The National Development and Reform Commission issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Expanding Domestic Demand" Implementation Plan, proposing new requirements for the field of standards and certification.

 The National Development and Reform Commission recently released the "14th Five-Year Plan" Implementation Plan for Expanding Domestic Demand. The implementation plan targets the main factors restricting the expansion of domestic demand, focuses on the main goals of implementing the expansion strategy during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, and clarifies key tasks and important measures.

     The "Implementation Plan" involves Standard Certification Field as follows:

· Establish and improve systems for green product standards, labels, certification, etc., and carry out green product evaluations.

· Strengthen the certification management of green food, organic agricultural products, and geographical indication agricultural products, and optimize and improve the geographical indication protection standard system.

· Improve the quality certification system, focus on the role of mandatory product certification to "ensure safety baseline" and voluntary product certification to "raise quality standards," increase the supply of high-end quality certification systems, and improve the quality certification acceptance mechanism.

 

"14th Five-Year Plan" Implementation Plan for Expanding Domestic Demand

 

     Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, China has firmly implemented the strategy to expand domestic demand, promoting the formation of a strong domestic market, with the support role of domestic demand in economic development significantly enhanced. To thoroughly implement the "14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035" and the "Strategic Plan for Expanding Domestic Demand (2022–2035)," targeting the main factors restricting the expansion of domestic demand, focusing on the main goals of implementing the expansion strategy during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, adhering to a problem-oriented approach, and clarifying key tasks, this implementation plan is formulated.

 

I. Development Situation

 

(1) Achievements in expanding domestic demand during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.

 

The fundamental role of consumption has been continuously strengthened, with significant growth in traditional consumption such as housing and transportation, and rapid development of new consumption formats and models. The key role of investment has been better utilized, with comprehensive improvement in infrastructure construction, remarkable achievements in major scientific and technological projects, accelerated addressing of weaknesses in social livelihood areas, and accelerated advancement of major projects such as new infrastructure, new urbanization, transportation, and water conservancy. The domestic market operation mechanism has been continuously improved, the high-standard market system has been accelerated, reforms of "delegating power, streamlining administration, and optimizing services" have deepened, the business environment has been continuously optimized, key reforms such as market-oriented allocation of factors and property rights system have steadily progressed, the circulation system has been accelerated and improved, the social security system has been gradually perfected, and the basic public service system coordinating urban and rural areas has been accelerated. The connection between international and domestic markets has become closer, international economic and trade cooperation has been solidly promoted, significant progress has been made in building a highland of opening-up, China has become one of the most attractive countries for foreign investment inflows, and China's market has further coordinated and mutually benefited with the global market.

 

(2) Problems and challenges faced in expanding domestic demand during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.

 

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China's domestic market foundation is more solid and the space is broader. At the same time, it must be recognized that China faces many problems and challenges in expanding domestic demand. The contribution of domestic demand to economic growth needs to be improved, difficulties in consumption upgrading have increased, there are many constraints on expanding effective investment, and the international situation remains complex and severe. It is necessary to firmly implement the strategy to expand domestic demand, accurately grasp the development laws of the domestic market, continuously unleash domestic demand potential, fully leverage the role of domestic demand in driving growth, build a stronger domestic market, and promote stable, healthy, and sustainable economic development in China.

 

II. Overall Requirements

 

(1) Guiding Ideology.

 

Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhering to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implementing the new development philosophy, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, focusing on promoting high-quality development, adhering to supply-side structural reform as the main line, coordinating epidemic prevention and control with economic and social development, coordinating development and security, firmly grasping the strategic fulcrum of expanding domestic demand, accelerating the cultivation of a complete domestic demand system, strengthening demand-side management, leading and creating new demand through innovation-driven and high-quality supply, promoting dynamic balance of supply and demand at a higher level; unswervingly using reform to release and stimulate market potential, implementing a higher level of opening-up, promoting the formation of a strong domestic market, focusing on smoothing the domestic economic cycle, promoting the healthy interaction of domestic and international dual circulation, and providing strong momentum and solid support for stable and healthy economic and social development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.

 

(2) Main Goals.

 

— Promote consumption and investment, achieving new breakthroughs in the scale of domestic demand. The fundamental role of consumption and the key role of investment will be further strengthened. Domestic demand will continue to develop healthily, with significant improvement in quality and efficiency, fully leveraging the advantages of a super-large-scale market, a stronger domestic market, and obvious progress in cultivating a complete domestic demand system.

 

— Improve the distribution pattern, continuously releasing domestic demand potential. The distribution structure will be significantly improved, the development gap between urban and rural areas and regions and the gap in residents' living standards will gradually narrow, and the actual growth of residents' per capita disposable income will basically keep pace with economic growth. The level of equalization of basic public services will continue to improve, the multi-level social security system will be more sound, and social undertakings will accelerate development.

 

— Improve supply quality to better meet domestic demand. Significant progress will be made in supply-side structural reform, with a more solid agricultural foundation, a basically stable manufacturing proportion, accelerated construction of modern service industries, further consolidation of the foundation of the real economy, accelerated transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, rapid development of new industries and new business formats, significantly enhanced innovation capabilities, obvious improvement in the advanced level of industrial base and modernization of industrial chains, and continuously enhanced adaptability of the supply system to domestic demand.

 

— Improve the market system, achieving significant results in stimulating domestic demand. A high-standard market system characterized by unified openness, orderly competition, complete institutions, and sound governance will be basically established, with smoother flow of goods and factors between urban and rural areas and regions, major progress in property rights system reform and market-oriented allocation of factors reform, continuous optimization of the business environment, more perfect fair competition system, and establishment and improvement of a modern circulation system.

 

— Smooth economic circulation, continuously improving the efficiency of domestic demand development. A higher-level open economic system will be basically formed, with deeper economic cooperation between China and surrounding regions, and continuously enhanced driving effect on the development of surrounding and global economies.

 

III. Fully Promote Consumption, Accelerate Consumption Quality Improvement and Upgrading

 

(1) Continuously Improve Traditional Consumption.

 

1. Improve the quality of food, clothing, and daily necessities consumption. Promote the cultivation of superior varieties, quality improvement, brand building, and standardized production of agricultural products, increase the supply of healthy and nutritious agricultural products and food, and persistently curb food waste. Fully promote the "same line, same standard, same quality" project for domestic and export products in the food and general consumer goods fields. Increase consumption of smart home appliances, promote home decoration consumption, and advance the development of digital homes.

 

2. Release the potential of travel consumption. Promote the shift of automobile consumption from purchase management to usage management, encourage restricted purchase areas to explore differentiated traffic management and other alternative restriction measures. Promote cross-province handling of used car transaction registration to facilitate used car transactions. Strengthen the construction of supporting facilities such as parking lots, charging piles, battery swap stations, and hydrogen refueling stations.

 

3. Promote healthy development of residential consumption. Adhere to the positioning that "houses are for living in, not for speculation," strengthen guidance on real estate market expectations, explore new development models, accelerate the establishment of a housing system with multiple supply entities, multiple channels of guarantee, and a combination of renting and purchasing, prudently implement a long-term mechanism for the stable and healthy development of the real estate market, and support residents' reasonable self-occupancy needs. Improve long-term rental housing policies, focusing on large cities with net population inflows, expand the supply of guaranteed rental housing, and optimize policies for housing provident fund support for renters' withdrawals and other uses.

 

4. Enhance the comprehensive carrying capacity of regional consumption. Deepen the construction of Hainan International Tourism Consumption Center. Cultivate and build several international consumption center cities with global influence and attractiveness. Create a number of regional consumption centers with strong radiation and driving capabilities and advantages in resource integration. Strengthen the construction of a tiered system of small and medium-sized consumer cities. Continue to vigorously implement consumption assistance.

 

(II) Actively develop service consumption.

