special major projects can exceed 100 million yuan;
- In 2023, there will be a net increase of more than 4,700 technology-based SMEs year-on-year.
Wu Jinsong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of Anhui Provincial Department of Science and Technology: In fact, behind the zero-based budget is the reform of the system and mechanism, not a matter of money, money is a symptom, and more deeply is to promote the integration of government work.
In the field of people's livelihood:
- In 2023, 49.28 billion yuan will be invested to support the implementation of 50 practical matters on people's livelihood and 10 actions to warm people's hearts;
- 500 million yuan was coordinated, and 1,176 black and odorous water bodies were remediated, an increase of 339 year-on-year;
- The per capita funding level for higher education students has increased from 30th in the country before the reform to 23rd.
The road to deepening will not be smooth
The need to tackle tough problems is worth looking forward to
The reform of the fiscal and taxation system has always focused on the systematic reconstruction of the long-term mechanism, not just to solve the immediate difficulties. Anhui's zero-based budget reform, based on the present, focusing on the long-term, with bold and vivid practice, to the benefit of financial funds, to the efficiency of collaborative governance, is laying the foundation for further building a long-term mechanism to improve the efficiency of the use of limited financial funds.
This reform is very professional, with the efforts of professional departments and professionals; It is also very popular, with the participation of all social forces, and its results can be felt by the majority of enterprises and residents. This reform has been "broken" and "established," and the things that should not be done have been eliminated, and new things that can be done and done well have been added. The starting point of this reform is the reform of the budget system, and its tentacles are extending to many aspects of government governance. In the long run, it's just the beginning. In the face of the new requirements of "deepening the zero-based budget reform", the road to deepening will not be smooth, and it needs to be tackled, which is worth looking forward to.
Source: CCTV News
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