 

5. Focus on cultivating cultural consumption. Rely on cultural and relic units to vigorously develop cultural and creative products, expand the supply of high-quality cultural products and services, continuously promote the construction of national cultural and tourism consumption demonstration cities, and promote the upgrading and expansion of national-level nighttime cultural and tourism consumption clusters. Implement a digital strategy for the cultural industry, strengthen industries such as digital creativity, online audio-visual, digital publishing, digital entertainment, and online broadcasting. Promote high-tech video and cloud broadcasting applications such as interactive video, immersive video, virtual reality video, and cloud gaming. Develop fifth-generation mobile communication (5G) broadcasting and television, promoting universal access to broadcasting and television terminals, mobile access, and access for all. Establish and improve incentive mechanisms and evaluation systems for cultural product creation, production, dissemination guidance, and promotion. Innovate and implement cultural benefit projects. Encourage regions with conditions to implement benefit subsidies for consumption of movies, dramas, and plays. Deeply implement the project for the inheritance and development of excellent traditional Chinese culture, strengthen systematic protection of important cultural and natural heritage and intangible cultural heritage. Promote the construction of national cultural parks such as the Great Wall, the Grand Canal, the Long March, and the Yellow River.

 

6. Promote the upgrading and expansion of tourism consumption. Implement the paid annual leave system. Vigorously develop all-region tourism, strengthen regional tourism brand and service integration, build a number of world-class tourist attractions and resorts with rich cultural heritage, and create a number of national-level tourism and leisure cities and blocks with distinctive cultural characteristics. Promote innovative development of red tourism, self-driving tours, cultural heritage tourism, industrial tourism, health and wellness tourism, and tourism performances, improve the quality of vacation leisure and rural tourism services, and improve development policies for marine tourism, cruise yachts, and low-altitude tourism. Actively develop general aviation.

 

7. Increase consumption of elderly care and childcare services. Accelerate the improvement of an elderly care service system that coordinates home, community, and institutional care and integrates medical care and health care. Implement inclusive elderly care special actions, carry out community medical and nursing capacity enhancement actions, and vigorously develop home-based elderly care. Promote the construction of elderly-friendly communities, promote the adaptation of public facilities for the elderly, and develop elderly-friendly technologies and products. Continuously develop and improve the inclusive childcare service system, encourage qualified employers to provide infant and toddler care services, and support enterprises, institutions, and social organizations to provide inclusive childcare services.

 

8. Provide multi-level medical and health services. Fully implement centralized volume-based procurement of drugs and medical consumables, improve the pricing formation mechanism for medical services, and accelerate the promotion of multi-site practice for physicians. Encourage the development of general medical services and increase effective supply in specialized medical and other subdivided service areas. Optimize health services and develop the health industry. Strengthen premarital, pre-pregnancy, and pregnancy health services, improve prenatal screening, prenatal diagnosis, and newborn disease screening capabilities, and consolidate the critical care network for critically ill pregnant women and newborns. Implement the Healthy Children Action Improvement Plan. Implement major projects for the revitalization and development of traditional Chinese medicine, strengthen traditional Chinese medicine services covering the entire life cycle, and comprehensively enhance the distinctive advantages and service capabilities of traditional Chinese medicine.

 

9. Improve the quality of education services. Support areas with concentrated population inflows to actively expand the supply of basic education places. Promote vocational colleges and application-oriented undergraduate colleges to strengthen the construction of industry-education integration training bases and build a number of high-level vocational colleges. Steadily advance the reform of classified management of private education and carry out high-level Sino-foreign cooperative education. Strengthen the construction of county-level ordinary high schools and promote diversified and distinctive development of ordinary high schools. Deepen the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education and urban-rural integration, and build a high-quality and balanced basic public education service system. Promote the popularization, inclusiveness, safety, and quality development of preschool education, improve the input and cost-sharing mechanism, improve the staffing and treatment guarantee mechanism for kindergarten teachers, strengthen supervision of fees in non-profit private kindergartens, and establish and improve the price formation mechanism for non-profit private kindergartens. Accelerate the construction of education dedicated networks, improve the "Internet + Education" big platform, and enhance the supply capacity of educational resource services.

 

10. Promote mass sports consumption. Widely carry out national fitness activities and popularize scientific fitness knowledge and methods. Improve policies for free or low-fee access to public sports venues and orderly promote the opening of various sports venues and facilities to society. Create a number of international and regional brand events in professional competitions such as football and basketball. Promote the "southward expansion, westward expansion, and eastward advancement" of ice and snow sports, actively promote ice and snow sports into campuses and communities. Popularize and promote outdoor sports such as mountain, aviation, water, marathon, cycling, and motor vehicle sports.

 

11. Promote the upgrading and expansion of domestic service. Promote the standardized development of employee-based domestic service enterprises and encourage qualified enterprises to develop branded chain operations. Deepen the "leader" action for upgrading and expanding the domestic service industry. Improve the credit system for the domestic service industry and strengthen credit supervision. Implement the "Domestic Service Boosting Agriculture" action to drive rural labor to engage in domestic services and expand service supply. Promote the holding of exhibitions in the domestic service field to promote integrated innovation development of the entire industry chain. Support the integration and innovation of domestic service, elderly care, childcare, property management, and other formats, and promote domestic services into communities. Encourage the development of high-end domestic services such as family butlers.

 

(III) Accelerate the cultivation of new types of consumption.

 

12. Support the integrated development of online and offline commodity consumption. Accelerate the digital transformation and upgrading of traditional offline formats and develop online services such as online customization. Regulate platform economy development according to law and promote transparency of platform rules. Enrich application scenarios of 5G networks and gigabit optical networks, accelerate the research and development of intelligent products such as ultra-high-definition video, virtual reality, wearable devices, smart home, smart teaching assistants, and medical robots. Support the application of technologies such as autonomous driving and unmanned delivery. Expand contactless consumption experiences and encourage the layout and construction of smart supermarkets, smart stores, smart restaurants, smart stations, and smart bookstores.

 

13. Cultivate new models of "Internet + social services." Strengthen and optimize online learning services, create a combined online and offline vocational skills training model, and improve the coverage of online education in rural schools. Actively develop "Internet + medical health" services, orderly promote services such as time-segmented appointment diagnosis and treatment, electronic prescription circulation, and online drug sales, and include eligible internet medical service projects in the scope of medical insurance payment according to procedures. Deepen the development of online cultural entertainment, support the creation of new formats such as online broadcasting, digital art, and immersive experiences. Encourage the development of new smart tourism models such as "cloud tourism." Cultivate intelligent sports competition brands, enrich online competition activities, and support social forces to build smart gyms and develop online fitness courses.

 

14. Promote the development of the sharing economy and new individual economy. Further support business model innovation of shared resources such as ride-hailing, shared accommodation, and contactless delivery, and promote the standardized, orderly, and healthy development of the sharing economy. Support diversified business models such as social e-commerce and live streaming, and encourage the development of innovative platforms based on knowledge dissemination and experience sharing. Support the standardized and orderly development of diversified online social and short video platforms.

 

(IV) Vigorously advocate green and low-carbon consumption.

 

15. Actively develop the green and low-carbon consumption market. Promote e-commerce platforms to expand sales of green products. Establish and improve systems for green product standards, labeling, certification, etc., and carry out green product evaluations. Vigorously promote new energy vehicles and new energy, clean energy ships. Encourage green power trading, formulate incentive measures to promote various power users to purchase green power, and promote high energy-consuming enterprises and industries to prioritize the use of green power. Improve the mandatory scrapping system and the recycling and disposal system for durable consumer goods such as waste household appliances, accelerate the construction of a waste material recycling system, strengthen the recycling and utilization of renewable resources such as waste paper, waste plastics, waste tires, waste metals, waste glass, and waste agricultural films, and improve resource output rates.

 

16. Advocate a frugal and intensive green lifestyle. Continuously carry out activities such as "National Low Carbon Day" to raise green and low-carbon awareness throughout society. Deepen the creation of resource-saving government agencies, green families, green schools, green communities, and green shopping malls. Develop urban public transportation, improve urban slow traffic systems, accelerate the electrification of public vehicles and official vehicles in public sectors such as urban buses, taxis, logistics, and sanitation, and vigorously increase the proportion of public buses, electric vehicles, and rail transit in motorized travel. Promote the application of green building materials. Vigorously promote the production and consumption of products with low (or no) volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Continue to advance the governance of excessive packaging and promote producers and operators to comply with mandatory standards limiting excessive packaging of goods.

 

4. Optimize investment structure and expand investment space.

 

(1) Increase support for manufacturing investment.

 

17. Guide various high-quality factors to gather in manufacturing. Encourage enterprises to apply advanced and applicable technologies, strengthen equipment updates, and scale up new product applications. Accelerate the construction of a multi-level capital market system such as the Science and Technology Innovation Board and the Growth Enterprise Market. Guide financial institutions to innovate financial product services according to principles of controllable risk and commercial sustainability, adjust and optimize financing structures, and support high-quality development of manufacturing. Continue to implement the manufacturing talent planning guide, increase the training and cultivation of professional technical talents, management talents, and technical skilled talents in manufacturing. Strengthen the guarantee of land use, energy use, and other factors for manufacturing investment.

 

(2) Continue to promote investment to address weaknesses in key areas.

 

18. Accelerate the construction of transportation infrastructure. Promote the construction of the main framework of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, strengthen the construction of strategic backbone corridors in the central and western regions, along the Yangtze River, and coastal areas. Accelerate the construction of the national railway network, basically complete the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway main corridors, speed up the construction of conventional railways and the renovation and upgrading of existing railways, support key urban agglomerations to take the lead in building intercity railway networks, and support the construction and use of dedicated railway lines for key enterprises, ports, and logistics centers. Improve the backbone routes of the highway network, accelerate the construction of bottleneck sections of national expressways and ordinary national highways between provinces. Prudently promote the construction of civil airports, enhance the capacity and service level of international and regional hub airports, actively promote the construction of branch airports and general airports, and promote the creation of world-class airport clusters in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Chengdu-Chongqing. Leverage the comparative advantages of water transport, promote the construction of world-class port clusters in the Tianjin-Hebei coastal area, Yangtze River Delta, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, support the construction of international shipping centers, advance the high-quality construction of the new western land-sea corridor, study the construction of water system connectivity projects such as the Pinglu Canal, improve the specialization and intensification of inland river ports, and accelerate the construction of high-grade inland waterway networks such as the Yangtze River. Increase the density of rail transit in the central urban areas of mega cities and improve urban road networks.

 

19. Strengthen energy infrastructure construction. Improve the layout and structure of the main grid, orderly build key cross-province and cross-region power transmission channels, actively promote distribution network renovation and rural power grid consolidation and enhancement projects. Promote clean and efficient coal utilization technologies, coordinate the flexible upgrading, ultra-low emissions, heating, and energy-saving renovations of existing coal power units. Promote the construction of a batch of green transformation and high-quality development coal bases, adhere to the principle of expanding large and reducing small, improving quality and eliminating inferior capacity, optimize coal production capacity structure, and continuously improve supply quality. Enhance coal railway transportation capacity. Accelerate the construction of national trunk oil and gas pipelines, plan and orderly advance the construction of liquefied natural gas receiving stations and LNG refueling stations for vehicles and ships. Continuously improve the utilization level of clean energy, build multi-energy complementary clean energy bases, accelerate the construction of large wind power and photovoltaic bases focusing on deserts, gobi, and barren areas, orderly promote hydrogen energy infrastructure construction, and develop biomass energy, geothermal energy, and marine energy applications according to local conditions. Promote the construction of a new type of power system, enhance clean energy consumption and storage capacity. Orderly promote clean heating in northern regions during winter.

 

20. Accelerate water conservancy infrastructure construction. Advance preliminary work for projects such as the Huanghe Guxian Water Conservancy Hub, accelerate the construction of cross-basin and cross-regional water resource allocation projects such as Jiangsu-Huai River Diversion and Central Yunnan Water Diversion, promote the follow-up construction of the South-to-North Water Diversion East and Central Lines, and implement a batch of water diversion projects that play an important role in regional development. Accelerate the resolution of weak links in flood control, improve flood control and disaster reduction capabilities in river basins, accelerate the risk removal and reinforcement of dangerous reservoirs, and promote the construction of dikes, control hubs, and flood detention areas. Strengthen soil and water conservation and river and lake remediation, improve water ecological environment protection and governance capabilities, scientifically advance comprehensive soil erosion control, and continue to promote groundwater over-extraction governance. Increase investment in agricultural and rural water conservancy infrastructure. Improve rural water supply security. Strengthen water-saving infrastructure construction.

 

21. Improve the logistics infrastructure network. Implement the national logistics hub networking project, steadily advance the construction of a batch of national logistics hubs, promote the construction of railway (high-speed rail) express logistics bases, and scientifically and orderly advance the layout and construction of specialized freight hub airports. Deepen the construction and application of multimodal transport demonstration projects, improve the collection and distribution system, and promote the construction of multimodal transport transfer facilities. Optimize the commercial logistics facility network supported by comprehensive logistics parks, specialized distribution centers, and terminal distribution outlets, and encourage third- and fourth-tier cities to build regional warehousing and logistics distribution centers. Promote the layout and construction of national key cold chain logistics bases, improve the scale, intensification, and networking development level of cold chain logistics, and accelerate the implementation of storage, preservation, and cold chain logistics facility construction projects for agricultural product origins.

 

22. Increase efforts in ecological and environmental protection facility construction. Build a batch of demonstration bases for comprehensive utilization of bulk solid waste. Address shortcomings in medical waste and hazardous waste collection and disposal facilities, build hazardous waste risk prevention and control technology centers and special hazardous waste centralized disposal centers. Fully promote the construction of garbage transfer stations, waste treatment plants, and odor control facilities for large-scale farms. Implement major projects for important ecosystem protection and restoration, remediation of historical legacy waste in major non-ferrous metal mining areas, strengthen ecological protection and governance of major rivers and important lake wetlands, protect aquatic biodiversity, strengthen protection of rare and endangered aquatic species, and restore key habitats. Accelerate the renewal and renovation of old coastal and inland ships. Build ecological and environmental protection facilities that promote increased clean energy utilization and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

 

23. Improve social livelihood infrastructure. Enhance the infrastructure and equipment conditions of disease control institutions, accelerate the construction of national medical centers and regional medical centers, improve the infrastructure conditions of county-level hospitals and maternal and child health institutions at all levels, strengthen the infrastructure and service capacity of township health centers and village clinics in central and western regions, and allow localities to strengthen the construction of nursing homes (centers, stations) and rehabilitation hospitals according to local conditions. Implement education quality improvement and expansion projects, focusing on inclusive kindergartens, compulsory education, general high school education, high-quality vocational education, and higher education, aiming to improve school conditions. Increase inclusive elderly care and integrated medical and nursing service facilities, and build infant care and minor protection service institutions and facilities. Enhance the level of county-level public cultural facilities such as libraries and cultural centers, strengthen broadcasting and television transmission coverage facilities, grassroots disaster prevention and mitigation infrastructure, and promote the construction of emergency broadcasting systems. Strengthen the construction of tourism information infrastructure, tourism distribution centers, and visitor service centers, improve tourism supporting and service facilities, promote the tourism toilet revolution, reinforce smart scenic area construction, and improve tourism service quality. Increase the supply of public fitness venues and facilities, continuously improve fitness facilities near the public. Build a national trail system, promote the construction of sports parks, outdoor sports public service facilities, encourage the use and transformation of existing buildings such as industrial plants, commercial buildings, warehouses, as well as rooftops and basements into sports facilities.

 

24. Accelerate the filling of municipal infrastructure gaps. Strengthen urban waterlogging control, systematically build an urban drainage and flood control engineering system featuring "source reduction, pipeline discharge, combined storage and drainage, and emergency response to exceedances," and actively promote sponge city construction where conditions permit. Strengthen municipal infrastructure construction such as water supply, gas supply, and heating, and accelerate the aging pipeline renewal and renovation in cities. Strengthen the construction of urban sewage and garbage collection and treatment systems, and promote full coverage of urban sewage pipelines. Implement intelligent municipal infrastructure construction and renovation actions.

 

(3) Systematically layout new infrastructure.

 

25. Strengthen new infrastructure construction. Accelerate the establishment of a nationwide integrated big data center system, plan and build national hub nodes and data center clusters. Accelerate large-scale deployment of 5G networks. Speed up gigabit optical network construction, expand backbone network interconnection nodes, establish a batch of new international communication gateways, and comprehensively promote commercial deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Accelerate the digital transformation of traditional infrastructure such as transportation, water conservancy, energy, and municipal facilities using technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence, and big data. Implement the basic network improvement project for small and medium-sized cities in central and western regions. Promote the comprehensive development of the Internet of Things, creating IoT access capabilities supporting fixed-mobile integration and a combination of wide and narrow bandwidth. Implement smart connected vehicle demonstration projects and create pilot zones for vehicle networking. Support qualified localities in building regional innovation hubs and optimize and upgrade industrial innovation infrastructure. Construct a batch of major scientific and technological infrastructure with important research value and specific disciplinary fields.

 

5. Promote coordinated urban-rural and regional development, unleash domestic demand potential.

 

(1) Promote people-centered new urbanization.

 

26. Promote the urbanization of agricultural migrant populations. Deepen household registration system reform and reasonably determine urban settlement conditions. Improve the basic public service provision mechanism identified by citizen identity numbers and linked to residence duration and other conditions. Improve policies linking fiscal transfer payments with the urbanization of agricultural migrant populations. Establish a rural property rights transfer market system, improve the market-based exit mechanism and supporting policies for farmers' rural land contract rights, homestead use rights, and collective income distribution rights, and legally protect the rights and interests of farmers settling in cities.

 

27. Cultivate urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas. Optimize and upgrade urban agglomerations such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Chengdu-Chongqing, and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River; develop and expand urban agglomerations like the Shandong Peninsula, coastal areas of Guangdong-Fujian-Zhejiang, Central Plains, Guanzhong Plain, and Beibu Gulf; cultivate urban agglomerations such as Harbin-Changchun, Central and Southern Liaoning, Central Shanxi, Central Guizhou, Central Yunnan, Hohhot-Baotou-Ordos-Yulin, Lanzhou-Xining, Ningxia Yellow River area, and the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains. Rely on central cities with strong radiation and driving capacity to improve the coordinated development level of commuting circles, encourage mutual recognition of social security and settlement points in metropolitan areas, and share education and medical resources, cultivating a batch of highly integrated modern metropolitan areas. Promote slimming and strengthening of super-large and mega cities, orderly relieve general manufacturing, regional logistics bases, specialized markets, and overly concentrated public service resources in central urban areas. Promote coordinated development of large, medium, and small cities, improve livability and workability functions of large and medium cities, and support the cultivation of emerging small and medium-sized cities. Reasonably determine city scale, population density, and spatial structure.

 

28. Promote urbanization construction with county towns as important carriers. Adapt to population flow trends and development differentiation in county towns, based on the main functional positioning, location conditions, and industrial foundation of counties, implement targeted and appropriate policies, do what is feasible and within capacity, select a batch of well-conditioned county towns for key development, and prevent blind construction in counties with population loss. Consolidate the industrial development foundation of county towns, improve municipal public facilities, perfect the public service system, improve ecological environment quality, and promote functional connection and complementarity between counties, towns, and villages. Guide the development of small towns by category according to location conditions, resource endowment, and development foundation.

 

29. Accelerate the renovation of old urban communities and other constructions. Establish a mechanism for reasonable sharing of renovation funds among government, residents, and social forces, improve supporting facilities and municipal infrastructure in old communities, and strive to basically complete the renovation tasks of old urban communities built before the end of 2000. Renovate and upgrade the functions of existing urban areas, basically complete the renovation of old factory areas in large cities, renovate a batch of large old neighborhoods, and renovate urban villages appropriately according to local conditions.

 

(2) Actively promote rural modernization.

 

30. Implement rural construction actions. Comprehensively consider village evolution rules, aggregation characteristics, and current distribution, combined with farmers' production and living radius, reasonably determine village layout and scale. Promote the extension of municipal public facilities to suburban villages and larger central towns, improve rural water, electricity, roads, gas, postal communication, networks, broadcasting and television, logistics, fire protection, and other infrastructure, develop new rural houses that are safe and sturdy, functionally modern, cost-effective, locally styled, and green and low-carbon, continue to improve rural clean heating renovation and dilapidated house renovation, and promote green building materials to rural areas. Implement digital rural construction actions. Implement mountain flood and geological disaster residential relocation and avoidance projects. Strengthen village-level comprehensive service facilities construction and promote one-stop convenient services. Promote the unification of basic public service standards and system integration between urban and rural areas, increase rural education, medical care, elderly care, cultural, and transportation service supply. Accelerate the improvement of rural living environment, promote rural toilet renovation, domestic waste treatment and sewage management, village appearance improvement, rural greening and beautification according to local conditions, and build beautiful and livable villages. Increase protection of rural cultural heritage and important agricultural cultural heritage.

 

31. Improve the rural market system. Strengthen the construction of agricultural product origin market systems, deeply implement the "Internet+" agricultural product out-of-village and into-city project. Renovate and upgrade township commercial outlets, build village-level commercial service outlets that are "multi-station integration and multi-functional at one station." Promote rural consumption of energy-saving appliances and other products, encourage quality and brand consumption in rural areas. Establish and improve rural tourism service standards. Accelerate township cinema construction. Continue to crack down on counterfeit and shoddy products according to law and regulate rural market order.

 

32. Enrich the forms of rural economy. Promote the integration of planting and breeding and the reconstruction of industrial chains, improve the development level of agricultural product processing industry and agricultural production services, empower rural revitalization through cultural industries, strengthen characteristic industries such as leisure agriculture, rural tourism, and homestay economy, enhance the branding level of agricultural products, and drive the development of characteristic industries. Develop new types of rural collective economy, improve the benefit linkage mechanism, and allow farmers to share more of the value-added income from industries. Continue to promote comprehensive utilization of straw, improve the collection, storage, and transportation system. Improve platforms such as rural property rights trading, inspection, testing, and certification, as well as facilities like intelligent standard factories. Promote the construction of modern agricultural industrial parks, strong agricultural industry towns, advantageous characteristic industry clusters, and national rural industry integration development demonstration parks. Support the innovative development and strengthening of leading agricultural industrialization enterprises, and organize the "Ten Thousand Enterprises Prosper Ten Thousand Villages" campaign. Carry out the creation of agricultural modernization demonstration zones, explore differentiated and characteristic agricultural modernization development models, and drive the overall improvement of county economies.

 

33. Improve the system and mechanism for urban-rural integrated development. Accelerate the reform of national urban-rural integration development pilot zones, coordinate relevant funds to support agricultural and rural development, and include eligible public welfare construction projects in agriculture and rural areas within the scope of local government bond support. Ensure reasonable land use demand for facility agriculture and rural industry development, improve financial incentives for agricultural support, encourage rural assets with clear property rights and legal compliance to be included in mortgage guarantee financing, develop agricultural insurance, and allow personnel employed or starting businesses in rural areas to settle and enjoy related rights and interests either in their place of origin or place of employment and entrepreneurship.

 

(3) Optimize regional economic layout.

 

34. Build new growth levels for domestic demand based on major regional strategies. Accelerate the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, seize the key to relieving Beijing's non-capital functions, implement a number of landmark relocation projects, build the Xiong'an New Area to high standards and quality, and basically complete the rail-based Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration. Fully promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, vigorously advance the "4+1" projects for urban sewage and garbage treatment, chemical pollution control, agricultural non-point source pollution control, ship pollution control, and tailings pond pollution control, implement the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River, continuously deepen green development demonstrations, and establish and improve the ecological product value realization mechanism. Support Hong Kong and Macau to better integrate into the national development framework, actively and steadily promote the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, improve the "Two Corridors and Two Points" framework of the international science and innovation center, deepen customs clearance model reforms, accelerate market integration, and deeply promote the construction of major cooperation platforms in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau. Enhance the level of integrated development in the Yangtze River Delta, accelerate infrastructure interconnection and convenient sharing of public services, and promote joint ecological and environmental protection. Solidly advance ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, coordinate upstream, midstream, and downstream efforts for major protection, coordinate urban and rural construction along the Yellow River, and create a Yellow River cultural tourism belt with international influence.

 

35. Promote coordinated regional development and improve the spatial pattern of domestic demand growth. Promote a new pattern for the development of the western region, achieve new breakthroughs in revitalizing the northeast, create a new situation for the rise of the central region, encourage the eastern region to accelerate modernization, and support the accelerated development of special types of regions. Improve and implement the main functional area system, gradually forming three major spatial patterns: urbanized areas, agricultural product production areas, and ecological function areas. Improve inter-regional benefit compensation mechanisms and ecological protection compensation systems, improve regional cooperation and benefit adjustment mechanisms, promote cooperation and sharing in ecological and environmental protection among regions, and support various forms of benefit compensation between upstream and downstream river basins, main grain production and main consumption areas, and resource output and input areas. Establish and improve a long-term mechanism to consolidate and expand poverty alleviation achievements, improve support mechanisms for rural low-income populations and underdeveloped areas, and achieve effective connection between consolidating and expanding poverty alleviation achievements and rural revitalization.

 

6. Improve supply quality to better drive demand realization.

 

(1) Accelerate the development of new industries and new products.

 

36. Achieve high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology. Promote the optimization and combination of the innovation system guided by national strategic needs, accelerate the construction of strategic scientific and technological forces led by national laboratories. Target frontier fields such as artificial intelligence, quantum information, integrated circuits, life and health, brain science, biological breeding, deep earth and deep sea, and implement a number of forward-looking and strategic national major science and technology projects.

 

37. Strengthen strategic emerging industries. Focus on key areas such as new generation information technology, biotechnology, new materials, new energy, high-end equipment, new energy vehicles, green environmental protection, and marine equipment, as well as core links in industrial chains such as 5G, integrated circuits, and artificial intelligence. Promote the development project of national strategic emerging industry clusters, implement special actions for the development of advanced manufacturing clusters, cultivate a number of cluster benchmarks, and explore pilot construction of a number of innovation and public service complexes within clusters.

 

38. Strengthen the application of innovative products. Improve incentive and risk compensation mechanisms, promote demonstration applications of first sets of equipment and first batches of materials. Establish a rapid review and approval mechanism for important products.

 

39. Accelerate the promotion of digital industrialization and industrial digitalization. Cultivate and expand emerging digital industries such as artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, network security, ultra-high-definition video, and virtual reality. Conduct digital pilot demonstrations in key fields such as intelligent transportation, smart logistics, smart energy, smart medical care, and smart health care for the elderly. Vigorously develop the third-party big data service industry. Promote industrial digital transformation, implement the "Cloud Adoption, Data Utilization, and Intelligence Empowerment" action, promote the construction of a number of digital transformation promotion centers, and reduce the cost of digital transformation for enterprises. Increase digital empowerment efforts for small and medium-sized enterprises, especially manufacturing SMEs. Build several international-level industrial internet platforms, deepen digital applications in research and development, design, and production manufacturing. Promote digital transformation of the service industry, actively advance digital commerce construction, and cultivate new growth points such as crowdsourced design, smart logistics, and smart retail. Accelerate the development of smart agriculture and promote the digital transformation of agricultural production, operation, and management services.

 

40. Stimulate talent innovation vitality. Improve talent evaluation and incentive mechanisms, and establish a scientific and technological talent evaluation system oriented towards innovation ability, quality, effectiveness, and contribution. Select and make good use of leading and top talents, granting them greater authority over technical routes and funding usage. Implement knowledge updating projects and skill enhancement actions, and expand the team of high-level engineers and highly skilled talents. Promote the upgrading and digital transformation of vocational education majors, and cultivate and train a large number of "digital craftsmen."

 

(2) Actively promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.

 

41. Vigorously develop modern agriculture. Optimize the regional layout of agricultural production, build advantageous agricultural product industry belts and characteristic agricultural product advantage zones, promote coordinated planning of grain, economic crops, and feed, as well as coordination among agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery, optimize the planting structure, and implement fertilizer and pesticide reduction actions. Strengthen arable land protection and quality construction, focusing on permanent basic farmland, grain production functional areas, and important agricultural product production protection zones, and promote the construction of high-standard farmland. Implement the national black soil protection project and steadily advance the protective tillage action plan for Northeast black soil. Promote the continuation and modernization of large and medium-sized irrigation districts, and improve refined management levels. Promote the transformation and upgrading of animal husbandry, develop standardized large-scale breeding, promote resource utilization of livestock and poultry breeding waste, and implement planting and breeding integration according to local conditions. Promote green and healthy aquaculture, accelerate the development of deep and distant sea aquaculture industries, and regulate and orderly develop marine fisheries. Strengthen research and application of large, medium, intelligent, and compound agricultural machinery. Strengthen animal epidemic risk prevention and control, improve crop pest and disease control systems, and enhance agricultural risk resistance.

 

42. Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industries. Promote innovative development in industries such as shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment, advanced rail transit equipment, advanced power equipment, construction machinery, high-end CNC machine tools, pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment. Renovate and upgrade traditional industries, promote structural adjustment of raw material industries such as petrochemicals, steel, non-ferrous metals, and building materials, expand the supply of high-quality products in light industry and textiles, and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of key industries such as chemicals, papermaking, and non-ferrous metals. Deeply implement the industrial internet innovation development action plan, integrate the construction of networks, platforms, and security systems, and create new application models and industrial ecosystems based on the industrial internet. Accelerate the implementation of intelligent manufacturing and green manufacturing projects, carry out pilot demonstration actions for intelligent manufacturing, build intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories, and cultivate intelligent manufacturing pilot zones.

 

43. Optimize the regional industrial capacity layout. Optimize the planning and layout of important basic industries such as petrochemicals and chemicals, strictly control the construction of high energy-consuming and high-emission projects. Improve the guidance catalog for industrial structure adjustment and the encouraged industry catalog for western regions, support and guide the central and western and northeastern regions to undertake domestic industrial gradient transfer based on resource endowment, fully considering resource and environmental carrying capacity. Strengthen unified planning and macro-guidance for major productivity layouts to prevent blind investment and repeated construction.

 

(3) Continuously promote the extension of producer services to high-end sectors.

 

44. Develop service-oriented manufacturing. Deepen the pilot integration of modern service industry and advanced manufacturing industry, guide and support manufacturing enterprises to shift from mainly providing "products" to providing "products + services." Encourage manufacturing enterprises to develop personalized customization services, full lifecycle management, precise online marketing, and online support services. Support qualified enterprises to shift from providing equipment to providing system integration general contracting services, and from providing products to providing overall solutions.

 

45. Support the extension of the service industry to the manufacturing end. Vigorously develop information technology services for manufacturing, improve the design, development, and comprehensive integration capabilities of information application systems in key industries. Encourage internet and other enterprises to develop innovative models such as online customization, innovate business collaboration processes and value creation models. Accelerate the development of scientific and technological services such as research and development design, technology transfer, business incubation, and scientific consulting. Develop and expand services such as supply chain management, third-party logistics, energy conservation and environmental protection, financial leasing, human resources services, after-sales service, and brand building to enhance support for manufacturing transformation and upgrading.

 

(4) Focus on strengthening standards, quality, and brand building.

 

46. Improve the product and service standards system. Establish and improve a unified national mandatory standards system. Strengthen certification management of green food, organic agricultural products, and geographical indication agricultural products, optimize and improve the geographical indication protection standards system. Improve the standards system in fields such as smart home appliances, smart homes, and wearable products. Continue to promote the alignment of domestic and international standards for consumer goods. Improve the standards system for service industries such as tourism, elderly care, housekeeping, commerce and trade circulation, and culture. Optimize the enterprise standard "leader" system. Vigorously develop advanced group standards and promote the application demonstration of group standards.

 

47. Continuously improve product and service quality. Vigorously implement quality improvement actions, increase the intensity of product quality supervision and random inspections, and promote manufacturing products to "increase varieties, improve quality, and create brands." Actively promote advanced quality management models and guide enterprises to strengthen total quality management. Provide one-stop quality infrastructure services for small and medium-sized enterprises. Improve the quality certification system, focus on playing the role of mandatory product certification in "ensuring safety baseline" and voluntary product certification in "raising quality standards," increase the supply of high-end quality certification systems, and improve the quality certification acceptance mechanism. Increase the investigation of defective products and promote the normalization of defective consumer product recalls. Improve the quality and safety traceability system for major consumer products to achieve traceable sources, traceable destinations, and accountable responsibilities. Implement a quality service mark management system and improve the quality statistics and monitoring system.

 

48. Deeply implement the brand development strategy. Continue to successfully hold China Brand Day activities, spread brand development concepts, gather consensus on brand development, promote domestic premium products, cultivate more world-renowned Chinese brands in fair market competition and consumer independent choice, and accelerate the construction of a strong brand nation. Cultivate and develop time-honored Chinese brands and characteristic traditional cultural brands, improve the registration management system for collective trademarks and certification trademarks, strengthen the registration and protection of agricultural product trademarks and geographical indication trademarks, and create a number of regionally distinctive, competitive, and reputable brands.

 

7. Improve the modern market and circulation system to promote organic connection between production and demand.

 

(1) Improve the market-oriented allocation level of factors.

 

49. Promote the orderly flow of labor factors. Establish a coordinated and connected policy system and exchange cooperation mechanism for labor and talent mobility, and improve a unified and standardized human resources market system. Formulate and revise national occupational standards, promote the interconnection of academic certificates and vocational skill level certificates. Improve the national unified social insurance public service platform and promote the transfer and continuation of social security relationships. Further promote convenient and efficient medical insurance services, accelerate the implementation of a national unified medical insurance information platform, and speed up the transfer and continuation of basic medical insurance relationships and outpatient expense cross-region settlement services.

 

50. Promote the market-oriented allocation of operational land factors. Improve the unified urban and rural construction land market, unify trading rules, incorporate it into the natural resource asset trading platform, improve the system for formulating and publishing urban and rural benchmark land prices and designated land prices, and gradually form a dynamic adjustment mechanism linked to market prices. Improve the annual new construction land total control system, improve the land guarantee mechanism for major projects, and implement the linkage between urban and rural construction land increase and decrease. Accelerate the cultivation and development of the secondary market for construction land, promote reasonable conversion of different types of industrial land, and explore increasing the supply of mixed industrial land.

 

51. Improve the allocation mechanism for knowledge, technology, and data factors. Deepen the pilot program granting scientific research personnel ownership or long-term use rights of scientific and technological achievements from their duties, improve incentive policies for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements from duties and the rights sharing mechanism for scientific research personnel's invention achievements. Increase reform efforts in research institutions, support scientific research institutions to try more flexible management systems for staffing, positions, and salaries. Build national intellectual property and scientific and technological achievement property transaction institutions, carry out intellectual property transfer, licensing, and other operation services nationwide. Promote the improvement of the market-oriented risk-sharing mechanism for intellectual property pledge financing and improve the intellectual property pledge information platform. Establish basic systems and standards for data resource property rights, transaction circulation, cross-border transmission, and security protection.

 

(2) Accelerate the establishment of a fair and unified market.

 

52. Improve the market order of fair competition. Treat all types of ownership enterprises equally in factor acquisition, access permits, business operations, standard setting, bidding, and government procurement. Improve the fair competition review mechanism and strengthen the rigid constraints of fair competition review. Strengthen and improve antitrust and anti-unfair competition law enforcement.

 

53. Accelerate the construction of a unified national market. Implement the "national unified list" management model, strictly prohibit local regions and departments from independently issuing negative lists with market access nature, and establish a ledger of implicit market access barriers covering provincial, municipal, and county levels. Promote market-oriented reforms in competitive sectors such as energy, railways, telecommunications, and public utilities. Deepen the integration and sharing of public resource trading platforms, carry out pilot reforms and innovations in the bidding and tendering field, and improve laws, regulations, and institutional rules for bidding and tendering. Promote the standardization, normalization, and facilitation of enterprise establishment.

 

(3) Build a modern circulation system.

 

54. Optimize the modern commercial and trade system. Develop high-level commodity trading markets, promote the transformation and upgrading of key consumer goods markets, and improve modern circulation facilities for agricultural products. Enhance the level of urban and rural commercial facilities, improve the facility conditions of commercial complexes, business districts, pedestrian streets, and other consumer gathering areas. Establish and improve the rural commercial system. Promote innovation and transformation in traditional retail. Reasonably allocate facilities such as community vegetable stores, supermarkets, and chain convenience stores to create a "15-minute" convenient living circle.

 

55. Develop a modern logistics system. Accelerate the construction of a backbone operation network centered on national logistics hubs, improve regional distribution and delivery service networks, optimize urban logistics distribution networks, and develop efficient urban-rural delivery. Accelerate the filling of rural logistics development gaps, promote the integration and intensive use of existing rural logistics resources in transportation, postal services, commerce, supply and marketing, express delivery, etc., build a batch of public and shared logistics infrastructure, and improve rural logistics service efficiency. Promote the rational layout and construction of intermodal transfer facilities and stations, actively develop combined rail-water, river-sea, and railway express transport. Optimize international shipping routes, strengthen international air cargo networks, consolidate and enhance international railway transport organizations such as the China-Europe freight trains, promote cross-border road transport development, support the optimization of global overseas warehouse layouts, and accelerate the construction of efficient and smooth diversified international logistics trunk channels.

 

VIII. Deepen reform and opening up, enhance the driving force for domestic demand development

 

(1) Improve the system and mechanism to promote consumption.

 

56. Continue to unleash the potential of service consumption. Continue to advance reforms in public institutions in education, science and technology, culture, health, sports, and other fields, gradually transforming public institutions engaged in production and business activities and separable production and business departments into enterprises. Establish and improve the classification management system for elderly care institutions, accelerate the promotion of public elderly care institutions to operate under public construction and private management. Include more public service projects in the government's service purchase guidance catalog and increase government purchasing efforts.

 

57. Strengthen consumer rights protection. Formulate implementation regulations for the Consumer Rights Protection Law, improve the consumer public interest litigation system, and explore the establishment of a consumer collective litigation system. Establish a punitive damages system for counterfeit and inferior products. Improve systems for product injury monitoring, product quality assurance, and diversify consumer rights protection and dispute resolution mechanisms. Simplify procedures for handling small consumer disputes. Strictly supervise food and drug safety, and strengthen price supervision in key commodity and service sectors.

 

(2) Promote reform of the investment and financing system.

 

58. Increase support and guidance for private investment. Leverage government funds to guide and drive private capital participation in major projects and shortfall areas such as new infrastructure, new urbanization, and transportation and water conservancy. Support private enterprises in basic research and technological innovation, participation in key core technology R&D, and tackling major national science and technology projects. Improve mechanisms for private enterprises to participate in the implementation of major national strategies. Encourage and guide non-state capital investment entities to participate in the restructuring of state-owned enterprises through shareholding, asset acquisition, and other forms.

 

59. Optimize investment approval and supervision management. Standardize and orderly promote innovative investment approval experiences such as enterprise investment project commitment system, regional assessment, and standard land reform; strengthen the institutional connection between investment decision-making, planning, land use, and environmental impact assessment; improve the efficiency of preliminary work for investment projects. Implement the "Government Investment Regulations" and "Regulations on the Approval and Filing Management of Enterprise Investment Projects," improve investment laws, regulations, and enforcement mechanisms. Establish and improve inter-departmental data sharing mechanisms for investment approval, promote "one list" of investment approval responsibilities, "integrated sharing" of approval data, and "one-stop online" approval services. Strengthen mid-term and post-event supervision of investment projects, especially those filed.

 

60. Improve investment project financing mechanisms. Based on pilot projects, orderly promote the healthy development of real estate investment trusts (REITs) in infrastructure, effectively revitalize existing assets, and form a virtuous investment cycle. Standardize and orderly advance public-private partnerships (PPP). Improve government financing guarantee systems. Increase financial institutions' funding support for major projects and works in ecological protection, urban and rural infrastructure construction, and technological innovation. Enhance the capital market's financing function for the real economy, increase the proportion of direct financing, especially equity financing. Reasonably expand bond financing scale, further develop corporate bonds, company bonds, non-financial enterprise debt financing instruments, project revenue bonds, etc., and promote interconnection of bond markets.

 

(3) Optimize the business environment to stimulate market vitality.

 

61. Deepen the reform of "delegation, regulation, and service". Deepen administrative approval system reform and business system reform, continuously create a relaxed and convenient market access environment. Deepen the "separation of permits and licenses" reform, focus on reducing certificates after licensing and merging certificates. Promote standardized and normalized implementation of administrative licenses, and promote models such as notification and commitment systems. Improve industrial product access systems and enterprise qualification recognition matters. Accelerate the establishment of a comprehensive, multi-level, and three-dimensional supervision system to achieve full-chain and full-field supervision before, during, and after events. Accelerate the standardization, normalization, and facilitation of government services, vigorously promote "Internet + government services." Expand the scope of simplified deregistration nationwide, establish simplified trial models for enterprise bankruptcy cases, and pilot personal bankruptcy system reforms. Improve and strictly implement the list of random inspection items, promote normalized joint departmental "double random, one public" supervision. Improve inclusive and prudent supervision systems for new business formats. Improve the business environment evaluation system and establish a long-term mechanism for business environment evaluation.

 

62. Improve the modern property rights system. Improve the legal and regulatory system for equal protection of property rights, strengthen legal protection of property rights in the non-public economy. Improve property rights law enforcement and judicial protection systems, and improve complaint, review, and retrial mechanisms for enterprise-related property rights protection cases. For intentional infringement of intellectual property rights with serious circumstances, implement punitive damages according to law, and establish and improve evaluation and management systems for intangible assets such as patents and trademarks. Continue to deepen rural collective property rights system reform, improve rural collective property rights confirmation and protection systems, and strengthen standardized management and services for rural land operation rights transfer.

 

63. Improve the social credit system. Improve the legal and policy system for social credit, establish and improve a new regulatory mechanism based on credit. Legally and compliantly improve incentive mechanisms for keeping promises and punishment mechanisms for breaches of trust. Promote the credit commitment system. Legally and compliantly strengthen the collection, sharing, disclosure, and application of credit information, establish a mechanism for integrating public credit information with financial information, and promote credit products and services that benefit the public and enterprises.

 

(4) Leverage the role of opening up to promote domestic demand.

 

64. High-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road". Promote the implementation and effectiveness of signed documents, promote the signing of investment protection agreements, double taxation avoidance agreements, and others with more countries. Promote infrastructure connectivity and build new international land-sea trade corridors. Promote the safe, stable, and high-quality development of China-Europe freight trains. Orderly promote the construction of major cooperation projects. Deepen pragmatic cooperation in trade and investment, promote international capacity cooperation, jointly expand third-party markets, and actively develop Silk Road e-commerce.

 

65. Continuously improve the level of foreign investment utilization. Improve the pre-establishment national treatment plus negative list management system for foreign investment access, expand the scope of encouraged foreign investment, and fully and deeply implement post-establishment national treatment. Optimize foreign investment services, strengthen foreign investment promotion and protection. Support foreign-funded enterprises to expand investment in mid-to-high-end manufacturing, high-tech, traditional manufacturing transformation and upgrading, modern service industries, and central and western regions; encourage foreign-funded enterprises to establish R&D centers and participate in and undertake national science and technology plan projects.

 

66. Build a high-level, broad-scale, and deep-level open highland. Leverage the leading demonstration effects of regions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to create border open cooperation gateways facing Northeast Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Grant greater reform autonomy to free trade pilot zones and actively replicate and promote institutional innovation achievements. Steadily advance the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, orderly achieve "zero tariffs" on goods trade, "both access and operation approval" for service trade, promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and fully implement the "extremely simple approval" investment system. Innovate and enhance national-level new areas and development zones, promoting high-level opening of comprehensive bonded zones.

 

67. Steadily advance multilateral and bilateral trade cooperation. Implement the free trade zone enhancement strategy, effectively carry out the implementation work after the entry into force of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), promote the negotiation and signing of more high-standard free trade agreements and regional trade agreements, and actively advance the accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA). Promote continuous deepening of cooperation with neighboring countries and regions in agriculture, energy, service trade, high-tech, and other fields. Implement fiscal and tax policies to promote foreign trade development.

 

68. Expand imports of important goods and services. Support the import of technologies, equipment, and components needed for domestic industrial transformation and upgrading, encourage the import of production services such as research and development design, energy conservation and environmental protection, and environmental services. Expand imports of high-quality goods and pharmaceutical products closely related to people's lives. Support innovative development of border trade. Continue to successfully hold the China International Import Expo, China Import and Export Fair, China International Fair for Trade in Services, China International Consumer Products Expo, and others.

 

9. Solidly promote common prosperity and cultivate the potential for domestic demand development.

 

(1) Continuously optimize the primary distribution pattern.

 

69. Improve employment quality and increase laborers' labor income. Adhere to the employment orientation of economic development, improve the employment support system for key groups such as college graduates and migrant workers, support the development of service industries, small and micro enterprises, and labor-intensive enterprises with strong employment absorption capacity, encourage the development of skill-intensive enterprises that increase high-quality employment, and implement and improve policies and measures to promote entrepreneurship-driven employment and multi-channel flexible employment. Regulate labor dispatch employment behavior and ensure equal pay for equal work. Accelerate the improvement of laborers' skills and quality, deeply implement vocational skills improvement actions and special training plans for key groups, coordinate vocational skills training funds at all levels and types, and innovate usage methods. Encourage enterprises to carry out post skill improvement training, build a batch of public training bases, and promote the co-construction and sharing of training resources. Coordinate the effective use of public welfare posts, focusing on helping disabled persons, zero-employment family members, and other disadvantaged groups who meet the conditions to find employment.

 

70. Increase the proportion of labor remuneration in primary distribution. Improve the enterprise salary survey and information release system, improve the mechanism for determining, reasonably increasing, and guaranteeing the payment of workers' wages, and improve the minimum wage standard adjustment mechanism. Vigorously promote work-for-relief programs. Advance the eradication of wage arrears for migrant workers and effectively safeguard the labor remuneration rights and interests of migrant workers.

 

71. Improve the distribution mechanism involving various production factors. Improve the system and mechanism for market evaluation of contributions and remuneration based on contributions for various production factors such as knowledge, technology, and data. Encourage qualified enterprises to fully utilize various medium- and long-term incentive tools such as equity and stock options to effectively motivate core talents in key enterprise positions, including scientific researchers. Improve systems for stock issuance, delisting, and information disclosure, and promote the standardized and healthy development of the capital market. Innovate more financial products that meet family wealth management needs, further enrich asset management products, and increase residents' investment income. Increase the share of farmers in land value-added income.

 

72. Expand the scale of the middle-income group. Improve the quality of higher education, broaden market-oriented and socialized employment channels, and improve the employment quality of college graduates. Increase training efforts, establish and improve incentive mechanisms, and raise the treatment level of technical and skilled talents. Improve the business environment, reduce tax and fee burdens, provide more market-oriented financial services, promote stable operation and continuous income growth of small and medium-sized enterprise owners and individual industrial and commercial households, and support flexible employment personnel to work hard and become prosperous. Improve the public service system and reasonably reduce the burden on the middle-income group. Implement a high-quality farmer cultivation plan.

 

(2) Gradually improve the redistribution mechanism.

 

73. Increase the regulatory role of the fiscal and tax system on income distribution. Study and improve the personal income tax system combining comprehensive and classified approaches. Optimize the structure of fiscal expenditure and ensure basic livelihood expenditure. Improve the transfer payment system and increase support for financially difficult regions.

 

74. Improve the social security system. Achieve nationwide coordination of basic pension insurance for enterprise employees, promote provincial-level coordination of basic medical insurance and unemployment insurance, and consolidate and improve provincial-level coordination of work injury insurance. Promote the full coverage of basic pension insurance from system coverage to statutory population coverage. Develop enterprise annuities and occupational annuities, and regulate the development of third-pillar pension insurance. Improve the basic medical insurance system, improve the medical insurance and assistance system for major and severe diseases, and support the development of commercial health insurance. Do a good job in social insurance participation for flexible employment personnel, gradually relax household registration restrictions on flexible employment personnel participating in basic pension and basic medical insurance in their place of employment. Steadily establish a long-term care insurance system. Improve the social security benefit adjustment mechanism. Improve a layered and classified social assistance system and build a comprehensive assistance pattern. Improve social welfare systems for helping disabled persons, orphans, and others.

 

(3) Attach importance to the role of the third distribution.

 

75. Develop charity and volunteer services. Improve the charity commendation system, guide and support enterprises and social groups willing and able to actively participate in public welfare and charity undertakings. Regulate and cultivate the development of charitable organizations, and implement tax incentives for public welfare charitable donations. Strengthen supervision and management of charitable organizations and activities to improve credibility and transparency. Improve the volunteer service system and incentive guarantee mechanism, expand the volunteer team, build more volunteer service platforms, and comprehensively improve the level of volunteer services.

 

10. Enhance security guarantee capabilities and consolidate the foundation for domestic demand development.

(1) Ensure food security.

 

76. Promote stable and increased grain production. Deeply implement the strategy of storing grain in the land and technology, adhere to the strictest arable land protection system, strictly observe the red line for arable land and the permanent basic farmland control line, stabilize grain sowing area, consolidate and improve grain production capacity, resolutely curb the "non-agriculturalization" of arable land, strictly control "non-grainization," stabilize the agricultural foundation, and ensure stable production and supply. Promote reasonable layout; main production areas, main sales areas, and production-sales balance areas must all maintain area and output, and improve grain production support policies. Implement important agricultural product security strategies. Build a national grain security industrial belt.

 

77. Improve the grain production, purchase, storage, and sales system. Implement the party and government joint responsibility for grain security. Deepen the reform of the storage and purchase system for grain and other important agricultural products, accelerate the cultivation of diversified market purchase and sales entities, scientifically determine the scale, structure, and layout of grain reserves, and improve the grain reserve management system and operation mechanism. Strengthen the construction of storage and logistics facilities for important agricultural products such as grain, cotton, and sugar, and reasonably layout regional emergency supply bases for agricultural products. Deeply promote high-quality grain projects and accelerate the construction of a modern grain industry system. Continue to advocate saving grain and reducing losses.

 

78. Promote the revitalization of the seed industry. Vigorously implement the modern seed industry enhancement project, advancing the construction of national germplasm resource banks for crops, livestock and poultry, marine and freshwater fisheries. Provide long-term support for fundamental breeding research and key breeding projects, carry out key core technology breakthroughs in agricultural seed sources, implement major scientific and technological projects in agricultural biological breeding, and promote joint breeding efforts. Under the premise of respecting science and strict supervision, orderly promote the industrial application of biological breeding. Build modern crop seed production bases, national core breeding farms for livestock and poultry, and aquatic seed supply and breeding bases, and establish and improve a commercialized breeding system.

 

(2) Strengthen energy resource security assurance.

 

79. Enhance domestic production and supply capacity. Increase investment in oil and gas exploration and development, maintain stable and increased production of crude oil and natural gas. Properly plan and control strategic bases for coal-to-oil and gas. Intensify exploration efforts in key exploration areas, important mineral clusters, resource concentration areas, and important prospective mineral exploration zones, and extend the service life of mines.

 

(3) Promote emergency management capacity building.

 

80. Strengthen the emergency material guarantee system. Reinforce emergency material guarantees in public health, disaster accidents, and other fields, and improve the five-level emergency material reserve network at the central, provincial, municipal, county, and township levels. Improve the national emergency material reserve depot, upgrade local emergency material reserve depots and rescue equipment depots, and tilt central emergency material reserves toward central and western regions and disaster-prone areas. Raise technical quality standards for emergency materials, increase research and reserves of materials with high technological content, long storage life, and wide applicability. Optimize the regional layout of important emergency material production capacity, implement emergency product production capacity reserve projects, guide enterprises to actively fulfill social responsibilities by establishing necessary capacity reserves, build regional emergency material production guarantee bases, and improve the national emergency resource management platform.

 

81. Strengthen emergency rescue force construction. Implement the emergency rescue center project, building six national regional emergency rescue centers. Improve the aviation emergency rescue system. Strengthen the construction of the national comprehensive fire rescue team, enhance rescue equipment, technical support, and comprehensive guarantees, promote the research and development and deployment of new equipment, strengthen technical support for emergency management equipment, and advance the modernization of rescue team capabilities. Strengthen life protection in key areas such as hazardous chemicals, mines, and road traffic, improve supporting emergency disposal facilities, and enhance the ability to prevent and control major safety production risks.

 

82. Promote disaster accident prevention and control capacity building. Implement the modernization project for natural disaster prevention technology and equipment, and the informatization project for natural disaster monitoring and early warning, improve natural disaster prevention capabilities, and raise standards for flood, drought, forest and grassland fires, geological disasters, meteorological disasters, earthquakes, and other natural disaster defense projects. Enhance the fundamental safety level of energy infrastructure, effectively prevent and resolve risks such as leaks in densely populated high-consequence areas of oil and gas pipelines, uncontrolled blowouts in oil and gas extraction wells, and hydrogen sulfide poisoning. Optimize the layout of national land spatial disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief facilities, promote the safety reinforcement of public infrastructure, and accelerate the construction of urban and rural emergency shelter systems. Accelerate the construction of disaster accident monitoring and early warning systems and emergency communication systems. Develop catastrophe insurance.